CNN-weather/environment

By Caitlin Kaiser and Pedram Javaheri, CNN This could be the hottest Super Bowl kickoff ever. An unseasonable wintertime California heat wave — with temperatures in the 80s, maybe even as high as 90 — is forecast to stretch from Wednesday afternoon right through kickoff on Sunday. The out-of-season forecast heat prompted the National Weather

CNN By Caitlin Kaiser and Pedram Javaheri, CNN This could be the hottest Super Bowl kickoff ever. An unseasonable wintertime California heat wave — with temperatures in the 80s, maybe even as high as 90 — is forecast to stretch from Wednesday afternoon right through kickoff on Sunday. The out-of-season forecast heat prompted the National

By Jennifer Gray, CNN meteorologist I lived and worked in Miami for four years before coming to Atlanta to join CNN. I’ve visited the Wall of Wind on the Florida International University (FIU) campus many times. It is a wall of enormous fans inside a big warehouse-type building that can blow air up to 160

CNN By Derek Van Dam, CNN It would be hard to hold a conversation over the deafening sound of the snow machines preparing the Olympic venues northwest of Beijing. They are loud and they are everywhere, blowing snow across what will be this month’s most-watched slopes. It is almost beautiful — except that the venues

CNN By Steve Almasy, Aya Elamroussi and Holly Yan, CNN A deadly storm system plowed across the United States on Thursday bringing tornado threats and dumping wintry precipitation and rain on Americans from the Gulf to Canada. More than 91 million people were under a winter weather warning or advisory as ice, snow and sleet

By Pedram Javaheri, CNN Still reeling from the death and devastation Tropical Cyclone Ana inflicted just last week, Madagascar is bracing for another dangerous cyclone to impact the country. The planet’s strongest storm underwent rapid intensification overnight and is now equivalent to a Category 4 Atlantic hurricane with sustained winds near 145 mph (230 kph).

CNN By Pedram Javaheri, CNN Still reeling from the death and devastation Tropical Cyclone Ana inflicted just last week, Madagascar is bracing for another dangerous cyclone to impact the country. The planet’s strongest storm underwent rapid intensification overnight and is now equivalent to a Category 4 Atlantic hurricane with sustained winds near 145 mph (230

CNN By Aya Elamroussi and Holly Yan, CNN A mammoth storm dropping significant snowfall Wednesday threatens to paralyze parts of the Midwest and South with ice, snow, dangerously cold temperatures and power outages for days. More than 100 million people were under winter weather alerts, stretching from the Rockies to New England. Heavy snow has

By Jennifer Gray, CNN meteorologist As the second winter storm in less than a week sets up across the country, 21 states are gearing up for a blast of winter precipitation and dangerously cold temperatures. More than 90 million people are currently under winter weather alerts stretching from the Rockies to New England — over

By Caitlin Kaiser and Judson Jones, CNN Two new world records for megaflashes of lightning have been recorded by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), including one for longest distance of a singular flash in North America and one for longest duration in South America. “A mega-flash is a really, really big lightning flash,” Randall Cerveny,

CNN By Jennifer Gray, CNN meteorologist ‘Tis the season for winter storms to line up like parade floats at Mardi Gras. Last week’s storm would have won the prize for a winter wonderland float and this week’s storm would be topped with icicles. The historic blizzard which slammed the Northeast and New England last weekend

By Jennifer Gray, CNN meteorologist ‘Tis the season for winter storms to line up like parade floats at Mardi Gras. Last week’s storm would have won the prize for a winter wonderland float and this week’s storm would be topped with icicles. The historic blizzard which slammed the Northeast and New England last weekend dumped