A statewide tornado drill is planned for Illinois next week and that will mean an unexpected alert for many residents. According to the National Weather Service, the drill is set to take place at ...

Experts say 2024’s tornado outbreaks set it apart, even in a year full of extreme weather. The U.S. recorded the highest number of tornadoes in a decade.

Illinois lawmakers established the Warehouse Safety Standards Task Force in January 2023 to study warehouse safety in response to the Edwardsville tornado, and it issued its final report last month.

Insurance experts and watchdogs said the industry was among the first to take notice of climate change — and the rate ...

An Illinois state legislator is relieved a recent federal spending bill included taxpayer funds for St. Clair and Washington counties.

The other worst tornado years on record were the 1,692 ... an associate professor of meteorology and severe weather at Northern Illinois University. "There was never a significant lull in activity." ...

The 12 th-warmest May on record. Severe storms led to an EF-0 tornado confirmed near Harvard, Illinois, on May 7. The 10 th-warmest June. Severe storms the night of June 22 brought four EF-0 ...

The United States recorded at least 1,855 tornadoes in 2024, surpassing the previous record of 1,814 set in 2004, according to preliminary data from the National Weather Service's Storm Prediction ...

Illinois State Climatologist Trent Ford has released the year-end climate analysis for 2024, which was the second warmest year on record in Illinois, with average temperatures between 1 and 6 ...

Allen Media Group (AMG), the parent company of The Weather Channel, WSIL-TV and 28 total news stations across the country, ...

“It was kind of like death by 1,000 paper cuts,” said Victor Gensini, a professor of meteorology at Northern Illinois University. “We didn’t have an unprecedented number of violent ...