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'Ring of Fire' Weather Pattern Brings Heat Wave, Thunderstorms

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But this heat wave already set some all-time hottest daily low temperature records Thursday in both Galveston (86 degrees) and Palacios, Texas (87 degrees).
Chris Dolce
08/09/2019

Fuel experts warn wildfire season has come late, but locations are at breaking point now

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California’s wildfire season is starting late this year, according to fire scientist Tom Rolinski, who monitors fuel conditions for Southern California Edison. But the late start is no indication of a mild fire season ahead.
Gabrielle Paluch
08/06/2019

Alaska's Sea Ice Has Its Lowest August Levels Ever

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Alaska has seen the lowest levels of sea ice ever this summer as record temperatures and wildfires hit the region with some areas completely ice free — an event which has never occurred so early in the year and has ramifications for the arctic climate and the Earth as a whole.
Madeline Fitzgerald
08/07/2019

57 Dead, 18,000 Hospitalized in Japan Heat Wave

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While the worst of this summer's heat seems to have passed in the U.S. and Europe, Japan is in the throes of a dangerous heat wave.
Jordan Davidson
08/07/2019

U.S. Racks Up Wettest Calendar Year to Date by Bob Henson

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The Big U.S. Wet of 2018-19 went on cruise control in July, but the year so far managed to hang on as the nation’s wettest calendar year to date in records going back more than a century, NOAA reported on Wednesday.
Bob Henson
08/07/2019

Western Wildfire Season 2019

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Climate science at a glance Human-caused climate change is increasing wildfire activity

50-year-old records fall as extreme heat bakes western US

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Dangerous heat gripped the western United States on Monday and Tuesday, toppling several longstanding high temperature records that were well into the triple digits.
Chaffin Mitchell
08/07/2019

Typhoon Lekima Rapidly Intensifies and Poses a Potential Threat to Japan's Ryukyu Islands, Taiwan and Eastern China

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Maximum sustained winds in Lekima increased from 60 mph to 100 mph in the 24 hours ending 5 a.m. EDT Wednesday. That means Lekima has met the requirement for rapid intensification which is a wind speed increase of 35 mph or more in 24 hours or less.
08/07/2019

Alaska's sea ice has completely melted away

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Alaska's exceptional summer continues. 
Mark Kaufman
08/05/2019

Earth’s temperatures are skewed hot. Expected cool weather in a few spots doesn’t change that.

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Temperatures last week hit 108.7 degrees in Paris, part of a days-long heat wave that toppled all-time record high temperatures in at least five European countries.
Matthew Cappucci
07/30/2019
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