This is Severe Weather Awareness Week. Let's prepare for what could be a turbulent season!

Spring brings warmer temperatures and longer days, but it also increases our potential for severe weather. Today is the start of Severe Weather Awareness Week. Weather or Not will bring you a series of reports all this week to educate and prepare you for the upcoming turbulent season. Let's begin with an overview.

DIY project offers convenience of whole-home generator, at fraction of cost    

After the crippling winter storm had many relying on portable generators, a Sugar Land man is getting a lot of attention for his cost-effective, permanent, DIY whole-home generator.

At least 3 killed, 10 injured in North Carolina tornado

A tornado ripped through North Carolina's Brunswick County, killing at least three people and injuring 10 others in its trail of destruction.

Michigan residents travel to see freezing St. Clair River

People from all over Michigan visit the freezing river in St. Clair County, calling it a once-in-a-lifetime experience.

Hurricane Zeta surges inland, causing flooding, power outages along Gulf Coast

An average season sees six hurricanes and 12 named storms. This extraordinarily busy season has focused attention on climate change, which scientists say is causing wetter, stronger and more destructive storms.

Rescuers reach people cut off by Hurricane Sally, hundreds of thousands still without power

Rivers swollen by Hurricane Sally threatened more misery for parts of the Florida Panhandle and Alabama on Thursday. Georgia and the Carolinas were also warned of flooding.

'Huge rainmaker': Hurricane Sally threatens Gulf Coast with historic floods

Hurricane Sally is crawling toward the northern Gulf Coast at just 2 mph, a pace that's enabling the storm to gather huge amounts of water to eventually dump on land.

‘Houses that are totally gone’: 4 dead as Tropical Storm Laura exits Louisiana, leaving wake of destruction

One of the strongest hurricanes ever to strike the U.S. pounded the Gulf Coast with wind and rain early Thursday morning, but Laura rapidly weakened and was downgraded to a tropical storm by afternoon.

Heavy rain, hail, and damaging winds expected Thursday

Heavy rain is expected Thursday into Friday and large hail is possible for some area in southern Michigan

Wind gusts up to 50 MPH possible, power outages expected

A wind advisory is in place for Michigan on Monday as a low-pressure system blasts the area with strong winds that will likely put many of us in the dark in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic.

Historic flooding hits Mississippi, Tennessee with more drenching rains expected

Forecasters said heavy rains were expected in a band from eastern Louisiana across central parts of Mississippi and Alabama and into far west Georgia.

‘They are forming like roaches’: 6 storms over Atlantic, Pacific regions tie a modern record

There were six active storm systems in the Atlantic and Eastern Pacific regions earlier this week, tying a record for the number of combined storms in both areas, according to the National Hurricane Center.