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USA Today reports: Tropical Storm Beryl formed Friday evening in the Atlantic east of the Windward Islands and could become Hurricane Beryl by Sunday as it moves westward, the National Hurricane Center said. It becomes the second named storm of the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season, formally turning into a tropical storm about 1,100 miles southeast of the Windward Islands at …

The New York Times reports: More than two million people were under a tropical storm warning along the Texas Gulf Coast in the early hours of Thursday as Tropical Storm Alberto, the first named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, neared the coast of Mexico, bringing intense rain and storm surges. The expansive storm system brought widespread coastal flooding in …

USA Today reports: Tropical Storm Alberto, the first named storm of the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season, formed Wednesday in the Gulf of Mexico as parts of Texas braced for almost a foot of rain and parts of Mexico 20 inches. The National Hurricane Center issued a tropical storm warning for the Texas coast from San Luis Pass south to the …

ABC News reports: Parts of southern Florida continued to get inundated with heavy rainfall Wednesday, with Gov. Ron DeSantis declaring a state of emergency tonight for several counties, including Broward, Collier, Lee, Miami-Dade and Sarasota. The National Weather Service in Miami said Wednesday evening that portions of Broward and Miami-Dade counties — including Hallandale and Hollywood — are continuing to …

Axios reports: Flooding — which has gotten increasingly severe in an era of extreme weather — costs the U.S. economy an estimated $179.8 to $496 billion per year in 2023 dollars, according to new data from Democrats on the Senate Joint Economic Committee. The estimates are the equivalent of over 1% of 2023’s gross domestic product, the report notes. It …

ABC News reports: An Austrian Airlines flight suffered significant damage from hail, which took off part of the airplane’s nose on Sunday, the airline said. Flight OS434 was flying from Palma de Mallorca, Spain, to Vienna, Austria, when it hit a “thunderstorm cell,” Austrian Airlines said in a statement to ABC News. The hail caused damage to the cockpit windows, …

The Dallas Morning News reports: Power outages caused by severe weather Tuesday morning in Dallas County will likely span days as more storms approach the region, officials said. County Judge Clay Lewis Jenkins signed a declaration of disaster as more than 322,000 residents were without electricity. Oncor reported more than 600,000 of its customers, including those in Dallas and Tarrant …

The New York Times reports: A stage in northern Mexico where a presidential hopeful was campaigning for a local candidate collapsed after a gust of wind blew through on Wednesday night, leaving at least nine people dead and at least 60 others injured, a state governor said. The stage collapsed in San Pedro Garza García, a suburb of Monterrey in …

The New York Times reports: Heavy snowfall will spread over parts of the Northeast starting late Monday and into Tuesday, with some areas expected to get up to two inches of snow an hour, National Weather Service forecasters said. Even Central Park, which hasn’t been coated in a half a foot of snow or more since Jan. 29, 2022, could …

Axios reports: Hurricanes are getting so strong in a warming world that a Category 6 intensity should be added to the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind scale, a new study finds. The paper, published Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, does not represent an official move by the National Hurricane Center to add another hurricane category. Instead, …

CNN reports: The National Weather Service in Los Angeles said an “extremely dangerous situation” is happening in the “Hollywood Hills area and around the Santa Monica Mountains” just outside of Los Angeles, adding that “life threatening landslides and additional flash flooding” were expected. The areas have received widespread rainfall totals more than 5 inches in the last 24 hours, with …

NewsNation reports: It’s Groundhog Day and Punxsutawney Phil made his prediction on what the weather will be like for the next six weeks. Punxsutawney Phil didn’t see his shadow — presaging early springlike weather. The expert groundhog made his annual winter weather forecast Friday at Gobbler’s Knob In Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, the scene of the country’s largest and most well-known Groundhog …

Axios reports: The House of Representatives canceled votes on a stopgap spending bill planned for Tuesday evening due to a winter storm that is expected to bring several inches of snow to D.C. The delay will force lawmakers to work on a truncated schedule to keep federal agencies from shutting down – this time due to a lack of funding …

NBC News reports: More than 1500 flights within, to or out of the United States were canceled Tuesday as extreme winter weather continued to wreak havoc for travelers. Data from the tracking group FlightAware also showed more than 3,000 U.S. flights were delayed Tuesday as of 10:07 a.m. ET. United Airlines saw the most cancellations at 303, FlightAware data showed. …

The New York Times reports: New York City finally got its snow back. The most significant snowfall in nearly two years began covering the city late Monday. As of 7 a.m., 1.4 inches of snow had fallen in Central Park, according to the weather service — 0.4 inches falling before midnight, and one inch after. That broke a streak of …

The Des Moines Register reports: Travel is not advised in the Des Moines Metro area or areas to the east, according to the Iowa Department of Transportation. “As expected, road conditions are going downhill fast this morning with heavy snow and strong winds decreasing visibility and causing drifting on some Iowa roads,” the Iowa DOT wrote on social media. The …

ABC News reports: Saturday night and Sunday evening, the storm will bring precipitation chances to the Northeast with a mix of rain and snow along the coasts and snow farther inland. For the New York City area, confidence in accumulating snow is highest across the Lower Hudson Valley and southern Connecticut. In New York City, it has been a record …

Axios reports: Forget the chance of a white Christmas in the Midwest and much of the East this year. Instead, record warmth is on tap. Temperatures from Dallas to Minneapolis, and north into Canada, are likely to range from 20°F to 35°F above average during Christmas week. Temperature records, particularly overnight lows, could be smashed by 5°F to 10°F or …

Axios reports: Much of the U.S. is likely to see temperatures of 10 to 20°F above average for the time of year during the last two weeks of December — including Christmas. “Temperatures will be above average across the West and the northern tier of the nation through at least this weekend,” per a National Weather Service forecast discussion Thursday …

The New York Times reports: It’s going to be an unsettled lead-up to Thanksgiving in much of the eastern United States, as a large, moisture-loaded storm system sweeps across the region. The storm could slow air and ground transportation on Tuesday and Wednesday, two of the busiest travel days of the year. A storm system that is developing over the …