Powerful storm spawns tornadoes across Texas, Oklahoma: High school and animal shelter hit Some 22 million people are under threat from the severe storm system in the South. Axios · Mar 22, 2022
Texas' Dallas, Tarrant and Collin counties under tornado warning; damage reported in Jack, Montague counties DALLAS — Severe storms tore across much of North Texas Monday evening, with a tornado damaging a high school in Jack County, emergency crews launching a search-and-rescue effort in Montague County and The National Weather Service issuing several tornado watches and warnings from Fort Worth to Austin. Tribune News Service · Mar 21, 2022
Federal Lawmakers Respond To Recent Warning Delays With ‘TORNADO Act’ An outbreak of tornadoes struck from Arkansas to Iowa to Ohio, and several alerts didn't reach residents for two to seven minutes. Zenger · Mar 19, 2022
Privatization: A slo-mo disaster From prisons to running water to parking meters, privatization has mostly been a disaster. Time to change course Salon · Feb 19, 2022
Flights canceled as wide swath of US braces for winter storm A major winter storm was expected to affect a huge swath of the United States, with heavy snow starting in the Rockies and freezing rain as far south as Texas before it drops snow and ice on the Midwest The Independent UK · Feb 2, 2022
Warmer weather on the way for South Florida after frigid weekend FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — South Florida will start to feel like South Florida again Tuesday, as the region emerges from its worst cold spell in more than a decade. Tribune News Service · Jan 31, 2022
How is snowfall measured? A meteorologist explains how volunteers tally up winter storms The Blue Hill Observatory, a few miles south of Boston, recorded the deepest snow cover in its 130-year history, an incredible 46 inches, in February 2015. The same month, Bangor, Maine, tied its record for deepest snow at 53 inches. Mountainous locations will sometimes see triple-digit snow depths. The Conversation · Jan 27, 2022
Big Sur wildfire forces evacuations, closes California's Hwy. 1 BIG SUR, Calif. — A wildfire that started near the coast in Big Sur jumped to 1,500 acres by Saturday morning, largely due to gusty winds that blew the flames in unpredictable directions and prompted a large number of evacuations, Cal Fire officials said. Tribune News Service · Jan 22, 2022