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Heavy rain has drenched the Hawaiian Islands, flooding roads and raising mudslide risks while sending loosened boulders tumbling down hillsides and bringing snow to the archipelago’s highest peaks.

The two volcanoes on the Big Island of Hawaii — Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa — are expected to get up to 4 inches (10.16 centimeters) of snow above...Read more

MIAMI — A blissfully quiet final few weeks in the Atlantic Basin marked the end of another record-breaking storm season that once again left South Florida unscathed.

The rest of the country wasn’t as lucky, as Hurricane Ida rapidly intensified into a major storm faster than Louisiana could call for evacuations. The aftereffects of Ida then ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — As dangerous winds subsided, Southern California Edison was working Friday to restore power to thousands of customers across Los Angeles and Ventura counties.

Santa Ana wind gusts peaked at 67 mph in North Hollywood and topped 80 mph in some mountain and hillside areas this week. The strong winds caused concern for critical fire...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Southern California was buffeted by gusty Santa Ana winds on Thanksgiving Day, creating fire danger and causing tens of thousands to lose power.

Wind gusts topped 70 mph overnight Wednesday in some mountain and hillside areas, causing some downed trees.

The forecast

A red flag warning went into effect at 10 a.m. Wednesday for ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — As scientists expect to see more hurricanes, Florida’s hurricane hunters are getting an upgrade to their fleet.

Stationed about 60 miles south of Orlando, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s hurricane hunter team houses three aircraft at the Lakeland Linder International Airport: two Lockheed WP-3D Orion ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Strong Santa Ana winds and low humidity throughout Southern California are expected to taper off by Monday, but another system will blow through the region starting Wednesday and linger for a gusty Thanksgiving morning on Thursday.

A red flag warning went into effect at 9 a.m. Sunday and will expire at 3 p.m. on Monday, which ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The bomb cyclone and atmospheric river that pummeled Northern California in late October produced exceptionally heavy rain and high winds. But it also battered the California coast with some epic ocean waves. During the storm, peak individual wave heights of as much as 60 feet were measured from Washington to California, ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — California could become the first state in the nation to institute a ranking system for heat waves, much the way weather authorities categorize hurricanes, or how fire and air quality officials warn of wildfire and pollution risks.

The move, announced on the last day of the United Nations climate talks in Scotland, is intended ...Read more

MIAMI — A disturbance in the Atlantic could turn into subtropical storm Adria, the 22nd named storm of the season, as soon as Thursday evening, forecasters said.

If the system becomes Adria, it would be the first to get a name this year from a supplemental list. That’s because the regular list has run its course as mid-November approaches. ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Meteorologists are once again tracking a system in the northern Atlantic with a 50% chance of becoming a subtropical system, according to the National Hurricane Center.

The system returned to the NHC’s attention with odds of development while it’s several hundred miles east-northeast of Bermuda and producing a large area ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Wanda became a tropical storm overnight and gained a bit more steam as it continued heading north Tuesday morning, the National Hurricane Center said. Meanwhile another system in the Caribbean lingers off the coast of Central America.

First, Wanda gained maximum sustained winds of 50 mph and its tropical-storm-force winds now ...Read more

An Atlantic disturbance was hanging in there Friday morning retaining its potential of becoming the next tropical depression as it moves through an area ripe for for development, according to the National Hurricane Center.

The non-tropical low pressure system is a few hundred miles south-southwest of Cape Race, Newfoundland, the NHC said in its...Read more

The nor’easter that soaked New York battered New England with hurricane-force gusts Wednesday, upending trees and leaving more than half a million homes and businesses without power. Wind gusts of 87 miles per hour ripped through Scituate, Massachusetts, near Boston. They reached 94 mph on Martha’s Vineyard, according to the National Weather...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — The National Hurricane Center has got its eye on an area of disturbance with a 40% chance of becoming the 21st named storm of the 2021 Atlantic hurricane season.

A nontropical low pressure system emerged overnight 150 miles east-southeast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, with gale-force winds, the NHC said in its 8 p.m. Eastern ...Read more