El Paso is resuming curbside recycling service, suspended since Dec. 1, starting next week. But the re-start is being phased in, so some households won’t have recycling again until next month. The city’s Environmental Services ...
On Thanksgiving morning, while many El Pasoans were baking pies and prepping turkeys, Jesus “Chuy” Reyes was in the midst of a standoff at the American Canal Extension near Downtown El Paso, where construction workers ...
El Paso appears headed to one of its hottest years on record. If that happens, 2020 will join the four preceding years in that category. Through November, El Paso’s average temperature for the year has ...
UPDATE: El Paso’s high Tuesday was 100 and the low was 60. El Paso’s long, hot summer will finally break Tuesday night when a cold front sweeps through, sending temperatures plummeting more than 40 degrees ...
Last month was — by far — the hottest August in El Paso’s recorded weather history. The average temperature for this August is 88.3 degrees. The previous record was set last year, 87.6 degrees. Before ...
This story has been updated with final July numbers from the National Weather Service. July was El Paso’s hottest month in more than 130 years of weather records, the latest example of the impact of ...
The Environmental Protection Agency must re-evaluate whether El Paso is violating clean air standards, a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., has ruled. The decision stems from a federal lawsuit that challenged the EPA’s designation ...
El Paso’s average temperature last month was 79.5 degrees, tying for the second-hottest May on record. The only hotter May came in 1996, when the average temperature was 80.1. May 2018 also had an average ...
El Paso’s weather in 2019 will mostly be remembered for heat because it was the seventh-hottest year in more than 130 years of records. But one oddity went almost unnoticed. El Paso had 1.73 inches ...
El Paso had 47 days above 100 degrees last year, all between June and August. That’s the fourth-highest number of triple-digit days since 1900. Four of the six years with the most 100-degree days in ...
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Climate change continued to reshape El Paso in 2020, with the Sun City recording its second-highest average annual temperature in records that date back to 1887. El Paso’s three hottest years on record have occurred ...