National Weather

Tropical Storm Bertha makes landfall in Louisiana and moves toward Texas

By The Associated Press Tropical Storm Bertha made landfall in Louisiana and was southwest of New Orleans while moving west toward Texas early Thursday morning, after closing beaches on the Gulf Coast from the Florida Panhandle to Mississippi. The storm made landfall Wednesday afternoon in St. Bernard Parish about 40 miles (65 kilometers) east of New

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Heavy smoke from wildfires blankets the US Midwest and Northeast, prompting evacuations

By Dorany Pineda and Jacqueline Ganun Thousands of visitors were told to evacuate a remote Minnesota wilderness area accessible only by boat as wildfires send dangerously heavy smoke over the U.S. Midwest and Northeast this week. More than 100 wildfires are burning in Canada, where a train crew in northern Ontario filmed themselves surrounded by flames before being safely

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Tornado outbreak slams Illinois, bringing strong winds and large hail to the Plains amid ongoing flood threat

By Angela Fortuna A tornado outbreak is bringing large hail, damaging winds and tornadoes to the Plains on Sunday. The storms are developing along a front stretching from the mid-Mississippi Valley to the central High Plains. A confirmed tornado outbreak broke out in southern Illinois on Sunday. Approximately 1.5 million are under a Tornado Watch as severe storms could bring EF-2+

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Severe storms creep across the U.S. as intense heat plagues the coasts

By Rebecca Cohen and Kathryn Prociv Intense heat and severe storms are continuing to make their way through the United States this week and will creep into next week as summer temperatures officially take hold across the nation. Friday will be the last hot day for the East Coast, with numerous record highs likely for cities including Baltimore,

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Tornadoes rip through Illinois, Indiana amid severe outbreak

Severe storms that swept through the Midwest knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of customers, damaged buildings and canceled flights. They resulted in at least one death, with new tornadoes touching down late Thursday in communities outside Chicago. Approximately 11 cities across Illinois and Wisconsin reported tornadoes as of Thursday evening, according to CBS News

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Severe weather leaves millions across the U.S. bracing for heavy rain, hail and damaging winds

By Minyvonne Burke and Kathryn Prociv Severe weather moving across parts of the country over the next few days will bring destructive hail and damaging winds to more than 30 million people from the central Plains to the northern Great Lakes and strong storms for the mid-Atlantic and the Northeast. Across Kansas, more than 35,000 customers were without

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Millions at risk as heavy rains threaten floods across the South

By Mirna Alsharif and Erin McGarry It seems the South isn’t in the clear after a damp Memorial Day weekend. Around 15 million people are under flood alerts from Louisiana to Georgia on Tuesday as the region braces for more heavy rains and thunderstorms that could bring up to 2 inches of rain to some areas. Excessive rain

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Memorial Day travel snarled as storms threaten flooding from Texas to Northeast

By Minyvonne Burke and Kathryn Prociv Memorial Day weekend travelers are facing a wet and potentially disruptive start to the holiday, with storms expected to bring heavy rain, flash flooding and travel delays across large parts of the country. The storms were already affecting air travel Thursday morning, with more than 1,000 flights delayed within, into or out

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