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Wildfires in California, New Mexico Trigger Hundreds of Evacuations
Hundreds of people have evacuated to escape a wildfire in coastal Southern California and a larger blaze in rural New Mexico as hot weather feeds the flames, raising health concerns in other regions, officials said on Thursday.
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India Is Building a $60 Million Monsoon-Predicting Supercomputer
In India, the vast majority of the year's rainfall happens during the monsoon season. When, where, and how much rain falls is vital to the country's agriculture and economy. But predicting the monsoon is notoriously difficult; it's considered the most complex weather phenomenon in the world. The country currently relies heavily on statistical predictions that are shaky at best. So in a bid to finally solve the weather, India is investing $60 million (₹4 billion) in buying a supercomputer to predict monsoons.
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Greenland witnessed its highest June temperature ever recorded on Thursday
Nuuk, Greenland’s capital, soared to 75 degrees (24 Celsius) Thursday, marking the warmest temperature ever recorded in the Arctic country during June. Nuuk sits on Greenland’s southwest coast, where the country’s warmest weather typically occurs. It was warmer in Nuuk than it was in New York City, where the high was only 71 degrees. The Danish Meteorological Institute has confirmed on a preliminary basis that the Nuuk measurement would replace the previous record of 73.8 degrees (23.2 Celsius), which was set in Kangerlussuaq on June 15 in 2014. That temperature was also recorded in southwest Greenland about 200 miles (320 km) north of Nuuk.
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Earth's super-sized El Nino is over; coming up, La Nina
This year's monstrous El Nino, nicknamed Godzilla by NASA, is dead. It heated up the globe, but didn't quite end California's four-year drought. In its monthly update Thursday, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said the El Nino has ended, 15 months after its birth in March 2015. El Nino is a natural warming of parts of the central Pacific that changes weather worldwide.
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Tropical storm forming in Atlantic cuts path toward South Carolina
The first tropical storm to threaten the United States this year is expected to slam into the coast of South Carolina during the Memorial Day weekend, bringing heavy rain and strong winds, federal officials said on Saturday.
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Ten-Year Gap in Major Hurricanes Continues
It has been a decade since the last major hurricane, Category 3 or higher, made landfall in the United States. This is the longest period of time for the United States to avoid a major hurricane since reliable records began in 1850. According to a NASA study, a 10-year gap comes along only every 270 years.
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Hurricane Forecasts Rely on Modeling the Past
Improving hurricane forecasts means testing historical storms with today's sophisticated models and supercomputers. NASA and NOAA work together in gathering ground and satellite observations, as well as experimenting with research forecast models. As a result of this collaboration, model resolution has increased, and scientists are discovering more about the processes that occur within these powerful storms.
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Incredible Tornadoes Near Dodge City, Kansas - May 24, 2016
Numerous tornadoes were produced by a supercell storm that moved through the Dodge City, Kansas area on Tuesday evening
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India records its hottest temperature ever: 123.8 degrees Fahrenheit
India just set a new national record heat benchmark when the small city of Phalodi, in northwest India, recorded a high temperature of a whopping 51 degrees Celsius, or 123.8 degrees Fahrenheit, on May 19. The data, recorded by the India Meteorological Department (IMD), shows that the high temperature eclipsed the previous national high temperature of 50.6 degrees Celsius, which was set way back in 1886.
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An Oklahoma Tornado Rewrites the Rule Book
It was an anticyclonic tornado, meaning that it rotated clockwise rather than counterclockwise. Overshadowed by the mighty EF4 and EF3 tornadoes that tore across south-central Oklahoma last Monday, May 9, another less damaging twister--from the same thunderstorm--has left seasoned scientists both astonished and fascinated, breaking a long-held rule about where tornadoes form within a supercell thunderstorm.
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April Breaks Global Temperature Record
April was the seventh month in a row to have broken global temperature records, Nasa figures show.
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The 35 Strangest Weather Events I've Seen in My Lifetime
Some weather events are so strange they capture the fascination of even the most grizzled meteorologists.
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UAE to build artificial mountain to improve rainfall
The UAE is currently in the first stage of a man-made mountain development project as the country mulls different approaches to maximising rainfall. Experts from the US-based University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), which manages the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) are in the “detailed modelling study” phase, as per NCAR scientist and lead researcher Roelof Bruintjes.
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Daytime cooking ban in India as heatwave claims 300 lives
Authorities try to prevent accidental fires amid scorching temperatures that have destroyed crops and killed livestock
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'Snow in April is normal', says STV weather presenter Sean Batty
Surprised to see a white flurry in the middle of the year? Our man says it once even snowed in June.
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Japanese Monks Recorded the Climate for 700 Years
Some of the oldest continuous historical records from around the world show us how dramatically the climate has changed.
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Punishing Heat Wave Sets Records Across Asia
Record-high temperatures and severe drought are causing misery for hundreds of millions of people in Asia.
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Severe Weather Outbreak, Including Tornadoes, Expected Tuesday in Plains
April's dangerous reputation for severe weather will be on full display Tuesday.
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Tropical Cyclone Amos Hammering Samoa; Hurricane Warning For American Samoa
Tropical Cyclone Amos' impacts will be felt in Samoa and American Samoa this weekend.
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Rain in China Causes Cloud Waterfall to Flow Through Mountains
Take a look at this stunning footage showing clouds flowing through a mountain range like a waterfall on April 18, in the Hunan Province of China.
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