Wild weather: Heavy snow and deadly floods and landslides

CTV Edmonton's Josh Classen recaps a week of wild weather: deadly flooding and landslides in Mexico and Arizona, plus snow in California's mountains.

Here’s a look at some of the weather stories making headlines this past week.

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Flooding and landslides in Mexico

Deadly flooding and landslides in central and eastern Mexico have killed more than 60 people and dozens more are missing.

About 100,000 homes and have damaged or destroyed after a pair of tropical storms brought torrential downpours.

To make matters worse, the hardest-hit areas have been extremely wet the past few months. All that moisture weakened hillsides and made rivers more prone to overflowing and flooding.

In Veracruz, about 60 centimetres (2 feet!) of rain fell in just four days.

While rescuers search for survivors, health officials are fumigating areas to try to curb the spread of mosquito-borne diseases like dengue.

Arizona hit by flash flooding again

Flash flooding has hit Arizona again. Just two weeks after deadly floods hit the state, another round of severe storms produced record-breaking rainfall leading to flash floods.

At least one person is dead. His body was recovered after his truck was washed away in the floodwaters.

The severe storms also produced a damaging microburst that tore the roofs off of a number of buildings, downed power lines and tipped over semi-truck trailers.

Snow lands on California mountains

And...it’s that time of year! We’ve had snow in the mountains in Alberta but, nothing like the heavy snowfall that hit mountainous regions in California.

Mammoth Mountain received 15 to 20 centimetres of snow this week, just one month before the ski season officially opens.