While it’s often believed that the summer solstice is an event that spans an entire calendar day, the solstice actually lasts just a moment.
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Erick is expected to rapidly weaken as it crashes into the coastal mountains of southern Mexico, and the system is likely to dissipate late Thursday or early Friday.
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The soupy conditions will stretch into next week and the humid conditions will make it feel extra toasty.
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It’s a first-of-its-kind icy twist on tornado chasing.
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The plume is expected to hit Florida, Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi late this week and into the weekend.
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Smoke was worsening air quality and reducing visibility in Canada and into some U.S. states along the border.
Nearly two dozens wildfires were burning in the Canadian province of Manitoba, which is just north of Minnesota and North Dakota.
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The now-retired database documented 27 separate billion-dollar weather and climate disasters in the United States last year alone.
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Areas at risk of thunderstorms include communities in Kentucky and Missouri that were hit by Friday’s deadly tornadoes.
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Heavier and more persistent rainfall is expected with climate change because the atmosphere holds more moisture as it warms.
Potentially life-saving weather information will once again reach a broader audience as the weather service reinstates its contract for translating weather products.
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The blaze is the second major forest fire in the region in less than a week.
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Kira Johnson gave birth to a healthy boy, her second child, in 2016. All seemed well, but within 12 hours she was dead.
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Experts fear the lack of foreign-language warnings could leave some of the 68 million non English-speaking people in the U.S. in danger.
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“The rain just won’t stop,” one Kentucky resident said Sunday. “It’s been nonstop for days and days.”
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