drought

Maersk has opted to bypass the drought-stricken Panama Canal and use rail to transport cargo across Panama.

The governor of New Mexico has secured funding to help fight 20 early-season wildfires burning in the state (video forecast included).

Truckers face an elevated risk of rollovers Thursday in the Plains with forecast winds of 60 to 70 mph (video forecast included).

Truckers will hit periodic torrential rain and flooded roads across the Southeast the rest of the week (video forecast included).

High winds helped spread a Southern California brush fire, leading to evacuations and school closings.

Drought and wind keep the threat of spreading wildfires elevated in Northern California.

“Hace unas semanas tuvimos una unidad de comida aquí en el Norte de California que no podía recibir su pedido de comida al por mayor. Así que cogimos conductores y camionetas de nuestra unidad de suministro y fuimos a recoger la comida del proveedor y la llevamos al incendio”, explicó Cunningham.

“If you send us the right resources at the right time, we can up that containment very quickly,” one official said about fighting wildfires amid this year’s broken supply chains.

“There’s some desperation in some of these people’s voices,” a Minnesota hay farmer said about the current drought’s impact on the community.

Truckers will run into areas of low visibility, poor air quality and potential road closures due to dozens of Western wildfires (forecast video included).

Truckers may hit smoke and road closures in the Southwest as the threat for wildfires continues (with forecast video).

Truckers will see late-season heavy snow and high winds in the Rockies this week (with forecast video).

Truckers may hit wildfire smoke this weekend in the Plains as the weather stays warm, dry and breezy (with forecast video).

Truckers may hit wildfire smoke this weekend in the Plains as the weather stays warm, dry and breezy (with forecast video).

Dry, windy weather could spread the wildfires quickly or start new ones.

Crews trying to contain several wildfires in northern Florida as drought continues across the region.

Suspicious weather brewing in the Caribbean. Disturbance could soon become the next named storm of the 2019 hurricane season.

“We have signed the decree that officially declares this agricultural emergency due to water scarcity.”

A stellar snow season has helped wipe out drought across California, including the Sierra Nevada. Should lead to a very productive growing season.

Soybeans and corn are pretty big crops in Ohio. After a drought scare earlier this year, growers have been rebounding nicely.

Hurricane Rosa could flood parts of the Southwest U.S. next week. The region has been stuck in a drought, but this will be too much rain at once.

Less than 2 inches of rain has fallen across much of West Texas since last October, compared with an average of about 10 inches over the same period last year.