Weather

The last time the weather phenomenon hit, South America faced major drought.

Meteorologist Mike Hoffman is tracking a hurricane and a tropical storm.

The derecho, a rare and severe inland storm, hit the Midwest August 10 with winds equivalent to a category 4 hurricane.

Mother Nature is the ultimate judge, jury and, sometimes, executioner when it comes to crops. This year, she dealt a mighty verdict for many farmers across the U.S.

Of Key Cooperative's 15 grain locations, 10 were effected by the storm—40 bins were damaged totaling 12 million bu. of storage. Twenty of the cooperative’s grain bins were completely destroyed.

U.S. lawmakers and state officials from Iowa said on Tuesday that much of the state's corn crop will not be harvested following a fierce windstorm last week, as President Donald Trump visited to review the damage.

A severe windstorm last week destroyed or seriously damaged more than 57 million bushels of commercial grain storage capacity in Iowa and a similar amount on farms.

President Donald Trump on Monday said he approved federal disaster aid for Iowa after a hurricane-force storm hit last week, causing widespread damage in towns and farms and leaving thousands without power.