Lauren Sommer
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391 appearances
50 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2025
last heard 10 Sep
Lauren Sommer’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It also helps when the flammable vegetation is cleared away from them.
California has long-standing rules requiring homeowners to take those steps in areas at risk.
But Washington and Oregon have backtracked on efforts to pass the same rules after public pushback.
And some western states don't have any statewide rules.
Wildfire experts say that patchwork of regulations leaves many places vulnerable.
Lauren Summer, NPR News.
Nighttime temperatures were also the warmest on record, which exacerbates the impacts of heat waves since things don't cool down as much. The records were most extreme in the Inner Mountain West. Wyoming saw its hottest month of any month recorded. That drying heat has driven up the risk of wildfires across the western U.S. Lauren Sommer, NPR News. Red flag warnings are posted across much of Wyoming and areas of Montana today, with conditions favorable for more wildfires to break out.
Temperatures were hotter than average across almost the entire lower 48 states in July. On average, it was three degrees hotter than normal, according to a report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. That set a new record, making it the warmest July in the U.S. in 132 years of record keeping. Nighttime temperatures were also the warmest on record, which exacerbates the impacts of heat waves since things don't cool down as much.
Temperatures were hotter than average across almost the entire lower forty-eight states in July.
That set a new record, making it the warmest July in the US in one hundred and thirty two years of record keeping.
Nighttime temperatures were also the warmest on record, which exacerbates the impacts of heat waves since things don't cool down as much.
The records were most extreme in the inner mountain west.
Wyoming saw its hottest month of any month recorded.
That drying heat has driven up the risk of wildfires across the western US.
Lauren Summer, NPR News.
Temperatures were hotter than average across almost the entire lower forty-eight states in July.
On average, it was three degrees hotter than normal, according to a report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
That set a new record, making it the warmest July in the US in one hundred and thirty-two years of record keeping.
Nighttime temperatures were also the warmest on record, which exacerbates the impacts of heat waves since things don't cool down as much.
The records were most extreme in the inner mountain west.
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