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Tropical Storm Isaias, currently near hurricane strength with 65 mph winds, is moving in the Gulf of Mexico and is forecast to intensify into a hurricane before landfall between Mississippi and Florida. The US National Hurricane Center has issued hurricane watches for parts of Mississippi, Alabama, and the Florida Panhandle, warning of heavy rain, storm surge, and possible tornadoes.
A low pressure system in the western Gulf of Mexico is forecast to strengthen into a tropical storm, with forecast models giving it a decent chance of reaching hurricane strength. No hurricane has formed in the Atlantic yet this season, which would be unprecedented in the modern record dating to World War II, when aircraft and satellite monitoring began.
A developing storm in the Gulf of Mexico has a high probability of intensifying into a hurricane within the next two days, according to weather models. Forecasters indicate it is likely to make landfall along the U.S. coast.
David Robinson, who previously authored safety reports for OpenAI's major model releases, has resigned and published an editorial in The Atlantic criticizing the broader AI industry's approach to safety. He argues that Silicon Valley operates with excessive confidence and constant rushed development cycles that overlook potential risks.
A roundup of science and tech stories covers efforts to cut down the volume of false and non-critical alarms in hospitals, a phenomenon known as alarm fatigue that can cause staff to miss urgent alerts. The same digest touches on why people increasingly speak like chatbots, how El Niño suppressed the Atlantic hurricane season, and efforts to build AI-based defenses against bioweapons threats.
A powerful September nor'easter struck the U.S. Eastern Seaboard over the weekend, bringing heavy rain, damaging winds and coastal flooding from Maine to North Carolina, with rain persisting into Monday in New England. Forecasters are linking the unusual storm pattern to a developing 2026 Super El Niño event affecting both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
The Atlantic has recorded six named storms this season but none have strengthened into hurricanes, an unusual outcome not seen in decades. Meanwhile, the Central and Eastern Pacific have produced 16 named storms during the same period, a notably active stretch.
A developing nor'easter is expected to bring strong northeasterly winds, heavy surf and rain from North Carolina to Nova Scotia this weekend, with gusts of 60 to 70 mph forecast for New England on Friday and Saturday. Forecasters warn of coastal flooding, beach erosion, dangerous rip currents, isolated power outages, and flight delays at New York and Boston airports, though the storm's exact track and duration remain uncertain.
Between the 1940s and 1980s, multiple countries dumped an estimated 150,000 tons of low-level radioactive waste into the Atlantic Ocean, sealed in barrels and left on the seafloor. Much of this material remains submerged today, with no comprehensive program in place to retrieve or permanently neutralize it.
The Atlantic hurricane season has passed its usual mid-September peak without producing a single hurricane, an unusual lull caused by Saharan dust and strong wind shear suppressing storm development. Records dating to 1851 show only one prior year, 1941, without a hurricane by mid-September, and the National Hurricane Center says essentially no chance of one forming before Thursday.
The Public Domain Review, a nonprofit publication, has shared a collection of historical photographs depicting elaborate sand sculptures created on the beaches of Atlantic City between roughly 1880 and 1920. The images document a once-popular seaside art form that flourished during that era. Alongside the feature, the outlet appealed to readers for donations, noting it operates without ads or paywalls.
Government records show Atlantic Industrial Coatings acknowledged that its own bonding materials blistered and detached, causing the damage to the National Mall's Reflecting Pool. This contradicts earlier claims blaming vandalism, including suggestions the damage was caused by antifa activists.