extreme weather

The extreme weather conditions that are blasting the U.S. this week are a complicated blend of human-caused climate change and natural variability.

Severe thunderstorms left tens of thousands of Michiganders without power Tuesday morning. Some of the worst clusters of outages were in West Michigan.

Extreme heat in the Great Lakes region will only become more frequent as climate change warms the oceans, lakes and air, a University of Michigan climate expert said.

A potentially dangerous hot spell arrives in Michigan Monday, bringing additional risk to outdoor workers and manual laborers.

Advocates say Michigan’s poor performance compared to neighboring states shows a failure by state regulators to ensure that utilities adequately invest in the grid.

Through this weekend, the first significant arctic outbreak of winter is affecting most of the country. Wind, flooding rain, and some tornado warnings have been issued across the U.S.

Efforts to expand state hate crime law to include more protected classes, a national video series between academics and artists/creatives discussing Black operatives along the underground railroad, Ann Arbor flooding, and the afterlives of solar panels.

Thursday night, there were more severe thunderstorms throughout Southeast Michigan. We heard from a response team on the ground in Livingston County. Then, we learned about what organizations in the region are doing long-term to plan for persistent flooding.

Preparing for an extreme heat wave, a West Michigan pickleball tournament, Indigenous Peoples' use of fire for forest management, and Michigan's petroglyphs.

Recent outages affected hundreds of thousands of Michiganders. One Washtenaw County commissioner says utility companies have too much influence over state politicians.