Weather

The historic blizzard pummeling New York City with a triple wallop of gusting winds, freezing temperatures and more than 15 inches of snow brought the five boroughs to a near standstill Monday.

NEW YORK – A powerful blizzard dropped more than 21/2 feet of snow across parts of the U.S. Northeast on Monday, bringing travel to a near-standstill for millions of residents as the treacherous conditions closed roads, shut down train services and forced the cancellation of some 7,400 flights.

The forecast for a winter storm rapidly solidified as the weekend began, leading forecasters and authorities to warn a dangerous nor’easter will dump up to 20 inches of snow in parts of the Northeast starting late in the weekend.

As authorities begin to piece together what led to the deaths of at least eight people in an avalanche in the snowy backcountry near Lake Tahoe this week, the risks taken by the skiers and their guides – and who was responsible for fateful decisions – are likely to be a key area of inquiry.

A major snowstorm is expected to hit the Northeast this weekend. It is a complex and evolving setup that could target parts of the mid-Atlantic and New England. The storm could bring upward of a foot of snow in some spots, along with strong winds and travel disruptions affecting a stretch from D.C. to Boston.

California's week of soggy weather will continue Thursday, with forecasters up and down the state forecasting more rain and cold temperatures before a gradual dry out over the weekend.

Spokane’s low-snow winter isn’t showing signs of shift despite a bit of snow Wednesday morning.

Firefighters responded to a barrage of wildfires over the weekend in Hillsborough County, where heavy winds and dry brush spread one blaze across 350 acres in Wimauma.

Several rounds of heavy rain and mountain snow will soon hit an increasingly parched West, the result of a meaningful change in the weather pattern evolving across the United States.

WASHINGTON – The U.S. National Science Foundation said Thursday that the management and operations of a supercomputer used by more than 2,000 climate and weather scientists across the country would be transferred from a leading research lab to an undisclosed third party.

If you live in the East, has this winter felt exceptionally cold to you?

The Spokane area is in the midst of a low snowpack this winter that’s being called a “snow drought.”

For the second time in as many months, a wind burst occurred in a remote part of the western Pacific Ocean during January – and odds are rising that it will trigger a significant change in the planet’s weather patterns later this year.

Dangerous, freezing wind chills are expected over the weekend in the Northeast — so extreme that frostbite could occur within minutes for people outdoors in some locations.

NEW YORK — As temperatures are expected to drop again into single digits over the weekend, Mayor Zohran Mamdani said the city is enlisting the help of school nurses, business improvement districts and formerly homeless New Yorkers to get people out of the dangerously chilly elements. The mayor said that, over the past three weeks, outreach teams have placed more than 1,250 people into shelters ...

Dangerously cold temperatures combined with wind gusts up to 60 mph were expected to cause life-threatening conditions across parts of the Midwest, mid-Atlantic and Northeast to close out the week, forecasters said.

SHOMPOLE, Kenya – The dozens of cow and goat carcasses scattered around Maria Katanga’s family compound testify to the grinding impact of an ongoing drought on Kenya’s pastoralist communities who rely on livestock for survival.

Expect the deep cold that parts of the United States have been experiencing to continue for the next six weeks, at least according to Punxsutawney Phil. The weather-predicting groundhog saw his shadow Monday outside his hole at Gobbler’s Knob in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. If you believe such things, that means the entire country — including the snow-covered section of the Northeast — can ...