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Wildfires burning across Washington and Oregon have left Portland with the worst air quality among major cities around the world, edging out Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Wildfires Mean Portland Edges Out Kinshasa for World’s Worst Air
Wildfires burning across Washington and Oregon have left Portland with the worst air quality among major cities around the world, edging out Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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The US is enduring one of its worst wildfire seasons in years, with blazes scorching millions of acres and forcing thousands from their homes after a snow-starved winter in Western states left forests primed to burn
The US Is Having One of Its Worst Wildfire Seasons in a Decade
The US is enduring one of its worst wildfire seasons in years, with blazes scorching millions of acres and forcing thousands from their homes in Washington state and beyond after a snow-starved winter in Western states left forests primed to burn.
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Serious wildland-urban interface (WUI) fire situation in Spokane, WA amid "extremely critical/Particularly Dangerous Situation" fire weather conditions. Two separate fires, #OldTrailsFire & #FairViewFire, are actively burning near/in neighborhoods; mass evacs ongoing. #WAwx
Important safety information from state officials. #wawx #SpokaneFire youtu.be/CYERmKm5cZM?...
City, state officials give latest information on Spokane County wildfires | 6 p.m. press conference
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Carol ❄️@carolcdt.bsky.social · 4d agoVery scary. Wildfires, evacuations, widespread power outages, and high winds. Good thing there’s no climate change 🤦♀️ Be careful out there, Spokane, Washington, folks!
Atlantic tropical cyclone activity remains low as we begin August, with Accumulated Cyclone Energy (ACE) running about 75% below normal for this point in the season. While no tropical cyclones are expected over the next week, August typically marks a transition toward increasin... 🔗 hurricanes.gov
Well it looks like they fixed it and we're back in EDT. Who says time travel isn't possible
weathersullivan.bsky.social@weathersullivan.bsky.social · 4d agoThe MBTA/Amtrak schedule board seems to be working on Eastern Standard or Atlantic Daylight time. It gives me hope these time bandits don't succeed in their plans to fiddle with our clocks.
Firefighters tackled multiple wildfires across Greece on Saturday as strong winds fanned dozens of blazes throughout the country, burning houses and forcing evacuations including in coastal settlements northwest of Athens.
Greece Wildfires Rage Near Athens, Prompting Sea Evacuations
Firefighters tackled multiple wildfires across Greece on Saturday as strong winds fanned dozens of blazes throughout the country, burning houses and forcing evacuations including in coastal settlements northwest of Athens.
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Through extraordinary efforts, @windbornewx.bsky.social successfully navigated a controllable balloon above powerful Typhoon Dolphin, descended into its eye, then collected multiple vertical profiles as we circled inside its eye. A first of its kind type of hurricane data collection.
Two 50-year-old power plants in the East River are propping up New York's grid, which is ailing under strain from electrification and climate change.
New York City’s Aging Power Barges Show the Blackout Risk Is Real
Meant as a backstop, the plants are in constant use as demand rises, with no relief in sight for the strained grid.
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The MBTA/Amtrak schedule board seems to be working on Eastern Standard or Atlantic Daylight time. It gives me hope these time bandits don't succeed in their plans to fiddle with our clocks.
How did one of the world's most spectacular natural wonders help bring on an environmental catastrophe?
A New York Town’s Toxic Relationship With Its Natural Wonder
The new book Thundering Waters explores how Niagara Falls powered the rise and fall of a factory town, and left behind an environmental disaster.
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Bad news: The 30-year Treasury yield hit a 19-year high today. 🚨🚨🚨 America's going to have to pay more for its colossal debt, which will soon hit $40 trillion. Interest already tops $1T a year and is growing rapidly. Latest GOP/WH plans would increase the deficit. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Treasuries Jolted as Fed Hold Trims September Hike Bets
US bond traders lowered their expectations that the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates at its next meeting after officials kept their benchmark steady on Wednesday, while 30-year Treasury yield...
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I live on a quiet street in a relatively small town and yet thousands of people from all over the world pass by my house every day. Lufthansa Airbus 340, Sunday's Flight DLH 419 from Dulles to Frankfurt glides over at nearly 600 miles per hour just about 35,000 feet above the ground.
Nearly 89 percent of Massachusetts is in drought, according to the US Drought Monitor. The worst of it is in eastern Massachusetts where the anemic Neponset River sluggishly flows by on a cool July day. @neprwa.bsky.social
As the US enters another week of blistering temperatures across the Great Plains and West, @bloomberg.com colleagues @laurenthal.bsky.social and @johnainger.bsky.social have a great piece on the collision of weather and data commerce. #AI #climate #weather www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Power Grids Reach Tipping Point as 100F Weather, US Data Center Boom Stress Aging Networks
Back-to-back heat waves across the US are straining electricity grids serving millions of households and businesses amid a surge in demand from data centers that require around-the-clock power.
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Sizzling temps will bake the central US into next month and task energy grids as demand grows for cooling. #climate #energy #weather @bloomberg.com story here: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Heat Bakes Central US, Raising Energy Demand as East Stays Cool
Baking temperatures will sear the central US from the Rocky Mountains to the Mississippi River and eventually push down into the Gulf Coast for the rest of the month, putting regional power grids to t...
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The beach of Moutchic in Lacanau, southwestern France. 📷 Maximilien Lamy/AFP/Getty Images
Europe is warming faster than any other continent on Earth, but it's not spending nearly enough to allow its people and infrastructure to deal with extreme heat, despite having more resources than most regions to do so Story via @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Heat Morphs Into a Major Economic Shock for an Unprepared Europe
Europe’s status as the planet’s fastest-warming continent is becoming a serious drag on its economic prospects.
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Western Europe had its hottest June on record.🔥 Intense heatwaves broke temperature records, with peaks up to 9°C above average in France and Germany, according to Copernicus data. Only Cyprus and Malta had normal temperatures. Climate change is here and we are feeling its effects
Another dispatch from Summer Fun City USA
Clear skies are expected across northern New Jersey as the World Cup final between Argentina and Spain is set to get underway at MetLife Stadium on Sunday afternoon.
Clear Skies Now Expected for World Cup Final in New Jersey
Clear skies are expected across northern New Jersey as the World Cup final between Argentina and Spain is set to get underway at MetLife Stadium on Sunday afternoon with about 80,000 fans on hand.
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Thick plumes of smoke are degrading air quality and emptying streets across North America.
New York, Chicago Engulfed in Smoke as Canada Wildfires Rage: Photos
Thick plumes of smoke are degrading air quality and emptying streets across North America.
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Permanent daylight saving time was a dumb idea 50 years ago when I had to walk to school in the dark and a dumb idea now.
First "fire sun" that I saw this year in Boston. The fires are burning in Quebec and the smoke has left the sky a flat, warm gray. #wildfires
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France is rushing air conditioners to hospitals as drought, wildfires and extreme heat grip Europe.
Europe Heat Wave Strains Power Grids, Hospitals and Firefighters
France is rushing air conditioners to hospitals as drought, wildfires and extreme heat grip Europe.
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ENDLESS RECORD HEAT IN CHINA 26 more stations between yesterday and today broke their July Highest Minimum records, 16 of which are all time records. All time record max. at Guangning with 39.5C. Record heat will go on and on for the whole week. Absolutely insane.
Successive heat waves are affecting the grass on England's sports fields, posing a challenge for venues such as Lord's and Wimbledon
Relentless Heat Waves Hit England’s Fabled Grass Playing Fields
When the England cricket team walks onto the field at Lord’s for a home Test, it’s to the strains of “Jerusalem,” an anthem based on a William Blake poem that extols “England’s green and pleasant land.”
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