The drum line stood beneath a canopy of trees and rattled through rolls of sextuplets, with reddened shoulders glistening. As the sun blistered the parking lot, rows of trumpet, tuba and mellophone players marched back and forth, wiping sweat from their foreheads at the end of each passage of music. Temperatures here in Daphne, Ala.,…
California is in for a heat wave. The Golden State has recently been locked into a cloudier- and chillier-than-usual weather pattern, a stark contrast to the extreme heat gripping so much of the country. The San Francisco Chronicle recently reported that the city had not yet hit 70 degrees this month, only the third time…
Millions of people across Texas were bracing on Thursday for a spell of punishing heat that officials said would likely last for days, break records and raise the risk of wildfires and heat-related illnesses. More than 33 million people in Texas, as well as Florida and Louisiana, were under heat advisories early Thursday, according to…
In Pennsylvania, the same two firms gave Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, the Democratic Senate candidate, a smaller lead over Mehmet Oz, and eventually showed Mr. Fetterman trailing — a departure from nonpartisan polls like Marist and Fox News. (He won by nearly five points.) Worried that the G.O.P.-inflected polls were wrong and were liable to…
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…
The five crime scenes were all 7-Eleven stores. Five people were shot, two fatally, at four of the stores in Southern California early Monday, and the police said at least three of the shootings seemed to be the work of the same gunman. A fifth store in the area was robbed of about $500 in…
Heat continues to build in the Northern and Central Plains of the United States, with more than 15 million people there under heat alerts on Sunday. Temperatures in Minnesota and Nebraska were expected to climb to the triple digits. The National Weather Service said that heat indexes could top 100 degrees on Sunday, from the…