Many areas in the Plains are starting to feel impact of a drier-than-normal winter, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor.

There’s only one way to describe the cold taking hold of the U.S. right now. “It’s going to be nasty,” says Drew Lerner, an agricultural meteorologist and founder of World Weather. “If you are out in ...

Learn how open range ranching transformed the Great Plains, from Texas cattle drives to rail hubs like Dodge City and Ogallala, shaping ...

Moderate or heavy precipitation amounts fell in three main areas this past week—central and northern California, parts of the southwestern Great Plains (especially southwest Kansas through the ...

Beneath the vast, flat expanse of the American Great Plains, something irreplaceable is quietly disappearing. You can't see it, hear it, or smell it.Yet it feeds roughly a fifth of the food on ...

Why do we hear of so many hailstorms over the western plains? That's a question from Matt. Even though the greatest frequency of thunderstorms is near the Gulf Coast, more storms produce hail over the ...