What happened. Why it matters. Plainly.
Storms, heat, fire and flood — which warnings are in force, which areas are affected, and what officials have not confirmed.
A magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck western Colombia on August 10, 2026. The national death toll has since risen to 294, per Colombia’s disaster agency on August 15.
Lake Mead, the reservoir behind Hoover Dam, fell to its lowest surface level since it began filling in the 1930s. The Bureau of Reclamation’s own daily tracking
Forecast highs of 110 to 120 degrees across the Mojave Desert and air that will feel like 104 in New York City and Philadelphia belong to the same hot Friday.
Thousands of Spokane-area evacuees were allowed home on August 9 as containment grew on the three fires; officials now count more than 900 structures damaged or destroyed.