Severe weather

Millions of people from across the South are under threat of damaging winds, strong tornadoes and hail Saturday as the region braces for more potential destructive storms.

The archipelago in the Indian Ocean has suffered extensive damage after getting pummeled by winds in excess of 136 mph.

Also Saturday, San Francisco residents awoke to a tornado warning, but none touched down there. It was the first such warning for the city since at least 1950.

A major ice storm has created treacherous driving conditions across Iowa and eastern Nebraska and prompted temporary closures of Interstate 80 after numerous cars and trucks slid off the road.

In the wake of hurricanes Helene and Milton, an outlandish conspiracy theory about the Federal Emergency Management Agency that has percolated for decades started to reappear online. Now, the government agency is making one of its strongest pushes against the claim to date.

Milton’s tornadoes were part of an unusual trend this year: Hurricanes in the U.S. have produced an abnormally high number of strong twisters.

Meteorologists calculate that more than 40 trillion gallons of rain drenched the Southeast United States in the last week from Hurricane Helene and a run-of-the-mill rainstorm that sloshed in ahead of it. It’s an unheard-of amount of water that stunned experts.

The U.S. Southeast grappled Sunday with rising death tolls, a lack of vital supplies in isolated, flood-stricken areas and the widespread loss of homes and property while the devastating toll of Hurricane Helene became more clear and officials warned of a lengthy and difficult rebuild.

The storm, now a post-tropical cyclone, was expected to hover over the Tennessee Valley on Saturday and Sunday, the National Hurricane Center said.

Massive rains from powerful Hurricane Helene left people stranded, without shelter and awaiting rescue Saturday, as the cleanup began from a tempest that killed at least 58 people, caused widespread destruction across the U.S. Southeast and left millions without power.

The U.S. Coast Guard rescued a man and his dog during Hurricane Helene after their sailboat became disabled and began taking on water.

Hurricane Ernesto, which made landfall on the tiny British Atlantic territory of Bermuda, brought heavy rains and strong winds before moving north-northeast away from the area.

Tornadoes spawned by Debby leveled homes, damaged a school and killed one person early Thursday, as the tropical system dropped heavy rain and flooded communities across North and South Carolina.

A tropical depression in the Gulf of Mexico has strengthened into Tropical Storm Debby. Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center say the storm now has maximum sustained winds of 40 mph as it moves toward Florida.

Overnight Wednesday night: Cloudy. Humid. Low: 73. Thursday:  Scattered Showers or T-showers. Partly Cloudy & humid. High: 88. Friday: Morning Showers. Hot & Humid. High: 90.

A tornado warning was issued Wednesday in northern New Hampshire’s Grafton County, but has since expired.. Severe storms are popping up across the northeast as the remnants from Beryl cross the Great Lakes and into Canada this evening.  See a list of active severe weather watches and warnings here. With that nearing a surface boundary, and with a jet...

Wednesday: Hot. Humid. Afternoon Storms. High: 92.
Overnight Wednesday night: Cloudy. Humid. Low: 73.
Thursday: Scattered Afternoon Showers. Partly Cloudy. High: 88.
Friday: Morning Showers. Hot & Humid. High: 90.

Forecasters say oppressive heat and humidity are forecast to team up to spike temperatures above 100 degrees in Oregon, where records could be broken in cities such as Eugene, Portland and Salem.

An EF-1 tornado touched down in Rehoboth, Massachusetts, late Wednesday, the National Weather Service confirmed Friday. The storm hit in a wooded area off Sterber Way around 11:29 p.m., snapping and uprooting trees in the area as winds. Winds reached a maximum intensity of 90 mph and the maximum width of the tornado was 50 yards. The tornado was quick…

Tropical Storm Alberto, the season’s first named storm, weakened Thursday as it moved inland over northeast Mexico after bringing heavy rains to parts of the parched region and leaving at least four dead.