It's one of the weirdest things we've seen in 2025's weather, so far. A winter tornado in one of America's coldest states. Here's what happened and why.

A tornado touched down in an open field on Feb. 24 in Codington County, the first time a tornado was documented in February in South Dakota history.

Minor geomagnetic storms could cause a brighter-than-usual northern lights display across the northern United States on Tuesday night.

South Dakota's governor has signed a bill into law that bans the taking of private property for building carbon dioxide pipelines.

The forecast storms are the first big test for the restructured National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which saw mass cuts under DOGE plans just last week

Displays of Northern Lights are possible overnight on Tuesday in some US states after a geomagnetic storm was forecasted by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The agency's map shows that aurora is possible in several northern areas,

The northern lights may be visible as far south as New York and other parts of the northeast such as Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine.

NOAA breaks the calendar up into four meteorological seasons. The three-month groups roughly correlate to the four seasons, and are based on temperatures. Meteorological winter runs from December through February. Meteorological spring runs from March ...