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The major heat wave in progress over Southern California is forecast to continue nearly to the end of August as a dome of high pressure over the interior Southwest extends toward the Pacific Coast. In the Los Angeles area, a heat wave occurs when high temperatures reach or exceed 90 degrees Fahrenheit for at least...
A fast-moving wildfire west of Fort Worth doubled in size in just three hours, scorching 80,000 acres and forcing residents in parts of Palo Pinto and Jack counties to evacuate. The Ross Fire was 12% contained Wednesday morning, according to the Texas A&M Forest Service. The blaze started shortly after 12:25 p.m. CDT Monday near...
Months of summer heat, sunshine and limited rainfall have dried vegetation and depleted soil moisture across much of the western and south-central United States, increasing the risk of wildfires. Damaging fires this summer in Utah; Oregon; Spokane, Washington; near Reno, Nevada; and west of Fort Worth, Texas, show how quickly flames can spread through tinder-dry...
A jellyfish cloud produced by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket crossing the sky offered a stunning surprise for skywatchers early Tuesday morning. The launch occurred at 5:33 a.m. ET, when Falcon 9 launched 29 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, according to SpaceX. The event marked the 37th flight for the first stage of the mission. "It was...
A large tropical wave of low pressure emerged off the coast of Africa at the start of this week. It has a high chance of becoming the next tropical depression, but it faces significant obstacles to further development and could struggle to intensify into a tropical storm or hurricane by next week. The next predetermined...
A wall of water obliterated infrastructure on the river port town, sweeping hundreds of people away.
Nearly the entire moon will slip into Earth’s dark inner shadow Thursday night into early Friday morning during an impressive partial lunar eclipse that will be visible from almost all of the United States. At the height of the eclipse, around 96% of the moon will be covered by Earth’s umbra, the darkest part of...
A new online competition is celebrating Colorado's chunkiest alpine residents: Fat Marmot Week. Hosted by the Rocky Mountain Biological Library (RMBL) Marmot Project, the event allows people to vote for the yellow-bellied marmot they think is the plumpest, choosing from eight "marms" featured on the website. "Fat Marmot Week is a lighthearted, tournament-style event that highlights the remarkable transformation yellow-bellied marmots undergo each summer as...
The world's oceans have reached their highest average surface temperature on record, months after temperatures typically reach their annual peak, as a strengthening El Niño adds heat to already unusually warm waters. The average sea surface temperature across the extra-polar oceans reached 21.1 C, or about 70 F, on Aug. 22, according to the Copernicus...
Every autumn, changing leaves can turn towns into bustling hubs as travelers gather to see the season’s best colors. New England has become synonymous with fall foliage, but destinations across the country offer their own charm for a leaf-peeping road trip. From Vermont‘s Green Mountains to waterfalls in Oregon, here are 10 places to consider...
