Weather

Before dawn Friday morning, city manager Dalton Rice went for a jog along the Guadalupe River in Kerrville, Texas. He finished his run around 4 a.m. as a light rain set in. An hour later, he began receiving emergency calls: The river had flooded out of control.

ORLANDO, Fla. — A tropical depression formed in the Atlantic off the coast of Florida on Friday headed for the Carolinas and expected to become a tropical storm, according to the National Hurricane Center. In the NHC’s initial 5 p.m. advisory for Tropical Depression Three, its center was located about 100 miles east-northeast of Jacksonville, 150 miles south-southeast of Charleston, S.C. and ...

In Paris, blistering heat led the Eiffel Tower to close its summit and remind prospective visitors to take precautions. In London, the Wimbledon tennis tournament saw its hottest opening day on record, with temperatures climbing above 90 degrees Fahrenheit.

Some of the water around Antarctica has been getting saltier. And that has affected the amount of sea ice at the bottom of the planet.

High temperatures ranging from upper 90s to low 100s are projected to hit Eastern Washington and North Idaho this week.

Hurricane forecasters will soon lose access to government satellite data vital to tracking hurricanes overnight - and to preventing what meteorologists once called a “sunrise surprise,” when a storm unexpectedly strengthens or shifts in the darkness. The Pentagon said Monday that it would wait until the end of July before it stops sharing the data - a month later than initially planned - in response to the high level of concern after the move was first announced last week.

Puffy, wispy, white and gray, we’ve seen them all this spring. Clouds come in a variety of types, and each type comes with critical information about incoming weather patterns. If you’re a local hiker, boater, pilot or otherwise outdoor-enjoyer, you can understand the value of eyeing a storm before it arrives.

With rain on the way this weekend, Spokane is looking at a cooldown.

Hurricane Erick, which has been classified as dangerous, has reached Mexico. The storm made landfall in the southwestern state of Oaxaca on Thursday with wind speeds reaching about 127 mph, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami.

For the first time ever, Alaska, the state known for glaciers, dogsleding and northern lights issued a heat advisory, as temperatures in Fairbanks, its second largest city, were slated to top 86 degrees over the weekend. It’s not the first time temperatures have climbed that high, but it’s the first time the state has ever put out such a warning about heat.

Unusual heat waves have occurred in all of the major ocean basins around the planet in recent years. And some of these events have become so intense that scientists have coined a new term: super marine heat waves.

Stifling conditions are settling into the Pacific Northwest and Columbia River Basin to start the week, with triple-digit temperatures and readings flirting with records. The brief but intense heat wave will last through the middle of the week, replaced with near- or below-typical warmth.