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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

By Everett Sloane

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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

By Everett Sloane

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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

By Everett Sloane

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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

By Everett Sloane

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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

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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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Sakurajima just hurled its largest eruption in six months across Kyushu and triggered its first pyroclastic flow in half a decade — Japan’s Volcanic Ash Advisory Center now tracking drift for a third straight day

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The U.N. just warned the next five years will smash 2024’s heat record — 91% odds one year beats it, 75% chance the stretch tops 1.5°C

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A slow-moving plume of Saharan dust is closing in on Florida and the Gulf Coast — painting sunsets a brilliant red as air quality drops across a dozen states

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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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27 people are now confirmed dead across six states from the Memorial Day storm outbreak — four of the victims were children killed by tornadoes and flash flooding

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The Eastern Pacific hurricane season is about to kick off its first tropical storm — NHC watching a broad low forming southwest of Baja with a 50% chance inside a week

By Everett Sloane

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Europe just logged its hottest May day in nearly 80 years as London hit 32.3°C — Spain, Portugal, and France now roasting 12 to 16 degrees above normal through next weekend

By Everett Sloane

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A flash flood watch now covers most of north and central Georgia through tonight as slow-moving storms threaten 5 inches of rain over greater Atlanta

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Mayon has now erupted for 132 straight days — the longest run in the volcano’s recorded history as 290,000 Filipinos are still sheltering across the province

By Everett Sloane

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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

By Everett Sloane

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The Atlantic hurricane season officially opens Monday — and NOAA’s outlook is already the quietest in years as a strengthening El Niño shreds storms apart

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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