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The world is not ready to overcome once-in-a-century solar superstorm, scientists say
About 100 years ago, on May 15, 1921, multiple fires broke out in electricity and telegraph control rooms in several parts of the world, including in the US and the UK. In New York City, it was from a switch-board at the Brewster station that quickly spread to destroy the whole building, and in Sweden, operators at Karlstad exchange first experienced equipment malfunction and faint smoke, then after a period of quiet the main fire started, leading to extensive equipment damage, studies say.
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California's massive wildfires are doing something no wildfire has ever done before
Raging California wildfires jumped across the oft-snowy Sierra for the first time in recorded history
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Wildfires in Canada are creating their own weather systems, experts say
A combination of intense heat and drought conditions is causing wildfires in Western Canada to generate their own weather systems, experts say.
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Wildfires in Canada are creating their own weather systems, experts say News
A combination of intense heat and drought conditions is causing wildfires in Western Canada to generate their own weather systems, experts say.
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New research to provide safer and more accurate space weather predictions
A team of space weather experts from Northumbria University has been awarded more than £400,000 to explore how to better predict the conditions in near-Earth space.
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Extreme winter storms aren’t inconsistent with global warming and will continue for decades, expert says
The massive winter storm that buried much of the United States in snow this week is not inconsistent with climate change, a leading expert told Yahoo News.
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How the Great Frost of 1709 left England’s economy in ruin
Three hundred years ago it was a three-month cold snap rather than disease that blighted the country
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China says new technology will allow for vast areas of artificial rainfall and hail suppression
China reveals plans to expand its experimental weather modification program over the next five years, to cover an area greater than the size of India with artificial rainfall.
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One of Australia's most famous beaches is disappearing, and storms aren't to blame. So what's the problem?
Over the past six months, tourists and locals have been shocked to see Byron's famous Main Beach literally disappearing. Satellite imagery and local knowledge has revealed what's going on.
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Hurricanes: A guide to the world's deadliest storms
Guide explaining how hurricanes, typhoons or cyclones form, their effects and how they are measured.
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How to Measure Wind Speed? - Tech Daily Times
Measuring wind speed requires a specific device named Anemometer. The history of the making of the first Anemometer dates back to 100 years ago, gradually, it
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First-ever fire tornado warning in California as wildfire rages
Apparently running out of cataclysmic events to throw at us this year, Mother Nature decided to reach deep into her bag of tricks and pull out a Biblical classic: swirling hellfire.
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Death Valley soars to 130 degrees, potentially Earth’s highest temperature since at least 1931
If confirmed, it's the planet's highest temperature ever measured in August and third highest any time.
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Preparing for the next hurricane: Storm trackers and other survival tools
Your tablet and smartphone can be invaluable tools to help you stay out of harm's way during hurricane season.
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Advances in weather prediction
"Modern 72-hour predictions of hurricane tracks are more accurate than 24-hour forecasts were 40 years ago."
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Goodbye and good riddance: Here are the best alternatives to Dark Sky
We all know how quickly the weather can change, and that's how fast a weather app can change, too. Dark Sky announced on March 31 that it had been bought by Apple and that its Android app will be shutting down this summer. Dark Sky even used a severe weather alert to spread the news in other apps that use Dark Sky's API, just to make sure you'd know even if you didn't use its app.
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The Great Geomagnetic Storm of May 1921
99 years ago this week, the biggest solar storm of the 20th century struck Earth. It set fire to buildings, burnt out telephone lines, and sparked auroras as far south as Tonga and Samoa. New research suggests that the Great Geomagnetic Storm of May 1921 may have been even stronger than previously thought.
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Apple acquires popular weather app Dark Sky and will shut down the Android version
There aren’t any changes coming to Dark Sky for iOS "at this time."
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IBM hopes to change weather forecasting around the globe using big data and a new supercomputer
The system is called GRAF, or Global High Resolution Atmospheric Forecasting, and will have many applications globally for governments and industries including airlines, agriculture and retail.
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L.A. County sues IBM’s Weather Channel for ‘fraudulent and unfair’ use of location tracking data
The county alleges IBM used detailed location data from users for targeted advertising and to identify consumer trends that might be useful to hedge funds
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