Anthony R. Wood

A surfer dashes into the ocean near 37th Street in Ocean City, New Jersey, on Monday, Aug. 18, 2025, just as the ocean was getting “angry” with Hurricane Erin offshore. (David Maialetti/Philadelphia Inquirer/TNS)

Flood warnings, swimming bans in effect at Jersey shore as Erin approaches: ‘The ocean is quite angry’

August 20, 2025 at 3:53 p.m.

In a late-August week when hundreds of thousands have gathered at the Jersey shore hoping to mine what is left of summer, some barrier island towns are all but closing...

A man walks his motorcycle to Desoto Park after attempting to ride through an impassable South Bermuda Boulevard at Palmetto Beach in Tampa, Fla., as Hurricane Idalia makes landfall on Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2023. (Ivy Ceballo/Tampa Bay Times via AP)

Get ready for one of the busiest Atlantic hurricane seasons on record, forecasters say

April 19, 2024 at 2:20 p.m.

The 2024 Atlantic hurricane season is likely to be destructive and costly and has the potential to be one of the busiest on record.

Fans leave Citizens Bank Park before Game 3 of baseball's World Series between the Houston Astros and the Philadelphia Phillies on Monday, Oct. 31, 2022, in Philadelphia. The game was postponed by rain Monday night with the matchup tied 1-1. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

For the Phillies and Major League Baseball, weather may be a bigger player than ever this season

April 8, 2023 at 12:00 p.m.

Scheduling makeup games in the major leagues could become particularly challenging in a season that will be like no other in the 150-year history of the game.

Peco crews work on restoring power along Washington Avenue in Newtown, Bucks County on Monday. The area was hit by a tornado during Saturday's outbreak.

User Upload Caption: Peco crews work on restoring power along Washington Avenue in Newtown, Bucks County on Monday. The area was hit by a tornado during Saturday's outbreak. (Tom Gralish / Philadelphia Inquirer)

In the Philly region’s tornado outbreak, it was the sun that helped light the fuse

April 5, 2023 at 4:27 p.m.

What happened around here Saturday was related to the storm that had resulted in so much death and destruction in the South and Midwest late last week. As the cyclone...

Cleanup efforts begin the day after severe weather badly damaged the Apollo Theater in downtown Belvidere, Ill. on Saturday, April 1, 2023. At least one person was killed and 40 others were injured after the roof collapsed at the Apollo, the Boone County emergency managing director, Dan Zaccard, told reporters at a news conference on Saturday morning. (Jim Vondruska/The New York Times)

Multiple tornado warnings issued as severe storms rip through the Philly region Saturday night

April 1, 2023 at 8:59 p.m.

Severe storms tripped through the Philly region Saturday night, setting off multiple tornado warnings and at least one radar-confirmed twister, the National Weather Service said. That confirmed tornado touched down...

Boathouse Row as the city lights up blue to honor health-care workers in April 2020.

User Upload Caption: Boathouse Row as the city lights up blue to honor health-care workers in April 2020. (Steven M. Falk/Philadelphia Inquirer) ** OUTS - ELSENT, FPG, TCN - OUTS **

Boathouse Row lights along the Schuylkill are about to go dark for 8 months for a major upgrade

March 15, 2023 at 6:07 p.m.

Lights have been on the houses of Boathouse Row in Philadelphia since Pope John Paul II's visit in 1979.

This graphic from the National Weather Service's Mount Holly, N.J., office shows the path of an estimated EF-2 tornado that touched down Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2023, in Mercer County.

A rare February tornado was confirmed in New Jersey. The lack of snow may have been a factor

February 22, 2023 at 8:17 p.m.

As if this winter hasn't been surreal enough, a tornado touched down in New Jersey, the first in February in the Garden State since 1999. The lack of snow may...

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