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Southwest U. S. may face 'megadrought' this century
Due to global warming, scientists say, the chances of the southwestern United States experiencing a decade long drought is at least 50 percent, and the chances of a “megadrought” – one that lasts over 30 years – ranges from 20 to 50 percent over the next century.
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Rain closes Burning Man on opening day
The gates at Burning Man, the week-long bacchanal art orgy held 110 miles north of Reno on a (usually) dry lake called the playa, were closed Monday and possibly Tuesday due to rain.
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Strong Storms Shatter Records on Long Island, Cars Nearly Submerged
A historic storm system flooded cars, turned parking lots into lakes and smashed records on New York's Long Island, where one town got more than a foot of rain.
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Summer 2014 is the coldest in a decade
The summer of 2014 has been one of the mildest on the books — and could be the first summer in a decade without a heatwave. “It wasn’t clear if it was going to be a hot or a cool summer,” said National Weather Service meteorologist David Stark. “We started out the year very cool and it seems like we just continued that. It doesn’t look like we have any heat waves in the near future.”
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Hawaiians prepared but not panicked as Hurricane Iselle approaches
Approach of Iselle and trailing Julio has disrupted some tourism and travel, and led to the closure of some schools
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Long Island Weather Observer Sets U.S. Record With 84-Year Streak
Richard G. Hendrickson dials a certain telephone number by 10 a.m. every day. “Bridgehampton,” he says into the receiver. “Good morning.” They know his voice at the National Weather Service. “I don’t say Hendrickson,” he said. “Sometimes if they’ve got a new one” — a new meteorologist answering the phone at the New York-area forecast office in Upton, N.Y., about 40 miles away — “they’ll say, ‘Who is this?’ ”
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Hawaii residents stock up ahead of 2 hurricanes
Hawaii residents were furiously stocking up on essentials as two hurricanes churned toward the islands Wednesday and weather officials asked the whole state to prepare for flash flooding.
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Here's How to Avoid Being Hit By Lightning
On Sunday afternoon, 20,000 bathers at Venice Beach in Los Angeles were surprised by a ferocious 15-minute thunderstorm, during which lightning strikes killed a 20-year-old man and injured at least a dozen other people, at least one critically. Witnesses told Los Angeles TV station KTLA that the first lightning bolt, which struck the water near the Venice pier, sounded like a “bomb,” and actually made the ground shake.
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Lightning strike injures at least 13 in Venice Beach
Thirteen people were injured Sunday after a rare lightning strike at California's Venice Beach.
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Raw: Massive Dust Storm Covers Phoenix
A massive dust storm covered the Phoenix metropolitan area on Friday. (July 26)
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How a solar storm two years ago nearly caused a catastrophe on Earth
On July 23, 2012, the sun unleashed two massive clouds of plasma that barely missed a catastrophic encounter with the Earth’s atmosphere. These plasma clouds, known as coronal mass ejections (CMEs), comprised a solar storm thought to be the most powerful in at least 150 years.
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Climate Change Is Contaminating Your Drinking Water With Feces
These are the consequences you don't hear about.
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June 2014 Is Earth's Hottest June on Record: NOAA
In more than 130 years of recorded weather history, June 2014 is the globe's hottest June.
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Climate models that accidentally got El Niño right also show warming slowdown
We've been stuck in cool, La Niña state for most of the past decade.
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Heatwave: 'UK Will Be Hotter Than Ibiza'
Britain is set for the hottest week of the year yet with the mercury rising to at least 30C (86F), forecasters say. Temperatures will rise as the week continues, peaking on Friday when parts of the UK will be hotter than Ibiza and Gran Canaria, experts predict. Sky weather producer Christopher England said the south east of England would be hottest but most other areas should see lots of sunshine too.
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Why the City Is (Usually) Hotter than the Countryside
The smoothness of the landscape and the local climate—not the materials of the concrete jungle—govern the urban heat island effect, a new study finds
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1,001 Blistering Future Summers
Models show summers are going to keep warming as emissions continue. What will this warming feel like? Our new analysis illustrates.
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Stacked Lightning
Fourteen image stack of lightning from a line of strong storms approaching Albuquerque from the west. What a sight!
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Powerful storms kill 5, bring havoc to Northeast
High winds led to the four deaths in the Syracuse area, officials said.
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