• Satellite view of massive southwest US storm system

    This animation of NOAA's GOES-East satellite imagery over the course of two days (December 26 – 28) shows a massive low pressure system that generated severe weather in the southwestern and central US bringing snow, heavy rainfall, flooding and tornadoes. During…

  • Violent tornadoes produce massive damage in Texas, US

    Severe weather conditions continued across Texas on December 26, 2015, as several violent tornadoes swept the area killing 11 people. The total death toll caused by extreme weather conditions in the US since December 23 is now 29. Only a few days after the storm on…

  • What are the chances of another Hurricane “Katrina”?

    The US hasn’t experienced the landfall of a Category 3 hurricane or larger since 2005, when Dennis, Katrina, Rita and Wilma all hit the US coast. According to a new NASA study, a string of nine years without a major hurricane landfall in the US is Iikely to come a

  • Extreme weather events a harbinger of what is to come

    Scientists say it's a global warming thing. We might disagree – but they admit it will get worse.

    A record number of costly weather events — from floods and droughts to tornadoes — ravaged the United States in 2011, federal scientists said on