Extreme Weather

The most powerful Pacific storm of the season is forecast to bring up to 10 feet of snow into the Sierra Nevada by the weekend.

Powerful winds and heavy rain are expected to hammer the Central Coast of California, as a second atmospheric river in days threatens to soak the state and cause flooding and mudslides.

Forecasters say a second storm is expected to sock New York with snow after causing chaos farther south, while the Pacific Northwest could see another round of deadly ice.

Destructive thunderstorms and devastating earthquakes last year cost the world around $250 billion in damages, according to a new report from Munich Re.

NASA said parts of the country could get more flooding this winter if a strong El Niño develops, adding to what has already been a year of destructive extreme weather.

Recording-breaking winds in France and across much of western Europe left at least five people dead and injured several others.

Rescue workers are searching for more than 100 people after flash floods triggered by a sudden heavy rainfall swamped several towns in northeastern India, killing at least 14 people.

Organizers have canceled two long-distance races in Minnesota’s two largest cities that were expected to draw up to 20,000 runners because of a forecast of record high temperatures and humidity.

More Americans believe they’ve personally felt the impact of climate change because of recent extreme weather, including a summer that brought dangerous heat for much of the United States.

Residents in parts of coastal North Carolina and Virginia have experienced flooding after Tropical Storm Ophelia made landfall near a North Carolina barrier island, bringing rain, damaging winds and dangerous surges.

An estimated 39 million homes and businesses in the United States could soon face skyrocketing insurance premiums — if they can even find insurance coverage at all. That’s according to a new report from First Street Foundation, which warns that this “insurance bubble” could lead to a costly, widespread housing crisis coast-to-coast.

Sydney is blanketed under thick wood smoke for a fourth consecutive day due to hazard reduction burns in preparation for the wildfire season.

International aid groups have mobilized in Libya, where thousands are reported dead and thousands more still missing after weekend flooding.

Emergency workers uncovered more than 1,500 bodies in the wreckage of Libya’s eastern city of Derna on Tuesday, and it was feared the toll could spiral with 10,000 people reported still missing after floodwaters smashed through dams and washed away entire neighborhoods of the city.

More than 8,000 were killed after Mediterranean storm Daniel pummeled eastern Libya, causing two dams to burst.

Summer 2023 broke heat records across the globe but climate experts say it could be the coolest summer we experience for the rest of our lives.

Burning Man concertgoers exiting Black Rock City, Nevada, created a traffic jam Tuesday. Flooding and mud had left more than 70,000 people stranded over Labor Day weekend.

Floridians are already working to put their communities back together, one day after a Category 3 hurricane brought record storm surges to the region.

Hurricane Idalia hit Florida early Wednesday as a major Category 3 storm.

Idalia continued to strengthen Tuesday as it intensified on a path toward Florida’s Gulf coast, with forecasters warning of an increasing risk of life-threatening storm surge and dangerous hurricane-force winds in the state.