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Everett Sloane

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Baseball-size hail and 80 mph winds battered the Plains over the holiday weekend — shredding crops and pummeling cars across three states

A building heat dome will bake the country right after the holiday — triple-digit temperatures surging from the Desert Southwest into the Plains and toppling dozens of records

Federal regulators just finalized a rule cracking down on methane leaking from oil and gas wells — targeting the potent gas driving the fastest near-term warming

Phoenix and Death Valley are headed back toward 110-plus degrees this week — an early blast of summer heat set to topple records across the Desert Southwest

The Eastern Pacific’s first storm of the season is brewing off Mexico — forecasters watching a disturbance that could spin up before the Atlantic even opens

The biggest new power line in a generation just cleared its final hurdle — a cross-country link built to carry cheap wind power to where it’s needed most

The severe threat won’t quit after Memorial Day — forecasters warn the storm line will reload Tuesday from the Ohio Valley into the Mid-South

A second round of tornado-capable supercells is already lining up for late this week across the central Plains — forecasters eyeing the next threat days after the holiday

The severe threat shifts east into the Midwest on Memorial Day Monday — damaging winds, large hail, and tornadoes taking aim at cities packed with holiday crowds

Severe storms just killed two and tore through North Texas — Wise and Parker counties reeling from weekend damage as the holiday outbreak spreads

A Level 3 tornado outbreak threatens 4.5 million across Nebraska and Iowa on Memorial Day weekend — strong twisters, 75 mph winds, and baseball hail

Days of heavy rain will drench the holiday route from Texas to New York — forecasters flag flash flooding across a dozen states this Memorial Day weekend

Scientists just held fusion plasma hotter than the sun’s core for a record stretch — trapping superheated gas long enough to edge closer to real power

Engineers just built a solar panel that keeps generating power after dark — pulling electricity from the heat the Earth radiates back into the night sky

Texas just ran its entire grid on wind, solar, and batteries alone for hours — renewables briefly powering the nation’s biggest energy state with no gas or coal

America’s grid batteries just set a record — stored electricity now discharging enough at peak to replace dozens of power plants in a matter of seconds

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