CBS News, by Kerry Breen: Hurricane Melissa’s wind gusts reached a record-breaking speed shortly before the storm made landfall in the Caribbean last month, according to data recorded during the deadly event.  The data was collected when a NOAA Hurricane…

FOX Weather, by Julian Atienza: Indonesia’s Mount Semeru volcano erupted Wednesday afternoon around 4:00 p.m. local time, sending ash more than 6,500 feet into the air, according to data from the country’s Center for Volcanology. The eruption was ongoing as…

AP News, by Jim Gomez: Super Typhoon Fung-wong slammed ashore on Sunday in the northeastern coast of the Philippines, where the massive storm had already left at least two people dead and forced more than a million people to evacuate…

USA Today, by Ignacio Calderon: This year’s extreme weather disasters have wreaked so much destruction that they collectively eclipse the annual GDP of more than 100 countries and come close to New York City’s massive budget, the largest in the…

AccuWeather, by Alex Sosnowski: AccuWeather has issued its final update on this story. Ongoing news story coverage can be found on the “Landfall” story and “Beyond Jamaica” story. A dire situation is unfolding in the Caribbean as Category 5 Hurricane…

AP News, by Amaranta Marentes: When a river that winds through the mountains of central Mexico suddenly turned into a crushing wall of water over this past week, it practically wiped the 400-person village of Chapula off the map. Residents…

USA Today, by Doyle Rice: The hurricane map in the Atlantic Ocean may be nearly blank now, but forecasters say that may not last much longer, as several signs point to an uptick in activity across the basin. “The tropical…

FOX News, by Andrew Wulfeck: A clash of air masses on Wednesday will result in the threat of severe storms from Milwaukee and Chicago westward to Denver and the eastern Rockies. The Storm Prediction Center has placed large parts of…

World Net Daily, by WND staff: Tourists seen running for their lives as Italy’s Mount Etna erupts, sending ash “several kilometers” into the sky. A tour company said they had about 40 people on the volcano when it erupted, as…

NBC News, by Dennis Romero: A magnitude-4.2 earthquake rumbled just offshore of the Big Island of Hawaii on Tuesday morning, but officials said no tsunamis were expected. The earthquake was about 5 miles southeast of the community of Pāhala, just…

USA Today, by Jeanine Santucci and Zac Anderson: At least 32 people were killed in Kentucky, Missouri and Virginia after storms and tornadoes tore through the region as part of an extreme weather outbreak on May 16, “leaving behind a…

KTLA 5, by Tony Kurzweil and Marc Sternfield: The worst-case scenario has been realized in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, where an estimated 1,000 structures, many of them homes, have been destroyed by a Santa Ana-wind-fueled wildfire, authorities…