Odds Rise That El Niño Will Soon Bring Weather Extremes

The climate pattern known for intense heat, floods and drought is likely to develop this summer, raising questions about disaster preparedness.

New computation method for climate extremes: Researchers reveal 10-fold increase in heat over Europe

How much will heat, flooding, drought and storms increase as a result of human-induced climate change? In a groundbreaking ...
Climate Central

Extreme Weather Toolkits

Each toolkit includes science explainers and curated resources to help understand extreme events—from their links to our warming climate to their local impacts.
Inside Climate News

A Warmer Climate Means Bigger Hail

New attribution research shows how extra heat in the atmosphere can turn thunderstorms into factories for dangerous, softball-size hail.
Yahoo

Polar vortex disruption helps explain this weekend’s extreme cold weather, despite climate misinformation

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Record cold temperatures are once again expected to hit a swath of the country this weekend—even plunging Florida into its coldest ...

How climate change helped the Blizzard of 2026 become a blockbuster

Scientists say recent extreme snowstorms are consistent with weather patterns shifting due to climate change. A warmer atmosphere holds more moisture, which can lead to more intense precipitation, ...

Deforestation leads to more extreme weather events in the Amazon region

From a bird's eye view, the Amazon rainforest appears as a lush green mosaic of treetops stretching as far as the eye can see ...
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Researchers issue warning as extreme weather exposes dangerous 'failing' in modern homes: 'We need completely new thinking'

"More efficient machines are not the solution." Researchers issue warning as extreme weather exposes dangerous 'failing' in ...