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By Jennifer Gray and Nouran Salahieh, CNN After parts of Texas and Florida were pounded with tennis ball-sized hail and damaging winds, the same storm system is still threatening to bring severe storms to the South on Thursday. There were more than 60 hail reports across the South on Wednesday, including of softball-sized hail about

By Jennifer Gray, CNN Meteorologist Nearly 30 river gauges are in major flood stage across the Midwest, with more potentially damaging flooding expected into the coming weeks as the snow from this year’s blockbuster season continues to melt. This year’s river rise could lead to some of the worst flooding in 20 years in some

By Aya Elamroussi and Jennifer Gray, CNN The same weather system that spawned tornadoes, deadly storms and water rescues in the central US continues to lash Texas with heavy rain as it crawls east early Friday, putting more than 15 million people at risk of severe thunderstorms from the South and Midwest to the Northeast.

CNN Editorial Research Here is a look at the 2023 Atlantic hurricane season. Past coverage of the 2022 and 2021 hurricane season and the latest weather news can also be found on CNN. Follow the storm tracker for the path and forecasts of the latest storm. Facts The 2023 Atlantic hurricane season runs from June

By Jennifer Gray, CNN meteorologist In 10 days, Twitter may begin limiting the number of automated tweets sent from Twitter accounts — a move meteorologists say will slow their ability to get out alerts on severe weather. CNN had previously reported a reversal on the decision based in part on a Sunday tweet from the

By Allison Chinchar, CNN Meteorologist More than 50 million people are under the threat of severe storms Saturday from the Gulf Coast to the Great Lakes. Some of these same areas are still cleaning up from severe storms over the previous few weeks. “Severe thunderstorms capable of large to very large hail and damaging gusts

By Aya Elamroussi, Leyla Santiago and Denise Royal, CNN Fort Lauderdale and other communities across southeast Florida are working to get life back to normal after monumental flooding wreaked havoc on the area, closing transportation hubs, schools and government offices. During the peak of Wednesday’s torrential barrages, a month’s worth of rain fell in just

By Aya Elamroussi and Tina Burnside, CNN The wildfire in New Jersey that has burned nearly 4,000 acres in is 75% contained are to reopen, the New Jersey Forest Fire Service tweeted Wednesday night. The blaze that began in Manchester Township on Tuesday evening has burned 3,859 acres, authorities said, and all of the previously

By Jennifer Gray and Haley Brink, CNN Meteorologists The last few weeks have consisted of a steady string of violent storms, dozens of deaths and entire towns left in ruins. There have been 494 tornado reports so far in 2023 — nearly double the average at this point in the year. Many of these storms

By Nouran Salahieh, Holly Yan, Christina Maxouris, Haley Brink and Andi Babineau, CNN A destructive storm system that spawned at least 11 tornado reports and killed five people in Missouri now threatens millions more from Texas to New York with damaging winds, large hail and more potential twisters. At least five people were killed when

By Nouran Salahieh, Holly Yan, Christina Zdanowicz, Dave Hennen and Haley Brink, CNN A storm system on Tuesday evening was bringing severe weather including tornadoes, large hail and strong winds to states from the South to the Upper Midwest, including areas devastated by recent tornadoes. There were more than 100 reports of hail by about

By Jennifer Gray, CNN Meteorologist The weather pattern has been relentless in recent weeks. There have been more than 160 tornado reports since Friday, March 24, when 26 people were killed in severe storms and the town of Rolling Fork, Mississippi was hit the hardest. In the past week alone, more than 30 people have

By Aya Elamroussi, Jay Croft and Christina Maxouris, CNN At least 22 people died in the devastating storms and violent tornadoes that leveled entire communities in the South and Midwest Friday and Saturday and state leaders in the region have declared emergencies to respond to the damage. Among the victims were four people who were

By Christina Maxouris and Gene Norman, CNN At least three people are dead and dozens of others were hospitalized after a series of brutal tornadoes tore through multiple states in the South and Midwest Friday, ripping homes to shreds and reducing neighborhoods to scattered debris as meteorologists warned the danger would continue into the night.

By Haley Brink, CNN Meteorologist It has been an extremely active year in terms of severe weather, with well above normal numbers in terms of tornadoes, and the peak of severe weather season does not begin until this week. The traditional peak for severe storms across the US is April, May, and June, this is

By Elizabeth Wolfe, Holly Yan and Caroll Alvarado, CNN Another round of violent weather is battering the Southeast on Monday after a spate of tornado-spawning storms over the weekend killed at least 22 people in the South — including a 1-year-old girl and her father. From Houston to South Carolina, more than 20 million people

By Nouran Salahieh, Haley Brink, Holly Yan and Melissa Alonso, CNN After a rash of violent storms killed 26 people in the South, some of the same areas will get hammered again by a new round of storms Sunday. “A few strong tornadoes and very large hail may occur with the most intense storms, particularly

By Aya Elamroussi, Joe Sutton, Rebekah Riess, Sharif Paget, Mallika Kallingal and Alaa Elassar, CNN At least 26 people were killed and dozens injured after powerful storms and at least one tornado pummeled the Southeast on Friday night, ripping roofs off homes, nearly leveling some neighborhoods and knocking out power for thousands, officials said. President

By Jennifer Gray, Aya Elamroussi, Robert Shackelford, Mallika Kallingal and Taylor Ward, CNN A strong storm system Friday will bring the potential for severe weather to 30 million people from the Lower Mississippi Valley to the lower Ohio Valley. The National Weather Service has issued a tornado emergency — the highest level of tornado warning

By Nouran Salahieh and Christina Maxouris, CNN More than 120,000 California homes and businesses were without power Wednesday morning after another atmospheric river walloped the storm-fatigued state with heavy rain and hurricane-force winds. The unusually strong storm’s ferocious winds downed trees and damaged power lines across California, where at some point Tuesday most of the

By Nouran Salahieh, Rob Shackelford and Holly Yan, CNN Swaths of California still saturated by ruthless storms will get walloped by another atmospheric river, spawning fears of renewed flooding and forcing some residents to flee. The state has already been hammered by at least 11 atmospheric rivers this season. An atmospheric river is like a

By Elizabeth Wolfe and Rob Shackelford, CNN Parts of a nor’easter that buried portions of the Northeast under feet of snow and left hundreds of thousands without power will linger Wednesday over New England, where it is expected to bring limited snow but heavy winds that could cause more outages before shifting off the coast.

By Nouran Salahieh, Joe Sutton and Holly Yan, CNN The storm system that’s hammered California this week is heading east — but not before dousing the state with more torrential rain and knocking out power with ferocious winds. Daily rainfall records were shattered Tuesday in Los Angeles, Santa Barbara and Santa Maria. The deluge will

By Nouran Salahieh, Holly Yan and Joe Sutton, CNN Another atmospheric river is walloping storm-ravaged California, inundating cities already flooded by recent rain and forcing residents to flee — or risk not getting help if they need it. About 30 million people across the state were under flood alerts as the 11th atmospheric river to

By Elizabeth Wolfe, Dakin Andone, Monica Garrett and Christina Maxouris, CNN The season’s first nor’easter has dropped nearly 3 feet of snow over parts of the US Northeast as of Tuesday evening, piling on trees and power lines and causing power outages for tens of thousands in the frigid weather with more snow possible into

By Aya Elamroussi, CNN Forceful flooding that washed away roads and sent residents across parts of northern and central California fleeing their homes is expected to continue Saturday and through the weekend as more rain arrives. But Saturday is not projected to bring the torrential walls of rain that battered communities Friday, which saw bridges

By Alaa Elassar, Aya Elamroussi, Joe Sutton and Cheri Mossburg, CNN At least two people have died as the result of the ongoing storms inundating California, and nearly 10,000 residents are under evacuation orders, officials said, as intense flooding threatens several coastal counties. The powerful storms have delivered heavy rainfall across the central and northern

By Aya Elamroussi, Taylor Ward, Amy Simonson and Holly Yan, CNN Millions of Californians already hammered by ferocious snowfall were hit Thursday by a new storm, with torrential rain threatening to cause dangerous flooding and the Weather Prediction Center increasing its excessive rainfall outlook for parts of the state to a level 4 of 4.

By Aya Elamroussi, CNN Officials in California are imploring residents to prepare for a powerful storm set to lash the region with torrential rain later this week as the state continues to recover from colossal amounts of snow that trapped mountain communities. Previous severe weather was responsible for the death of one person in the

By Elizabeth Wolfe, Rob Shackelford and Alaa Elassar, CNN At least 13 people have died in multiple states due to severe weather across the country as a powerful storm system that brought golf ball-sized hail and tornadoes to the South continues to march Saturday across the Northeast. The storm spurred wind gusts strong enough to

By Madison Richardson and Monica Garrett An outbreak of intense severe weather packing damaging winds and strong tornadoes looms over the Southern Plains and South on Thursday and into Friday. The storm system that brought several feet of snow to parts of California will move eastward Wednesday eventually triggering the severe outbreak expected on Thursday.

By Aya Elamroussi, CNN More snow and rain are expected in California as many across the state work to recover from back-to-back bouts of winter weather that knocked out power to thousands and brought many roads to a standstill. Another 12 to 24 inches of snow could fall over the mountains of Southern California on

By Robert Shackelford and Aya Elamroussi, CNN A string of back-to-back winter storms have lashed the West this week, delivering blizzard conditions and heavy snowfall to many areas in California. The dayslong brutal conditions left many stranded, shut down highways, knocked out power to thousands of homes and buried roads in snow as communities ran

By Nouran Salahieh and Joe Sutton, CNN Communities on the West Coast and in the Northeast are dealing with heavy snowfall, strong winds, power outages and dangerous road conditions from a series of storms lashing opposite sides of the US. About 23 million people are under winter weather alerts across the country Tuesday. Some alerts

By Emma Tucker, CNN A derecho is a significant, potentially destructive weather event that is characterized as having widespread, long-lived, straight-line winds associated with a fast-moving group of severe thunderstorms. Here’s what you need to know about derechos: They can produce hurricane-force winds A derecho is classified by a swath of wind damage extending more

By Elizabeth Wolfe, Rob Shackelford, Joe Sutton and Claire Colbert, CNN As severe storms prompted at least nine tornado reports in parts of the central US, a barrage of snow, rain and harsh wind was forecast Monday in places from the West Coast to the Great Lakes, including some still without power following a similar

By Haley Brink, CNN Meteorologist The storm system that brought blizzard warnings to Southern California on Friday and Saturday will produce a significant damaging wind event across the central US on Sunday. By midday Sunday the Storm Prediction Center was forecasting a derecho to develop Sunday afternoon and evening. A derecho is a widespread, long-lived,

By Aya Elamroussi, CNN A rare blizzard warning remains in effect for parts of Southern California — including the Los Angeles region — Saturday as some areas endure heavy snow and record rainfall that has delivered dangerous flooding. An onset of severe weather across the West Coast has spawned unfamiliar wintry conditions at higher elevations,

By Aya Elamroussi, Rob Shackelford, Ralph Ellis and Mallika Kallingal, CNN A slow-moving winter storm has struck the West Coast, flooding highways in Los Angeles and prompting rare blizzard warnings in Southern California. In its first-ever blizzard warning, the National Weather Service in San Diego said the San Bernardino County mountains could see 3 to

By Elizabeth Wolfe, Rob Shackelford and Joe Sutton, CNN Brutal winter storms brought significant icing, strong wind gusts and heavy snow across strips of the US from California to the Northeast on Thursday, part of a multiday event that has already closed roads and caused numerous power outages — even as the Southeast basks in

By Aya Elamroussi, Eric Levenson and Taylor Ward, CNN A powerful winter storm set record low temperatures in the northern Plains of the US, while a heat wave in the Southeast set record highs for the month of February — leaving the country with an unusually stark temperature difference of more than 100 degrees. Much

By Aya Elamroussi and Rob Shackelford, CNN A massive winter storm bringing a mix of heavy snow, rain and gusty winds is poised to lash much of the US West and North this week and has put more than 60 million people across 28 states under winter weather alerts Tuesday. At the same time, it

By Jennifer Gray, CNN Meteorologist Despite the fact spring is showing up early this year, we must remember winter isn’t over yet. A major winter storm is set to impact millions this week, from coast to coast, with heavy snow, dangerous winds, possible blizzard conditions and for some, the coldest temperatures of the season. What

CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan in March of 2011. March 11, 2011 – At 2:46 p.m., a 9.1 magnitude earthquake takes place 231 miles northeast of Tokyo at a depth of 15.2 miles. The earthquake causes a tsunami with 30-foot waves that damage several nuclear reactors

By Aya Elamroussi and Rob Shackelford, CNN Severe storms, including possible strong tornadoes, will sweep across parts of the South and central US Thursday, putting millions of people at risk of damaging winds and large hail. Overall, nearly 50 million people across a large swath of the country could see a range of severe weather

By Hannah Sarisohn, CNN An annual ice fishing tournament on Vermont’s Lake Champlain has been canceled after the deaths of three fisherman on the lake since Thursday, an organizer of the tournament told CNN Sunday. Wayne Alexander from Grand Isle, Vermont, died Thursday after falling through the ice, according to a release from Vermont State

By Allison Chinchar, CNN Meteorologist Heavy rain and severe storms could lead to damaging winds and flooding this weekend as a rapidly developing low pressure system pushes into the Southeast. This same system could also bring snow as far south as Georgia Sunday morning, as temperatures drop behind the cold front. “Heavy rain, strengthening winds,

CNN Editorial Research Here’s some background information about tornadoes, rotating columns of air that often, but not always, are visible as funnel clouds. According to the National Weather Service, in 2022 there were 24 tornado-related deaths in the United States. Facts Most tornadoes form from severe thunderstorms. Hurricanes can also produce tornadoes. Tornado winds may

By Jennifer Gray, CNN Meteorologist Mount Washington Observatory in New Hampshire is known to have some of the wildest weather on the planet, and without a doubt, it takes the cake for the United States. Located at just over 6,000 feet, it is situated in the perfect location for extreme winds and brutal cold. When