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Where extreme heat will pose the biggest threat: Look up your city

See in maps how heat waves and dangerous temperatures will affect your city this summer. Track the temperatures and extreme heat wave risk in your area.

By Naema Ahmed and John Muyskens

Floods, fires and deadly heat are the alarm bells of a planet on the brink

By Sarah Kaplan

Tornadoes touch down near Chicago’s O’Hare airport, outside city

By Andrea Salcedo

Unforgiving heat wave forecast in swaths of U.S. in the coming days

By Matthew Cappucci

As flood-ravaged Vermont cleans up, more heavy rain is forecast

By Ian Livingston and Kate Selig

Five key factors that spurred the historic floods in Vermont, New York

By Dan Stillman

Capital Weather Gang Forecasts

PM Update: Humidity nudges up for a hot Thursday

Warm but pleasant this evening. Heat indexes may approach 100 tomorrow.

By Ian Livingston7 hours ago

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Floods, fires and deadly heat are the alarm bells of a planet on the brink

Massive floods. Record heat. Extreme ocean temperatures. Forest fires burning out of control. Climate alarm bells are ringing all over the planet.

By Sarah Kaplan

A heat wave killed hundreds in Chicago nearly 30 years ago

By Kim Bellware

Floods test Vermont’s quaint mountain towns in age of climate change

By Joanna Slater and Silvia Foster-Frau

Five key factors that spurred the historic floods in Vermont, New York

By Dan Stillman

Flash flooding: What causes it and how to respond in an emergency

By Frances Vinall

Earth is at its hottest in thousands of years. Here’s how we know.

By Scott Dance

Should we trust AI to predict natural disasters?

By Dan Stillman

Analysis

Bad news about this year’s smoky air, in four maps and charts

By Ian Livingston

Pressure builds for FEMA to declare deadly heat events as disasters

By Kate Selig

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2023 Hurricane Season

More coverage of hurricanes and tropical storms

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Sorry, but you probably can’t see the northern lights in the U.S. this week

By Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff and Ben Brasch

Extreme heat wave reaches Arizona and swelters southern U.S.: Live weather updates

By Matthew Cappucci

Florida ocean temperatures at ‘downright shocking’ levels

By Dan Stillman

Unforgiving heat wave forecast in swaths of U.S. in the coming days

By Matthew Cappucci

Five key factors that spurred the historic floods in Vermont, New York

By Dan Stillman