Apr 06, 2025

A stalled storm system has battered the Ohio and Tennessee Valleys for days, producing a multi-day tornado outbreak followed by rainfall totals forecasters described as generational. Rivers are surging past major flood stage from Arkansas to Kentucky, and hundreds of thousands of customers have lost…

Mar 31, 2025

A prolonged ice storm has coated northern Michigan in thick glaze, snapping countless trees and utility poles and leaving hundreds of thousands of customers across the state without power. Officials are calling it one of the worst ice storms in the region’s history, and rural electric cooperat…

Mar 16, 2025

One of the most violent March storm systems in recent memory tore across the country this weekend, producing a major tornado outbreak in the Midwest and South, blinding dust storms on the Plains, and wind-driven wildfires in Oklahoma and Texas. Dozens of lives were lost, and hundreds of thousands of…

Feb 17, 2025

A powerful storm system swept from the Mississippi Valley to the Appalachians this weekend, unleashing deadly flash flooding across Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia, along with severe storms farther south. Hundreds of thousands of customers lost power across the region, and yet anoth…

Feb 12, 2025

Two rounds of freezing rain within a week have coated eastern Kentucky and West Virginia in ice, leaving tens of thousands of customers without power across the region’s rugged terrain. Crews from neighboring states are assisting with restoration, but downed trees and icy mountain roads are sl…

Jan 22, 2025

A historic winter storm has brought accumulating snow to places that rarely see a flake, with snow falling along the Gulf Coast from Texas through Louisiana and into Florida. All-time snowfall records fell in several southern cities, and hard freezes behind the storm are stressing pipes, roads, and …

Jan 06, 2025

The first major winter storm of 2025 is plowing from the Plains to the Mid-Atlantic, burying a corridor from Kansas through Kentucky and Virginia in heavy snow and dangerous ice. Hundreds of thousands of customers have lost power as ice-laden lines and tree limbs give way, and road conditions have d…

Dec 29, 2024

A potent storm system swept across the South this weekend, producing damaging winds and multiple tornadoes from Texas through Mississippi. Homes were damaged in the Houston area and across parts of the Deep South, and tens of thousands of customers lost power as the squall line raced east. Tornado S…

Dec 02, 2024

An extraordinary lake-effect snow event has buried towns downwind of Lakes Erie and Ontario over the holiday weekend, with storm totals measured in feet in parts of western New York, northwest Pennsylvania, and northeast Ohio. States of emergency were declared as snowfall rates of two to three inche…

Nov 27, 2024

A pair of storm systems is crossing the country during the busiest travel week of the year, bringing soaking rain and mountain snow to the West, accumulating snow to parts of the interior Northeast, and gusty winds capable of scattered power outages along the East Coast just in time for Thanksgiving…

Nov 21, 2024

A rapidly intensifying storm, known as a bomb cyclone, slammed into western Washington this week with wind gusts topping 70 mph. Falling trees crushed cars and homes, and at the height of the storm well over half a million homes and businesses were without electricity across the Puget Sound region. …

Oct 18, 2024

As October wears on, thousands of families in western North Carolina’s mountains and parts of Florida are still waiting for the grid to come back after Hurricanes Helene and Milton. Two historic storms in two weeks produced some of the largest combined outage totals the Southeast has ever reco…