extreme weather

FEMA was starting to fix long-standing problems. Then came the Trump administration

5:13am June 05, 2025

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has a long history of failing to help those who need assistance the most after disasters. Biden-era changes meant to fix some of those problems now face an uncertain future.

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Storm Helene Causes Massive Flooding Across Swath Of Western North Carolina

This climate scientist spent his career warning about extreme rain. Then he lived it

4:32pm October 03, 2024

by Lauren Sommer

Researchers in Asheville, North Carolina have warned for years that rainfall is becoming increasingly dangerous. But experiencing it firsthand with Hurricane Helene is something totally different.

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Europe's intense rainfall in September twice as likely thanks to climate change

5:01am September 25, 2024

Extensive early warnings and years of adaptation made the floods less deadly than they otherwise might have been.

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He survived the water, but not the flood

5:00am September 17, 2024

Climate-driven flooding destroyed Tony Calhoun’s home in 2022. But as the water receded, his despair only grew. Now, his family hopes to bring attention to the mental health toll of extreme weather.

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Debby left thousands in the dark, and threats of more flooding

9:40pm August 11, 2024

by The Associated Press

The weather system previously known as Hurricane Debby was not quite done with parts of the U.S. Sunday as flood warnings remained in effect in North Carolina and thousands were without power in New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania.

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Weather

Live Updates: Tropical Storm Debby

8:00am August 09, 2024

by WFDD Staff and Associated Press

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. Tornadoes spawned by Debby have leveled homes and damaged a school. The death toll has risen to 8.

First Named Tropical Storm Of The Season, Alberto Brings Coastal Flooding To Gulf Coast In Texas

National

Heat and snowfall, rain and wildfires. It’s a week of extreme weather in the U.S

5:54pm June 20, 2024

by Rachel Treisman

As New England sweated through a record heat wave, Montana got rare late-June snow. Firefighters are battling wildfires out West, while forecasters eye another possible tropical storm in the Atlantic.

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National security experts warn that extreme weather threatens elections this year

5:15pm June 18, 2024

National security professionals are warning that there's a growing threat to global elections — one that is on par with disinformation, foreign interference and even the threat of political violence.

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Hurricane Irene caused enormous damage in New York state, flooding homes like this one in Prattsville, NY, in 2011. Major weather events like Irene send people to the hospital and can even contribute to deaths for weeks after the storms.

The human cost of climate-related disasters is acutely undercounted, new study says

12:12pm February 29, 2024

by Alejandra Borunda

A new study counts the human health costs from increasingly costly and dangerous extreme weather in the U.S.

People check an area damaged by flash floods in Derna, eastern Libya, on Monday.

World News

Libya fears a spiraling death toll from powerful storm floods

6:18pm September 12, 2023

At least hundreds of people have died and thousands are feared missing in eastern Libya after Storm Daniel swept in, destroying dams and unleashing a torrent of muddy water that carried homes away.

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