Critics in the past year called for more transparency and vetting of the procedures used to estimate billion-dollar disasters ...

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On Jan. 5, 2025, at about 2:35 in the afternoon, the first severe hailstorm of the season dropped quarter-size hail in ...

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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, compiled information for major disasters, including insured losses by state. Bulk data won’t tell communities or counties about their ...

Forecasters already patch together very rough estimates, and ending NOAA’s ‘billion-dollar disasters’ list means less access to insurance data. Texas’ state climatologists explain why that matters.

It was “one of the rarest” tornado outbreaks on record, says a tornado expert, but “things like that are possible.” ...

A public affairs specialist for the NWS at Silver Springs, Maryland, did not respond to a request for comment by deadline.

Tornadoes are usually destructive and dangerous, but the strongest on the Enhanced-Fujita scale: EF4 or EF5 are also called violent. These tornadoes generate winds over 166 miles per hpur (267kph) and ...

A public affairs specialist for the NWS at Silver Springs, Maryland, did not respond to a request for comment by deadline.