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Hurricane forms off Mexico, strengthens rapidly
The first hurricane of the eastern Pacific season formed hundreds of miles off Mexico’s coast Saturday and could become a major storm by Sunday though it poses no immediate threat to land, forecasters in Miami said. Amanda emerged as a Category 1 hurricane about 645 miles southwest of Manzanillo, Mexico, and had sustained winds of 75 mph. The National Hurricane Center in Miami said Amanda was moving west-northwest Saturday at about 5 mph while rapidly intensifying.
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Tornadoes, large hail smack Colorado
A fierce weather system -- featuring baseball-sized hail and spawning multiple tornadoes -- ripped through Colorado on Wednesday afternoon.
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Climate Change Will Force Us to Abandon Coastal Cities. We Better Start Preparing Right Now.
On Monday, the New York Times reported on two new climate change studies that came to the same, terrifying conclusion: “The heat-trapping gases could destabilize other parts of Antarctica as well as the Greenland ice sheet, potentially causing enough sea-level rise that many of the world’s coastal cities would eventually have to be abandoned.”
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Your Weather Report Is Duping You
As I write this post in my godforsaken part of North Carolina, it's a comfortable 61°F outside. The weather report also tells me that the relative humidity is 55% . For all intents and purposes, that means nothing. It's crap.
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How Climate Change Will Destroy Your Country's Credit Rating
We all know that climate change threatens to devastate coastal cities, disrupt food production, and trigger a refugee crisis of untold proportions. It’s also bad for a nation’s credit rating, according to a report released Thursday by Standard & Poor’s. That would be seem to be the least of the worries of, say, Vietnam, which S&P ranked dead last of 116 countries’ vulnerability to climate change-related credit risk.
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Balkans hit by worst flooding in a century
Several people have died, two others were missing and thousands were awaiting evacuation Thursday in towns completely cut off by the worst floods in more than a century in parts of the Balkan region. In Croatia gale-force winds uprooted trees, and record rainfall has been measured in the country's north. In Serbia a man has died and two people were missing, while several hundred residents were evacuated as floodwaters cut off roads and flooded homes.
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National Weather Service Scrambles To Fill Vacancies Before Summer Extreme Weather Strikes
The National Weather Service currently has a staggering 548 vacancies, or 15 percent of its staff positions empty, leading many to wonder it the agency has enough employees to keep the country informed about extreme weather.
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The End of the Rain as We Know It
Say goodbye to that pleasant springtime drizzle. As the climate changes, get ready for more torrential downpours and more droughts.
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Active Sun sparks lightning strikes
Scientists have found that when gusts of high-speed solar particles enter our atmosphere, the number of lightning bolts increases.
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Dangerous storms: Hurricanes peaking further north, typhoons further south, than in past
Powerful, destructive tropical cyclones are now reaching their peak intensity farther from the equator and closer to the poles, according to a new study. The results of the study show that over the last 30 years, tropical cyclones -- also known as hurricanes or typhoons -- are moving poleward at a rate of about 33 miles per decade in the Northern Hemisphere and 38 miles per decade in the Southern Hemisphere.
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World is unprepared for major El Niño later this year
The weather is preparing to go wild, and will wreak havoc and death around the globe later this year. An El Niño, a splurge of warm water in the Pacific Ocean, is coming. It will unleash floods in the Americas, while South-East Asia and Australia face drought. Yet little is being done to address these consequences.
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Extreme Weather History of Events
View list of extreme weather events in history and recent extreme weather events like polar vortex, typhoon haiyan, storm sandy.
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Malta enjoys brighter, sunnier and drier April than usual
MALTA......Warmer, drier weather than 30-year average
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Uncontrollable ice-melt? Uncorking East Antarctica could yield unstoppable sea-level rise, simulations show
The melting of a rather small ice volume on East Antarctica's shore could trigger a persistent ice discharge into the ocean, resulting in unstoppable sea-level rise for thousands of years to come. These findings are based on computer simulations of the Antarctic ice flow using improved data of the ground profile underneath the ice sheet.
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Will We Ever Control the Weather?
We’ve long tried to make it rain, and now scientists aim to harness lightning with lasers and hurricanes with oil slicks. Is manipulating weather possible?
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What Parts Of The Country Get The Worst Weather Predictions?
When you check the day's temperature or see if it's going to rain on your way to work, the answer can vary widely depending on where you look. Luckily, the website ForecastAdvisor--which grades the accuracy of U.S. forecasting outlets such as The Weather Channel, National Weather Service (NWS), CustomWeather, and AccuWeather--can help you sort the good from the bad...
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What is El Niño — and why should I care?
Back in 1997-98, a massive El Niño in the Pacific Ocean pushed global temperatures to new highs and triggered a spate of extreme weather around the world — ultimately causing an estimated $35 billion in damage and 23,000 deaths. Now the odds are rising that El Niño will return in mid- to late 2014. And early signs suggest that it has the potential to be a really strong one this time — possibly along the lines of that big 1997-98 event.
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Floods Slam South Following Deadly Twisters
The Florida Panhandle and other parts of the Gulf Coast were hit with widespread flooding overnight, the latest blow from a dayslong chain of severe weather across the South and Midwest.
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75 million Americans under threat of severe weather
The scope is staggering. Some 75 million Americans are under threat of severe weather on Tuesday.
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'Chaos' reigns as deadly tornadoes slam several states
Parts of the South and Midwest could be in for more severe weather Monday, a day after suspected tornadoes killed at least 18 people in three states.
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