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Scientists think they can control the weather using chaos theory
Using a chaos theory idea connected to the flapping of a butterfly's wings, a team of researchers lead by the RIKEN institute in Japan has identified an experimental approach to regulate the weather itself.
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Historic blizzard likely as severe storms threaten millions for 4th week in a row
For the fourth week in a row, the continental United States will experience a multi-day severe weather outbreak.
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Cloud seeding might not be as promising as drought-troubled states hope
On mountain peaks scattered across Colorado, machines are set up to fire chemicals into the clouds in attempts to generate snow. The process is called cloud seeding, and as global temperatures rise, more countries and drought-troubled states are using it in sometimes desperate efforts to modify the weather.
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We May Finally Understand Why Clouds Are Different Between Earth's Hemispheres
You might think that clouds are clouds all over Earth, but that's not quite so.
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SNOW falls in the SAHARA as ice blankets the dunes
Ice blanketed the dunes of Ain Sefra in Algeria in the unusual phenomenon in the largest hot desert in the world, where temperatures of 58C have been recorded.
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24C in Spain, 15C in the Alps: oddly warm end to 2021 in parts of Europe
Records broken in Bilbao and Segovia, and avalanche warnings in Alps where it is too warm even for fake snow
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Canadians all crash their cars on the first snow day, it's because we're idiots
If you cause a collision on the first snow day of the year, it’s not an “accident"; it's because you're a dope
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Inside the C.D.C.’s Pandemic ‘Weather Service’
The agency has created an ambitious $200 million center to predict future outbreaks — but diseases are a lot harder to model than storms.
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US west coast braces for ‘atmospheric river’ as huge storm brews
Northern California faces flash flood risk and threat of mudslides, especially in fire-charred areas
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A world first: Ocean drone captures video from inside a hurricane
NOAA and Saildrone are collecting scientific data from inside Hurricane Sam
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DeepMind’s AI predicts almost exactly when and where it’s going to rain
The firm worked with UK weather forecasters to create a model that was better at making short term predictions than existing systems.
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21st-century storms are overwhelming 20th-century cities
Infrastructure that wasn't built to handle warmer, wetter climate is increasingly risky.
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US west and Canada brace for another heatwave amid almost 70 wildfires
The fourth searing heatwave in five weeks is set to strike the west of the United States and Canada this weekend, aggravating wildfires that are already ravaging an area larger than Rhode Island as drought and record-breaking temperatures tied to the climate crisis pummel the region.
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Elsa strengthens into season's first hurricane in Caribbean
Elsa strengthened into the first hurricane of the Atlantic season on Friday as it battered the eastern Caribbean, where officials closed schools, businesses and airports, and it appeared headed eventually for Florida or the U.S. Gulf Coast.
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Dangerous heatwave grips US south-west as temperatures hit 120F in some areas
California, Nevada, Arizona and Utah face extreme heat, worsening drought and raising risk of wildfires
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Photos: California's Growing Drought Disaster
Two years of extremely dry weather have driven the levels of California’s reservoirs to near-record lows, and residents, farmers, and fire crews are preparing for a long, dry summer.
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21 die due to weather in China cross-country race
Twenty-one people running a mountain ultramarathon have died in northwestern China after hail, freezing rain and gale-force winds hit the high-altitude race, state media reported Sunday.
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Texas gov knew of natural gas shortages days before blackout, blamed wind anyway
Official's phone logs offer blow-by-blow account of the disaster as it unfolded.
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Mexico's drought reaches critical levels as lakes dry up
Drought conditions now cover 85% of Mexico
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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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