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Are some wetter days finally within sight? The coming weekend is to open sun-filled and hot with air quality issues—but could we’re seeing prospects for a potentially wetter pattern We need rain! Friday marked the 9th consecutive day with NO RAIN—and just 0.54″ of rain has fallen at Chicago’s O’Hare at the last three weeks […]
An unexpected stretch of hot and dry weather has given the corn market a serious challenge to early bearish expectations.
Drought monitors show extreme continues right now in 74% of the state. in laker orville water levels in 2011 on the left look nothing like they do ten years later on the right. it's not just california as stephanie elam reports. the governor is asking residents to pray for a miracle. >> cracked central along baked basins, parched farms, all symptoms of a historic drought. >> most recently what we've seen develop in 2020 is worse than what we saw in the early 2000s. >> reporter: old lines are marking where the water once reached. the water in lake orville, the second largest reservoir in the st...
See some wind pushing that direction. that needs to go somewhere. that's when you can get a wind tunnel effects. it can help fan the fire and make them spread really quick. that's what's been happening. these are some of the winds. higher winds in the southern part of the state. currently 15 - 20 miles per hour. some getting up to 40 and 50 miles per hour continuing to spread the fires. a little bit of good news, the wind effects down as we get into monday. it doesn't stop entirely. we'll see that when come and go the next couple of days. that's why we have a red flag warning taken us into mon...
Children has a broken arm and one with a leg injury but generally all in good condition. they were among 276 girls who were 16 to 18 at the time kidnapped from their school in the middle of the night in 2014. we covered it extensivive here at cnn. they are getting medical checks now and will be reunited with their families shortly. just so grateful for that. >> indeed. take you to florida now. 106 wildfires are actively burning right now. they are fueled by the hot and dry conditions and according to the u.s. drought monitors, florida has now taken over california's spot as having the worst ...