Authorities have found the body of an Army veteran who posted a picture and a harrowing message from inside his submerging truck. As his truck was sinking in the raging floodwaters near Brenham, Texas, he posted on Facebook, “And all I wanted to do was go home.”
Up to a dozen children were struck by lightning in a Paris park today, and 35 were injured after lighting struck a German football pitch as spring storms and severe rain lashed the continent today. One Paris resident says it
As retailer Target sees its stock plummeting and sales dropping in the midst of a boycott over its recently announced pro-transgender bathroom policy, the company’s CEO is insisting the weather is the cause of falling sales, not the company’s bathroom policy.
TEL AVIV – Temperatures in Israel reached a scorching 47ºC (116.6 ºF) over the weekend, resulting in over 450 people being treated by paramedics and brush fires sweeping the country.
HOUSTON, Texas — Whataburger, a Texas favorite, is providing uniformed first responders in the flooded city a free meal at all Houston locations until midnight, April 23rd.
Texas is caught in extreme weather, especially the Houston and surrounding areas. Folks all over the Lone Star State are tweeting and posting their photos and stories.
Friday in Austin, TX at the SxSW event, President Barack Obana pleaded his case for government, explaining that much of what it offers is sometimes taken for granted. Among those areas included weather forecasts, roads and special forces keep the
Tropical Cyclone Winston killed at least ten people on Saturday when it tore through Fiji, located 1,800 miles from Australia.
Some cities in Southern California saw daily temperature records broken this week as an unusual heat wave interrupted what has been an El Niño-fueled rainy, cold winter in the region.
As the East Coast endures its first massive winter storm of the year, the NBA has canceled two Saturday games as the storm gears up to snarl the New York/Washington corridor in a storm that could dump more than two feet of snow.
One brave sports car owner in San Diego wasn’t going to let torrential rain and massive flooding caused by El Niño get in the way of a midday drive.
Like rail freight cars slowly moving down a track at increasing speed, California is about to suffer a “storm train” this week that may increase rainfall by over 400 percent over last year. The El Niño phenomenon is expected to
Texas cops immediately went to work to help law enforcement officers whose homes or property were devastated by the deadly storms and tornadoes that hit northeast Texas. What was left in the devastation was in many cases taken by looters.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has declared a state of disaster for Texas counties affected by severe weather.
At least eleven are dead after tornadoes hit Texas near Dallas. The deadly storms left massive destruction in their wake and officials are still accessing the damage and death toll. Thousands are without power.
A massive snowstorm that hit Denver has broken the daily snowfall record, dumping over three inches of snow overnight on the mountain city.
A number of migrants have been recorded complaining about the weather in Austria, and wishing they could go home. Although it isn’t clear what they expect their new hosts to do about the cold, an emerging key complaint among migrants when given
Airports across Britain suffered disruption on Monday as heavy fog led to delays and cancellations for a second day. Flights to and from London airports were being affected, while foggy conditions in the capital and across Europe were causing problems
Flooding, tornadoes, and severe damaging winds have hit the central and southeast portions of the Lone Star state. Two are dead and others are missing after being caught up in rushing flood waters. Tornadoes have touched down in three central Texas cities causing damage. Flash flood watch and flood advisory warnings have been issued for east central and eastern regions.
An elderly woman from South Carolina credits God and a floating red cross for keeping her and her grandson alive during swift flooding in Blythewood, South Carolina, last weekend.
Since Hurricane Joaquin bumped up against a large severe storm system that was already headed to the area, South Carolina has been so inundated with a “thousand-year rain” that coffins are rising to the surface and floating around in cemeteries.
Though it now appears that Hurricane Joaquin won’t make landfall on the United States, it will likely coincide with a storm that will bring a “thousand-year rainfall.”
Flash flooding in Colorado Springs and Manitou Springs has damaged homes and business as well as quite a few cars on Monday. In some cases, cars were simply swept away by the rushing waters.
The Montana and Wyoming Rockies have been hit with what forecasters have called an “exceptional” and rare July cold front that has blanketed the region in a heavy snowfall.
A city ordinance banning the use of horses to pull the traditional carriages around Rome went into effect Thursday, in response to a wave of 100+ degree weather that is said to threaten the horses’s lives.
With Los Angeles receiving small amounts of rain on three separate days last week, red crabs washing ashore in Orange County, and three simultaneous typhoons in the western Pacific Ocean in early July, El Niño (“little boy”) is beginning to crank up
Forecasters predict temperatures could reach above normal for the first week of Wimbledon.
Chinese state media outlet the People’s Daily released a report this week claiming that artificial island construction and the usurpation of international waters in the South China Sea would improve “marine meteorological monitoring, warning, forecasting, prediction and scientific research,” and benefit all neighboring countries with claims in the region.
(AP) — Authorities have recovered the body of a boy from the Blanco River in rural Hays County.
The National Climate Prediction Center has raised the probability of an El Niño in the Northern Hemisphere lasting through this summer to 90 percent, and added that there is a a greater than 80 percent probability it will last through all of 2015.
The highly respected Colorado State University forecast for the coming season looks for only 7 named tropical storms and only 3 hurricanes, about 40% less than average. Coupled with the expectations of global cooler weather and more precipitation from El Niño, climate change “scientific experts” may need to develop more new models.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Emergency responders searched through splintered wreckage Monday after a line of tornadoes battered several small communities in Texas and Arkansas, killing at least five people, including a young couple who died trying to shield their daughter from the storm.
An outbreak of tornadoes that skimmed across areas of the Great Plains caused extensive damage and caused work and school closures on Wednesday.
Two towns some 80 miles west of Chicago are struggling to recover from a series of deadly tornados that careened through the area killing two, injuring 20, and leaving dozens of families homeless.
After Wednesday’s assault on areas in Oklahoma and Arkansas by tornadoes and storms, a high school student in Moore, Oklahoma, snapped a picture that quickly went viral: a broken power pole suspended on power lines that formed a cross.
A swath of snow reaching from Texas to Maryland has once again buried states in ice and snow, shutting down highways in Kentucky and causing authorities in Washington D.C. to ban sledding for insurance reasons.
The Midwest and East Coast seem to be locked in perpetual winter, even in March.
After cold and snow that set February records, southern New England is entering March with another round that could push Boston over its 20-year-old snowfall record.
The winter that won’t fade is still punishing areas of the Midwest and east cost with temperatures that continue to break record lows, and nothing is changing for the better any time soon, forecasters say.
Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has already sent her fleet of 200 snow removal trucks throughout the city in preparation for a snowstorm that could snarl the Thursday morning commute.
