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It’s a milestone for the country that was first to harness the dirty fuel, in the 19th century. Coal powered the Industrial Revolution and the expansion of the British Empire. At the height of its reliance on coal, in the 1950s, about 96% of the United Kingdom’s electricity came from burning it.

That fell to zero Monday evening, when the Ratcliffe-on-Soar power plant, in the English Midlands, shut off its turbines after 57 years. It was the country’s last coal-fired plant.

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Hurricane Helene has strengthened into an “extremely dangerous” Category 4 storm ahead of its anticipated landfall along Florida’s coast, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) said.

As of 6:20 p.m. ET, Helene was about 120 miles west of Tampa with maximum sustained winds of 130 mph — the benchmark for Category 4 strength, according to the NHC.

As Helene approaches Florida's northwest coast, forecasters warn communities hundreds of miles away to prepare for its powerful winds and flooding rains.

Forecasters emphasize that the storm is unusually large, with hurricane-force winds extending outward up to 60 miles from its center and tropical-storm-force winds reaching 345 miles away.

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Hurricane Helene, an alliterative threat to life and property across much of Florida, remains on a collision course with the Florida Gulf Coast. Track expectations have changed little since Tuesday, and the strongest hurricane landfall to strike Apalachee Bay since the 1840s is expected to hit Thursday evening.

Due to the intensity and extraordinary size of the storm, Helene will bring catastrophic, life-threatening surge to the west-central Florida and Big Bend coasts, and a core of destructive winds to a broad swath of North Florida and Georgia that likely includes Tallahassee

The desert city of Phoenix, Arizona, suffered a record 113 straight days with temperatures over 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 degrees Celsius) this year, leading to hundreds of heat-related deaths and more acres burned by wildfire across the state, officials said.

A brewing storm in the Caribbean Sea is forecast to strengthen into a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico over the next few days and make landfall along the Gulf Coast as early as Thursday − possibly as a major Category 3 system.

“Everyone along the Florida Panhandle and Big Bend region needs to be prepared for hurricane impacts,” AccuWeather Lead Hurricane Expert Alex DaSilva said Monday, adding that the setup has the potential to become the strongest hurricane landfall in the U.S. so far this season.

WeatherTiger Meteorologist Ryan Truchelut put it succinctly in an online post Monday afternoon: "Helene will come at you faster than you think, so go into hurricane mode now. While there remains uncertainty in both the track and intensity forecast, Florida isn’t getting out of this one."

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Floodwater fills the cul-de-sac on Valley Vista Drive, south of Sedgwich Drive in Jackosn, Miss., on Sept. 12, 2024. Hurricane Francine brought rain to central Mississippi, leaving some low-lying areas underwater. The hurricane made landfall in Louisiana late Wednesday, Sept. 11, as a Category 2, with its effects felt in Mississippi as it entered the state as a tropical storm.

Floodwater under the railroad overpass on E. Monument Street in Jackosn, Miss., hit just above a foot-and-a-half after Hurricane Francine brought rain to central Mississippi, leaving some low-lying areas under water Thursday, Sept. 12, 2024. The hurricane made landfall in Louisiana late Wednesday as a Category 2, with its effects felt in Mississippi as it entered the state as a tropical storm.

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