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Extreme heat is transforming how Texas plays football
Texas officials released new safety guidelines for the 2024 football season in response to rising temperatures caused by climate change.
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Here’s what the weather looks like for the first week of fall
A ridge of high pressure encompassing much of North America will work to control the weather during the first week of the astronomical fall. The result will be temperatures that either at or above average for much of the Lower 48 through the first week of autumn. Forecasters warn it is important to note that just because a season begins off warn, it doesn’t mean the entire period will continue to be toasty.
3 min read - USUSA TODAY
North Carolina braces for more after 'historic' rainfall wreaks havoc across state
Some parts of southeastern North Carolina received around 23 inches of rain as schools and public offices stayed closed on Tuesday.
5 min read - USAssociated Press
Phoenix ends its streak of 100-degree days at 113 consecutive days
After a meltdown summer, Phoenix finally is getting just a glimpse — ever so briefly — of a cooldown. The National Weather Service said Tuesday’s high temperature was 93 degrees Fahrenheit (33.8 Celsius) at 4 p.m. MST. “It's not going to go to 100,” meteorologist Gabriel Lojero said.
2 min read - USLA Times
California extreme weather shift: From record heat to cold, rain, even snow
After a prolonged stretch of record breaking heat that scorched Southern California and sparked wildfires much of the state will experience below average temperatures, rain and even early season snow this week.
5 min read - USUSA TODAY
Tropical storm warning issued for Carolinas as potential cyclone swirls off the coast
Most tropical systems develop thousands of miles from US shores. Not this one.
5 min read - USFox Weather
Odds up to 50-50 of tropical trouble developing off Southeast coast as region braces for heavy rain
On the heels of Hurricane Francine, which is raining itself out over the Tennessee Valley, the FOX Forecast Center is monitoring an old frontal boundary off the coast of the Southeast, which could be the focal point for the season’s next tropical disturbance.
3 min read - USUSA TODAY
Francine slams into Louisiana: See photos and videos of impact and damage
Francine slammed into Louisiana's coast as a Category 2 hurricane Wednesday leaving hundreds of thousands without power and widespread flooding.
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Wildfires hit California and Nevada, prompting evacuations and power outages
Wildfires in Southern California have spread amid strong winds and hot, dry conditions. Firefighters are also battling a fire just south of Reno, Nevada.
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Hurricane Francine's Expected Path
Francine strengthened into a Category 1 hurricane on Tuesday night.
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The Superstorm Era Is Upon Us
As we can see in the data, the science, and now in our own backyards, extreme weather is merely the result of inaction.
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Tropical Storm Francine could be Category 2 hurricane as it approaches US
Francine, the sixth named storm of the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season, may be a hurricane by Tuesday. Landfall forecast on Louisiana coast Wednesday.
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Residents flee as California and Nevada wildfires get dangerously close and forecasters warn of record heat
Raging wildfires in California and Nevada are forcing the mandatory evacuations of thousands of homes as forecasters warn of a few more days of record-breaking heat for parts of the West.
8 min read - USCBS News
Hurricane Francine makes landfall in Louisiana
Francine made landfall in southern Louisiana's Terrebonne Parish, the National Hurricane Center said.
6 min read - USAssociated Press
Residents in a Louisiana city devastated by 2020 hurricanes are still far from recovery
Every other day Lois Malvo waits for her son to bring six buckets of water from a spigot in the backyard. It’s been four years since hurricanes Laura and Delta decimated Lake Charles in southwest Louisiana, and Malvo is still without plumbing. Unable to afford repairs without federal funds she fears will never arrive, Malvo lives in a crumbling home where the floor sags and wires poke from the ceiling.
6 min read - WorldCNN
The planet endures its hottest summer on record — for the second straight year
Heat waves baked the planet this summer breaking global records, scientists report, and putting 2024 on track to be the hottest year in recorded history
3 min read - USUSA TODAY
Where are all those predicted hurricanes? Experts fear they're still coming.
A lull in activity, despite predictions for a hyperactive season, has surprised and puzzled scientists who write seasonal outlooks.
7 min read - USLA Times
After a violent start, the Atlantic hurricane season has gone unusually quiet
The last time the Atlantic failed to produce any named storms between Aug. 13 and Sept. 3 was in 1968 — more than 50 years ago.
7 min read - USThe Guardian
‘Dangerously hot’ weather roasts US west as brutal summer continues
California, Nevada and Arizona swelter in what could be the most intense heatwave of an already blazing season
7 min read - USUSA TODAY
Storm tracker: National Hurricane Center tracking 3 tropical disturbances in Atlantic
The National Hurricane Center said Wednesday it is currently tracking three tropical disturbances in the Atlantic Ocean.
3 min read - USFox Weather
Phoenix hits at least 100 degrees for 100 days in a row, shattering record
Triple-digit heat for several days in a row in the Desert Southwest in the summer is nothing new, but it does make waves when the streak itself reaches triple digits.
2 min read - USNBC News
September debuts with potentially record heat for Southwest, West Coast
September is keeping summer going strong with heat warnings expected to cover 26 million people, mostly in the Southwest, by Wednesday.
3 min read - WorldUSA TODAY
Storm tracker: Hurricane center tracking 3 waves in Atlantic; 2 could become tropical depressions
The National Hurricane Center is tracking three tropical waves in the Atlantic, two of which could become tropical depressions later this week.
3 min read - USLA Times
Southern California heat wave to bring temperatures up to 119 degrees
A heat wave is forecast to bring temperatures of up to 119 degrees to Southern California this week, with scorching conditions peaking Thursday and Friday.
3 min read - USFox Weather
Los Angeles goes entire summer without rain year after wettest summer on record
The City of Angels is about to wrap up the three-month Meteorological Summer on Aug. 31 without registering a drop of rainfall in its downtown rain gauge.
2 min read - USAccuWeather
1st week of September to be a soaker in the southern US
AccuWeather meteorologists advise that residents and visitors in the southern United States should keep their umbrellas ready; as the calendar flips to September, a weather pattern bringing frequent downpours is expected to continue through much of the week. "Persistent winds coming off the Gulf of Mexico will funnel moisture northward across the South through much of this week. While this will help with the ongoing drought across portions of Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana, it will also incr
2 min read - USUSA TODAY
Thunderstorms, heat wave incoming: Weather could upend Labor Day weekend plans
As a potential record number of people travel for Labor Day weekend, forecasters expect heavy rain and a heat wave to impact holiday plans.
5 min read - USFox Weather
Fire at California's Sequoia National Park forces closures during Labor Day weekend
A California wildfire dubbed the “Coffee Pot Fire" has been burning since early August, scorching thousands of acres along the western edge of Sequoia National Park.
2 min read - USUSA TODAY
Tropical systems Gilma and Hector have weakened but still pose threat to Hawaii
Two tropical systems in the central Pacific are weakening as they approach Hawaii, though they're still expected to unleash heavy rain.
3 min read - USCNN
The fall forecast is in and there’s some bad news for fall lovers
Brutal heat is stretching into the late summer and there are signs in the forecast that there could be more longing for that crisp, fall feel.
4 min read - USAssociated Press
Wild week of US weather includes heat wave, tropical storm, landslide, flash flood and snow
It's been a wild week of weather in many parts of the United States, from heat waves to snowstorms to flash floods. Millions of people in the Midwest have been enduring dangerous heat and humidity. An emergency medicine physician treating Minnesota State Fair-goers for heat illnesses saw firefighters cut rings off two people's swollen fingers Monday in hot weather that combined with humidity made it feel well over 100 degrees Fahrenheit (37.7 degrees Celsius).
3 min read - USAssociated Press
Hone weakens to tropical storm while sweepng past Hawaii, dumping enough rain to ease wildfire fears
Hone passed south of Hawaii and weakened from a hurricane to a tropical storm on Sunday, dumping so much rain that the National Weather Service called off its red flag warnings that strong winds could lead to wildfires on the drier sides of the islands. Meanwhile, the eastern Pacific saw a new threat emerge as Tropical Storm Hector formed, packing top sustained winds of 45 mph (75 kph). There were no coastal watches or warnings in effect as Hector churned far out at sea, the National Hurricane
4 min read - USNBC News
On one night, two places in the Northeast get hit with 1-in-1,000 year rainfall
In two locations on the same night, the storm that hit the Northeast this weekend dumped rain at or near rates that should only be expected once in 1,000 years.
3 min read - USLA Times
Halfway through 'danger season,' nearly all of America has been touched by extreme weather
Only 79 counties — home to just 1% of the U.S. population — have not been under at least one extreme weather alert since May.
7 min read - USTime
See Hurricane Ernesto's Expected Path
Hurricane Ernesto strengthened to a Category 1 hurricane Wednesday morning and will reach Bermuda by Friday or Saturday.
2 min read - USUSA TODAY
Hurricane Ernesto leaves half of Puerto Rico without power amid flooding: Updates
Ernesto intensified into a hurricane Wednesday as it moved north of Puerto Rico and is now headed northwest toward Bermuda.
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Left in Debby's wake: Storm floods homes, historic battlefield
Debby made it's way up the east coast and left flooding and raised rivers behind.
4 min read - ScienceThe Conversation
Birth of a hurricane: What meteorologists look for as they hunt for early signs of a tropical cyclone forming
New techniques are helping forecasters spot potentially dangerous storms earlier than ever.
4 min read - USAssociated Press
Flooding from the remnants of Debby leads to high water rescues in New York, Pennsylvania
First responders launched high-water and helicopter rescues of people trapped in cars and homes in rural New York and Pennsylvania as heavy rain from the remnants of Debby slammed the Northeast with intense floods. The worst of the flash flooding so far in New York was occurring in villages and hamlets in a largely rural area south of the Finger Lakes, not far from the Pennsylvania border. In Steuben County, which borders Pennsylvania, officials ordered the evacuation of the towns of Jasper, W
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Maps show Tropical Depression Debby's path and forecast
Debby made a second landfall over South Carolina and weakened into a tropical depression as it headed slowly up the East Coast.
3 min read - USMiami Herald
How hot will it feel in Miami? Hot enough that forecasters just issued an advisory
It could feel like 110.
2 min read - USUSA TODAY
More than 300K still without power in Ohio after storm slams greater Cleveland
The National Weather Service in Cleveland reported Wednesday morning it was sending out teams to survey "extensive damage from yesterday's storm."
2 min read - USAssociated Press
Tropical Storm Debby hits Florida with floods, threat of record rain in Georgia and the Carolinas
Tropical Storm Debby slammed Florida on Monday with torrential rain and high winds, contributing to at least four deaths in the state and the rescue of hundreds from flooded homes before turning menacingly toward the Eastern Seaboard’s low-lying regions and threatening to flood some of America’s most historic Southern cities. Record-setting rain was causing flash flooding, with up to 30 inches (76 centimeters) possible in some areas, the National Hurricane Center said. About 500 people were re
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A critical system of Atlantic Ocean currents could collapse as early as the 2030s, new research suggests
It uses state-of-the-art models to estimate the shutdown could happen between 2037 and 2064, and that it’s more likely than not to collapse by 2050.
4 min read - USCNN
Tropical Storm Debby forecast to hit Florida this weekend with torrential rain and wind
A tropical storm warning has been hoisted and a state of emergency declared in parts of Florida in anticipation of Tropical Storm Debby, which could unleash days of rain.
5 min read - USABC News
State of emergency issued in Florida, 90% chance of named storm developing: What to expect
A disturbance near Haiti is taking aim at Florida and could strengthen to a tropical depression or tropical storm this weekend. It has a 60% chance of developing into a named storm over the weekend and a 90% chance of developing into a named storm over the next seven days. If this strengthens to a named storm, it would be called Debby.
2 min read - WorldThe Conversation
What is a heat dome? A meteorologist explains the weather phenomenon baking large parts of the US
Heat domes are a dangerous part of summer weather. Millions of Americans are facing exceptionally high temperatures going into summer 2024.
3 min read - USThe Conversation
Wildfires can create their own weather, including thunderstorms and tornado-like fire whirls − an atmospheric scientist explains how
Fire-produced thunderstorms and tornado-like fire whirls are more common than anyone realized, as high-resolution satellite images and data now show.
5 min read - USThe Guardian
‘Your body is completely drained’: US workers toil in heatwaves with no protections
Though 2,300 people in the US died from heat-related illness in 2023, workers await robust protection laws
5 min read - USLA Times
Heat wave, thunderstorms to raise the risk of wildfires in California
Another heat wave and monsoonal thunderstorms are expected to increase wildfire danger in California over the weekend into next week.
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