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AP Meteorologists on Saturday alerted millions of residents in Puerto Rico and Texas of potentially dangerous heat conditions, with some areas expecting heat indexes over 110 degrees. Those warnings, however, are far more localized than the widespread air quality concerns after On Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, millions of At the same time, social justice advocates sounded the alarm about the dangers facing cities' most vulnerable residents who live without proper shelter and Here's what to know about the weekend weather forecast in the US: Air quality much improved in eastern US Air quality along huge stretches of the East Coast has improved since Wednesday and Thursday, when residents faced dangerous levels of pollution from smoke that drifted into the U.S. from hundreds of wildfires in Canada. The concerns were worsened by fires in the U.S. as well. • What is the air quality on Saturday? On Saturday, the air had "good" or "moderate" levels of particle pollution along the East Coast's I-95 corridor, meteorologists said. There may still be some hazy smoke visible in the skies Saturday in major cities like New York and Philadelphia, but it will be in higher levels of the atmosphere, said NWS meteorologist Zack Taylor from the Weather Prediction Center. It should not affect people's breathing. • Why did the air quality improve? Shifting winds have allowed the smoke to be more dispersed, according to meteorologists at the National Weather Service's Weather Prediction Center...

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Editor’s note: The following was originally published on May 24, 2023. It has been edited for context. What is El Niño? El Niño is a weather phenomena when there is abnormally warm sea surface temperature in the Pacific Ocean. It can affect weather patterns across the world, with most of the impact hitting the United States in the fall and winter, said David DeWitt, director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association’s Climate Prediction Center. Watch La Niña fade and El Niño approach in the tropical Pacific Ocean in 2023. For a deeper look check out this post Early weather predictions for California It’s going to be a hot summer in California. Dr. Paul Ullrich, professor of regional and global climate modeling at UC Davis, predicts that the Northern California region may see humid heat waves this summer due to the winter downpour, but El Niño doesn’t necessarily have a hand in it. May 19, 2023 5:00 AM “The effect is very small,” said Ullrich. “You can’t say that El Niño is the reason why we had an extreme heat wave.” Early predictions for California show that most of the state will have near-average rain from October to December, with the exception of the northernmost regions where it is below normal. “This prediction is going to change,” DeWitt said. “It’s going to change every month as this El Niño evolves...” Early forecasts for fall and winter seasons Most of the impact of El Niño will be in the southern part of the globe, down past Southern California and Me...