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The University of Arizona’s 2026 outlook calls for 20 named storms, 9 hurricanes, 4 majors, and a 155-unit ACE — sharply above NOAA

By Everett Sloane

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Heat dome bakes 22 states this week, pushing 50 million Americans past 90 degrees and 11 million past 100

By Everett Sloane

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A confirmed tornado tracked east at 15 mph just 22 miles northeast of Laramie, Wyoming on Tuesday afternoon

By Everett Sloane

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NOAA expects 8 to 14 named storms, 3 to 6 hurricanes, and up to 3 majors in a below-normal 2026 Atlantic season

By Everett Sloane

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A derecho can flatten counties in hours, packing hurricane-force straight-line winds across hundreds of inland miles

By Everett Sloane

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Greenland’s extreme-melt area now expands by 2.8 million square kilometers per decade, a sixfold jump since 1990

By Everett Sloane

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Colorado State sharpened its 2026 forecast to 13 named storms, 6 hurricanes, and 2 majors, well above NOAA’s lower bound

By Everett Sloane

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Antarctica is losing about 135 billion tons of ice each year, with warm-water channels speeding melt from below

By Everett Sloane

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A severe thunderstorm near Attica, Kansas pushed east at 45 mph on Tuesday, packing 80 mph gusts and mobile-home damage warnings

By Everett Sloane

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EF-4 packing 180 mph winds tore through Grove Hill, Alabama as Tuesday’s derecho spawned 67 tornadoes across seven Southern states

By 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

By Everett Sloane

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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

By Everett Sloane

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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

By Everett Sloane

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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

By Everett Sloane

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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

By Everett Sloane

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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

By Everett Sloane

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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

By Everett Sloane

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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

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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

By Everett Sloane

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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

By Everett Sloane

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