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Why Is Autumn the Only Season With Two Names? Did Other Seasons Ever Have Two Names?
Before it was autumn and fall, it was harvest. While the modern names of winter and summer have been around for more than 1,000 years, the names of fall and spring are more recent—and less constant.
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Lightning storms triggered by exhaust from cargo ships
SHIPS spewing soot into the pristine ocean air are causing extra lightning strikes along busy maritime routes. It is a bizarre example of how human activities can change the weather. When Joel Thornton at the University of Washington in Seattle and his colleagues looked at records of lightning strikes between 2005 and 2016 from the World Wide Lightning Location Network, they noticed there were significantly more strikes in certain regions of the east Indian Ocean and the South China Sea, compared with the surrounding areas.
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Maria an 'Extremely Dangerous' Hurricane
Maria strengthens to a category four storm as it nears eastern Caribbean islands.
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Endangered parrots took shelter from Irma in a hurricane proof building | Enjoy The Silence
When Hurricane Irma began bearing down on Puerto Rico, the USFWS moved all the Puerto Rican parrots at the aviary to a Hurricane proof building.
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The Tiny Islands Ravaged by Irma are in Trouble as Hurricane Jose Looms
“It was sad to see such beautiful country being destroyed over a couple of hours,” the prime minister of Antigua and Barbuda said.
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Hurricane Irma: How does it compare to other category five storms?
With 185mph speed winds, Hurricane Irma is now one of the most powerful storms in Atlantic history.
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Threat Increasing for Cuba, Florida from Intensifying Irma
Dangerous Hurricane Irma was intensifying as it approached the northern Lesser Antilles Islands on Monday morning, where hurricane warnings are in effect. Irma may affect the Greater Antilles later this week, and a U.S. landfall is possible.
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How Does Two Feet of Rainfall Become Ten Feet of Flooding?
Hurricane Harvey and its remnants have managed to dump likely record-setting amounts of rainfall across Texas. The Weather Channel expects that some locations could see accumulation totals of 50 inches before the weather finally lets up. Some locations around and outside of Houston have already have seen floods higher than 15 feet.
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New Texas Law May Affect Hurricane Harvey Property Damage Claims
A new law takes effect on Friday, Sept. 1st, 2017, which adds significant hurdles to policyholders who dispute any weather-related property damage claims.
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First Significant U.S. Snowfall of the Season Possible This Weekend
Parts of Alaska will get their first taste of winter this weekend.
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The planet's worst-case climate scenario: 'If not hell then a place with a similar temperature'
If we don't do anything to cut emissions and limit climate change, the worst case scenario involves severe heat waves, acidic oceans, and superstorms.
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'Lucifer' heat wave keeps parts of Europe on red alert
A relentless heat wave that gripped parts of Europe this week has sent temperatures soaring to record highs for several days
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Portland could hit 108 degrees this week, breaking all-time record
A brutal heat wave is scorching the Northwest. Following previous punishing heat waves in the Southwest and East, folks in northern California and western portions of Oregon and Washington are enduring blistering temperatures, some of which are shattering records.
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Deadly Arizona Flash Flood Created '40-Foot Wide Black Wave'
The victims were all from one Phoenix family, who had been celebrating a birthday alongside a popular swimming hole, unaware that summer thunderstorms had just dropped heavy rains upstream.
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U.S. Gulf Coast braces for Tropical Storm Cindy
Communities and oil refining and production facilities from Texas to Florida braced on Tuesday for potential disruptions as Tropical Storm Cindy strengthened over the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, threatening to bring flash floods across parts of the northern Gulf Coast.
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Extreme Heat Grips Northern Hemisphere on Summer Solstice
Extreme heat across large tracts of the Northern Hemisphere raised fears for crops in China, fueled forest fires in Portugal and Russia's Far East, forced flight cancellations in the Southwest U.S., and melted tarmac on roads in Britain.
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Tropical storm likely to form and hit U.S. coast: hurricane center
A weather system in the Gulf of Mexico has a 90 percent chance of becoming a tropical storm in the next day or two, threatening energy infrastructure as it advances toward Texas and Louisiana, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said on Tuesday.
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Historic Heat Wave Sweeps Asia, the Middle East and Europe
The last week of May 2017 and first week of June brought one the most extraordinary heatwaves in world history to Asia, the Middle East and Europe.
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World Meteorological Organization Announces Global Records for Deadliest Weather Events in History
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) recently announced world records for the highest death tolls from lightning, tropical cyclones, tornadoes and hailstorms in recorded history.
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