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Yellowstone National Park officials say a major storm blew down hundreds of trees near lake Yellowstone. Some of those trees damaged part of the park’s oldest hotel: Lake Hotel.Cleanup continues now, and will continue for days and weeks ahead.
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Researchers found that those wildfires increase the “occurrences of heavy precipitation rates by 38%” in our region, according to their work in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Big game species like deer, elk, and pronghorn are closely tied to their environments. As droughts and storms driven by climate change become more common, it's becoming even more important to learn how they're all linked. Wyoming Public Radio's Ivy Engel has more.
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For many, opening up your windows at night used to be enough to keep your house cool during the summertime. But extreme heat from climate change has made that more complicated. Wyoming Public Radio's Maggie Mullen reports.
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Two Western cities registered the poorest air quality in the world over the last week as smoke from wildfires in northern California turned the skies over the Rocky Mountains into a chalky white abyss.
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The National Weather Service in Riverton is warning the Bighorn Basin area of potential flash flooding starting Thursday and going through early next week.The forecast calls for showers and thunderstorms each day. According to the service, the main hazard will be very heavy rainfall, which could cause flash flooding.
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Severe wildfires across the West have prompted the nation’s top fire agency to increase its preparedness level to the highest and most critical stage — the earliest the agency has done so in a decade.
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Just weeks into the summer season, a heatwave is once again suffocating parts of the Mountain West including areas already grappling with historic drought conditions.
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The National Weather Service has indicated that hot and dry conditions will persist in the coming weeks, which increases the potential for fire activity across the Teton Interagency Fire area, hence elevating the fire danger rating to very high for Grand Teton National Park, Bridger-Teton National Forest, and the National Elk Refuge.
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Extreme heatwaves will become more frequent and longer, but according to federal data, more than 20 percent of homes in the Mountain West do not use air conditioning.