It’s only April, but some extreme heat has arrived over the Southwest U.S. this weekend. Read more.

U.K. farmers, Europe’s third- largest wheat producers, are facing the worst drought in two decades, joining Spanish growers contending with the driest conditions since 1947 as crops emerge from winter dormancy. Read more.

Areas that used to record low temperatures now have high temperatures. Of particular interest is Kilimanjaro Region which in the past month recorded some of the highest temperatures in the country. Read more.

Temperatures were 20 to 30 degrees above normal on Monday across the Northeast — including in the Boston area where thousands ran in the Boston Marathon even though organizers encouraged less-prepared runners to sit out the race until next year. Read more.

The nation’s ski resorts had one of their worst seasons for attendance in over a decade — and there’s no relief in sight. Read more.

The USA hasn’t been this dry in five years. Still reeling from devastating drought that led to at least $10 billion in agricultural losses across Texas and the South in 2011, the nation is enduring more unusually parched weather. Read more.

The Valley’s second storm this week dumped a record-setting amount of rain Friday, flooded streets and caused a manhole cover to float away, briefly creating a traffic hazard in Clovis. Read more.

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Forecasters are warning of a major tornado outbreak in Kansas and Oklahoma this weekend, with Oklahoma getting a first taste of it on Friday with a tornado touching down near the National Weather Service office in Norman. Read more.

Sure, everything’s bigger in Texas. But 4 feet of hail from one storm? That’s what the National Weather Service, the Texas Department of Transportation, a local sheriff and others say happened Wednesday in an area north of Amarillo when hail piled up in drifts so wide they cut off a major highway. Read more.