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By Meteorologist Mary Gilbert (CNN) — Time is ticking down to the June 1 start of the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s first forecast for it is finalized. NOAA’s team of experts is predicting a below-average hurricane season, similar to other experts’ forecasts in recent weeks. The anticipated return

By Kate S. Petersen, CNN (CNN) — A large wildfire has burned a third of Santa Rosa Island in California’s Channel Islands National Park — an area home to dozens of rare plants and animals, including some found nowhere else in the world. Officials believe the blaze, which ignited Friday and grew to 17,554 acres

By Meteorologists Taylor Ward, Briana Waxman, Chris Dolce, and Kate S. Petersen (CNN) — A storm system will finally lose some steam on Tuesday after fueling a multi-day severe thunderstorm outbreak with several tornadoes in the central US. The system is pushing south and east, creating an expansive, albeit more muted, risk of severe storms

By Meteorologist Chris Dolce, CNN (CNN) — El Niño is emerging even faster than expected in the Pacific Ocean and odds are increasing that it could become historically strong — a rare “Super” El Niño — by fall or winter. This is according to a just-released update from NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center that says there

CNN, WFAA, KSPR, KYTV, KMOV, WSVN, TESA RAYE STROUD, ALEX LEGGETT, MATT JONES , 417 STORM CHASERS By Meteorologist Briana Waxman, Taylor Romine, CNN (CNN) — Several people are injured after a tornado in Mineral Wells, Texas, flattened a portion of the town Tuesday night, the sixth day of a severe storm outbreak that has

By Meteorologist Briana Waxman, Taylor Romine, CNN (CNN) — Several people are injured after a tornado in Mineral Wells, Texas, flattened a portion of the town Tuesday night, the sixth day of a severe storm outbreak that has terrorized the Midwest and South. The tornado ripped through Mineral Wells, about 80 miles west of Dallas,

CNN, WTMJ, WWMT, KSDK, KCTV, KAUZ, KTVT, JUST WIND, BABY , TRAVIS BLACKBURN, Just Wind, Baby / Travis Blackburn By Meteorologists Briana Waxman, Mary Gilbert (CNN) — Severe storms are raking across the South Tuesday afternoon and evening with giant hail and tornadoes as a multi-day severe thunderstorm outbreak enters its sixth day. At least

CNN By Meteorologists Briana Waxman, Mary Gilbert (CNN) — Parts of the central US are facing a serious threat of tornadoes and widespread damaging wind gusts Monday as a multiday severe weather outbreak enters what could be its most dangerous phase yet. A Level 4 of 5 risk of severe thunderstorms is centered mainly on

By Meteorologists Briana Waxman, Mary Gilbert (CNN) — Severe storms are raking across the South Tuesday afternoon and evening with giant hail and tornadoes as a multi-day severe thunderstorm outbreak enters its sixth day. At least one person was killed on Monday and hundreds of thousands were left without power. Tuesday evening, a tornado tore

CNN By Meteorologists Briana Waxman, Mary Gilbert (CNN) — Parts of the central US are facing a serious threat of tornadoes and widespread damaging wind gusts Monday as a multiday severe weather outbreak enters what could be its most dangerous phase yet. A Level 4 of 5 risk of severe thunderstorms is centered mainly on

CNN, WTLV, GEORGIA FORESTRY COMMISSION, RAIGAN BULLARD, ASHLEIGH ANDERSON, ENID BUZZ, ERICA RICH, TRAVIS HOWERTON By Meteorologists Mary Gilbert, Briana Waxman, and CNN’s Martin Goillandeau, Holly Yan (CNN) — More severe weather is expected in the central United States on Saturday after multiple tornadoes roared through the region earlier in the week, including a violent

By Meteorologists Mary Gilbert, Briana Waxman, and CNN’s Martin Goillandeau, Holly Yan (CNN) — More severe weather is expected in the central United States on Saturday after multiple tornadoes roared through the region earlier in the week, including a violent EF-4 twister that caused significant damage and multiple injuries in Oklahoma — the start of

By Meteorologist Chris Dolce, CNN (CNN) — Drought in the continental United States has expanded to its record-highest level for spring, and it’s fueling wildfire and water shortage concerns as the summer’s drying heat fast approaches. Varying levels of drought covered 62.78% of the country as of April 21, with the worst of it centered

By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — Something unusual and with far-reaching consequences is lurking in the sea off the California coast, stretching all the way down the Baja Peninsula and more than 500 miles to the southwest. In this broad region, a large, long-lasting and record-setting marine heat wave has set in and is forecast

By Angela Fritz, CNN (CNN) — I’ve spent my career thinking about weather — how it works, how we talk about it and how it shows up in people’s lives. Most days, it’s something we glance at and move on. Other days, it’s the reason plans change — or maybe the reason you’re pulling your

By Meteorologists Dakota Smith, Briana Waxman, Allison Chinchar and CNN’s Taylor Romine, CNN (CNN) — Multiple destructive twisters struck the central US on Friday afternoon during a tornado outbreak that capped a weeklong stretch of severe storms in the region. A lower severe weather threat remains possible Saturday as the same cold front pushes east.