Weather & Climate

Vancouver bans recreational burning due to extremely dry weather conditions

July 8, 2024, 5:49pm Clark County News

Recreational burning will be banned in Vancouver starting Tuesday. Read story

Visitors to Moulton Falls Bridge pause to check out the view Friday afternoon. The bridge will close next week for repairs.

Clean Air Agency issues smog advisory in Clark County and the Portland area

July 8, 2024, 2:33pm Clark County Health Free

Ozone levels, commonly known as smog, are expected to make the air in Clark County and the Portland-metro area unhealthy for sensitive groups, according to the Southwest Clean Air Agency. Read story

An egg lays in a small frying pan at the Furnace Creek Visitors Center in Death Valley National Park, Calif., Sunday, July 7, 2024. Forecasters say a heat wave could break previous records across the U.S., including in Death Valley.

Officials in Oregon’s Multnomah County report 4 suspected heat-related deaths

July 8, 2024, 11:50am Latest News

A searing heat wave gripped large parts of the United States on Monday, with record daily high temperatures in Oregon suspected to have caused four deaths in the Portland area following a motorcyclist's death in dangerous heat over the weekend in Death Valley, California. Read story

Power lines downed by the effects of Hurricane Beryl block a highway near Palacios, Texas, Monday, July 8, 2024.

Beryl unleashes high winds, heavy rains in Texas, stranding residents and leaving 2M without power

July 8, 2024, 10:55am Nation & World

Hurricane Beryl swept ashore in Texas as a Category 1 storm in the dark of the early morning hours Monday, lashing Houston with heavy rains and powerful winds, and knocking out power to 1.5 million homes and businesses as fast rising waters caused street flooding and prompted rescues. Read story

FILE - People walk past a souvenir shop’s storefront boarded up preparation for the arrival of Hurricane Beryl, in Playa del Carmen, Mexico, July 4, 2024.

CLIMATE GLIMPSE: Heat and a hurricane descend on the U.S., other wild weather around the world

July 8, 2024, 8:57am Nation & World

As Hurricane Beryl batters Texas and extreme heat blankets much of the U.S. South and West, the world is set for another week of wild weather that human-caused climate change makes more likely. Read story

We’ve never seen a storm like Beryl. What the Cat 5 hurricane says about a warmer future

Fishermen push a boat damaged by Hurricane Beryl at the Bridgetown fisheries, Barbados, Tuesday, July 2, 2024.

Earliest Category 5 in the Atlantic. Earliest Category 4. Strongest June hurricane. Easternmost June hurricane. First system to undergo rapid intensification in the Atlantic in June. All fresh rewrites of a hurricane record book began in 1851. Read story

Extreme heat makes India waste pickers’ jobs worse

Waste pickers Salmaa and Usmaan Shekh, right, search for recyclable materials June 19 during a heat wave at a garbage dump on the outskirts of Jammu, India.

The putrid smell of burning garbage wafts for miles from the landfill on the outskirts of Jammu in a potentially toxic miasma fed by the plastics, industrial, medical and other waste generated by a city of some 740,000 people. But a handful of waste pickers ignore both the fumes and… Read story

Worsening floods and deterioration pose threats to U.S. dam safety

Floodwater continues to carve a channel around the Rapidan Dam on June 27 near Mankato, Minn.

Early last week, floodwater in rural Minnesota pushed debris against a more than century-old dam and then carved a path around it, eroding so much of the riverbank that most of a house fell into the river. Several days later, intense rain damaged a dam that holds drinking water for… Read story