Weather

The United States suffers the world’s second-highest toll from major weather disasters, according to a new analysis — even when numbers are adjusted for the country’s wealth.

A planned launch on Saturday of a mission to take three American astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut to the International Space Station was scrubbed because of poor weather. SpaceX announced that the launch was delayed, and NASA said the agency would now target Sunday at 10:53 p.m. EST for liftoff. The SpaceX Crew Dragon named […]

With temperatures reaching the 60s and 70s, the end of February is bringing an early taste of summer to the Midwest. The weather is not typical for this time of year — usually temperatures run in the 20s and 30s in cities like Chicago and Kansas City, where the warmer weather is now helping some […]

A sharp swing in temperatures has been forecast across northern and central parts of the US this week, with potentially record-breaking warm weather giving way to a cold front. Wisconsin is likely to challenge its all-time February high on Tuesday with a forecast of 17C (63F) – 0.5C above the record set at Stevens Point […]

Parts of the Midwest are at risk of experiencing severe weather this week, with the possibility of scattered thunderstorms and some tornadoes starting Tuesday, forecasters said Sunday. Parts of the Ozarks into the mid Mississippi Valley and southwestern Great Lakes could experience “scattered strong to severe thunderstorms,” along with wind damage, hail and possible tornadoes […]

With open golf courses in New York State, canceled sled dog races in Minnesota and reports of snowdrop flowers blooming in Virginia, portions of the central and eastern U.S. are . . .

At least 72 people across the United States have died from weather-related causes after more than a week of frigid winter storms and brutally cold temperatures, according to reports from state officials, police departments, medical examiners and news outlets. The number is likely to grow as the authorities scramble to assess the death toll from […]

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Much of the U.S. remained gripped by deadly Arctic weather Sunday — with subfreezing conditions reaching as far south as Texas and Florida. But the numbing cold is expected to ease up in the coming days. Nationally, winter storms this month have claimed at least 67 lives around the U.S., many […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Arctic weather brought more misery to much of the U.S. on Saturday, especially for people unaccustomed to such bitter cold in places like Memphis, Tennessee, where residents were urged to boil water and some had no water at all after freezing temperatures broke water mains across the city. Temperatures weren’t expected […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Memphis residents were urged to boil water and New Yorkers have been warned that roads could be covered with dangerous black ice this weekend as brutal cold and inclement weather continue to sweep across parts of the U.S. Bitterly frigid air spilled into the Midwest from Canada as forecasters warned Saturday that […]


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