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Byline: Doyle Rice, USA TODAY Bundle up and hunker down: It's about to get cold - very cold. Shockingly cold air funneled directly from the Arctic will be making an [...]

Byline: John Bacon, Jorge Ortiz,, Jeanine Santucci and Doyle Rice, USA TODAY A bomb cyclone pounding Northern California and the Pacific Northwest with heavy rain and strong winds was already [...]

Byline: Doyle Rice, USA TODAY Known as the beaver moon, November's full moon is also a supermoon, meaning it will appear slightly bigger and brighter than the usual full moon. [...]

Byline: Claire Thornton and Doyle Rice, USA TODAY From wet to windy to record warmth: An electoral array of the elements face voters across the U.S. heading to the polls [...]

Byline: Doyle Rice, USA TODAY Just in time for Halloween, federal scientists this week announced new research into so-called 'ghost forests,' spooky tracts of dead trees common along the Eastern [...]

Byline: Doyle Rice, USA TODAY Climate troublemakers El Niño and La Niña have been around for a long time. A really, really long time. A new study says the dance [...]

Byline: Doyle Rice, USA TODAY The 2024 Atlantic hurricane season, now in its next-to-last month, appears to be in a lull this week. And folks are wondering: Is the season, [...]

Byline: Doyle Rice, USA TODAY Hurricane Oscar, now downgraded to a tropical storm over Cuba, was the smallest hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic basin, meteorologists said Monday. When the [...]

Byline: Gabe Hauari and Doyle Rice, USA TODAY Tropical Storm Oscar dumped heavy rainfall on eastern Cuba on Monday, a day after making landfall as a Category 1 hurricane on [...]

Byline: Doyle Rice, USA TODAY After the warmest winter on record last year, the upcoming winter could be another mild one for much of the nation, federal forecasters said Thursday. [...]

Byline: Doyle Rice, USA TODAY The hunter's moon - the first full moon of fall - will rise Thursday in the eastern sky around sunset. As a bonus, this month's [...]

Byline: Doyle Rice, Janet Loehrke and Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY Tampa Bay - the nation's most vulnerable metro area to storm surge - could be about to see its [...]

Byline: Doyle Rice and Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY The 2024 Atlantic hurricane season entered its fifth month Tuesday, and experts are again taking stock of a deadly and puzzling [...]

Byline: Doyle Rice and Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY Forecasters had warned that Hurricane Helene would become a 'once in a generation' storm for portions of the Appalachians, and the [...]

Byline: Christopher Cann, Minnah Arshad, Dinah Voyles Pulver and Doyle Rice, USA TODAY Tropical Storm Helene formed over the Caribbean on Tuesday as residents across Florida prepared for a strike [...]

Byline: Doyle Rice, USA TODAY If you're not quite ready to let go of summer, which officially ends Sunday, you may be in luck: The weather forecast for the United [...]

Byline: Doyle Rice, USA TODAY Hurricane forecasters are watching a new potential storm as the Atlantic hurricane season motors past its halfway point. So far, the season hasn't logged an [...]

Byline: Eric Lagatta and Doyle Rice, USA TODAY Skywatchers have all kinds of reasons to look up at the moon this week. Not only is September's full moon also a [...]

Byline: Doyle Rice, USA TODAY Hurricane Francine isn't the only storm on the map: Forecasters are tracking four other disturbances across the Atlantic, which now appears to have fully woken [...]

Byline: Dinah Voyles Pulver and Doyle Rice, USA TODAY Tropical Storm Francine formed in the Gulf of Mexico on Monday and could be a low-end Category 1 hurricane by Wednesday, [...]

Byline: Doyle Rice, USA TODAY The 2024 hurricane season is not going as predicted - yet. So far this year there have been more storms in the Pacific than the [...]

Byline: Doyle Rice, USA TODAY Could this be summer's last hurrah? A short-lived but intense blast of heat scorched portions of the Midwest and Northeast on Tuesday, one that's sending [...]

Byline: Christopher Cann and Doyle Rice, USA TODAY Churning hundreds of miles from the U.S. mainland, Hurricane Ernesto has kept the nation's Atlantic coastline treacherous for several days as its [...]

Byline: Doyle Rice, USA TODAY August's full moon, which is coming Monday, has several names, including supermoon, blue moon and sturgeon moon. So what do they all mean? The 'super' [...]

Byline: Doyle Rice, USA TODAY Here's a line you can use at the pool or beach this weekend: 'Yep, it's climate change.' The deadly heat wave that scorched much of [...]

Byline: John Bacon, Doyle Rice and Kirsten Crow, USA TODAY Tropical Storm Alberto, the first named storm of the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season, formed Wednesday in the Gulf of Mexico [...]

Byline: Doyle Rice, USA TODAY Folks hankering for the warmth of summer will get a special treat this week, with the earliest summer solstice in more than two centuries slated [...]

Byline: Eduardo Cuevas and Doyle Rice, USA TODAY Forecasters warn a dangerous and potentially record-breaking heat wave will spread across much of the central and eastern U.S. this week, a [...]

Byline: Doyle Rice, USA TODAY June's full moon will include several special treats for skywatchers: Not only will the moon be unusually low in the sky, it will also appear [...]

Byline: Doyle Rice, USA TODAY Another month, another climate record: May was the 12th straight month of record-warm temperatures for the planet, European scientists announced Wednesday. High power bills expected [...]

Byline: Elizabeth Weise, Dinah Voyles Pulver and Doyle Rice, USA TODAY If you think there have been a lot of tornadoes this year, you're right: With at least 850 confirmed [...]

Byline: Doyle Rice, USA TODAY Mild May nights are ideal for stargazing - and moon-gazing too! This week, the full 'flower' moon will appear in the night sky over the [...]

Byline: Doyle Rice, USA TODAY More unsettling news from the bottom of the world. Scientists have uncovered evidence of 'vigorous melting' at Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier, according to a new study [...]

Byline: Anthony Robledo, Christopher Cann and Doyle Rice, USA TODAY More violent weather is forecast for Wednesday in the Ohio Valley and mid-South after severe weather pounded the Midwest on [...]

Byline: Christopher Cann, Claire Thornton, and Doyle Rice, USA TODAY States along the Gulf Coast were under severe weather threats Monday as a storm system that spun up ferocious tornadoes [...]

Byline: Doyle Rice, USA TODAY Following its blockbuster role as part of the total solar eclipse in early April, the moon will make another notable appearance in the sky over [...]

Byline: Doyle Rice, USA TODAY The cause of global warming shows no sign of slowing down: Levels of the three most significant human-caused greenhouse gases - carbon dioxide (CO2), methane [...]

Byline: Dinah Voyles Pulver and Doyle Rice, USA TODAY Buckle up and hunker down: An 'extremely active' hurricane season is likely, top forecasters from Colorado State University announced Thursday. In [...]

Byline: Doyle Rice USA TODAY Clouds are just part of weather, and it's likely that some of the millions of people in the path of totality for Monday's total eclipse [...]

Byline: Christopher Cann and Doyle Rice, USA TODAY A large storm system moving across the the country is threatening much of the central and eastern United States this week with [...]

Byline: Doyle Rice, USA TODAY You might notice that the full moon on Saturday looks a bit smaller than usual. While the moon is indeed shrinking, it will look smaller [...]

Byline: Doyle Rice, USA TODAY Climate change is melting ice at an alarming rate, and a pair of studies warn of potentially dire consequences. In one, fresh water from melted [...]

Byline: Doyle Rice, USA TODAY With open golf courses in New York State, canceled sled dog races in Minnesota and reports of snowdrop flowers blooming in Virginia, portions of the [...]

Byline: Doyle Rice, USA TODAY Lightning deaths in the United States last year were at a near-record low, part of a dramatic, decadeslong decline in the number of Americans killed [...]

Byline: Doyle Rice, USA TODAY Cities scorching in 110 degree heat for days as water reserves dry up - that's life in the West now. But new research confirms the [...]

Byline: Doyle Rice and Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA TODAY The moon is shrinking - but it's nothing we need to worry about, scientists say in a new study. The shrinkage is [...]

Byline: Doyle Rice, USA TODAY The USA's multibillion-dollar ski industry isn't taking climate change lightly: According to the National Ski Areas Association, climate change is 'the number one threat to [...]

Byline: Doyle Rice, USA TODAY It's almost that time again: Time for the annual update of the Doomsday Clock, a symbol of how close the world is to civilization-ending catastrophe. [...]

Byline: Doyle Rice, USA TODAY After a wait of nearly two years, a major snowstorm could hit the major cities of the mid-Atlantic this weekend, though the forecast was far [...]

Byline: Doyle Rice, USA TODAY Federal forecasters have announced that 'geomagnetic disturbances' due to incoming solar storms are likely here on Earth and will last through this week. 'Recent coronal [...]