Weather

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 ...

If you thought this past winter was warm and dry, wait until El Niño comes to town. Should the famed warm weather generator’s trajectory hold, next winter could see even warmer and drier conditions in the Pacific Northwest, experts say.

Severe weather is expected to sweep across much of the country through the early part of next week, with the potential for everything from flash floods, tornadoes and hail, to strong winds, wildfires and snow.

A spring snowstorm brought two highways in Alberta, Canada, to a standstill and left 300 vehicles stranded overnight into Friday as the authorities mobilized to bring them provisions, an official said.

A massive ocean hot spot is stretching across a 5,000-mile swath of the Pacific - from Micronesia to the coastal waters of California. Across this zone, waters are as much as 6 to 8 degrees above average.

A strong cold front is pushing across the eastern half of the country this week, dropping temperatures well below average from the Midwest to the Northeast while a separate Pacific storm system moves into the West with heavy rain and mountain snow.

Urgent tornado warnings dotted the Midwest on Friday evening as powerful storms delivered giant hail and damaging winds across a huge section of the country, from Texas to the Great Lakes.

Wind, cold, rain and possibly snowflakes are expected to pass through the Spokane area in the next few days.

An early heat wave is headed for parts of the East this week, making it feel more like summer.