A polar vortex broke, and severe temperatures are set to dominate most of the United States, including the Midwest, in the coming days.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — It happens every summer, and this weekend we are talking about wildfire smoke leading to hazy skies here across the Midwest. So what's going on? Several large fires are currently burning across parts of Canada in Manitoba and ...

Factors as far away as the Caribbean Sea and as nearby as the cornfields of Iowa can bring on that muggy, sticky feeling. For people with certain health conditions, it’s more than an annoyance. Joy Leafgreen knows Iowa’s brand of humidity well, and it ...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The upper Midwest braced Monday for severe thunderstorms with the potential for strong tornadoes. The National Weather Service said the highest risks — a 4 on a scale of 1 to 5 — were in portions of southern Minnesota, including ...

The Midwest landscape is known for its dramatic seasonal shifts, which often bring severe weather events ranging from powerful thunderstorms and tornadoes in the spring and summer to blizzards and ice storms in the winter. Recent years have underscored the ...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) - Strong storms that brought hurricane-force winds to an area stretching from the Upper Plains to the Midwest have been preliminarily classified by the National Weather Service as a derecho, defined as a long-lived line of storms ...

People walk through the debris field after a tornado passed through an industrial industrial park on April 3, in Jeffersontown, Ky. The Upper Midwest faces the threat of severe thunderstorms and “strong tornado potential” Monday afternoon, with the ...