- What some meteorologists are calling the "planet's strongest heat dome" is set to build over America's heartland next week. Triple-digit temperatures are expected across the northern Plains, with dangerous heat pushing eastward into parts of the Mid-Atlantic.
"The planet's strongest heat dome will develop over the Intermountain West and Plains into next week," meteorologists Ben Noll wrote on X, adding, "This will produce rare levels of heat up to around 110 degrees in Idaho, Wyoming, Montana and the Dakotas. On Sunday, Billings, Montana, could be hotter than Phoenix!"
Meteorologist Jeff Berardelli also sounded the alarm, saying, "Whopper of a heat dome coming, and that's no exaggeration! In all aspects: size, longevity, and especially intensity this will be extreme. The heat dome should shatter all-time records for upper level pressure in the Northern Plain States."
Bloomberg data for the Lower 48 show that forecast high temperatures will be comparable to those recorded during the last heat wave from late June into early July.
Hundreds of terrified children were airlifted to safety by Black Hawk military helicopters as raging floodwaters engulfed a summer camp in Missouri.
Torrential rain unleashed what forecasters have described as a once-in-a-millennium flooding event which swallowed roads and structures.
As the waters continued to rise on Friday, there were fears of a repeat of last summer's devastating Camp Mystic tragedy in Texas - where 25 campers, two counselors and the camp's executive director lost their lives.
This time the unfolding emergency centered on Camp Taum Sauk in Reynolds County, where surging floodwaters from the Black River trapped hundreds of campers and staff after roads into the remote camp disappeared beneath fast-moving water.
By Friday afternoon, the Missouri Army National Guard had launched Black Hawk helicopters to evacuate approximately 200 campers and counselors, ferrying them to a nearby elementary school where relieved
