Yellowstone evacuted, closed

Tourists in Yellowstone National Park, which includes parts of Wyoming, Montana and Idaho, were evacuated Monday and all of the entrance gates are closed, park rangers said.

Roads in the northern part of the park and all entrance gates are shut down after “unprecedented amounts of rainfall” caused rockslides and mudslides, the National Park Service said.

Multiple roads have been washed out from flooding, park officials said. Some roads are under 3 feet of water.

Tourists in the northern part of the park are being evacuated, park officials said.

“Due to record flooding events in the park and more precipitation in the forecast, we have made the decision to close Yellowstone to all inbound visitation,” Yellowstone Superintendent Cam Sholly said in a statement.

Mr. Sholly said officials would not know when the park might reopen “until flood waters subside and we’re able to assess the damage throughout the park. It is likely that the northern loop will be closed for a substantial amount of time.”

Western states see more wildfires

The Western U.S. on Monday marked another day of hot, dry and windy weather as crews from California to New Mexico battled wildfires that had forced hundreds of people to leave their homes.

Several hundred homes on the outskirts of Flagstaff, Ari., were evacuated and the Arizona Snowbowl ski resort was closed as a precaution because of a wildfire — the second to hit the area this year.

Crews were expecting gusts up to 50 mph as they battled the blaze that has burned through parts of the footprint left by another springtime fire that destroyed over two dozen homes. No homes have been lost in the fire reported Sunday.

“It’s literally like déjà vu,” said Coconino County sheriff’s spokesman Jon Paxton. “We are in the same exact spot doing the same exact thing as we were a month and a half ago. People are tired.”

Even in Alaska, forecasters warn that many southwestern fires have grown over the past week.

Midwest temps reach 100 degrees

More than 100 million Americans are being warned to stay indoors if possible as high temperatures and humidity settle in over states stretching through parts of the Gulf Coast to the Great Lakes and east to the Carolinas.

The National Weather Service Prediction Center in College Park, Md., said Monday 107.5 million people will be affected by combination of heat advisories, excessive heat warnings and excessive heat watches through Wednesday.

The heat wave, which set several high temperature records in the West, the Southwest and into Denver during the weekend, moved east into parts of the Gulf Coast and the Midwest Monday and will expand to the Great Lakes and east to the Carolinas, the weather service said.

St. Louis, Memphis, Minneapolis and Tulsa are among several cities under excessive heat warnings, with temperatures forecast to reach about 100 degrees.