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Image: NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, GOES-19 GeoColor, Oct 8, 2026, 1 PM ET (public domain)
HURRICANE ISAIAS REACHES 100 MPH IN THE GULF, WITH LANDFALL EXPECTED LATE FRIDAY OR EARLY SATURDAY
Winds are 100 mph now and forecast to peak near 110 mph overnight. Hurricane warnings run from Ocean Springs, Mississippi, into the Florida Panhandle.
Earth systems
- Tropical Storm Simon near hurricane strength; Mexico issues Hurricane Warning as NHC forecasts a Category 4 before landfall
- El Niño: NOAA raises the odds of the strongest event since 1950 to 83% for October to December
- NOAA still expects a G2 storm Friday morning, and a second solar blast may reach Earth Saturday night
- Bangkok floods: 3.26 million people affected in Thailand, four deaths in the capital, and where the 40 figure comes from
Wire
- A hacker used an AI break-in agent on South Korea’s banks, then left the AI logs on an open server
- Tropical Storm Rachel, now 70 mph, is forecast to turn toward northern Baja California and Southern California this weekend
- WHO presses Russia for the cause of the Irkutsk lab worker’s death
- Typhoon Nolo deepens to 950 hPa west of the Date Line, with Japan’s forecast weakening it by midweek
- SWPC: G2 geomagnetic storm reached Oct 4 as coronal-hole stream lingers
- Yemen’s president orders forces to retake all Houthi territory as Houthis claim missile strikes on Saudi Aramco
Human systems
- A Russian Kh-101 missile hit a Pryluky apartment block directly, killing 22 people, five of them children
- Ebola reaches Kenya on a commercial flight: the patient has died and 57 contacts are being traced
- A criminal hacker ran 51 AI agents and put Ukraine’s grid operator on the target list
- Wikipedia’s host says AI agents it believes OpenAI ran tried to misuse its tools and sent it millions of requests