CHICAGO — Stifling heat and humidity will cover the Chicago area from Wednesday morning through Thursday evening, according to forecasters.

On both days, temperatures are expected to reach the mid to high 90s, with afternoon heat indexes between 100 and 110 degrees. The National Weather Service has placed a heat advisory in effect from 10 a.m...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — The National Hurricane Center continued Wednesday to track a low pressure system near Florida that could move west into the Gulf and develop into the season’s next tropical depression or storm.

As of the NHC’s 8 a.m. tropical advisory the trough of low pressure stretched across Georgia into the Atlantic waters off Florida�...Read more

Two days before the waters of the Guadalupe River swelled into a deadly and devastating Fourth of July flood in Kerr County, Texas, engineers with a California-based company called Rainmaker took off in an airplane about 100 miles away and dispersed 70 grams of silver iodide into a cloud.

Their goal? To make it rain over Texas — part of a ...Read more

An area of low pressure near the southeastern coast of the United States could become the next named storm of the 2025 hurricane season, the National Hurricane Center said Tuesday night.

The system is forecast to move west-southwest over part of Florida and into the north-central part of the Gulf.

If it remains far enough offshore, conditions ...Read more

Recent hurricane seasons have been defined by storms supercharging over the Gulf of Mexico’s warmer-than-normal waters as they barrel toward Florida’s west coast.

Experts are hopeful that trend could wane this summer, though they still expect the season to be more active than typical.

Researchers at Colorado State University have ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — Even with his years of experience and the technology at his disposal, meteorologist Don “Big Weather” Schwenneker says it can be challenging to accurately forecast severe weather. But when a storm or hurricane hits North Carolina, bringing major flooding or damaging winds, a certain number of his ABC11 viewers will react in...Read more

The National Hurricane Center continued Monday to assess a tropical wave moving across the Atlantic with a chance to develop into the season’s next tropical depression or storm.

In its 2 p.m. Eastern time tropical outlook, the NHC said the wave was located about several hundred miles east-southeast of the Caribbean’s Lesser Antilles in the ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. – The National Hurricane Center continued Monday to assess a tropical wave moving across the Atlantic with a chance to develop into the season’s next tropical depression or storm.

In its 8 a.m. tropical outlook, the NHC said the wave was located about 700 miles east-southeast of the Caribbean’s Lesser Antilles in the central...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Isolated storms are possible across the region Friday ahead of the climbing temperatures and humidity that are expected to set in over the weekend, the National Weather Service said in its forecast discussion.

A strong storm or two is possible Friday, mainly across northern Missouri, the weather service said.

High ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — The National Hurricane Center on Thursday lowered its forecast chances that a system that had moved over Florida the day previous could develop into the season’s next tropical depression or storm.

As of the NHC’s 2 p.m. Eastern time tropical advisory, the broad area of low pressure was moving inland in the northern Gulf ...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Without vital data or the right equipment, a hurricane that appears two-days away from landfall one evening could sneak up on everyone — and be right overhead the next morning.

This “sunrise surprise” and the inability to accurately forecast how fast a hurricane is approaching is something that could happen following ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein has declared a state of emergency as several counties recover from Tropical Storm Chantal.

Stein declared the state of emergency on Thursday for 13 counties impacted by the storm earlier this month, to help with long-term recovery.

“Tropical Storm Chantal cost some of our neighbors their lives...Read more

With hurricane and wildfire season well underway across much of the country, state and local emergency managers say they have little idea how much support the federal government will provide if disaster strikes. And the recent deadly floods in Texas have shown just how dire the need can be.

President Donald Trump has imposed severe cuts on the ...Read more

Climate scientists and weather experts are clear: The deadly floods in Texas earlier this month were an entirely natural tragedy, with off-the-charts rainfall levels coming from lingering moisture from a nearby tropical storm.

That has not stopped unfounded conspiracy theories from spreading, mainly in extremist social media circles. Days after...Read more

The National Hurricane Center on Wednesday continued to project a medium chance that a system moving over Florida would emerge into the Gulf and develop into the season’s next tropical depression or storm.

As of the NHC’s 2 p.m. Eastern time tropical advisory, the broad area of low pressure had moved along the coast of the Florida Panhandle...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Some National Weather Service offices in California are among those hit hardest by meteorologist vacancies, according to new data from an employee union — heightening concerns as the state contends with another potentially devastating fire season and the ongoing threat of extreme weather.

The staffing shortages have forced ...Read more

Many Americans believe the deaths caused by recent floods in Texas could have been prevented, and most think that the government’s response was imperfect, according to new polling.

The YouGov/Economist survey — conducted July 11-14 — comes after central Texas was pummeled by flash floods beginning on July 4, when the Guadalupe River ...Read more