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Cloud ‘Shot Up’ Just Before Severe Turbulence Struck, Report Says
A Hawaiian Airlines pilot said that a cloud “shot up” like a smoke plume just before the airplane experienced severe turbulence that injured 25 people last month, according to a preliminary report by federal investigators. The National Transportation Safety Board said in the report that the captain of the flight reported that conditions were “smooth […]
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Pacific Northwest Restaurants Struggle as Temperatures Spike
On Wednesday, the temperature in the tight kitchen at Blotto, a pizza restaurant in Seattle, reached 108 degrees. Like many restaurants in the city, Blotto does not have air-conditioning. Facing due west, it gets hours of the summer-afternoon sunlight. The pizzeria’s owners, Jordan Koplowitz and Caleb Hoffmann, work in the kitchen, easily the hottest area […]
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Triple-Digit Temperatures Break Records in the Northeast
Several cities in the Northeast saw record-high daily temperatures on Sunday as a nationwide scorching peaked in many places around the United States. As of 3 p.m., the temperature in Newark had hit 101 degrees, exceeding the previous daily record for July 24 of 99 degrees, set in 2010, according to the National Weather Service. […]
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Plans to Fight Global Warming Face an Obstacle in Paris: Trees
PARIS — Long a favorite spot for picnics and sunbathing, the lawns surrounding the Eiffel Tower have recently become the scene of furious protests. First came a social media campaign. Then a rally by dozens of local residents. Before long, a protester had hunkered down in a nearby plane tree for a hunger strike. The […]
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Flood, Evacuate, Rinse, Repeat: A Relentless Pattern Batters Australia
WINDSOR, Australia — Emma Winley pointed to the markings on the outside of her house, recording the levels of the three floods that have hit in the past 16 months. In March of last year, the water came up to her knees. In March of this year, it nearly reached her shoulders. Still rebuilding after […]
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Extreme Heat Continues Its March Across Western Europe
LONDON — The weather maps for Europe were blood red on Sunday as heat that has been baking Spain and Italy and fanning fires in southwest France worked its way north toward Britain. In London, it was warm, in the high 80s, but temperatures on Monday and Tuesday were forecast to hit 100 or higher […]
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Extreme Weather Challenges Bikepackers on the Tour Divide Race
Kevin Latta pushed his bike forward, following the Bull River down a ridge in the Canadian Rockies. The tire tracks from riders ahead of him had disappeared. He searched for a shallow place to cross. But after just one step, the swollen river swept Latta and his bike downstream. Gripping the bike in one hand, […]
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Bangladesh Floods Cause Death and Destruction in Sylhet
PEKERKHAL, Bangladesh — Rohima Begum was cooking breakfast last week when the floodwaters flowed into her tin-and-bamboo home and began racing across the floor. Ms. Begum, her three children and her mother made a quick escape in a small boat. When they looked back, the house and their possessions had been swept away. “I’m having […]
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Photos of Flooding Damage in Yellowstone
Yellowstone National Park employees led 10,000 visitors to safety this week as storms washed away roads and bridges, while nearby residents escaped as their homes were battered by mudslides and flooding brought on by record rainfall and melting snow. In Billings, a southern Montana city home to nearly 120,000 people, officials asked residents to conserve […]
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