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Everett Sloane

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Forecasters now give the Pacific a 70% chance of an above-normal hurricane season — unusually warm waters and evolving climate signals lined up against quiet Atlantic odds

A second tropical wave is spinning up in the Eastern Pacific behind the first — NHC tracking back-to-back systems heading toward southern Mexico’s coast this week

Wildfire damage above 7,000 feet in California’s Sierra and Mono County is showing up before official fire season begins — early-season timber fires gnawing through high-elevation forests

Engineers just built solar desalination panels with laser-etched black metal that pull fresh water straight from seawater — no toxic brine, no electricity, just sunlight

Texas’s ERCOT grid is forecast to grow 11% in 2026 — peak demand projected to climb 46.8 gigawatts through 2029 as AI data centers pile into the state

FERC just ordered PJM — the grid serving 67 million Americans — to write new rules letting data centers plug straight into power plants without crashing residential bills

Starting this summer, PJM will have only just enough power to keep the eastern grid stable — data centers connecting faster than utilities can build new plants

The DOE just selected TVA and Holtec for $800 million in SMR awards — federal cash flowing to the first two American utilities racing to deploy commercial small reactors

The NRC just approved NuScale’s uprated 77-megawatt small modular reactor design — only the second SMR ever cleared in the United States and the most powerful per module

A heat dome is rebuilding over the Desert Southwest and southern Plains — Phoenix and Death Valley running toward 110°F with dozens of daily records back under threat

AccuWeather now forecasts 65,000 to 80,000 U.S. wildfires this year burning 5.5 to 8 million acres — drought, heat, and El Niño lining up against the West

A tornado warning just woke up Kansas City at 1:38 a.m. — Clay and Jackson counties under a confirmed-rotation alert as severe storms tore east

A flash flood plume just dropped torrential rain from the central Gulf Coast into the Appalachians — a woman drowned in Petal, Mississippi after her car was swept off the road

Mayon’s lava flows just crossed 132 straight days — the longest continuous eruption in the volcano’s recorded history, with roughly 290,000 Filipinos still displaced

62% of the United States is now in drought heading into hurricane season — the largest share the country has carried into June in a decade

NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center just tilted summer 2026 toward above-normal heat across every U.S. state — coast-to-coast triple-digit risk lasting through August

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