Rocky Mountains

Stretching 5000km along the Indian Ocean's 90-degree east longitude and nearly matching the length of North America's Rocky Mountains, the ridge offers crucial new insights into the movement of the Earth's tectonic plates.

Gottschalck and other federal officials presented NOAA’s seasonal outlook Thursday, saying they expect expanding drought conditions in the central Rocky Mountains and the Colorado River watershed, a major water source for Southern California.

Overall at least 125 locations from the Rocky Mountains to the West Coast have broken temperature records since the start of the month.

She has also set records in the Tour Divide, a gruelling race traversing the American continental divide along the Rocky Mountains.

California will be spared the worst of the heat, the weather service predicted, as the system concentrates over the Rocky Mountains.