Damaging storms spawned tornadoes in New York City, darkened tens of thousands of homes in the Washington, D.C., area and flooded New England streets turned a normal day of rest into a day of cleaning up for many East Coast residents
Jane Lubchenco from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) says that: “Many people around the world are beginning to appreciate that climate change is under way, that it’s having consequences that are playing out in real time and,
More than 1 million homes and businesses in a swath from Indiana to Virginia remained without power on Wednesday, five days after deadly storms tore through the region.
The new week is here and unfortunately for some areas, we can't leave the heat behind. We've got that story plus a look at your Fourth of July forecast and the increasing monsoonal moisture in the Southwest.
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A spring nor’easter packing soaking rain and high winds churned up the Northeast Monday morning, unleashing a burst of winter and up to a foot of snow in higher elevations inland, closing some schools and sparking concerns of power outages.
Washtenaw County Sheriff's Deputy Ray Yee was the first officer on the scene in one of two hard-hit Michigan subdivisions where a tornado ripped through more than 100 homes.
Rescuers searched for survivors Saturday after powerful storms spawned tornadoes that killed dozens as they ripped through the South and Midwest, flattening towns and turning churches into shelters.
As night approached, the death toll rose in areas affected by extreme weather in the Midwest and the South. Towns have been wrecked and the number of people missing is unclear.
Powerful storms stretching from the Gulf Coast to the Great Lakes wrecked two small Indiana towns, killed at least three people and bred anxiety across a wide swath of the country in the second deadly tornado outbreak this week.
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Stronger twisters and extreme weather are expected today to again hit the areas of the Midwest and South rattled earlier this week by 33 confirmed tornadoes that left 13 people dead.
Twisters roared through the nation's heartland in the early morning darkness Wednesday, flattening entire blocks of homes in small-town Illinois and Kansas and killing at least nine people.
Tornado chasing is already extreme, but it's about to be taken to a whole new level.
The National Science Foundation will spend $10 million to convert a A-10 Thunderbolt attack aircraft, aka "tank killer," into a severe storm penetrator.
NASA and the ESA agree the Earth is going into an extended cooling period in the years ahead. Some experts even believe it could thrust the Northern Hemisphere into a mini-Ice Age lasting decades. But the winter of 2011 to 2012 may shape up to be hor
A large winter storm that caused flight delays and surprised residents across the Northeast with heavy snow has left nearly 3 million customers without power and three people dead.
The bitterly cold blast that has hit New Zealand this week should ease off over the coming days, but heavy snow is still expected overnight in many areas, including Wellington and Christchurch.
Wichita, Kan., residents are still reeling from a bizarre weather system that spiked temperatures 20 degrees in a matter of minutes in the early hours of Thursday morning.
KSN Channel 3's meteorologist JD Rudd explained the causes of the rare nigh
The twister cut a path 6 miles long and more than a half-mile wide through the center of town, adding that tornado sirens gave residents about a 20-minute warning before the tornado touched down on the Joplin's west side.
Veteran weather modification expert Ben Livingston is a former Navy Physicist who briefed President Lyndon B. Johnson on the effectiveness of weather control back in the 1960′s during the Vietnam era, when he was involved in cloud seeding progr
The mammoth winter storm that began Tuesday left Midwesterners shivering in its frozen footprint and crushed snow-laden buildings in the Northeast. The 2,000-mile-long system unloaded as much as 2 feet of snow, crippled airports and stranded drivers
One of the most powerful storms ever recorded in Australia pulled houses apart and snapped power poles as it ripped across already flood-sodden Queensland state Thursday, leaving authorities relieved that no one was killed.
Officials had issued da