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20 years later: North Carolina Residents Recall Widespread Destruction from Hurricane Fran
One of the most powerful and destructive storms in North Carolina’s history made landfall on Sept. 5, 1996, when Hurricane Fran left a significant swath of damage across the state.
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Extreme-Weather Winters are becoming more Common in U.S., Stanford Research Shows
The damaging and costly phenomenon is very likely attributable to human-caused climate change, according to a new study.
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Florida’s First Hurricane Warning in 4 Years as Hermine Intensifies to 65 mph.
Tropical Storm Hermine is gathering strength as it steams north-northeastwards at 10 mph towards the Florida Panhandle, and appears poised to give Florida its first hurricane strike in nearly eleven years when it crosses the coast late tonight or early Friday morning. A NOAA hurricane hunter aircraft was in Hermine early Thursday morning, and found top surface winds of 65 mph to the east of the center, and a central pressure that had fallen to 992 mb.
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Typhoon Lionrock Floods Northern Japan, 11 Dead
Heavy rain from Typhoon Lionrock floods towns across Japan's north and leaves at least 11 people dead, most of them elderly residents at a nursing home who could not escape rising floodwaters.
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Yet Another Tropical System may Emerge as a Post-Labor Day Threat to Caribbean, US
Another strong tropical disturbance will move off the coast of Africa early this week and bears watching for strengthening and impact on the Caribbean and the United States during September.
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What A Week: Funnel Clouds and Tornadoes
Before this week it had been over 33 months since the last tornado touched down in Northwest Ohio and Southeast Michigan.
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More than 300 Reindeer Killed by Lightning in Norway
Reindeer often huddle together during bad weather, which is likely why so many were killed during the storm, according to the Norwegian Environment Agency.
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Tropical Depression 8 forms off North Carolina Coast Sunday
The system could become Tropical Storm Hermine on Monday and pass just offshore of the Outer Banks, N.C., on Tuesday.
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Double Tropical Threat Looms for Hawaii Next Week
Hawaii is facing not one, but two tropical threats next week as Madeline and Lester churn westward.
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Typhoon Lionrock to Barrel into Japan's Northern Honshu Island on Tuesday
Typhoon Lionrock is poised to make landfall in Japan early next week with heavy rainfall, damaging winds and an inundating storm surge.
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Clash of the Storms by Camelia Czuchnicki
A clash between two storm cells in New Mexico, US in June 2014, each with it's own rotating updraft. It appeared as though one updraft was anticyclonic, resulting in a very turbulent scene.
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Coming Weeks to Yield Several Atlantic Tropical Storms, Hurricanes as Busy Season Continues
Following a tropical storm threat in the Bahamas and Florida into this weekend, an uptick in tropical systems will continue for the next six to eight weeks.
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Ohio:Storms, Tornadoes Blast Through Area
Comments Authorities today continued to assess damage from two large thunderstorms that spawned several tornadoes, damaging buildings, trees, and power lines in northwest Ohio on Wednesday.
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At least 8 Tornadoes Touched Down in Indiana
The National Weather Service says a single, long supercell thunderstorm that moved through Indiana produced six tornadoes.
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'It was like a Freight Train': Tornado Touches Down in Southern Ontario
A tornado touched down in at least one southern Ontario community Wednesday evening, Environment Canada reports.
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Tropical Storm Gaston Strengthening in the Eastern Atlantic; Forecast to Become a Hurricane
Where Gaston is headed and how strong it may become.
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Lightning Illuminates Storm Clouds Over the Philadelphia Skyline
Tuesday, August 16, seen from across the Delaware River in Camden, New Jersey.
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Lightning Bolt Looks like a Mad T-rex
Aug 19, 2016; 8:00 AM ET Lightning always looks pretty cool, but it's rare that it takes a definitive shape. During a storm at Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona, some unusual lightning took on the shape of an angry T-rex.
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Weather
The weather has not been particular nice in Denmark during this summer. We have had a lot of rain and low temperatures. Sometimes the bad weather also brings good photo opportunities like this one :-)
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The Great Arctic Cyclone of 2016: After Four Years, a Summer Sequel
As of Tuesday, the deepest cyclone in the Northern Hemisphere wasn’t anywhere near the tropics--it was spinning in the central Arctic Ocean. A surface low located near 83°N, about 500 miles from the North Pole and about 1000 miles north of Barrow, Alaska, deepened to a central pressure of 968 mb at 2 am EDT Tuesday morning, August 16. This is on par with the central pressure you might find in a moderately-sized Category 2 hurricane. The low harks back to the Great Arctic Cyclone of 2012.
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