Tropical Storm Dolly Becomes 4th Named Storm with Early Start to Hurricane Season June 24, 2020 By Brian K. Sullivan Tropical Storm Dolly spun up southeast of Halifax, Nova Scotia, becoming the Atlantic’s fourth named storm of 2020, marking the...
Typhoon Vongfong Hits the Philippines with Evacuations Expected May 14, 2020 By Brian K. Sullivan Typhoon Vongfong, the Northern Hemisphere’s first named storm [of 2020], is rapidly intensifying east of the Philippines, where it could...
Deadly Storm Buffets New York and East Coast After Lashing South April 14, 2020 By Brian K. Sullivan A powerful storm that unleashed deadly tornadoes across the South was expected to shake trees and snap power lines in...
Pandemic Hampers World’s Weather Forecasts with Halting of Commercial Flights March 26, 2020 By Brian K. Sullivan The pandemic that has idled scores of commercial flights is having a little-noticed consequence for meteorologists, whose forecasts rely in...
FEMA Tackles COVID-19 While Also Facing Past Disasters, Spring Flood Season March 23, 2020 By Leslie Kaufman and Brian K. Sullivan It wasn’t until Wednesday, five days after President Donald Trump declared a national emergency, that the Federal Emergency Management Agency...
America’s Farmers Brace for Another Season of Costly River Flooding March 3, 2020 By Brian K. Sullivan For the second year in a row, much of the U.S. is primed to suffer multi-billion dollar flood losses, with...
‘Rivers in the Sky’ Causing Billions in Flood Damage in U.S. February 12, 2020 By Brian K. Sullivan Climate change is spurring a new, deep dive into a complex, little-studied weather system blamed for creating billions of dollars...
U.S. Had 14 Weather Disasters of $1 Billion or More in 2019 January 9, 2020 By Brian K. Sullivan The U.S. had 14 weather disasters costing $1 billion or more last year, with Midwest flooding accounting for almost half...
More Storms. Less Damage. But 2019’s Slow Hurricanes Leave Sense of Foreboding. November 30, 2019 By Brian K. Sullivan The Atlantic Ocean has spawned lots of storms this season while doing much less damage than prior years. But warming...
PG&E Warns of Possible Northern California Blackouts at Mid-Week November 18, 2019 By Brian K. Sullivan and Mark Chediak PG&E Corp. is warning a quarter-million homes and businesses could lose power in northern California starting Wednesday as high winds...