Extreme Weather

Jordan Baize recently went viral when he played the grand piano in his damaged home — missing its roof after a storm and destructive tornado hit Kentucky on December 10. Though the storm was tragic, it has also brought people together to help rebuild, he says.

When Maung Oo heard the screams on Friday night, he knew he had to act. Just a few hours before, while at work, he saw the news about an impending tornado and thought about the many warnings that had come before but never amounted to anything. So he went home to his neighborhood in Bowling Green, Kentucky, and went to…

Sarah Farmer is helping Mayfield, Kentucky rebuild after a tornado and devastating storm struck. The community needs food and assistance repairing damaged homes as some families prepare to bury loved ones lost in the storm.

Climate change may not be increasing the number of tornadoes, but some parts of the country are seeing tornado-friendly conditions more often than in the past. NBCLX Storyteller Chase Cain explains the science behind the climate shift after a destructive storm spawned several tornadoes that destroyed parts of Kentucky, Arkansas and Missouri.

December is typically the least active month for tornadoes in the United States, but a powerful outbreak of more than 30 tornadoes hit six states in the mid-Mississippi River Valley Friday night, killing at least 88 people. Scientists still have a lot to learn about the connection between climate change and tornado outbreaks because any links between them are “difficult…

Allison Rogers has seen tornado damage before in her career, but the damage in Mayfield, Kentucky brings back memories of one of the worst storms the U.S. has seen – Hurricane Katrina, which destroyed her Mississippi hometown in 2005. Rogers, a meteorologist at WLWT in Cincinnati, Ohio, shows us the scene in Kentucky and explains how the National Weather Service...

“Before you know it, it was like the building rocked and collapsed and we fell down,” Kyanna Parsons said on video during the disaster.

Climate change in 2021 reshaped life on planet Earth through extreme weather.

“There’s a little bit of opportunity left, but we’re kind of wasting that window of opportunity,” NBCLX Climate Storyteller Chase Cain says of the plans to curb emissions in the fight against climate change. World leaders are discussing emissions plans and much more in the next several days as extreme weather wallops several regions of the U.S.

It’s raining along Highway 101 in California, where a few inches of rain are expected, including along the burn scar from the Alisal fire. NBC Los Angeles’ Michelle Valles shows you the scene.

Experts call it “warning fatigue,” and no one can be sure what role it might have played in a tragedy that killed at least 49 people when the remnants of Hurricane Ida swept through the northeast

Roadways buckled as dirt underneath them washed away during flooding from the remnants of Hurricane Ida. NBC Boston reporter Kathryn Sotnik is in Rhode Island touring damaged areas – and says Ida’s damage is even worse than the destruction from Henri last month.

It might seem like a normal sunny day if you’re not near a body of water. But on New York City’s highways, there were plenty of cars still left abandoned after flooding from the remnants of Hurricane Ida. NBC New York’s Kay Angrum shows us the scene.

After toppling trees and flooding parts of Louisiana, Ida’s remnants damaged a wide swath of the Northeast U.S. Here’s a look at some of the damage and how climate change plays a role in the extreme weather we’re seeing.

Historic flooding from the remnants of Hurricane Ida caused problems across the northeast U.S.

Hurricane Ida toppled trees and power lines and flooded homes in Louisiana before making its way inland. Eric Alvarez reports from Houma and talks to residents who are doing their best to rebuild.

As Louisiana deals with power outages and other damage from Hurricane Ida, residents might have to sit in line at a gas station for an hour just to get fuel for their generators. LX News host Eric Alvarez reports from Baton Rouge and talks to folks rebuilding from the Category 4 storm that’s now battering the northeast U.S.

NBC Miami Meteorologist Ryan Phillips talks about damage from Hurricane Ida, which is now classified as a tropical storm. As the storm widens and breaks apart, it could still be a flooding threat far inland, including in Mississippi, Tennessee, West Virginia, Pennsylvania and New Jersey.