US Weather Service Merges Units as Staffing Pressure Rises March 31, 2025 By Lauren Rosenthal and Brian K. Sullivan The U.S. National Weather Service will merge two of its largest forecasting units as it prepares for the loss of...
Weather Experts Say US Forecasts to Worsen as DOGE Cuts Mean Fewer Balloon Launches March 25, 2025 By Seth Borenstein With massive job cuts, the National Weather Service is eliminating or reducing vital weather balloon launches in eight northern locations,...
CoreLogic: 170K Properties Potentially Impacted by Mix of Severe Storms March 20, 2025 Roughly 170,000 properties were potentially impacted by the outbreak of severe storms across the Midwest and Mississippi Valley, in addition...
Extreme Weather in 2024 Forced Most People to Flee in 16 Years March 19, 2025 By Aaron Clark Extreme weather last year including typhoons, heatwaves and flooding led to the biggest displacement of people since 2008, and exacerbated...
Study: Rain-Soaking Atmospheric Rivers Getting Bigger, Wetter And More Frequent March 14, 2025 By Seth Borenstein As extreme weather events have hit the world hard in recent years, one meteorology term — atmospheric rivers — has...
A California City Is Pioneering Urban-Scale Insurance for Climate Disasters March 13, 2025 By Leslie Kaufman “Fire took everything, please help.” The headline was one of hundreds like it on GoFundMe campaigns that launched even as...
Oceans Are Warming Faster and Faster as the Earth Traps More Energy January 29, 2025 By Danielle Bochove The world’s oceans are warming four times faster than they were in the late 1980s, according to a new study....
Europe Braces for Snow and Ice With UK Facing Amber Warnings January 3, 2025 By Eva Brendel Northern Europe is facing freezing temperatures and snow, boosting heating demand and putting more pressure on the region’s depleting gas...
AccuWeather’s US Winter Forecast Calls for a Temperature Roller Coaster December 9, 2024 Long-range meteorologists are forecasting a temperature roller coaster through December after a cold start to the month in the Eastern...
Global Temperature Set to Surpass 1.5C Threshold in Hottest Year on Record December 9, 2024 By Olivia Rudgard This year is “effectively certain” to be the warmest on record with temperatures climbing above a closely watched threshold for...