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By Allison Chinchar, CNN Meteorologist Sam started Thursday as a tropical storm, with winds of 35 mph, and ended the day at 70 mph — a rapid…

By Allison Chinchar, CNN Meteorologist Sam is now the 18th named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season. The tropical storm is churning in the open…

By Drew Kann, CNN The falling water levels at Lake Powell, the second-largest man-made reservoir in the US, could make the dam’s hydroelectric…

By Pedram Javaheri, CNN Cooler weather is landing right on cue for the first day of autumn. But first, the system delivering the cooler temps will…

By Aya Elamroussi, CNN California firefighters have made significant headway in taming one of the largest blazes in the history of the wildfire-prone…

By Jennifer Gray, CNN meteorologist While the tropics continue to pump out storms, the US coast has been spared during the last week. Nicholas has…

By Jackson Dill and Dakin Andone, CNN Northern California is bracing for critical fire weather conditions as firefighters struggle to contain at…

By Hannah Gard, CNN Weather This year’s busy tropical season continues as more activity ramps up in the Atlantic. Tropical Depression Seventeen…

By Allison Chinchar, CNN Meteorologist The second half of hurricane season is here and there have already been 17 named storms to keep hurricane…

By Derek Van Dam and Haley Brink, CNN Meteorologists On a warm September afternoon, Mona Scott sat on the front porch while her home baked like an…

By Jennifer Gray, CNN meteorologist Nearly 20 fires are currently burning in Washington and Oregon, but a little relief could be coming soon in the…

By Aya Elamroussi, CNN Millions are under flash flood watches Thursday as Post-Tropical Cyclone Nicholas lingers over the central Gulf Coast,…

By Jason Hanna and Aya Elamroussi, CNN Tropical Depression Nicholas has stalled and is threatening to bring dangerous flash flooding along the…

By Rachel Ramirez, CNN Heat already kills more Americans than any other weather-related disaster, according to the National Weather Service —…

By Madeline Holcombe, Eric Levenson and Steve Almasy, CNN As Tropical Depression Nicholas ambles across Texas, Houston residents are being asked to…

By Jennifer Gray, CNN As we are now at the official peak of hurricane season, I remind myself that hurricane season is a marathon, not a sprint.…

By Madeline Holcombe and Jackson Dill, CNN Nicholas has strengthened into a hurricane and is threatening to bring heavy rain, storm surges and strong…

Kelly McCleary, CNN California’s Dixie Fire is burning its way toward the record books as it nears the devastating milestone of one million…

By Jackson Dill, CNN Weather Parts of the Texas coast are under a hurricane watch as Tropical Storm Nicholas is forecast to gain in strength, the…

By Jackson Dill, CNN Weather A developing tropical disturbance near the southern Gulf of Mexico could become the Atlantic basin’s next named…

By Claire Colbert, CNN Parts of South Florida will experience higher than normal seasonal tides, potentially causing coastal flooding periodically…

By Judson Jones, CNN Meteorologist A wave of thunderstorms moved through California overnight, igniting the night sky as well as more wildfires…

By Allison Chinchar, CNN Meteorologist Friday is the statistical peak of hurricane season, yet a monster named Larry is forecast to transform into a…

CNN Editorial Research Here is a look at the 2021 Atlantic hurricane season. Past coverage of the 2020 and 2019 hurricane season and the latest…

By Brandon Miller, CNN Meteorologist The summer of 2021, which produced numerous extreme weather and climate disasters, was also the hottest on…

By John Keefe, Angela Fritz and Rachel Ramirez, CNN The Western US experienced extreme drought this year that severely strained water resources and…

By Jason Hanna, CNN Tropical Depression Mindy was dropping heavy rain on southern Georgia and parts of South Carolina on Thursday morning and could…

By Judson Jones, CNN Meteorologist The first storms since Ida will move through the Northeast into Thursday, bringing the chance for severe weather…

By Aya Elamroussi, CNN California could be dealing with massive wildfires until the end of the year, a top fire official said, warning people to keep…

By Madeline Holcombe, CNN Some areas of the Northeast hit last week by the immense rains of the remnants of Hurricane Ida will be under a flash flood…

By Jennifer Gray, CNN meteorologist Hurricane Larry may be well out in the Atlantic, but the dangerous Category 3 hurricane will have impacts in the…

By Kelly McCleary and Alta Spells, CNN The Dixie Fire in northern California is on its way to becoming the largest wildfire in the state’s…

By Madeline Holcombe, Eric Levenson and Jenn Selva, CNN About 14,000 people in one Louisiana parish are without homes after Hurricane Ida damaged or…

By Jennifer Gray and Haley Brink, CNN Meteorologists As meteorologists, we are still stunned by what happened in the Northeast last week. The…

By Kelly McCleary and Alta Spells, CNN Firefighters in California made significant progress against the Caldor Fire over the weekend, allowing for…

By Aya Elamroussi, CNN Some of the areas in Louisiana that were hit hardest by Hurricane Ida could be looking at more than three weeks before power…

By Monica Garrett, CNN meteorologist As millions pick up the pieces after Hurricane Ida ravaged the eastern United States from the Gulf Coast to the…

By Jason Hanna and Travis Caldwell, CNN As hundreds of thousands of Louisiana residents struggle in sweltering conditions and without power six days…

By Aya Elamroussi, CNN Crews continued their search Saturday for two missing childhood friends whom witnesses say were swept into a New Jersey storm…

By Aya Elamroussi, CNN A mother, father and son died by drowning when the remnants of Hurricane Ida poured catastrophic amounts of rain across the…

By Allison Chinchar, CNN Meteorologist Labor Day is usually the signal that summer is coming to an end, and this summer has been one for the record…

By Madeline Holcombe and Jason Hanna, CNN After Ida’s remnants swept through the East Coast and left at least 50 people dead, New York…