Weather

Here’s why hydrangeas are having a banner year on the East Coast and how you can enjoy them.

The heat has come for Americans — and everyone else, too.

Hurricane Beryl set records as the earliest Category 5 storm ever. What does that mean for the rest of hurricane season? Here’s what travelers need to know.

Climate change is causing more fires to burn overnight, growing bigger, lasting longer and challenging the fire teams trying to control them.

New restrictions are meant to reduce damage during floods. The rules were first proposed in 2016, then the Trump administration scrapped them.

With outages expected to last days, a top state official promised to look into whether the utility company could have done more to prepare for Hurricane Beryl.

A 50-year-old man was found dead on Sunday after hiking up the canyon, where temperatures can reach 120 degrees in summer.

With no working outage tracker from the Houston area’s main electricity provider, people are turning to the chain’s map of open restaurants after Hurricane Beryl.

The storm hit Texas as a Category 1 hurricane. As it moved north, officials warned it could take days to fully restore electricity.

After thousands of sequoias were destroyed by extreme wildfires, tribes are conducting cultural burns.

Climate change is driving rates higher, but not always in areas with the greatest risk.

July has brought a record-breaking hurricane, early-season wildfires and triple-digit temperatures. Judson Jones, a meteorologist and reporter, cleared up the connections between the events.

As the storm crossed Houston on Monday morning, the call of the toads echoed from every flooded street corner.

Experts say that the rain, cooler temperatures and barometric pressure drops caused by Beryl stimulated toads in Texas to mate.

In many places, a scorching Independence Day led into an even hotter weekend.

The storm will move through the United States this week.

“The halls felt like they were on fire,” one Jordanian woman said of her accommodations after she opted to take a cheaper travel package for “unregistered” pilgrims to Saudi Arabia.

In this monsoon season, so far there have been more than 60 weather-related fatalities. With roads cut off and more rain expected, the toll could rise.

Karachi, Pakistan’s largest city, endured days of temperatures above 100 Fahrenheit, made worse by power cuts and high humidity.

Visitors were mostly unaffected by the third and fourth drownings at New York City beaches this season, matching the total number of swimming deaths last summer.

From Oregon to California to Arizona, several cities have seen scorching temperatures in recent days. And there is little relief in sight, forecasters say.

Sauna training, frozen balloons and “marshmallow suits” help athletes manage extreme temperatures.

The area near Manawa Dam received more than five inches of rain in about four hours, causing the Little Wolf River to overflow it.

Residents in Manawa, a city in rural Wisconsin, were instructed to seek higher ground as a bulging river flowed over the Manawa Dam.

A new analysis shows increasing frequency and intensity of hurricanes could cause more devastating interruptions to the power grid.

The hurricane caused destruction across the Caribbean, but some were relieved that it hadn’t been worse.

The fire in Oroville forced 29,000 people to evacuate their homes earlier this week, but on Thursday officials said they felt “more confident” about containing the fire’s spread.

Officials said they were working to set up a field hospital on the island of Carriacou, whose one permanent hospital lost most of its roof to Hurricane Beryl.

The powerful storm, which devastated communities in the eastern Caribbean earlier this week, was headed next to the Cayman Islands.

The South Fork fire and another one in the state left two people dead and destroyed 1,400 structures.

Scientists are still studying the long-term health effects of smoke exposure.

Residents moved to Mountain House, Calif., to escape soaring housing costs near the coast. Now, they just have to survive the searing summer heat.

The island’s three main international air hubs will remain closed through at least Wednesday night, and many airlines are waiving change and cancellation fees.

Preparations were in progress in the Cayman Islands, where Hurricane Beryl was anticipated to pass through on Wednesday night.

Gathering data from directly inside the storm can help emergency managers prepare for what’s to come.

Satellite imagery showed flattened houses and buildings without roofs in Grenada. Officials said roughly 98 percent of the islands’ buildings had been destroyed.

The fire has burned more than 3,000 acres and threatened residents of Oroville, near the town of Paradise, which was destroyed by a wildfire in 2018.

Much of the country will endure temperatures that are above average for this time of the year.

Global warming is hitting the entire Northeast particularly hard, according to figures provided by Climate Central, a nonprofit group.

As the storm headed for Jamaica, officials were assessing what Grenada’s prime minister called “total” devastation on two of the country’s islands.

A look at the destruction caused by Hurricane Beryl as it lashes its way across the region.

The proposed regulation comes as California and Oregon brace for a punishing heat wave.

Heat is only part of the picture. Here’s why humid air makes us irritable and exhausted — and how you can cope.

Hurricane Beryl had sustained wind speeds of nearly 160 miles per hour, bringing heavy rain and destruction across the Caribbean.

Across the state, the mercury is rising and may stay high for a week, if not longer.

Flooding in Ruidoso, N.M., over the weekend showed how wildfire damage, worsening under climate change, can put people at even greater risk than the fires themselves.

Consulta la trayectoria probable y las horas de llegada de los vientos de Beryl.

See the likely path and wind arrival times for Chris.

Plus, Hurricane Beryl threatens the Caribbean.

The tropical cyclone, the third named storm in the Atlantic season, formed quickly on Sunday and dissipated by Monday morning.

At least one person was killed when parts of the roof caved in and crushed vehicles at Indira Gandhi airport in New Delhi, according to an official. All domestic departures were suspended.

The high temperatures blamed for the deaths of pilgrims in Saudi Arabia are taking a broad toll in countries that have spent vast sums to attract tourists and investors.

A spokesman for Team U.S.A. said continuity is key despite the goal of Paris being the “greenest” Olympics. Other countries are planning similar measures.

Flights to airports in the New York and Washington D.C. areas were grounded on Wednesday night because of severe weather.

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The daughter of one Maryland couple was still searching for answers about her parents’ deaths. The State Department said it was possible that more deaths could be confirmed.

The sculpture was part of a series meant to comment on American monument culture. Cue the jokes instead.

Mike Bettwy, a government meteorologist who focuses on potential threats from space weather, says that we are more prepared than ever — and that forecasting is only getting better.

A lack of affordable housing and high energy costs are making Americans more vulnerable to record-breaking heat, public health experts say.

The deaths of at least 1,300 pilgrims during the hajj point to the growing threat that climate change poses to beloved gatherings.

As temperatures soar around the world, practical experiments are emerging to protect people.

A Saudi official said most of the deaths involved unregistered pilgrims who lacked access to certain amenities available to those with permits, such as air-conditioned buses and tents.

The city of Meizhou experienced “once-in-a-century” rainfall last week, according to state media.

In a changing climate, extreme wildfire events are becoming far more common and more intense, according to a new analysis.

The number of deaths during the annual Islamic pilgrimage raised questions about Saudi Arabia’s preparations for intense heat and unregistered participants.

The city of Meizhou reported a “once-in-a-century” flood, with at least 38 people dying in one county alone.

Officials in Iowa, South Dakota and Minnesota reported widespread damage and continuing danger. A bridge collapsed on Sunday and a dam was at risk on Monday.

The forecast is welcome news for many East Coasters, who faced stifling conditions over the weekend. But the Southeast and Southern Plains are expected to continue to scorch this week.

The agency said it was offering up to $10,000 for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of those “responsible for starting the fires.”

More than 1,300 people died, and a Saudi official said most of them were not registered for the pilgrimage. That left them with little protection from the heat.

The heat was especially oppressive in urban areas of New Jersey, a state that climate experts say is warming at a faster rate than others in the Northeast.

More than eight million people in Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York and Vermont were under a tornado watch that expired on Sunday evening.

The island’s power crisis illustrates the consequences of putting essential services in the hands of a private entity.

At least one person was killed in South Dakota, officials said, as days of heavy rain pushed some rivers to record levels and parts of the Upper Midwest remained under flood warnings on Sunday.

A storm left about 9,000 people without power for three days.

The action against 16 tour companies came as governments look into whether many travelers were not properly registered to make the journey into the desert.

Regions that had “extremely high” rates of such illnesses included swaths of New England, the Midwest and the Mid-Atlantic, all areas that have been hit the hardest by the heat wave.

With much of the U.S. experiencing a heat wave, let us consider the beach and all its promises and pitfalls.

Searing heat in Saudi Arabia appeared to at least contribute to many of the deaths.

So far, aided by growing solar capacity, heat-related outages have been limited.