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'I Went Back to My Room, and the Room's Gone'

Nearly 500 homes damaged in Mississippi after powerful tornadoes ripped across multiple counties

(Newser) - Powerful storms that included at least one confirmed tornado tore through parts of Mississippi, damaging nearly 500 homes, tearing up trees, and downing power lines, authorities said Thursday. There were no immediate reports of deaths from the storms that struck several counties on Wednesday night, per the AP . At least...

Nearly 5-Inch Hail Injures Drivers, Kills Emu at Zoo

Radar showed 'hail was growing in size' during Missouri storm

(Newser) - Nicolette Zangara, a spokesperson for the Springfield-Greene County Office of Emergency Management, said she had a bad feeling about Tuesday's storm early on. "You could just tell from what we were seeing on radar that the hail was growing in size," Zangara said. Glass shards flew everywhere...

64M in Midwest Brace for More Severe Storms
Storms Race Through Midwest
Apr 27, 2026 6:20 PM CDT

Storms Race Through Midwest

St. Louis faces risk of multiple tornadoes

(Newser) - Fast-moving storms pummeled parts of the Midwest on Monday with hail, strong wind, and heavy rain, flooding streets and leaving commuters in need of rescue, with more storms on the way, authorities said. More than 64 million people were at risk of severe storms into the afternoon and evening, with...

'A Lot of People Are Going to Need a Lot of Help' After Storms

Winds, tornadoes leave damage in Upper Midwest

(Newser) - A trail of damaged homes and buildings dotted a wide swath of the US on Saturday after a burst of destructive winds and reported tornadoes tore off roofs, uprooted trees, and rendered rural roads impassable with debris. No deaths were reported following Friday's storms that barreled through the Upper...

Surprise Tornadoes Raise Q's About Weather Service Cuts

Kansas meteorologists ask about reduced balloon launches, staffing after storm warnings come late

(Newser) - Residents near Kansas City, Kansas, didn't get much advance warning before tornadoes tore through the area on Monday night, and that's now fueling questions about cuts and staffing changes at the National Weather Service. At least five tornadoes formed southwest of the city, damaging homes, toppling trees, flipping...

Beneath Lake Erie, a Vast Salt Mine Works Overtime

Whiskey Island salt mine is struggling this year to meet winter road demands

(Newser) - Below Cleveland, in a subterranean world many surface dwellers don't know exists, miners extract a crucial winter mineral—salt. The Whiskey Island salt mine, owned by food giant Cargill, helps supply road salt across the Northeast and Great Lakes, where a colder, snowier-than-usual winter has driven demand. Many municipalities...

'Basically the Entire US Is Going to Be Hot'

Record-smashing heat dome baked the Southwest, and it's spreading east

(Newser) - After smashing March heat records in 14 states and the US as a whole, the gigantic heat dome that's baked the Southwest is creeping eastward and may end up being one of the most expansive heat waves in American history, meteorologists and weather historians tell the AP . And it'...

There's 'Next-Level Weather Wildness' Going On in SW

Record heat wave in Southwest: 'This is what climate change looks like'

(Newser) - The dangerous heat wave shattering March records in the US Southwest is more than just a weather blip: It's the latest next-level weather wildness that's occurring ever more frequently as Earth's warming builds. Experts say unprecedented and deadly weather extremes that sometimes strike at abnormal times and...

Tornadoes Possible Across Mid-Atlantic
East Coast Sees
Tornado Potential
Mar 16, 2026 7:20 AM CDT

East Coast Sees Tornado Potential

Level 4 threat brings risk of widespread storms, especially during evening commute

(Newser) - A weather setup that forecasters say they see only a few times a decade is lining up over the Mid-Atlantic on Monday. The National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center has placed an area from western Maryland to South Carolina, including Raleigh, Richmond, and Washington, DC, under a "moderate" Level 4-of-5...

It's Getting Wild in the US, Weather-Wise

Blizzard, polar vortex, heat dome, and other phenomena are all converging on American cities

(Newser) - Nearly every part of the United States is getting walloped by wild weather, or just about to be. Days of downpours have begun in Hawaii, per the AP . The Southwest will soon bake with day after day of record 100-degree-plus heat. Two storms will dump snow by the foot over...

77M Under Storm Threat as Tornadoes Tear Up Midwest

At least 2 killed in northwest Indiana

(Newser) - A fresh round of severe weather is tearing across the central US, with CNN reporting two people were killed in northwest Indiana, and more than 77 million people from the Midwest to the Southern Plains were under some level of tornado threat as of Wednesday. Northern Illinois faces the highest...

Severe Weather Outbreak Puts Nearly 80M People at Risk

Forecasters warn of possible nighttime twisters, huge hail, damaging winds across central US

(Newser) - Millions across the middle of the country are staring down what forecasters say could be the fiercest severe-weather day of the year so far. The Storm Prediction Center warns that powerful thunderstorms are expected Tuesday from the southern Plains through the southern Great Lakes, with conditions ripe for large hail,...

6 Dead in Tornado Alley: 'It's Lifting Houses!'

Terrifying videos show powerful twisters after they touched down in Michigan, Oklahoma

(Newser) - Powerful storms that whipped up tornadoes killed at least four people in southern Michigan and two people in eastern Oklahoma on Friday, leaving swaths of damage, including homes reduced to rubble and downed trees and power lines. In Michigan, three people were killed and 12 were injured in the Union...

Weather Service Has Updated How It's IDing Storms

Severe-weather outlook maps will now cover storm intensity, as well as the likelihood of them hitting

(Newser) - Weather maps that once focused on where storms might hit are about to say more about how nasty they could be. The National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center started this week to tweak its severe weather outlooks to factor in not just the odds of storms, but their potential...

Blizzard Warnings Cascade Across East Coast

Thousands of flights canceled ahead of 'potentially historic' storm

(Newser) - New York City and New Jersey announced travel bans, airlines canceled thousands of flights, and even Broadway shows were canceled Sunday evening as a fierce winter storm bore down on the Northeastern US, prompting blizzard warnings from Maryland to Massachusetts, the AP reports. Snow began falling in New Jersey and...

In Frigid Estonia, an 'Ice Road' Opens Over the Sea

Officials acted to mitigate risks for drivers already crossing over stretch of frozen water in Estonia

(Newser) - Temperatures in northern Europe have been so low that citizens of Estonia can now drive across a 12 1/2-mile stretch of frozen sea linking the country's two main islands. The so-called "ice road" connecting the islands of Saaremaa and Hiiumaa, located in western Estonia between the Baltic Sea...

NC Could See More Snow Than It's Seen in 30 Years

Winter Storm Gianna is set to develop into a nor'easter and a bomb cyclone by Sunday

(Newser) - A fast-strengthening winter storm is set to lash the East Coast this weekend, with forecasters warning of heavy snow, dangerous wind, and coastal flooding from the Carolinas to New England. The system, dubbed Winter Storm Gianna by the Weather Channel , is expected to intensify into a so-called bomb cyclone and...

Storm's Toll: 820K Without Power, at Least 9 Dead

Northeast getting more snow on Monday

(Newser) - The US work week opened with yet more snow dumping on the Northeast under the tail end of a colossal winter storm that brought ice and power outages, impassable roads, canceled flights, and frigid cold to much of the southern and eastern United States. Deep snow—over a foot extending...

Forecasters: Storm Could Be as Damaging as Hurricane

More than 8K flights across US have been canceled, with 140M under winter storm warning

(Newser) - More than 8,000 flights across the US set to take off over the weekend have been canceled as a major storm expected to wreak havoc across much of the country bears down, threatening to knock out power for days and snarl major roadways. Roughly 140 million people were under...

There's a New Lightning Strike Capital in the US

Oklahoma overtakes Florida with highest lightning density in 2025

(Newser) - Florida just lost a long-held weather title. A new report from environmental consulting firm AEM names Oklahoma as the state with the highest lightning density in the country last year, averaging about 73 lightning flashes per square mile. Florida, often dubbed the nation's lightning capital, slipped to second place,...

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