Residents evacuate amid urgent warnings glacial lake will flood city Record-breaking floodwaters are expected to inundate the state capital The Independent UK · Aug 13, 2025
Residents in Alaska’s capital urged to evacuate over flooding threat from melting glacier Forecasted flooding could break a record, which was set when the Mendenhall River crested at 15.99 feet in August 2024 The Independent UK · Aug 12, 2025
Milwaukee area drying out after weekend rain causes record flooding on multiple rivers The Milwaukee area is drying out after weekend rain hits unofficial state records The Independent UK · Aug 11, 2025
Storms kill 1, injure another and displace hundreds of inmates in Nebraska Strong storms in eastern Nebraska have left one person dead and seriously injured another The Independent UK · Aug 9, 2025
National Weather Service’s Plan to Hire Crucial Staffers After Mass Layoffs Will Be Too Late for Wildfire Season Key California weather forecast offices will remain Capital & Main · Aug 8, 2025
DOGE tore through National Weather Service like a tornado with mass firings. Many are being rehired The rehiring comes after deadly flooding in the Hill Country of Texas put the cuts under scrutiny The Independent UK · Aug 8, 2025
Emergency recordings reveal chaos behind deadly Texas flood rescue The flooding killed at least 136 people The Independent UK · Aug 8, 2025
After deep DOGE cuts, National Weather Service gets OK to fill up to 450 jobs The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will hire as many as 450 people to shore up the National Weather Service after deep cuts this spring raised concern about dangerous understaffing The Independent UK · Aug 6, 2025
As the floods hit, Kerrville officials’ messages show lack of information about what was coming Lawmakers plan to hear testimony Thursday in Kerr County. Questions remain about how state and local entities responded to flood warnings. The Texas Tribune · Jul 30, 2025
A derecho with at least one 99 mph gust swept the Upper Plains and Midwest, the weather service says The National Weather Service has preliminarily classified overnight storms from the Upper Plains to the Midwest as a derecho The Independent UK · Jul 29, 2025
Record-breaking heat wave scorches Southeast US Residents in the Southeast U.S. are no strangers to hot weather in the summertime, but the sweltering heat this week set at least one record, and forecasters urged residents to limit being outside if possible and to hydrate The Independent UK · Jul 29, 2025
Iona strengthens to a Category 3 hurricane in the central Pacific off southern Hawaii Hurricane Iona has strengthened to Category 3, several hundred miles south-southeast of Hawaii The Independent UK · Jul 29, 2025
Heat advisories and warnings issued for Southeast and Midwest as temperatures and humidity soars The National Weather Service has issued heat advisories for the southeastern United States The Independent UK · Jul 26, 2025
Americans Strongly Advised To Refrain From Drinking Alcohol In 18 States Due To Extreme Heat It's so hot in these 18 US states right now that doctors are warning people to stay away from any booze. Bored Panda · Jul 24, 2025
The Conversation · Jul 24, 2025 Why 2025 became the summer of flash flooding in America The National Weather Service has already issued more than 3,600 flash flood warnings across the United States in 2025, and that number is increasing as torrential downpours continue in late July. There’s a good chance the U.S. will exceed its yearly average of around 4,000 flash flood warnings soon.
The Independent UK · Jul 23, 2025 More than 100 million Americans to swelter in triple digit heat as new ‘heat dome’ arrives Temperatures are expected to hit over 100 degrees Fahrenheit during the day in multiple areas including parts of Nebraska, Missouri, Texas and Louisiana
The Guardian - US · Jul 21, 2025 Texas flood protest goes to Washington: ‘No more kids lost to climate disasters’ Twenty-seven trunks symbolise child flood victims: ‘They died as a result of choices – terrible and deadly choices’
The Guardian - US · Jul 20, 2025 Trump fossil-fuel push setting back green progress decades, critics warn US president using ‘invented’ national energy crisis to justify expansion of coal, oil and gas, experts say
The Independent UK · Jul 17, 2025 Trump admin is dismantling ‘critical’ parts of California’s response to wildfires The Trump administration has left the National Weather Service with ‘critical staff shortages,’ according to an employee union
The Independent UK · Jul 17, 2025 Camp leader may not have seen urgent alert before deadly Texas flood, family says The new account by the family comes as Camp Mystic staff has come under scrutiny
The Independent UK · Jul 15, 2025 Americans in 11 states are told to avoid alcohol and caffeine The National Weather Service warning came amid sweltering temperatures in some parts of the US
The Independent UK · Jul 15, 2025 System over Florida has potential to develop into tropical depression, weather service says A weather system moving across Florida wasn’t even a tropical something but it has the potential to develop into a tropical depression as it moves across the Gulf later in the week
Roll Call · Jul 15, 2025 Trump’s proposed NOAA cuts meet Senate appropriators’ opposition - Roll Call Members of Congress are expressing renewed support for the nation’s weather forecasting system after deadly flooding in Texas and elsewhere.
The Independent UK · Jul 14, 2025 Camp Mystic reportedly waited an hour to evacuate after warnings of ‘life-threatening’ Texas floods Executive Director Richard ‘Dick’ Eastland, 70, drowned while trying to rescue some of the youngest girls
The Guardian - US · Jul 14, 2025 A deadly 1987 flood foreshadowed the Texas disaster. Survivors ask, ‘why didn’t we learn?’ The Fourth of July tragedy was described as something no one could have seen coming. But in ‘flash flood alley’, an eerily similar event 40 years ago holds important lessons