The Hollywood sign stands sentinel above Los Angeles, watching as embers dance through the January night like wayward stars.

When a fire is lit, winds can serve as a blow torch, helping it quickly spread. Two of California’s largest wildfires this ...

Fire and ice. A nation split in two. We’ve been here before. The winter of 2013-14 wrote the first dramatic chapter of this ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Atmospheric rivers – those long, narrow bands of water vapor in the sky that bring heavy rain and storms to the U.S. West Coast and many other regions – are shifting toward higher ...

Here's the latest on the winter storm. A historic winter storm is poised to produce potentially record-breaking snows from ...

The Japanese called their intercontinental weapons “fusen bakudan” — trans-Pacific balloon-delivered firebombs riding the trans-Pacific jet stream ... in U.S. Pacific Northwest forests.

According to the National Weather Service (NWS), expect dry conditions and cooler-than-usual temperatures across the Lower ...

We are halfway through winter and after an exceptionally warm start, North America’s winter is transitioning toward more predictable patterns with La Nina.

La Niña is one phase of this cycle, characterised by cooler-than-average sea surface temperatures in the east-central ...

Overnight temperatures will dip into the high-20s to low-30s in inland valleys like Paso Robles and the high 30s to the low 40s in coastal valleys such as San Luis Obispo and along the beaches. High ...

Florida is bracing for another polar plunge this week as bitterly cold weather returns to the State with a wintery mix of ...

Yukon and western parts of the Northwest Territories are expected ... water in the Pacific Ocean and the position of the Pacific jet stream. Now, El Niño has faded, and forecasters have been ...