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An undersea pulse of heat could redraw weather maps worldwide.

NOAA’s hurricane outlook forecasts the likelihood of tropical storms such as 2015’s Hurricane Jimena, seen here. Credit: NASA Johnson/Flickr, CC BY-NC 2.0

Every Terminator since the 1960s coincided with a flip from El Niño to La Niña conditions.

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A fire burns in July 2021 in the Umatilla National Forest in Washington, an area that has an elevated risk of significant fires this summer. Credit: Brendan O’Reilly, U.S. Forest Service/Flickr, Public Domain

The Amazon rainforest experienced a drought that flipped the forest from a carbon sink to a carbon source in 2023. Credit: Phillip Papastefanou