Raging wildfires and severe storms contributed to record-high global insurance losses — totaling an estimated $84 billion — for the first six months of the year, according to a report.

While the Caribbean remains quiet, there are several areas of the Atlantic basin, especially some close to the United States that bear watching in the coming days for tropical activity.

At least one person died Saturday after a group of six people were swept through Dillon Falls, a series of whitewater rapids on the Deschutes River near Bend, Oregon.

Texas officials have revised the number of people missing in the catastrophic floods in Kerr County, Texas, from 97 people down to three on Saturday.

A back-and-forth pattern of cool versus hot and steamy versus less humid will set up into next weekend, but cooler air may win out over the next several weeks.