Environment

By Meteorologists Mary Gilbert, Tyler Ory, CNN (CNN) — Strong winds, pounding seas and coastal flood threats will be near-constant companions for parts of North Carolina up through the Chesapeake Bay area this weekend as a nor’easter that’s expected to linger well into next week starts to take shape.This budding storm will not follow in

By Andrew Freedman, Mary Gilbert, CNN (CNN) — This winter is set to feature numerous strong storms affecting the West Coast and southern half of the country, according to the official winter outlook released Thursday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The outlook is dominated by the influence of the near-record strong El Niño

By Meteorologist Mary Gilbert, CNN (CNN) — The atmosphere’s attempts to make it feel actually like fall across much of the United States have been repeatedly thwarted in recent weeks, but that’s about to change in a major way.Temperatures will plummet to their lowest levels since spring for many east of the Rockies later this

By Sam Hart and Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — A potentially record-shattering El Niño is underway, and we’re already seeing its effects. From wildfires in Indonesia to an unusually active tropical cyclone season in the Pacific, the phenomenon has a cascading effect on global weather patterns that will peak during the upcoming winter. On Thursday

By Meteorologists Dakota Smith, Briana Waxman, Chris Dolce, CNN (CNN) — Isaias has rapidly intensified into the Atlantic season’s first hurricane, putting the northern Gulf Coast on alert for dangerous storm surge, damaging winds and flooding rain ahead of an expected landfall late Friday or early Saturday.Hurricane hunter aircraft confirmed late Wednesday that Isaias had

By Meteorologists Chris Dolce, Mary Gilbert and Dakota Smith (CNN) — Tropical Depression Nine has formed in the southwestern Gulf and is forecast to become a hurricane, potentially bringing significant flooding rain and strong winds to parts of the northern Gulf Coast and South late this week.The system is expected to become Tropical Storm Isaias

By Meteorologist Chris Dolce, CNN (CNN) — The Atlantic Ocean has failed to produce a hurricane in the month of September for the first time in more than 30 years, the latest feat by a super El Niño widely predicted to become the strongest ever.Only three other Septembers have gone hurricane-free in the Atlantic in

By Mary Gilbert, Chris Dolce, Dakota Smith, Kate S. Petersen, Isa Mudannayake, CNN (CNN) — Heavy rain from Hurricane Nolo is ramping up in southern Hawaii, the islands’ third dangerous brush with a hurricane in just six weeks. Potentially life-threatening flooding and mudslides are again possible as the state contends with a Pacific tropical season

By Meteorologists Mary Gilbert, Chris Dolce, Dakota Smith (CNN) — An intensifying early season nor’easter has arrived in the Northeast and is set to deliver a prolonged stretch of strong wind, soaking rain and coastal flooding to the region through the weekend.More than 40 million people will feel the storm’s impact through Sunday. Areas from

By Meteorologists Mary Gilbert, Chris Dolce, and CNN’s Kate S. Petersen (CNN) — Hawaii will once again face potentially life-threatening flooding and mudslides as Tropical Storm Nolo starts to strengthen and edge closer to the state’s eastern islands.The Big Island will see the worst of Nolo’s impacts when it makes its closest approach as a