Record fires and floods threaten Southwest, upper Midwest

Climate Central: Being put on evacuation notice is a terrible way to spend a weekend, but that's the prospect thousands of residents in both Arizona and parts of the Central U.S. are facing today, albeit from two very different threats. Hundreds of thousands of acres continue to burn in eastern Arizona's Wallow Fire, prompting residents of Springerville and Eagar to evacuate their homes. In drought-ridden Arizona, a week of warm weather and strong winds stoked the Wallow Fire, which is burning near the state's......

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