US heat wave exposes infrastructure, health vulnerabilities – and it’s not quite over yet
By Andrew Freedman, Mary Gilbert, CNN (CNN) — Buckled roads. Broken bridges. Delayed trains. Strained power grids that led to dangerous…
Continue ReadingBy Andrew Freedman, Mary Gilbert, CNN (CNN) — Buckled roads. Broken bridges. Delayed trains. Strained power grids that led to dangerous…
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CNN By Mary Gilbert, CNN Meteorologist (CNN) — A long-lasting extreme heat wave reached its dangerous crescendo Tuesday, bringing the hottest…
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WHDH By Mary Gilbert, CNN Meteorologist (CNN) — A long-lasting extreme heat wave is reaching its dangerous crescendo Tuesday, likely bringing…
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By Luke Snyder and Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — An area of stormy weather in the open Atlantic Ocean between Bermuda and the Azores became…
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By Mary Gilbert, CNN Meteorologist (CNN) — A long-lasting extreme heat wave reached its dangerous crescendo Tuesday, bringing the hottest day…
Continue ReadingBy Luke Snyder, Mary Gilbert (CNN) — New York’s Central Park tied a record high of 96 degrees for the date Monday, which was set in 1888. In…
Continue ReadingBy Mary Gilbert, CNN Meteorologist (CNN) — Hurricane Erick slammed into Mexico’s Oaxaca state as a dangerous Category 3 storm Thursday…
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By Tyler Ory, CNN (CNN) — The hottest temperatures of the year so far will soon reach the eastern half of the United States as a brutal heat…
Continue ReadingBy Michelle Watson, Amanda Musa, Mary Gilbert, CNN (CNN) — Significant flooding in northern West Virginia claimed the lives of at least six…
Continue ReadingBy Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — For the past four years, a fleet of drone vessels has purposefully steered into the heart of hurricanes to…
Continue ReadingCNN Meteorologist Mary Gilbert, CNN Lead Meteorologist Brandon Miller, Amanda Musa (CNN) — At least 11 people are dead and several others are…
Continue ReadingBy Mary Gilbert, CNN Meteorologist (CNN) — A wildfire burning out of control in Oregon, near the state’s border with Washington, has…
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By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — The National Hurricane Center is “fully staffed” and any suggestion that the Trump administration fired…
Continue ReadingBy Mary Gilbert, CNN Meteorologist (CNN) — Air quality is taking a hit in parts of the central and eastern United States as smoke from…
Continue ReadingBy Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — After losing more than 560 employees to layoffs and early retirement incentives earlier this year, the National…
Continue ReadingBy Alaa Elassar, CNN (CNN) — At least one person is dead and seven others were injured after an unexpected tornado struck a rural Kentucky…
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CNN By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — Massive wildfires burning out of control in western and central Canada are forcing thousands to flee as…
Continue ReadingBy Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — Massive wildfires burning out of control in western and central Canada are forcing thousands to flee as dire…
Continue ReadingBy Mary Gilbert, CNN Meteorologist (CNN) — Memorial Day weekend marks the unofficial start of summer for many in the United States, but it…
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CNN, KHBS, WLKY, WFIE, KMOV, SEE PREFONTS By Mary Gilbert, Hanna Park, Emma Tucker, Taylor Romine (CNN) — Multiple tornadoes and intense storms…
Continue ReadingBy Mary Gilbert, Hanna Park, Emma Tucker, Taylor Romine (CNN) — Multiple tornadoes and intense storms hit the eastern half of the United States…
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WLKY By Hanna Park, Matt Rehbein and Ray Sanchez, CNN (CNN) — A violent, tornado-spawning storm system tore across the central US, leaving at…
Continue ReadingBy Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — As a severe weather outbreak became increasingly likely Friday, meteorologists at the National Weather Service…
Continue ReadingCNN By Hanna Park and Matt Rehbein, CNN (CNN) — A violent, tornado-spawning storm system tore across the central US, leaving at least 21 people…
Continue ReadingBy Hanna Park, Matt Rehbein and Ray Sanchez, CNN (CNN) — A violent, tornado-spawning storm system tore across the central US, leaving at least…
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KSDK, CNN By Mary Gilbert, Emma Tucker, Taylor Ward, Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — A storm that produced a devastating tornado in the St. Louis,…
Continue ReadingBy Mary Gilbert, Emma Tucker, Taylor Ward, Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — A storm that produced a devastating tornado in the St. Louis, Missouri,…
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CNN By Mary Gilbert, Emma Tucker, Taylor Ward, CNN (CNN) — An incredibly dangerous day of severe thunderstorms including the potential for…
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WISN By Mary Gilbert, Taylor Ward, CNN Meteorologist (CNN) — A busy stretch of severe thunderstorms is underway due to record heat and now the…
Continue ReadingBy Mary Gilbert, Taylor Ward, CNN Meteorologist (CNN) — A busy stretch of severe thunderstorms is underway due to record heat and now the…
Continue ReadingBy Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — The National Weather Service is seeking to fill 155 positions at offices throughout the country by offering…
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CNN By Cindy Von Quednow, Taylor Ward, CNN (CNN) — Alley Wade was at work when she heard that her sons’ school in Allegany County, Maryland,…
Continue ReadingBy Cindy Von Quednow, Taylor Ward, Lauren Mascarenhas, Mary Gilbert, CNN (CNN) — Dangerous flash flooding forced search and rescue operations…
Continue ReadingBy Andrew Freedman and Mary Gilbert, CNN (CNN) — A dangerous round of early season extreme heat is on tap for parts of Texas this week in a…
Continue ReadingBy Allison Chinchar, CNN (CNN) — Atlantic hurricane season officially runs from June 1 through November 30, but Mother Nature does not always…
Continue ReadingBy Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — With less than a month until hurricane season, three House Democrats have expressed concerns over staffing…
Continue ReadingBy Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — National Weather Service offices around the country are on guard after recent threats to agency infrastructure…
Continue ReadingBy Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — The National Weather Service is in worse shape than previously known, according to interviews with current and…
Continue ReadingBy Mary Gilbert, Taylor Romine, Andi Babineau, CNN (CNN) — Another day of extreme weather is unfolding in the United States on Wednesday after…
Continue ReadingBy Mary Gilbert, CNN Meteorologist (CNN) — At least one person is dead as new rounds of severe thunderstorms are underway and potentially…
Continue ReadingBy Mary Gilbert, CNN Meteorologist (CNN) — Millions in the Upper Midwest face the possibility of a severe thunderstorm outbreak Monday that…
Continue ReadingBy Mary Gilbert, CNN Meteorologist (CNN) — A record-breaking, triple-digit wind gust roared through part of Texas on Tuesday, but it wasn’t…
Continue ReadingBy Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — Disaster survivors in Arkansas left homeless by recent tornadoes have been blocked from receiving federal recovery…
Continue ReadingBy Michelle Watson, Diego Mendoza Diaz, Matthew Rehbein, Hanna Park, CNN (CNN) — Severe weather in Oklahoma over the weekend has left at least…
Continue ReadingBy Mary Gilbert, CNN Meteorologist (CNN) — An exceptionally powerful atmospheric river fueled the deadly early April flooding disaster in the…
Continue ReadingBy Mary Gilbert, CNN Meteorologist (CNN) — Back-to-back-to-back deadly and destructive tornado outbreaks in recent weeks have put a punctuation…
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By Mary Gilbert, CNN Meteorologist (CNN) — The short-lived reign of La Niña has come to an end. La Niña – a natural climate pattern that…
Continue ReadingBy Mary Gilbert, CNN Meteorologist (CNN) — After more than a week of deadly severe thunderstorms and flooding, winter is making an unwelcome…
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WTVA, LARRY DEVORE, CNN By Hanna Park, Mary Gilbert, Andy Rose, CNN (CNN) — A dayslong deluge of rain finally subsided across the South and…
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CNN By Hanna Park, CNN (CNN) — Floodwaters inundated communities across the South and Midwest on Sunday, the result of days of rain from a…
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