Wildfires have burned for weeks in Oregon and Washington. Now winds will bring that smoke west of the Cascades to the heavily-populated Interstate 5 corridor.

A heat wave continues to bake the West for the next several days; however, cooler temperatures are arriving for some. See when temperatures might drop.

There's been a common theme to summer, so far. That general shape of temperatures looks to linger into August, according to our latest outlook.

The odds of a tornado hitting your house are low. Now imagine being hit twice by the same tornado. That's what happened in a southside Chicago suburb.

Wonder what we mean by depressions, categories and rapid intensification? Our tropical glossary decodes all this hurricane jargon.