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Weather & Climate

Patrick Timm is a local weather specialist. His column appears Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays.

Weather Eye: Fair weather on its way for weekend, then temps cool

Patrick Timm is a local weather specialist. His column appears Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays.

April 11, 2024, 6:01am Clark County News

We may not have had several days with warm and dry weather this week, however after a weak weather system slides by to our west later this evening and early Friday, we get a warm and dry weekend. How is that? Read story

A woman walks past a photographic mural depicting colorful flowers in Concord, N.H., Friday, April 5, 2024, a day after a Spring storm dumped snow across the region.

Storms bring flooding rain and damaging winds to states across the South

A woman walks past a photographic mural depicting colorful flowers in Concord, N.H., Friday, April 5, 2024, a day after a Spring storm dumped snow across the region.

April 10, 2024, 8:21am Nation & World

People in New Orleans and its suburbs were sloshing through flooded streets as forecasters warned of even more rain Wednesday after high winds ripped through the South, collapsing the roof of an apartment building in Slidell, Louisiana. Read story

Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, left, joins youths from Portugal during a demonstration outside the European Court of Human Rights Tuesday, April 9, 2024 in Strasbourg, eastern France. Europe&rsquo;s highest human rights court will rule Tuesday on a group of landmark climate change cases aimed at forcing countries to meet international obligations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The European Court of Human Rights will hand down decisions in a trio of cases brought by a French mayor, six Portuguese youngsters and more than 2,000 elderly Swiss women who say their governments are not doing enough to combat climate change.

Verdict saying Switzerland violated rights by failing on climate action could ripple across Europe

Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, left, joins youths from Portugal during a demonstration outside the European Court of Human Rights Tuesday, April 9, 2024 in Strasbourg, eastern France. Europe&rsquo;s highest human rights court will rule Tuesday on a group of landmark climate change cases aimed at forcing countries to meet international obligations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The European Court of Human Rights will hand down decisions in a trio of cases brought by a French mayor, six Portuguese youngsters and more than 2,000 elderly Swiss women who say their governments are not doing enough to combat climate change.

April 9, 2024, 3:47pm Nation & World

Europe’s highest human rights court ruled Tuesday that countries must better protect their people from the consequences of climate change, siding with a group of older Swiss women against their government in a landmark ruling that could have implications across the continent. Read story

FILE - A group of students from Ole Miss, the University of Mississippi, dance and sing as they enjoy spring break on South Beach, Friday, March 15, 2024, in Miami Beach, Fla. Another month, another heat record for the planet. Earth just had its warmest March ever recorded, the 10th month in a row to set such a record, according to the European Union climate agency Copernicus.

Broken record: March is 10th straight month to be hottest on record, scientists say

FILE - A group of students from Ole Miss, the University of Mississippi, dance and sing as they enjoy spring break on South Beach, Friday, March 15, 2024, in Miami Beach, Fla. Another month, another heat record for the planet. Earth just had its warmest March ever recorded, the 10th month in a row to set such a record, according to the European Union climate agency Copernicus.

April 9, 2024, 8:24am Latest News

For the 10th consecutive month, Earth in March set a new monthly record for global heat — with both air temperatures and the world’s oceans hitting an all-time high for the month, the European Union climate agency Copernicus said. Read story

Patrick Timm is a local weather specialist. His column appears Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays.

Weather Eye: Gray skies obscure our partial view of total eclipse

Patrick Timm is a local weather specialist. His column appears Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays.

April 9, 2024, 6:01am Clark County News

The weather played such a key role in Monday’s total eclipse in the midsection of our country. There were plenty of clouds from Texas northward, but nature scored again, and clouds thinned in many areas allowing an awesome view of the big event. The skies went from day to night… Read story

Ida Cartlidge, second from left, holds her youngest son Nolan while sitting with sons Amarii and Jakavien, right, on Nov. 29, 2023, in the middle of their two-bed motel room that serves as their temporary residence after a deadly tornado destroyed their home in March. The Cartlidge family of five spent nearly a year in the cramped motel room in search of a more permanent home, like many of their displaced neighbors. (AP Photo/Rogelio V.

As a Mississippi town reels from a devastating tornado, a displaced family finds its way home

Ida Cartlidge, second from left, holds her youngest son Nolan while sitting with sons Amarii and Jakavien, right, on Nov. 29, 2023, in the middle of their two-bed motel room that serves as their temporary residence after a deadly tornado destroyed their home in March. The Cartlidge family of five spent nearly a year in the cramped motel room in search of a more permanent home, like many of their displaced neighbors. (AP Photo/Rogelio V.

April 8, 2024, 1:10pm Nation & World

As a deadly tornado barreled toward their home in the Mississippi Delta, Ida Cartlidge only had time to scoop up her 1-year-old son, Nolan, and hold him close. Read story

Heat-trapping carbon dioxide and methane levels in the air last year spiked to record highs again

April 8, 2024, 6:00am Nation & World

The levels of the crucial heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere reached historic highs last year, growing at near-record fast paces, according to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Read story

Eclipse glasses are for sale along with Pink Floyd&#039;s &quot;Dark Side of the Moon,&quot; album at the Rock Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Sunday, April 7, 2024.

Weather is the hot topic as eclipse spectators stake out their spots in U.S., Mexico and Canada

Eclipse glasses are for sale along with Pink Floyd&#039;s &quot;Dark Side of the Moon,&quot; album at the Rock Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Sunday, April 7, 2024.

April 7, 2024, 3:40pm Nation & World

Eclipse spectators staked out their spots across three countries Sunday, fervently hoping for clear skies despite forecasts calling for clouds along most of the sun-vanishing route. Read story

Beachgoers are framed against the setting sun at the end of a warm day Dec. 6 in Huntington Beach, Calif. Last year&rsquo;s global average temperature of 58.96 degrees was about a third of a degree warmer than the previous hottest year in 2016.

‘Humbling, and a bit worrying’: Scientists fail to fully explain record global heat

Beachgoers are framed against the setting sun at the end of a warm day Dec. 6 in Huntington Beach, Calif. Last year&rsquo;s global average temperature of 58.96 degrees was about a third of a degree warmer than the previous hottest year in 2016.

April 6, 2024, 6:04am Nation & World

Deadly heat in the Southwest. Hot-tub temperatures in the Atlantic Ocean. Sweltering conditions in Europe, Asia and South America. Read story

Patrick Timm is a local weather specialist. His column appears Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays.

Weather Eye: Weekend’s cool weather will yield to warmth next week

Patrick Timm is a local weather specialist. His column appears Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays.

April 6, 2024, 6:00am Clark County News

It sure doesn’t feel like spring outside, does it? We couldn’t even make 50 degrees on Thursday for a high temperature, and Friday was on the chilly side as well. Read story