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Forecasters say there’s a chance outer bands of the big storm could bring heavy rain to parts of Southern California. -
A brutal Western heat wave brought California to the verge of ordering rolling blackouts but the state’s electrical grid has managed to handle record-breaking demand. -
Why hasn’t California’s power grid been able to keep up with energy demand during the heatwave without flex alerts? -
Hurricane Kay is lashing Mexico’s Pacific coast with rain, but it remains offshore and it headed northward. -
Some drying with mid-level flow strengthening is expected to lead to increasing high temperatures through Monday, which is expected to be the hottest day of the week for most areas. -
California is in a state of emergency as a brutal heat wave brings the threat of power outages and wildfires. -
More of the same searing conditions are in store through the Labor Day weekend, with excessive-heat warnings in place into the next workweek. -
The call for conservation between 4 p.m. and 9 p.m. came as excessive-heat warnings expanded to all of Southern California and up into the Central Valley, and were predicted to spread into Northern California later in the week. -
The extreme heat and low humidity could create elevated fire weather conditions as well, NWS forecasters said. -
Some 33 million people are affected by this summer's floods — the result of what U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres calls a "monsoon on steroids." He calls the flooding a "climate catastrophe."
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