A brutal heat wave across the eastern United States trapped millions of people in sweltering air this week with record-high temperatures. A cold front brought cooler weather to the Northeast on ...

A big chill just passed through the Bay Area. The first storm of the season brought a cold, drenching rain to our backyards and dropped snow in the Sierra Nevada. But at a recent gathering of ...

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There has never been a better time to make an emergency home cooling kit, with summers getting hotter as the years go by. Now, with a heat dome event threatening most of the US, it is more important ...