A sprawling storm system crossing the U.S. on Friday overturned semitrucks on highways and fanned wildfires in Texas and Oklahoma, where officials called for evacuations in at least one town. Tornado threats loomed for the Mississippi Valley into the night and the Deep South on Saturday. The Texas Department of Public Safety reported three deaths…
What to do during a tornado warning What to do during a tornado warning 12:23 Springtime brings warmer weather, longer days and nature’s awakening across much of the country. It also brings higher chances for tornadoes, large hail, flash floods and damaging winds — and that means more alerts about threatening forecasts, which often come…
Hundreds of staffers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, were laid off Thursday as the Trump administration and its newly-created Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, continue slashing the federal workforce. A congressional source told CBS News the layoffs affected 880 NOAA employees. An administration official told CBS News about 5% of…
The cost of climate change Adapting to climate change amid rising natural disasters 06:42 Three tropical cyclones are spinning in the South Pacific, an occurrence that scientists say is unusual. Tropical cyclones Rae, Seru and Alfred are all churning as the region is in the peak of a season that starts in November and ends in…
As meteorological winter comes to an end, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Climate Prediction Center has issued their three-month outlook, revealing temperature, precipitation and drought expectations for meteorological spring. NOAA breaks the calendar up into four meteorological seasons. The three-month groups roughly correlate to the four seasons, and are based on temperatures. Meteorological winter…
“Significant and devastating flooding” in Pikeville, Kentucky — a small town in the eastern part of the state with a population of roughly 7,000 — has left the community submerged in water, the city’s mayor Jimmy Carter said. Dozens of swift water rescues have been conducted since a deluge of rain hit over the weekend,…
California crews clean up flooding and mudslides – CBS News Watch CBS News Crews in Southern California are busy trying to clean up from the powerful atmospheric river that created mud flows and shut down the Pacific Coast Highway. Andrew Kozac has the forecast and Elise Preston reports on conditions. Be the first to know…
Much of the eastern U.S. braced for a renewed round of harsh, soggy weather on Saturday, while snowstorms were predicted in the Northeast and heavy winds brought the threat of tornadoes to the Mississippi Valley. Kentucky, Tennessee, West Virginia and Arkansas were under flood warnings, and residents were warned by the National Weather Service to stay…
With the Northern Hemisphere well into the winter months, it may seem like temperatures are cold enough already. However, a deep freeze, thanks to the polar vortex dipping down from Siberia, is about to bring even harsher, frigid temperatures to nearly 300 million Americans. Map shows below-normal temperatures in the forecast for mid-January across much…
Mercury levels in Hong Kong are expected to drop to 14 degrees Celsius next week as an intense monsoon approaches the city. The Hong Kong Observatory said on Friday that a fresh to strong easterly airstream would affect the coast of Guangdong in the next couple of days. But the weather over the weekend will…