

Oksana Stetsenko’s tearful reunion with her son, Nikita, aired recently in a pro-Kremlin TV spot. Follow our live blog for the latest on air quality and heat in America.Ī Ukrainian mother’s 3,000-mile journey to get her son back.And mosquito and tick season could be a particularly acute threat this year.Unfortunately, you have few rights if your flight is delayed or canceled for reasons outside an airline’s control. Inclement weather is also affecting the start of the summer travel season.Texas ranks among Death Valley and the Sahara Dessert as one of the hottest places on Earth this week.Read more about how extreme weather is affecting the U.S. Science reporter Evan Bush breaks why the jet stream’s recent behavior has climate scientists spooked. In a warming world, “these kinds of wavy, blocky patterns” in the jet stream “are certainly consistent with what we expect to see more often,” said Jennifer Francis, a senior scientist with the Woodwell Climate Research Center in Massachusetts. “I’m honestly at a loss to even characterize the current large-scale planetary wave pattern,” Michael Mann, a climate scientist at Pennsylvania State University, tweeted this month. This is Morning Rundown, a weekday newsletter to start your morning. In recent weeks, the jet stream has appeared unusual and disjointed, scientists say, and it may be part of the reason regions are staying hotter for longer. It turns out the jet stream - a ribbon of air that drives the pressure changes which determine the weather across North America - is behind both the Canadian wildfires (and therefore, the smoke lingering over parts of the U.S.) and the scorching heat.

It was so hot in Texas that the temperature at Big Bend National Park reached 115 degrees, warmer than Death Valley’s recorded 109 degrees. Raise your hand if you were among the more than 100 million people who faced either unhealthy air quality or blistering heat yesterday. The current jet stream ‘looks like a Van Gogh’ and feels like blistering heat And Madonna is recovering from a "serious bacterial infection." Remains and debris from the Titanic sub wreckage are recovered. The jet stream causing scorching heat in Texas and wildfires in Canada has taken on unusual qualities lately.
