The Arkansas Department of Agriculture launched an online dashboard detailing active wildfires across the state this week, as a months-long drought has left a third of the state at a high risk for wildfires and nearly the entire state under burn bans. The dashboard shows the current number of wildfires and acres affected by them, […]
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.
Gov. Patrick Morrisey says his office is “closely monitoring” the storm that brought hard rain and flash flooding to parts of West Virginia beginning Sunday evening.
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 […]
The hail storm that struck a couple of weeks ago was violent. On Constitution Street, the quarter-sized hail drummed on the roof, ricocheted off our windows and dimpled the hood of the Jeep as if it had been peened with an icy hammer. The barrage came at 10:58 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 5, and it […]
After days of deadly storms, historic flooding and widespread power outages, Indiana Gov. Mike Braun on Friday requested a presidential emergency declaration to bring federal assistance into the state. The request, submitted through the Federal Emergency Management Agency, seeks federal support for emergency response costs. That could include expenses associated with water rescues, restoring electricity […]
Gov. Patrick Morrisey has extended the state of emergency for 12 counties that were hit hard by the deadly storms and flooding on July 21 and 22. The state of emergency will be extended through Sept. 12 in Barbour, Doddridge, Harrison, Lewis, Pendleton, Pleasants, Randolph, Ritchie, Tucker, Tyler, Upshur and Wetzel counties. In the state’s […]
