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Australia’s vital agriculture sector will be hit hard by steadily rising global temperatures. Our climate is already prone to droughts and floods. Climate change is expected to supercharge this, causing sudden flash droughts, changing rainfall patterns and intense flooding rains. Farm profits fell 23% in the 20 years to 2020, and the trend is expected to continue. Unchecked, climate change will make it harder to produce food on a large scale. We get over 40% of our calories from just three plants: wheat, rice and corn. Climate change poses very real risks to these plants, with recent research suggesting...

Mexico was hit by hours of rolling blackouts late Tuesday due to high temperatures and temporary drops in electrical power generation. The government’s National Center for Energy Control said the blackouts lasted a total of about five hours, though it was likely less for individual customers because it was a rolling blackout distributed around the country.

The risk of severe thunderstorms, some capable of triggering tornadoes, will expand along the Eastern Seaboard and reach across much of the southern United States on Thursday, AccuWeather meteorologists warn. While the intensity of the thunderstorms may not be as ferocious as many that erupted in the Midwest and Great...

It's hurricane preparedness week in Louisiana and across the nation, and with forecasters predicting an "extremely active" 2024 Atlantic hurricane season, it's never too early to make sure you're ready for the big storm. Hurricane season starts June 1, and researchers at Colorado State University said in early April that...

The New York Mets and St. Louis Cardinals game was rained out on Wednesday.

In sweltering Brazil, worst-ever flooding killed dozens of people and paralyzed a city of about 4 million people. Voters and politicians in the world's largest election in India are fainting in heat that hit as high as 115 degrees.

The death toll from devastating floods that have ravaged southern Brazil for days surpassed 100 on Wednesday, authorities said, as the search for dozens of missing people was interrupted by fresh storms. Some 400 municipalities have been affected by the worst natural calamity ever to hit the state of Rio...

WASHINGTON (TND) — Tornadoes, the unpredictable natural phenomena capable of devastating landscapes in mere moments, remain a perpetual concern for communities across the United States, especially during this time of year. While they can strike at any time and in any location, statistics reveal that 70% occur during March through June.

PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil (AP) — As major floods engulfed entire cities in the northern part of the Brazil’s Rio Grande do Sul state last week, meteorologist Estael Sias knew the water would drain into capital Porto Alegre’s metropolitan region and that she would need to find a safe place.

A storm system is moving through the region as we speak with a cold front and associated pre-frontal trough. With that wind switch from the west, dew points have dropped back into the 50s, It'll feel much better into the evening, despite the heat. Highs with that flow jumped back into the middle and upper 80s which is well above average for early May. The cold front swings through tonight but we really don't tap into any cooler of an airmass. In fact, it pushes back to the north as a warm front into Thursday and that brings an increase in clouds. Eventually, showers develop as this system works to the east. It won't be a washout but it's going to be damp throughout day as hit or miss showers develop. The NE flow makes for a much cooler day too, with highs only topping out in the 60s. The upper-level low then swings in Friday bringing even chillier conditions. It'll also provide the lift for more numerous showers. This wave exits but another disturbance moves our way Saturday. The day starts off drier but as this area of low pressure slides SE Saturday afternoon, showers develop once again. Mother's Day remains unsettled sadly so don't forget the umbrella if you have plans with mom. A trailing piece of energy dives our way, bringing hit or miss showers to end the weekend. Finally, we get in on some upper-ridging early next week. That means drier and brighter weather is on tap along with warming temperatures. Highs jump back close to seasonable levels Monday and Tuesday with afternoon readings in the lower to middle 70s. The ridge doesn't hold though with more rain chances on the horizon late next week.

By Franco Montalto, Drexel University, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission]. “When it rains, it pours” once was a metaphor for bad things happening in clusters. Now it’s becoming a statement of fact about rainfall in a changing climate. Across the continental U.S., intense...

Nearly 100,000 homes had been damaged or destroyed by unprecedented rains and floods in the state, with losses estimated at about 4.6 billion reais (more than $900 million)