Yo-yoing between heat waves, torrential rainfall and raging wildfires that burn through Thanksgiving, the explosive nature of California’s weather has been on full display over the last several years. The state’s worst drought, one of its wettest winters and both the largest and most destructive wildfires all occurred this decade.
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At least 420,000 households from South Carolina up to Maine and Ohio lost power Halloween night as severe thunderstorms raked the Eastern Seaboard and Upper Midwest.
Read moreWildfires driven by strong Santa Ana winds raged across Southern California for a fourth day, with a new blaze breaking out early Thursday that destroyed several foothill homes in the city of San Bernardino.
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Most summers in far west Texas, the small farming community of Balmorhea transforms into a tourist hot spot as travelers flock across the sprawling Chihuahuan Desert to one of the state’s most beloved spring-fed swimming holes. But in 2018, the summer season was canceled.
Read moreStrong winds in Southern California kicked up wildfires across the region overnight Wednesday, including a 1,300-acre blaze that is threatening the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum – and 6,500 homes – in Simi Valley.
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From a cab perched over the front of his bright green John Deere combine, Dennis Friest watches as rows of dried cornstalks are pulled into the big harvester trundling through a field that stretches to the horizon. Yellow corn kernels pour into a hopper behind the cab, and chopped up cornstalks, leaves and shelled cobs are kicked out onto the ground where they will be plowed into the soil next spring.
Read moreNorthern California residents braced for another round of dry windy weather and pre-emptive power blackouts Tuesday as wildfires continue to rage up and down the state.
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Nearly 200,000 people have been ordered from their Northern California homes, including jail inmates and more than 100 hospital patients as well as animals amid fierce winds that prompted the state’s largest utility to cut off power to more than 2.5 million people to try to stave off further wildfires sparked by its power lines.
Read moreAuthorities ordered at least 50,000 residents to evacuate towns near a massive Northern California wildfire Saturday, and the state’s largest utility announced power shut-offs for an estimated 2.35 million people due to forecasts of severe winds and extreme fire danger.
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New Orleans is preparing to explode two giant, badly damaged construction cranes that tower over a partially collapsed hotel project at the edge of the French Quarter, bringing them down Friday before a tropical storm that could cause them to tumble out of control.
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California is expected to experience a drier than average winter, according to an outlook published by federal climate experts Thursday.
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September was the warmest ever recorded in North America and the rest of the planet tied a record for the hottest September ever, according to a global climate report released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on Wednesday.
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Extreme weather in the Arctic in 2018 brought huge amounts of snow that melted slowly and resulted in the reproductive failure of the region’s plants and animals, according to a new study.
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The toll of death and destruction from Typhoon Hagibis climbed Tuesday, as the Japanese government counted at least 53 dead and considered approving a special budget for the disaster response and reconstruction.
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Rescue crews dug through mudslides and searched near swollen rivers Monday as they looked for people missing from a typhoon that left as many as 48 dead and wrought serious damage in central and northern Japan.
Read morePowerful Typhoon Hagibis barreled through Japan Saturday, killing at least two people and lashing large parts of the country with “unprecedented” rain that caused floods, landslides and emergency disaster warnings.
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A powerful typhoon is forecast to bring up to 31 inches of rain and damaging winds to the Tokyo area and Japan’s Pacific coast this weekend, and the government warned residents to stockpile necessities and leave high-risk places before it’s too dangerous.
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The tropical storms swamping Houston are child’s play compared to what a hurricane could unleash from the sea: A 25-foot surge ripping up the ship channel, pushing 200,000-barrel oil storage tanks like they were marbles, an expert said Thursday.
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Well before a potentially devastating typhoon was expected to hit Japan, it ruined Italy’s Rugby World Cup quarterfinal ambitions and the hopes of one of the sport’s longest-serving veterans.
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Areas of the northern Rocky Mountains looked like midwinter rather than early fall Sunday as a snowstorm dumped record amounts of wind-driven snow that caused hazardous travel conditions and power outages.
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