The Memorial Day weekend kicked off with a multi-day thunderstorm and heavy rainfall system hitting the south-central part of the country, forecasters said. Hundreds of thousands of people were under a severe thunderstorm watch the afternoon of Saturday,

You're supposed to breakout the grill for Memorial Day weekend, not your umbrella. Unfortunately, Mother Nature didn't get the memo. On Thursday, an "unusual" May nor'easter drenched Massachusetts and Rhode Island with several inches of rain.

Weather and flood threats increase into holiday weekend. Any pause in storminess after the week-long barrage that ended Wednesday is short-lived, as severe weather and flood threats increase into Memorial Day weekend across a big chunk of the south-central United States.