The roar builds as wind and rain lash against the walls of a low-rise South Florida home. Loose objects — chairs, a bicycle, a bird cage — lift into the air and disappear on a massive gust. The wind ...

Strange and viciously unseasonable was U.S. weather last week. Snow came, heat came, drought came, wind came—in all sizes: little capfuls that scuttered leaves along a million autumn sidewalks, ...