Your July 4 fireworks and barbecues may be indoors this year — depending on the weather. Why it matters: Scorching hot temperatures and widespread thunderstorms may disrupt your festivities or cause travel delays for the record-number of people hitting the road this holiday weekend.

Thirty-nine million people from Philadelphia to Maine in the Northeast corridor are at risk of severe weather Thursday.

Storm chances will stick around parts of New Mexico through Thursday. Drier and hotter weather returns starting the Fourth of July. Storms are fewer and farther between Tuesday across New Mexico. Most of the storms are in far western, central, and northern New Mexico with light rain in southeast parts of the state. With the […]