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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 ...

Florida will endure at least another day of bitter cold that has damaged the state’s citrus crop and prompted a local utility to ask residents to reduce electricity use.

A winter storm is dropping snow across the South, where more than 2.100 flights have been canceled, as the eastern U.S. faces a continued deep freeze, threatening records all the way to South Florida and menacing citrus crops. Winter storm warnings cover parts of southern Virginia, eastern Tennessee, the Carolinas and northeastern Georgia as the storm builds along the southern Atlantic coast, ...

The East Coast isn’t done yet with frigid temperatures and winter weather as it braces for a storm meteorologists have described as a bomb cyclone, nor’easter and a blizzard.

Punxsutawney Phil is not the only fuzzy forecaster coming out of his den for Groundhog Day.

New York and most of the Northeast will likely be spared the worst of a new winter storm this weekend that still may clip Cape Cod and eastern New England after also making conditions worse across parts of North Carolina and Virginia as it travels north.

At least 34 people have died over the weekend amid heavy snow and freezing temperatures, according to authorities. Cold temperatures are expected to linger into the week, raising concerns for those without power or shelter.

A massive winter storm reached the U.S. Atlantic Coast on Sunday, bringing heavy snow and ice, straining electric grids and grounding thousands of flights at levels not seen since the pandemic. Temperatures plunged on the storm’s eastward path. Parts of Texas and the Mid-South were coated in freezing rain — and a layer of ice thick enough to take down power lines. Up to 0.75 inches (1.9 ...

WASHINGTON – Almost 4,000 flights were canceled in the U.S. on Saturday ahead of a monster winter storm that has already cut power to thousands of utility customers in Texas and threatened to paralyze eastern states with heavy snowfall.

Locals across the Midwest, particularly in Greater Chicago, may hear a sudden “boom” over the weekend – the result of what meteorologists call a frost quake, a weather phenomenon that takes place when temperatures plummet and groundwater freezes quickly.

A winter storm covering much of the country and impacting about half the U.S. population began cranking up Friday. In many places, it will threaten to be not only the biggest storm of winter so far but in years or even decades.

It was 4:40 a.m. Jan. 14 the last time anyone could see the sky from the ground at Spokane International Airport.