Widespread flooding across Kentucky has left at least four dead and prompted dozens of rescues after heavy rains wiped out bridges, inundated roads and flooded homes. More significant rainfall is […]
Widespread heat dome, extreme fire threat expected in the U.S. next week
A heat dome will bring dangerously hot and humid conditions to the eastern half of the United States next week in the region’s most widespread heat wave of the summer […]
Tornadoes kill 3 in the Midwest, Plains as storm threat shifts east
An outbreak of tornadoes killed at least two people and left a path of destruction in Illinois and Indiana on Sunday after a tornado earlier in the day killed a […]
Storm Prediction Center warns of dangerous tornado threat in Midwest
A major severe weather outbreak is likely across the Midwest on Wednesday, with the Storm Prediction Center forecasting potentially damaging tornadoes. The agency issued a tornado watch for parts of […]
Tropical storm remnants drench Gulf states after tornadoes hit the Midwest
The remnants of Tropical Storm Arthur battered parts of the southeastern United States with drenching rains and strong wind on Thursday, tearing through buildings, flooding homes and launching water rescues […]
Tropical Storm Arthur, first of 2026 Atlantic hurricane season, makes landfall
The National Hurricane Center said that the Atlantic basin’s first named storm of the season has made landfall along the Gulf Coast. Tropical Storm Arthur was named on Wednesday morning, […]
Midwest reels from tornadoes, damaging winds and widespread power outages
Damaging storms swept through the Midwest, knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of customers and causing more than a thousand flight delays or cancellations at Chicago airports with more […]
El Niño is here and scientists fear it’ll be big, bad and costly
El Niño, Nature’s chaotic climate agent, has formed in a warmed-up Pacific Ocean and is expected to grow to historic strength, meteorologists announced Thursday. Experts said the El Niño, a […]
Damage surveys underway after multiple tornadoes slam Illinois, Indiana
Authorities and residents searched tornado-ravaged areas and assessed damage Friday after a strong line of storms barreled through communities south of Chicago, leaving around 380,000 customers without power in Illinois […]
Wind gusts among strongest on record batter Midwest, fuel deadly Nebraska fires
Hundreds of thousands of people were left without power Saturday after high winds raked eastward from the Great Lakes region, leaving trees down and substantial property damage in their wake. […]