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By Meteorologist Dakota Smith, CNN (CNN) — Read the latest updates on smoke and air quality here Massive plumes of Canadian wildfire smoke are…

By Meteorologist Chris Dolce, and CNN’s Kate S. Petersen (CNN) — Parts of southern Texas are under back-to-back days of a rare “high…

By Meteorologist Mary Gilbert, and CNN’s Kate S. Petersen (CNN) — At least one person has died and hundreds were rescued from…

By Meteorologist Mary Gilbert, CNN (CNN) — Yet another brutal heat dome is set to roast part of the United States starting this weekend as part…

By Meteorologist Mary Gilbert, CNN (CNN) — America’s 250th birthday also marks the final stretch of one of the most intense eastern US heat…

By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — Temperatures are skyrocketing for the third straight day across the Eastern US, with officials in cities from…

By Meteorologists Briana Waxman, Mary Gilbert, with Kate S. Petersen reporting (CNN) — The deadly, multiday heat wave tightened its grip on the…

By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — As a dangerous heat wave bakes major East Coast cities, Energy Secretary Chris Wright directed data centers in the…

By Kasha Patel, CNN (CNN) — As the United States celebrates its 250th birthday, firework celebrations are expected to bring more pomp and…

By Meteorologists Briana Waxman, Mary Gilbert, and Dakota Smith, with Kate Petersen reporting (CNN) — A dangerous heat wave is tightening its…

By Meteorologists Briana Waxman, Chris Dolce (CNN) — Half of all Americans are facing prolonged, dangerously hot temperatures from an intense…

By Emma Tucker, CNN (CNN) — Widespread flooding across Kentucky has left at least four dead and prompted dozens of rescues after heavy rains…

By Meteorologist Chris Dolce, CNN (CNN) — A heat dome will bring dangerously hot and humid conditions to the eastern half of the United States…

By Kasha Patel, CNN (CNN) — On Wednesday evening, Venezuela was hit with its largest tremors in more than a century. It toppled buildings and…

By Briana Waxman, Chris Dolce, and CNN’s Hanna Park, Kate S. Petersen (CNN) — An outbreak of tornadoes killed at least two people and…

By Kasha Patel, CNN (CNN) — It’s like a scene from a Hollywood movie: A major earthquake along the San Andreas fault ripples through Los…

By Meteorologists Mary Gilbert, Briana Waxman (CNN) — A tornado outbreak with several destructive twisters tore through the Midwest Wednesday…

By Meteorologists Chris Dolce, Briana Waxman, Mary Gilbert, and CNN’s Kate S. Petersen (CNN) — More rain is on the way for parts of the…

Forecast by Brandon Miller, Lead Meteorologist (CNN) — There could be rumbles outside the ring on Sunday at the widely anticipated UFC fight…

By Meteorologist Mary Gilbert (CNN) — Around 1,200 tornadoes occur on average in the United States each year and every one of them gets its own…

By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — El Niño has officially begun, and it is forecast to intensify into a very strong or “Super” El Niño with…

By Kasha Patel, CNN (CNN) — When an American battalion was trapped behind enemy lines in World War I, a pigeon delivered the coordinates that…

Kate S. Petersen (CNN) — A massive fish kill on the Chattahoochee River west of Atlanta was reported Friday by environmental protection…

By Kasha Patel, CNN (CNN) — In southern Georgia, fast-moving flames destroyed a record number of homes; across the Plains in Nebraska, the…

By Kate S. Petersen, CNN (CNN) — A large wildfire has burned a third of Santa Rosa Island in California’s Channel Islands National Park —…

By Meteorologist Chris Dolce, CNN (CNN) — El Niño is emerging even faster than expected in the Pacific Ocean and odds are increasing that it…

By Meteorologist Briana Waxman, Taylor Romine, CNN (CNN) — Several people are injured after a tornado in Mineral Wells, Texas, flattened a…

By Meteorologists Briana Waxman, Mary Gilbert (CNN) — Severe storms are raking across the South Tuesday afternoon and evening with giant hail…

By Meteorologists Mary Gilbert, Briana Waxman, and CNN’s Martin Goillandeau, Holly Yan (CNN) — More severe weather is expected in the…

By Meteorologist Chris Dolce, CNN (CNN) — Drought in the continental United States has expanded to its record-highest level for spring, and…

By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — Something unusual and with far-reaching consequences is lurking in the sea off the California coast, stretching…

By Angela Fritz, CNN (CNN) — I’ve spent my career thinking about weather — how it works, how we talk about it and how it shows up in…

By Meteorologists Dakota Smith, Briana Waxman, Allison Chinchar and CNN’s Taylor Romine, CNN (CNN) — Multiple destructive twisters struck…

By CNN Meteorologists Briana Waxman, Dakota Smith and CNN’s Kate S. Petersen (CNN) — A final round of widespread dangerous severe storms…

By Meteorologist Chris Dolce, CNN (CNN) — Harsh weather of all kinds is often called severe, but the word takes on a very specific meaning when…

By Meteorologists Chris Dolce, Briana Waxman and CNN’s Hanna Park, Kate Petersen (CNN) — A week of severe storm threats across the…

By Meteorologist Mary Gilbert, CNN (CNN) — Spring is finally in full bloom, but some weather forecasters are already fast-forwarding a few…

By Meteorologists Dakota Smith and Chris Dolce (CNN) — A potent, multi-day storm continues to lash Hawaii with heavy rain into the weekend,…

By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — Get ready to hear a lot more about El Niño during the next several months — and maybe even longer — as the…

By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — Experts are warning that the unprecedented heat wave that has roasted the West during the past two weeks has…

By Meteorologist Dakota Smith, CNN (CNN) — A record warm March has melted an already abysmal snowpack across the western United States, with…

By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — The hurricane planning tool that meteorologists and emergency managers use for making critical decisions,…

By Ritu Prasad, Hanna Park, Chris Dolce, CNN (CNN) — Hundreds of people have been rescued after severe flooding battered Hawaii’s Oahu island…