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Bureau: London
Friday's federal forecast is a record-low 13 percent of normal, leaving Lake Powell 35 feet above its dead-power pool and Hoover Dam staring at a 40 percent hydropower loss by fall.
The same fiscal sovereign that printed a $33.6 billion Aramco beat this week is cutting the league it built, redirecting capital toward Expo 2030, the 2034 World Cup, and the upstream Aramco buffer.
The fire never crossed the 40,000-acre line the brief watched; the story is now the subterranean peat burn under exceptional drought, with full containment estimated June 1.
Copernicus puts April 2026 at 21.08 degrees Celsius — within 0.02 degrees of the 2024 record — while the equatorial Pacific posted 26.99 degrees, the warmest April ever measured there.
Page, Arizona's hydropower share is sliding from 40 to 20 percent under Reclamation's emergency math; Friday's 13-percent runoff forecast locks in the August power-pool cliff.