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From New York to California, extreme weather hits hard
From the icy wrath of Wednesday's Nika to the ongoing drought in California, states are suffering from the weather.
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Environment chief in Great Britain faces floods anger
Environment Agency chairman Lord Smith has faced anger from residents and a local MP, as he visited the flood-hit Somerset Levels.
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UK could be hit by 'worst storm in decades'
Britain could be hit by its worst storm in decades after experts warned the country faced winds of ‘up to 150 mph’. The south is expected to take the brunt of the bad weather, with Devon, Cornwall and London all likely to be effected from today. Giant 75 foot waves may strike the west coast, which could possibly cause flooding and damage property.
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Three dead, 500 injured as heavy snow hits Japan: Reports
The heaviest snow in two decades struck Tokyo and other areas across Japan on Saturday, leaving three dead and nearly 500 others injured, reports said. More than 740 flights were grounded as the weather agency issued a severe storm warning for the capital, while more than 40,000 households lost power.
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Artificial snowstorm brings chaos to Beijing
Chinese scientists have artificially induced the second major snowstorm to wreak havoc in Beijing this season, state media said, reigniting debate over the practice of tinkering with Mother Nature.
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Great Lakes Ice Cover Is the Largest We've Seen This Century
A persistently cold winter has lead to the most widespread Great Lakes ice in almost two decades.
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After run on groceries, Georgians prepare for 'historic' ice storm
Atlantans make a last-minute run on groceries ahead of what's expected to be a major storm.
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Huelux - Mesmerizing Time-Lapse
I shot Huelux from April-November 2013 in South Dakota, Wyoming and Utah. The weather in 2013 made it difficult for me to get some of the shots I wanted. There were many times I planned to shoot the Milky Way or Aurora, and the clouds would roll in. But that also allowed me to get more night storm timelapse than I have any other year.
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Freezing Out the Bigger Picture
What seems like unusually cold weather in the Northeast is still milder than what was normal a few decades ago, but it has stoked confusion and given fodder to global warming skeptics.
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Windsurfing through hurricane conditions - Red Bull Storm Chase Final 2014
Frenchman Thomas Traversa was crowned the champion of the storm surfing universe. Despite weighing just 60 kilos, Traversa won the final leg of the Red Bull Storm Chase in hurricane conditions off the coast of Cornwall, UK, in front of Marcilio Browne from Brazil and Leon Jamaer from Germany.
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Wales Gone
WALES is not there anymore. After a brutal night of hefty winds, Britain woke up to discover that its western chunk had been sheered off and was now tossing in the north Atlantic, 150 miles off the coast of Iceland.
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Jet stream 'may be changing'
New research suggests that the main system that helps determine the weather over Northern Europe and North America may be changing
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Snowboarding the streets of New York
The weather this season has been rather surprising and unusual for most parts of the world. When some places have not really had a winter season and it feels like skipped right away to spring, the Polar Vortex of 2014 has made the winter season very hard for the US East Coast. American film director Casey Neistat made better use of the weather and decided to go snowboarding in the streets of New York City.
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Snowiest Place on Earth
Few people know it as the snowiest place on earth. But that's exactly what Sukayu Onsen, Japan is: 40-foot snow canyons, blinding blizzards, and the northernmost primates, Japanese snow monkeys. See it all in this episode of Destination Uncharted.
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21,000 Birds Killed In France By Winter Storms
France has not seen a bird "slaughter" this large since 1900.
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Ancient trees revealed by storms
The remains of 10,000-year-old trees have been uncovered on a beach in the north of the Isle of Man after recent storms battered the Manx coastline.
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New Danger Revealed After Storms Unearth Wartime Bombs On Beaches On British Coastline
THE latest hazard caused by this winter’s devastating storms and floods has been revealed by police – unexploded bombs.
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Nowhere to hide from extreme weather
Wherever you go, you will have weather to complain about
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California storms: 12-foot waves, tornado warning, more rain ahead
A flash flood watch remained in effect for large parts of Southern California amid a powerful rainstorm that will keep the region wet through Sunday.
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Flood losses to 'increase four fold'
According to the most accurate model yet developed, flood damage losses across Europe are expected to increase four fold by 2050.