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A rare late-May snowstorm will bury the highest peaks of the Rockies this weekend — even as the Plains just below swelter toward 100 degrees in the same system

By Everett Sloane

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Forecasters warn a sharp cold pocket will trail this weekend’s storms — plunging parts of the Plains 15 to 20 degrees below normal just days after triple-digit heat

By Everett Sloane

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A building heat ridge will push triple-digit temperatures from the Desert Southwest into the Central Plains next week — threatening dozens more daily records

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The Eastern Pacific hurricane season is already open and forecasters are watching its first disturbance — even as the Atlantic braces for a quieter year

By Everett Sloane

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AccuWeather now expects U.S. wildfires to scorch as much as 8 million acres this year — with more than 60% of the country already locked in drought

By Everett Sloane

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The severe threat shifts east into the Midwest on Memorial Day Monday — damaging winds, large hail, and a few tornadoes aiming at holiday crowds

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The Storm Prediction Center just outlined a Level 3 tornado threat over Kansas and western Missouri for Sunday — strong twisters, damaging wind, and huge hail possible

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A stalled storm just drowned Indonesia’s Jambi province in days of rain — flooding and landslides swept through 21 villages and forced thousands from their homes

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Two strong earthquakes just rattled the Pacific within hours — a magnitude 5.7 off Papua New Guinea and a 5.6 deep in Alaska’s Aleutian Islands

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Strong tornadoes and baseball-size hail threaten the Plains through Memorial Day — the Storm Prediction Center flags a multiday outbreak as 27 million hit the road

By Everett Sloane

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Mayon volcano keeps sending glowing rockfalls down its slopes as 287,000 Filipinos remain locked out of the danger zone around the cone

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A building heat ridge will spread triple-digit temperatures from the Desert Southwest into the central Plains next week — threatening dozens more daily records

By Everett Sloane

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Behind this week’s cold front, millions will wake to temperatures 20 to 30 degrees below normal — with frost still possible deep into the South in late May

By Everett Sloane

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A cut-off low just dumped nearly a foot of rain on South Africa’s Cape in three days — flash floods forced more than 2,000 people to flee their homes

By Everett Sloane

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The Eastern Pacific hurricane season is already open and forecasters are eyeing its first disturbance — even as the Atlantic braces for a quieter year

By Everett Sloane

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NOAA just forecast a below-normal Atlantic hurricane season — 8 to 14 named storms as a strengthening El Niño shreds storms before they can spin up

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A killer heat wave has gripped India and Pakistan since early May — temperatures past 115°F and record-warm nights are buckling power grids for a billion people

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A new round of severe storms threatens the central Plains this weekend — forecasters warn of tornadoes and large hail just as holiday travel peaks

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NOAA says the Atlantic will stay quiet this hurricane season — just 8 to 14 storms even though its waters are running warmer than normal

By Everett Sloane

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A brutal heat wave is baking India and Pakistan past 115°F — record-hot nights now strain power grids for more than a billion people

By Everett Sloane

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