CHICAGO -- Though Saturday's late-season snowfall dumped as much as 6 inches of snow in parts of northern Illinois and about 2.5 inches in Chicago, the storm that featured heavily across social media didn't break any records in the city, meteorologists said Sunday.

The official city snowfall totals are tallied at O'Hare International Airport, ...Read more

CHICAGO -- The National Weather Service issued winter storm warnings for much of northern Illinois, including the Chicago area, cautioning that a storm this weekend could dump 4 to 8 inches of heavy, wet snow Saturday afternoon into early Sunday, according to the National Weather Service.

Wind gusts of up to 40 mph from the north could reduce ...Read more

MIAMI -- With a little over a month to the start of hurricane season, scientists have upgraded last year's beast -- Hurricane Michael -- from a Category 4 to a rare Category 5.

Michael, which devastated Florida's Mexico Beach when it made landfall on Oct. 10, becomes the first hurricane to make landfall in the United States as a Category 5 ...Read more

CHICAGO -- The last time it snowed this much in Chicago so late in the season, John F. Kennedy was president.

O'Hare International Airport's official snow measurement for Sunday came in at 5.3 inches, which made it the second snowiest day on record so late in the season.

The snowiest day on record so late in the season was set on April 16, ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- Two children were killed and dozens of people were injured Saturday during strong storms in eastern Texas, local media reported, citing authorities.

The children, age three and eight, were killed when a tree fell on the car they were traveling in near Pollok, about 161 miles southeast of Dallas, Angelina County Sheriff's Office ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- AccuWeather issued one of the first predictions for this year's Atlantic hurricane season Wednesday, with a forecast that calls for five to seven hurricanes.

That number of storms would represent a slight decline from last year, which produced eight hurricanes, including Hurricane Michael, which struck the Florida ...Read more

MAPUTO, Mozambique -- A total of 139 cases of cholera have been confirmed in Mozambique in the wake of cyclone Idai, a high-ranking employee of the Health Ministry told state broadcaster Mozambique on Thursday.

A day earlier, authorities had confirmed just five cases of the waterborne disease in the flood-ravaged country.

A total of five ...Read more

The death toll has risen in Mozambique, the country hardest hit by Cyclone Idai, a government minister said Sunday.

Environment Minister Celso Correia said 446 people were confirmed dead, up from 417 a day earlier. As rescue operations continue these numbers may increase, he said.

"We mapped areas at risk and the good news is that we are ...Read more

BERIA, Mozambique -- The number of dead from Cyclone Idai in Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi rose to at least 615, the United Nations said Saturday, citing official figures from the national governments.

The death toll in Mozambique reached 417, Environment Minister Celso Correia said, while the number of dead in Zimbabwe was 139. In Malawi, 59...Read more

BERIA, Mozambique -- The number of dead from Cyclone Idai in Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi rose to at least 615, the United Nations said Saturday, citing official figures from the national governments.

The death toll in Mozambique reached 417, Environment Minister Celso Correia said, while the number of dead in Zimbabwe was 139. In Malawi, 59...Read more

MAPUTO, Mozambique -- "Total destruction," is how one resident of Beira described the Mozambican city in the aftermath of cyclone Idai.

"Not even photos can accurately show the extent of destruction. Fallen trees, destroyed houses," engineer Imran Abdul Sacur told dpa on Tuesday in the capital Maputo, where he had travelled to pick up essential...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- More rain is expected to hit Southern California as a new storm system starts to make its way into the region this weekend, according to the National Weather Service.

Forecasters say rain is expected to begin overnight in some parts of mountain areas in Ventura and Los Angeles counties as the weather system moves southward from ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- A band of thunderstorms that stretched from southern Kern County past the Channel Islands was producing a dramatic lightning show Tuesday night in the Southern California sky.

In one five-minute stretch alone, shortly after 8 p.m., the National Weather Service recorded 1,489 pulses of lightning off the coast, 231 over Santa ...Read more