severe weather

Every time it rains residents on Granby Street worry about floodwaters. Now the city is offering grants to help clean up and mitigate flooding.

Three tornadoes likely touched down in Connecticut on Saturday as severe weather moved through the state.

Pointing accusingly at climate change, President Joe Biden toured deadly flood damage in New Jersey and New York City Tuesday and said he was thinking about the all families who suffered “profound” losses from the powerful remnants of Ida. Biden first toured Manville, New Jersey, a community devastated both by fires and floods. Later, he visited Queens, which lost nearly…

Flood-stricken families and business owners across the Northeast are hauling waterlogged belongings to the curb and scraping away noxious mud as cleanup from Ida moves into high gear

Neighbors gathered late Friday to light candles and lay flowers for a mother and son from Queens who lost their lives in Ida’s fury. “Nothing could prepare you for this… we’ve been living here for so many years, [we] never expected this,” one Hollis woman said. The 43-year-old woman and her 22-year-old son died in an illegally converted basement...

Christine Kirchhoff, an associate professor for the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Connecticut, sat down with NBC Connecticut’s Dan Corcoran to discuss our infrastructure and what needs to be done to protect our future.

Residents across the country are still mopping up from the remnants of Hurricane Ida, which hit the Gulf Coast before sweeping up into the Northeast, leaving parts of New York City and its suburbs under water this past week. Dozens were killed, many after being trapped in their cars by flood waters. News and social media from across the New…

Ida brought intense rainfall to our area. Some towns in Connecticut saw upwards of 6 or 7 inches of rain in a 24-hour period. But when it comes to flooding, our infrastructure is to blame too.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio unveiled a new approach Friday to managing severe weather that he says will “bluntly be a jolt to people” but one he says is necessary to address increasingly frequent major flooding events — as the scope of devastation from this latest one continues to expand. His NYC Climate-Driven Rain Response plan involves three…

Yankees broadcaster John Sterling was helped out of his flooding car by Spanish radio play-by-play man Rickie Ricardo on Wednesday night after Sterling got stuck trying to drive home after a game.

The names are starting to be released and the fatality count is expected to rise. Here’s what we know about the local lives lost so far.

At least 39 people died, including a New York City toddler, and tens of thousands were overwhelmed by floods as the remnants of Hurricane Ida devastated the tri-state area overnight with historic rainfall, at least one tornado and savage winds. The grim tolls have only increased over the course of the day Thursday and are expected to climb further as…

The remnants of Ida slammed the tri-state Wednesday night with fatal results, producing historic rainfall amounts that left millions under a flash flooding emergency, and triggering multiple tornado warnings throughout the night — including for New York City. Most of New York City was under a Flash Flood Emergency until Thursday morning — with the National Weather Service urging the 9.1...

Here’s everything to know about this weekend’s weather.

Flash flooding from the remnants of Tropical Storm Fred flood cars and basements in the West Hartford area.

Starting Monday, the National Weather Service is adding new “damaging threat” categories to severe thunderstorm warnings when they are issued. They’re implementing this change to better communicate the severity of individual severe thunderstorms.

A bridge in Ashford has collapsed because of the severe storms that passed through the state. It is unclear if anyone was hurt at this time.

Tropical Storm Elsa dumped rain along a long stretch of Florida’s Gulf Coast early Wednesday.

Police said two people were trapped when a tree came down on a home on Nevins Avenue in Enfield during strong storms Tuesday.

Two people were taken to the hospital when a tree came down on a home in Enfield during severe thunderstorms Tuesday. Firefighters said a man and a woman trapped in the home on Nevins Avenue when the tree came down on the roof. Neighbors helped them escape. “Fortunately the tree wasn’t on them or anything like that holding them...