Month: June 2024

A 4-year-old Colorado boy was injured when he was stomped on by an aggressive cow elk while on a playground, adding to a series of similar attacks in less than a week.

Millions of people in the mid-Atlantic and Northeast are about to enter a stretch of cool, cloudy and damp days as a pair of low-pressure systems tracking across the eastern half of the U.S. trigger numerous rounds of heavy rain and strong to severe thunderstorms.

Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft blasted off from Florida on Saturday, sending two veteran astronauts on a test ride of NASA’s newest ride to orbit.

It's official: May 2024 was the hottest May on record globally, according to Europe's Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S). That makes May the 12th month in a row to set record heat.

Giant venomous flying spiders may soon start moving northward across the Northeast.

As the Atlantic and Gulf coasts anxiously wade into the first week of what’s been anticipated to become one of the busiest hurricane seasons on record, the tropics have been eerily quiet so far.

The Atlantic remains quiet. The atmosphere over the tropics has yet to flip into a full summertime configuration. Large non-tropical, winterlike low-pressure systems are still parading across the Atlantic waters, dragging cold fronts with them. People from South Florida to Bermuda have been experiencing lower-than-normal humidity and slightly cooler temperatures.

Start your day with the latest weather news. A life-threatening heat wave is baking the Southwest. Possible record-setting temperatures and triple-digit heat index readings are becoming problematic from California to Texas.