All the headlines from our Windstorm Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 31 2025 // Drenching rain along the Texas-Mexico border let up Friday, but rescues were still ongoing a day after severe storms trapped residents in their homes, forced drivers to abandon their vehicles on flooded roads and shut down...
Mar 25 2025 // The Missouri Department of Commerce and Insurance (DCI) said that consumer specialists will participate in a Multi-Agency Resource Center (MARC) to answer insurance questions and help those impacted by the severe storms in...
Mar 25 2025 // Jana, Konrad, Laurence and Martinho — the unprecedented string of four named storms that barreled through the Iberian peninsula in the past three weeks — came with a silver lining: the likely end of Spain’s worst...
Mar 21 2025 // A gust of wind sweeps over bare soil, kicking up enough dirt and dust to cut visibility to nearly zero, and for drivers, the dust storm seems to come out of nowhere.Such conditions resulted in a pileup on Interstate 70...
Mar 20 2025 // Approximately 170,000 properties were potentially impacted by the severe outbreak across the Midwest and Mississippi Valley, in addition to wildfires and dust storms across the Southern Plains, CoreLogic said.The early...
Mar 20 2025 // Unlicensed adjusters can work in three Kentucky counties once they register on temporary basis, the state’s insurance commissioner decreed after wind events caused serious damage in the northern part of the...
Mar 18 2025 // Unusually vicious and damaging weather across multiple U.S. states spawned violent tornadoes, blinding dust storms and fast-moving wildfires over the weekend, leaving at least 39 people dead.In the latest tally of the...
Mar 18 2025 // Florida International University has long been known as a hurricane research center. Think: the famous Wall of Wind, the giant fan system that tests the effects of 157-mph winds on structures and materials. A much larger,...
Mar 17 2025 // Violent tornadoes ripped through parts of the U.S., wiping out schools and toppling semitractor-trailers in several states, part of a monster storm Friday and Saturday that has killed at least 32 people.The number of...
Mar 14 2025 // Twenty years before the Titanic changed maritime history, another ship touted as the next great technological feat set sail on the Great Lakes.The Western Reserve was one of the first all-steel cargo ships to traverse the...
Mar 14 2025 // Global carbon emissions are amplifying a North Atlantic wind pattern that drives northern Europe’s biggest winter storms, new research shows.According to projections from scientists at the UK’s Met Office and...
Mar 12 2025 // A potent storm system is expected to pour heavy rain on western states later this week before rumbling into the central United States, where it could spawn tornadoes in the South and dump heavy snow across the parts of the...
Mar 12 2025 // A tornado destroyed an Orlando-area home and hit a TV station while the weatherman was broadcasting about the twister, part of storm fronts that caused damage across parts of the Southeast.In Longwood, Florida, north of...
Mar 6 2025 // Convective storms added to a year of extreme weather events that will put pressure on property insurance rates, particularly in a few hard-hit states, a new report shows.CoreLogic released its 2025 Severe Convective Storm...
Mar 5 2025 // This post is part of a series sponsored by CoreLogic.As property insurance costs continue to rise, homeowners and insurers alike are facing new challenges. While hurricanes and wildfires often dominate discussions around...
Mar 5 2025 // The Carolinas saw some much-needed rainfall Wednesday morning, helping to quell wildfires that had burned more than 2,600 acres – but also raising the threat of tornadoes.Even with the new rainfall, insurance and weather...
Feb 19 2025 // With heavy snow and ice on the way, North Carolina’s governor on Tuesday issued an emergency declaration, waiving weight and registration checks for some trucks and hourly limits on drivers delivering essential...
Feb 18 2025 // Citing damages and outages caused by dangerous winter storms and flash flooding across parts of Buchanan County and elsewhere over the past week, Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin has submitted a request for an expedited...
Feb 12 2025 // Municipal bonds sold by the state of Florida are poised to become much scarcer.That’s because Governor Ron DeSantis plans to pay down $1.7 billion of tax-supported debt as part of his budget proposal for the fiscal...
Feb 10 2025 // WARTBURG, Tenn. (AP) — Two tornadoes moved through eastern Tennessee, leaving a mother and daughter dead and injuring three other people, officials said Friday.A mother and daughter from the same household were killed...