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A storm lingering off the coast is now expected to dump as much as 2 feet of snow on some areas of Massachusetts, and some areas of Boston could get 18 inches, the National Weather Service said this morning, upping previous snowfall predictions.

Texas just finished the hottest June through August on record for any state in the U.S., weather officials said Thursday. National Weather Service meteorologist Victor Murphy told The Associated Press that Texas' 86.8 degree Fahrenheit average beat out Oklahoma's 85.2 degrees in 1934.

The heat wave that has gripped Southern California will continue for at least one more day, as the National Weather Service issued a heat advisory for large swaths of the region.

The National Weather Service said record-high temperatures are possible in some parts of Southern California this weekend.

Severe weather tore across central Florida on Thursday, causing damage and spawning an apparent tornado in Tampa, the National Weather Service said.

Thanks in part to the East Coast storm Tuesday night, the snow covered region has risen to 71% Wednesday and now includes Washington, D.C. based on imagery and analysis from the National Weather Service (NWS).

Authorities in several Midwestern states were flooded Wednesday night with reports of a gigantic fireball lighting up the sky, the National Weather Service said.

More than a third of the contiguous United States faces a high or above average flood risk this spring, the National Weather Service says.

The National Weather Service issued a tornado warning for eastern Contra Costa County today after a trained spotter reported a funnel cloud near Brentwood. Tornadoes are rare in California and almost unheard of in the Bay Area, but this is the second time this week the weather service has issued a warning locally. Santa Clara County was put under a tornado warning Wednesday afternoon. No twister materialized.

A winter storm has brought more than 4 inches of snow in some higher elevations of western Pennsylvania, with lesser amounts in western New York and New Jersey. The National Weather Service says there's 4.5 inches of snow in ...