Meteorologists say the United States is getting hit by almost every kind of extreme weather at once, as spring air masses collide and the jet stream twists.

Meteorologists are reaching for superlatives to describe an oncoming heat wave so intense and rare for this time of year that it could leave some locations shattering their all-time temperature records for April before that month has even begun.

Global temperatures and rain patterns are affected by a climate phenomenon known as El Niño/La Niña.

Snow, tornadoes, record-breaking heat, a dust storm — and that’s just last weekend. Here’s how to understand what’s going on, and the role climate change is playing in all of it.

Diseases historically absent from the United States have been showing up in Florida, Texas, California and other U.S. states in recent years.

The River Otter in East Devon reached its highest ever recorded level during Storm Chandra and forecasters said Cornwall had its wettest winter on record. Dr Mark McCarthy, science manager for climate attribution at the Met Office, said the winter season had shown the impact climate change was having.

Several of the Earth’s systems are changing faster than predicted as global temperatures rise, scientists say.

Anyone living in the Northeast U.S. during the winter of 2026 will long remember the days, weeks even, of bitterly cold temperatures, along with high winds so strong it was difficult to walk anywhere.

The D.C. area is seeing more outbreak days that can deliver multiple tornadoes, and climate change is the driver of that pattern, according to a meteorologist.

Climate change might cause more shorter and warmer winters, but that doesn’t mean a white Christmas will become a thing of the past.