Yahoo News, by Tomohiro OSAKI: Authorities in Japan urged people to avoid hoarding as anxiety over a possible megaquake triggered a spike Saturday in demand for disaster kits and daily necessities. In its first such advisory, the weather agency said…

KHMO Radio: As an earthquake nut, I thought I had seen it all. An earthquake Friday proves that I still haven’t. The USGS has confirmed there was an earthquake under Lake Michigan Friday which was felt by many in Wisconsin….

Yahoo News, by Rebecca Boone: Powerful winds and hundreds of lightning strikes from thunderstorms rattled eastern Oregon and Idaho Wednesday afternoon, cutting power and stoking fires, including one in Oregon that is already the largest active blaze in the nation….

NBC News, by Dennis Romero: The largest wildfire burning in California grew to more than 350,000 acres Sunday, but there was hope that progress in containing it, as well as a cooldown, will help defeat it. Cal Fire officials said…

AccuWeather: AccuWeather’s live coverage of Beryl has ended. AccuWeather is wrapping up live coverage of Beryl, which has left millions without power in Texas. AccuWeather meteorologists are warning that Beryl could fuel flooding rain and severe weather in parts of the…

NBC News, by Rob Wile, Brian Hamacher, David K. Li, Phil Helsel and Patrick Smith: Torrential rains pounded South Florida on Wednesday as officials warned residents to avoid “life threatening flooding” in some of the state’s most populous regions. The…

USA Today, by Christopher Cann and Jorge L. Ortiz: If only it were true that what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, at least when it comes to the weather. Sin City reached a high of 111 degrees Thursday, making…

Aljazeera: A cyclone has flooded coastal villages, blown away thatched roofs and left hundreds of thousands of people without power in southern Bangladesh and eastern India, with at least nine deaths reported. Dozens of villages in Bangladesh were flooded after…

AP News, by Rob McGuirk: A Papua New Guinea government official has told the United Nations that more than 2,000 people are believed to have been buried alive by last Friday’s landslide and has formally asked for international help. The…

AP News, Sean Murphy and Julio Cortez: Powerful storms killed at least 15 people, injured hundreds and left a wide trail of destruction Sunday across Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas after obliterating homes and destroying a truck stop where dozens sought…

USA Today, by Saman Shafiq: Unprecedented heavy rainfall in Brazil has caused devastating floods in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul that has left more than 100 dead and over 163,000 seeking shelter. The floods that began last…

MSN, by Ian Livingston: Following a chaotic swarm of twisting storms in its final week, April’s tornado count in the United States climbed to at least 300, the second-highest in the month on record. Although April is often a busy…