A lightning strike sparked a fire that burned hundreds of palm trees at a nursery in unincorporated Escondido. Early reports estimated about 100 trees caught fire, but a battalion chief at the scene later told NBC 7 about 1,000 trees were damaged.

Some of the fiercest weather in the South was reported near Lake Charles, Louisiana, where high winds from a thunderstorm overturned a horse trailer and a Mardi Gras float.

Winter storm warnings and winter weather advisories have been expanded out to Utah's valleys, in a rare move this winter. It could create a messy Wednesday commute.

Strong winds combined with the wet weather could create dangerous conditions for outdoor recreation, according to the NWS.

In some ways, Mamdani was lucky, according to Wolfson. Accurate weather predictions gave him days of advance notice. The storm hit on the weekend, avoiding the chaos of a snarled rush-hour commute. And the mayor canceled school the following Monday to give workers additional time to clear thoroughfares.

A series of “unusually hazardous" storms rolling through Southern California this week are expected to bring heavy rain and mountain snow, with the possibility of hail and tornadoes.

The second in a series of Northern California storms was moving through the Bay Area and Central Coast on Tuesday, bringing rain, gusty winds, lightning, local snow, and much colder temperatures through midweek.

Elevated to extremely critical fire weather concerns will plague Kansas through this Thursday. Even though we had a storm system a few days ago that gave a healthy amount of rain to some parts of Kansas, it was not shared evenly, and dead grass does not ...