On Jan. 5, 2025, at about 2:35 in the afternoon, the first severe hailstorm of the season dropped quarter-size hail in ...

Scientists in two hail-dimpled vehicles with special mesh protecting the windshields are driving straight into the heart of ...

At least eight-in-ten Americans who experienced extreme weather say climate change contributed a lot or a little.

Critics in the past year called for more transparency and vetting of the procedures used to estimate billion-dollar disasters ...

The Universities Space Research Association’s Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science, in collaboration with the ...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, compiled information for major disasters, including insured losses by state. Bulk data won’t tell communities or counties about their ...

Forecasters already patch together very rough estimates, and ending NOAA’s ‘billion-dollar disasters’ list means less access to insurance data. Texas’ state climatologists explain why that matters.

Natural disasters are reshaping the insurance landscape: premiums rise as wildfires, tornadoes, and hurricanes become ...

The long-term effects of this senseless sabotage will mean that as climate change ramps up the rate and severity of extreme disasters ... s world-class public weather systems is a deliberate ...

Iowans have been dealt many of these costly extreme weather events in recent years. Last summer's catastrophic flooding in northwest Iowa was part of a broader disaster that caused $1.1 billion ...

AI can predict everyday weather—but struggles with rare disasters. Scientists explore why and how physics might help close ...