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2 weeks ago | foxweather.com | Steven Yablonski |Scott Sistek

Tropical Depression Three-E formed in the Eastern Pacific on Sunday morning. A tropical depression has maximum sustained winds of 38 mph or less, and unlike tropical storms and hurricanes, tropical depressions are identified with numbers rather than names. Tropical Depression Three-E is located about 715 miles south of the southern tip of the Baja California Peninsula and is currently being monitored by the National Hurricane Center (NHC) for further development.

2 weeks ago | foxweather.com | Hayley Vawter |Julian Atienza |Scott Sistek

A busy start to the hurricane season in the eastern Pacific Ocean got even busier Saturday morning as the National Hurricane Center has now added a third area to watch for possible tropical development. But in the short term, two clusters of thunderstorms are on the cusp of becoming the basin's next named storms, but which area of disturbed weather will take the name Barbara remains somewhat of an open question.

2 weeks ago | foxweather.com | Scott Sistek

ATLANTA– The weekend is kicking off much like the work week has ended across much of the nation's heartland: with weather maps and radars dotted with clusters of strong thunderstorms and severe weather alerts.  Saturday's severe weather threat covers around 65 million people across the southern Plains, Deep South and into the Southeast. Primary dangers include wind gusts of 60+ mph and very large to giant hail, but a few tornadoes are possible.

3 weeks ago | nypost.com | Scott Sistek

LYNDEN, Wash. — Emergency officials have been busy as … well, you know, cleaning up after a commercial truck full of bee hives crashed in northern Washington, unleashing 250 million bees on first responders. The truck overturned on Weidkamp Road around 4 a.m. Friday near Lynden, just south of the Canadian border, according to the Whatcom County Sheriff’s Office. A massive response of deputies, public works officials and several bee experts were called to the scene.

3 weeks ago | foxweather.com | Scott Sistek

CARLSBAD, N.M. -- A dramatic scene unfolded in New Mexico Thursday as a severe thunderstorm triggered a large landspout that swirled near some homes in Carlsbad. Amanda Bratcher told Storyful she recorded a video of the landspout outside her home, describing it as a "huge" dust devil that developed into a landspout. Landspouts are a type of tornado . Classic tornadoes form in supercell thunderstorms that contain their own rotating updraft.