Thunderstorms and hail blanketed parts of the Central United States on Monday evening as the storm system marched east, the National Weather Service said. Here’s what to watch for: Tornado warnings had been in effect for parts of Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas, and expired Monday night. More than eight million people in the Central United…
As smoke from Canadian wildfires blanketed New York City and seeped into theaters, alarming both ticket holders and performers, the Broadway production of “Hamilton” and a Free Shakespeare in the Park production of “Hamlet” both canceled performances. “Hamilton” announced at 6:45 p.m. that it was canceling its 8 p.m. performance Wednesday night because so many…
Jennifer Savage was scrambling to pull something together for dinner. Deep in the back of her fridge, she found a container of stuffed peppers. Very old stuffed peppers. She groaned, then did what millions of Americans do every day, without a second thought: She scraped the rotten food into the garbage. Sitting nearby, her daughter,…
After a miserably hot summer across much of the country, don’t expect August to bring relief. Only the Southwest and Alaska are forecast to have cool or average temperatures over the next few weeks, according to the monthly outlook from the National Weather Service’s Climate Prediction Center. The rest of the country? Hot or hotter.…
In much of the United States, it’s hot out there. Still. Many parts of the Central Plains and Texas are under heat advisories and warnings this weekend and will be well into next week in what is already a historically — and relentless — hot summer, forecasters with the National Weather Service said. It might…