Firefighters working the Sand Creek and Bobcat Lakes fires in southwest Montana are preparing for increased fire behavior this week, with erratic afternoon weather forecast on Tuesday.
The National Weather Service expects a dangerous heat wave to continue through Aug. 20 in West Tennessee. In Memphis, the maximum heat index — what the temperature feels like to the human body — is expected to remain at or above 107 degrees through Thursday. Heat indices in more rural areas of the state are […]
A record-breaking stretch of high temperatures late last month was Colorado’s worst heat wave in the 75 years that such records have been collected, state climatologists said Tuesday. The four-day period from July 25 to 28 included the first- and third-hottest days in Colorado’s recorded history, as measured by the statewide average temperature. The statewide […]
Opinion: The Alliance for the Wild Rockies has taken the Park Service to court to require it to use the best available science and stop the pointless slaughter of our national mammal.
Most lower-elevation areas in central and southwest Montana will see temperatures in the 90s each afternoon through the week, with the heat peaking on Saturday.
Seven long years ago the Alliance for the Wild Rockies, with the support of local residents, took the Forest Service to federal court to halt the Hanna Flats logging, road-building, and burning project on the Idaho Panhandle National Forest in northern Idaho. Through a long and winding legal saga the good news — for grizzly bears, old-growth forests, and the local populace which strongly opposed the deforestation — is that a federal appeals court just ruled for the Alliance.
On Sunday, Billings hit 111 degrees and Miles City was one of the hottest places in Montana at 114. 90s and thunderstorms are due for the rest of the week.
SHREVEPORT, La. - More than 2,000 SWEPCO customers remain without power early Wednesday morning following severe storms that swept through the region earlier in the week.