Waves of intense weather were moving east across the South on Wednesday, bringing flash flooding and tornadoes to cities along the Gulf Coast, with the potential for more destructive winds still looming, the National Weather Service said. A flash flood emergency was declared in the New Orleans area, where the Weather Service said many roads…
Severe storms tore through three Midwestern states on Thursday, producing a tornado in northwestern Ohio and damaging dozens of homes in eastern Indiana. In Indiana, the towns of Winchester and Selma appeared to be the worst hit. Local officials said they believed a tornado had hit a trailer park in Winchester according to 13 WTHR,…
A vast and growing wildfire, one of several burning in the Texas Panhandle, has now become the largest on record in state history, scorching more than a million acres, devastating cattle ranches, consuming homes and continuing to rage out of control. The sparsely populated area is home to most of the state’s cattle — millions…
Millions of Texans woke to wickedly cold air on Tuesday, hoping that the state’s power grid, which failed spectacularly during a deep freeze in 2021, would hold up this time. The early hours of the day were expected to pose a crucial test for the power supply. Wind chills fell below zero in cities like…
There has been a pretty remarkable parade of intense storm systems this past week, Greg Carbin, the branch chief of forecast operations for the National Weather Service, said on Wednesday. And it isn’t over. Days after severe weather swept from Florida to Maine, another rapidly strengthening system — potentially more intense than the last —…
Much of the United States on Wednesday will continue to grapple with a mixed bag of unsettled weather — snow, rain, strong winds, flooding and freezing temperatures — that has upended daily life for millions of people from coast to coast. Multiple storm systems began sweeping across the country earlier this week. On Tuesday, weather…
A series of powerful storms continues to wreak havoc across the United States on Tuesday, bringing significant weather of nearly every variety to large parts of the Pacific Northwest, the Plains, Midwest, South and East Coast. Heavy rain will hit the New York area from late Tuesday into Wednesday, with the potential for flooding and…
Heavy rain and snow that could snarl morning travel in parts of the Eastern United States on Wednesday were expected to end by the afternoon and give way to a placid Thanksgiving for much of the nation, forecasters said. A storm that began late Monday and continued overnight Tuesday was expected to leave up to…
Blizzard warnings were issued for more two million people across the United States this week, some in places you’d expect, like Minnesota, and some in places you probably would not, like the mountains around Los Angeles. Almost all of the country is experiencing some form of notable weather this week, meteorologists said. While much of…
A winter storm developing across the South on Tuesday will bring the risk of severe storms to over 15 million people living along the Gulf Coast, including in Houston, New Orleans and Mobile, Ala. Forecasters with the National Weather Service’s Storm Prediction Center warned people in the region early Tuesday to anticipate potentially damaging winds…