Drought conditions in most of California will worsen air quality and increase airborne particulates like dust and pollen.

Heavy rains, damaging winds and dangerous floods have ravaged the South and the Midwest for days, killing at least 23 people.

Atmospheric instability has two components: rising air and wind shear, which is created as wind speed changes with height.

Powerful storms fire up when that air rushes north and clashes with cold air slicing south from Canada. This happens most often in an area from the Plains to just west of the Appalachians.

Bob Browder, who is currently unhoused, said he hadn’t realized the incoming storm was going to be so bad. He didn’t make it to a shelter. “I wasn’t able to get nowhere. It was just me and ...

Mario Pacheco’s mother, Cassandra Pacheco, told KATV that a bad storm hammered her southwest Little Rock neighborhood the morning of April 5. She and her young children were laying in her bed ...