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With days slightly longer than Earth’s and years nearly twice as long, the Red Planet follows a different calendar. Also, Saturn reaches opposition in early October, offering its best viewing of the year, before the Orionid meteor shower brings shooting stars from debris left behind by Halley’s Comet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Repeated rounds of heavy rain will increase the risk of flash flooding across the Southeast and mid-Atlantic this weekend, while much of the Northeast dries out after last weekend's nor'easter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Gale-force winds wrecked the Warren Sawyer on Nantucket’s south shore 142 years ago. This weekend’s storm stripped away enough sand to expose what appears to be part of it. Also, the Atlantic has yet to produce a hurricane in 2026, putting the season within reach of a record set in 1905 for the latest first hurricane. AccuWeather is now forecasting 0-2 hurricanes through the end of the season. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A three-pronged flooding event will spread a significant deluge of rainfall across the Southwest and the Plains this week, connected to two recent hurricanes in the Pacific. Also, about 1,000 feet of highway were damaged by the nor’easter, prompting the emergency route’s first activation since 2013. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Polo's time at sea is about to come to an end as the once 180-mph Category 5 hurricane will take a northeast turn and make two landfalls in northwestern Mexico during the last days of September. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

America’s data centers, now totaling 5,000 and counting, consume nearly half a billion gallons of water each day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The proclamation mobilizes resources as officials prepare for flooding, landslides, damaging waves and other severe weather. Also, a strengthening September nor’easter will worsen coastal flooding from North Carolina to New York through Friday, then threaten New England with damaging winds, power outages and heavy rain this weekend. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Atlantic has never gone this late without a hurricane since modern satellite tracking began in 1966. Also, a slow-moving tropical depression is poised to intensify and raise the risk of prolonged downpours, flooding and mudslides across Hawaii, with the greatest impacts expected on the Big Island. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Autumn officially begins Tuesday evening and the atmosphere may soon deliver a damaging early-season nor’easter with tropical moisture that could bring rain, strong winds and erosive surf on the mid-Atlantic coast. Also, a tornado touched down in the mountains of Utah last week, a rare example of how tornadoes can happen almost anywhere. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Fay became the sixth named storm of the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season and is forecast to remain away from land as AccuWeather experts track additional areas for development later in September. Also, cooling weather and changing winds are helping monarch butterflies begin an extraordinary journey of up to 3,000 miles. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Rounds of heavy rain will raise the risk of flooding across the Plains and Midwest before reaching the Northeast this weekend, while bringing drought relief to some hard-hit areas, yet perhaps slowing harvest operations. Also, search crews and members of the public spent a week looking for Jonathan Bailey and Wrigley in the Wind River Range. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A surge of monsoon moisture will bring downpours and flash flooding to parts of the Southwest, while dry thunderstorms heighten the wildfire risk in the Northwest into the weekend. Also, the conditions significantly increase the threat of torrential rains, widespread flooding and severe damage to Peru's infrastructure. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A Tokyo modeling study suggests spraying stored rainwater on rooftops could reduce extreme heat and air-conditioning demand. Also, authorities are investigating the discovery in Washington County, one of the areas affected by catastrophic flooding from the hurricane. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

El Niño has stifled Atlantic tropical activity, but AccuWeather meteorologists are tracking two areas for possible development, including one near the United States Gulf Coast. Also, heat-related ER visit rates would have been 27% lower without human-caused warming, Climate Central estimates Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Over a dozen states from the Plains to the Atlantic and Gulf coasts will experience a late-summer heat wave during the middle of September. Also, wildfires are ripping across parts of Indonesia, destroying peatland and smothering the country in a toxic smoke so thick, people are struggling to breathe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices