Potential thunderstorms and excessive rainfall will likely unload in the Midwest, Texas and Oklahoma this week, bringing flooding and flash flood risks. Read here.
but smoke blanketing the region has prompted air quality warnings. troops have been deployed to fight blazes in parts of the country that cover an area the size of greece. 50,000 people have been evacuated. our correspondent wyre davies is in kelowna and sent this update. thankfully, the sun has come out in the last few hours for the first time in several days. and that is critical because that means the local authorities can send up helicopters and planes to look at the ground and look at the seats of these many hundreds of fires, fires which blanketed the hill behind me for several days and for ever since then, we ve had this thick blanket of smoke which has choked the environment. the winds have blown more fires. embers have blown across the lake and started fires on this side of the lake. 30,000 people have had to be evacuated and 27,000 people still are at risk of evacuation. there are about 1,000 wildfires in parts of canada this year. that s more than ever before.
european soil. many who call this area home will have nothing left to come back to. this is an increasingly familiar picture in parts of europe, a postcard from summer in our time. wildfires are not new in greece, but scientists warn they are worsening with climate change. so, in avantas, the bells toll a warning residents must go while they still can. around a thousand wildfires continue to burn across canada in the country s worst wildfire season on record. no deaths have been reported but smoke blanketing the region has prompted air quality warnings. troops have been deployed to fight blazes in parts of the country that cover an area the size of greece. 50,000 people have been evacuated.
The signs displayed across North Texas highways can be intimidating. With summer heat rippling through the state, drivers zoom past screens blaring “OZONE WATCH” and warnings to stay inside.