Research organization credited with finding that nearly one-quarter of rapidly intensifying Atlantic tropical cyclones from 1980 to 2025 intensified at an extreme rate.
Hurricane Isaias made landfall on Florida's western panhandle on Friday evening as a Category 2 storm with 110 mph winds. It is the first Atlantic hurricane of a season the BBC says El Nino delayed until October, a late start not seen in more than 30 years.
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Contiguous U.S. temperatures averaged 57.98 degrees F from January to August 2026, the hottest such stretch since records began in 1895, NOAA data show. Only a cooler-than-normal fall would keep 2026 from an annual record, Zeke Hausfather says.
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Copernicus logged 21.10 C on Aug. 22, one hundredth of a degree above March 2024. The timing, not the margin, is what should move planning assumptions.
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Two polar scientists agree the Aug. 29 satellite image is striking, but they disagree about what it proves. That gap matters: a single frame near the pole reflects a few days of weather, while the real trend lives in ice thickness.
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NOAA raised its below-normal odds for the 2026 Atlantic season by 20 points in August. The figure describes an ocean basin, and it says nothing about where a storm makes landfall.
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