Sioux City, Iowa — Less than 24 hours after President Trump held a raucous rally inside an airplane hangar in this western Iowa town, Senate Majority Leader John Thune stood alongside Rep. Ashley Hinson in a strip-mall bar and grill a few miles away. Looking out over a giant water tank that punctuated the flat…
A rain-soaked swath of the Southwest U.S. braced Sunday for another round of potentially heavy showers and thunderstorms after days of rain forced evacuations and water rescues. The National Weather Service issued a flood watch for much of the Four Corners — the meeting point of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah — even as…
The winter season may bring much-needed rain and snow to parts of the United States where both have been lacking, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s latest winter weather outlook. But wetter conditions expected in much of the South will unfold alongside drier-than-average winter months across the northern tier of the country, largely…
Republicans have dominated elections in Great Plains states for a generation. But with the midterms fast approaching, Ed O’Keefe reports that some voters in Iowa now say they’re considering all of their options. Source link
Severe storms slammed central Kansas with flash floods and debris whipping across the Great Plains. Jason Allen has more. Source link
The effects of former Hurricane Polo, now a tropical storm, are expected to bring rain and flooding to the southwestern United States after the powerful storm travels across Mexico, the National Hurricane Center said Tuesday. Polo was downgraded from a hurricane to a tropical storm Tuesday afternoon local time. As the storm’s path continues inland, more than…
The effects of Hurricane Polo are expected to impact the southwestern United States after the powerful storm travels across Mexico, the National Hurricane Center said Tuesday. More than 30 million people from Arizona to Iowa could be at risk for flash floods Tuesday. Heavy rain has already flooded some roads in southern New Mexico, trapping…
The United States just experienced its hottest summer on record, officials said, after several months of exceptionally high temperatures and expanding drought across the country. According to a new report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, temperatures nationwide averaged 74.4 degrees Fahrenheit between June and August, which is the period known to climate scientists as “meteorological…
