Extreme Weather

Scores of schools across the U.S. are carpeted in asphalt without any shade. The situation has become acute enough that kids are losing classroom time to closures related to heat.

Geography plays a big role in making the west San Fernando Valley town feel like an oven.

Experts recommend drivers check several things before hitting the road as dangerously hot weather can do a number on vehicles.

The U.S. is on track to shatter heat records, putting millions of Americans in the most affected parts of the country in harm’s way for long-term, life-threatening health problems.

It’s been a wild week of weather in many parts of the United States.

Here is the science behind why the summer heat makes us lethargic and tired.

History seems to be repeating itself: FEMA exhausted its funds right before Hurricane Idalia made landfall in Florida’s Big Bend a year ago.

At least nine people have died related to Debby, which was downgraded to a post-tropical cyclone on Friday.

Debby’s final chapter involves moving north and northeast from the Carolinas at a faster clip with soaking rains, flash flooding and the threat of tornadoes into the weekend.

Tropical Storm Debby has made a second landfall in South Carolina on its way up the East Coast, where residents as far north as Vermont could get several inches of rain this weekend.

The US government’s top health official is acknowledging that a federal program that helps low-income people with utility bills needs to focus more on cooling and not overwhelmingly on wintertime heating.

Tropical Storm Debby is taking a breather over the western Atlantic ocean but it will douse the coastal Carolinas again before it slowly marches north.

Tropical Storm Debby has brought prolonged downpours to the southeastern United States and could hover over the Atlantic Ocean for the next few days, then boomerang back onto the mainland.

Hurricane Debby has made landfall Monday in northern Florida as a Category 1 storm.

Debby has become a Category 1 hurricane as it keeps strengthening over the Gulf of Mexico, it sits about 70 miles south-southeast of Tallahassee as of early Monday. It was about 45 miles northwest of Cedar Key.

Forecasters say Hurricane Carlotta has formed over the Pacific Ocean and continues to strengthen as it moves away from Mexico.

The European climate service Copernicus said Monday broke the previous day’s record of the world’s hottest day ever.

As areas across the U.S. continue to experience extreme heat, employers have taken steps to protect workers from high temperatures.

On Sunday, the Earth sizzled to the second-hottest day ever measured by humans, yet another heat record shattered in the past couple of years, according to the European climate service Copernicus Tuesday.

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