extreme weather
Hone downgraded to tropical storm after pounding Hawaii's Big Island with flooding rains
By Monday morning, Hone continued to weaken and is now a strong tropical storm after it blasted the Big Island with flooding rain, damaging winds and dangerous waves that battered the coastline over the weekend as a Category 1...
Bayesian superyacht's captain faces manslaughter investigation after deadly wreck, Italian papers say
Italian prosecutors will investigate the captain of the superyacht belonging to British tech magnate Mike Lynch that sank off Sicily last week during an intense storm, killing Lynch and six other people, Italian media...
California morphs into 'winter wonderland' after being hit with unusual August snowfall
An unusually cold weather system from the Gulf of Alaska interrupted summer along the West Coast on Saturday, bringing snow to mountains in California and the Pacific Northwest.
Lucky tourists get the show of a lifetime after monster waterspout forms off Jamaican coast
Weather can be very impressive, and a few visitors to Jamaica experienced this firsthand when a massive waterspout formed in front of them.
The rare weather phenomenon that may have sunk Bayesian yacht, according to experts
A rare and unexpected "black swan" weather event may have led to the luxury Bayesian superyacht's speedy demise, maritime experts claim.
Captain of luxury yacht sunk by tornado speaks out as frantic rescue effort continues
The captain of the doomed Bayesian superyacht that capsized off the coast of Italy on Monday said neither the passengers nor crew members knew a tornado was about to rage...
Missing NYC lawyer shared haunting final post before vanishing on doomed yacht with jewelry designer wife
Morvillo's wife Neda, a jewelry designer, is also one of the six passengers still missing, officials said.
Flash flooding kills Connecticut woman clinging to sign, one other found dead in car
Floodwaters in Connecticut killed two women Sunday -- including one who futilely tried clinging to a street sign but ended up swept to her death by the raging tide, authorities...
1 missing in Connecticut after floods ravage roads, trap residents
Connecticut State Police said initially there were reports that two people were missing in the town of Oxford amid the flash flooding, but revised that number to one on Monday morning.
Heavy rain floods roads, cancels flights across NYC metro region; flash flood emergency issued for Suffolk County
Pounding rain brought delayed trains, canceled planes and whole lot of pain for travelers Sunday night.
Rip currents caused by Hurricane Ernesto kill 2 in South Carolina
Two men died Friday after being caught in rip currents along Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, according to the Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office.
NYC beaches closed as Hurricane Ernesto sends huge waves, deadly riptides up coast
Swimming is banned at Brooklyn and Queens beaches Saturday and Sunday as Hurricane Ernesto sends deadly riptides and massive swells up the East Coast.
Hurricane Ernesto makes landfall on Bermuda with 85 mph winds
Hurricane Ernesto made landfall on the tiny British Atlantic territory of Bermuda early Saturday as residents hunkered down.
Wild video shows moment collapsed house is swept out to sea as Hurricane Ernesto nears North Carolina
Wooden planks and other sections of the destroyed abode spanned hundreds of feet across the sand following the collapse, but experts suspect most of the debris was swept out more...
Northeast will face hard winter with 'copious amounts of snow, rain, sleet and ice,' Farmers' Almanac says
We posted America's top beaches above because if the latest Farmers' Almanac prediction is true, you might want to put your toes in the sand after Christmas. The coming winter will be wet and cold...
Millions prepare for landslides, flooding as Tropical Storm Ernesto surges in strength
The tropics have become more active over the past few weeks with the development of Hurricane Debby, which made its first U.S. landfall in Florida, and then a second U.S. landfall in South...
Ernesto on track to become hurricane while bringing life-threatening surf, flooding rain to Caribbean islands
The storm is forecast to cross the northern Leeward Islands overnight Monday and near the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico sometime on Tuesday. Life-threatening surf and rip current conditions will...
Ernesto could soon form in Atlantic as odds of development for Invest 98L increase
As the remnants of Debby exit the East Coast, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) is tracking a new disturbance in the Atlantic Ocean that could develop into a tropical cyclone.
Northeast braces for severe weather, flooding as deadly Debby travels north
Millions of people across the Northeast are bracing for rounds of severe weather and potentially life-threatening flooding on Friday as Debby begins its trek to the north.
Tropical Storm Debby makes second landfall in South Carolina as dangerous flood threat continues
President Joe Biden has approved emergency declarations for Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina and Florida.