As Trump administration firings at the National Weather Service continue to effect local offices across the U.S., the agency announced Thursday that staffing limitations may further reduce or suspend the launch of weather balloons.

The announcement follows weeks of legal uncertainty over widespread staff reductions, and comes the day after the ...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — A Michigan House committee on Wednesday advanced a bill that would push about $75 million toward a relief fund for northern Michigan to address the effects of the area's historic ice storm in late March.

The $75 million appropriation for the Michigan State Police would be used to assist "individual residents, businesses, and ...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Friday asked President Donald Trump to make a presidential emergency declaration for 12 northern Michigan counties and the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians.

The designation could qualify the state for "up to $5 million in immediate public assistance to support emergency efforts" in the wake ...Read more

A line of strong storms is slowly progressing through Georgia on Sunday with risk of damaging winds, flash flooding and a brief tornado threat.

Storms entered the northwest part of Georgia by midmorning and will advance throughout the region before exiting Monday afternoon. About 6,000 Georgia Power customers were without power at approximately...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — You’re not the only one asking this question: Why is it raining so darn much?

Some of Kentucky’s foremost and longest-tenured experts on weather and flooding aren’t sure when they last saw a system so sustained hang over the state.

From Thursday afternoon through Saturday, downpours have pelted much of the commonwealth...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — President Donald Trump signed an order Friday declaring a state of emergency for Kentucky as rain continue to pound much of the state.

The presidential declaration allows the state to qualify for Federal Emergency Management Agency funding.

It also authorizes FEMA to provide assistance as the state grapples with multiple ...Read more

Severe weather spawned dozens of reported tornadoes in the past 48 hours, with about a third of them occurring in Kansas and Missouri, according to preliminary reports.

The tornadoes, some of which were deadly, left a path of destruction from the south to the Great Lakes, destroying homes, overturning vehicles, and downing power lines.

The ...Read more

The first hurricane forecast of the year from the experts at Colorado State University released Thursday calls for an above-average season with nine hurricanes and a better than 50% chance a major hurricane will strike the U.S.

The CSU seasonal forecasts were originated by the late William Gray in 1984, but continue out of the school’s ...Read more

GAYLORD, Mich. — Life remained at a standstill in this northern Michigan community for the fourth day in a row on Wednesday.

Residents were relieved an overnight storm didn’t pack the wallop of the one Saturday that caused tens of thousands of people in northern Michigan to lose power. But the snow and rain Wednesday slowed recovery efforts...Read more

DETROIT — In northern Michigan, tens of thousands remain in the dark Wednesday without power and heat, still reeling from the effects of a weekend ice storm as more severe weather begins to batter the state.

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said in a Wednesday interview with 9 & 10 News she has sent 125 National Guard members up north to help with ...Read more

Gov. Andy Beshear has declared a state of emergency before a severe and life-threatening storms arrives in Kentucky Wednesday and lingers through Saturday.

The storms are expected to arrive in the farthest areas of Western Kentucky around 6 p.m. EDT and push eastward across the state, according to the National Weather Service. A few Western ...Read more

DETROIT — Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has declared a state of emergency, and nearly 49,000 energy company customers in northern Michigan were without power Monday, days after an historic ice storm knocked out power to at least 90,000 in that area.

The emergency declaration aims "to get help out the door as fast as possible for Michiganders...Read more

A crippling ice storm has left parts of northern Michigan with up to an inch of ice, at least 90,000 residential and business customers without power and high wind and travel restrictions on the Mackinac Bridge.

"Crippling impacts from significant freezing rain continue, even if some places breach 32°F due to the sheer amount of ice that has ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A major storm continued to wallop parts of Southern California on Thursday morning, bringing evacuation alerts, fears of mudslides, heavy mountain snow and a tornado that snapped trees and damaged homes and cars.

Several flood and severe thunderstorm warnings — as well as winter weather advisories in the mountains — remained...Read more

SEATTLE — Rain-soaked, wind-whipped Western Washingtonians can breathe a sigh of relief thanks to a calm, if slightly damp, weather forecast ahead.

A powerful thunderstorm with severe winds blew through the region Monday night and Tuesday morning, downing trees and power lines, disrupting train service, and causing power outages for tens of ...Read more

Climate diplomats beginning work on the next report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — the crucial assessment on global warming that helps shape policy for governments to companies — will meet in China this week without US officials.

U.S. government scientists participating in the IPCC’s global assessments were issued a ...Read more

BOSTON — Following recent weather disasters across the county, the Boston mayor outlined Thursday how the city is preparing for when more severe heat, coastal flooding, or extreme weather events hit here.

“Over the last few months, our hearts have gone out to the families impacted by some of the worst wildfires in California history, or the...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Record-breaking cold weather will continue in Kansas City as an arctic blast lingers across the area on Wednesday — with the coldest temperatures yet to come.

The metro set a new record for the coldest high temperature for Feb. 18 when temperatures on Tuesday reached 4 degrees. The previous record for that date was 11 ...Read more