Climate & environment

COLUMN | Meteorologists’ apologies were almost as wild Tuesday as their forecasts were on Monday. Spring arrives at 10:46 a.m. Friday, if you define the vernal equinox as the first day. As this week showed, it is a difficult season for the forecaster.

The National Weather Service confirmed two more tornadoes touched down in Maryland during Monday’s storm.

The announcement comes after other health and environmental agencies lifted advisories in recent weeks as impacts have dissipated from the mid-January pipe rupture, which created one of the largest sewage spills in the country’s history.

High temperatures will be in the 30s and 40s, according to the National Weather Service, with lows in the upper 20s. Blustery winds are expected to continue, but they’ll be milder than what was previously forecast.

Hundreds of flights were canceled or delayed Tuesday, one day after powerful storms swept across the eastern half of the country and upended air travel in a cross-section of cities.

The National Weather Service issued a hazardous weather outlook for much of Central Maryland.

The No. 1 killer of juvenile blue crabs in Maryland waters where they congregate? Other, larger blue crabs.

Here’s what to do to be prepared for tornadoes and severe storms.

Several school systems across Maryland are closing early on Monday due to the threat of severe weather.

It's going to be rainy with thunderstorms possible on Monday and Monday night, with some flurries even possible.

A “volatile” and “severe” storm system will travel down the East Coast on Monday, bringing with it rain, wind, light snow and possible tornadoes.

Gov. Wes Moore and legislative leaders are backing a bill aimed at lowering Maryland energy bills, offering rebates and imposing new rules on utilities and data centers.

The tornado hit the small community of Cooksville just after 7 p.m. on Wednesday, according to a weather service report released on Friday.

Nearly every part of the United States is getting walloped by wild weather or just about to be. This forecast of extremes comes as weather whiplash already hit much of the East.

In recent years, a state fund meant to finance clean energy has ballooned, making it a tempting reserve to Maryland leaders in lean budget times.

COLUMN | This is Holly Beach Farm. Minutes outside of Annapolis, it is a pocket wilderness hidden next to highways and urban centers. The state bought it for $1 and is figuring out how the public can enjoy it without loving it to death.

The same cold front that brought severe thunderstorms and power outages to the region Wednesday night is sticking around through early next week.

Tornado warnings, severe thunderstorm threats and a statewide hazardous weather outlook blanketed Maryland on Wednesday evening.

A problem with processing sewage sludge at Baltimore’s largest wastewater treatment plant has driven one of its operators to ship local sewage out of state at a cost of millions of dollars a month to the city.

Anne Arundel County Executive Steuart Pittman told the County Council on Tuesday that a development moratorium covering part of northern Anne Arundel County is a “five-alarm fire” that he wants to move quickly to resolve.