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The National Weather Service has confirmed there was a tornado embedded in last week’s derecho event in Millis, Massachusetts. It was a weak EF-0 tornado with winds between 75 and 80 mph on Oct. 7. The width of the tornado was 50 yards with a half mile path. It was only on the ground for one minute – approximately between…

It was a weak EF-0 tornado with winds between 75 and 80 mph, according to the National Weather Service. The width of the tornado was 50 yards with a half mile path. It was only on the ground for one minute.

The National Weather Service has confirmed a derecho event across the northeast on October 7th.   In southern New England we had extensive damage reported, power outages all over and a major disruption to online learning and working remotely.  A line of powerful thunderstorms plowed through New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island, leaving hundreds of damage reports.   A derecho is rare in...

Louisiana residents are once again dodging overturned cars on the roads, trudging through knee-deep water to find their homes flooded and pledging to rebuild after Hurricane Delta blew through the besieged part of the state.

Communities are cleaning uprooted trees, downed power lines and destruction left in the path of damaging wind and thunderstorms that moved across Massachusetts Wednesday. Statewide, more than 240,000 customers were without power at one point in the evening. As Thursday ended, nearly 29,000 customers remained in the dark. “You look around and it looks like a tornado came through,” said…

Thousands remained without power Thursday night a day after storms ripped through New England.

Thursday was a day off from school and remote learning for students in Holliston, Massachusetts, after the storms that blew through Wednesday night knocked out power to more than a quarter of the town. “No one could go onto their Zooms. Some teachers are fully remote, so I couldn’t even, like, have two of my classes,” said Holliston High...

Districts being forced to cancel school because of power outages has become a recurring problem during the pandemic.

The sky is blue but it remains windy as cleanup continues from Wednesday’‘s storm damage. The storm center that caused all of that wind and thunder has moved into southeastern Canada and continues to influence our weather on Thursday. Much drier air has come in, with wind gusting past 30 mph from the northwest. This, combined with the drought that…

Clean up is underway in many Massachusetts communities where an overnight storm brought down trees and powerlines, which knocked out power to tens of thousands.

Communities are cleaning uprooted trees, downed power lines and destruction left in the path of damaging wind and thunderstorms that moved across Massachusetts Wednesday.

Today: Sunny and windy. Highs near 60. Overnight Thursday: Mostly clear, quieting wind. Lows in the 30s. Friday: Sunny and cool. Highs around 60.

Tens of thousands of customers in Massachusetts were without power Wednesday morning after storms brought down trees and power lines.

As the remnants of Hurricane Sally continue to dump rain on Georgia and the Carolinas, residents in the strike zone are surveying the damage left behind by the storm.

The slow-moving hurricane is expected to dump record levels of rain.

Hurricane Laura made landfall Thursday morning in Lake Charles, Louisiana, as a Category 4 storm with winds of 150 mph. Footage taken after sunrise shows the extent of the damage.

Local first responders were headed to the Gulf Coast Thursday to assist in the response to Hurricane Laura.

A weakened Tropical Storm Marco is dumping rain on Louisiana as Laura builds strength in the Gulf of Mexico.

A tree came down on a worker who was cleaning up storm damage in Massachusetts Monday, seriously injuring him. Fire officials in Melrose say a man in his 30s was working at the Mt. Hood golf course, trying to get a downed tree off some wires, when part of it landed on his leg. The man was trapped for 20-30…