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US heatwave: Scorching heat strains US air conditioning capacity
Weather experts warn of "dangerously hot conditions" over the weekend for millions of Americans.
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Hurricane Idalia: cash assistance and emergency relief for Florida communities hit by disaster
How CARE and its partners are providing crucial aid to communities devastated by Hurricane Idalia, the strongest storm to hit Florida in over a century.
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Google DeepMind’s AI Weather Forecaster Handily Beats a Global Standard
Machine learning algorithms that digested decades of weather data were able to forecast 90 percent of atmospheric measures more accurately than Europe’s top weather center.
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How cities change the weather
Late in the day on June 13, 2005, a thunderstorm was bearing down on the city of Indianapolis. As the main cell approached from the southwest, it reared up, convection currents pushing it higher and higher until it towered over the city. Luckily for Indianapolis, the cloud threatened more than it menaced, eventually dumping just an inch of rain on suburbs and farm fields to the northeast.
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Yes, It’s Cold. But Wind Chill Is No Way to Measure It.
If the weather makes headlines only when it's horrendous out, wind chill is its PR agent. This week, when temperatures in New York City dropped to single digits, newspapers and TV meteorologists breathlessly reported that the wind chill had hit minus 11. In Ohio, they told us, the thermometers read close to zero, but gusts of cold air made it feel like 25 below. Banner stories proclaimed a wind chill of 35 below in Chicago.
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Persistent below-zero temps visit Midwest again
Arctic air will bring freezing temperatures from Kentucky to Minnesota.
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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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Japan Warning: El Niño Could Kill Thousands This Summer
There is a greater possibility of an El Niño weather pattern emerging this summer, Japan's weather bureau said on Monday. Scientists have warned that El Nino could kill up to 20'000 and could cost billions in damage. Deadly El Niño weather phenomenon are likely to be twice as common this century because of climate change, scientists warn.
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Dangerous Category 4 Hellen Nears Madagascar
Extremely dangerous Category 4 Tropical Cyclone Hellen is bearing down on Madagascar after an extraordinary burst of rapid intensification brought the cyclone from a 60 mph tropical storm to a high-end Category 4 storm with 150 mph winds in 24 hours.
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Stop arguing about climate change and start getting ready for extreme weather
The IPCC’s latest climate change report has made it clear that global temperature rises will be the cause of more extreme weather events around the world. Indeed, weather disasters increasingly provoke the question: “Was this event (directly) caused by anthropogenic climate change?”—as was the case with the flooding that struck the UK this winter.
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40 years ago, tornadoes ravaged Midwest
The Super Outbreak of 1974 spawned 148 tornadoes and killed 330 people.
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Severe storms, tornadoes rip Midwest, South
Thunderstorms were crawling across a large swath of the Midwest and South on Thursday, spawning suspected tornadoes in Missouri and Texas.
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Why an El Niño is this year’s extreme weather event to look out for
A whole lot of crazy weather could be coming our way.
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Cyclone Ita upgraded to category five as it heads towards far north Queensland
The category-five cyclone is now expected to make landfall this afternoon between Cape Melville and Cape Tribulation, coinciding with the high tide. Ita has very destructive winds of around 285 kilometres per hour near the centre, and is expected to cause flash flooding with falls of up to 400 millimetres.
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Asia pollution drives Pacific storms
Air pollution in China and other Asian countries is having far-reaching impacts on weather patterns across the Northern Hemisphere, a study suggests.
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National Weather Service Scrambles To Fill Vacancies Before Summer Extreme Weather Strikes
The National Weather Service currently has a staggering 548 vacancies, or 15 percent of its staff positions empty, leading many to wonder it the agency has enough employees to keep the country informed about extreme weather.
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Your Weather Report Is Duping You
As I write this post in my godforsaken part of North Carolina, it's a comfortable 61°F outside. The weather report also tells me that the relative humidity is 55% . For all intents and purposes, that means nothing. It's crap.
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Tornadoes, large hail smack Colorado
A fierce weather system -- featuring baseball-sized hail and spawning multiple tornadoes -- ripped through Colorado on Wednesday afternoon.
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Hail Damages Nearly Entire Town of Blair, Nebraska
Wind-driven hail damaged nearly every building in Blair, Nebraska.
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Tornadoes hit Britain before weekend of freak weather
UK weather is giving the country a taster of what is to come this weekend as mini tornadoes were spotted today
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