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The United States Environmental Protection Agency reports: "Kentucky's climate is changing. Although the average temperature did not change much during the 20th century, most of the commonwealth has warmed in the last 20 years. Average annual rainfall is increasing, and a rising percentage of that rain is falling on the four wettest days of the ...
The Rough Ridge fire in the Cohutta Wilderness, believed to have started from a lightning strike October 16, [13] burned almost 11,300 hectares (28,000 acres), making it one of the largest fires ever in Georgia. The Rock Mountain fire was about 4,250 hectares (10,500 acres) and caused the evacuation of Dream Catcher Cove north of Tate City. [14]
The Chicago temperatures exceeded the 1995 Chicago heat wave, which claimed over 750 lives, although humidity and registered dew points were higher during that heat wave. [30] Through the first five days of July, the mean temperature in Chicago averaged 86.4 °F (30.2 °C), 13.2 °F (7 °C) above normal, the hottest since 1911. [31]
A fire consumed multiple buildings Friday morning at the former Virginia Intermont College in what one city official called "a tragedy for our city." ... Located in Bristol in western Virginia ...
High temperatures will be in the 70s and even near 80 through Thursday (Halloween), which is 15-25 degrees above the historical average for most locations and will challenge daily records in some ...
Bristol is located in the northeast corner of Tennessee, at (36.569135, −82.197489 [ 13 ] Bristol is located 20.95 miles east of Kingsport, Tennessee , 21.51 miles northeast of Johnson City, Tennessee , 38.74 miles northwest of Boone, North Carolina , 105.96 miles northeast of Knoxville, Tennessee , and 132.61 miles southwest of Roanoke ...
A Tennessee high school is mourning the loss of a ninth-grade student who officials say was killed in a fire. Gracie McBryant, 14, died Saturday, Oct. 1, after a camper at a home in Bristol caught ...
One of the largest wildfires was the Chimney Tops 2 Fire, which burned more than 10,000 acres, and closed the Chimney Tops Trail. [ 11 ] The Great Smoky Mountains wildfires were the deadliest wildfires in Tennessee, [ 12 ] as well as the deadliest wildfires in the eastern U.S. since the Great Fires of 1947 , which killed 16 people in Maine .