Floods, Fires and Scorching Heat the World Over Presently

• Record Heat in Southern California, and an Ominous Start to Wildfire Season

• More temperature records set 

• as heat wave grips Southern California




• Southern California sets all-time 

• heat records amid broiling conditions




• Homes destroyed by fires and temperature 

• records shattered as heat wave slams Southern California




• Western wildfires: 1 dead in blaze 

• near California-Oregon border

Wildfires roar across parched, hot West

Wildfires 2018 Map: More Than 60 Fires, 

Including the Spring Creek 

Torrential rains kill at least 81 

in western Japan

Heatwave warning extended up to two 

weeks in Ireland as water shortage critical