Gusty northwest winds have dropped temperatures across Minnesota. Highs will be in the 60s south, 50s north Wednesday with a chilly night Wednesday night. Lows will be in the 40s south and 30s northeast early Thursday.
A cooler and windy Wednesday can be expected. We’ll have partly cloudy skies. It’ll be even cooler Thursday with widespread 40s south and 30s north early Thursday with highs just in the 50s and 60s.
A wide range of Latino communities in the United States are affected by climate-driven storms, floods, droughts and heat waves, and are leading the charge to address global warming.
Southern Minnesota sees muggy dew points and near-record temperatures Tuesday. Highs will be in the upper 80s to near 90 for some. Thunderstorms are possible late Tuesday afternoon into the evening. Wednesday will be much cooler.
Hurricane Fiona is barreling toward the Turks and Caicos Islands as a Category 3 storm, prompting the government to impose a curfew. Forecasters say Fiona is expected to pass near Grand Turk, the British territory’s capital island, on Tuesday morning.
Tuesday will be our last hot and muggy day of summer. Highs will be in the mid to upper 80s with sticky dew points. Temperatures drop nearly 20 degrees for highs Wednesday.
The U.S. response to Maria was widely seen as wholly inadequate. As the island marks the anniversary of the Category 4 storm, the destruction caused by Fiona has emerged as a test of lessons learned.
The governor of Puerto Rico says it will likely take days to fully restore the electricity on the island — but that's contingent upon how much damage the storm inflicted on the power grid.
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