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For the first time on record precipitation on Saturday at the summit of Greenland, roughly two miles above sea level, fell as rain and not snow
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It's so hot in Dubai that the government is artificially creating rainstorms using electrical charges from drones
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Why we find rainforests in unexpected places: An overview of all the temperate rainforests in the world
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An incredible interactive map lets you drop a raindrop anywhere in the US, then track what its journey would be
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NYC snow days: Dismay as school snow days cancelled
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Gothenburg's bold plan to be world's best rainy city – it rains nearly 40% of the time in the Swedish city, so why not try to make the most of it?
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Texas' grid operator warns rolling blackouts are possible as winter storm escalates demand for electricity
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Nearly 100,000 remain without power in Portland as outages stretch into sixth day
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Hurricanes and typhoons moving 30km closer to coasts every decade for the last forty years
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UN weather agency calls a new record low temperature in the Northern Hemisphere – -69.6°C (-93°F) was recorded almost three decades ago in Klinck, Greenland
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Severe wildfire conditions will continue across California, but pattern shift will improve air quality
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Maybe we should talk about the weather
Here is a place to post about extreme weather events or just what it’s like where you are.
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National Hurricane Center nailed track forecast for Laura within a mile and three days in advance
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Record heat, unprecedented lightning fire siege in Northern California; more dry lightning to come
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Preparing for the next hurricane: Storm trackers and other survival tools
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California’s Hog Fire is producing its own thunderstorms
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Tree ring records show increase in extreme weather in South America
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Dark Sky delays shutdown of Android app until August 1st
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Risk of 40°C/104°F heat in the UK ‘rapidly increasing’, says Met Office—a temperature never before recorded in the UK could possibly occur as frequently as once every 3.5 years by 2100
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Advances in weather prediction
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Plastic rain: More than 1,000 tons of microplastic rain onto western US every year, study estimates
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Jet stream: Is climate change causing more ‘blocking’ weather events?
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Could solar storms destroy civilization? Solar flares and coronal mass ejections.
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What's the weather/climate like where you live?
A pretty light-hearted/whimsical question. I'll start. Over here in São Paulo City temperatures range from anywhere from 10-30 degrees and the climate tends to be more rainy in the summer (the...
A pretty light-hearted/whimsical question.
I'll start.
Over here in São Paulo City temperatures range from anywhere from 10-30 degrees and the climate tends to be more rainy in the summer (the end/beginning of the year as in the southern hemisphere, which makes stuff like christmas really odd) and less so in the winter, which often leads to pretty beautiful sunsets. Sometimes the rain comes with pretty heavy wind in what looks like a diet hurricane. The clouds are mostly cumulus in the summer. I don't think it has ever snown here.
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Purple lightning strike during a thunderstorm
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The impact of rainfall-induced early social distancing on COVID-19 outbreaks
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NOAA space weather enthusiasts dashboard
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The great geomagnetic storm of May 1921
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Apple has acquired the Dark Sky weather app - Android version and website will shut down on July 1, API active through end of 2021
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A new understanding of Mars is beginning to emerge, thanks to data from the first year of NASA's InSight lander mission
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Rally Sweden will go ahead next week albeit eight stages shorter, despite the World Rally Championship event suffering from a lack of snow in the build-up
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Canada’s international hair freezing competition
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Honk more, wait more: Mumbai traffic police introduce the punishing signal to curb noise pollution
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Donald Trump’s US border wall, vulnerable to flash floods, needs large storm gates left open for months
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Two Chinese nationals in their early twenties have been found dead at the site of a 1973 plane crash in southern Iceland
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Assessing the US Climate in 2019 - Warmest year on record for Alaska, second wettest for contiguous US
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New Zealand 'blanketed' by smoke and dust from raging NSW and QLD bushfires
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US FAA engineers objected to Boeing’s removal of some 787 lightning protection measures
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Did a million years of rain jump-start dinosaur evolution?
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Thousands of egg-shaped balls of ice have covered a beach in Finland – the result of a rare weather phenomenon
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How decades of LA smog led to California’s war with Trump over car pollution
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Worst weather experience?
Since it's the peak of tropical storm season again, this thread is open for all to share stories and thoughts about weather experiences. Not necessarily concerns about climate change, but the...
Since it's the peak of tropical storm season again, this thread is open for all to share stories and thoughts about weather experiences. Not necessarily concerns about climate change, but the incidents you've had personally, and whatever you've learned about preparation, resilience, and recovery.
I'm no longer a Florida resident, but my contacts are blowing up with concern over Hurricane Dorian.
I've been watching the storm on this nifty site, which has great tools and visualisations to satisfy the most avid weather geeks.
Dorian is likely to be another devastating, small-region, high-intensity buzzsaw, like last year's Hurricane Michael, which practically erased towns in the Florida panhandle, or the 1935 Labor Day hurricane. [I'm not really a good person - I'm having more than a little schadenfreude that Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort is near the center of the storm's predicted path. But I'm not the only person who thought of that.]
According to the Insurance Information Institute, Florida has nearly $600 billion dollars of single family housing at risk from a Category 5 hurricane, leaving aside loss of life and injury.
My stories, compressed for those who've read this before
Some of my friends and colleagues have families still recovering from the impacts of 2017's Hurricanes Irma, Harvey, and Maria.
While I had to deal with these storms' impacts to infrastructure professionally, the hurricanes didn't have enormous personal impact. I was mainly supporting friends or covering for colleagues struggling to help family in Texas, Puerto Rico, and the Caribbean Islands. Our house was eight miles from the coast, so we only dealt with a downed tree and other cleanup, a few hours without power, and some blocked roads.
Because I have dumb hobbies, the most extreme weather dangers I ever encountered were while kayaking and canoeing. Five years ago, I was on a guided ocean kayaking trip that ran into an unpredicted storm squall. Perfect blue skies and calm one minute; near darkness, huge waves, practically solid rain, and 40-knot winds the next. The party got scattered all over half a dozen of the 10,000 Islands. I struggled to get off the windward side of a long isle, so the wind banged my kayak into mangroves for an hour, then I was paddling furiously to avoid being swept into the Gulf of Mexico. But we all survived without major harm, the guide managed to reconnect us without calling for rescue, and we arrived at our destination with good stories. I can only imagine what it's like to be exposed to worse conditions in a hurricane.
Up to that time, the most dangerous weather I'd run into was snow and ice storms. When I was a kid, the Blizzard of 1978 left my family stranded, without phones, power or heat, for five days. We had a fireplace, plenty of hardwood, and an ample store of dried and canned provisions, so it felt more like a rustic adventure than the dire situation it could have been. My brother and I thought 10-foot snowdrifts were the greatest fun ever - we spent more time outside than in, "helping" to dig out by making snow forts and tunnels with the neighbors' kids. Of course, it was followed with a spring of chores like putting up half a kilometer of snow fences, learning to drive a 40-hp farm tractor, and setting up a ham radio antenna and generator, as my city-raised parents had come to grasp what rural life really entailed.
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The size and shape of raindrops
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Plastic particles falling out of sky with snow in Arctic
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Hurricane forecasts may be running headlong into the butterfly effect
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Horticulturists have planted five palm trees in Laugardalur to investigate how these plants respond to Icelandic weather conditions
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Losing the eternal blue sky: Meet a changing Mongolia. Rivers are dry. Pastureland is giving way to mines. And wintertime smog obscures the famed blue sky. How did the country get here?
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Heavy rain triggers series of landslides in Norway – at least one person is presumed dead and many others unaccounted for
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Mudslide, snow, hail: Tour de France shuts down Stage 19 due to crazy weather
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