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...
Here’s the ‘Unlucky 13’ Forecast for the 2019 Hurricane Season April 5, 2019 By Brian K. Sullivan There’s a lot of reasons people think 13 is an unlucky number. This year may add another. At least 13...
From Insurers to Traders to Retailers, More Industries Depend on Weather Tracking April 1, 2019 By Eric Roston, Brian K. Sullivan and Alexandra Semenova Every uptick in wind speed along the Gulf of Mexico shoreline is of enormous interest to Mike Eilts. Eilts, senior...
Most of Country at Risk for Major Flooding This Spring March 22, 2019 By Brian K. Sullivan The deluge that devastated so much of the Midwest over the last week could be a preview for one of...
Those Who Name Hurricanes Retire Michael, Florence Names March 21, 2019 By Brian K. Sullivan Hurricanes Florence and Michael will never ravage the Americas again. The two names have been stricken from the official list...
More Rain Forecast as Midwest, Great Plains Continue to Deal With River Flooding March 19, 2019 By Brian K. Sullivan and Michael Hirtzer The Great Plains and Midwest, struggling with flooding that inundated roads and farms and pushed rivers to record heights, is...
Mississippi, Ohio River Communities, Businesses Brace for Spring Floods March 12, 2019 By Brian K. Sullivan High water on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers is snarling barges loaded with grain, chemicals and fuel, and forecasters are...
Deaths, Damages Continue to Rise in California’s Most Destructive Wildfires November 12, 2018 By Brian K. Sullivan and Kartikay Mehrotra The most destructive wildfires in California’s history have killed at least 31 people and forced tens of thousands more to...
California Wildfire Grows to More than 20K Acres, More Blazes Erupt November 9, 2018 By David R. Baker and Brian K. Sullivan A wildfire raging in Northern California’s Sierra Nevada foothills quadrupled in size late Thursday and another day of dry winds...