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Canadian wildfire smoke invades US again prompting air quality alerts in Midwest

The Twin Cities of Minneapolis-St. Paul in Minnesota claimed the worst air quality in America on Monday after winds carried smoke from Canadian wildfires southeastward into the northern U.S.

03:13[1]^{MINNEAPOLIS – Canada's wildfire}[2]^{season has erupted as dozens of blazes burn in the country's western provinces}[3]^{, and smoke from those fires is choking the skies over the Upper Midwest}[4]^{early this week.

The Twin Cities of Minneapolis}[5]^-St.Paul^...

FOX Weather has you covered with the breaking forecasts and weather news headlines for your Weather in America on Monday, May 13, 2024. Get the latest from FOX Weather Meteorologist Britta Merwin.

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Welcome to the Daily Weather Update from FOX Weather.It’s Monday, May 13, 2024, and National Women's Checkup Day ^[2].Start your day with everything you need to know about today's weather.You can also get a quick briefing of national, regional

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FOX 13 Seattle Meteorologist Abby Acone told FOX Weather, "I think this could be a difficult summer (for wildfires)." Snowpack in the Cascade Mountains is only at 50% of normal and NOAA's long term outlook shows a warmer than normal summer for the Pacific Northwest.

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Record snowmelt during a heat wave ^[2] in April after sparse winter snows ^[3] set off alarm bells in some western states.That resulted in a snow drought robbing regions of fresh water, soil moisture and reservoir/groundwater refill during the hottest

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Flash flooding killed more than 300 people in Afghanistan since Friday when seasonal rains inundated eastern provinces. These scenes are from the hard-hit Baghlan Province where entire villages were washed away.

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BAGHLAN PROVINCE, Afghanistan – Flash flooding ^[2] on Friday, triggered by spring rain and snowmelt, decimated around eight districts across Baghlan province in Afghanistan, killing more than 300, with the death toll steadily rising.Many villages are

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FOX Weather explains why scientists favor the newer Moment Magnitude scale to measure the power of an earthquake over the Richter scale developed in the 1930s.

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GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala – A magnitude 6.4 earthquake ^[2] struck just offshore the coasts of Mexico ^[3] and Guatemala on Sunday morning, the U.S.Geological Survey (USGS)^[4] reported.

According to the USGS, the quake happened at 5:39 a.m.local time

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A Severe Thunderstorm Watch was issued for parts of Texas on Sunday morning as millions of people across the South brace for another storm system that could bring potentially dangerous thunderstorms and flooding to the region this week.

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HOUSTON – Millions of people across the South are bracing for another potent storm system that’s expected to bring more flooding ^[2] rain and severe weather ^[3] to areas that have already seen their fair share of extreme weather ^[4] over the past

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FOX Weather is tracking the next round of severe weather to impact the nation. A large area of Texas and all of Louisiana are under a level 2 out of 5 risk. Afternoon storms fire up in Texas then push east. And this is just one round.

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Firefighters in Arizona are training for a potentially active wildfire season in 2024.

FORT NELSON, B.C.– The combination of warm temperatures and an ongoing drought have helped fuel several fires in western Canada ^[1], which has triggered thousands to leave their homes.

One of the largest fires is burning in British Columbia and is being

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Wildfires in western Canada forced thousands of people from their homes. Air quality index monitors from Montana through the Dakotas and Minnesota reached the "unhealthy" range on Sunday.

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FORT McMURRAY, Canada – The combination of warm temperatures and an ongoing drought have helped fuel several fires in western Canada ^[2], which has triggered thousands to leave their homes.

One of the largest fires burning in the province of British

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