severe weather

A growing number of Americans are finding it difficult to afford insurance on their homes, a problem only expected to worsen because insurers and lawmakers have underestimated the impact of climate change, a new report says.

Torrents of water flooded into the city and washed away neighborhoods. Thousands are dead and more bodies are being recovered, while families desperately try to learn if their loved ones survived.

Tornado warnings were issued Wednesday for a set of storms that worked its way from Connecticut, through Rhode Island and into southeastern Massachusetts. The National Weather Service issued the warning for a severe thunderstorm that was capable of producing a tornado near Foster, Rhode Island. It tracked east, sparking tornado warnings in Massachusetts’ Bristol, Plymouth and Norfolk counties, before the…

At least 30,000 people in Derna were displaced by the flooding, the U.N.’s International Organization for Migration said.

A brook overflowed during Monday’s flooding emergency in Leominster, Massachusetts, causing serious damage at two apartment complex. Water was sent gushing into parking lots and ground-floor apartments at Ivory Keys and The Lofts at City Place. Tenants spent much of Tuesday cleaning up, assessing the damage and having their cars towed, as many got flooded. “It was just muddy,”...

Monday was beyond awful for Leominster, Gardner and Pepperell, as central Massachusetts experienced catastrophic flash flooding. The glossary of meteorology from the American Meteorological Society defines flash flooding as moderate to intense rainfall over highly saturated or impervious land surfaces, and generally occurring within minutes to several hours of the rainfall event. This flooding was enough to close major thoroughfares,…

North Attleborough, Massachusetts, was among the communities hit hardest by the heavy rain that washed across the region Monday night, with flood water leading to road closures, power outages and even water-logged homes. After touring the damage in North Attleborough and Leominster, Gov. Maura Healey declared a state of emergency Tuesday night. Officials with the Bristol County town held a…

More than 8,000 were killed after Mediterranean storm Daniel pummeled eastern Libya, causing two dams to burst.

Two dams needed to be shored up in Leominster on Tuesday, one of several Massachusetts communities still reeling from flash flooding that dropped historic amounts of rain Monday night. Gov. Maura Healey issued a state of emergency across the commonwealth Tuesday night. “Today I saw firsthand the devastating impacts of severe flooding in Leominster and North Attleborough – and it…

Rainstorms battering southern China have killed at least seven people and allowed dozens of crocodiles to escape from a farm.

It’ll be a long road to recovery for some in Andover and North Andover, Massachusetts, where Friday’s severe weather left behind some significant damage. There still were over 2,000 outages in the two communities on Monday morning, with National Grid having already restored service to tens of thousands of homes in the state. Andover Public Schools announced on Sunday...

Andover Public Schools announced on Sunday evening that the district’s schools would be closed Monday amid the outages and clean up process. North Andover Public Schools made the same decision to close down for Monday.

The Maui Police Department and the FBI said 245 people on the list of 388 made public the previous week were located and removed from the list. However, a nearly equal number of new names were added.

A monsoon and massive dust storm rolled into Arizona Thursday, leading to power outages, flight delays and a temporary suspension of a college football game.

Floridians are already working to put their communities back together, one day after a Category 3 hurricane brought record storm surges to the region.

Hurricane Idalia hit Florida early Wednesday as a major Category 3 storm.

The system remained a hurricane as it crossed into Georgia with top winds of 90 mph after drenching Florida mostly to the east of Tallahassee

The basic principle to assess a name’s retirement is if the storm was “so deadly or costly that the future use of its name on a different storm would be inappropriate for obvious reasons of sensitivity.”

Prosecutors charged the 62-year-old van driver on Tuesday with a felony count of child negligence resulting in death

Tropical storm Hilary brought rain, strong winds and mudslides across Southern California, blocking interstates and knocking out 911 services in some areas.