Season’s First Hurricane Pummels Mexico With Strong Winds, Heavy Rain May 31, 2022 By Brian K. Sullivan Hurricane Agatha made landfall in Mexico’s Oaxaca state Monday afternoon in what’s expected to be the strongest May storm to...
How Climate Change Is Fueling More Intense Global Wildfires May 16, 2022 By Brian K. Sullivan Already, 2022 is taking its place in a pantheon of years that have seen the nature of fire change —...
Solar Storm to Hit Earth, Prompting Monitoring by Airlines, Electric Grid Operators April 5, 2022 By Brian K. Sullivan A solar storm will sweep across the Earth Wednesday night, raising prospects of dazzling Northern Lights visible as far south...
UK Braces for ‘Storm Eunice’ and Hurricane-Strength Gusts on Friday February 17, 2022 By Rachel Morison and Brian K. Sullivan Britain’s Met Office issued a rare red weather warning for parts of the UK, saying hurricane-strength gusts of 90 miles...
More Tornadoes in Midwest, Great Plains Leave One Dead and 500,000 in the Dark December 16, 2021 By Brian K. Sullivan Dec 16, 2021 — A powerful storm that spawned tornadoes across the Midwest and Great Plains killed at least one...
Month-Long Halt in Hurricanes Thanks to Dry Air and Atmospheric Lull October 29, 2021 By Brian K. Sullivan This year’s hurricane season started out as one of the most prolific in the modern era. Then suddenly, in October,...
Pounding Rain Raises Flash Flood Threat in New York, New England October 26, 2021 By Brian K. Sullivan The powerful storm battering the U.S. Northeast will inundate New York City with lashing rain and possible flash floods through...
La Nina Arrives, Threatening More Droughts, Storms and Supply Disruptions October 14, 2021 By Brian K. Sullivan A weather-roiling La Nina appears to have emerged across the equatorial Pacific, setting the stage for worsening droughts in California...
U.S. Endures 18 Major Weather and Climate Disasters in 2021 October 11, 2021 By Brian K. Sullivan The U.S. has endured 18 major weather and climate disasters so far this year that killed a combined 538 people...
Ida’s Inland Path May Reveal Hidden Risk, Test Mapping Methods of Hurricane Floods September 2, 2021 By Brian K. Sullivan and Leslie Kaufman With remnants of Ida delivering downpours and fierce winds from North Carolina to New Jersey, U.S. government methods for assessing...