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.

The tornado is part of a system affecting much of northern Illinois on Tuesday, with turbulent conditions following record-high temperatures in the Chicago area on Monday and Tuesday afternoon.

The United States recorded at least 1,855 tornadoes in 2024, unofficially surpassing the previous record of 1,814 set in 2004 ...

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.

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 ...

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

CARTERVILLE, Ill. (WSIL) -- Multiple agencies in Illinois are joining together to help with disaster relief after an ice storm hit southern Illinois. The agencies are looking for the public's ...

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 ...

“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 ...