The deadly northern California wildfire that has forced tens of thousands of people to flee their homes burned virtually unchecked Sunday as fire crews surveyed a small town that was reduced to an ashy moonscape of blackened trees and smoldering rubble.
Our Sunday weather was very typical of July. We had morning sunshine, followed by scattered showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. The high temperature at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport was 82 degrees, just one degree shy of our average Twin Cities metro area high this time of year. Our Monday will be similar to Sunday,…
A fire that started in a rural community in northern California underscored a new reality in the state when days later it suddenly roared through neighborhoods on the edge of the city of Redding: Urban areas are increasingly vulnerable to wildfires.
The death count from a rapidly growing northern California wildfire rose to five Saturday after two young children and their great-grandmother who had been unaccounted for were confirmed dead.
A few spots in the Twin Cities metro area and southeastern Minnesota could touch 80 Sunday afternoon. Twin Cities highs return to the lower 80s on Monday and Tuesday of next week.