Extreme wildfires, hurricanes, heat waves, and flood-inducing storms battered all regions of the US in 2020. The interactive map below shows the weather events and disasters that set records this ...

Capital Weather Gang From ferocious fires to a historic hurricane season, 2020 took weather to new extremes The most memorable and severe U.S. weather events of the year.

It seems the year will go out on an extreme high. 2020 was alarming, unforgettable and traumatic – and not only because of COVID-19.

“The high air temperature [heatwave] in early 2020 combined with more snow in late 2020, kept the soil warmer and wetter ...

An overheating world obliterated weather records in 2020, creating an extreme year for hurricanes, wildfires, heat waves, floods, droughts and ice melt, the United Nations’ weather agency ...

Extreme heat kills more people every year than all other serious weather events. Dangerously high temperatures can quickly overwhelm victims without much warning and can cause death or grave ...

About 98% of new movements of people from their houses in 2020 were caused by extreme weather, the Geneva-based Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) said in a report.

Rep. Eric Sorensen (D-Ill.) aims to introduce legislation this fall that would establish an agency to investigate deadly ...