Jeva Lange

New York

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Israel, Iran Strikes Turn Eyes to Oil Markets

1 week ago | heatmap.news | Jeva Lange

Current conditions: Fairbanks will “cool” to 85 degrees Fahrenheit on Monday after NOAA issued the first heat advisory in Alaska’s history over the weekend • Nashville’s total rainfall for the year is 33.25 inches, making it the city’s wettest since 1979 • It could hit 124 degrees Fahrenheit in Ar Rabiyah, Kuwait, today, potentially setting a new hottest temperature of June so far. THE TOP FIVE1.
Trump Confirms Wind Ban While Overturning the California Waiver

2 weeks ago | heatmap.news | Jeva Lange

Current conditions: Physical activity is “discouraged” at the Grand Canyon today as temperatures climb toward 110 degrees Fahrenheit • Tropical Storm Wutip could dump 7 inches of rain in six hours over parts of Vietnam • Investigators are looking into whether this week’s triple-digit heat in Ahmedabad, India, was a factor in Thursday’s deadly plane crash. THE TOP FIVE1.
Trump Confirms Wind Ban While Overturning the California Waiver

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Jeva Lange

1 day agoCNN — There are some major contradictions in President Donald Trump’s view of what government should do to help and protect Americans as expressed this week. On the one hand, Trump wants governors to do a lot more He promised to “wean” the country off federal disaster relief and wind down FEMA, the …
Senate Natural Resources Committee Proposes Land Sales, ‘Energy Dominance Financing’

2 weeks ago | heatmap.news | Jeva Lange

Current conditions: Eight to 12 inches of rain could fall in Texas and the southern Plains • Air quality alerts are in place today for the New York metro region due to wildfire smoke from Canada • Parts of Europe will see temperatures up to 50 degrees Fahrenheit above normal on Thursday and Friday, with highs approaching 100 degrees in Florence, Italy. THE TOP FIVE1.
EPA Will Reportedly Roll Back Power Plant Emission Regulations Today

2 weeks ago | heatmap.news | Jeva Lange

Current conditions: A week into Atlantic hurricane season, development in the basin looks “unfavorable through June” • Canadian wildfires have already burned more land than the annual average, at over 3.1 million hectares so far• Rescue efforts resumed Wednesday in the search for a school bus swept away by flash floods in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. THE TOP FIVE1.
Musk, Trump Split Over Deficit, Cuts to Subsidies

3 weeks ago | heatmap.news | Jeva Lange

Current conditions: Polar air could deliver Australia’s most widespread snowfall in years this weekend • Toronto and Montreal have some of the worst air quality in the world going into Friday due to smoke from the Manitoba fires • Global average concentrations of CO2 exceeded 430 parts per million in May, the highest level in millions or possibly tens of millions of years. THE TOP FIVE1.
GOP Senators Call for Preserving IRA Credits

3 weeks ago | heatmap.news | Jeva Lange

Current conditions: Southern New England will experience its hottest day of the year so far today, with temperatures around 90 degrees Fahrenheit • Record levels of Sargassum seaweed are overwhelming Caribbean resorts • Saharan dust has spread across most of Florida and will continue over the coastal Southeast through this weekend. THE TOP FIVE1. The Senate’s first pass at IRA repeal cuts huge climate programs ...
White House Requests Slashes to Climate Programs in Rescission Package

3 weeks ago | heatmap.news | Jeva Lange

Current conditions: Thunderstorms today will span 1,000 miles from Detroit to Dallas • NOAA’s Hurricane Hunters aircrews will begin their 2025 season by gathering weather data from a disturbance off the Southeast coast of the U.S.• Romanian officials are rerouting a stream to prevent the further inundation and collapse of one of Europe’s largest salt reserves following historic floods. THE TOP FIVE1.
Interior Plans to Rescind Drilling Ban in Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve

3 weeks ago | heatmap.news | Jeva Lange

Current conditions: Flights have resumed to and from Sicily after Mt. Etna’s most powerful eruption in four years on Monday • There have already been almost half as many wildfire ignitions in the U.S. in 2025 as there were in all of 2024 • More than 700 people are feared dead in central Nigeria after heavy rains and flash floods. THE TOP FIVE1.
DOE Cancels Nearly $4 Billion in Infrastructure Grants

3 weeks ago | heatmap.news | Jeva Lange

Current conditions: Air quality alerts remain in effect for the entire state of Minnesota through Monday evening due to wildfire smoke from Manitoba • An enormous dust storm is blowing off the Sahara Desert and could reach the Gulf Coast this week • Northern lights were visible on camera as far south as Florida on Sunday. You’ll have another chance to see them tonight. THE TOP FIVE1.