Weather & Climate

Jitendra Kumar, a paramedic who travels in an ambulance, sweats while he gets ready for duty in a room he shares with several others at the district government hospital quarters, in Banpur in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, Sunday, June 18, 2023. Ambulance drivers and other healthcare workers in rural India are the first line of care for those affected by extreme heat.

In rural India, summer’s heat can be deadly. Ambulance crews see the toll up close

June 30, 2023, 6:48pm Nation & World

Siren blaring, Sunil Kumar Naik’s ambulance tore across a dry and rocky countryside blasted by dangerous midday heat, rushing to check on a vomiting and dizzy 30-year-old man with possible heat stroke. As soon as they reached the man’s village, Naik’s paramedic partner guided the stricken man into the ambulance,… Read story

Gilmer Guinn blows off the driveway of a home on Central Avenue while wearing a hat to protect himself from the sun in Memphis, Tenn., on Thursday, June 29, 2023. As dangerous heat and humidity smothered parts of the South and Midwest on Thursday, local governments and charities worked to protect poor and elderly residents by opening cooling stations and delivering donated air conditioners.

Here’s how to keep cool and stay safe during summer heat wave

June 30, 2023, 5:20pm Nation & World

Scorching heat across the U.S. already has caused more than a dozen deaths in Texas alone and led to mounting misery for millions of people from the Pacific Northwest to the South. Read story

Heat waves like the one that’s killed 14 in the southern US are becoming more frequent and enduring

June 30, 2023, 7:49am Nation & World

Heat waves like the one that engulfed parts of parts of the South and Midwest and killed more than a dozen people are becoming more common, and experts say the extreme weather events, which claim more lives than hurricanes and tornadoes, will likely increase in the future. Read story

FILE - A man tosses a fishing net into the Ohio River as smoke from wildfires is visible over downtown Cincinnati, June 28, 2023. Forecasters say there won't be large breaks for much of America anytime soon from eye-watering dangerous smoke from fire-struck Canada. (AP Photo/Joshua A.

Expect a hot, smoky summer in much of America. Here’s why you’d better get used to it

June 29, 2023, 2:01pm Latest News

The only break much of America can hope for anytime soon from eye-watering dangerous smok e from fire-struck Canada is brief bouts of shirt-soaking sweltering heat and humidity from a southern heat wave that has already proven deadly, forecasters say. Read story

Judy Breland Morris cools off and washes herself off with a hose after she claims she was maced near Jackson Square, during an excessive heat warning in New Orleans, Tuesday, June 27, 2023.

A deadly heat wave is blanketing the South and spreading east

June 29, 2023, 10:48am Nation & World

An oppressive heat wave blamed for at least 13 deaths in Texas and one in Louisiana blanketed the South on Thursday, as authorities warned of dangerous, triple-digit temperatures. Read story

Weather Eye: Enjoy next few days before hot weather begins

Patrick Timm is a local weather specialist. His column appears Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays.

The weather will be kind of status quo today through Saturday with enough air off the ocean to help keep us in the 80s. Quite pleasant for most. The anticipated hot weather begins Monday and the Fourth of July but may not be hot as a firecracker, more like a… Read story

Warming causes more extreme rain, not snow, over mountains and scientists say that’s a problem

FILE - Victims of flooding from monsoon rains walk with their cattle after their flooded home in Sehwan, Sindh province, Pakistan, Sept. 9, 2022. A warming world is transforming some major snowfalls into heavy rain over mountains instead, somehow worsening both dangerous flooding like the type that devastated Pakistan last year as well as long-term water shortages, a new study found.

June 28, 2023, 2:11pm Latest News

A warming world is transforming some major snowfalls into extreme rain over mountains instead, somehow worsening both dangerous flooding like the type that devastated Pakistan last year as well as long-term water shortages, a new study found. Read story

The heat wave blamed for 13 deaths in Texas so far spreads eastward

Box fans for distribution are stocked at the Conroe Salvation Army on Tuesday, June 27, 2023, in Conroe, Texas. As the organization sees a dramatic increases in need of services, its struggling keep up with the growing demand financially.

June 28, 2023, 1:40pm Latest News

Scorching heat blamed for at least 13 deaths in Texas and another in Louisiana blanketed more of the Southeast on Wednesday, stretching government warnings of dangerous, triple-digit temperatures eastward into Mississippi and Tennessee. Read story

Smoke and haze from Canadian wildfires leave Detroit with some of the worst U.S. air quality

Fans watch a baseball game between the Philadelphia Phillies and Chicago Cubs as smoke from Canada's ongoing wildfires shrouds Wrigley Field in a haze, in Chicago, Tuesday, June 27, 2023.

June 28, 2023, 8:51am Nation & World

The Detroit area woke up Wednesday to some of the worst air quality in the United States as smoke from Canada’s wildfires settled over most of the Great Lakes region and unhealthy haze spread southward, as far as Missouri and Kentucky. Read story