A lightning strike turned deadly as the Independence Day weekend got underway in Southwest Florida. Crews were dispatched to Fort Myers Beach, Florida, on Friday, July 3, after reports of a lightning ...

NASA celebrated United States' 250th birthday with the release of a new image from the Hubble Space Telescope that resembles celestial sparklers. The image shows globular cluster NGC 6426, a ...

Kids and Car Safety, a nonprofit that tracks hot car deaths involving children, listed the Hallandale Beach case as the 10th child hot car death in the United States this year and the fourth in ...

Storms, heat and flooding disrupt United States' 250th birthday celebrations A deadly heat wave, followed by severe weather, left hundreds of thousands without power, delayed the Washington, D.C., ...

Daily severe weather includes risk of tornadoes for central US into Easter weekend A multi-day storm pattern will trigger shifting zones of severe weather from Texas to the Great Lakes and East, ...

The record-smashing heat dome that has been dominating the weather pattern in the central and eastern United States since late last month will finally relent and shift west through mid-July, say ...

Heat dome to flip from eastern to western US next week, ahead of North American monsoon As a dangerous heat wave continues in the East into the Fourth of July, changes are on the way that will ease ...

CDC: 125 ill in Princess cruise ship norovirus outbreak The Ruby Princess was on a 20-day voyage along western North America when 102 passengers and 23 crew members on board reported gastrointestinal ...

Extreme fire conditions are forecast through this weekend across the interior western United States, adding to the wildfires that have erupted there recently. Multiple wildfires, most notably the ...

It’s Saharan dust season in the Atlantic, the time of year when massive clouds of dust from Africa’s Sahara Desert are carried westward by winds, sometimes traveling thousands of miles to the United ...

"December started with a strong, dominant storm track from the Gulf Coast to the Northeast. With a lack of cold air, these systems produced mainly rain and very little snowpack in the U.S. and Canada.

Fourth of July week furnace: Dangerous heat dome for 250 million people A major heat wave will grip close to three dozen states in the days leading up to the Fourth of July and could put millions at ...