Officials raised the number of tornadoes that swept across North Texas over the weekend to 10, with preliminary figures showing the twisters caused $1.2 billion worth of insured damage. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports that the Insurance Council of Texas …
A U.S. government weather forecaster on Thursday raised its forecast for the chance of El Nino conditions during the Northern Hemisphere summer to 70 percent, up from a 60 percent chance last month, with a 60 percent chance it lasts …
The National Weather Service says a microburst with wind speeds as high as 110 mph whipped through southern New Hampshire, bringing down multiple trees. Unlike a tornado, wind doesn’t rotate during a microburst but rather moves in straight lines. Such …
A U.S. weather forecaster pegged the likelihood of the El Niño weather phenomenon occurring during the Northern Hemisphere autumn and winter at 60-65 percent in its monthly update on Thursday. The Climate Prediction Center (CPC), an agency of the National …
Experts say that advances in technology, particularly social media, are changing how people watch for severe weather and how quickly images of the damage can be shared. John Robinson, the warning coordinator for the National Weather Service’s Little Rock office, …
Melody Holeman has no TV and lives in such a rural part of the Oklahoma Panhandle that she can’t even pick up a signal on the weather radio that the Red Cross gave her. When powerful storms barrel through the …
Every day, twice a day, researchers launch an 8-foot-tall helium-filled balloon on a 90-minute meteorological suicide mission. As it reaches the troposphere – three times higher than commercial jet traffic – the balloon expands to the size of a garage …
With spring approaching, so is storm season in Louisiana and Mississippi. National Weather Service meteorologists are out on the road, training storm spotters to understand what they see in clouds and on the ground – and to call it in. …
The National Weather Service’s office in Wichita, Kansas, will be offering advanced storm spotter training for the first time since it started giving basic sessions more than 50 years ago. The Wichita Eagle reports meteorologist Robb Lawson will present the …
National Weather Service officials say damage surveys were continuing Tuesday in several parts of Alabama after an outbreak of severe storms and tornadoes. The weather service says one team will be surveying damage in Perry and Chilton counties. Another will …