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Storms, heat, fire and flood — which warnings are in force, which areas are affected, and what officials have not confirmed.
NWS forecasters say Sunday’s Northeast rain is followed by a low-confidence chance of a coastal storm near the Sept. 26 full moon, not a confirmed storm.
Three died in a Navajo Nation flash flood near Newcomb, NM, as monsoon storms bring rare flood risk to Phoenix and warnings across the Southwest.
As of Monday, Sept. 14, 2026, the National Weather Service’s live alerts system shows zero active Tropical Storm or Hurricane Warnings or Watches anywhere
NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center (CPC) said in an advisory dated September 10, 2026, that this fall and winter’s El Nino has a greater than 90% chance of reaching
New data from the wrecked jet’s black boxes show the crew of the Amazon-branded cargo plane that crashed near Miami International Airport on Sept.
A band of unusually warm ocean water is moving north along the Pacific coast, and it’s about to make California’s sea level noticeably higher for weeks
Indonesia’s Anak Krakatau volcano is still erupting as of Wednesday, and eight people who set out by boat to cover the eruption remain missing, with search teams
NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center has a G1 (Minor) geomagnetic storm watch in effect for Tuesday and Wednesday, September 8 and 9, 2026 — the lowest level
A Boeing 767 cargo plane flying for Amazon’s Prime Air network overran the runway while landing at Miami International Airport on Sunday, September 6, 2026, crossed
Marie, now a tropical storm, will not come ashore in California. But the storm, spinning in the Pacific hundreds of miles offshore, has already flooded Seal Beach’s 8th Street
Hurricane Lowell, the strongest storm to hit Hawaii since 1992’s Iniki, is linked to at least two deaths and hundreds of millions of dollars in damage across Kauai, Niihau and Lanai
The City of Erie, Pennsylvania declared a state of emergency on September 3, 2026, after a round of overnight thunderstorms tore through the area, knocking out
A magnitude 3.5 earthquake shook the Santa Rosa area of Sonoma County, California, on Thursday morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
Extreme Heat Warnings covering parts of Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky and Indiana in early September 2026 have expired; the last ran through Saturday night, Sept. 5
Online searches about whether a hurricane could threaten California have spiked this week amid social-media posts and shared long-range weather-model maps
Grand Canyon National Park closed all in-park overnight lodging at noon on Monday, August 31, 2026, after a flash flood tore through the inner canyon; a preliminary
A flash flood tore through the bottom of the Grand Canyon on Saturday, August 29, 2026, at around 2:30 p.m. local time, killing two people; one person remains missing as of Sept. 1
A Flood Watch is in effect Monday, Aug. 31, 2026, across the Tucson area and the Tohono O’odham Nation after a night of monsoon thunderstorms that already dropped
Tropical Storm Edouard made landfall near Johnson Bayou, Louisiana, on Sept. 1 with 60 mph winds, then weakened to a tropical depression and dissipated
Severe thunderstorms tore through the San Antonio, Texas, area Friday night, Aug. 28, 2026, bringing wind gusts up to 60 mph, hail and flash flooding; power outages