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Henderson fire at Camp Pendleton has burned 2,080 acres and is 0% contained, CAL Fire says, as Santa Ana winds peak. Operators in Southern California should plan for more road and power disruption while the fire stays uncontained.
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NOAA's December-to-February outlook tilts the odds toward a warmer northern tier and a wetter south, West Coast and Eastern Seaboard during a record El Niño. The maps are odds, so planners get a lean to start from and no totals to budget against.
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NASA's Black Marble HD imagery shows nighttime lights falling west of Isaias's eye after the storm came ashore near Destin with 105 mph winds. Lights are a proxy for electric service, so the images suggest where power was disrupted.
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Hurricane Isaias killed at least four people after landfall on the U.S. Gulf Coast as a Category 2 storm with 105 mph winds, Scientific American reported. Two meteorologists quoted there say a quiet season narrows where storms can form without softening the one that does.
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A dev.to developer reports that Kalshi's API titles its Louisville temperature series 'HIGHEST Temperature SATX' while the event and rules name Louisville. A join on titles files Louisville contracts under San Antonio; the station code in the rules is what pays out.
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Tropical Storm Rachel is due ashore near the California-Mexico border early Sunday under only the second tropical storm watch ever issued in California. Its swell is already damaging homes and flooding streets along the coast, days before the center arrives.
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Tropical Storm Isaias should be a hurricane by Wednesday night and a Category 2 storm by Friday morning, the US National Hurricane Center estimates. Wind shear rising sharply in the last 24 hours before landfall may cap its strength at the coast.
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AL92 has a 90% chance of becoming the Atlantic's first hurricane of 2026 within 48 hours, Gizmodo reports. Gulf Coast and Florida operations can start flood prep now and hold closure decisions until the track firms up.
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Penn State researchers trained a diffusion model, the method behind AI image generators, on more than 500 US river basins to forecast hourly flash-flood risk. It takes in new gauge readings without retraining, so a warning service could keep it current.
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More than 40 million people in the US Northeast are bracing for an unusually strong nor'easter, with gusts over 60 mph and up to 13 cm of rain forecast. Airlines and event organisers have already changed plans. Warnings about damaged power lines mean operators should plan for outages this weekend.
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The Aug. 27 executive order that makes the lake Lake America on federal maps also requires edits to GIS map layers, forecasting code and every product issued since it was signed, at offices already short of staff.
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A team inside the National Weather Service built software that reads satellites with machine learning to flag flood-prone ground sooner, and the warning it feeds still ends with a forecaster deciding to press a button.
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New York moved its emergency trigger from a heat index of 105 F to 100 F in 2008, bundled with the rest of a wider plan, and heat-stroke hospitalizations fell after it. The evidence is before-and-after.
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NASA Earth Observatory's map of September 15 pairs satellite data with the GEOS model to show air approaching 40 degrees Celsius across the south-central states. The 41 million figure beside it counts residents of National Weather Service alert areas.
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The warm water off Southern and Central California came from a marine heat wave that predates the El Niño NOAA declared in June, which leaves coastal sea level and upwelling, rather than warm-water fish, as the indicators that still discriminate.
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By September 3 the Northeast Pacific had 15 named storms and six hurricanes against the Atlantic's five and none, the split forecasters called back in spring. A basin tally, though, says nothing about where the rain lands.
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The National Weather Service says the Nassau County tornado needed only an unstable, moist atmosphere and rotation in a storm. The same evening brought 4 to 5 inches of rain.
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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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