Eating breakfast on a wharf overlooking the Pacific Ocean is probably amazing unless a huge wave literally crashes through the restaurant you're in, soaking you completely and washing your breakfast away.
UPDATE 8:13 am: The latest winter storm has shutdown much of Washington D.C. and paralyzed large parts of the South, including most of Georgia and the Carolinas. At least 14 people have died in the storm, and approximately 400,000 are without power.
Hurricane-force winds smashed parts of the UK, France, the Netherlands and Germany today The storm cut off power, caused floods and killed seven people.
If a hurricane makes landfall in a forest, and no one's there to Instagram it, did it really make landfall at all?
The end of the world is apparently kicking off in Oklahoma! This weekend the Sooner State was rocked by two earthquakes (spurring a mass bird and bug exodus); today, it was on the receiving end of a somewhat more conventional natural disaster: tornados. Storm chaser Reed Timmer captured this way-too-up-close tornado…
Below is a video of WTTG's Tucker Barnes casually giving a live report on Hurricane Irene today from Ocean City, Maryland while drenched in what he described as "organic matter" that "doesn't taste great." I wonder why it didn't taste great?
This morning the "eye wall" of Hurricane Irene reached land just east of Cape Lookout in North Carolina—sweeping away dunes, flooding beaches, destroying a pier in kinda-nearby Atlantic Beach, and causing power outages. The old girl's not as strong as we thought she'd be, though! The latest, with updates below.
Phoenix, Arizona was enveloped by a giant dust storm on Thursday afternoon, marking the third time a haboob has hit the city in two months. The wall of dust caused the city's sky to turn brown, its power lines to fall down, and its transportation systems to slow to a halt. But it also made possible this amazing…
The closing night of the Ottawa Bluesfest was cut short after a violent storm moved in very suddenly, and an accompanying gust of wind blew over the main stage where Cheap Trick had played just minutes before. Watch the terrifying collapse in this video. (There's also footage of the dark clouds rolling in here. It's…
Last week, a massive tornado ripped through Jackson, Mississippi. For victim Eric Hubbard, it wasn't the fact that the storm had put a tree through his living room or destroyed his car that pissed him off—it was the fact the tornado stole a hamburger right from his hands. [via Eater]
Thundersnow is the term used to describe the simultaneous presence of thunder and snow (duh). Here, Weather Channel personality Jim Cantore, reporting from the streets in Chicago last night, gets startled by some thundersnow. His reaction is appropriately crazy.
[Lydia Vasquez scrapes ice from the windshield of her car in Denver on Monday. Image via AP]
Remember that time some guy was driving down the road in the middle of a thunderstorm, happened to be recording it, and caught a bolt of lightning striking an 18-wheeler across the median on tape? No? Well, here it is.
Today, a strong tornado ripped through Billings, Montana, leaving several destroyed buildings in its wake. In this amateur video, we get an up close and personal look at the storm as it makes its way through Billings' MetraPark entertainment center.
You may have heard about the massive hailstorm that swept through Oklahoma City on Sunday afternoon, leaving softball-sized pellets in its wake. Well, now you can see the tempest—and it's nothing short of jaw-dropping. The incredible video, inside.
In this amazing piece of amateur video—shot yesterday—the city of Melbourne, Australia is pelted with giant balls of hail. And then, in an instant, the hail turns to rain—so much of it, in fact, that the streets flood.
