FOX WEATHER BREAKING

White-nose syndrome was found in bats that call Canyonlands National Park Needles district home, according to the National Park Service.

Millions of people living along the Gulf Coast are being urged to make sure preparations are in place as the next tropical threat to the U.S. brews in the Caribbean, and there are increasing signs that the ingredients needed for a tropical storm or hurricane to form are coming together.

Higher-than-average tides combined with a storm system over 100 miles off the coast of the Northeast have caused problems for coastal communities from Florida to New England. Hundreds of miles of coastline are under weather alerts and coastal flooding is expected to remain a concern into the first week of astronomical autumn.

The Centre for Natural Resource Governance (CNRG), a Zimbabwean organization that promotes responsible management of natural resources, has significant reservations about a plan to allow for the killing of 200 elephants to feed hungry citizens.

The Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America (AAFA) recently released its annual Asthma Capitals report, ranking the top 100 communities in the contiguous United States with asthma issues. The rankings are determined by metrics such as asthma prevalence, emergency department visits and asthma-related deaths.

There is now a broader consensus among the various computer forecast models that a tropical system will develop in the western Caribbean or the southern Gulf of Mexico and track toward the Gulf Coast next week. The assortment of predictions pretty much agrees that the system will be in the development stages by Wednesday and reach the coast Friday or over the weekend.

An Indiana elementary school is picking up the pieces of their damaged roof after a Friday evening thunderstorm brought ferocious wind gusts.

Yet another home has collapsed into the rising surf along the Cape Hatteras National Seashore Friday night, showing the ongoing threat of erosion and rising sea levels to North Carolina's Outer Banks.

Astronomers and sky watchers have their fingers crossed that an approaching comet could put on a nighttime show on Earth next month, but it’s already strutting its stuff for those in space.

Fall officially begins in the Northern Hemisphere on Sept. 23 with the autumnal equinox as the entire world experiences equal hours of daylight and darkness.