Unwieldy wildfires scorch Canada and threaten a community scarred by past catastrophe
By Elizabeth Wolfe, Joe Sutton, Sharif Paget, Mary Gilbert and Eric Zerkel, CNN (CNN) — Improving winds and a storm moving into western Canada…
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Rapidly-spreading fires are threatening to burn through Canadian towns and degrading air quality
KOVR, CNN By Mary Gilbert, Eric Zerkel and Joe Sutton, CNN (CNN) — Dangerous wildfires have scorched tens of thousands of acres and are closing…
Continue ReadingStorms kill at least 4 people across the South and there are more on the way
CNN, KPLC, WTVF, KCCI, WDSU By Robert Shackelford, Elizabeth Wolfe and Mary Gilbert, CNN (CNN) — At least four people are dead after powerful…
Continue ReadingRapidly-spreading fires are threatening to burn through Canadian towns and degrading air quality
By Mary Gilbert, Eric Zerkel and Joe Sutton, CNN (CNN) — Dangerous wildfires have scorched tens of thousands of acres and are closing in on…
Continue ReadingStorms kill at least 4 people across the South and there are more on the way
By Robert Shackelford, Elizabeth Wolfe and Mary Gilbert, CNN (CNN) — At least four people are dead after powerful storms tore through the…
Continue ReadingDeadly cold lava flow from active volcano and widespread flooding hits Indonesia
By Heather Chen and Lucas Lilieholm, CNN (CNN) — At least 37 people have been killed, and more than a dozen injured on the Indonesian island of…
Continue ReadingFlood-hit Brazil braces for more chaos under a weekend of heavy rain
By Lianne Kolirin, Michael Rios, Vasco Cotovio and Abel Alvarado, CNN (CNN) — People in southern Brazil, already reeling from deadly floods,…
Continue ReadingThe US is in the middle of an exceptional tornado streak. Here’s what it looks like
By Eric Zerkel and Jhasua Razo, CNN (CNN) — It started in Utah, of all places. A whirling tendril of air descended from a roiling sky above a…
Continue ReadingSoutheast is lashed by more severe weather after deadly storms and tornadoes hit Tennessee
By Mary Gilbert and Dalia Faheid, CNN (CNN) — Violent storms were tracking through parts of the South Thursday, a day after deadly, destructive…
Continue ReadingBefore and after: Images from space reveal submerged airport runway and football field in devastating Brazil floods
By Paul P. Murphy and Rob Picheta, CNN (CNN) — The extent of the devastation of floods that are ravaging southern Brazil have been laid bare in…
Continue ReadingWaves of storms turn deadly in Tennessee and more twisters are hitting the Southeast
By Mary Gilbert, Dalia Faheid and Robert Shackelford, CNN (CNN) — Strong storms tracking through the central and eastern US Wednesday killed at…
Continue ReadingWaves of storms turn deadly in Tennessee and more twisters are hitting the Southeast
WWMT, CNN By Mary Gilbert, Dalia Faheid and Robert Shackelford, CNN (CNN) — Strong storms tracking through the central and eastern US Wednesday…
Continue ReadingSeveral tornadoes hit Michigan, where 12 people were hurt in one mobile home park in southern part of the state
By Mary Gilbert and Steve Almasy, CNN (CNN) — Several tornadoes hit Michigan on Tuesday, with one twister pummeling a mobile home park in the…
Continue ReadingYoung boy dies in Texas floodwaters as authorities make more than 200 rescues across state
CNN By Sara Tonks, CNN Meteorologist, Joe Sutton, Paradise Afshar, and Melissa Alonso, CNN (CNN) — The body of a 4-year-old boy was recovered…
Continue ReadingAt least 224 people, 153 pets rescued in Texas floods with more rain in the forecast
CNN By Sara Tonks, CNN Meteorologist, Joe Sutton and Paradise Afshar, CNN (CNN) — As rivers swell across South Texas, leaving homes and…
Continue ReadingMultiday severe weather threat could continue tornado streak this week
By Allison Chinchar, CNN (CNN) — More than 25 million people are under the threat of severe storms Monday from Dallas to Sioux Falls, South…
Continue ReadingYoung boy dies in Texas floodwaters as authorities make more than 200 rescues across state
By Sara Tonks, CNN Meteorologist, Joe Sutton, Paradise Afshar, and Melissa Alonso, CNN (CNN) — The body of a 4-year-old boy was recovered from…
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Evacuations ordered, homes damaged in Texas after storms spawn tornadoes and send rivers surging to Hurricane Harvey levels
Originally Published: 03 MAY 24 10:59 ET By Mary Gilbert, CNN Meteorologist (CNN) — Powerful storms unloaded flooding rainfall that swept away…
Continue ReadingAt least 224 people rescued in Texas as rivers flood to Hurricane Harvey levels, with more rain forecasted
KPRC, KTRK, CNN By Mary Gilbert, CNN Meteorologist and Joe Sutton, CNN (CNN) — At least 224 people have been rescued from homes and vehicles in…
Continue ReadingAt least 224 people rescued in Texas as rivers flood to Hurricane Harvey levels, with more rain forecasted
By Mary Gilbert, CNN Meteorologist and Joe Sutton, CNN (CNN) — At least 224 people have been rescued from homes and vehicles in Harris County,…
Continue ReadingEvacuations ordered, homes damaged in Texas after storms spawn tornadoes and send rivers surging to Hurricane Harvey levels
CITY OF HAWLEY, FACEBOOK, CNN, CITY OF HAWLEY/FACEBOOK By Mary Gilbert, CNN Meteorologist (CNN) — Powerful storms unloaded flooding rainfall…
Continue ReadingAt least 57 people killed, hundreds missing as heavy rain and flooding lashes Brazil
By Michael Rios, Stefano Pozzebon and Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — At least 57 people have been killed and a further 373 are missing as heavy…
Continue ReadingMeteorologists awed by extremely rare type of tornado and weird radar sights
By Mary Gilbert, CNN Meteorologist (CNN) — Powerful storms roared across parts of southern Oklahoma Tuesday night and produced dangerous and…
Continue ReadingTornado hits a Kansas town, leaving at least 1 dead and several hurt
By Amy Simonson, CNN (CNN) — One person was killed and three other people were injured when a tornado hit the northeastern Kansas town of…
Continue ReadingNebraska brothers sucked out of their home by a tornado survive to tell the tale
By Maya Blackstone and Mary Gilbert, CNN (CNN) — It was Friday afternoon in a western suburb of Omaha, Nebraska, and Roger Slatten had just…
Continue ReadingAerial photos before and after tornadoes show how much was destroyed
By Eric Zerkel and Paul P. Murphy, CNN (CNN) — A devastating, multi-day tornado outbreak leveled entire neighborhoods and businesses starting…
Continue ReadingA devastating tornado tore through a Nebraska town the day before this couple’s wedding. They celebrated in the dark anyway
By Maya Blackstone and Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — On Saturday, the morning of what was meant to be the best day of his life – his wedding day…
Continue ReadingAn El Niño-less summer is coming. Here’s what that could mean for the US
By Mary Gilbert, CNN Meteorologist (CNN) — It may be spring, but it’s not too soon to look ahead to summer weather, especially when El Niño…
Continue ReadingAt least 4 killed in Oklahoma tornado outbreak, as threat of severe storms continues from Missouri to Texas
KOCO By Nouran Salahieh and Robert Shackelford, CNN (CNN) — At least four people are dead, including an infant, after a tornado outbreak in…
Continue ReadingAt least 4 killed in Oklahoma tornado outbreak, as threat of severe storms continues from Missouri to Texas
By Nouran Salahieh and Robert Shackelford, CNN (CNN) — At least four people are dead, including an infant, after a tornado outbreak in Oklahoma…
Continue ReadingMillions in the Midwest under storm watches as Nebraska and Iowa communities reel from devastating tornadoes
By Aya Elamroussi, CNN (CNN) — One day after destructive tornadoes plowed through Nebraska and Iowa, millions of people in parts of Kansas,…
Continue ReadingPowerful tornadoes tear across Nebraska and Iowa as weather service warns of ‘catastrophic’ damage
By Mary Gilbert, Zoe Sottile, Sarah Dewberry, Jamiel Lynch, Raja Razek, Sharif Paget, Sara Tonks and Brandon Miller, CNN (CNN) — Devastating…
Continue ReadingBefore and after: See Dubai flooding from space
By Mary Gilbert, CNN Meteorologist (CNN) — Unprecedented, torrential rainfall plunged parts of the United Arab Emirates underwater last week,…
Continue ReadingThe week that life in Dubai ground to a halt
By Abbas Al Lawati, CNN Dubai, UAE (CNN) — The scenes from Dubai this week seemed apocalyptic to residents who are more used to the tranquil…
Continue ReadingDubai flooding sparks cloud seeding questions. What is it and does it work?
By Mary Gilbert, CNN Meteorologist (CNN) — A torrent of rain on Tuesday flooded parts of Dubai, turned streets into rivers and shut down the…
Continue ReadingChaos in Dubai as UAE records heaviest rainfall in 75 years
By Nadeen Ebrahim, Mary Gilbert and Brandon Miller, CNN Dubai, UAE (CNN) — Chaos ensued in the United Arab Emirates after the country witnessed…
Continue ReadingA year’s worth of rain plunges normally dry Dubai underwater
By Mary Gilbert and Brandon Miller, CNN Meteorologists (CNN) — A year’s worth of rain unleashed immense flash flooding in Dubai Tuesday as…
Continue ReadingPowerful storms fire up in the Midwest with large hail and tornadoes
By Elizabeth Wolfe, Robert Shackelford and Mary Gilbert, CNN (CNN) — A powerful storm system is spinning up tornadoes, unloading hail and…
Continue ReadingSevere storms expected to unload large hail and tornadoes in central US
By Mary Gilbert, CNN Meteorologist (CNN) — Millions of people in the central US are facing severe thunderstorms early this week that will pack…
Continue ReadingSevere storms could bring large hail and some tornadoes across a huge swath of the Central US
By Robert Shackelford and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN (CNN) — A pair of storm systems threatens more than 40 million people across parts of the…
Continue ReadingA significant severe weather threat could take shape for Monday. Here’s what we know
By Mary Gilbert, CNN Meteorologist (CNN) — A widespread and significant severe thunderstorm threat could take shape in the central US early…
Continue ReadingFlooding deluged towns in Pennsylvania and West Virginia, prompting rescues and calls to get to higher ground
By Elizabeth Wolfe, Robert Shackelford and Mary Gilbert, CNN (CNN) — Emergency crews in parts of West Virginia and Pennsylvania waded through…
Continue ReadingHomes flooding in Texas as severe storms ramp up across the South, including a threat of strong tornadoes
By Robert Shackelford, Dalia Faheid and Mary Gilbert, CNN (CNN) — Severe storms are battering parts of the South with torrential rain and…
Continue ReadingSevere storms threaten flooding, tornadoes and large hail in South and parts of Mississippi Valley today and tomorrow
By Christina Maxouris, CNN (CNN) — Another round of severe weather is slamming parts of the South and Mississippi Valley Tuesday night, less…
Continue ReadingThe latest eclipse forecast reveals who has the best chance for good viewing weather today
CNN By Caitlin Kaiser, Elisa Raffa and Allison Chinchar (CNN) — Excited eclipse watchers, watch out: Weather could complicate attempts to see…
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While you watch the eclipse, you’ll also be able to feel it
By Mary Gilbert, CNN Meteorologist (CNN) — On Monday, April 8, a total solar eclipse will alter weather conditions on the Earth’s surface…
Continue ReadingThe latest eclipse forecast reveals who has the best chance for good viewing weather today
By Caitlin Kaiser, Elisa Raffa and Allison Chinchar (CNN) — Excited eclipse watchers, watch out: Weather could complicate attempts to see the…
Continue ReadingHurricane-force winds and dry conditions combine to fuel critical fire threat in Central US
By Dalia Faheid, CNN (CNN) — Intense winds across the Central United States this weekend are fueling critical fire danger, leaving roads closed…
Continue ReadingHurricane-force winds expected from the Southern Rockies to the High Plains this weekend
By Taylor Ward, CNN (CNN) — A storm system moving through the Western United States will move through the Rockies and into the Plains over the…
Continue Reading2024 Atlantic Hurricane Season Fast Facts
CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a look at the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season. Past coverage of the 2023 and 2022 hurricane season and…
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