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Sakurajima just sent another ash plume over Kyushu this morning — Japan’s Volcanic Ash Advisory Center now tracking drift for a fourth straight day

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AccuWeather just boosted its 2026 wildfire forecast past 5.5 million acres — the western snowpack’s lowest reading in 40 years setting the stage for a brutal summer

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The 2026 wildfire season has already burned 2.3 million acres across 29,023 fires — one million more than this time last year and peak season hasn’t even started

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Warm ocean water just got caught carving hidden channels beneath East Antarctica’s ice — melting from below at a pace no climate model has ever captured

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Sunday’s severe weather reloads across the lower Missouri Valley into the northern High Plains — hail, damaging winds, and isolated tornadoes bearing down from Iowa to South Dakota

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The Atlantic hurricane season officially opens tomorrow and NOAA’s outlook is already the quietest in years — a strengthening El Niño shreds storms before they can form

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Typhoon Jangmi just strengthened into a Category 1 storm and set course straight for Okinawa — a direct hit now bearing down on a million residents

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The U.N. just put the odds of the next five years smashing 2024’s heat record at 91% — and gave a 75% chance the stretch tops 1.5°C over pre-industrial

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The WMO just warned a returning El Niño will push 2027 toward a new global heat record — and already has the Atlantic hurricane forecast cut because of it

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Search crews are still pulling bodies from western Kentucky’s Memorial Day flash-flood wreckage — at least 27 dead across six states as the storm belt refuses to quit

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Mayon has now erupted for 133 straight days — the longest run in the volcano’s recorded history as 290,000 Filipinos are still sheltering across the province

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Antarctica’s Hektoria Glacier just collapsed 15 miles in 15 months — a modern record for grounded ice loss as warm ocean water quietly eats through its underside

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The Eastern Pacific just opened hurricane season with a tropical disturbance off Baja — the Hurricane Center giving it a 50% chance of becoming the year’s first named storm

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A rare May heat dome is roasting Europe — London just hit its hottest May day in 80 years as Spain and Portugal run 12°C above normal

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Indonesia’s Semeru just hurled a 15,000-foot ash column over East Java — one of half a dozen Indonesian volcanoes tremoring through the same 24 hours

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Saturday’s severe-weather belt builds from western Nebraska across the Dakotas into the Northern High Plains — storm forecasters flagging baseball-size hail and 80 mph winds through the evening

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The Atlantic hurricane season opens Monday and NOAA calls it the quietest in years — just 8 to 14 named storms as a strong El Niño shreds the Atlantic

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A Friday night tornado threat just reloaded across the Central and Southern Plains — strong twisters, baseball-size hail, and 80 mph winds bearing down on Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas

By Everett Sloane

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The WMO just said an El Niño will return at the end of 2026 and push 2027 toward a new all-time global heat record — the Atlantic hurricane season already forecast below normal because of it

By Everett Sloane

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AccuWeather now forecasts U.S. wildfires will burn 5.5 to 8 million acres this year — built on the western snowpack’s lowest reading in 40 years

By Everett Sloane

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