24/7 Tornado Newsfeed
The same side of the Moon always faces Earth, but it looks different â even just a little bit every day â because sunlight reflects off the lunar surface, creating the different phases we see every month.
When a deadly EF-4 tornado ripped through Greenfield, Iowa, on May 21, meteorologists equipped with cutting-edge technology were gathering critical data to enhance storm forecasting. The first "Doppler on Wheels," or what is known as DOW for short, was deployed in the 1990s.
Tragedy struck a rural Illinois community as an 88-year-old couple died in Tuesday's heavy rain flash flooding.
The 1-in-30-million orange lobster was caught off the coast of Canada and "accidentally delivered" to a Red Lobster in Pueblo, Colorado.
Members of an uncontacted indigenous tribe were recently seen on a riverbank in a remote part of the Peruvian Amazon rainforest amid the increasing presence of loggers.
Elevated fire risk prompted rangers to close access to some roads within Hawaii Volcanoes National Park this week. Drought, low humidity and gusty winds are increasing fire dangers.
A strong high-pressure system is sprawled across the Atlantic. The high is a mountain of air, and the flow of air down the mountain suppresses any significant development under its dome of control. In addition, flow around the south side of the big high is dragging a giant plume of Saharan dust across the tropical Atlantic and the Caribbean.
Severe thunderstorms rolled through Queens Wednesday night, forcing the band to cut their outdoor concert short at Citi Field mid-song and asking the crowd to take shelter.
Nearly the entire southern U.S. is bracing for a prolonged stretch of wet weather that could set records in cities like New Orleans and Atlanta thanks to a stalled-out cold front that will trigger numerous rounds of torrential rain and thunderstorms from the Southwest through the Southeast and into the mid-Atlantic.
Start your day with the latest weather news. A cold front that has been traversing the country this week is slowing down across the southern U.S., becoming a focus for repeated heavy rain in parts of the region.