Areas of Extreme Heat and Fire Weather in the West; Refreshingly Cooler Further East

Extreme heat will continue across the Pacific Northwest into midweek before finally waning. Hot temperatures, low relative humidity, gusty winds, and isolated dry thunderstorms will bring critical fire weather into Tuesday. A refreshingly cool air mass has settled into much of the eastern two-thirds of the Rockies through the week. Read More >

July 3, 2019
Heavy Rain and Flooding

Slow moving thunderstorms in a very moist environment produced instances of torrential rainfall in many areas which already had saturated soils due to previous heavy rain. Numerous reports of flooding were received, with some spots picking up nearly 3" of rain over a very short period of time.