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Extreme Weather

As many as 11 million Americans will face 100-degree heat this week — one of the sharpest early-season blasts of the year as a ridge locks in

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

The same cold front driving severe storms will soak the I-95 corridor with heavy rain — drenching Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Washington

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

A building heat ridge will spread triple-digit temperatures from the Desert Southwest into the Central Plains by midweek — threatening dozens more records

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

The Climate Prediction Center just tilted its summer outlook toward above-normal heat for most of the U.S. — with the Northwest facing the highest risk

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

The Eastern Pacific hurricane season is already open — forecasters are watching the first disturbance even as the Atlantic outlook drops today

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

Triple-digit May heat just smashed daily records across Nevada and Texas — Las Vegas hit 104 and Childress soared to 105 two days running

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

Flash-flood watches just went up across the lower Mississippi and Ohio valleys as the cold front dumps heavy rain on already-saturated ground

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

Forecasters just flagged a record-heat risk building over the Northwest this summer — where deepening drought could push temperatures to new highs

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

AccuWeather now expects up to 80,000 wildfires across the U.S. this year — potentially torching as much as 8 million acres before autumn

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

A tornado warning just dropped over two West Virginia counties as the cold front’s storms barrel through the Ohio Valley

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

Severe storms will fire up over southwest Texas overnight as the same system spreads damaging wind and hail toward the Mid-Atlantic

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

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

By Everett Sloane

Nuclear

North Carolina lawmakers just moved to block Duke Energy from retiring coal plants until new nuclear is approved to replace every lost megawatt

By Everett Sloane

Power and Grids

Data centers are on track to triple their share of U.S. electricity by 2028 — climbing from roughly 4% to 12% in just five years

By Everett Sloane

Energy Transition

Scientists just found ancient underground rocks in Canada quietly making hydrogen on their own — a possible natural source of clean fuel

By Everett Sloane

Power and Grids

Data centers are now pulling so much power that some utilities are cutting homes off first — driving a rush to rooftop solar and backup batteries

By Everett Sloane

Power and Grids

Data centers drove half of all U.S. electricity demand growth last year — and utilities are now scrambling to keep the lights on

By Everett Sloane

Energy Transition

The Energy Department just laid out how wind, solar, and nuclear could meet exploding data-center demand without buckling the grid

By Everett Sloane

Power and Grids

PJM warns the largest U.S. grid could slip below reliability standards by 2027 — raising the odds of rolling blackouts in the next deep freeze

By Everett Sloane

Power and Grids

U.S. power demand will still climb 11 gigawatts this summer — enough to light more than 8 million homes — even as data-center hookups slow

By Everett Sloane
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