Heat Warning Issued for Western U.S.
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The west faced near-record high temperatures today, while parts of Texas and Oklahoma braced for flooding.
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A Pacific storm was expected to wallop the West on Sunday, pummeling Oregon and California with rain and snow. Significant rain was forecast all the way to Southern California, and rain and thunderstorms were possible even in northern Arizona, site of the Super Bowl.
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Wildfires are flaring bigger and hotter in Alaska, the northern Rockies and the Sierra Nevada. Bighorn sheep, mountain goats and grizzly bears in Glacier National Park, along with deer and marsh rabbits in the Florida Keys, face a housing crisis.
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A cold weather front was helping to quell wildfires across several western US states on Tuesday but authorities warned the risk of further blazes across the region remained high.
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Snow was forecast Wednesday in the higher elevations of Idaho, Utah, Montana and Wyoming as well as the Central Rockies as a Pacific cold front moves southeast through the region.
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Forecasters predicted rain in the Southeast and southern Plains, falling temperatures in New England and sizzling heat in the Southwest on Sunday.
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Rain and thunderstorms moved across pockets of the nation Friday, while parts of the West were dry and sunny.
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Temperatures were expected to drop in the West on Friday with snow forecast for many of the higher elevations of the Cascades, Bitterfoot Range and northern Rockies as an intense area of low pressure drops into the region.
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Met ireann has issued a severe weather warning and forecasts gusts of up to 100 m.p.h. in exposed parts of the west and south this evening.
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By Eric Swedlund, The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson  Feb. 22--A weak El Nino will give the Southwest a jump-start on an expected hotter-than-normal summer, with a 50 percent likelihood of above-average temperatures hitting Arizona as early as March.
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International wildfire crews could be called to help fight blazes in the bone-dry West as U.S. officials on Wednesday boosted the nation's wildfire alert to its highest level.
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Sweltering heat was blamed Sunday for at least three deaths in Northern California, including a resident at a nursing home who died after the facility's air conditioning system failed.
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The National Weather Service on  Thursday predicted above-normal August temperatures for the  Southeast, Rockies and Western regions.
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Air conditioners are straining to beat triple-digit temperatures in the Southwest and highs in the 90s across the eastern half of the country, but energy experts say they don't expect to face summer blackouts.
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Much of the western United States was expected to be bitter cold and damp Monday, with snow forecast for the Northwest, Northern Great Basin and Rockies.
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Wildfires burned mobile homes, closed highways and forced evacuations from a popular wilderness park Saturday as firefighters worked through scorching heat to contain blazes throughout the West. No injuries were reported.
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By Stan Finger, The Wichita Eagle, Kan.  Jun. 20--There is a slight chance of thunderstorms after 1 p.m. today in the Wichita metropolitan area, forecasters say, but a noticeable warm-up is about to unfold.