Tornado devastates Texas town on sixth straight day of severe storms
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Tornado devastates Texas town on sixth straight day of severe storms
By Meteorologist Briana Waxman, Taylor Romine, CNN (CNN) — Several people are injured after a tornado in Mineral Wells, Texas, flattened a…
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Deadly severe storm outbreak enters sixth day as threat shifts east
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Continue Reading Central US faces a dangerous tornado threat as destructive storm stretch peaks
CNN By Meteorologists Briana Waxman, Mary Gilbert (CNN) — Parts of the central US are facing a serious threat of tornadoes and widespread…
Continue ReadingDeadly severe storm outbreak enters sixth day as threat shifts east
By Meteorologists Briana Waxman, Mary Gilbert (CNN) — Severe storms are raking across the South Tuesday afternoon and evening with giant hail…
Continue Reading Central US faces a dangerous tornado threat as destructive storm stretch peaks
CNN By Meteorologists Briana Waxman, Mary Gilbert (CNN) — Parts of the central US are facing a serious threat of tornadoes and widespread…
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Pattern shift brings back-to-back days of severe weather threats to central US
CNN, WTLV, GEORGIA FORESTRY COMMISSION, RAIGAN BULLARD, ASHLEIGH ANDERSON, ENID BUZZ, ERICA RICH, TRAVIS HOWERTON By Meteorologists Mary Gilbert,…
Continue ReadingPattern shift brings back-to-back days of severe weather threats to central US
By Meteorologists Mary Gilbert, Briana Waxman, and CNN’s Martin Goillandeau, Holly Yan (CNN) — More severe weather is expected in the…
Continue ReadingWorst spring drought on record grips US, fueling wildfires and water worries
By Meteorologist Chris Dolce, CNN (CNN) — Drought in the continental United States has expanded to its record-highest level for spring, and…
Continue ReadingAn intense marine heat wave has California in its crosshairs, with impacts set for land and sea
By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — Something unusual and with far-reaching consequences is lurking in the sea off the California coast, stretching…
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Continue ReadingStorm-weary central US braces for one more day of possibly severe weather after tornado outbreak
By Meteorologists Dakota Smith, Briana Waxman, Allison Chinchar and CNN’s Taylor Romine, CNN (CNN) — Multiple destructive twisters struck…
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More dangerous storms loom for the central US as parts of the region also grapple with historic flooding
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Continue Reading Severe storms batter Central US with hail and tornadoes
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Continue ReadingMore dangerous storms loom for the central US as parts of the region also grapple with historic flooding
By CNN Meteorologists Briana Waxman, Dakota Smith and CNN’s Kate S. Petersen (CNN) — A final round of widespread dangerous severe storms…
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Tornado threat ramps up across central US a day after destructive tornadoes in Kansas
CNN By Meteorologists Chris Dolce, Briana Waxman and CNN’s Hanna Park, Kate Petersen (CNN) — A week of severe storm threats across the…
Continue ReadingWhat is a severe thunderstorm?
By Meteorologist Chris Dolce, CNN (CNN) — Harsh weather of all kinds is often called severe, but the word takes on a very specific meaning when…
Continue ReadingTornado threat ramps up across central US a day after destructive tornadoes in Kansas
By Meteorologists Chris Dolce, Briana Waxman and CNN’s Hanna Park, Kate Petersen (CNN) — A week of severe storm threats across the…
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The first predictions for hurricane season are in and El Niño’s fingerprints are all over it
By Meteorologist Mary Gilbert, CNN (CNN) — Spring is finally in full bloom, but some weather forecasters are already fast-forwarding a few…
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Over a month’s worth of rain has fallen on parts of Hawaii as a storm threatens flooding
By Meteorologists Dakota Smith and Chris Dolce (CNN) — A potent, multi-day storm continues to lash Hawaii with heavy rain into the weekend,…
Continue ReadingA Super El Niño is coming. Here’s how a hotter ocean could change the weather near you
By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — Get ready to hear a lot more about El Niño during the next several months — and maybe even longer — as the…
Continue ReadingFire season fears grow amid western heat wave
By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — Experts are warning that the unprecedented heat wave that has roasted the West during the past two weeks has…
Continue ReadingBefore and after satellite images show how little snow is left in the western US
By Meteorologist Dakota Smith, CNN (CNN) — A record warm March has melted an already abysmal snowpack across the western United States, with…
Continue ReadingEmergency planners around the country are about to lose access to a critical hurricane evacuation planning tool
By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — The hurricane planning tool that meteorologists and emergency managers use for making critical decisions,…
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Hundreds rescued and evacuations ordered as catastrophic flash flooding hits Oahu
By Ritu Prasad, Hanna Park, Chris Dolce, CNN (CNN) — Hundreds of people have been rescued after severe flooding battered Hawaii’s Oahu island…
Continue ReadingThe US broke the all-time heat record for March. Yes, it’s climate change
By Meteorologist Chris Dolce, CNN (CNN) — An unprecedented heat wave in the West broke the record for the hottest March temperature anywhere in…
Continue ReadingRare fireball spotted over eastern US caused a sonic boom
By Meteorologist Chris Dolce, CNN (CNN) — A rare fireball bright enough to be seen during broad daylight dazzled skies and triggered a sonic…
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Extraordinary, climate change-fueled heat wave envelops the West with mounting consequences
CNN, WBTV, LORI AND ANDY LOGAN, HARDIN COUNTY GOVERNMENT, WCNC, WSMV, WZTV, KARE, WISDOT By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — Meteorologists are…
Continue ReadingExtraordinary, climate change-fueled heat wave envelops the West with mounting consequences
By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — Meteorologists are reaching for superlatives to describe an oncoming heat wave so intense and rare for this…
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Sprawling storm drops feet of snow, knocks out power with high winds and disrupts thousands of flights
CNN By Meteorologists Mary Gilbert, Briana Waxman, and Chris Dolce, and Chris Boyette (CNN) — A sprawling, wind-driven multiday storm roared…
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