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EF1 tornado hit along Fayette-Westmoreland border, weather service confirms
A tornado touched down Thursday along the border of Fayette and Westmoreland counties, according to the National Weather Service in Moon. The tornado was EF1 and had wind speeds between 100 and 105 mph, according to meteorologist Jason Frazier. The National Weather Service said that the tornado touched down from...
Study: Global warming will kill 83 million people in next 80 years
A population equivalent to that of Germany — 83 million people — could be killed by 2100 because of rising temperatures caused by greenhouse-gas emissions, according to a new study that might influence how markets price carbon pollution. The research from Columbia University’s Earth Institute introduces a new metric to...
More than 20 dead, dozens missing in heavy Europe floods
BERLIN — More than 20 people have died and dozens of people were missing Thursday in Germany and neighboring Belgium after heavy flooding turned streams and streets into raging torrents, sweeping away cars and causing buildings to collapse. Storms across parts of western Europe in recent days caused rivers and...
Wildfires in US West threaten parched Native American lands
BLY, Ore. — Fierce wildfires in the Pacific Northwest are threatening Native American lands that already are struggling to conserve water and preserve traditional hunting grounds amid a historic drought in the U.S. West. Blazes in Oregon and Washington state were among some 60 large, active wildfires that have destroyed...
Tropical storm pounds East Coast after killing 1 in Florida
SAVANNAH, Ga. — Tropical Storm Elsa carved a destructive and soaking path up the East Coast after killing at least one person in Florida and spinning up a tornado at a Georgia Navy base that flipped recreational vehicles upside-down and blew one of them into a lake. Elsa’s winds strengthened...
Study: Northwest heat wave impossible without climate change
The deadly heat wave that roasted the Pacific Northwest and western Canada was virtually impossible without human-caused climate change that added a few extra degrees to the record-smashing temperatures, a new quick scientific analysis found. An international team of 27 scientists calculated that climate change increased chances of the extreme...
Tropical Storm Elsa kills 1 in Florida, hurts 10 at Georgia base
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — A weakened but resilient Tropical Storm Elsa killed at least one person in Florida on Wednesday and injured several others when a possible tornado struck a Navy base in southeast Georgia. The National Hurricane Center said Elsa still packed 45 mph winds more than six hours...
Summer swelter trend: West gets hotter days, East hot nights
As outlandish as the killer heat wave that struck the Pacific Northwest was, it fits into a decades-long pattern of uneven summer warming across the United States. The West is getting roasted by hotter summer days while the East Coast is getting swamped by hotter and stickier summer nights, an...
Elsa falls back to tropical storm as it batters Haiti
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Hurricane Elsa fell back to tropical storm force as it brushed past Haiti and the Dominican Republic on Saturday and threatened to unleash flooding and landslides before taking aim at Cuba and Florida. The storm was centered about 255 miles east of Kingston, Jamaica, and was moving...
It’s now Hurricane Elsa: South Florida is in forecast track with possible landfall early next week
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Elsa became the season’s first hurricane Friday morning and South Florida along with most of the rest of the state remains in the forecast path for a possible landfall early next week, according to the National Hurricane Center. Elsa is located 20 miles west-southwest of Barbados,...
Over 100 deaths may be tied to historic Northwest heat wave
SALEM, Ore. — The grim toll of the historic heat wave in the Pacific Northwest became more apparent as authorities in Canada, Washington state and Oregon said Wednesday that they were investigating more than 100 deaths likely caused by scorching temperatures that shattered all-time records. Oregon health officials said more...
Heat, humidity to give way to rain, cooler temperatures
The Pittsburgh region is expected to get a break Wednesday from the blistering heat and oppressive humidity when storms roll through in the afternoon. The three-day stretch of hot weather began Sunday when the temperature hit 88 degrees followed by highs of 92 on Monday and Tuesday. The average temperature...
Rolling blackouts for parts of U.S. Northwest amid heat wave
SPOKANE, Wash. — The unprecedented Northwest U.S. heat wave that slammed Seattle and Portland, Oregon, moved inland Tuesday — prompting a electrical utility in Spokane, Wash., to warn that people will face more rolling blackouts amid heavy power demand. The intense weather that gave Seattle and Portland consecutive days of...
A wild weather week in store for Western Pennsylvania
Western Pennsylvania residents won’t need to go to Kennywood to feel like they’re on a roller coaster this week: A weather roller coaster, that is. The week begins with blistering heat. The average for this time of year is 82 degrees, but we could be hitting at least 90 degrees...
Unprecedented: Northwest heat wave builds, records fallVideo
PORTLAND, Ore. — Intense. Prolonged. Record-breaking. Unprecedented. Abnormal. Dangerous. That’s how the National Weather Service described the historic heat wave that is hitting the Pacific Northwest, pushing daytime temperatures into the triple digits and breaking all-time high temperature records in places where many residents don’t have air conditioning. Sunday’s forecasted...
Palm Springs matches all-time high temperature of 123 degrees
LOS ANGELES — In a blazing hot week of heat records, Palm Springs takes the crown: The city reached 123 degrees Thursday, matching an all-time record it had previously set three times before. Palm Springs climbed to 123 degrees before on Aug. 1, 1993; July 28, 1995; and July 29,...
Tropical weather lashes Gulf Coast with brisk winds, rain
High winds and heavy rains buffeted coastal Louisiana and Mississippi on Friday as a disorganized and unpredictable tropical weather system churned through the Gulf of Mexico, forcing cancellation of Juneteenth celebrations in Mississippi and Alabama and threatening Father’s Day tourism. The system, moving north toward Louisiana through the Gulf of...
National Weather Service monitoring chance of severe weather
The National Weather Service is monitoring the chance for severe weather Friday night into Saturday. After a couple cool, dry days, temperatures and humidity levels are expected to begin rising Friday, meteorologist Mike Kennedy said. Showers and storms could be seen Friday afternoon, but the most severe weather will be...
More storms expected Monday as cleanup from severe weather continues
Francesca DeAngelis-Witchko and her husband were grilling outside in McCandless when Sunday’s hail storm hit. Then, their basement flooded. “Our backyard, it was basically a river,” she said. “It just started seeping into our basement and it came in through a bunch of our walls.” Their basement has about four...
Strong storm causes damage, outages; Memorial Day forecast calls for more rain
Rain and cool temperatures may put a damper on the first half of Memorial Day weekend, but bad weather wasn’t waiting for the holiday to rear its ugly head. A strong storm system moving through the region Wednesday evening downed trees and electrical wires and caused power outages. The National...
Cool temperatures, rain expected over Memorial Day weekend
Rain and cool temperatures may put a damper on the first half of Memorial Day weekend, before temperatures rise to the mid-70s by Monday. Pittsburgh has seen warm weather recently, with the high temperature Wednesday reaching 83 degrees, according to the National Weather Service. But those temperatures will drop for...
Wind, hail risks with afternoon, evening storms
Damaging wind and large hail are the main risks with storms expected in the Pittsburgh area Wednesday afternoon into the early evening, according to the National Weather Service. Storms are expected to reach the general Pittsburgh area between 3 and 4 p.m., and move out by around 7 p.m., meteorologist...
Biden doubling spending to prepare for hurricanes, storms
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden announced Monday’s he’s doubling U.S. emergency spending to help communities prepare for hurricanes and other extreme weather events, while launching a new effort at NASA to better understand and track the impacts of climate change. The $1 billion in spending being is a small fraction...
Experts predict busy Atlantic storm season but not like 2020
The Atlantic hurricane season will be busier than normal, but it’s unlikely to be as crazy as 2020’s record-shattering year, meteorologists said Thursday. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration forecasted that the hurricane season, which runs from June through November, will see 13 to 20 named storms. Six to 10...
Heat wave finally on the way to Western Pa.
Get those air conditioners ready. A warmup is expected to kick in with temperatures in the low-80s by Wednesday and the mid- to upper-80s by Friday. Seemingly gone for good are the below normal temperatures that brought frost potential earlier this month. “We’re coming off a period of cold weather...
