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Massive Crash on the Ohio Turnpike March12,2014
Raw video of at least 40 vehicles in crash on the Ohio Turnpike during white out conditions.
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Tree storm damage 'worst since 1987' in the UK
This winter's extreme winds caused the biggest loss of trees in more than 20 years, according to the National Trust.
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El Niño watch posted: May portend fewer Atlantic hurricanes and beneficial California rains
In a bulletin issued this morning, NOAA issued an El Niño Watch predicting a roughly 50% chance for development later this year.
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Sydney Opera House and Statue of Liberty 'will be lost to sea level rise'
Nearly one-fifth of world cultural heritage sites would be affected by global warming of a further 3C, scientists warn...
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Lake Michigan: Most ice since 1979, most ever for March
Monday’s analysis by the Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory shows total ice concentration on Lake Michigan at 90.1% — the most ever recorded in March. This is officially the most ice we’ve had at any time of the year since 1979 when Lake Michigan ice cover stood at 93% on Feb. 26, according to records from Environment Canada, the weather agency that publishes the most detailed ice records from the Great Lakes dating back to 1973.
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Massive offshore turbine arrays would help us harness hurricanes
What would happen if a hurricane were to plough through a wind farm consisting of tens of thousands of individual turbines? A Stanford engineer recently ran a computer simulation to find out — and the results were astonishing.
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China's toxic air pollution resembles nuclear winter, say scientists
Chinese scientists have warned that the country's toxic air pollution is now so bad that it resembles a nuclear winter, slowing photosynthesis in plants – and potentially wreaking havoc on the country's food supply.
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Volcanoes contributing to hiatus in global warming: study
Small volcanic eruptions help explain a hiatus in global warming this century by dimming sunlight and offsetting a rise in emissions of heat-trapping gases to record highs, a study showed on Sunday.
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The Massive, Melting Pine Island Glacier Is Just Getting Started
Scientists have watched with awe the deterioration of the Pine Island Glacier, one of the major outlets of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet and the fastest moving glacier on the continent. Last summer, the glacier deposited an iceberg eight times the size of Manhattan into the Amundsen Sea. According to data gleaned via NASA’s IceBridge aerial survey, the glacier is giving up 46 gigatons of water every year, or about a single Chesapeake Bay every two years.
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A Rainbow Pileus Cloud over Zimbabwe
Pictured, behind this darker cloud, is a pileus iridescent cloud, a group of water droplets that have a uniformly similar size and so together diffract different colors of sunlight by different amounts.
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Warm U.S. West balanced cold U.S. East to create average January
Overall, the average temperature for January 2014 in the U.S. was 30.3 degrees, only one-tenth of a degree below normal for the month.
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11 Eerie Photos Of The Fog That's Shutting Down The Winter Olympics
Foggy weather is wreaking havoc on mountain events at the Winter Olympics for the second-straight day. The biathlon men's mass start was postponed for the second time, and will now be held on Tuesday.
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Snowboarding the streets of New York
The weather this season has been rather surprising and unusual for most parts of the world. When some places have not really had a winter season and it feels like skipped right away to spring, the Polar Vortex of 2014 has made the winter season very hard for the US East Coast. American film director Casey Neistat made better use of the weather and decided to go snowboarding in the streets of New York City.
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Jet stream 'may be changing'
New research suggests that the main system that helps determine the weather over Northern Europe and North America may be changing
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Sochi skiers strip to shorts keep cool at warmest Winter Olympics ever
Cross-country skiers more used to wearing hats and thermals on Friday stripped down to the bare minimum to stay cool as temperatures remained hot at the Sochi Olympics.
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Georgia sheriff cancels Valentine's Day because of snow - and boredom
By pronouncement of the sheriff, there will be no Valentine's Day this Friday. That is, if you live in Georgia, north of Interstate 16 and have to drive to get a gift. Oconee County Sheriff Scott Berry has designated northern Georgia a "NO VALENTINES DAY ZONE" in a post on the department's Facebook page Wednesday night.
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Do the Winter Olympics Have a Future in a Warming World?
Russia's balmy weather could be a sign of things to come, a new study says. We're running out of places cold enough to host the Games.
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NSFW APD Begins Crackdown on "Snowcockalypse"
ATLANTA, GA--Still reeling from the aftermath of Snow Jam 2014, Atlanta Police put aside winter weather preparation this morning, shifting gears to what is now being referred to as “Snowcockalypse,...
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Freezing Out the Bigger Picture
What seems like unusually cold weather in the Northeast is still milder than what was normal a few decades ago, but it has stoked confusion and given fodder to global warming skeptics.
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Russia hoarded 400,000 tons of snow for over a year so it could save the Olympics this week
The palm trees lining the boulevards give it away: It can get pretty warm in Sochi. In fact, it hit a high of 61°F (16°C) in the city yesterday, and wasn’t much cooler today. Even higher temperatures are forecast for later this week. Of course, temperatures are much chillier up in the mountains, and despite some grumbles about the mushiness of the snow, the Olympic alpine events have so far gone off without a hitch.
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