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Two people died after their vehicle was trapped in floodwaters. Hail and strong winds were possible in parts of Arkansas, Missouri and Oklahoma on Sunday, forecasters said.

FEMA and NOAA officials are being forced to skip major hurricane and flood conferences ahead of disaster season because of Trump administration restrictions on travel for federal employees

An internal memo reviewed by Grist showed the National Weather Service has stopped translating radio alerts in the southern region, a move that has enraged workers in local offices.

DOGE cuts to NOAA Fisheries aren't making anything more efficient — they're stripping the ability of fishers to adapt their businesses to changing conditions. Similar impacts are being felt across different disciplines, and the U.S. science community must choose whether to look inward, hoping for better days, or to fight back.

After days of unrelenting downpours swelled rivers to near record levels across Kentucky, residents are closely monitoring waterways for signs they are cresting or even receding in hopes that widespread cleanup can finally start

Job cuts by Trump administration leave nearly half of NWS' forecast hubs critically understaffed

Forecasters have warned of historic flooding in the central US this week, anticipating multiple bouts of heavy rainfall and extreme thunderstorms.

Detailed vacancy data for all 122 weather field offices show eight offices are missing more than 35% of their staff—including in the South where tornadoes and torrential rain hit this week.

Rainfall near Memphis, Tennessee, is expected to exceed 12in over the next three days

Outbreak of tornadoes result in five deaths in Tennessee and one in Missouri as 213,000 households without power

Forecasters are warning of potentially deadly flash flooding and strong tornadoes as more rounds of thunderstorms are poised to strike parts of the Midwest and South. The potent storm system will bring the threat of "significant, life-threatening flash flooding" starting Wednesday, according to the Weather Prediction Center, a part of

In the West, land managers and firefighting forces are concerned that without adequate snowpack in many mountain ranges, there's less moisture to keep fires from ballooning into fast-moving conflagrations.

Thunderstorms, large hail, destructive wind gusts and strong tornadoes threaten up to 73 million people across the Mississippi, Ohio and Tennessee Valleys on Sunday.

At least three people died in a South Texas county after around 20 inches of rain fell on the Rio Grande Valley, causing what the state agriculture commissioner called catastrophic flooding.

Some conservative lawmakers are quietly urging the president to restore research funding as cuts threaten academic institutions in their states

There's a small chance of very high warming even with moderate future emissions, according to a computer model exploring what could happen in the next thousand years

Emergency alerts warn of zero visibility and fire risk

Twisters that tore through Union County, Missouri killed 6 people. One couple survived against incomprehensible odds in a trailer obliterated by the storm.

A line of severe thunderstorms, the first extreme weather event of the year, were expected to hit the Chicago area around midnight Friday, according to the National Weather Service.

Western Pennsylvanians are slowly but surely getting their power back on after a long night of outages following Sunday's severe weather. Several counties including Armstrong, Clarion, Jefferson, Forest and Venango were under a tornado watch Sunday afternoon. Southeastern Allegheny, Westmoreland, Fayette and southern Indiana counties were under a severe thunderstorm