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Almost immediately after winter storms and extreme cold temperatures first swept through Texas last Thursday and left millions of residents without power, prominent conservative politicians and media personalities began to blame renewable energy. And while frozen wind turbines have contributed to the state’s energy crisis, that type of energy has only slightly underperformed against published expectations for winter output. Natural...

A sprawling blast of winter weather across the U.S. is likely to blame for the deaths of two people in Texas, where an unusually snowy emergency Monday knocked out power for more than four million people, shut down grocery stores and air travel and closed schools ahead of frigid days still to come.

The 2020 Atlantic hurricane season broke records, including the total number of named storms. See what else separated 2020 from other years.

Happy Thanksgiving! Sorry about the rain, but this is one of the more drab months of the cold season, so it’s par for the course in November. We’ll be dodging raindrops all day, but if you’re fixin’ to have dinner outside today, there is a bit of hope. Rain pushing through now is steadily moving east. While it gets...

Thanksgiving Thursday: Rain and downpours through early evening. A couple storms south. Highs around 60 south

Rain-heavy Tropical Storm Eta has grown to to near hurricane strength as it heads toward a drenching collision with Central America

Storms knocked out power for many in Massachusetts overnight Tuesday into Wednesday, presenting a new challenge for students learning remotely. It was about 15 minutes into Mady Sheehan’s school day when things got interesting. “It was really windy, I saw a big pole go down, I saw flashing lights, we lost power so I couldn’t do school,” Sheehan said....

Gusty winds took down trees and power lines across Massachusetts overnight.

Homeowners and businesses along the soggy Gulf Coast have begun cleaning up in the wake of Hurricane Sally, even as the region braces for a delayed, second round of flooding in the coming days from rivers and creeks swollen by the storm’s heavy rains

The weather continues to improve as we near the holiday weekend. This evening a few showers and storms will make their way west across southern New England. The severe weather threat remains well to our southwest tonight. Overnight, will be again foggy in some areas, as well as warm and humid. Only isolated showers will be south of the Massachusetts…

Thursday night: Passing showers after midnight. Lows in the 60s. Friday: An early morning shower, then slowly dropping humidity with sun, late Cape shower. Highs in the 80s.

Thursday evening: Partly cloudy, chance thunder, very humid. Temperatures in the 70s. Overnight Thursday: Passing showers after midnight. Lows in the 60s. Friday: An early morning shower, then slowly dropping humidity with sun, late shower on the Cape. Highs in the 80s.

Thursday: Occasional showers, chance thunder, very humid. Highs around 80. Overnight Thursday: Passing showers after midnight. Lows in the 60s. Friday: An early morning shower, then slowly dropping humidity with sun, late shower on the Cape. Highs in the 80s.

A tornado watch was in effect for parts of New England, and tornado warnings were in place earlier in Connecticut’s Litchfield and New Haven counties. Tornadoes were possible, along with scattered damaging winds with isolated gusts up to 75 mph as multiple supercells spread east-southeast across the region. New England is mostly on the colder side of a dramatic front…

Thursday night: Mostly cloudy, patchy fog. Lows around 60. Friday: Sun and clouds. Highs around 80.

Thursday: A period of rain and thunder for parts of Connecticut and Massachusetts. Highs in the 60s, 80 in Connecticut. Overnight Thursday: Mostly cloudy, patchy fog. Lows around 60. Friday: Sun and clouds. Highs around 80.

Thursday: A period of rain and thunder, damaging in Connecticut and western Massachusett. Highs in the 60s, 80 in Connecticut. Overnight Thursday: Mostly cloudy, patchy fog. Lows around 60. Friday: Sun and clouds. Highs around 80.

It was another day of thunderstorms for the region, as powerful storms rolled through, leaving damage in their wake. One of the harder hit areas was in Wakefield, Massachusetts, where many residents were without power Sunday night. There were dozens of calls for help in Wakefield after a fast-moving storm left widespread damage. Despite the damage, which included at least…

There were dozens of calls for help in Wakefield on Sunday after a fast-moving storm that left widespread damage.

Two tropical storms are posing potentially historic threats to the U.S. Gulf Coast, with one dumping rain on Puerto Rico and Hispaniola, while the other has swept into the gulf through the gap between Cuba and Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula