The National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center is calling for “several tornadoes, a couple intense, scattered damaging winds, some hurricane force, [and] widespread baseball-size hail.”
With little rain to obscure the view, an enormous spiraling thunderstorm created an otherworldly scene as the sun set in southwest Oklahoma.
Severe storms and the potential for destructive hail and tornadoes are expected this weekend across portions of the central United States.
The climatic phenomenon is expected to return this year, but a lot has changed since what might have been the worst environmental disaster in human history.
Record heat is expected to sizzle across 22 states this week, with temperatures forecast to top 90 degrees for 50 million people and 100 degrees for 11 million.
FEMA slowed grants intended to help states such as California and Colorado prepare for and prevent wildfires, a Washington Post analysis shows.
The twisters that struck Mississippi were hidden by innocuous-looking curtains of rain, part of what made them largely invisible and more hazardous.
It’s the third consecutive month that multiple models have predicted that a potentially record-breaking El Niño could drive global temperatures to new highs.
The storm for Colorado and Wyoming comes as the region grapples with widespread extreme drought, following a winter with less than half the normal snowfall amounts.
Air from Canada will chill the eastern two-thirds of the United States at times, causing late-season freezes that could damage or kill sensitive vegetation.
Stretching from Oregon to Florida and northward to the nation’s capital, the U.S. is facing drought conditions just shy of the most widespread this century.
Intense twisters are likeliest in eastern Missouri, southern Illinois and western Kentucky, with St. Louis in the bull’s eye of risk.
Rotating supercells are picturesque. They’re also terribly dangerous.
The powerful tornado struck near Enid, about 65 miles northwest of Oklahoma City, late Thursday. More strong tornadoes are possible in the days ahead.
A key boundary called a “dryline” could contribute to dramatic weather this week.
It could boost temperatures, humidity and the threat for tropical storms in the West through summer.
Risk of severe weather stretches across parts of the Midwest on Friday.
Nearly 100 million people across the United States can expect freezing temperatures into next week, with a chance for snow flurries for some.
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