FOX WEATHER BREAKING

Start your day with the latest weather news. Relentless storms have left the ground in parts of the South saturated and rivers swollen. Now, the region faces another round of severe weather and heavy rain that could lead to more flooding.

The 2024 eastern Pacific hurricane season began on May 15 and runs through November 30. In 2023, an El Nino pattern produced 17 named storms, ten hurricanes and eight major cyclones in the basin. Two of the major hurricanes – Dora and Otis – were retired for their connections to mass devastation in Hawaii and southwestern Mexico.

A tropical upper tropospheric trough is an elongated area of low pressure in the upper levels of the atmosphere. These semi-permanent features can become cut off, forming what is known as a TUTT low. TUTTs produce a significant amount of wind shear that can disrupt tropical cyclones.

The Punxsutawney Groundhog Club announced the names of baby groundhogs on Mother’s Day. The female pup was named Sunny, and the boy will be known as Shadow. The family of four lives in an enclosure at the Punxsutawney Memorial Library in downtown Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania.

Get ready for a busy holiday on the roads and in the skies over Memorial Day weekend. AAA forecasts that 43.8 million Americans will travel 50 or more miles from home.

At least 14 people have been killed and 74 have been injured in Mumbai after a massive billboard was toppled by thunderstorm winds Monday, according to a local official.

An unusual weather pattern for May is in place across the Southeast, with rounds of rainfall during what is usually a downtime for wet weather events. As much an additional 6 inches of rainfall is possible through Saturday and has triggered NOAA’s Weather Prediction Center to issue a Level 3 out 4 alert for flash flooding across three states.

Boeing is troubleshooting a new issue with its Starliner spacecraft before the company tries again to launch two NASA astronauts to the International Space Station.

An injured and stranded hiker found himself in a perilous situation on top of a Utah hoodoo during a rescue mission that lasted nearly three hours.

Officials in Tennessee said they believe a lightning strike was the cause of a house fire earlier this month that claimed the lives of three people in Lawrenceburg, including a child and a pregnant woman.