Super El Niño Powers 2026 Pacific Hurricane Season to Historic Records
Hurricane Simon helps push the 2026 Pacific hurricane season past previous intensity and activity records as a powerful El Niño continues to gain strength.
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Hurricane Simon helps push the 2026 Pacific hurricane season past previous intensity and activity records as a powerful El Niño continues to gain strength.
Climate models indicate that record-warm tropical Pacific waters will sustain an exceptionally strong El Niño for six straight months, pushing global impacts further into 2027.
A Purdue University expedition has arrived at Nikumaroro Island to investigate a submerged anomaly that could be Amelia Earhart's long-lost Lockheed Electra.
A developing weather system in the Gulf of Mexico has a 90% chance of becoming a hurricane, threatening to break a century-old seasonal record.