Here’s how heat domes, the jet stream, and climate change influence summer heat waves and the record-hot summer of 2024 ... A stagnant polar jet stream can trapped heat over parts of North America, ...

Parts of New England could see the northern lights this weekend after the sun launched two coronal mass ejections toward ...

1, which fuelled our last summer wave. More recently ... That’s “XEC” - a “recombinant” variant that has parts of its genetic material inherited from two different variants, each ...

On Wednesday, about 39 million people in the region were under heat alerts, according to the National Weather Service.

Triple-digit temperatures will hit California again during a fall heat wave, prompting additional evacuations, power shutoffs ...

This is a phenomenon known locally as “second summer,” said Dylan Flynn, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in ...

Though the current heat wave peaked on Wednesday, the outlook going into the weekend doesn't bring much relief, according to ...

Queenslanders should brace for above-average rainfall, severe tropical cyclones, and sweltering temperatures this summer, the ...

As COVID-19 activity remains high across the United States, a new hybrid variant called XEC is spreading rapidly in Europe and other parts of the world. The XEC variant has been detected in at ...

LOS ANGELES (CNS) -- Summer's over, but Mother Nature will turn up the heat in parts of Southern California on Tuesday, with "dangerously hot temperatures" possible in some areas, along with ...

From heat waves and droughts to flooding rains ... The latest spring and summer briefing shows the rest of this year is likely to be warmer than normal, with more extreme heat events possible.

Millions of people in the West are experiencing a dangerous and historic October heatwave with temperatures so extreme they’d be considered hot during the peak of summer. The heat has been so ...