Mount St. Helens Is Recharging: What Rising Magma Means
Friday, May 2, 2014 ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Mount St. Helens is nowhere near another eruption, but new magma is rising underground, heaving the volcano upward and outward by the length of a fingertip,...
View ArticleShowers to Dampen Weekend for Northeast, Midwest
Saturday, May 3, 2014 In this file photo, a woman on the Staten Island ferry looks at lower Manhattan in the rain. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images) Residents of the Northeast and Midwest may want to keep...
View ArticleAfghanistan Landslide Kills 350; More Than 2,000 Missing
Saturday, May 3, 2014 A massive landslide buried a village Friday, May 2, 2014, in Badakhshan province, northeastern Afghanistan, which Afghan and U.N. officials say left hundreds of dead and missing....
View ArticleBus-Size Asteroid Buzzes Earth, Comes Closer Than the Moon
Saturday, May 3, 2014 This NASA graphic shows the orbit of asteroid 2014 HL129. Discovered on April 28, 2014, the asteroid passed close by Earth on May 3, coming within 186,000 miles of the planet....
View ArticleObama to Visit Arkansas Towns Hit by Tornado
Saturday, May 3, 2014 As in this file photo, President Barack Obama will address storm survivors in Arkansas. (JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images) LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - U.S. Sen. Mark Pryor says President...
View ArticleHeat Being Held at Bay for the Northeast
Saturday, May 3, 2014 (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma) The heat set to expand eastward from the southern Plains next week will not be quick to race to the Northeast and may even avoid much of New England. The...
View ArticleMore Severe Storms, Tornadoes May Build in Plains Next Week
Saturday, May 3, 2014 More destruction, like this file photo post-hurricane in Mississippi, could be on its way. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis) Concerns are mounting for another outbreak of severe...
View ArticleWestern Weather to Undergo Changes this Week
Saturday, May 4, 2014 As in this file photo of a rainy Seattle, the new week will bring plenty of moisture to the Pacific Northwest. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson) The new week will bring big changes to...
View ArticleFocus Now on Afghan Families Displaced by Landslide
May 4, 2014 Afghans search for survivors after Friday's landslide buried Abi-Barik village in Badakhshan province, northeastern Afghanistan, Saturday, May 3, 2014. Afghan rescuers and hundreds of...
View ArticleNew Severe Weather Outbreak May Target Plains
May 4, 2014 Concerns are mounting for another outbreak of severe weather, including tornadoes, to target the midsection of the U.S. First, the nation will get a few more days to dry out and clean up...
View ArticleRecord Heat to Bake Oklahoma City, Wichita This Week
Sunday, May 4, 2014 (Rappensuncle/Flickr) Summerlike heat will continue to build across the southern Plains through early in the new week. Warmth will then spread farther east but may encounter some...
View ArticleUN Chief Calls for Greater Action on Climate
Sunday, May 4, 2014 In this file photo, Greenpeace members picket for cleaner energy. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn) ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates - The United Nations secretary-general on Sunday urged...
View ArticleTornado Danger Peaks Across Plains Again on Thursday
Sunday, May 4, 2014 As in this file photo of an approaching twister in Oklahoma, the Plains states will again face dangerous weather this week. (AP Photo/KFOR-TV, Chase Thomason) Severe weather will...
View ArticleWhen Will Warmth Return to the Northeast?
Monday, May 5, 2014 (Gettystock) The heat set to expand eastward from the southern Plains next week will not be quick to race to the Northeast and may even avoid much of New England. The return of...
View ArticleTornado Danger Peaks Across Plains Late This Week
Monday, May 5, 2014 (Shutterstock) Severe weather will return to the Plains later this week with an outbreak, complete with tornadoes, likely to unfold on Thursday. Thursday's outbreak will yield...
View ArticleEast Pacific Hurricane Season May Start Early
Monday, May 5, 2014 A man stares at the sea on the beach in Barra de Navidad, Jalisco State, Mexico, on May 25, 2012, as Hurricane Bud was set to make landfall. (HECTOR GUERRERO/AFP/GettyImages)...
View ArticleMonday Night Meteor Shower: Will Clouds Obstruct Your View?
Monday, May 5, 2014 (Getty Images) Stargazers in the southern U.S. will have some of the best sky conditions in North America to view the Eta Aquarid meteor shower late on Monday night and early on...
View Article1,000 Evacuate as Wildfire Razes Oklahoma Homes
Monday, May 5, 2014 In this file photo, smoke envelopes firefighters as they work to keep a grass fire from jumping the road in Choctaw, Okla., Friday, March 11, 2011. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki) GUTHRIE,...
View ArticleSummerlike Heat Scorches Central US, South but Avoids Northeast
Tuesday, May 6, 2014 (Getty Images) A surge of heat expanding from the southern Plains to the Midwest and South this week will shun much of the Northeast. Temperatures soared to over 100 degrees in...
View ArticleHigh Wildfire Danger This Week in the Plains, Southwest
Tuesday, May 6, 2014 A wildfire burns through a grove of Red Cedar trees as firefighters continued to work on containing the blaze Monday, May 5, 2014, in Guthrie, Okla. (AP Photo/Nick Oxford) Gusty...
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