La Niña’s Back, but Will It Amp Up Hurricane Season? October 10, 2025 By Seth Borenstein La Nina, the cooler and at times costlier flip side of El Nino, has arrived to warp weather worldwide, meteorologists...
World Is Far More Ablaze Now With Damaging Fires Than in 1980s: Study October 9, 2025 By Seth Borenstein Earth’s nastiest and costliest wildfires are blazing four times more often now than they did in the 1980s because of...
Camp Mystic Leader May Not Have Seen Alert Before Flood, Family Spokesman Says July 17, 2025 By Seth Borenstein The leader of Camp Mystic had been tracking the weather before the deadly Texas floods, but it is now unclear...
Geography and Driving Behavior Contribute to High Flood Death Rates in Texas July 15, 2025 By Seth Borenstein Even before the Central Texas floods that killed more than 100 people, the state was by far the leader in...
US Faces More Extreme Weather Events, but Is Society Doing Enough? July 11, 2025 By Seth Borenstein After deadly flooding in central Texas in 1987, some thought they’d proven they could handle Mother Nature’s best punch. Then...
Scientists Crush and Analyze Hailstones in First-of-its-Kind Study June 25, 2025 By Seth Borenstein, Brittany Peterson and Carolyn Kaster Dozens of researchers are chasing, driving and running into storms to collect fresh hail, getting their car bodies and their...
Planetary Waves Linked to Wild Summer Weather Have Tripled Since 1950: Study June 19, 2025 By Seth Borenstein Climate change has tripled the frequency of atmospheric wave events linked to extreme summer weather in the last 75 years...
Researchers Chase Hail Across Great Plains in Effort to Improve Forecasting June 13, 2025 By Seth Borenstein, Brittany Peterson and Carolyn Kaster Wind roared against the SUV’s windows as its tires sloshed through water dumped onto the road by the downpour. A...
Scientists Take on Severe Storms to Study Hail, Costliest Weather Danger June 6, 2025 By Seth Borenstein, Carolyn Kaster and Brittany Peterson As severe storms once again soak, twist and pelt the nation’s midsection, a team of dozens of scientists is driving...
More Tornadoes, Fewer Meteorologists Make for a Dangerous Mix May 27, 2025 By Seth Borenstein As nasty tornadoes popped up from Kansas to Kentucky, a depleted National Weather Service was in scramble mode. The agency’s...