Flood devastation in Ruidoso, New Mexico — Source: Facebook/Ruidoso Fire Support Page

Stuff you need to know, 7.24.24

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“A post-fire ‘nightmare’ in New Mexico: Eight floods in four weeks”
by Chico Harlan, The Washington Post
July 21, 2024

Ruidoso’s double whammy of wildfire destruction followed by further devastation from floodwaters tearing downslope from fire-scoured hillsides is a worst-case scenario that may become more frequent as weather extremes intensify in the American West.

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“Sunday was the hottest day ever recorded on Earth, scientists say”
by Sarah Kaplan, The Washington Post
July 23, 2024

Preliminary data from Europe’s top climate monitor shows that the planet’s average temperature on July 21 (62.76 degrees Fahrenheit) was the highest ever charted in more than 80 years of record-keeping.

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Diana Tittle

Diana Tittle, a member of the board of Sierra County Public-Interest Journalism Project, was the editor of the Sierra County Sun, the Citizen's precursor. A former resident of Truth or Consequences who now lives part-time in northern New Mexico, she spent her 42-year professional career in Cleveland, Ohio, where she worked as a newspaper reporter, magazine writer and editor, book author and publisher and publishing consultant. She is the recipient of a Cleveland Arts Prize for Literature.

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