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Newsweek
2 days ago
- Climate
- Newsweek
Map Shows Which States Will Feel Hottest Today
Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Newsweek AI is in beta. Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content. A record-breaking heat dome has engulfed much of the U.S. this week, pushing temperatures to dangerous highs from the Midwest to the mid-Atlantic. According to AccuWeather, highs in the upper 90s and low 100s could continue through Thursday, with humidity prompting temperatures that feel well above 100 degrees Fahrenheit in several regions. Why It Matters The heat wave, which began last weekend, has broken temperature records in several states. Philadelphia reached 101 degrees on Tuesday, surpassing a record more than a century old and marking its first 100-degree reading since July 2012, AccuWeather said. Northern New York also tied historical records, with Plattsburgh hitting 101 degrees on Monday. In New York City, Monday's 90-degree reading arrived more than two months earlier than in 2024. What to Know According to a forecast map shared with Newsweek, Mississippi and parts of Louisiana and Alabama are expected to face "sweltering" conditions, with temperatures feeling as high as 115 degrees. AccuWeather's forecast map for Thursday. AccuWeather's forecast map for Thursday. AccuWeather Temperatures in Florida, Georgia, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, North Carolina, and Virginia could feel as high as 110 degrees. Meanwhile, South Carolina, Texas, Missouri, Ohio, West Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania may see so-called RealFeel temperatures of 100 to 105 degrees. These figures are based on what AccuWeather meteorologist Tom Kines previously explained to Newsweek as RealFeel Temperature factors. These have more variables than the traditional heat index, which considers only air temperature and relative humidity. RealFeel calculations include temperature, dew point, wind speed and UV index, as well as minor adjustments for visibility and precipitation such as rain or snow, Kines said. While the worst of the heat lingers over the southern mid-Atlantic and Southeast, some parts of the Northeast and Midwest have begun to see cooler conditions, AccuWeather said. Cooler conditions reached the Plains and Upper Midwest earlier this week and are expected to spread into northern mid-Atlantic states on Thursday. What People Are Saying The National Weather Service said on X on Wednesday: "Over the past 3 days of this eastern U.S. heat wave, hundreds of record highs have been broken from the Plains to the East Coast. Many more are possible today, before a cold front, and showers and storms start to back down the extreme heat." What's Next Following earlier highs close to 100 degrees Fahrenheit this week, temperatures across much of the Midwest and Northeast are expected to fall into the 80s and 70s, AccuWeather said. Boston and New York City could see a drop of 20 to 40 degrees by Thursday or Friday, driven by a rare backdoor cold front.
Los Angeles Times
2 days ago
- Politics
- Los Angeles Times
Heat domes, wildfires, floods and drought. Where's the outrage?
As I write this, the temperature is climbing past 100 degrees Fahrenheit in the mid-Atlantic states, and 170 million Americans are under warnings about a dangerous combination of intense heat and humidity. Is this latest weather extreme linked to global warming? Of course it is, as has been the case with record-setting floods, extreme hurricanes, droughts and wildfires that go back decades and afflict every corner of the globe. Amid these extremes, we have the Trump administration seemingly trying to roll back or reverse every environmental initiative of the past 55 years. Yet nobody seems to care. In the early 1990s, I gave a lot of talks about how environmental awareness had become an American value. The early 1970s saw the passage of the Clean Air and Clean Water acts, the National Environmental Policy Act, the Endangered Species Act, and the formation of the Environmental Protection Agency. Within 20 years, Time magazine was making planet Earth its 'Man of the Year,' and the first Earth Summit met. But now I think I spoke too soon. On June 14, several million people took to the streets in the 'No Kings' protests against Trump's assault on the Constitution, demonstrating that Americans can still be mobilized in support of something they hold dear. By contrast, while there has been ample media coverage of the administration's gutting of the agencies monitoring climate change, pollution, the weather and other environment-related issues, the devastation hasn't produced any major protests. This is all the more striking as many of the looming environmental concerns that provoked action in the 20th century are unfolding faster and causing far worse damage than predicted. To take just one example, climate change is inflicting far higher costs on Americans at a far faster pace than experts predicted back when the public started clamoring for action on global warming. In 1991, for instance, economist William Nordhaus used a model he developed (work for which he became a Nobel laureate in 2018) to predict that 3 degrees Celsius warming would cause a mere 1% drop in global income. As recently as 2018, a refined version of his model predicted that the roughly 1.5-degree Celsius warming already happening would inflict only 0.5% damage to the economy. This number stands in dramatic contrast to a new analysis by Bloomberg Intelligence: In the 12 months ending May 1, 2025, damage from events attributable to climate change amounted to roughly 3% of U.S. GDP, or nearly $1 trillion. Contributing to this number were such catastrophes as Hurricanes Helene and Milton and wildfires in California. While skeptics might question how analysts can precisely measure how much of the damage caused by such events is attributable to climate change, one major tributary to this number is a dramatic increase in insurance costs, and insurers take estimating risk very seriously. Thirty years ago, the president of the Reinsurance Assn. of America told me 'global warming can bankrupt the industry.' But the industry, motivated by the competitive pressures to continue to write policies, and protected by its ingenuity at limiting exposure and offloading risk, underpriced these risks well into the 2000s. No longer. As Californians are well aware, many insurers have pulled out of markets vulnerable to fires, floods, sea level rise and storms, and those that remain have been raising prices where they can. The Bloomberg Intelligence analysis found that insurance premiums have doubled since 2017 (and may still underprice risk in many markets), and even those who are insured will find that many of their losses aren't covered, and that government recovery help falls short as well. Climate change is costing Americans real money — $7.7 trillion since 2000, according to the Bloomberg Intelligence analysis. To put this in perspective, it is substantially more than the total costs of the Iraq and Afghanistan interventions taken together. And these costs are certain to rise as climate change intensifies. Given that the administration's actions are going to leave Americans more vulnerable to climate change at a time when weather-related events are already affecting the average voter's budget, it would be natural to expect protests at least as vigorous as those against deportations or cuts to Medicaid. Instead, in the relative absence of public interest, many large corporations have abandoned climate-related policies, something that began even before Trump was elected. Simple issue overload might explain some of the silence. It's understandably hard to process all the ramifications of what we might call the Trump Blitzkrieg — bizarre, unqualified Cabinet appointments, attacks on due process, attempts at mass deportations, sending troops into Los Angeles to quell garden-variety unrest, bombing Iran without congressional authorization. He has indeed flooded the zone. The familiarity of the problem may be another problem. The warming planet been the subject of innumerable debates, reports, global agreements, protests, lawsuits, political campaigns and media attention going back to 1988 when it became a mainstream issue. Indeed, a changed climate is the new normal for most people alive today because a majority of the global population was born after the signals of a climate going haywire became obvious. Finally, humans aren't great at assessing the relative priority of risks — encounters with deer kill 880 times more Americans each year than encounters with sharks, but guess which threat worries us more? Still, the essence of a value is that it becomes a cherished part of identity, and if environmental awareness really were an American value, commitment to that value would cut through the noise. It hasn't, and that bodes ill for our future. Eugene Linden is the author of 'Fire & Flood: A People's History of Climate Change From 1979 to the Present .'
Miami Herald
3 days ago
- Business
- Miami Herald
NATO to spend trillions more, Trump reaffirms U.S. defense guarantee
June 25 (UPI) -- U.S. President Donald Trump reassured NATO allies Wednesday that the United States was fully committed to the defense alliance's so-called Article 5 under which members pledge to come to the military defense of any NATO country that is attacked. "We're with them all the way," Trump told a joint briefing with Secretary General Mark Rutte at a NATO summit in The Hague, responding to a question on his commitment to NATO and the mutual defense pact at its heart. Trump added that he was happy to commit because other members of the 32-country alliance had heeded his long-standing call to ramp up their defense budgets and would now meet his demand that they spend 5% of GDP on defense. "If you look at the numbers, I've been asking them to go up to 5% for a number of years and they're going up to 5%. That's a big jump from 2% and a lot of people didn't even pay the 2%, so I think it's going to be very big news. NATO is going to become very strong with us and I appreciate doing it," he said. Earlier, Trump sparked consternation after comments made mid-Atlantic aboard Air Force One on Tuesday that his commitment to Article 5 "depends on your definition." The situation in the Middle East dominated most of the rest of the briefing, setting the tone for a gathering that alternated between shows of NATO unity and discussion of the U.S. strikes on Iran and how the situation would play out, despite not being on the agenda. That left little room for the issue of Ukraine, which was relegated well down the agenda. In his opening remarks to the leaders' session Rutte did set out the challenges facing NATO, from Russia's war on Ukraine and China's "massive" military build-up to conflict in the Middle East, but hailed what he said were the historic, transformative decisions that would be made at the meeting to "make our people safer through a stronger, fairer and more lethal NATO." He said the additional funds from the 5% spending commitment would go toward bolstering "core" hard defense expenditure, as well as defense and security-related investments, and ensure every country contributed their fair share to the security umbrella NATO provided. "For too long, one Ally, the United States, carried too much of the burden of that commitment. And that changes today," Rutte said. "President Trump, dear Donald, you made this change possible. Your leadership on this has already produced $1 trillion in extra spending from European Allies since 2016. And the decisions today will produce trillions more for our common defenses, to make us stronger and fairer by equalising spending between America and America's allies." Shortly after the meeting ended, the NATO heads of state and government issued a joint communique reaffirming their commitment to NATO, the transatlantic bond and "ironclad commitment to collective defense as enshrined in Article 5" of the 1947 Washington Treaty. "An attack on one is an attack on all." It said the leaders were united in the face of "profound security threats and challenges", in particular the long-term threat posed by Russia to Euro-Atlantic security and the persistent threat of terrorism allies had therefore committed to invest 5% of GDP in defense annually by 2035. "Our investments will ensure we have the forces, capabilities, resources, infrastructure, warfighting readiness, and resilience needed to deter and defend in line with our three core tasks of deterrence and defence, crisis prevention and management, and cooperative security," the declaration stated. Members also reaffirmed a joint pledge to accelerate efforts to ramp up transatlantic defense-industrial cooperation, harness new technology and embrace out-of-the-box thinking on defense, as well as working to remove defense trade barriers between allies. Copyright 2025 UPI News Corporation. All Rights Reserved.
UPI
3 days ago
- Politics
- UPI
NATO to spend trillions more, Trump reaffirms U.S. defense guarantee
1 of 4 | U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday reaffirmed the United States' commitment to the defense alliance's Article 5. Photo by Martijn Beekman/NATO/UPI | License Photo June 25 (UPI) -- U.S. President Donald Trump reassured NATO allies Wednesday that the United States was fully committed to the defense alliance's so-called Article 5 under which members pledge to come to the military defense of any NATO country that is attacked. "We're with them all the way," Trump told a joint briefing with Secretary General Mark Rutte at a NATO summit in The Hague, responding to a question on his commitment to NATO and the mutual defense pact at its heart. Trump added that he was happy to commit because other members of the 32-country alliance had heeded his long-standing call to ramp up their defense budgets and would now meet his demand that they spend 5% of GDP on defense. "If you look at the numbers, I've been asking them to go up to 5% for a number of years and they're going up to 5%. That's a big jump from 2% and a lot of people didn't even pay the 2%, so I think it's going to be very big news. NATO is going to become very strong with us and I appreciate doing it," he said. Earlier, Trump sparked consternation after comments made mid-Atlantic aboard Air Force One on Tuesday that his commitment to Article 5 "depends on your definition." The situation in the Middle East dominated most of the rest of the briefing, setting the tone for a gathering that alternated between shows of NATO unity and discussion of the U.S. strikes on Iran and how the situation would play out, despite not being on the agenda. That left little room for the issue of Ukraine, which was relegated well down the agenda. In his opening remarks to the leaders' session Rutte did set out the challenges facing NATO, from Russia's war on Ukraine and China's "massive" military build-up to conflict in the Middle East, but hailed what he said were the historic, transformative decisions that would be made at the meeting to "make our people safer through a stronger, fairer and more lethal NATO." He said the additional funds from the 5% spending commitment would go toward bolstering "core" hard defense expenditure, as well as defense and security-related investments, and ensure every country contributed their fair share to the security umbrella NATO provided. "For too long, one Ally, the United States, carried too much of the burden of that commitment. And that changes today," Rutte said. "President Trump, dear Donald, you made this change possible. Your leadership on this has already produced $1 trillion in extra spending from European Allies since 2016. And the decisions today will produce trillions more for our common defenses, to make us stronger and fairer by equalising spending between America and America's allies." Shortly after the meeting ended, the NATO heads of state and government issued a joint communique reaffirming their commitment to NATO, the transatlantic bond and "ironclad commitment to collective defense as enshrined in Article 5" of the 1947 Washington Treaty. "An attack on one is an attack on all." It said the leaders were united in the face of "profound security threats and challenges", in particular the long-term threat posed by Russia to Euro-Atlantic security and the persistent threat of terrorism allies had therefore committed to invest 5% of GDP in defense annually by 2035. "Our investments will ensure we have the forces, capabilities, resources, infrastructure, warfighting readiness, and resilience needed to deter and defend in line with our three core tasks of deterrence and defence, crisis prevention and management, and cooperative security," the declaration stated. Members also reaffirmed a joint pledge to accelerate efforts to ramp up transatlantic defense-industrial cooperation, harness new technology and embrace out-of-the-box thinking on defense, as well as working to remove defense trade barriers between allies.
Yahoo
3 days ago
- Climate
- Yahoo
Daily Weather Update from FOX Weather: Stifling heat wave begins to abate; 'ring of fire' to bring more storms
Welcome to the Daily Weather Update from FOX Weather. It's Wednesday, June 25, 2025. Start your day with everything you need to know about today's weather. You can also get a quick briefing of national, regional and local weather whenever you like with the FOX Weather Update podcast. A massive heat dome that sparked the first major heat wave of the summer brought record-breaking temperatures to cities from the Midwest to the Northeast this week, but some much-needed relief from the extreme weather is on the horizon. On Monday, 30 cities across the eastern half of the U.s. broke or tied century-old records, and another 11 cities did the same on Tuesday. Highs will once again climb into the mid- to upper 90s on Wednesday along the Interstate 95 corridor on the East Coast, but temperatures will moderate across the Northeast starting Thursday, with temperatures dropping back into the 70s by Friday. Rounds of severe storms will continue across the central and northern tier of the U.S. on Wednesday as a large dome of high pressure sits across the Southeast, the FOX Forecast Center said. These "ring of fire" storms will pop up with daytime heating into the afternoon, delivering rounds of potentially severe thunderstorms across areas from the Plains eastward into the mid-Atlantic. A separate area of severe weather is expected across the Southeast from Virginia through Florida. Severe weather made its presence known when a group of 20 people were struck by lightning while swimming at a South Carolina beach park Tuesday evening, emergency officials said. The thunderstorm swept through Lexington around 4:43 p.m. ET. One lightning bolt struck a group of eight adults and 12 children at Dominion Beach Park at Dreher Shoals Dam, according to a Lexington County spokesperson. Beachgoers in South Portland, Maine, came upon a curious sight over the weekend, when they spotted a large, orange-red jellyfish lurking in the shallow water. Known as a Lion's Mane Jellyfish, the animal is a member of the largest jellyfish species in the world, according to the Smithsonian. The specimen found in South Portland appeared as shaggy as its feline namesake, as hair-like components of its vivid crimson bell floated in the water. Here are a few more stories you might find interesting. Andrea dissipates in central Atlantic 12 hours after becoming first tropical storm of 2025 hurricane season Next tropical system likely to form this week in Eastern Pacific Ocean 2 people bitten by shark at tourist hotspot Hilton Head Island in less than a week Need more weather? Check your local forecast plus 3D radar in the FOX Weather app. You can also watch FOX Weather wherever you go using the FOX Weather app, at or on your favorite streaming article source: Daily Weather Update from FOX Weather: Stifling heat wave begins to abate; 'ring of fire' to bring more storms
