Allstate Ranks Safest Driving Cities December 17, 2015 As Americans get ready to embark on holiday road trips to visit friends and family, scientists are warning that one...
India Flood Damage Caused $3B Damage, Insurance Payouts Estimated at Just $300M December 14, 2015 An enhanced North East Monsoon – almost certainly impacted by current El Niño conditions – brought weeks of torrential rainfall...
FEMA Offers Tips, Plan for Disaster Response to El Nino December 11, 2015 By FELICIA FONSECA Winter in the Southwest and West Coast could be fraught with flooding, evacuations, power outages and landslides because of El...
Buffalo Breaks 116-Year-Old Record as it Waits for First Snowfall December 8, 2015 By CAROLYN THOMPSON A 116-year-old snow record has fallen in Buffalo, New York. This time, it’s for lack of snow. The city had...
El Nino Spares Mexico From a Bad Hurricane Season December 4, 2015 Mexico weathered a record eastern Pacific hurricane season with almost no deaths and relatively little damage, given the intensity of...
Quiet Season Helps Florida Reach Record, 10 Years Without a Major Hurricane December 2, 2015 While the typical Atlantic hurricane season features 11 named storms and six hurricanes, this year’s quiet season helped the state...
This Year Hottest on Record Says UN Weather Agency December 1, 2015 By SETH BORENSTEIN Because of man-made global warming and a strong El Nino, Earth’s wild weather this year is bursting the annual heat...
Second Most Active Hurricane Season Not Over Yet November 10, 2015 By Brian K. Sullivan For a few minutes last Wednesday, there weren’t any hurricanes, cyclones, typhoons or tropical storms anywhere in the world. The...
Agencies Warn Americans to Stay Ahead of El Niño, Buy Flood Insurance November 2, 2015 FEMA is encouraging families and communities to take steps now to prepare now for the threat of El Niño. Senior...
EL Nino and La Nina to Cause More Frequent, Severe Droughts in California October 23, 2015 In the future, the Pacific Ocean’s temperature cycles could disrupt more than just December fishing. A study published in Nature...