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Proof: Powerful planetary wave takes aim at West Coast as El Niño rages

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-09-30T00:41:55Z","headline":"Powerful planetary wave takes aim at West Coast as El Niño rages","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"usatoday","url":"https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/weather/2026/09/29/kelvin-wave-west-coast-el-nino/91992803007/","v":1}

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SHA-256

f8527f33280d253c10e90dc99d042914c3a1087ede5af32d6dccd38ea16d96eb

OpenTimestamps

Submitted to the OpenTimestamps calendars 2026-09-30 00:42 UTC; waiting for a Bitcoin block (usually a few hours).

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• The record pageCaptured 2026-09-30 00:42 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-09-30 00:42 UTC — view the capture.

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1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-f8527f33280d.json prints f8527f33280d253c10e90dc99d042914c3a1087ede5af32d6dccd38ea16d96eb. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-f8527f33280d.json and headline-f8527f33280d.json.ots onto opentimestamps.org, which checks the receipt against the Bitcoin block chain. Or, with the OpenTimestamps client and a Bitcoin node: ots verify headline-f8527f33280d.json.ots (ots upgrade first while the receipt is pending).
3. Open the Wayback Machine's captures above: the capture of the record page shows this hash as it stood then, and the capture of the story page shows the newsroom's own page.

Sealed automatically, 1 min after it was first seen.