Weather

Coastal Alaska is recovering after a weekend of brutal flooding caused by the remnants of Typhoon Merbok.

Scientists detected the most powerful gigantic jet lightning bolt — a lightning bolt that shoots up out of a cloud into the ionosphere — ever.

The cooler climate pattern is predicted to persist for the third winter in a row, bringing an increased risk of powerful hurricanes to the eastern U.S. and flooding to Australia.

NOAA has announced that the 2022 Atlantic hurricane season is likely to be more active than average for the seventh year in a row.

Lightning is one of the greatest natural forces on our planet. New mapping tools are revealing just how big it is.

Today's winter solstice will boast the year's fewest hours of daylight for the Northern Hemisphere. Here's why.

Unusually hot and dry conditions fueled a dust cloud and birthed a rare sandstorm of massive proportions.

Fires have raged across the Mediterranean for more than a week, burning many villages and forcing thousands to evacuate.

Beijing and northern China have been hit with one of the worst sandstorms in decades which has increased air pollution concentrations to dangerous levels.

Hurricanes have more than doubled in strength since 1955, increasing at a rate of 6mph every decade. Now researchers better understand exactly why.

Unusual weather blanketed the Acropolis with snow on Tuesday (Feb. 16), turning the iconic UNESCO World Heritage site in Athens into a scene from a holiday card.

Hawaii has seen the second-largest covering of snow on the mountain peaks of Big Island since recordings began.

The infamous Dyatlov Pass incident, where 9 hikers died under mysterious circumstances, just got its first scientific explanation after 60 years of speculation.

The dunes of the northwestern Sahara desert were streaked with ice on Tuesday, creating a surreal landscape

A polar vortex disruption may cause snowy, cold weather in about two weeks.

Hair ice has appeared on rotting trees all over the world, and fungus may be to blame.

Tropical storm Theta cements the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season's status as a record-breaker. And there's still time to run up the score.

If anyone's trying to wake some dark spirits, tonight's the night. A "blue moon" and "beaver moon" will rise over All Hallow's Eve.

Zeta was a weakened tropical storm just yesterday. Now it threatens a huge swath of the United States.

Lenticular clouds look like saucers and form when wind meets mountains. This photo is one of the Royal Meteorological Society's favorites of the year.