Weather Risk

As more than 100,000 Americans flee destructive wildfires in California and floods in Louisiana, a new record for planet-wide heat is set.

The Baton Rouge refinery, the fourth-largest refinery in the U.S., has begun shutting units as the flooding threatened an offsite liquefied petroleum gas storage facility.

Torrential downpours have sent at least six river gauges to record levels in Louisiana.

At least 80 homes were destroyed by the temblor at 9:58 p.m. Sunday local time.

More than 200,000 crashes involved debris on U.S. roadways during the past four years, according to a new study released by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety.

The Atlantic basin will see the most named storms since the 2012 season, with five to eight of those strengthening into hurricanes by Nov. 30, NOAA predicts.