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Are There Climate Fingerprints in Tornado Activity?

Parts of the Southern and Northeastern U.S. faced tornado threats this week. Scientists are trying to parse out the climate links in changing tornado activity.

By Kiley Price

People take cover as a thunderstorm, accompanied by heavy hail, sweeps through Paris on May 3, 2025. Credit: Jerome Gilles/NurPhoto via Getty Images

A Warmer Climate Means Bigger Hail

By Bob Berwyn

For Insurers, Smaller Weather Events Add Up to Big Losses as Climate Change Accelerates

By Kiley Price

Tariffs Could Spike Rates in an Already Climate-Stressed Insurance Market

By Kiley Price

Volunteers help Tim Striegel clean up after his mobile home was hit by a tornado on March 16 in Calera, Ala. Credit: Jan Sonnenmair/Getty Images

Alabama’s Celebrity Weatherman Pleads for the National Weather Service

By Dennis Pillion

A school bus was thrown onto the roof of the former Winterboro High School building in Talladega County, Ala. during this weekend's severe weather. Credit: Courtesy of NWS Birmingham

Severe Weather Warnings Persist After a Deadly Weekend of Tornadoes, Dust Storms and Fires

By Keerti Gopal, Lee Hedgepeth

People ride bicycles through storm debris in the aftermath of Hurricane Milton on Thursday in Englewood, Fla. Credit: Sean Rayford/Getty Images

Florida Avoided the Worst of Milton’s Wrath, But Millions Are Suffering After the Second Hurricane in Two Weeks

By James Bruggers, Amy Green, Bob Berwyn, Dan Gearino, Kiley Bense

Trees and electrical wiring brought down by a tornado in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, in September 2021. Credit: James Paulus

As Tornado Alley Shifts East, Bracing for Impact in Unexpected Places

By Kiley Bense

A newly constructed fence bearing a "no trespassing" sign stands in front of Sandy Pouncey's storm shelter. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

Public Funding Gave This Alabama Woman Shelter From the Storm. Then Her Neighbor Fenced Her Out

By Lee Hedgepeth

Deadly August 2021 flooding in Middle Tennessee occurred after nearly 21 inches of rain fell, a downpour that now stands as the largest 24-hour precipitation record in any non-coastal U.S. state. Credit: Caroline Eggers, WPLN

Battered and Flooded by Increasingly Severe Weather, Kentucky and Tennessee Have a Big Difference in Forecasting

By James Bruggers, Caroline Eggers

Emergency workers search through what is left of the Mayfield Consumer Products Candle Factory after it was destroyed by a tornado in Mayfield, Kentucky, on Dec. 11, 2021. Credit: John Amis/AFP via Getty Images

Global Warming Can Set The Stage for Deadly Tornadoes

By Bob Berwyn

Magnolia trees on Broadway, a busy street in downtown San Diego

City Weighs Benefit of Urban Forest

By Robert Krier, InsideClimate News

Weather Insider: Seeing Tornadoes Coming

By Robert Krier, InsideClimate News

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