Australia’s west coast is facing hot, dry weather over the next three months, the country’s Bureau of Meteorology said on Thursday, denting the outlook for wheat production in the world’s fourth-largest exporter

A blast of Arctic air from the polar vortex brought dangerous cold to a wide swath of the United States, stretching from the Dakotas through Maine, with snow expected as far south as Alabama and Georgia

Stranded far north because of the unusually warm weather and strong winds that have kept them from migrating south