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“Supersized” El Niño’s harshest weather still ahead, including extreme heat, drought, floods, U.N. warns

With the burgeoning El Niño now forecast to intensify significantly in the coming months, the “supersized” climate event will likely have an outsized impact on severe weather around the world, fueling heat, drought and flooding, among other extremes, the United Nations warned Thursday. “El Niño is being supersized before our eyes,” U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said…

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Contiguous U.S. breaks its record for hottest month ever, NOAA says

July was “a wild weather month,” setting a record as the warmest month ever for the contiguous United States, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Monday. Temperatures last month averaged 76.9 degrees Fahrenheit as above-average warmth blanketed the U.S., and several locations in Idaho, Utah, Wyoming and Montana saw all-time high temperature records since…

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