Extreme Weather

President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden toured storm-ravaged areas in eastern Kentucky and met with local officials and families affected by the historic flooding.

Farmworkers in South Florida are supporting efforts to create safety standards, including heat provisions and treatment for heat illness, as climate change makes working conditions deadly for some.

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear has said the number would likely rise significantly and it could take weeks to find all the victims.

A record 12 inches of rain fell overnight in parts of St. Louis, Missouri, causing extreme flash flooding and prompting evacuations from residents trapped in their homes and vehicles.

Britain shattered its record for highest temperature ever registered Tuesday amid a heat wave that has seared swaths of Europe — and the national weather forecaster predicted it would get hotter still in a country ill prepared for such extremes.

The skies over Sioux Falls, South Dakota, turned an eerie shade of green Tuesday night as a derecho storm rolled in.

Hundreds of cars, trucks and recreational vehicles are backed up in long lines at entrances to Yellowstone National Park as it partially reopens following destructive floods that closed the park last week.

Hundreds of homeless people die in the streets each year from the heat, in cities around the U.S. and the world. The ranks of homeless have swelled after the pandemic and temperatures fueled by climate change soar. Global warming is ramping up the dangers of being outside on hot days and not just in desert areas like Las Vegas or...

Historic floodwaters that raged through Yellowstone National Park may have permanently altered the course of a popular fishing river and left the sweeping landscape forever changed.

Severe storms hit Kansas City, Missouri late Tuesday night through early Wednesday morning, leaving damage and prompting a Severe Thunderstorm Warning from the National Weather Service.

A new initiative is designed to modernize building codes so that communities can be more resilient to hurricanes, flooding, wildfires, and other extreme weather events.

People of various ethnic groups and gender identities are also getting into the business in a quest to document and report tornadoes, hurricanes and other high-impact events.

Jordan Baize recently went viral when he played the grand piano in his damaged home — missing its roof after a storm and destructive tornado hit Kentucky on December 10. Though the storm was tragic, it has also brought people together to help rebuild, he says.

When Maung Oo heard the screams on Friday night, he knew he had to act. Just a few hours before, while at work, he saw the news about an impending tornado and thought about the many warnings that had come before but never amounted to anything. So he went home to his neighborhood in Bowling Green, Kentucky, and went to…

Sarah Farmer is helping Mayfield, Kentucky rebuild after a tornado and devastating storm struck. The community needs food and assistance repairing damaged homes as some families prepare to bury loved ones lost in the storm.

Climate change may not be increasing the number of tornadoes, but some parts of the country are seeing tornado-friendly conditions more often than in the past. NBCLX Storyteller Chase Cain explains the science behind the climate shift after a destructive storm spawned several tornadoes that destroyed parts of Kentucky, Arkansas and Missouri.

December is typically the least active month for tornadoes in the United States, but a powerful outbreak of more than 30 tornadoes hit six states in the mid-Mississippi River Valley Friday night, killing at least 88 people. Scientists still have a lot to learn about the connection between climate change and tornado outbreaks because any links between them are “difficult…

Allison Rogers has seen tornado damage before in her career, but the damage in Mayfield, Kentucky brings back memories of one of the worst storms the U.S. has seen – Hurricane Katrina, which destroyed her Mississippi hometown in 2005. Rogers, a meteorologist at WLWT in Cincinnati, Ohio, shows us the scene in Kentucky and explains how the National Weather Service...