Hiring may have been disrupted by Hurricane Beryl, which slammed the Texas economy last month.

A gradual slowdown in the economy and Hurricane Beryl are expected to have taken some of the steam out of hiring in July.

Heavy rain early Tuesday washed out some roads and led to about two dozen rescues in northern Vermont, nearly three weeks after many farmers and residents in the state were hit by flooding from the remnants of Hurricane Beryl. Some areas got 6 to 8 inches of rain starting late Monday and saw flash flooding, the National Weather Service in…

Since Hurricane Beryl and short-lived Tropical Storm Chris in early July, the tropics have been quiet due to the Saharan Air Layer. However, activity may pick up as we head into August.  The Saharan Air Layer (SAL) is a plume of dry, dusty air that forms over the Sahara Desert during the late spring, summer, and early fall.   According…

The number of heat-related deaths in Texas is rising among residents who lost power during Hurricane Beryl.

Last week, X user @BBQBryan posted: “The Whataburger app works as a power outage tracker, handy since the electric company doesn’t show a map.” The tweet received more than 7 million views and 24,000 likes by the next afternoon, according to USA Today.

With around 350,000 homes and businesses still without power in the Houston area almost a week after Hurricane Beryl hit Texas, Gov. Greg Abbott says he’s demanding an investigation into the response of the utility that serves the Houston area.

As days of sweltering heat persists, Houstonians have directed their frustration over the lack of electricity toward local utility company CenterPoint Energy, which is under increased scrutiny for a perceived slow response after Hurricane Beryl landed on the Gulf Coast of Texas earlier this week.