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The biggest wildfires can spin up fire tornadoes strong enough to flip vehicles

By Everett Sloane

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A derecho can blast hurricane-force winds across a thousand miles of the Midwest

By Everett Sloane

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A lightning bolt is roughly five times hotter than the surface of the sun

By Everett Sloane

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A repeat of the 1859 Carrington solar storm could knock out the power grid for months

By Everett Sloane

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A restless supervolcano beneath Naples has been swelling and shaking for months

By Everett Sloane

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A mudflow off Mount Rainier could reach Puget Sound suburbs in under an hour

By Everett Sloane

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A fault under the Midwest once rang church bells in Boston and could rupture again

By Everett Sloane

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Yellowstone sits atop a magma system big enough to bury much of the country in ash

By Everett Sloane

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The Cascadia fault could unleash a magnitude-9 quake and tsunami the Northwest still is not ready for

By Everett Sloane

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NOAA now expects a quieter-than-normal hurricane season as El Nino throttles Atlantic storms

By Everett Sloane

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A fresh solar storm could push the northern lights into states as far south as New York this week

By Everett Sloane

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More than 30,000 firefighters are battling blazes across the West after 183 new starts in a weekend

By Everett Sloane

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Wind-driven fires near Spokane have destroyed more than 600 structures as evacuations expand

By Everett Sloane

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Washington’s Sinlahekin fire has burned nearly 127,000 acres as evacuations widen near Tonasket

By Everett Sloane

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A forecast said a G2 storm could bring auroras toward New York and Idaho

By Everett Sloane

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A third-party tally puts a Colorado-Utah wildfire cluster past 235,000 acres, pending confirmation

By Everett Sloane

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A single firenado can hurl burning debris miles ahead of a wildfire

By Everett Sloane

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A Carrington-level solar storm today could knock out power grids for months

By Everett Sloane

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A heat dome is baking the West, and forecasters say the overnight lows are the real danger

By Everett Sloane

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A brutal heat dome has killed 70 people as Western cities near 118 degrees

By Everett Sloane

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