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A driver drives through high water on Dale Drive in Marion, Miss., on Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2022. Parts of Mississippi received several inches of rain throughout the day.

Heavy rain causing flooding, evacuations in Mississippi

August 24, 2022, 1:25pm Nation & World

Heavy rain and flash flooding have prompted evacuations, rescue operations and closures across Mississippi. Read story

In this handout photo provided by the Philippine Coast Guard, rescuers help residents move to safer grounds in Tuguegarao, Cagayan province, northern Philippines on Tuesday Aug. 23, 2022. A tropical storm lashed the northern Philippines with strong wind and rain Tuesday, injuring at least two people and prompting the president to close schools and government offices in the capital and outlying provinces.

Tropical Storm Ma-on headed for southeastern China

August 24, 2022, 7:28am Nation & World

Tropical Storm Ma-on was gaining strength as it headed for Hong Kong and other parts of southeastern China on Wednesday after displacing thousands in the Philippines. Read story

FILE - Members of the Balch Springs Fire Department bring a family of four by boat to higher ground after rescuing them from their home along Forest Glen Lane in Batch Springs, Texas, Aug. 22, 2022. This summer the weather has not only been extreme, but it has whiplashed from one extreme to another. Dallas, St. Louis, Kentucky, Yellowstone, Death Valley all lurched from drought to flood.

Weather whiplash: Summer lurches from drought to flood

August 23, 2022, 5:10pm Latest News

Parts of northern Texas, mired in a drought labeled as extreme and exceptional, are flooding under torrential rain. In a drought. Read story

Hurricane season on the verge of August without a named storm

August 23, 2022, 4:03pm Nation & World

The hallmark of the 2022 hurricane season — so far — has been uncharacteristic calmness, and the benign conditions might not change for the remainder of August, forecasters say. Read story

In this photo provided by the Philippine Coast Guard, rescuers carry vegetables as they move them to safer grounds in Tuguegarao, Cagayan province, northern Philippines on Tuesday Aug. 23, 2022. A tropical storm lashed the northern Philippines with strong wind and rain Tuesday, injuring at least two people and prompting the president to close schools and government offices in the capital and outlying provinces.

Storm forces school closures, evacuations in Philippines

August 23, 2022, 8:09am Nation & World

A tropical storm lashed the northern Philippines with strong winds and rain Tuesday, injuring at least two people and prompting the president to close schools and government offices in the capital and outlying provinces. Read story

In this aerial photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, water flows through chanels in the lake bed of Poyang Lake, China's largest freshwater lake, in eastern China's Jiangxi Province, Monday, Aug. 22, 2022. With China's biggest freshwater lake reduced to just 25% of its usual size by drought, work crews are digging trenches to keep water flowing to irrigate crops.

Its largest lake is so dry, China digs deep to water crops

August 23, 2022, 7:56am Nation & World

With China’s biggest freshwater lake reduced to just 25 percent of its usual size by a severe drought, work crews are digging trenches to keep water flowing to one of the country’s key rice-growing regions. Read story

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

Weather Eye: Hot days return, but won’t stick around for long

August 23, 2022, 5:52am Clark County News

Our current weather pattern of on-again, off-again hot weather remains, although it is wavering a little as we enter the last days of August. The warmest days this week will be Wednesday and Thursday, with highs around 90 degrees. Seems like those two days of the week have been favorites… Read story

A swamped car sits in flood waters covering a closed highway in Dallas, Monday, Aug. 22, 2022.

Heavy rain floods streets across Dallas-Fort Worth area

August 22, 2022, 2:21pm Nation & World

Heavy rains across the drought-stricken Dallas-Fort Worth area on Monday caused streets to flood, submerging vehicles as officials warned motorists to stay off the roads and water seeped into some homes and businesses. Read story

Burned trees are visible on Monday, Aug. 8, 2022, in Gallinas, N.M. Earlier this year the area already endured the devastation of the state's largest fire in recorded history, caused by federal officials carrying out what was supposed to be a prescribed burn to lessen the wildfire danger. Now, those same charred lands under deluge from a powerful seasonal monsoon are channeling contaminated runoff into the city's drinking water supply.

N.M. city, victim of government burn, now faces water shortage

August 22, 2022, 1:15pm Business

LAS VEGAS, N.M. (AP) — In the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, buzzing chainsaws interrupt the serenity. Crews are hustling to remove charred trees and other debris that have been washing down the mountainsides in the wake of the largest wildfire in New Mexico’s recorded history, choking rivers and streams. Read story

A man stands in shallow water near the dry riverbed of the Yangtze River in southwestern China's Chongqing Municipality, Friday, Aug. 19, 2022. Ships crept down the middle of the Yangtze on Friday after the driest summer in six decades left one of the mightiest rivers shrunk to barely half its normal width and set off a scramble to contain damage to a weak economy in a politically sensitive year.

China fights brush fires, extends power rationing in drought

August 22, 2022, 7:43am Nation & World

Brush fires have forced the evacuation of more than 1,500 people in southwest China and power rationing for factories has reportedly been extended as weeks of record heat and drought batter the region. Read story