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2026 Opens with Heavy Rain, Mountain Snow in the West

Significant rain and heavy mountain snow will continue to batter California and the rest of the West for the first few days of 2026.

Extended Weekend Weather Outlook

New year, new weather pattern? Not quite… A soggy, snowy forecast persists through the end of the weekend.

2025 Year in Review: Billion-Dollar Disasters From May through June

Between May and June, six billion-dollar disasters caused by severe weather struck the nation.

EF3 tornado damage near Plantersville, Alabama

2025 Year in Review: Billion-Dollar Disasters From February Through April

From flash flooding to large tornadoes, February through April had some of the costliest and most deadly billion dollar disasters of 2025.

Photos and videos from the Palisades Fire that started in the City of Los Angeles, January 8, 2025. (CAL FIRE_Official via Wikimedia Commons)

2025 Year in Review: Billion Dollar Disasters - The California Wildfires

One of the deadliest and most expensive natural disasters of 2025 occurred in southern California.

Large wall of dust approaching Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport at around 5:30 PM MST (Photo credit: Mike Olbinski via NWS)

2025 Year in Review: Extreme Weather - July Through December

No shortage of extreme weather...

2025 Year in Review: Billion Dollar Disasters - The California Wildfires

One of the deadliest and most expensive natural disasters of 2025 occurred in southern California.

2025 Year in Review: Extreme Weather - July Through December

No shortage of extreme weather...

A frame from an automated video of a tornado and its mesocyclone that derailed multiple train cars near Enderlin, North Dakota and destroyed multiple homes on June 20, 2025. (ChrisWx via Wikimedia Commons)

2025 Year in Review: Extreme Weather - January through June

The first half of 2025 saw extreme weather events in the U.S. and across the globe, including a huge snow storm on the Gulf Coast the end of the EF-5 tornado drought in the United States.

2025 Year in Review: Powerful Hurricanes in the Atlantic

The U.S. may have been spared from major impacts, but other areas were not so lucky, in particular Jamaica which took a direct hit from Category 5 Melissa.