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CHICAGO — Over 6,200 ComEd customers are in the dark on Tuesday night as intense storms sweep across Chicagoland. According to the ComEd outage map, as of 9:53 p.m., there are 108 active outages within the service area, meaning just over 4,600 customers are without power. ComEd currently serves about 4,084,000 customers. It is unclear when […]

The area is at serious risk.

Human-caused climate is projected to bring wetter, more intense storms. Scientists explain what these shifts mean for California and the West.

As climate change is causing more intense storms, a new study is suggesting that the five-scale system by which the potential damage caused by hurricanes is gauged should be revised to include a sixth category.

Stronger and more destructive hurricanes fueled by climate change may require a rethinking of how storms are classified, according to a new study that suggests adding a Category 6 for ranking them to better convey damaging wind speeds.

The National Weather Service will send out survey teams to assess damage left behind by Tuesday's storms.

As many as 3,000 people in Mississippi were without power late Monday night after intense storms pushed through the state, according to Entergy Mississippi. 2,700 were in Copiah County.

St. John the Baptist Parish, west of New Orleans, has taken a pounding in recent years from extreme weather, hurting home values and sending insurance premiums sharply higher.

Much of the eastern United States was lashed by intense storms Monday, leaving at least two people dead, hundreds of thousands without power and thousands of flights canceled or delayed.More than 1,700 US flights were canceled on Monday and more than 8,000 delayed as the severe weather loomed, website FlightAware said.

Thunderstorms will soon roll in to southeast Michigan after a cloudy, gloomy day. They are expected after 4 p.m. Read to learn more.