Most of the country, including the Northeast and Northern Rockies, is expected to have a warmer-than-average August, while the West Coast cools down. And the Southeast is going to have yet another soggy month.
Four astronauts and cosmonauts are headed to the International Space Station after a launch from Cape Canaveral late Friday morning. Their launch aboard the Falcon 9 rocket was delayed by a day due to weather conditions.
Air quality alerts are in effect for the city of Chicago, as smoke has pushed down from the wildfires in Canada. The EPA has issued an air quality alert for most of the Chicagoland area, as well as northwest Indiana, through Friday.