To make matters worse, recent data reveals that human-triggered fires are often more destructive and harder to contain than ...

One of the terms that many of us do not hear about very often is “flash drought.” This is a sudden and extreme dry spell that occurs over weeks to months, rather than years or decades. This event is ...

The city, which typically gets about 4.5 inches of rain in October, got nothing. Sudden dry conditions will become more ...

Over 73 percent of land across the entire U.S. and Puerto Rico was under some degree of drought as of October 29.

NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s mayor urged residents to take shorter showers, fix dripping faucets and otherwise conserve water, ...

When will it snow this year in Boston and across Massachusetts and New Hampshire? Here's how the recent drought could impact ...

Or Dallas. Or several other U.S. cities that went from unusually wet in some cases to bone dry in a flash. In fact, “flash drought” is the term for this sort of phenomenon. It joins “zombie fire,” ...

A long-term drought, or even a flash drought like we have seen develop regionally, can exacerbate wildfire conditions. Other ...

October 2024 brought record-setting drought to the U.S., with dry conditions covering more than half the country. A strong high-pressure system kept temperatures warm and rainfall scarce, driving ...

Meteorologist Taylor Stephenson explains why flash flooding can occur even if an area is experiencing a drought in this ...

Last month, nearly half the country was in a flash drought, which means a rapid dry-out from a combination of little precipitation and abnormally high temperatures. The Northeast capped the month ...