Weather

Thunderstorms will carve a path through the central United States, bringing multiple days of severe weather that kicked off Saturday, continued into Sunday and will peak with the most widespread and adverse conditions Monday, forecasters say.

ORLANDO, Fla. — Hurricane season does not officially begin until June 1, but the National Hurricane Center kicked off Friday its regular issuance of tropical outlooks for the Atlantic basin. The routine reports describe significant areas of disturbed weather and their potential to form into a tropical system over the next seven days. The reports are updated four times a day on the NHC website ...

El Niño is coming "soon" and it could reach "very strong" levels later this year, according to a May 14 forecast released by climate scientists from NOAA's Climate Prediction Center.

Record heat is expected to sizzle across 22 states this week – with the most intense conditions expected across the Intermountain West, Plains and South. Temperatures are forecast to top 90 degrees for about 50 million people and 100 degrees for 11 million more.

A swarm of earthquakes shook Imperial County this weekend, with dozens of quakes, ranging in magnitude from 2.5 to 4.7, rattling the region around Brawley, California, south of the Salton Sea. The most intense earthquake reached a magnitude of 4.7 shortly after midnight in the early morning Sunday, according to the United States Geological Survey. The quakes continued through the morning, with ...

This year’s tick season could be one of the worst on record, according to federal data and experts.

It could be a while before much of the country sees temperatures this nice again. Many locations soon will be saying goodbye to milder May ​days and hello to summer heat.

LOS ANGELES – Sweltering weather will descend on much of California over the next few days, possibly ushering in temperatures deeper into the triple digits earlier than ever for some areas.

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The Columbia, Charleston and Myrtle Beach areas have had one of their driest Aprils in state history. Farmers are taking the brunt of it. The South Carolina Drought Response Committee met Thursday morning to discuss the state’s drought status, now severe. This month’s data shows that it will take months of above-average rainfall to return to normal, the committee said. ...

The National Weather Service has issued winter storm warnings for parts of Colorado and Wyoming beginning May 4 as much-needed heavy snow is set to wallop the Rockies.

Dramatic temperature jumps marked this March and April in the U.S. Northeast, making it hard to know what to dress for: chilly or sweltering conditions? Researchers have concluded that wild temperature swings are becoming more common as the world heats up. That’s changing how we experience spring, with plants blooming sooner and consumers rushing to buy more warm-weather goods earlier in the ...

It’s the calm before the storm – for the temperature, that is.

Flooding has shut key stretches of highway around San Antonio as repeated rounds of heavy rain sweep across Texas’ drought-stricken central corridor.

MIAMI — A wildfire that sparked on Monday evening in Everglades National Park has rapidly grown to about 2,500 acres, authorities say. Fire crews are battling the blaze, which has already closed parts of the Everglades. The wildfire began in the northeastern corner of the national park, with U.S. Wildland Fire Services crews working the fire on the ground and from the air, the agency said on ...