FOX WEATHER BREAKING

The consensus of the computer forecast models is that a tropical system will try to develop in the western Caribbean Sea or extreme southern Gulf of Mexico next week. Exactly when it develops, how strong it gets, and where it tracks are open questions.

As the likelihood of the next tropical threat in the Atlantic increases, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) is now closely watching a total of three areas for the possibility of development.

Thunderstorms are expected to threaten a significant area from Texas to western Minnesota on Thursday, producing damaging winds, large hail and tornadoes.

A ridge of high pressure encompassing much of North America will work to control the weather during the first week of the astronomical fall. The result will be temperatures that either at or above average for much of the Lower 48 through the first week of autumn. Forecasters warn it is important to note that just because a season begins off warn, it doesn’t mean the entire period will continue to be toasty.

A recent study by researchers at NOAA’s National Severe Storms Laboratory using Doppler Radar scans suggests the current methods of measuring tornadoes may be underestimating the twister's true wind speeds.

A park visitor from New Hampshire experienced burns to her lower leg while walking in a thermal area at Yellowstone National Park.

Colorado Buffaloes head coach Deion Sanders has found himself in more controversy, but this time it is having to do with the weather. According to Sanders, the weather app he uses on his phone doesn’t show widespread chances of rainfall for Saturday’s game, but at least one local meteorologist disagrees.

Poland, Romania, Austria and the Czech Republic have reported several deaths and mass destruction to towns as rivers flood from extensive rainfall.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope helped astronomers find more supermassive black holes in the early universe than previous estimates.

Footage shot on Saturday shows a critically endangered North Atlantic right whale swimming near Dewey Beach, Delaware.