Climate change poses ‘major risk’ to US financial system, federal report warns

The report, commissioned by President Donald Trump’s CFTC, found that climate change is already impacting or is anticipated to impact nearly every facet of the economy.

Bay Area braces for sizzling weekend temps, high fire danger

Heat, low humidity and higher winds, especially in higher terrain, will raise the risk for wildfires as the area recovers from an earlier than expected fire season.

Underwater and on fire: US climate change magnifies extremes

Some parts of the country have been burning this month while others were underwater in extreme weather disasters.

Big day in the tropics: Tropical storms Wilfred, Alpha, and Beta form just hours apart

Tropical Storm Wilfred formed in the eastern Atlantic this morning, the latest storm in a record-breaking 2020 hurricane season that has now exhausted the list of hurricane names. It was soon followed by Alpha and Beta, the first uses of a Greek letter for a storm since 2005.

Enjoy the break, wildfire smoke returns to parts of the Bay Area this weekend

 Smoke from wildfires burning across California will hover over the North Bay, Eastern Contra Costa County, and the Livermore Valley, officials said. 

Rescuers reach people cut off by Hurricane Sally, hundreds of thousands still without power

Rivers swollen by Hurricane Sally threatened more misery for parts of the Florida Panhandle and Alabama on Thursday. Georgia and the Carolinas were also warned of flooding.

Lightning storm, easterly wind: How the wildfires got so bad

The National Weather Service warned that the dry lightning striking a parched landscape “could lead to new wildfire.”

'Huge rainmaker': Hurricane Sally threatens Gulf Coast with historic floods

Hurricane Sally is crawling toward the northern Gulf Coast at just 2 mph, a pace that's enabling the storm to gather huge amounts of water to eventually dump on land.

5 tropical cyclones brew in Atlantic at the same time, only 2nd time on record

Hurricane Paulette has made a rare landfall in Bermuda as a strong Category 1 storm just hours after the wealthy British territory shuttered schools, government agencies and air and sea ports.

Spare the Air Alert extended through Monday for the Bay Area

The alert through Monday will mark the 28th consecutive Spare the Air Alert called as fires continue to burn throughout California and other states, creating unhealthy air.

Gov. Newsom signs bill to allow ex-inmates to become firefighters

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill that will allow former inmate firefighters to expunge their records and become professional firefighters. 

Air quality in Bay Area is awful and will persist through next week

Cities including Fairfield, San Rafael, San Francisco and Oakland were awash in purple, the color the Bay Area Air Quality Management District has chosen for "unhealthy air." All the cities had Air Quality Indexes of 200 or more. 

Another strange weather day in California? Meteorologists say yes

The National Weather Service said that "Unfortunately, we're not seeing anything that will significantly change our current situation."

Smoke from wildfires creates eerie baseball scene in California

A number of Northern California wildfires sent a thick, sometimes orange-glowing haze over the area Wednesday that left the Bay Area in an eerie darkness all day. The sun was blocked by the smoke.

Dramatic photos: California residents wake up to raining ash and smoke-filled skies

Others around the Bay Area also documented hazy horizons, red suns and gray skies -- all the result of the raging wildfires burning around California, which as of this week had scorched a record-setting 2.3 million acres of earth

California's major fire complexes, CZU, SCU and LNU, nearly contained

Together, the three fire complexes burned more than 850,000 acres of land.  That is about half of the state's total: More than 2 million acres have burned in wildfires this year so far - a new record for California.