The Eiffel Tower closed early on Tuesday as a sweltering heat wave gripped parts of Europe.

The attraction closed at 4 p.m. local time — with last entry at 2:30 p.m. — as temperatures reached approximately 101 degrees Fahrenheit, according to a statement on the landmark’s website.

The tower will be closed all day on Wednesday, too, as a ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. – The National Hurricane Center on Tuesday increased the odds a low pressure system expected to form later this week near Florida could develop into the season’s next tropical depression or storm.

In its 2 p.m. Eastern time tropical outlook, the NHC said a frontal boundary coming down from the U.S. mainland is expected to ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. – The National Hurricane Center on Tuesday increased the odds a low pressure system expected to form later this week near Florida could develop into the season’s next tropical depression or storm.

In its 8 a.m. tropical outlook, the NHC said a frontal boundary coming down from the U.S. mainland is expected to stall and weaken ...Read more

Hurricane forecasters are at risk of losing a crucial tool because of military concerns surrounding the cybersecurity of a long-shared satellite system — the latest potential cut to federal weather science programs by the Trump administration.

After criticism and questions from a slew of forecasting experts, the Department of Defense on ...Read more

Tropical Storm Barry disintegrated after striking Mexico early Monday morning while the National Hurricane Center continued to forecast the season’s next tropical depression or storm could form off the coast of Florida later this week.

In its 2 p.m. Eastern time tropical outlook, the NHC said an area of low pressure could develop off either ...Read more

Tropical Storm Barry disintegrated after striking Mexico early Monday morning while the National Hurricane Center continued to forecast the season’s next tropical depression or storm could form off the coast of Florida later this week.

In its 8 a.m. tropical outlook, the NHC said an area of low pressure could develop off either the southeast ...Read more

While Tropical Storm Barry formed in Gulf waters off of Mexico on Sunday, the National Hurricane Center began forecasting the season’s next potential tropical system could form and threaten Florida.

In its 8 a.m. tropical outlook the NHC said an area of low pressure from a remnant frontal boundary could develop near the end of this week near ...Read more

The National Hurricane Center began tracking a system in the Caribbean that could move into the Gulf waters off Mexico over the weekend with a chance to develop into the season’s next tropical depression or storm.

In its 8 a.m. Friday tropical outlook, the NHC stated the area of showers and thunderstorms was in the northwestern Caribbean Sea ...Read more

BALTIMORE — As the heat index soars above 100 degrees in the Baltimore region this week, officials are urging workplaces to follow new state regulations for managing high-heat environments in the workplace to avoid heat-induced illness.

“This is going to be potentially an increasing risk for workers on the job,” Maryland Labor Secretary ...Read more

The 2025 Atlantic hurricane season may get its first named storm of the year, even though the National Hurricane Center says it will be short-lived.

In a special 8:30 a.m. tropical outlook update Tuesday, the NHC said a small gale-force low-pressure system about 900 miles east-northeast of Bermuda in the central subtropical Atlantic had become ...Read more

The National Hurricane Center pulled back from its forecast Monday that a system in the Atlantic would develop into the season’s first tropical depression or storm.

As of its 2 p.m. Eastern time tropical outlook, the NHC said that while the low-pressure system located about 600 miles east-northeast of Bermuda had gale-force winds, its shower ...Read more

NEW YORK — Three people, including two 6-year-old girls, were killed when a tornado ripped through a small town in upstate New York, authorities said Sunday.

Twin sisters Emily and Kenni Bisson were killed when a tree crushed their home in Clark Mills, the Oneida County sheriff’s office said in a Facebook post. Shelly Johnson, 50, was also ...Read more

NEW YORK — The heat wave that New York City and the Northeast have been bracing for descended in earnest Monday as temperatures hit 86 degrees by 8 a.m.

The soaring temperatures expected over the next few days come just as New Yorkers head to the polls Tuesday for the Democratic primary that will decide the party’s mayoral candidate, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Federal efforts to help people cope with extreme heat appear to be melting away even as the nation prepares for another summer of record high temperatures and increasing numbers of heat-related illnesses and deaths.

The heat is already on in much of the country, with highs in the 90s and 100s expected from coast to coast this ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — The temperature made it to 91 on Saturday in Philly, and by the end of the workweek, that kind of heat may seem like a cool shower.

By then, said Zack Taylor, chief of the analysis section at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Weather Prediction Center, heavily populated areas in the Midwest and East may ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Warning of the potential of triple-digit temperatures and conditions that could make it feel like it’s 108, the National Weather Service has issued an “extreme heat” warning for Sunday through Wednesday.

The City of Philadelphia also has declared a heat emergency, as has Montgomery County.

Meanwhile, more than 40,000 ...Read more

CHICAGO — Beginning Saturday, Chicagoans can expect intense heat compounded by muggy humidity for the next several days. The National Weather Service has declared an extreme heat warning in Cook County from 10 a.m. Saturday through midnight Tuesday.

Daytime temperatures may reach 97 degrees on Saturday, with a peak afternoon heat index of 106...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Thousands of Californians had electricity shut off Friday with even more possibly losing power over the weekend due to heightened wildfire risks from a weather system that is bringing dry, gusty winds across much of the state.

Pacific Gas & Electric, the state’s largest utility, turned off power to almost 7,000 customers in ...Read more

CHICAGO — Hot, steamy air blowing into Illinois from a heat dome moving east across the country has kicked off at least a week of dangerous heat, with humidity peaking Saturday through Monday. These kinds of sticky temperatures with little to no overnight relief can pose a major to extreme risk to the health of anyone without access to ...Read more

Possible thunderstorms are in the forecast for around the time President Donald Trump’s Washington, D.C. military parade is scheduled to get underway Saturday. But marchers may catch a break.

The event honoring the U.S. Army’s 250th birthday, which also falls on Trump’s 79th birthday, is scheduled to hit its stride at 6:30 p.m. when tanks...Read more