Cleanup crews fanned out across Philadelphia on Sunday after a series of powerful microbursts tore through the region, toppling trees, damaging buildings and blocking streets with massive trunks and ...

Travelers and those with outdoor plans will have to do more than dodge raindrops and lightning bolts in the coming days from parts of the Great Plains to the mid-Atlantic coast, as thunderstorms erupt ...

The latest tragedy comes less than a week after an 18-month-old child died after being found in a hot car outside an early education center in Plantation.

Torrential rains bring devastating floods to a Chinese city and a snake invasion Around 900 snakes – many of them venomous – are on the loose after Typhoon Maysak swept through the region, causing ...

First storms of summer to arrive in southwestern US as monsoon begins The upcoming North American monsoon will help to snap the surge of triple-digit heat over the interior West, and may bring ...

Thirty beluga whales stranded at a shuttered marine park in Canada will soon be moved to new homes after U.S. officials approved a complex international rescue effort. The whales have been living at ...

An adored -- and feared -- local celebrity has returned to Tasmania, Australia: a 2,200-pound southern elephant seal known as Neil the Seal. About the size of a large bull, Neil is known for causing ...

An outbreak of Legionnaires' disease on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City has jumped to 14 confirmed cases, health officials said Sunday.

Flash flood risk reaches extreme levels in Missouri, Kentucky and Tennessee Floods can happen fast and be tragic to those in their path. AccuWeather meteorologists are closely watching a highly-prone ...

The sizzling, stormy start to July will continue into another week as the risk of severe thunderstorms and flash flooding shifts across the central and eastern part of the nation, according to ...

Volunteer firefighters in Colorado continued battling the Aspen Acres Fire even after learning their own homes had burned. Their homes are among at least 780 destroyed by the massive wildfire burning ...

Rumors of a tornado in Alaska swirled on social media on July 4, fueled by an impressive video showing a large funnel extending down across the hilly landscape. But looks can be deceiving. The funnel ...