More than 725,000 people in the northern Great Plains were under a blizzard warning on Monday, as forecasters warned that heavy snow and powerful winds could disrupt flights and create treacherous road conditions. Central South Dakota, where more than a foot of snow was possible, was expected to bear the brunt of the storm. Hazardous…
Republicans in Wisconsin are coalescing around the prospect of impeaching a newly seated liberal justice on the state’s Supreme Court, whose victory in a costly, high-stakes election this spring swung the court in Democrats’ favor and threatened the G.O.P.’s iron grip on state politics. The push, just five weeks after Justice Janet Protasiewicz joined the…
When the torrential rain stopped on Friday afternoon, Laura Lowry could see the steam rising off the wet pavement. She was on her front porch in the Fifth Ward neighborhood of Houston, desperate for relief from the 91-degree heat. The air-conditioner in her house worked, but she and her husband, reliant on disability checks, couldn’t…
Severe weather, including high winds and very large hail, was expected to pummel the Southern Plains and Midwest on Friday, a day after tornadoes were reported across five states, forecasters said. Trained spotters collected at least 17 reports of tornadoes or tornado damage in Colorado, Kansas, Louisiana, Nebraska and Oklahoma before dawn on Friday, the…
Thunderstorms were lashing parts of the Midwest with potent winds and large hail on Tuesday afternoon, only days after an outbreak of strong tornadoes tore through parts of the central U.S. and blizzard conditions affected the northern tier. The similarly volatile storm system was expected to deliver extreme weather conditions to many of the same…