Hailstorm News

By Sue Newman A band of hail hammered its way across Ashburton late yesterday afternoon, smashing glasshouses, ruining gardens and creating hazardous driving conditions.

By Heinz de Boer and Slindile Maluleka The city will not launch an investigation into the collapse of the almost 400 low cost homes in Friday's freak thunderstorm, saying shoddy workmanship was not behind the ...

TORNADOES...HAIL TO 1 INCH IN DIAMETER...THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS TO 70 MPH...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS.

The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a Tornado Watch for portions of southeast Alabama parts of the Florida Panhandle and northern Florid.

With winter approaching, the National Weather Service warns that "hazardous weather can strike with little notice.

Thursday's rainfall across the Rio Grande Valley slowed motorists on U.S. Expressway 83, broke a rainfall record for that calendar day in Brownsville and even produced pebble-sized hail in southern Hidalgo ...

ICE SHOT: NEWSBREAKER Michael Wilson took this pic of 2.5cm of hail in Alice Springs.

The U.S. Small Business Administration has announced that federal economic injury disaster loans are available to small businesses, small agriculture cooperatives, and most private, non-profit organizations of ...

Phil Riddle editor@weatherforddemocrat.com A series of freak fall thunderstorms battered Parker and surrounding counties Monday, spurring a tornado warning for Weatherford.

Parts of Central Texas are finally getting some much needed rainfall, but it won't make for a nice walk through the park, at least not right away.

It was nearing 6 AM in the morning; bands of thunderstorms were breezing by us to the north when all of a sudden the southern extent of the clusters started to draw south.

I was asked by a blog reader to make a Midwest map to show the weather so here it is.

Winter weather will continue this week in many areas of the United States as a series of Pacific storms move across the country.

The Phoenix Mars Lander has not communicated since Nov. 2, and engineers from the mission assume the vehicle is now completely out of power.

A storm pushing through the Southwest will bring messy weather to the Plains early in the week.

A MOTORIST was left terrified when a freak mini-tornado blasted her car with debris.

The Fiji Meteorological Service predicts floods associated with depressions will be higher with at least one severe cyclone hitting the country this wet season.

Winter Awareness Week begins Monday in Wisconsin, as if residents of the Badger state need to be reminded of what is in store for them for the coming months.

Steven Albracht stands next to two idle cotton strippers on his farm. Summer hailstorms wiped out much of the South Plains cotton crop, and what was left has been slow to develop.

Clashes of warm and cold air sparked thunder and over 200 lightning strikes around eastern parts of central New Zealand this afternoon.