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A Stanford University-founded startup hopes to change how climate data is collected and reported. Their solution: use AI-powered weather balloons to upend forecasts.  

A new grant from Cal Fire will help to plant more trees after a fire to replenish forests

The Bay Area is playing a key role in predicting the behavior of Hurricane Debby.

Skygazers in the Bay Area may get another chance to see rare colors of the Northern Lights, the beautiful result of a phenomenon known as a solar storm or the aurora borealis.

When it comes to geomagnetic storms, what do conditions have to be like in order for an Aurora event to grace our Bay Area skies? Meteorologist Rob Mayeda explains. 

Shortly after severe thunderstorms and brief heavy rain, lightning-sparked fires popped up and created what is now the Mill Fire and Smith Fire, part of the Gold Complex of fires burning in Plumas County.

Sizzling summer temperatures are likely taking a toll on your car.

Heat has returned to the Bay Area, as much of the region sees a warming trend that started Monday, prompting an excessive heat warning and a heat advisory for inland areas, according to the National Weather Service.

The weather system that scorched the Bay Area in early July is hanging a U-turn and is headed back to the region with more heat, according to the National Weather Service.

A dangerous heat wave in the Bay Area this week is about to ease as the weekend approaches.

The Santa Clara County coroner is investigating 18 deaths that may be linked to the scorching temperatures.

It’s not the only fair in the Bay Area, but it is one of the hottest, literally. A heat wave stretched through many of the prime fair-going days this year.

A visitor to Death Valley National Park died Sunday from heat exposure and another person was hospitalized as the temperature reached 128 degrees.