Weather

Hawaii officials urged people in hard-hit areas to evacuate, after heavy rains fell on soil already saturated by downpours from a winter storm, with still more expected.

Storms across the nation's eastern half forced airlines to cancel roughly 4,000 flights nationwide. Blizzards buried parts of Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota, rains flooded homes in Hawaii, and California and Arizona are dealing with unusually high temperatures.

The El Niño weather pattern will likely emerge this summer and persist through the rest of the year, boosting global temperatures and affecting regional weather around the world.

An app that shows as many forecasts as possible hopes to end the element of surprise in the weather. It also gives notifications for rainbows and picturesque sunsets.

A 12-year-old boy is reported to be among the dead following powerful storms that stretched across the middle of the country.

A massive snowstorm pummeled the East Coast Monday, forcing millions of people to stay home amid travel bans and closures.

Blizzard conditions kept people at home from Delaware to coastal New England, with many communities seeing record snowfall. Travel was banned and clean up will be a big project in many towns.

Meteorologists said the storm is the strongest in a decade, dumping more than 2 feet of snow across the Northeast.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks with New York's Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul about the effects of a powerful nor'easter that prompted multiple declarations of states of emergency.

Some East Coast cities are dealing with blizzard conditions after a potent Nor'easter dumped snow from Baltimore to Boston Sunday night into Monday.