A massive wildfire that has exploded to more than 1 million acres of land in just four days in the Texas Panhandle has now become the largest wildfire in state history as firefighters continue their desperate attempts to contain the blaze. Crews working to extinguish the Smokehouse Creek fire, as well as four others across the region, were hoping to get … Read more
A series of wildfires swept across the Texas Panhandle early Wednesday, prompting evacuations, cutting off power to thousands, and forcing the shutdown of a nuclear weapons facility as strong winds, dry grass and unseasonably warm temperatures fed the blazes. An unknown number of homes and other structures in Hutchinson County were damaged or destroyed, local emergency officials … Read more
Potentially dangerous triple-digit heat is baking the southern Plains and Texas, with the excessive heat and humidity expected to linger across the region through at least the first part of the weekend. Millions of people across the Lone Star State are being urged to take proper precautions to prevent heat-related illnesses such as heatstroke and heat exhaustion as … Read more
A dangerous heat wave will build across the Plains and Midwest in the week ahead as a dome of high pressure remains parked over the central U.S. Some 30 million Americans from South Dakota, Iowa and Illinois southward into Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi have been placed under Heat Advisories by the National Weather Service on Independence … Read more