Weather

ACEH TAMIANG, Indonesia – Residents in the Indonesian region of Aceh Tamiang climbed over slippery logs and walked for about an hour on Saturday to get aid as the death toll from floods and landslides that hit Sumatra island this month reached more than 900.

A blast of Arctic air gripped much of the central and eastern portions of the U.S. on Friday in subfreezing temperatures well below normal for this time of year, setting records from Iowa and Michigan to New York.

An intensifying weather system was expected to bring heavy snow or rain to parts of the U.S. Midwest, the Appalachians and the Northeast on Tuesday, with more than 50 million Americans under a winter storm advisory.

As Chicagoans woke up to “Winter Wonderland”-like conditions Sunday, snowfall recorded at Chicago O’Hare International Airport Saturday was confirmed as a record 8.4 inches, the highest snowfall on a single calendar day in November since 1951, according to the National Weather Service. The snow tapered out by late morning Sunday, and the temperature warmed up to around 32 degrees at noon, with ...

Light snow blanketed the Spokane area Wednesday morning, although it yielded far fewer traffic collisions than expected.

Spokane and surrounding mountain passes were getting bouts of rain and snow as travelers made their way to their Thanksgiving destinations.

For the first time in a decade, every single state, including the storm magnet of Florida, escaped the entire hurricane season without a direct hit from a hurricane.

LOS ANGELES — This weekend’s atmospheric river uprooted trees, caked roads in mud and sent toxic runoff flowing into the ocean, but nowhere got quite as hard hit as Santa Barbara, which experienced the soggiest three-day stretch of November rain in the county’s recorded history. According to data from the National Weather Service, the Santa Barbara Airport received 6.67 inches of rain between ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The 2025 Atlantic hurricane season is just about over, with no tropical systems likely to develop before its official close on Nov. 30. It might seem like a fortunate flop — only five hurricanes, when most forecasts back in spring called for eight or nine. It was actually “pretty hopping,” said University of Miami meteorologist Brian McNoldy. It was also “weird” said ...

A wildfire near Crowley Lake on the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada broke out midday Thursday and is rapidly spreading in southern Mono County, less than 20 miles south of Mammoth Mountain.

LOS ANGELES — Southern California will be under a severe weather threat Saturday, with the most powerful wave of an incoming atmospheric river storm peaking over the weekend in Los Angeles County and bringing a risk of mudflows, debris flows and, possibly, a tornado. If rain falls as forecast, this storm could result in downtown Los Angeles seeing its wettest November since 1985. Heavy rain ...

Inland Northwest weather disasters, like the Ice Storm of 1996 and 'Snowmageddon' of 2008, hit the Spokane region as sort of surprises. But 10 years ago, forecasters began, days in advance, warning folks that a sledgehammer of a wind storm was headed this way.

A blast of winter weather sent a sprinkling of snowflakes into parts of the Deep South and had plunged much of the eastern U.S. into frigid temperatures by the morning of Nov. 11.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ended a contract with the Alaska Earthquake Center that helped maintain some seismic stations and transmit data in real time.

Snow will be winding down across Chicago in a few hours, where the combination of the government shutdown and the weather has added to the more than 1,500 flights grounded nationwide.

ISABELA, Philippines – The Philippines evacuated more than 100,000 residents across its eastern and northern regions as Fung-wong intensified on Sunday into a super typhoon ahead of its expected arrival later in the day, threatening to unleash torrential rains, destructive winds, and storm surges.

A tornado accompanied by strong winds and heavy rain struck the southern Brazilian state of Parana, killing six people, the state government said on Saturday.

The season’s first outbreak of freezing, Arctic air is headed for the United States this weekend into next week. It will register as the most unusually cold blob of air on the planet for a time.