California Heat Stokes Fire Risk, Residents Asked to Curb Power Use June 12, 2019 By Brian K. Sullivan A second day of unrelenting heat is scorching California, sending temperatures to near record levels, raising risk of wildfires and...
Unusual If Not Unprecedented: 500 Tornadoes in 30 Days May 30, 2019 By Brian K. Sullivan The U.S. has been rocked by 500 tornadoes in the past 30 days with a trapped jet stream in the...
Viewpoint: Ground Will Shake and Snakes Will Flee as the Mississippi Drains May 29, 2019 By Brian K. Sullivan I was on site in 2011 when the Army freed the Mississippi from a man-made barrier and unleashed it into...
As Many as 8 Hurricanes Forecast for ‘Near Normal’ 2019 Hurricane Season May 24, 2019 By Brian K. Sullivan As many as 8 hurricanes may form in the Atlantic in 2019, a “near normal” season following two years of...
Mississippi River’s Morganza Floodway May Be Opened for Third Time Ever May 23, 2019 By Brian K. Sullivan A major barrier that keeps the Mississippi River in its current path may be opened for just the third time...
Storm-and-Twister Threat Moves to Arkansas-Missouri Farm Belt May 21, 2019 By Brian K. Sullivan The heavy rain, high winds and hail that swept across the southern Great Plains is now headed to Arkansas and...
Cyclone Kenneth Grows Stronger as It Barrels Towards Mozambique April 25, 2019 By Brian K. Sullivan and Borges Nhamire Tropical Cyclone Kenneth continued to grow stronger as it swirled toward the coast of Mozambique, where Anadarko Petroleum Corp. has...
Mozambique Braces for Another Powerful Cyclone, Just One Month After Idai April 24, 2019 By Brian K. Sullivan Tropical Cyclone Kenneth is gathering strength on a track to strike northern Mozambique Friday, less than a month after a...
Farmers Grow to Like Crop of Technologies Helping Them Manage Weather Risk April 16, 2019 By Lydia Mulvany and Brian K. Sullivan When surprise hailstorms hit the 6,000 acres Trevor Scherman plants each year with peas, wheat, canola and lentils, his first...
More Than 200K Without Power Following Violent Northeastern U.S. Storms April 15, 2019 By Brian K. Sullivan and Jim Efstathiou Jr. More than 200,000 homes and businesses in eight states were without power early Monday after violent thunderstorms and heavy rains...