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A $70 million dollar federal grant was approved for the state of Mississippi to improve emergency communications capabilities among the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency, law enforcement and other first responders during major natural disasters.[...]

A slow moving tropical low pressure area associated with the remnants of Tropical Depression #5 dumped excessive amounts of rainfall across Southwestern Mississippi, leading to severe flooding on Wednesday and the threat for more flooding continues.[...]

U.S. Senator Thad Cochran of Mississippi announced last week that the federal government is affirming it will pay 90 percent of the disaster recovery costs from deadly and devastating tornadoes and floods that hit Mississippi in late April and early[...]

The death toll from the oppressive heat and humidity continues to rise, making it one of the deadliest summers in a decade in Mississippi.

Beginning in August, NASA will be flying into hurricanes to help study how they form and how some rapidly strengthen while others weaken and die.

The United States death toll from tornadoes now stands at 23 after a powerful and deadly EF-4 tornado impacted Wood County, Ohio Saturday night.

People in a subdivision in Southaven, Mississippi are in fear every time thunderstorms threaten their area, whether the storms are severe or not. 

Scientists are hoping the launch of an European Space Agency (ESA)  climate/weather  satellite in early April will provide the needed information to better determine the effects of climate change.

NASA scientists say the current El Niño, ocean warming in the tropical Pacific may finally be weakening according to satellite data.

Severe weather season got off to a destructive start on Monday, after a tornado touched down in Western Oklahoma and tracked through parts of  the town of Hammon.