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NPR's Rob Schmitz speaks with Blue Ridge Public Radio's Gerard Albert III about his new podcast <em>A Man-Made Disaster.</em>
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The U.S. Coast Guard says it is waiting for hazardous weather to pass before crews can get to a red navigational buoy that has drifted toward Depoe Bay.
Mid-November is when furnaces, space heaters and fireplaces come back online, and the calls that follow them start showing up on your board.
The first sustained freeze of the season is the one that catches people out, and it changes your scene times, your footing and your patients.
Dave Hernandez | For NJ.com
Trees, broken fences, and other debris behind homes between Old York Road and Applegate Way in Chesterfield, N.J. on Friday, Nov. 13, 2026. The National Weather Service confirmed a tornado occurred in Chesterfield, in the vicinity of Old Yo
No dated forecast sits in front of us, so this is a seasonal outlook: the hazards that return every year as the weather turns, and what they do to a shift.
Thomas Ondrey
Road salt bound for Chicago is loaded onto cars of The Grand River Railway at the Fairport Mine on Thursday, Dec. 1, 2016. (Thomas Ondrey/The Plain Dealer) The Plain Dealer
Shawn Viggiano
Light snow coated the ground in and around High Point State Park in Sussex County Friday morning, Nov. 13, 2026. The snow fell less than 24 hours after many areas of New Jersey were hit hard by summer-like thunderstorms with heavy rain, lar
Ross O'Keefe
A 'storm train' is chugging its way towards Southern California.
Dave Hernandez | For NJ.com
A pole snapped in front of a home on Old York Road that sustained damage after a strong thunderstorm rolled through in Chesterfield, N.J. on Thursday, Nov. 12, 2026. A tornado has been confirmed in the area.
Severe weather brought hail, rain, snow and more to the Northeast U.S. Rob Marciano has more.
The first sustained cold of the season is the point where structure fires, carbon monoxide calls and slip-and-fall trauma all start trending up together.
National Weather Service
Another round of widespread rain is expect on Friday from a coastal storm that brought flooding, hail and a probable tornado to New Jersey on Thursday.
Accuweather
Another round of widespread rain is expect on Friday from a coastal storm that brought flooding, hail and a probable tornado to New Jersey on Thursday.
Zoe Hussain
Video showed captivated bystanders watch a dark, moving cloud dipping low toward the horizon near the airport.
A big storm that was hitting the Northeast on Thursday could bring tornadoes, hail and heavy rain to the region, which could then see a steep drop in temperature, with many areas forecast to
As severe weather strikes the Northeast, video shows winds hurtling debris, car windows shattered, and siding peeled off homes in the storm’s wake. NBC News’ Erin McLaughlin reports.
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Up to a foot of snow could blanket the highest elevations of the Adirondacks and Vermont’s Green Mountains, with the heaviest snowfall expected Friday afternoon and evening.
Ed Murray| For NJ.com
A file photo of storm-damaged large trees in in Morris County.
As heating comes on and surfaces start to freeze, the mix of calls shifts toward the hazards that cold weather makes routine — plan your approach before the tones drop.
Len Melisurgo | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
The National Weather Service has issued a tornado warning for parts of New Jersey. Residents in the affected areas should seek cover in a sturdy building.
National Weather
The National Weather Service has issued a tornado watch for parts of New Jersey because of the threat of severe thunderstorms that have the potential to spawn isolated tornadoes Thursday, Nov. 12.
Len Melisurgo | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
The National Weather Service has issued a flash flood warning in parts of New Jersey because of heavy rain falling Thursday, Nov. 12.
Daniel Cody
“Mayday, mayday, mayday,” a pilot told air traffic controllers.
A passenger became disruptive on a United Airlines flight from Tokyo to Chicago on Wednesday, officials said, while a flooding incident also forced a separate flight to make an emergency lan
Dirk Shadd
A judge sided with a business group in its lawsuit against the city of Tampa this month, ruling that the city must turn over records on a contentious South Tampa flood prevention project.
Ella Morrison
“What's it doing, boy? That’s my Bounce,” a stunned Billy Paschall said mid-interview as his last missing cat showed up.
Reinhard Dirscherl
A great white shark is shown in California. Video recorded by Franshara Napoleon shows an unidentified animal swimming through a flooded Fort Pierce intersection as she was heading to pick up her daughter from school. Napoleon believed she
Mid-November turns the cold on, and with it the house fires, the CO calls and the first ice of the year.
Workers at Save the Chimps in Florida used a drone to deliver food and supplies to their stranded chimpanzees after historic flooding left sanctuary roads inaccessible. NBC News’ Ryan Chandler reports.
Mid-November shifts the hazard picture toward cold exposure, heating fires, wind-driven conditions and surfaces that freeze before the air feels like it.
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Long Beach, CA - October 25: An excavator digs for more sand to fill a dump truck which is helping create a sand brim along the Alamitos Peninsula near Long Beach City Beach on Sunday, Oct. 25, 2026 in Long Beach, CA. (Ronaldo Bolanos / Los
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Fake interactions with ICE agents or fictional reenactments of Chicano and Latino historical events go viral daily on social media without any warning or moderation from the platforms.
The shift to sustained cold changes how calls run, how patients present and how crews get hurt — before the first storm, not during it.
Zoe Hussain
"There was just one problem: it was a hurricane impact window, and it wasn't giving in that easily," cops wrote.
The calendar has turned the usual late-autumn risks back on, and most of them land between dusk and dawn.
Reena Rose Sibayan | The Jersey Journal
Shoreline in the northern waterfront of Liberty State Park in Jersey City. The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection has launched a multiyear resilience project that will identify the areas of the Jersey City park most vulnerabl
Pedro Portal
Flooding swamped Miami Beach and other parts of South Florida during a king tide on Oct. 27.
