According to the National Hurricane Center, Gabrielle is forecast to pass east of Bermuda late Sunday into Monday and strengthen into a hurricane.

Thursday night rains, the remnants of Tropical Storm Mario, have forced the closure of many roads in Death Valley National Park, but the main east-to-west road remains open.

Mudslides during rainy weather in the San Bernardino Mountains on Thursday afternoon prompted road closures and trapped cars.

A tropical storm was brewing over a chain of islands on the edge of the vast Tethys Ocean - the ancient predecessor to the Indian Ocean and Mediterranean Sea - one day roughly 150 million years ago, and a baby pterosaur was caught in the powerful winds.

Two tropical storms are in the offing for parts of the Philippines, Taiwan, Hong Kong and China, and one could become a super typhoon.