Morning Overview

Author

Everett Sloane

Latest Articles by Everett Sloane

Indonesia just raised Lewotobi volcano to its second-highest alert as tremors build — the same peak that grounded flights and buried villages last year

The Storm Prediction Center warns damaging winds and hail from the Ohio Valley to New England today as the cold front throws its last punch

America’s power grids just caught a surprise summer break — AI data centers are plugging in far slower than utilities feared, easing the blackout threat

NOAA reveals its official 2026 hurricane forecast today — a strengthening El Niño is already shredding storms apart before the season even begins

The Air Force just fired an unarmed Minuteman III across the Pacific from Vandenberg — a live test of the nuclear missiles on watch for 50 years

More than 100% of Scotland’s electricity just came from renewables across a record stretch — wind alone now out-produces the entire country’s demand

BYD just overtook Tesla as the world’s biggest battery-storage supplier — grabbing 13% of the global market in a single quarter

AEP just threatened to walk away from two power grids over connection delays as AI data-center demand buckles the nation’s largest utilities

The wait for a high-power grid transformer just stretched from 30 months to five years — stranding every new AI data center trying to connect

The NRC just set a lighter rulebook for fusion plants — regulating tritium and activated metal instead of the meltdown risks that fission carries

Zap Energy just pivoted to add nuclear fission to its fusion program — hedging its bet as the race to power AI data centers heats up

Kanlaon just threw ash plumes over the central Philippines as Taal climbs to Alert Level 2 — two more volcanoes stirring while Mayon keeps erupting

51% of the Lower 48 just slipped into moderate drought or worse — tightening the grip on 155 million Americans before peak fire season even starts

AccuWeather now expects 65,000 to 80,000 wildfires across the U.S. this year — potentially torching as much as 8 million acres

Behind this week’s cold front, millions will wake to temperatures 20 to 30 degrees below normal — with frost advisories possible deep into the South

More than 20 inches of snow just fell across the Colorado high country in May — closing mountain passes along the I-25 corridor from Cheyenne south

1 19 20 21 22 23 214