Weather

On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “The Story,” White House National Security Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby acknowledged that the number of migrants on the southern border has increased, but stated that “as the weather cools down

Storm Idalia strengthened into a hurricane in the early hours of Tuesday morning as forecasters predicted it would intensify and become “extremely dangerous” before slamming into the Florida coastline sometime in the next 24-hours.

New York is urging residents dealing with low air quality due to wildfire smoke to take steps to reduce pollution in their own lives.

Wildfire smoke stemming from Canada is triggering air quality health advisories to various areas of the country, including New York.

Dozens of storms and tornadoes have killed at least 26 people in small towns and big cities across the south-central and eastern U.S. since late Friday night, all while tearing a path through the Arkansas capital and collapsing the roof of a packed concert venue in Illinois.

A Mississippi meteorologist prayed to Jesus during a live television broadcast Friday as he watched a major tornado head straight for the town of Amory.

A strange clip from the Liaoning province of China seemed to show the area being showered with worms. 

A large portion of the country is bracing for what the National Weather Service (NWS) has described as a major “coast to coast” winter storm,” which could bring “historic snowfall” to the Minneapolis, Minnesota, region.

Millions of Americans are bracing for what the National Weather Service (NWS) has described as a “significant ice storm,” expected to sweep the south this week.

Millions of Americans might have been dreaming of a white Christmas, but surely nothing like this. The brutal winter storm that has blanketed much of the U.S. in a coating of snow and ice will continue into the week as travelers see cancelled flights and dangerous roads combining to make their holiday travels a misery.

Millions of Americans woke on Christmas morning to confront damage from the frigid winter storm that has killed at least 18 people over the past 48-hours, forcing some inside their homes behind heaping snow drifts while denying power to hundreds of thousands of private residences and businesses.

Los Angeles residents received an emergency alert on their mobile phones Tuesday afternoon urging them to stay home — with just four hours to go before polls close.

Roughly 100 million Americans — well over a quarter of the U.S. population — are under freeze or frost alerts as a cold front moves across the U.S. this week. 

Border crossers and illegal aliens bused to New York City from Texas are now reportedly headed to Florida to take clean-up jobs following Hurricane Ian.

Home heating and electricity prices are expected to skyrocket in homes across the U.S. northeast this winter, according to National Grid.

Torrential rain hammered southern China’s Sichuan province over the weekend after several weeks of drought causing the region’s landscape to suffer flash flooding that forced the evacuation of nearly 50,000 people as of Sunday, China’s state-run Global Times reported.

Bushfires have reportedly engulfed “several mountains” in Chongqing, a municipality within southern China’s Sichuan province, in recent days, the Global Times reported on Monday, noting that the wildfires have merely exacerbated an ongoing heatwave and drought across most of China’s southern region that began in June.

China’s central government on Monday was “ramping up” efforts to prevent an ongoing heatwave and drought from ruining much of the nation’s autumn grain harvest across China’s southern region, the Global Times reported, noting that the autumn grain harvest in jeopardy contributes 75 percent of China’s annual grain production on average.

China’s central government issued its first national drought alert of 2022 on Thursday, advising authorities to “produce artificial rainfall when necessary” due to the “risk of wildfires” across vast swathes of China’s central and southern regions, according to Xinhua, the country’s official state press agency.

Climate change has impaired the ability of meteorologists to accurately predict severe weather events, according to the director of India Meteorological Department (IMD).

A study that investigated the placement of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) temperature stations found that 96 percent of the facilities used to measure heat failed to meet the agency’s own “uncorrupted placement” standards.

A weather war has blown over Britain, with the media giving the heatwave urgent, alarming coverage but the government urging common sense.

A blanket of hot air stretching from the Mediterranean to the North Sea is bringing much of Western Europe its first heat wave of the summer.

At least 17 people were killed across China’s neighboring provinces of Hunan and Guangxi as of Thursday after severe rainfall caused flooding and landslides that swept away entire villages and displaced hundreds of thousands of people in the southern region, the Associated Press reported.

A massive sandstorm blew through Iraq on Monday, forcing daily life to shut down in Baghdad and causing breathing difficulties in at least 4,000 people who sought medical treatment in hospitals nationwide, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported.

At least 117 people died this week in floods and landslides that swept through the historic mountain city of Petropolis north of Rio de Janeiro, the Associated Press (AP) reported Thursday.

Millions of Britons were urged to stay indoors amid fears of flying debris as a major storm this week prompted a rare “red” weather warning.

A series of tornadoes that tore a path of destruction across central and southern parts of the U.S. in the past 48-hours left dozens dead and communities grieving in their wake.

China’s Ministry of Commerce on Monday evening posted a website notice advising families to “store a certain amount of daily necessities as needed to meet daily life and emergencies.”

Hurricane Nicholas made landfall along the Texas coast early on Tuesday morning, bringing with it the threat of up to 20 inches of rainfall to parts of the Gulf Coast, including the same area devastated by Hurricane Harvey in 2017 alongside storm-battered Louisiana.

The Tropical Storm dubbed Henri is moving toward New York with hurricane-strength winds and possible storm surges.

A striking photograph showed a California firefighter saving an American flag despite dangerous flames from the Dixie wildfire.

Germany’s national weather service said Thursday that regions hit by deadly floods last week could again see heavy rain at the weekend.

Thunderstorms hit Germany late Monday and torrential rain poured down on southern and western parts of the country.

Officials say a vaccination center was flooded and five people were injured by hail during heavy storms in southwestern Germany overnight.

Snow fell in portions of the northern United States and Canada on Mother’s Day — a rare May event that is the result of unusual late spring weather patterns that are seen about once every decade or so.