19150 Europe Media Monitor (EMM) reads and analyses around 40.000 new news items per day from around 1000 sites worldwide. The text of the items, extracted using EMM's own text extraction algorithm, is indexed using Lucene (see http://lucene.apache.org). Please make sure your area of interest is not already covered by one of the pre-defined categories (alerts). If it is, we kindly ask you to use the feed from that category as this significantly reduces the load on our system. This site is a joint project of DG-JRC and DG-COMM. The information on this site is subject to a disclaimer (see http://europa.eu/geninfo/legal_notices_en.htm). Please acknowledge EMM when (re)using this material https://www.archyde.com/the-american-west-expects-the-worst-this-weekend/Lightning, wind, high mercury and an alarming drought: the American West braced for the worst on Friday in the face of a cocktail of weather forecasts conducive to new violent fires this weekend. It is in the state of Oregon – where the city of Portland is located – that we are most concerned.2021-07-16T23:40+0200archyde-54dd7a1662ae5f8e65fa68bec59049a520210716234000https://www.archyde.com/weather-the-american-west-expects-the-worst-this-weekend/Lightning, wind, high mercury and an alarming drought: the American West braced for the worst on Friday in the face of a cocktail of weather forecasts conducive to new violent fires this weekend. It is in the state of Oregon – where the city of Portland is located – that we are most concerned.2021-07-16T23:10+0200archyde-a4e5311ef554d838b52d3078a44b198620210716231000https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/extreme-wildfires-and-heavy-smoke-grip-western-us-and-canada/articleshow/84462007.cmsLOS ANGELES: A brutal start to the wildfire season in the western United States and Canada worsened Thursday as a massive Oregon blaze exploded in dry, windy conditions and a new California blaze threatened communities devastated by the 2018 Camp Fire.2021-07-16T05:00+0200timesofindia-99aceddb3dc583bb4f6f69a91b7401e520210716050000https://qnewshub.com/science/extreme-wildfires-and-heavy-smoke-grip-western-us-and-canada/A brutal start to the wildfire season in the western United States and Canada worsened Thursday as a massive Oregon blaze exploded in dry, windy conditions and a new California blaze threatened communities devastated by the 2018 Camp Fire. Wildfire officials raised their preparedness level to the....2021-07-16T04:49+0200qnewshub-dd41f9a39e63dc0a090c8cf121f1debd20210716044900