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## 1. Records shattered for the hottest day in March; ‘This is what climate change looks like' - NBC New York

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The area of the U.S. being hit by extreme weather in the past five years has doubled from 20 years ago, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Climate Extremes Index, which includes various types of wild weather, such as heat and cold waves, downpours and drought.

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### U.S. rivers are experiencing unprecedented and unexpectedly intense warming

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# Records shattered for the hottest day in March; ‘This is what climate change looks like'

## Experts said unprecedented and deadly weather extremes that sometimes strike at abnormal times and in unusual places are putting more people in danger.

#### By Seth Borenstein | The Associated Press • •

The dangerous heat wave that shattered March records all over the U.S. Southwest was more than just another extreme weather blip. It was the latest next-level weather wildness that is occurring ever more frequently as Earth’s warming builds. [...] The United States is breaking 77% more hot weather records now than in the 1970s and 19% more than the 2010s, according to an AP analysis of NOAA records. In the United States, the number and average cost of inflation-adjusted billion-dollar weather disasters in the last couple years is twice as high as just 10 years ago and nearly four times higher than 30 years ago, according to records kept by NOAA and Climate Central, a nonprofit group of scientists and communicators who research and report on climate change.

## Trying to keep up with extremes and failing

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# Records shattered for the hottest day in March; ‘This is what climate change looks like'

## Experts said unprecedented and deadly weather extremes that sometimes strike at abnormal times and in unusual places are putting more people in danger.

#### By Seth Borenstein | The Associated Press • •

The dangerous heat wave that shattered March records all over the U.S. Southwest was more than just another extreme [weather](/tag/weather/) blip. It was the latest next-level weather wildness that is occurring ever more frequently as Earth’s warming builds.

Experts said unprecedented and deadly [weather extremes](/tag/severe-weather/) that sometimes strike at abnormal times and in unusual places are putting more people in danger. For example, the Southwest is used to coping with deadly heat, but not months ahead of schedule, including a 112 degrees Fahrenheit reading in two [Arizona](/tag/arizona/) communities on March 20th, that smashed the highest March temperature recorded in the [U.S.](/tag/united-states/) Two places in Southern [California](/tag/california/) also hit that same temperature. All four spots are clustered within about 50 miles of each other.

“This is what climate change looks like in real time: extremes pushing beyond the bounds we once thought possible,” said University of Victoria climate scientist Andrew Weaver. “What used to be unprecedented events are now recurring features of a warming world.”

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March's heat would have been virtually impossible without human-caused climate change, according to a report by World Weather Attribution, an international group of scientists who study the causes of extreme weather events.

More than a dozen scientists, meteorologists and disaster experts queried by The Associated Press put the March heat wave in a kind of ultra-extreme classification with such events as the 2021 Pacific Northwest heat wave, the 2022 Pakistan floods and killer hurricanes Helene, Harvey and Sandy.

The area of the U.S. being hit by extreme weather in the past five years has doubled from 20 years ago, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Climate Extremes Index, which includes various types of wild weather, such as heat and cold waves, downpours and drought.

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### [U.S. rivers are experiencing unprecedented and unexpectedly intense warming](https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/national-international/changing-climate/usa-rivers-intense-warming-climate/6394979/?amp)

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### [Extreme heat wave with temperatures above 110 for some looms for Southwest](https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/national-international/extreme-heat-wave-looms-for-southwest/6371447/?amp)

The United States is breaking 77% more hot weather records now than in the 1970s and 19% more than the 2010s, according to an AP analysis of NOAA records. In the United States, the number and average cost of inflation-adjusted billion-dollar weather disasters in the last couple years is twice as high as just 10 years ago and nearly four times higher than 30 years ago, according to records kept by NOAA and Climate Central, a nonprofit group of scientists and communicators who research and report on climate change.

## Trying to keep up with extremes and failing

“It’s really hard to even keep up with how extreme our extremes are becoming,” said Climate Central Chief Meteorologist Bernadette Woods Placky. “It’s changing our risk, it’s change our relationship with weather, it’s putting more people in risky situations and at times we’re not used to. So yes, we are pushing extremes to new levels across all different types of weather.”

For government officials who have to deal with disaster it's been a huge problem.

Craig Fugate, who directed the Federal Emergency Management Agency until 2017, said he saw extremes increasing.

“We were operating outside the historical playbook more and more. Flood maps, surge models, heat records — events kept showing up outside the envelope we built systems around. That’s just what we saw,” Fugate said via email.

He added: “We built communities on about 100 years of past weather and assumed that was a good guide going forward. That assumption is starting to break. And the clearest signal isn’t the science debate. It’s insurers walking away.”

 

When the temperatures begin to rise, it's important to know what you should and shouldn't do to keep you and your loved ones safe. Here are some tips.

## ‘Virtually impossible’ without climate change

Climate scientists at World Weather Attribution did a flash analysis — which is not peer-reviewed yet — of whether climate change was a factor in this Southwest heat 

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## 2. Warming today, storms late and into tomorrow - CBS News

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# Warming today, storms late and into tomorrow [...] Good Morning Family! A warming trend is on schedule for highs in the 60s today and in the 70s Tuesday. The warmer air fuels an active period of showers and thunderstorms beginning tonight. A Marginal Risk of isolated severe thunderstorms remains in place for hail as the primary hazard. There is a Slight Risk for greater coverage of severe thunderstorms and for all hazards Tuesday. Damaging wind is the primary but also including potential for large hail and tornadoes. A strong cold front fuels storms but also a chance for excessive rainfall. There is a Marginal Risk of excessive rainfall mainly along and south of M-46 Tuesday afternoon and evening. After the front Tuesday night, temperatures drop back to normal or slightly below normal for Wednesday through late week.

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# Warming today, storms late and into tomorrow

Good Morning Family! A warming trend is on schedule for highs in the 60s today and in the 70s Tuesday. The warmer air fuels an active period of showers and thunderstorms beginning tonight. A Marginal Risk of isolated severe thunderstorms remains in place for hail as the primary hazard. There is a Slight Risk for greater coverage of severe thunderstorms and for all hazards Tuesday. Damaging wind is the primary but also including potential for large hail and tornadoes. A strong cold front fuels storms but also a chance for excessive rainfall. There is a Marginal Risk of excessive rainfall mainly along and south of M-46 Tuesday afternoon and evening. After the front Tuesday night, temperatures drop back to normal or slightly below normal for Wednesday through late week.

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## 3. EPA watchdog finds nation’s most contaminated sites are vulnerable to flooding, wildfires - Greenwich Time

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“Although President Trump may wish to ignore it, the fact is the climate is changing and we need to be proactive in responding to rising seas and more extreme weather or face the consequences of increasingly frequent cascading natural-technological disasters that poison communities and local ecosystems,” said Cushing.

The inspector general’s findings echo a 2017 investigation by The Associated Press that found 327 Superfund sites vulnerable to flooding driven by climate change. The AP’s review was launched following Hurricane Harvey, which caused extensive flooding in parts of Houston that included seven Superfund sites and triggered spills from tanks holding cancer-causing toxic waste.

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The EPA said it is reviewing the IG’s findings and that the Superfund program does factor “the impacts of extreme weather events and other hazards as a standard operating practice in the development and implementation of cleanup projects.”

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Article continues below this ad [...] “This series shines a light on potential threats to federal facility Superfund sites and the critical role of five-year reviews in addressing them,” said Kim Wheeler, the spokesperson for the Inspector General’s office. “By identifying sites at risk from these weather-related events, we aimed to raise awareness and encourage forward looking planning.”

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# EPA watchdog finds nation’s most contaminated sites are vulnerable to flooding, wildfires

By MICHAEL BIESECKER and JASON DEAREN, Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — About 100 of the nation’s most contaminated toxic waste sites are in areas prone to flooding and wildfires, a potential public health threat to millions of Americans in surrounding communities, the internal watchdog at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has found.

The EPA’s Office of Inspector General issued [a trio of reports](https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/340c1111e4d041da97d6ee23588c7b77) last week assessing the weather-related vulnerabilities of the 157 federal Superfund sites prioritized for cleanup due to the serious risk they pose to public health and the environment. About 3 million Americans live within a mile of a Superfund site, while 13 million people live within 3 miles (4.8 kilometers).

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Some of the Superfund sites were found to be at risk from multiple natural-disaster threats. The studies found 49 in coastal areas are at risk from sea-level rise or storm surge from hurricanes, with many located near highly populated areas and important ecological locales like Chesapeake Bay. Another 47 are in low-lying sites prone specifically to inland flooding from heavy rain. The review also found 31 sites in areas at high risk for wildfires.

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Despite these risks, the five-year plans governing the expensive and time-consuming cleanups at the sites often failed to account for damage posed by flooding from sea-level rise and more frequent storms and wildfire, the IG’s review found.

“That is a big problem because it means the site managers are not planning mitigation measures,” said Betsy Southerland, a former director of the agency’s water protection division who spent over 30 years at the EPA.

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“The communities living near those sites should be made aware of this planning failure and should insist on robust plans,” she said.

At locations with little or no planning for floods, contaminants could be released into surrounding communities and taxpayer dollars already invested in remediation could be wasted, the review found.

The EPA said it is reviewing the IG’s findings and that the Superfund program does factor “the impacts of extreme weather events and other hazards as a standard operating practice in the development and implementation of cleanup projects.”

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Last year, President Donald Trump fired EPA Inspector General Sean O’Donnell at the beginning of Trump's second term, and the office’s new review makes no mention of climate change, a term the Republican administration has scrubbed from federal websites. But the new reports issued by the IG’s remaining staff still lay out the risks posed by a warming planet to the nation’s most dangerous toxic waste sites.

Lara J. Cushing, a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles who has studied the effects of a changing climate on the nation’s toxic waste sites, petrochemical 

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## 4. Mysterious Spike in Meteors ‘Warrants Serious Investigation’ - newsweek.com

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# Mysterious Spike in Meteors ‘Warrants Serious Investigation’

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The American [Meteor](/topic/meteor) Society (AMS) reports an apparent surge in large fireball events in the first quarter of 2026, saying an analysis of its records back to 2011 reveals a pattern that "warrants serious investigation."

"The enhanced activity is coming from a specific part of the sky—the direction opposite the Sun—at roughly double the normal density," Mike Hankey, who wrote the analysis, told *Newsweek*.

## Why It Matters

[The AMS report](https://amsmeteors.org/ams-q1-2026-fireball-analysis.html#:~:text=Has%20Something%20Changed%20in%20the%20Near%2DEarth%20Meteoroid%20Environment?,we%20need%20to%20find%20out), published Wednesday, follows [a string of meteor sightings across](https://www.newsweek.com/list-of-meteors-spotted-across-us-in-past-week-11736173) the U.S. in March—including over [Texas](https://www.newsweek.com/meteor-reported-over-houston-rock-crashes-through-womans-roof-11716792), California, and [Ohio](https://www.newsweek.com/meteor-crash-boom-ohio-cleveland-explosion-earthquake-reports-11690137)—which grabbed headlines and attention online.

## What To Know

The AMS said March 2026 stood out for a sustained wave of events: after a major European fireball on March 8, a sustained burst from March 11–24 saw the organization log an "unprecedented" cluster of large fireballs, several with confirmed meteorite falls:

* **March 8**: Western Europe (3,229 reports)
* **March 11**: France and Spain (236 reports)
* **March 17**: Ohio (222 reports)
* **March 21**: Houston, Texas (181 reports)
* **March 23**: Two Over California (Event 1: 306 reports; Event 2: 122 reports)
* **March 24**: Michigan and Georgia (Michigan: 111 reports; Georgia: 20 reports)

The AMS said the clearest change in early 2026 was not the total number of fireballs, but the rise in the largest and most widely witnessed events.

The pattern sharpened in March, it said, when typical, smaller events looked normal while many mid‑tier sightings jumped into the high‑witness category, showing the whole distribution shifted upward.

Reports of sonic booms—a marker of deeper, larger entries—were unusually common among these big events, with nearly four in five higher‑witness fireballs producing sonic booms, per the report.

It said the surge does not appear to come from a new meteor shower, seasonal quirks, time‑of‑day or location bias, or simple growth in smartphone use or reporting, which it said would have boosted counts across the board rather than mainly at the top end.

The AMS made clear that these fireballs were not of alien origin. "These are rocks from the inner solar system. There is no evidence of anomalous trajectory behavior, controlled flight, or non-natural composition," it said. Where meteorites were recove

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## 5. Death toll in Afghanistan flooding increases to 28, authorities say - greenwichtime.com

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# Death toll in Afghanistan flooding increases to 28, authorities say

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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghan authorities said Monday that the death toll from severe weather that has struck swathes of the country over the past four days has increased to 28, with 49 people injured. Dozens of people have died from extreme weather in the country so far this year.

Storms and heavy rainfall over the past few days across several provinces have led to severe flooding, landslides and lightning strikes, the Afghanistan National Disaster Management Authority said, adding that the figures could increase as more details become available.

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The severe weather has destroyed 130 homes and damaged a further 436, while it has also killed more than 240 animals, wiped out 93 kilometers (58 miles) of roads and destroyed irrigation canals and agricultural land, the authority said. In all, 1,130 families have been affected, it added.

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# Death toll in Afghanistan flooding increases to 28, authorities say

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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghan authorities said Monday that the death toll from severe weather that has struck swathes of the country over the past four days has increased to 28, with 49 people injured. Dozens of people have died from extreme weather in the country so far this year.

Storms and heavy rainfall over the past few days across several provinces have led to severe flooding, landslides and lightning strikes, the Afghanistan National Disaster Management Authority said, adding that the figures could increase as more details become available.

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The severe weather has destroyed 130 homes and damaged a further 436, while it has also killed more than 240 animals, wiped out 93 kilometers (58 miles) of roads and destroyed irrigation canals and agricultural land, the authority said. In all, 1,130 families have been affected, it added.

Earlier this year, heavy snowfall and flash floods left dozens of people dead across the country.

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