DETROIT — Entire neighborhoods along the Black Lake in northern Michigan have been submerged amid ongoing flooding that may worsen in the coming days.

Drone footage taken along the river shoreline Thursday shows dozens of homes swamped by water on all sides.

Residents were working to remove belongings from their waterlogged homes, using four...Read more

After the tornado sirens cut out, Andrew Donaldson stepped out of his Clinton, Missouri, home and looked to the sky. Without their warning wail, he assumed he was safe.

But in the sky, he saw the unmistakable mark of a tornado: rotation.

He bolted back inside. The winds clawed the door from his grasp as he made it in the house, where he, his ...Read more

CHEBOYGAN, Mich. — Water is creeping closer to the crest of the Cheboygan dam and now is less than 5 inches from the top, state officials reported Thursday afternoon.

The water level at the Cheboygan Lock and Dam Complex was 4.92 inches below the top of the dam as of 5:30 p.m., said the Michigan State Police Department of Emergency Management...Read more

DETROIT — Widespread flooding across Michigan's northern Lower Peninsula has washed out numerous roads, wreaking havoc on county road commissions and local motorists trying to navigate around floodwaters.

South of Traverse City, floodwaters washed away the Beitner Road bridge over the swollen Boardman River. Grand Traverse Road Commission ...Read more

DETROIT — Heavy spring rainfall and lingering melt-off of winter snow and inland lake ice have left much of Michigan's northern Lower Peninsula awash in water this week, wreaking havoc on up north roadways.

Multiple roadways and small bridges were washed away by floodwaters from Grand Traverse County on Lake Michigan to Presque Isle County on...Read more

Monday night’s EF-2 tornado had just plowed through four blocks of Ottawa, Kansas, ripping off roofs and demolishing buildings as the storm muscled its way east.

Twenty-five miles later, at the Shady Acres R.V. Park in Hillsdale, a twister descended, lifting and tossing and spinning mobile homes like Lego pieces.

“Then we could see the ...Read more

DETROIT — Heavy spring rainfall and lingering melt-off of winter snow and inland lake ice have left much of Michigan's northern Lower Peninsula awash in water this week, wreaking havoc on roadways.

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has placed the entire state under an energy emergency as some residents in northern Michigan have been urged to ...Read more

CHEBOYGAN, Mich. — Water levels at the Cheboygan Lock and Dam Complex rose again overnight to what appears to be their highest level yet, coming within 6.6 inches of the crest of the dam, according to state officials.

The increase, measured at 9 a.m. Wednesday, represents a change of about 1.4 inches from 5:30 p.m. Tuesday.

The National ...Read more

CHICAGO — A flood watch is in effect for several Illinois counties as well as northwest Indiana as storms are expected to continue through late Wednesday night, officials said.

The watch covers portions of Illinois including Boone, central Cook, DeKalb, eastern Will, Kane, Kendall, Lake, McHenry, northern Cook, northern Will, Ogle, southern ...Read more

OTTAWA, Kan. — Kendal Anderson had just moved from Kansas City to Ottawa two months ago, bringing his wife, Natalie, and their five children to their new home after securing a job at TruComp Pipe, a manufacturer of high-pressure gas and oil pipes.

On Monday evening, a EF-2 tornado from the west swept through four blocks of the Franklin County...Read more

OTTAWA, Kan. — Randy and Gwen McCurdy stood on their porch off Main Street on Monday night in Ottawa, Kansas, scanning the sky for signs of the storm.

Then the sirens sounded.

“There was no rain,” said Randy McCurdy, 70. But then it descended. In sheets. “You couldn’t see the other side of the street.”

Moments later, they ...Read more

It’s as if no time has passed since Florida residents let out a collective sigh of relief after a quiet hurricane season came to a close in November.

But June 1, the start of hurricane season, approaches. And with it, comes new predictions.

The earliest of which was released Thursday by Colorado State University, a school renowned for its ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — You're going to hear a lot about El Niño this year.

The term refers to warmer-than-average waters along the equatorial Pacific that can influence weather across the globe, raising the odds of searing drought in some regions and torrential rain in others. Indicators increasingly suggest such an event will develop later this ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — March in Southern California has been marked almost entirely by unusually warm temperatures, but the month is set to close out with a cooler spell.

A dramatic shift in weather will drop temperatures across the region this week and bring a slight chance of rain — a pattern more typical for early spring than the summer-like ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — Tired of the spring Las Vegas heat? You’re in luck because a major cooldown is on the way. But not until next week.

Expect more record-breaking temperatures this weekend as the historic March heat wave begins to wane. Daytime forecast highs for Saturday and Sunday will be in the low 90s. Saturday’s record high is 91 (set in ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — Tired of the spring Las Vegas heat? You’re in luck because a major cooldown is on the way. But not until next week.

Expect more record-breaking temperatures this weekend as the historic March heat wave begins to wane. Daytime forecast highs for Saturday and Sunday will be in the low 90s. Saturday’s record high is 91 (set in ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Earlier this month, scientists at NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, issued an “El Niño Watch” for this summer. They said there is a 62% chance that El Niño conditions will appear from June through August, growing to 83% by October.

That triggered a lot of hype about “Super El Niños,” “...Read more

Despite a prediction of a slow hurricane season, up to five tropical systems could still make an impact on the United States this year, according to the forecast released Wednesday by AccuWeather.

One of the first annual prognostications for the season, which officially runs June 1-Nov. 30, calls for 11 to 16 named storms — of which four to ...Read more