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Get the weather forecast for your entire road trip.

View forecasts on the map to see if there's snow in that high mountain pass, or flash flooding across that lonely desert, all at the same time.

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Every forecast is adjusted to show the road weather precisely when you'll be driving through each location.

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Drag along the time slider to change your departure time and instantly see how the weather forecasts change at different times of day. Perfect for road trips with flexible schedules.

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Highway Weather keeps you abreast of ...

- Moment-to-moment weather changes.

- The best time to hit the road.

- Every piece of relevant weather info at every stage of your trip!

Our technology streamlines your travel logistics by displaying real-time weather updates right alongside your trip route. It’s never been easier to plan your routes, maximize efficiency, and dodge the highway delays that come from sudden inclement weather.

We even customize the weather forecast for your needs. For example, if you're looking for trucking weather forecasts, we'll tailor the results to specially suit your vehicle, such as highlighting wind speed in our results.

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A good travel weather app recognizes that you’re looking to avoid hailstorms and flood warnings. A great app knows you’re also considering where you’ll spend the night, stop for lunch, drop off a shipment, or encounter the least amount of traffic. Highway Weather gives you the ability to add stops along the way and receive departure time recommendations that take into account the forecasts for the days ahead.

Our app allows users to observe and compare multiple route options, compare forecasts, and ensure that your trip itinerary meets all the needs for your road trips.

If you're planning your trip in advance or have a flexible departure time, use our interactive slider to adjust your departure time. Weather forecasts will update in real-time as you adjust the slider, giving you immediate feedback about weather conditions at different times in order to find the best conditions for travel.

Leverage a top-caliber weather app for travel planning that optimizes your trip and gives you as many clear sky days as possible!

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Highway Weather is the best weather app for traveling. Our interactive features provide ongoing updates for road weather information based on your specified arrival and departure times. You'll know when to stay on the road, when to get off the road, which road to take — and where to steer clear of debilitatingly bad weather. As you proceed, our app uses traffic cameras, forecast data, and weather radar to alert you to temperature, visibility, precipitation, wind speed, and many other relevant details.

Get to Your Destination — and Arrive Safely! Get to Your Destination — and Arrive Safely!

Highway Weather streamlines your travel plans by showing you all options for the best and most efficient routes. You will know exactly when and where you can expect to encounter weather that might pose a danger or inconvenience to your trip. We want to see you make it to your destination and return home with swiftness, comfort, and ease.

Since 2013, Highway Weather has continually developed and improved our features and design. With more than 100k global users, we’ve made a name for ourselves as one of the best travel weather apps available — complete with reliable, friendly customer support to answer and address any questions or concerns.

We provide free forecasts in addition to subscription features that proactively notify you of bad weather while you’re on the road driving. The app is even a preferred weather app for secured government devices who choose Highway Weather for its advanced privacy and security features.

Install Highway Weather now — and prepare to get back on the road!

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Our technology streamlines your travel logistics by displaying real-time weather updates right inside your drive. It’s never been easier to plan your routes, maximize efficiency, and dodge the highway delays that come from sudden inclement weather.

Leverage the best weather app for travel planning that optimizes your trip and gives you as many clear-sky days as possible! And be on the lookout for severe weather alerts that are especially dangerous.

Highway Weather is the best weather app for traveling. Our interactive features provide ongoing updates for road weather information based on your specified arrival and departure times. You'll know when to stay on the road, when to get off the road, which road to take — and where to steer clear of debilitatingly bad weather. As you proceed, our app uses traffic cameras, forecast data, and weather radar to alert you to temperature, visibility, precipitation, wind speed, and other relevant details.

Highway Weather has existed since 2013, continually developing and iterating our features and design. With more than 100k global users, we’ve made a name for ourselves as one of the top apps of our kind — complete with reliable customer support to answer and address any questions or concerns.

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Highway Weather was born of necessity.

It began in late 2012 with a simple problem: The app founder, Devan Stormont, was trying to visit family for the winter holidays. The drive was about 7 hours through "middle-of-nowhere" rural country with limited road and cell services. A series of rolling snowstorms were moving in a way that it wasn't clear whether the trip could be made without getting trapped in a storm. Existing apps and websites were not helpful in resolving the problem.

For the sake of safety, the trip was cancelled. Out of frustration, the first version of Highway Weather was created over the following weeks (and originally called Weather Route ).

At first, it was a hobby/personal app used to solve a personal problem and updates were made to fix personal annoyances. Over time, it became popularly adopted by many travelers and commercial users.

Since 2013, it's been our mission to ensure everyone can arrive at their destination safely.

Today, we do that by providing you the best road trip weather planner app on the market.

Weather On The Way

The most advanced road conditions app.

• Weather along your route
• Exactly at the time you will be driving through
• Pick the best time to leave
• Say NO to weather delays
• Know EVERYTHING about weather conditions at any point of your trip

A Road Trip Weather App

Weather on the Way is a new travel weather app that provides a detailed weather forecast for your driving route. Thanks to combining forecasting and navigation, you get weather conditions precisely at a time you will be driving through .

Perfect for road trips

Check the radar ahead.

For longer trips add waypoints and stops along the route. Set the stop duration and get the perfect forecast for the next day!

Pick a route, avoid a storm

No more unexpected delays.

Check alternative routes to make sure you have picked one with the best weather

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Weather radar on your dashboard.

Track the weather forecast and precipitation while driving your car.

Full of details

Every step of the way.

Temperature, conditions, visibility, precipitation, wind speed, UV Index and more

Plan in advance

Up to 7 days before departure.

Swipe left and right to find the best time to leave.

Be aware of severe conditions

Stay safe on the road.

Weather alerts and radar along your driving route.

Check wind conditions

Speed, direction and gusts.

Driving a large vechicle like an RV or towing a trailer? Check for dangerous wind to avoid a risk of rollover.

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Dark Mode – Comfortable during long nightly drives

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Navver allows you to navigate with live weather data as you drive..

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Your trip to avoid bad weather conditions.

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Navver allows you to view weather conditions all across the country before you begin your trip.

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I love this app so much. I go on long drives all the time and this app is so convenient for helping me plan my drive. I love being able to see what the weather will be on my route without having to open two separate apps. This app combines both navigation and weather, how innovative and helpful!! Highly recommend for day-to-day driving and long rides. 10/10 recommend this app!

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Introducing Weather on the Way, A New Road Trip Weather App

I road trip frequently, and one vexing issue is finding a weather forecast for an entire route in one place. While driving 600+ miles in a day, you might pass through multiple forecast zones en route. Historically, figuring out the day’s forecast involved multiple National Weather Service forecast office websites to cobble something together. And at times, I wished I’d picked a different route after the weather turned more uncooperative than expected. Over the last year, a few new apps have come out to provide real-time weather info as you travel a route. And now, time to add another. Introducing the Weather on the Way app, an app combining navigation with a time-based forecast for your entire route. When looking for a cool car to make the trip, check out this off road camper trailers on sale.

Disclosure: the app’s developer, Piotr Knapczyk, reached out to me to write a post concerning the app’s launch today. I was also provided a beta test version of the “Pro” version free of charge. I received no other compensation to promote the app.  All opinions expressed are mine.

Weather on the Way App At a Glance

I’ll let Weather on the Way’s launch press release do the talking:

Weather on the Way is a new kind of weather app – it provides a weather forecast for a route. By combining navigation and weather, it can calculate a route to your destination and show a forecast for points along this route, precisely at the time you will be driving through. Trending 13 Days Thanksgiving Antarctica Cruise: $7,499! Taking advantage of Dark Sky (and soon more forecast sources) and Apple Maps, it can provide a detailed forecast, that includes not just temperature and precipitation but also visibility range, wind and UV index, helping avoid unexpected delays. A beautiful Timeline view shows your position and forecast clearly and in big letters, useful when driving with your phone in a car holder. Timeline also includes sunrise and sunset and dark mode makes it easy to use at night.

In short, the app doubles as both a navigation aid and an updated weather forecast along your entire day’s route. Google Maps does alert you to warnings (such as winter storm warnings) along the way, but doesn’t provide specifics. Weather on the Way takes things a step further, providing a range of weather info at frequent intervals along the way. In that sense, it’s similar to the Drive Weather and Highway Weather apps, though with some differences in features.

Launching the app reveals the very navigation-esque interface – one of my favorite features of the app. You can either type in two cities as the starting/ending points, or specific addresses. Either way, the app then calculates the shortest route between your two points, and displays the forecast at various points along the way.

Click on the “Show Timeline” button to view more details. I’m not entirely sure how the timeline selects forecast points; each one is exactly the same distance apart, though at seemingly random 35-45 mile intervals. Anyway, the timeline provides a simple, easy to read interface showing drive times and temperature/sky condition.

Interestingly, the app shows where you’ll encounter sunrise and sunset along your route, if applicable. I did notice one glitch when playing around with the beta test, though. If your road trip involves travel where the sun sets after midnight – to, oh, say, Deadhorse, Alaska – the timeline shows a sunset right after noon instead.

If there are any National Weather Services watches/warnings/advisories en route, click on the warning icon for details.

You can also click on a point in the timeline for more details, including precip chances, visibility, rainfall forecast, and more.

Weather on the Way also displays up to two alternate routes; you can toggle between them to see if the forecast looks more favorable on one of the alternates.

Finally, Weather on the Way allows you to both select a departure time, and a departure date up to three days ahead.

A Real World Test Drive of the Weather on the Way App

I recently had the chance to test Weather on the Way on an…unconventional…road trip. We traveled one of the most remote stretches of road in the world, Alaska’s Dalton Highway. The Dalton stretches from north of Fairbanks to remote Deadhorse, on the shores of the Arctic Ocean. I was curious whether the app would even generate a routing/forecast for such a route. But indeed it did.

We actually planned to stop in Coldfoot, so I also checked that routing; it pulled up a route and forecast as well.

The forecast engine even displayed National Weather Service statements for our routing.

Note that these aren’t the actual forecasts for our drive; these were test trips I ran before leaving home. However, the actual forecast on driving day actually verified fairly well. Fairbanks to Coldfoot called for occasional rain and temperatures in the 50s, and that’s exactly what we got. So the forecast engine appears pretty accurate (at least comparable to other reliable sources).

I did pick up on a couple of niggles, though. First, notice the time zone flaw. If your current location is in one time zone, but you search a route in another, your departure time sets to your current time zone, but it then resets your routing to the time zone of your route. In the above example, the app recognizes 10 AM as CDT, but then starts your forecast at 7 AM AKDT. A bit annoying, though only an issue when trying to set a forecast in advance.

Second, the calculated drive times were a bit unrealistic on this route. It seems the navigation tool calculates drive time without stops, or delays for road conditions. Trust me, you’re not getting from Fairbanks to Coldfoot in 5 hours 41 minutes…

Final Thoughts

Compared to its competitors, Weather on the Way is missing a couple of features. It lacks the live radar and departure assistant of Highway Weather, for example. Drive Weather, meanwhile, offers a better interactive time slider to compare the forecast based on departure times. I’d also prefer a navigation aid that allows you to customize your routing, though nobody else seems to offer this, either.

As for pricing, the free version contains access to all features; however, you only receive five free “trips” without a subscription. (Weather on the Way defines a “trip” as a 24-hour period in which you initiate a route search. Apparently, you can search as many routes as you want in that one 24-hour period, though.) After that, pricing is currently 99 cents per month, or $9.99 per year. That’s the same price as Drive Weather, though Highway Weather offers most of the same features unlimited for free.

So would I pay based on what I saw? For a typical road trip, you could just buy a one month subscription to cover it.  99 cents for a pretty good forecast tool isn’t bad. Then again, I’d like to see if Highway Weather can do the same for free.

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Best Weather App for Your Road Trip

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As you are about to embark on your road trip, you’ll probably want to know what kind of weather you’ll encounter along your route. 

Knowing the driving conditions in advance of your road trip will help you choose the safest route and give you peace of mind. 

We realized the importance of this on a recent December road trip from Milwaukee, WI to Utah. Because we were traveling in the winter, we wanted to make sure we weren’t going to run into any snowstorms, especially in the mountainous regions. 

It was not easy to find the information I needed using traditional weather apps like Accuweather or Dark Sky. With these apps, I had to think about when we would be in specific cities and then look up each forecast for that specific day and time. It was a pain.

But I then found exactly what I was looking for. 

I found weather apps that can show you the weather forecast for each location at the time you are expected to pass through them. Wait, what????

These apps helped us pick the safest route and plan our departure time appropriately to avoid inclement weather conditions. 

There are several weather apps for road trips out there for both iPhone and Android. 

We tested out 3 apps that allow you to easily check the weather along your driving route to help you arrive safely at your destination. 

OUR TOP PICK – Weather On The Way

Weather On The Way is a clean and easy-to-use weather app that displays the weather conditions along your route for the days and times you are expected to drive through.  It also gives you the option of selecting alternative routes (shown below with the grey line) if the weather isn’t looking the safest on the fastest route.

This app shows you a snapshot of the weather along your road trip route as well as any weather alerts that would be in effect when you pass through. You can also view the radar to see any current precipitation and which way it’s headed.

Overall, we highly recommend this app. It has a user-friendly interface and the addition of weather alerts is worth the subscription fee.

Cost for Pro Version: $2.99/month or $16.99/year

• Available in 70+ countries
• Can test out Pro Version 5 times before purchasing
• Ability to add planned stops song your route, along with the amount of time stopped, to ensure accurate weather prediction timing
• Ability to adjust departure date (up to 7 days in advance)
• Limited abilities with the free version.

Available on:  Apple

Drive Weather – An Acceptable Option

The Drive Weather app is also an easy-to-use app full of weather info that will help you get to your destination safely. 

As with Weather On the Way, you can enter your destination and all of the stops along the way. The app then shows the weather forecast at the expected time you will get to each point on a trip.

The app has an easy-to-read map with options to view the radar, temperature, wind speeds, and precipitation you may run into along the route. The interface is a little clunky, but still does the job it was intended to do. 

Overall, this app has a lot of useful features if you’re willing to pay for the annual subscription of $9.99

• Option to adjust travel speed for more accurate weather predictions
• Free version has limited abilities

Available on: Android and Apple

Highway Weather – Best Free Option

Highway Weather will show you the weather along your route for the time you will be traveling through, however it’s a bit clunky . 

The best part about this app is that it gives you quite a few features with the free version. 

The app provides suggestions on the best time to leave and allows you to pick your mode of transportation such as car, small truck, or motorcycle as these affect your travel speed. 

• Easy to adjust the departure time up to 5 days in advance
• Get a lot with the free version
• Available outside of the US
• Can’t change the order of stops once entered. You can reverse the order but can’t add stops or change the order of the stops
• Ads clutter the interface and pop up ads disrupt the user experience

Wrapping Up

Using an app to check the weather along your travel route before and during your road trip will help you avoid stressful driving situations and get you to your destination safely.

Go ahead and download the app that you think may work best for you and give it a shot.

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Road trips are one of the ultimate summer activities, but it takes a lot of planning especially if you aim to head across the country. While you can map out exactly where you’ll eat and stay and what to go see, plans can change if you come across unexpected weather. Instead of rolling with the punches, you can now attempt to make plan B if you get hit with bad weather by making use of a new The Weather Channel travel planner. In collaboration with Stamen Design, the road trip planner will show you the weather forecast for each stop you make along the drive to help you prepare or choose a new route entirely.

The road trip planner can be especially helpful if there are several different routes you can take from one city to another. “So let’s say you’re driving from New York to San Francisco, and you’re trying to decide whether to go straight across or loop up or down a bit,” the Stamen Design blog post  reads. “This will give you a sense for whether it’s going to be rainy or sunny when you plan to be in the middle of Nebraska.”

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At the moment, the app is currently only available for travel in the United States. Sample your own possible trip here .

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Weather-Proof Your Travel Plans: 7 Best Weather Apps for Travelers

Plan ahead and stay up to date with the best weather apps for traveling. from air quality to storm or northern lights tracking, these apps cover it all….

• 1 Plan ahead and stay up to date with the best weather apps for traveling. From air quality to storm or northern lights tracking, these apps cover it all…
• 2 7 Best Weather Apps for Travelers
• 3 The Weather Channel
• 4 AccuWeather
• 6 Weather on the Way (iOS only)
• 7 WeatherBug
• 8 IQAir AirVisual Air Quality Forecast
• 9 My Aurora Forecast
• 10 BONUS APP: The Drive Weather App
• 11 7 Best GPS Apps for Your Travel Style
• 12.1 Related

What’s one of the first things you do when you start packing for a trip? That’s right, you check the weather at your destination. Is it going to be hot, cold, or rainy? What about cold in the morning but hot in the afternoon?

You need to know these details to pack and plan correctly and stay up-to-date with any forecast changes. And, let’s be real, there are always a lot of changes to forecasts.

The following apps help you do all of the above. They help travelers plan ahead and on the go, making the most of their trip. Plus, we’ve included a couple of niche apps that help you track air quality and discover the northern lights!

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7 Best Weather Apps for Travelers 

Sometimes your phone’s default weather app just doesn’t cut it, especially as you travel from place to place and need more reliability. 

Luckily, the following weather apps can help you plan your trip and stay prepared for any weather changes. 

The Weather Channel

The Weather Channel has been the leader for weather on TV and also claims a top spot as the best weather app. The app has easy-to-understand visualizations and alerts, so you get a quick view of the weather without spending much time in the app.

Even quicker, the latest version offers new lock screen widgets on Android and iOS16 that display the forecast on your lock screen. So, you don’t even have to unlock your phone or open the app to see the day’s forecast. 

An analysis by ForecastWatch determined The Weather Channel to be the overall most accurate provider globally . 

However, be warned that the free version has become quite overloaded with ads. You can upgrade to The Weather Channel Premium for ad-free weather for $4.99 per month or $29.99 per year.

Available in the Apple App Store and Google Play .

AccuWeather

AccuWeather has ranked as the best weather app for many years, primarily because of its user-friendliness and MinuteCast® forecasts. The MinuteCast® forecasts for Minute by Minute® precipitation updates and the WinterCast™ gives you advanced warnings of snowfall probabilities and accumulation.

The World Meteorological Organization has awarded it “Best User Interface and Data Representation,” “Best Weather Warnings,” and “Best Design and Presentation of Information, User-Friendliness; Access and Customization.” 

Unfortunately, the latest update for Accuweather has put two of those awards in jeopardy. New and long-time users are very unhappy with the new visuals and interface. However, they’ll very likely release another update soon, addressing the backlash they received from the latest update. 

The app also has more ads than ever, which pressures users to invest in the premium. But who can blame them for wanting to profit from their highly-accurate product? The free version still works great if you overlook the ads. Or you can pay $0.99 to $1.99 per month for Premium or Premium+.

Clime is a sleek and straightforward weather app that provides real-time weather updates and forecasts for any location worldwide. It provides NOAA weather radar live, which is the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (AKA the Big Cahuna of weather).

Clime Pro has a lot of great features, including customized weather alerts based on saved locations. Plus, a hurricane tracker, advanced precipitation forecast, lightning tracker, air quality index, wildfire tracking, and more. Oh, and no ads. 

As such, it’s recognized as one of the best weather apps for severe weather tracking and warnings.

The Pro is a bit pricy, starting at $2.99 per week or $9.99 monthly on iOS. However, the weekly option is nice for travelers who may only need Pro features for a short time. 

Weather on the Way (iOS only)

Weather on the Way is an iOS-only app that provides real-time weather updates and forecasts en route. You can set your driving route and it will forecast what lies ahead. So, it’s ideal for road trippers!

It is compatible with CarPlay, which is becoming more and more desirable these days. There’s room for improvement with its CarPlay usability, but it’s a relatively new app compared to others. So, improvements will surely soon follow.

The free version works well for occasional road trips. If you travel for work or pleasure often, it may be worth upgrading to Pro. You can get Pro Monthly for $4.99 or unlock all Pro features for life with Pro Lifetime at $84.99.

Available only in the Apple App Store . Google Play has a similar weather route app called Highway Weather that shows some promise.

WeatherBug is widely considered the best FREE weather app. It’s a standard yet reliable weather app that offers real-time weather updates and forecasts for any location worldwide. 

The app also provides useful features such as radar maps, live camera feeds, and severe weather alerts. Additionally, WeatherBug offers a unique feature called Spark, which provides lightning alerts and safety tips.

In exchange for all its features being free, WeatherBug does have ads but not overwhelmingly so. If you can’t tolerate any ads, you can get rid of them for $0.99 per monthly or $9.99 per year.

IQAir AirVisual Air Quality Forecast

This niche weather app provides real-time air quality updates and forecasts for any location worldwide. It covers 10,000+ locations from a global network of government monitoring stations and AirVisual’s own validated sensors.

The app also offers helpful features such as allergy and asthma risk assessments, customized alerts for air quality changes, and personalized health recommendations.

My Aurora Forecast

This is another niche weather app that is popular among travelers. As the name suggests, it helps you see the Aurora Borealis, whether you’re a tourist or a serious aurora watcher.

It’s a must-have travel weather app if you’re traveling in hopes of seeing the Northern Lights. It tells you everything you need to know, including how likely you are to see the lights at any given location and time. 

BONUS APP: The Drive Weather App

We have found the best weather app for RV travel. It takes the National Weather Service’s weather forecast showing RVers the weather along their route at the time they reach each point. It allows comparison of different routes, creating stops, interactively changing departure time, and other features that help RVers plan trips around the weather. Drive Weather is a travel app worth the look, too!

7 Best GPS Apps for Your Travel Style

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The Best Free Weather Apps For Travelers

Don't Let Bad Weather Ruin Your Trip

There are many things that can ruin a vacation, and unexpected weather is right up the top of the list. Snowstorms can throw transport plans into disarray. Excessive heat makes exploring new cities a chore, while sudden cold snaps make wandering equally miserable. Heavy rain can leave you and your luggage soaked for hours.

While there's little you can do to prevent bad weather when you travel, knowing it's coming lets you make better plans.

Here are five of the best free weather apps to help make your next trip a little more enjoyable, plus a few suggestions for specific destinations. They're all available for both Android and Apple devices.

Weather Bug

Want a weather app with all of the features? Download Weather Bug. While some might find the amount of information overwhelming, the app does a good job of focusing on the bits you actually need.

Everything from pollen count to barometric pressure, live cams to lightning detection, is available with a tap or two. There's also more typical fare, including the current conditions, with both hourly and extended forecasts.

Severe weather alerts for your current location give you a warning of what lies in store, and the Android home screen widgets are both attractive and useful.  You can track multiple locations at once, which is handy if you need to know what's happening back at home, or in your next destination.

Available on:  Android ,  iOS

Weather Channel

For a simpler interface, check out the Weather Channel app.

It covers the basics quickly and well, with a "Now" screen that includes temperature and description, and expands to give more info with a single tap.

Short video forecasts and predictions like "Expect rain to start at 2:30 pm" set the app apart from the rest, with hourly and longer-term forecasts also available.

The app tracks severe weather like storms and hurricanes, and gives details for both current and saved locations. If you're after a straightforward app, backed by one of the "heavy hitters" in weather forecasting, this is the one for you.

AccuWeather

AccuWeather sites somewhere between the two apps listed above, providing plenty of information, in a clear, simple format that doesn't overload the user.

The hourly forecast is attractive, presented in both graph and text format, while the daily predictions benefit from a status bar that alerts to the likelihood of severe weather in the next few days. The addition of "RealFeel" information (what the weather actually feels like outside) is a nice touch, especially when traveling in particularly humid or cold destinations.

Videos of global weather reports and news provide a brief distraction if you're out of reach of a television, although they feel more like an afterthought than a vital part of the app. You'll definitely want to avoid them if you're on a limited or expensive data roaming package, though, or at least wait until you're connected to a Wi-fi network.

1Weather strikes that rare balance of doing just the right amount, without trying to do too much. It's easy to see current, daily and weekly forecasts for your current location or, with a couple of taps, anywhere else on the planet.

Information is presented clearly, and you can see highs, lows and general forecasts for the week ahead at a glance. Details for the current day include wind speed, humidity, ​chance of rain in the next hour, and more.

The range of Android widgets are useful and flexible, and while there's a premium, ad-free version, a purchase isn't necessary for most travelers. Accurate and useful all around the world, this is an excellent, if lesser-known, weather companion for travelers.

Available on:  iOS ,  Android

Yahoo Weather

Last but not least, Yahoo Weather is easily the best-looking app in this list. Pulling attractive, location-specific backgrounds from Flickr, first impressions are deceiving–all you see is a very basic temperature and forecast at the bottom left.

Scrolling down, however, reveals a wealth of other detail. Hourly, five and ten-day forecasts give way to current weather, regional maps, wind and rain predictions, and sunrise/sunset times. What you see is what you get, since you can't tap for further details, but the information on offer will be enough for most people.

You can swipe left and right to check out other locations, and the range of Android widgets are as attractive and functional as the app itself.

One note of caution: be careful if you're roaming, or on a cell plan with limited data. Those lovely background photos aren't particularly small, and they'll chew through a surprising amount of data over the course of a trip.

Country-Specific Apps

If you want the most accurate information for one particular destination, it's also worth looking for country-specific weather apps.

The official weather services in many popular destinations have released their own apps. These provide more features and detail about the conditions than most general-purpose versions, so if the weather is going to be particularly important on your trip, check the app store before you leave.

A few useful examples include:

• The Met Office in the United Kingdom's ( iOS , Android )
• The Australian Bureau of Meteorology ( iOS and Android )
• New Zealand's Met Service ( iOS and Android )

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Meet Wayther, an iOS weather forecast app designed specifically for road trips

A new iOS app called Wayther wants to help you better plan your road trips by giving you real-time road conditions and weather forecasts along your route. Created by indie developer Axel Le Pennec, Wayther gives you weather forecasts along your route up to 10 days in advance. 

Le Pennec, who has been building iOS apps since 2013, told TechCrunch that he came up with the idea for Wayther after adding a weather forecasts feature for his digital boating log book app, Skipper. 

“In addition to having the ability to record a boat trip in Skipper, I also wanted to add a new feature that would allow users to plan a future trip and check the weather along the route,” Le Pennec said. “I realized that it was a nice feature for the app, but maybe it was also an idea for another app that could be used by more users like truckers or travelers.” 

Le Pennec then decided to create Wayther.

Wayther lets you pick different routes and adjust your departure or arrival times to find the perfect window for a safe and fun trip. The idea behind the app is to get rid of the need to type multiple locations into a weather app when planning a road trip and trying to determine when potentially bad weather might hit. 

You can identify severe weather alerts, poor visibility and night driving conditions. Plus, you can plan out your trip during scenic times like sunrise or sunset. 

Once you enter your starting point and destination into the app, it will give you three routes from which to choose. Wayther then gives you detailed weather forecasts at different points along your route. The app’s interactive map will show you a trip overview and detailed timeline. 

The app works in all countries where Apple Weather is available and supports both metric and imperial units. Wayther isn’t just aimed at car trips, as it can also be used for motorcycles, RVs, trucks, buses and bikes too. 

Le Pennec told TechCrunch that this is just the first version of the app, and that he has a slew of features planned, such as the ability to add stops, view route history, save favorites and see live updates while driving. Le Pennec is also waiting on authorization from Apple to build a CarPlay app, and is also working to add better OS integration with widgets, Live Activity and Siri shortcuts. 

In addition, Le Pennec wants to make the app available in more languages, starting with French, German, Spanish and Italian. 

Wayther offers a free trial that gives three trips for free. After the trial period, you can choose from $1.99 weekly, $2.99 monthly or $14.99 yearly plans.

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*** WEATHER on the ROUTE *** In Highway Weather Road Trip Planner, we show you a weather forecast for your entire road trip. Plan your trip, add waypoints for your route on a map and see what weather forecast will be when you arrive. We show the weather forecast based on your journey length, which makes Highway Weather the most accurate weather forecast app for travellers. In Highway Weather Road Trip Planner, we not only provide you with information about road conditions but also have road conditions change alerts we get from publicly available services like 511, weather forecast websites, public sources. *** ROUTE PLANNER *** Incredibly simple to use route planner helps you to plan your journey. Just add waypoints and stopovers and enjoy an accurate weather forecast for your entire journey. The route is fully customizable so you can explore different routing options and choose the best route for you. *** Highway Weather Road Trip Planner *** - Supports trucks, motorcycles, cars, bicycles, RVs and walking routes. - Supports waypoints and rest stops along the route. - Has one-click navigation to every stop. - Saves all your trips to travel history so you can revisit them later. - Shows sunrise and sunset times at each point of your journey so you can avoid driving when it's dark. - Creates a weather forecast model for your entire journey at the moment you arrive. - Shows temperature, feels-like temperature, rain, wind, humidity, pressure, sunrise and sunset times, snow at each point of your route. - Provides variable interval, which depends on your journey length to improve weather forecast accuracy. - Shows how different departure times affect the weather for your journey. - Has road conditions change alerts. - Supports metric and imperial units. - Works in all countries - Forever Ad-free. Highway Weather Road Trip Planner is: - road planner for truck drivers (who travel a lot and need to know the conditions of the road they are taking); - route planner for motorcyclists (who plan their rides and love riding in good weather); - trip planner for travellers (who want to know how to get there safe); - road trip planner for RV, caravans, motorhomes, trailers, campers owners (who travel a lot); - cycling planner for those who like to ride bikes; - outdoor weather app for those who like to go hiking; - all who care about their journey, safety, road conditions and weather on the way. Terms Of Use: https://apps.proalab.com/policies/highwayweather-terms.html Privacy Policy: https://apps.proalab.com/policies/highwayweather-privacy.html If you have a support query, please contact us by email: [email protected] Highway Weather Road Trip Planner is the Route Builder with Weather Forecast you always have been looking for. Install it today!

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Doesn’t tell us where they get their weather data.

Comparing the same route with other apps shows that their weather forecast is inconsistent. It would help to be transparent with where they get their data from to know if it’s accurate. Can’t find it anywhere in the app or the developer’s site. It’s concerning that the data does mot match other drive weather apps.

Developer Response ,

Hi, we get the data from multiple service providers (one of them being Climacell and the second being OpenWeather) to create a better forecast accuracy. As we give you a forecast at the time you arrive at your points, it might be different from other weather forecasts apps. Weather forecast points are snapped to the road layout, so even if you get the weather in any other app, it might not be the same point (coordinates) then in our application. The majority of apps in this category does not give an accurate map or does not request a weather forecast at the time of arrival, taking into account traffic and other weather conditions. In our app we do, that's why our app is being tested and trusted by a lot of truck drivers and motorcyclists who provided us with a lot of data on how to improve forecast accuracy in the first place. Hopefully this helps.

Something major wrong

I am in the three day trial. When I have told it to subscribe and I currently have a subscription, every time I try to touch a button to either reroute or do something the box still pops up that says that I have to do something with the subscription. I can’t test anything or even look at anything in the app because all it does is keep annoying me to get a subscription even though I already have the subscription. While it looks like a really nice app that I would like to try I cannot even get it to function. You developers really need to test your stuff there’s something really wrong and if you can’t get your stuff working then there’s no reason why a person should pay you.

Hi, we apologies for that. If you already have a subscription (or trial) you simply can restore your purchase in the app settings. Please go to the app settings (bottom right menu) and click restore your purchase - it should fix it for you. If restore is unsuccessful it might be because your trial is expired or you do not actually have a subscription. If you need a help please drop us a line on [email protected]. We will be able to assist you. Sorry for inconvenience.

Underwhelmed

I wanted to like this app. Unfortunately, I do not and am choosing another. The app sends you to ads for its paid version even when you are trying to use aspects listed as free. It is very slow to load the route forecast, even though I am on strong WiFi.

Thank you for your review. We are working on a new version which has support of new weather providers and will be working much more stable. It will have a lot of cool features for free.

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National Weather Service Travel Forecast - Experimental!

Winter will be upon us soon, and with that comes hazardous traveling conditions. we want you to be prepared and stay safe this winter so we are are testing a new webpage that will display our national weather service forecasts along south dakota highways and interstates. road segments are color coded based on forecast weather in 6 hour time intervals. selecting a road segment provides detailed forecast information. the forecast is for planning purposes only and you should call 511 or navigate to www.safetravelusa.com/sd for current road conditions across south dakota. this page is experimental so it is subject to change at any time. , ready to check it out go there directly by clicking on this link https://www.wrh.noaa.gov/wrh/travel/wfo=sds&layer=2 , or navigate to www.weather.gov/abr and find the link under local information or scroll to the bottom of the page and click on travel forecast., here are some quick instructions to get you started: , navigate to www.weather.gov/abr, find the travel forecast link, navigate through 6 hour time blocks, get details along road segments, set your own criteria, get a point to point forecast, additional help on this page, 1.  navigate to www.weather.gov/abr.

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Now that you are at the travel forecast page, you can see how the forecast is changing through time. Simply click on the 6 hour time blocks at the bottom of the page to see weather conditions for that time period.

4. Get Details Along Road Segments

Click on highway segments to get details about the forecast. You can also zoom in on the map to see additional highways.

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Use the left hand side menu to select "Criteria Customization". Use the slider bars to choose weather forecast variables based on values that are important to you. Click update! The colors of the road segments will adjust accordingly on the map.

6.  Get a Point to Point Forecast

Use the left hand side menu to select "Navigation and Overlays". Enter your departure location and time, and your destination location. Click go! The map will zoom to the highways along your route, with the weather information included based on travel time.  The point to point forecast is still in 6 hour periods, and will only display the currently selected time period for the estimated time that you will be traveling during that section. Sections of road that fall outside of that estimate will be grayed out.

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How to stay cool & happy at Delaware State Fair 2024

A s you prepare for the 105th Delaware State Fair starting this week, you're not alone if it feels like the event always falls on the hottest days of summer.  

“It feels like it,” said Carly Callahan, marketing and sponsorship manager for the State Fair. 

But the fair is so popular that the heat didn't stop 308,989 fans from attending last year, which was the fourth highest in the event's history. Part of the key to having a good time is staying hydrated and wearing cool clothes.

While sweaty times are a tradition at the State Fair, we have some tips and guides on where to find cool air this year, what items you can bring into the fairgrounds, promotional days that offer discounts, and more, at the beloved fair that runs Thursday, July 18 to Saturday, July 27. 

What's the weather forecast for Delaware State Fair 2024?

The 10-day weather report predicts a high of 89 degrees on both Friday, July 26 and Saturday, July 27, with a low of 66 degrees on opening day Thursday, July 18. Thunderstorms are forecast for all three days.  

Additionally, thunderstorms are forecast for seven out of the 10 days at the fair. The remaining days, Friday, July 19 to Sunday, July 21, are expected to be cloudy. 

What items can you bring to Delaware State Fair 2024? 

Guests can bring water bottles and refill them at the Centre Ice Rink, Callahan said.   

If you have dietary restrictions or other reasons for wanting to bring your own food or drinks, "please do," according to the State Fair's website . The site also says you're allowed to bring coolers or ice chests and be aware that both will get searched. But you're not to bring alcohol, metal knives or glass containers. 

Visitors are also free to pull children in a small wagon.  

What food is available at State Fair 2024?

In the mood for cookies, tacos, cheesesteaks or spicy fried pickles covered in cheese puffs? You can have it all, plus much more, from the 70-plus food vendors at the State Fair. Vendors include Grotto Pizza, Ice Kreme Mill, Phat Boys (soft crab po’ boy and cheesesteaks), plus Aunt Betty & Uncle Bubbas Chocolate Chip Cookies. Visit the fair's website for the full vendor list.  

Are there air conditioners at Delaware State Fair 2024? 

The State Fair has multiple buildings with air conditioning including the Dover Building, Delmarva Building, Exhibit Hall and Delaware Department of Agriculture Commodities Building, Callahan said.  

This year, guests should have a more comfortable experience watching concerts, the Demolition Derby, or harness racing at the M&T Bank Grandstand. State fair organizers have installed ceiling fans that cover the entire Grandstand. 

"It'll help to alleviate some of that pain that people are feeling from the hot weather," Callahan said. 

Delaware State Fair 2024: Entertainment preview for concerts and carnival

What's new at Delaware State Fair 2024? What to know before you go

What promotional days are at Delaware State Fair 2024?  

There are discounts and freebies fairgoers can take advantage of that are spread out across various promotional days at the State Fair:  

Friday, July 19: Pepsi Day  

Visitors can sample one of Pepsi's new drinks and grab a free mini can before leaving the fair.

Monday, July 22: Food Lion Hunger Relief Day 

Guests can receive free admission when they bring five non-perishable Food Lion-brand items.  

Monday, July 22: Senior's Day 

There's free admission for guests who are aged 60+.  

Tuesday, July 23: Kids' Day 

Kids under age 12 get in free.   

Wednesday, July 24: Armed Forces Day 

Any active duty and retired military personnel with a valid military ID get in free 

Thursday, July 25: Governors' Day 

Revelers will have a chance to enjoy harness racing and meet with the governor.  

Thursday, July 25: Seniors' Day 

Free admission for people aged 60+. 

Friday, July 26: Coastal Bath Day  

Stop by one of the Coastal Baths' locations to meet their team.  

How much is Delaware State Fair 2024? 

Delaware State Fair (18500 S. Dupont Highway, Harrington) is Thursday, July 18, through Saturday, July 27. Gates open daily at 9 a.m., and the fair ends daily at 11 p.m. General admission tickets for adults (ages 13+) are $10 in person or $10.50 (online); youth (ages 6-12) are $5 in person or $5.50 (online); free for kids aged 5 or younger. Concerts on the Grandstand are extra. Visit delawarestatefair.com or call (302) 398-3269. 

If you have an interesting story idea, email lifestyle reporter  Andre Lamar  at  [email protected] . Consider signing up for his weekly newsletter, DO Delaware, at  delawareonline.com/newsletters . 

This article originally appeared on Delaware News Journal: How to stay cool & happy at Delaware State Fair 2024

Hurricane Beryl tracker: Storm makes landfall in Texas, see spaghetti models, path

Hurricane Beryl made landfall as a Category 1 near Matagorda, Texas early Monday morning.

The storm made landfall 110 miles south of Houston.

The state faces 75 mph winds and life-threatening storm surge. Heavy rainfall, and flash and urban flooding are expected to impact the eastern part of the state, according to the National Hurricane Center .

A tornado watch will remain in effect for southeastern Texas until 10 a.m. local time, states the National Weather Service .

Beryl is now a post-tropical cyclone: See path and spaghetti models for post-tropical cyclone, hurricane remnants

Where will the storm go?

The storm is moving 12 mph north. The following areas can expect to see 3-5 inches of rain tonight into Tuesday:

• Southeast Oklahoma
• Southern Missouri

Live updates: Forecasters fear Beryl will rapidly strengthen as it heads for Texas

Hurricane Beryl path tracker

This forecast track shows the most likely path of the center of the storm. It does not illustrate the full width of the storm or its impacts, and the center of the storm is likely to travel outside the cone up to 33% of the time.

Hurricane Beryl spaghetti models

Illustrations include an array of forecast tools and models, and not all are created equal. The hurricane center uses only the top four or five highest-performing models to help make its forecasts.

Atlantic storm tracker

Contributing: Anthony Robledo, Gabe Hauari ,  N'Dea Yance-Bragg, Susan Miller, John Bacon, Jorge L. Ortiz, Dinah Voyles Pulver & Thao Nguyen, USA TODAY; Cheryl McCloud, USA TODAY-Network Florida

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Beryl maps show path and landfall forecast of storm as it reaches Texas

By Cara Tabachnick , Emily Mae Czachor

Updated on: July 8, 2024 / 11:07 PM EDT / CBS News

After hitting Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, Beryl  churned across the Gulf of Mexico and made landfall over the middle Texas Gulf Coast as a Category 1 hurricane early Monday, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said. Beryl began weakening after making landfall and was downgraded to a tropical depression later Monday.

The storm blew past the Cayman Islands and Jamaica last week, initially making landfall over the island of Carriacou in Grenada while tearing through the Caribbean , strengthening at times to a Category 5 hurricane — the  strongest rating .

What is Beryl's projected path?

The hurricane center issued an update Monday evening saying Beryl was bringing flooding and the risk of tornadoes across portions of eastern Texas, western Louisiana and Arkansas.

As of 8 p.m. EDT, all  tropical storm warnings  and storm surge warnings for Texas had been lifted.

Beryl's eye "will move over eastern Texas today, then move through the Lower Mississippi Valley into the Ohio Valley on Tuesday and Wednesday," the hurricane center said. "Steady weakening is forecast, and Beryl is expected to become a post-tropical cyclone on Tuesday."

"An additional 4 to 8 inches of rainfall with localized amounts of 12 inches is expected across portions of eastern Texas through tonight," the hurricane center said Monday evening. "Considerable flash and urban flooding as well as minor to isolated major river flooding is expected. Heavy rainfall of 3 to 5 inches, with locally higher amounts, is expected across portions of far southeastern Oklahoma, Arkansas, and southern Missouri through Tuesday."

Before reaching the U.S., Beryl made landfall in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula on Friday as a Category 2 hurricane, just northeast of the resort town of Tulum, before weakening to a tropical storm and moving back into the Gulf.

Beryl became the  first hurricane  of the 2024  Atlantic hurricane season  at the end of June and rapidly strengthened. It was the first major hurricane east of the Lesser Antilles on record for June, according to Philip Klotzbach, Colorado State University hurricane researcher.

Brian McNoldy, a tropical meteorology researcher for the University of Miami, told the AP that warm waters fueled Beryl, with ocean heat content in the deep Atlantic the highest on record for this time of year.

Beryl also set records  as the first June hurricane ever to hit Category 4, the farthest east a storm has ever hit Category 4, and the first storm before September to go from tropical depression to major hurricane in under 48 hours, CBS News weather producer David Parkinson reported.

Beryl was also the earliest Category 5 hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic basin and was only the second Category 5 storm recorded in July since 2005, according to the hurricane center.

Brian Dakss, Alex Sundby and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Cara Tabachnick is a news editor at CBSNews.com. Cara began her career on the crime beat at Newsday. She has written for Marie Claire, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal. She reports on justice and human rights issues. Contact her at [email protected]

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Wind and Rain Begin to Pelt Texas Coast Ahead of ‘Deadly Storm’

Beryl is predicted to make landfall as a Category 1 hurricane early Monday. But forecasters warned that it could rapidly intensify, and officials said not enough people were evacuating.

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Reporting from the Texas coast

More than a million Texans are under a hurricane warning. Here is the latest.

Wind and rain from the outer bands of Tropical Storm Beryl lashed parts of the Texas coast on Sunday evening, as the storm’s wind speeds remained just below hurricane status. Officials warned that not enough people were leaving in the face of a threat that tore a deadly path across the Caribbean, killing 11.

Forecasters cautioned that Beryl could intensify before making landfall somewhere between Galveston and Corpus Christi early Monday. The storm will carry enough rain to cause significant flooding in the Houston area and further inland.

Here are the key things to know:

The forecast: Beryl had maximum sustained winds of 70 miles per hour as of 7 p.m. Central time, up from 60 m.p.h. earlier in the day. (Storms are considered hurricanes when their winds reach 74 m.p.h.) It was expected to bring damaging winds, life-threatening storm surge and up to 15 inches of rain, according to the National Hurricane Center. “It will be a deadly storm for people who are directly in that path,” said Dan Patrick, the state’s lieutenant governor. Track the storm .

Texas makes preparations: Officials issued a disaster declaration for 121 counties and readied the National Guard, search-and-rescue teams and other emergency responders ahead of the storm. More than a million people across Texas were under a hurricane warning. Mr. Patrick, who is in charge while Gov. Greg Abbott visits Asia for a trade mission, said traffic data showed that roads were relatively clear , and worried that beach vacationers weren’t aware of the danger approaching.

The storm’s impact so far: Before reaching the Gulf of Mexico, Beryl plowed through the Caribbean , flattening islands, inundating communities and becoming the first hurricane to reach Category 5 status this early in the season. It made landfall twice last week — once in Carriacou, a small island north of Grenada, and then in Mexico. In the wake of the storm, Caribbean leaders have already called for more action on climate change from Western countries.

Climate change’s role : Researchers have found that climate change has increased the frequency of major hurricanes, because warmer ocean temperatures provide more energy that fuels these storms. It is also making hurricanes intensify faster and produce more rain with a higher storm surge. Beryl’s quick escalation to a major hurricane is a bad sign for the rest of the season , forecasters say.

John Keefe , Emily Schmall , Kate Selig and Isabelle Taft contributed reporting.

About 300 flights in and out of Houston were canceled on Sunday, according to the flight tracking site FlightAware.

Isabelle Taft

Beryl could knock out power in Texas. How has the grid fared before?

As Beryl’s winds and rain begin to lash coastal Texas on Sunday evening, one thing was almost as certain as the arrival of the storm itself: Some Texans are expected to lose electricity as it barrels through their state.

“There will be power outages,” said Nim Kidd, chief of the Texas Division of Emergency Management, at a news conference about storm preparations on Sunday afternoon.

Storms frequently cause outages because strong winds can bring branches and trees crashing down on power lines, and also damage other parts of the system.

Beryl was forecast to bring winds of up to 110 miles per hour to parts of southeast Texas by early Monday.

Texans are unusually familiar with power outages: The state had more weather-related power outages from 2000 to 2021 than any other, according to the advocacy organization Climate Central.

The most infamous power outage in the state’s recent history was caused not by tropical storm activity in the summer but by a deep freeze in 2021, when bitterly cold weather caused the electricity grid to fail, with millions losing power for days. The power outage contributed to more than 240 deaths.

But hurricanes have also caused widespread and lengthy outages in the state.

In 2008, Hurricane Ike left two million customers across eastern Texas without power for three days after the storm. Line crews from 31 states converged on the state to repair what was then the biggest power failure in state history. The storm caused not only the typical line outages from fallen trees, but also damage to substations and the towers holding high-voltage transmission lines. Floodwaters even drove snakes and other wild animals into a power substation near the Louisiana border.

Most people, at least in the Houston area, had their power back on within 10 days.

Hurricane Harvey, in 2017, was a different story. Even though it was the second-most expensive hurricane to hit the U.S. mainland since 1900, the Public Utility Commission of Texas said no more than 350,000 customers were without power at any time.

Some buildings in downtown Houston that had retained power during Ike lost it during Harvey , because the underground power system that had been protected from Ike’s intense winds flooded during Harvey’s relentless rains.

Hurricane Rita, in 2005, also caused widespread power outages lasting as long as seven days in some Texas counties.

Texas officials, electricity companies and individuals were all thinking about the grid as Beryl churned through the Gulf of Mexico. Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said the Public Utility Commission had designated personnel to coordinate with utility providers across the area in Beryl’s path.

Thomas Muñoz, Houston’s emergency management coordinator, said city officials were monitoring nursing and assisted living homes and preparing to provide services like oxygen and medical help if they lose power for an extended period.

CenterPoint Energy, which serves about 2.8 million customers in the Houston area, had brought in thousands of additional workers to respond to outages, Mr. Muñoz said.

Ahead of Beryl’s arrival, AEP Texas, which delivers electricity to one million customers in South and West Texas, got reinforcements from its counterpart in Ohio. More than 120 Ohio line workers drove to Texas to help with power restoration efforts, the company said on Facebook.

Some Texans aim to avoid outages altogether by installing generators. Robert DeShazo, president of Generator Supercenter’s branches in Victoria, Corpus Christi and the Rio Grande Valley, said his businesses got more calls than usual this week as people prepared for Beryl.

“When it goes out here, it goes out for a while,” he said, noting that power providers typically restore electricity in populous areas first, so smaller towns are more affected by long outages. “And it’s hot.”

An earlier version of this article misstated the year that Hurricane Harvey struck Texas. It was 2017, not 2018.

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Here’s what to expect as Beryl is set to hit Texas.

Beryl is forecast to make landfall in Texas as a Category 1 hurricane early Monday, and heavy winds and rain had already arrived in parts of the state by Sunday afternoon.

The storm is expected to hit near Matagorda Bay, about 100 miles southwest of Houston, and bring strong rip currents, flooding, heavy rainfall and winds of up to 110 miles per hour to the coast, according to the National Weather Service.

Officials and meteorologists warn that because Beryl will continue to intensify as it churns through the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico, the storm could strengthen to a Category 2 by the time it reaches the Texas shore.

Storm surge will move water inland, potentially covering areas from the northern part of the Padre Island National Seashore to Sabine Pass on the border with Louisiana. The National Weather Service predicts storm surge of up to seven feet around Matagorda, Texas, up to six feet around Galveston Bay, and three to five feet to the northeast and southwest of those areas.

Heavy rainfall of five to 15 inches is forecast across the Texas Gulf Coast and in eastern Texas through Monday night. In Houston, residents can expect six to eight inches of rain, while coastal communities including Galveston are expected to see eight to 12.

Because Beryl is moving at a relatively quick speed of about 10 miles per hour and is expected to maintain that speed, according to state officials, the storm will linger less over already-soaked communities. It is moving much faster than Hurricane Harvey in 2017, which slowed to about five miles per hour after making landfall as a Category 4 hurricane and stalled in South and Southeast Texas for days, causing devastating flooding .

After making landfall, Beryl is expected to turn northeast and move into eastern Texas and Arkansas late Monday and Tuesday. Nim Kidd, chief of the Texas Division of Emergency Management, emphasized that flooding will be a risk far inland, in places like Tyler and Texarkana.

The storm could also bring tornadoes along the central and upper Texas coast on Sunday night, and across eastern Texas and Louisiana on Tuesday.

With these conditions, Mr. Kidd said residents should be ready for power outages in the coming days.

Edgar Sandoval

Almost in an instant, the skies in Corpus Christi went from bright blue to gray. People found themselves running for cover from heavy rain.

After a brief but heavy storm, calm skies have returned to Corpus Christi for now.

Maria Jimenez Moya

Two lifeguard trucks are patrolling along the seawall in Galveston to ensure people are no longer swimming as heavy rainfall and rowdy waves begin to hit.“This storm is really early in the season, and the trajectory has jumped around,” said Chief Peter Davis of the Galveston Island Beach Patrol. “This makes us a little bit nervous, since it’s unpredictable.”

The streets of Corpus Christi remained relatively quiet on Sunday afternoon, a sign that most people were heeding the warning to stay home. One notable exception: The city's memorial statue to the late pop singer Selena continued to draw people to the waterfront.

At Port Aransas, some residents rushed to take the last ferry out of the island town.

On Sunday afternoon, William Parker took one more look at the island town of Port Aransas as he hopped on the last ferry before services closed in anticipation of Beryl. Mr. Parker said he decided to heed the mandatory evacuation order.

“It felt good to get out on time,” said Mr. Parker, a 63-year-old maintenance worker. “If you see the satellite images, it’s not far. It’s just there, right off the coast,” he said, referring to the storm that was approaching Texas.

Port Aransas, a small but popular island destination in Texas with about 3,600 residents, tends to be overwhelmed by storm surges, and Mr. Parker said he was most fearful of the sea rising, pointing at the gulf waters, which were getting rougher by the minute. A handful of motorists had the same idea as Mr. Parker, and they raced to make the last ferry before it was shut down.

After getting off the boat, Mr. Parker stopped to help his girlfriend, Linda Norman, 63, pack her belongings from a trailer where she lives, steps away from the port.

“We made it just on time. You can’t mess around with hurricanes. If the water comes up to the bridge, all of this is gone,” he said looking over the bridge that takes drivers to Aransas Pass, the next town over.

Ms. Norman was thankful for Mr. Parker’s help. She held on to her blind dog, a small Brussels Griffon also named Linda, who seemed oblivious of the impending danger. “I would not leave her behind,” Ms. Norman said, hugging her tighter. “She’s my world.”

Mr. Parker packed decorations and valuable items onto a Ford Explorer. He and Ms. Norman had lost most of their belongings during Hurricane Harvey in 2017, they said. “We had to start all over again,” Ms. Norman said. “This time we’re going to try and save as much as we can.”

Asked where they were headed, Mr. Parker tilted his head away from the sea. “There, inland,” he said.

Miranda Rodriguez

The water is starting to get choppy in Aransas Bay, which separates Corpus Christi from barrier islands along the Texas coast. Restaurants along the bay front are open for now, but many will be closing at 6 p.m.

Edgar Sandoval ,  Maria Jimenez Moya and Jack Healy

Edgar Sandoval reported from Corpus Christi, Texas; Maria Jimenez Moya reported from Galveston, Texas; and Jack Healy reported from Phoenix.

State officials urge coastal Texans to evacuate, but some are unfazed by the storm.

As Beryl chugged toward the Texas Gulf Coast on Sunday, oil workers fled drilling platforms, tourist towns battered by previous storms shut down their ferries, and state officials urged people to evacuate at-risk low-lying coastal areas.

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick warned on Sunday that Beryl would be a “deadly storm” that would bring significant rain, winds and flooding. He issued disaster declarations for 121 counties in recent days.

“It’s a serious storm, and you must take it seriously,” he said in a news briefing on Sunday. “You don’t want to be in six to 12 inches of rain. You don’t want to be in flooding.”

Mr. Patrick expressed concern that people were not paying enough attention to updates on Beryl — which is currently a tropical storm but is expected to intensify into a Category 1 hurricane — with thousands vacationing on the coast during the holiday weekend. Traffic data on Sunday afternoon showed the roads were not clogged with people evacuating. “The maps are still green,” Mr. Patrick said. “We don’t see many people leaving.”

Indeed, many locals were unfazed by the storm and decided to stay, gambling that they could survive its wind and rains.

“Those that have left have already gone,” said Alysa Jarvis, vice president of a community group in Seadrift, a coastal city of 1,000 people. “I’m staying, though.”

Ms. Jarvis said that she and other residents were paying close attention to the storm’s expected path as it curled northward, but that she wanted to stay at her waterfront home so she could run its sump pump to keep it from flooding.

The Sunday brunch rush was in full force at Bubba’s Seafood, a Cajun-style seafood restaurant in Seadrift. But it planned to close early on Sunday as staff members kept a wary eye on the bands of rain beginning to spray the coast. Tamra Flores, a manager at the restaurant, said she and her family had moved their boats into storage and put away their patio furniture. But she did not plan to evacuate.

“We’re a very small community, so a lot of our patrons are hometown people who aren’t going to go anywhere,” she said.

In Aransas Pass, a small hamlet near Corpus Christi, a volunteer evacuation notice was issued on Saturday, meaning residents were strongly urged but not required to leave. Paulette Alvizo, 32, watched a line of cars driving inland on Saturday but decided not to join them. She filled up two tanks of gasoline at a boarded-up gas station on Sunday morning, and said she was confident that she had enough water and food to ride the storm out with her husband and four children.

“This is not our first storm,” she said. “We are going to stick it out.”

The scenes at big-box stores along the coast reflected both preparation and nonchalance. At a Walmart in Galveston, supplies of bottled water were running low, as people prepared for possible power outages and boil-water notices. But at a Home Depot in Corpus Christi, many shoppers bypassed the sandbags and water bottles and instead went for garden supplies and outdoor furniture.

On Galveston Island, Cesar Laiva, 53, a construction worker, assembled his usual hurricane-preparation supplies: plywood, sandbags and screws. Mr. Laiva, who has lived on the island for 30 years, called the situation “not that bad.”

Others secured their patio furniture, took down umbrellas, gassed up their generators, covered their windows with sheets of plywood — and waited to see how bad the storm would be.

Miranda Rodriguez contributed reporting from Corpus Christi, Texas.

Gas stations like this one in Aransas Pass, a small town just outside Corpus Christi, are already boarded up and getting ready to close as soon as the first rain drops begin to fall.

Beryl’s trail of destruction so far.

Before Beryl threatened the Texas coast on Sunday, the storm caused destruction across several other countries as it made its way through the Caribbean and toward the Gulf of Mexico.

After forming in the Atlantic Ocean in late June, Beryl ripped through the Caribbean as a Category 4 hurricane before making its way toward Texas. While it has since weakened to a tropical storm, it is expected to regain strength and make landfall in Texas as a Category 1 hurricane on Monday.

The storm has left a trail of destruction starting on July 1. Here’s where Beryl has wreaked havoc so far.

Carriacou and Petite Martinique, Grenada: Beryl slammed into the islands as a Category 4 hurricane on July 1, destroying roughly 98 percent of the buildings, which are home to around 10,000 people, according to officials. Three people were killed.

St. Vincent and the Grenadines: Hundreds of homes, schools and churches were severely damaged after Beryl passed as a Category 4 hurricane on July 1. One person was reported dead.

Venezuela: While Beryl didn’t strike the country when it arrived as a Category 4 hurricane just north of it on July 1, three died from the flooding it brought to the state of Sucre.

Jamaica: Beryl passed along Jamaica’s southern coast as a Category 4 hurricane on July 3, bringing strong winds, heavy rain and flooding. It left two people dead and hundreds of thousands of households without power.

Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico: Coming in as a Category 2 hurricane on July 5, Beryl brought heavy rain to popular vacation areas in Cancún and Tulum before weakening to a tropical storm. No deaths or injuries were reported.

Nim Kidd, head of the Texas Division of Emergency Management, warned residents of danger beyond the coast. “There will be inland flooding,” he said at a news briefing. “And what we find is this freshwater inland flooding tends to be more of a killer of our citizens than the actual storm surge.”

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick of Texas said officials are concerned that thousands of people vacationing on the Gulf Coast may not be watching the news or checking email the way they normally would. Traffic data shows that the roads are not clogged with people evacuating the path of the storm. “The maps are still green,” he said. “We don’t see many people leaving.”

Dan Patrick, the lieutenant governor of Texas, said Beryl “will be a deadly storm for people who are directly in that path.” The state’s disaster declaration spans 121 counties because flooding could also affect inland areas like Texarkana and Tyler, he said at a news briefing.

Beryl, still a tropical storm, could strengthen to a Category 2 hurricane before making landfall in Texas, National Hurricane Center forecasters warned in their latest forecast . “Rapid intensification is a distinct possibility,” they said, and would depend on the atmospheric conditions near the storm. For now, Beryl is forecast to grow only to a Category 1.

Drought-stricken parts of Texas could use some relief, but Beryl is unlikely to bring it.

Texans in areas plagued by drought conditions may be hoping Beryl will bring some relief. But they are likely to be disappointed: The storm is set to dump rain mostly on regions that do not really need it.

About a quarter of the state is currently in drought , according to the U.S. Drought Monitor, affecting areas mostly in West and Central Texas along the Rio Grande, as well as those just west of Austin and San Antonio. About 3.5 million Texans live in areas currently in moderate, severe or extreme levels of drought, the drought monitor shows.

But with Beryl forecast to head north and then east after making landfall along the central part of the Texas coast, that means rainfall is likely for only areas that are not in need of it, the drought monitor shows.

“Whenever we kind of miss out with one of these systems, where it doesn’t go into the area we wish it would go into, it just prolongs the agony of drought in the areas that really need water right now,” said Paul Yura, a meteorologist at the Austin-San Antonio office of the National Weather Service.

Texas generally relies on “tropical activity” for summertime rainfall, Mr. Yura said. And storms this year have already helped improve the drought outlook.

Last month, Tropical Storm Alberto brought rain to South Texas after making landfall in Mexico. Rains from that storm helped bring down the percentage of the state in drought from 30 percent to 25 percent. And before Alberto, an unusually wet first five months of the year helped the state’s drought outlook.

Last year was the hottest in Texas since at least 1895, and by last September, 86 percent of the state was in drought, according to the Texas Water Development Board. The state’s driest year on record was 2011, when almost all of its land — 99.96 percent — was experiencing drought in late September.

The picture today is highly regionalized, Mr. Yura said, with drought concentrated in West and South Central Texas. And nowhere in the state is facing as extreme conditions as those in 2011, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor.

At the Bridgepoint Home Depot in Corpus Christi, pallets of bottled water and sandbags are still available. Several shoppers said they aren’t too concerned about the upcoming storm. Many are buying garden supplies and backyard furniture instead of storm supplies.

Low-lying Galveston Island on the Texas coast is subject to a voluntary evacuation order, and judging by the traffic, many residents are heeding it. There's a line of cars extending for several blocks waiting to cross the only bridge to the mainland.

Emiliano Rodríguez Mega

Reporting from Mexico City

As Beryl largely spares northern Mexico, some take precautions while others enjoy the beach.

Residents in Mexico’s northern state of Tamaulipas, across the Texas border, sighed in relief this weekend as they learned that Beryl would only bring moderate to heavy rains in a few locations. The storm was originally expected to make landfall in Mexico twice.

Still, authorities were taking no chances.

“Although the trajectory now may indicate that it is more focused on the Texas side, we ask not to be careless and not to let our guard down,” Héctor Joel Villegas González, the state’s government secretary, said in a news conference on Saturday. “Natural phenomena have no word of honor.”

Earlier in the week, officials in Tamaulipas set up temporary shelters, monitored dams, identified areas vulnerable to landslides and took steps to prevent potential flooding and road blockades — such as clearing the drainage and pruning trees.

Some people were heeding the authorities’ advice. René Aguirre Garza, who coordinates a residential neighborhood in Matamoros that has previously been affected by flooding, said some of his neighbors were placing sand bags around their houses and cleaning their streets.

Others were more carefree. Despite officials warning residents not to visit popular beaches facing the Gulf of Mexico, some beachgoers enjoyed the sun and the waves.

On Saturday, tourists, vendors and fishers strolled along Bagdad Beach in the municipality of Matamoros, unconcerned by the incoming storm. A few officials were urging people to go home, but residents replied that nothing would happen as Beryl was already moving north.

“We’ll see what happens,” said Francisco Gabriel Ponce Lara, a rescue coordinator with the Matamoros Red Cross. “As far as I know, we are only going to get about eight inches of rainfall.”

Just like it was no secret that Beryl would bring some much-needed rain to Texas, authorities in Tamaulipas also hoped the storm and the hurricane season would help end — at least temporarily — a historic and brutal drought in the state.

In May, before Tropical Storm Alberto drenched the northeastern coast of Mexico, about 97.7 percent of Tamaulipas was suffering from some degree of drought , according to the country’s meteorological service. In its latest report on Friday, the agency said that number had dropped to 16.3 percent.

“Water for our state has been a blessing because the dams have been empty,” Mr. Villegas González told reporters on Saturday, adding that a system of lagoons that provides water to thousands of locals “has recovered.”

According to the National Hurricane Center, a tropical storm warning was in effect on Sunday morning for the northeastern coast of Mexico.

Edyra Espriella contributed reporting from Matamoros, Mexico.

The last hurricane to batter to Corpus Christi with damaging winds was Hanna in 2020. It destroyed many of the boats at Harbor Del Sol Marina, where people had taken refuge during the Covid-19 pandemic. Today, a lone boat at the harbor seemed to be getting ready to brave Beryl.

Judson Jones

Reporter and meteorologist

Why Beryl is a bad sign for this year’s hurricane season.

Over the course of a few short days, Beryl rapidly intensified from a tropical storm to a Category 5 hurricane last week, setting records for the earliest point in a season that a storm has grown so big.

This quick escalation was a direct result of the above-average sea surface temperatures as well as a harbinger of what is to come this hurricane season.

“This early-season storm activity is breaking records that were set in 1933 and 2005, two of the busiest Atlantic hurricane seasons on record,” said Philip Klotzbach, an expert in seasonal hurricane forecasts at Colorado State University.

Last fall, a study in the journal Scientific Reports found that Atlantic hurricanes from 2001 to 2020 were twice as likely to grow from a weaker storm into a hurricane of Category 3 or higher within 24 hours than they were from 1971 to 1990. The study added to a growing body of evidence that rapidly developing major hurricanes were becoming more likely.

Andra Garner, an assistant professor of environmental science at Rowan University in New Jersey and the author of the paper, called the findings an “urgent warning.”

A hurricane that intensifies faster can be more dangerous, as it allows less time for people in areas projected to be affected to prepare and evacuate. Late last October, Hurricane Otis moved up by multiple categories in just one day before slamming into Acapulco, Mexico, as a Category 5 hurricane that killed at least 52 people .

In Beryl’s case, it became a tropical storm late June 28, meaning it had sustained wind speeds of more than 39 miles per hour. The next afternoon, it became the season’s first hurricane, a Category 1, with wind speeds of 75 m.p.h. The morning after that, it became the earliest Category 4 hurricane on record, with wind speeds of more than 130 m.p.h.

And on July 1, after it had devastated Carriacou , a small island north of Grenada, Beryl became a Category 5 hurricane, with wind speeds of more than 160 m.p.h. It has since weakened to a tropical storm, but it is expected to intensify again before making another landfall in Texas as a Category 1 hurricane.

It is no surprise to meteorologists that Beryl was able to strengthen so quickly and behave more like a peak-season storm. Hurricanes suck up warm ocean water and use it as fuel. In an optimal weather environment like this past weekend’s, the ample heat energy rapidly increases the storm’s intensity.

Abundantly warm ocean temperatures in the Atlantic Ocean have been a concern since last season’s overly active year . On June 28, Beryl formed around ocean temperatures that were warmer than they were this time last year, and are more akin to what they typically would be during the peak of hurricane season, in September. Normally, early-season activity is limited in this portion of the Atlantic because those ocean temperatures are relatively cool.

But now they are hot. That helped Beryl strengthen into the earliest Category 5 hurricane in the Atlantic, according to Dr. Klotzbach. Previously, Hurricane Emily held the record for the earliest Category 5 hurricane, reaching that strength on July 16, 2005.

Because of the ocean’s heat, Beryl formed farther east in the Atlantic than any storm has in the month of June, breaking a record set by an unnamed storm formed east of the Caribbean on June 24, 1933.

The warm ocean temperature is one of the main reasons experts have been predicting an extremely active hurricane season this year. It is also why forecasters from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, who predict there will be 8 to 13 hurricanes this season, believe about half of those will reach major hurricane status, as Beryl did this weekend.

Usually, early-season activity doesn’t have much bearing on the rest of the season’s activity. But, in June, when that activity occurs as far east as Beryl did, Dr. Klotzbach says, “it tends to be a harbinger of a very busy season.”

Orlando Mayorquín

Texas has a long and deadly history of hurricanes.

The tense scenes in the hours ahead of Beryl’s arrival are uncomfortably familiar to generations of weather-tested residents of the Texas coast.

Beryl, a tropical storm that was approaching the Texas shore early Sunday, may soon become the latest in a long line of hurricanes to hit the state.

Here are some notables ones. The death toll associated with each hurricane can vary widely in some cases, depending on the reporting authority and the criteria used to determine whether a death was caused by the storm.

Hurricane Harvey (2017)

Hurricane Harvey made a late-night landfall on the Texas coast near Rockport on Aug. 25, 2017, as a Category 4 hurricane . It was strongest storm to hit Texas since Hurricane Carla struck as a Category 4 in 1961.

Harvey unleashed dozens of tornadoes and brought severe flooding to Harris County and surrounding communities, swelling rivers to record levels and turning vast stretches of roads and buildings into a muddy sea, according to the National Weather Service.

At least 68 people died in Texas, according to the Weather Service.

Hurricane Ike (2008)

Ike reached its peak intensity as a Category 4 hurricane over the Caribbean before weakening to a Category 2 hurricane on Sept. 13, 2008 , as it made landfall in the upper coast of Texas.

The storm was characterized by the significant storm surge it produced, roughly between 15 and 20 feet high along the Galveston shores, according to the Weather Service.

The deaths of least 28 people are attributed to Ike, according to the Weather Service . Other agencies, such as the Texas General Land Office, place the death toll at 74.

Hurricane Rita (2005)

Rita arrived on the shores of Texas and Louisiana as a Category 3 hurricane on Sept. 24, 2005. The storm’s intensity peaked at Category 5 as it moved over the Gulf of Mexico.

Striking less than a month after Hurricane Katrina, it prompted mass evacuations and killed at least seven people, according to the Weather Service. Other counts put the number of dead at more than 100 .

Galveston Hurricane (1900)

A Category 4 storm landed on the Texas shore south of Galveston on Sept. 8, 1900, swallowing Galveston Island, according to the Weather Service.

The storm was the deadliest weather-related disaster in the history of the United States at the time, claimin g at least 6,000 lives and as many as 12,000 by some estimates.

The weather in Corpus Christi is calm and overcast this morning, with winds of 16 miles per hour. Ahead of the storm, the ferry to Port Aransas will close at noon. The Texas A&M University campus here will also close today.

Beryl’s eye and its spiraling bands of rain are now visible from U.S.-based radar stations. See more maps, and estimated arrival times of damaging winds, on our tracker page .

Austyn Gaffney

How future hurricanes could stress power grids of American cities.

The risk of hurricane-induced power outages could become 50 percent higher in some areas of the United States, including Puerto Rico, because of climate change in the coming decades, according to a new analysis.

Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the Electric Power Research Institute mapped how future hurricanes could affect power supplies, allowing residents to see how vulnerable their electricity is.

The research comes just after Hurricane Beryl broke records as the earliest Category 4 and 5 storm to form in the Atlantic Ocean. The storm flattened islands in the Caribbean, killed at least eight people and left vulnerable island communities in shambles. On Friday, it made landfall on the Yucatán Peninsula and its projected path suggests it could hit northern Mexico and the Gulf Coast of Texas this weekend.

“These hurricanes can cause really devastating power outages,” said Julian Rice, a data scientist at the national laboratory who helped develop the map. Those outages can have subsequent effects, he said, like reducing access to health care and cutting off power used to heat and cool homes.

The researchers used computers to model almost one million hurricanes under simulated climate scenarios. The models projected factors like humidity, wind and sea surface temperatures under various potential global warming situations between 2066 and 2100.

The Pacific Northwest team then partnered with the power research institute, a nonprofit group focused on electricity research, to pair these mock hurricanes with a power outage model that trained on outage data from 23 hurricanes that affected the United States over the last decade.

The projections suggest that increasingly stronger and wetter storms, driven by the burning of fossil fuels, will make landfall more frequently and push further inland, with tangible effects on the grid. In these scenarios, increased rainfall clogs soil and weighs down tree canopies. Trees can easily uproot or become unstable, falling on power lines or causing landslides that knock out electric infrastructure.

The Mid-Atlantic and Northeast coastal areas are predicted to see the zone of potential climate-driven storms and hurricanes shift upward, exposing them more often to the risk of outages. The average person in the metropolitan areas of Boston, Houston and New Orleans could see expected outage events increase more than 70 percent per decade, the analysis found. In Tampa, it’s even higher, and in Miami, residents could see a 119 percent increase.

Hurricanes get a lot of attention from utility companies along the Gulf and Atlantic coasts, said Andrea Staid, research leader in energy systems and climate analysis at the Electric Power Research Institute, who helped author the study.

But the analysis could help energy companies plan future improvements, she said. “It motivates them even more because it shows what can happen if we don’t adapt,” Dr. Staid said, “if we don’t take climate considerations into account when planning our energy system.”

Over the last decade, the number of weather-related power outages has almost doubled, according to Climate Central. Most major power outages between 2000 and 2023 were caused by extreme weather, and 14 percent of those were caused by tropical cyclones and hurricanes.

Some of the counties with the highest risk for more frequent power outages — like Broward County, Fla., Wilkinson County, Miss., and Hyde County, N.C. — also have the highest levels of social vulnerability , according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Those counties have demographic and social-economic factors, like poverty and lack of transportation access, that can adversely affect communities that face natural disasters.

Joan Casey, an associate professor of public health at the University of Washington, said power outages amplify risk for people with underlying health conditions. Lack of power can quickly take people that are vulnerable, such as those who use electricity-dependent respirators, from relative safety to a dangerous situation.

The map has limitations. Researchers used the worst-case future climate scenario projected by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and considered a static infrastructure grid without factoring in potential changes that could harden the power system, like burying lines underground, strengthening poles, or installing community-scale solar.

But Karthik Balaguru, a Pacific Northwest National Laboratory researcher and co-creator of the map, pointed out that while it’s a worst-case model, some research suggests that we’re trekking closer to this model than any other by midcentury.

And hurricanes aren’t the only risk. Last week, a report from the Union of Concerned Scientists found that by 2050, a different climate risk, sea level rise, could expose more than 1,600 critical buildings and services to flooding twice a year, including more than 150 electrical substations.

“It’s a wake-up call that we need to be addressing our power system and making it much more reliable and much more resilient to climate related stresses,” said Kristina Dahl, a principal climate scientist for the Climate and Energy Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists and a co-author of the report.

Dr. Casey said we could take important steps now to invest in our grid, particularly with solar and battery storage that can provide community-scale power. But that won’t be enough.

“We have to stop burning fossil fuels,” said Dr. Casey. “That’s pretty much the answer.”