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Intense Hail Storm in Gatlinburg, TN
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Heat wave kills more than 1,100 in India
Stifling heat has killed more than 1,100 people in India in less than one week. The worst-hit area is the southeastern state of Andhra Pradesh, where authorities say 852 people have died in the heat wave. Another 266 have died in the neighboring state of Telangana. India recorded its highest maximum temperature of 47 degrees Celsius -- 117 degrees Fahrenheit -- at Angul in the state of Odisha on Monday, according to B.P. Yadav, director of the India Meteorological Department.
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At Least 5 Are Killed and 12 Are Missing as Storms Ravage Texas and Oklahoma
Louie Bond called it a tsunami, a surge of water that began late Saturday night with torrential rains in Texas’ Hill Country and raced down the bluff-lined valley carved out by the Blanco River. By the time it reached the vacation getaways and retiree cabins overlooking the river at Wimberley, some 30 miles southwest of here, the surge was 40 feet high, sweeping away bridges and homes and ancient stands of cypresses as if they were bath toys.
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Mexico Border City Tornado Leaves 13 Dead, 230 Injured
A tornado raged through a city on the U.S.-Mexico border Monday, destroying homes, flinging cars like matchsticks and ripping an infant from a mother's arms....
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Tornado producing storm with massive teal hail core outside of Weinert Texas
The teal color is the reflection of the ping-pong to baseball-sized hail within the storm.
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Watch: Slow-motion lightning crawls across thunderstorm underbelly
While cloud-to-ground lightning bolts are instantaneous flashes of electricity, the anvil crawler is majestically slow.
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Pouring Down Arachnids: Australia's 'Spider Rain' Explained
Millions of tiny spiders recently fell from the sky in Australia, alarming residents whose properties were suddenly covered with the creepy critters.
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Super Typhoon Dolphin Becomes Earth's 5th Category 5 Storm of 2015
Super Typhoon Dolphin intensified into a Category 5 storm with 160 mph winds and a central pressure of 925 mb at 2 pm EDT Saturday May 16, becoming Earth's fifth Category 5 storm of the year.
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Washington drought emergency hits most vulnerable hardest
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee might have declared a statewide drought emergency on Friday, but that emergency is more immediate for some of his constituents than others.
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Policy: Climate advisers must maintain integrity
As global negotiations fail on emissions reductions, scientific advisers need to resist pressure to fit the facts to the failure.
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The Latest on Severe Weather: at Least 10 Unaccounted For
At least 10 adults are unaccounted for after a possible tornado hit the East Texas town of Van, injuring more than two dozen people. Van Zandt County Fire Marshal Chuck Allen said Monday that 26 people were transported to hospitals by emergency personnel.
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'Particularly Dangerous': Tornadoes Roar Across Plains States, Spurring Watches, Warnings for Millions
Tornadoes roared across the Plains Wednesday, with sightings in at least three states as severe weather threatened 9 million people from Texas to Nebraska into the evening.
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Philippines on Alert for Typhoon Noul
Residents of the Philippines are being put on alert for potential impacts from Typhoon Noul, which will be a powerful typhoon when it approaches the Philippines this weekend.
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Pollen and clouds: April flowers bring May showers?
The main job of pollen is to help seed the next generation of trees and plants, but a new study from the University of Michigan and Texas A&M shows that the grains might also seed clouds.
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This Is What Thunder Looks Like
Researchers from the Southwest Research Institute in Texas launched a rocket with a trailing copper wire into a storm, and were able to make lightning happen right where they thought it would. With this predictability, they could train arrays of microphones at the spot and capture the sound waves of thunder visually, in unprecedented detail. Science has come a long way since 1752, but when it comes to inducing lightning not that much has changed since Ben Franklin.
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Extreme Weather Watch: April 2015 – Tornadoes, Floods Devastate the South
. Mobile, Alabama, has been one of the wettest cities in the entire country last month from a series of storms – recording over 13 inches of rain.
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The birth of the weather forecast
Admiral Robert FitzRoy took his life 150 years ago. He gave the world the weather forecast. The man who invented the weather forecast in the 1860s faced scepticism and even mockery. But science was on his side, writes Peter Moore. One hundred and fifty years ago Admiral Robert FitzRoy, the celebrated sailor and founder of the Met Office, took his own life. One newspaper reported the news of his death as a "sudden and shocking catastrophe".
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An Atlantic Named Storm Coming for the First Week of May?
The first week of May is usually too early for the Atlantic to see its first named storm, but that is a possibility this year, according to the Friday morning runs of the GFS and European models.
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The Birth of the Weather Forecast
Admiral Robert FitzRoy took his life 150 years ago. He gave the world the weather forecast.
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Climate Deniers to Pope Francis: 'There Is No Global Warming Crisis'
As Pope Francis prepares a historic document to make environmental issues a priority for Catholics, a group of climate-change deniers is trying to convince the pontiff this week that global warming is nothing to worry about.
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