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17 votes
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Melt rate of Greenland ice sheet can predict summer weather in Europe – location, extent and strength of recent freshwater events suggest unusually warm and dry summer
14 votes -
Copenhagen is just one city among many around the world taking a novel approach to prevent repeated flooding. It is becoming a sponge.
8 votes -
Starburst – Disturbances on the sun may have the potential to devastate our power grid and communication systems. When the next big storm arrives, will we be prepared for it?
22 votes -
The spiralling cost of insuring against climate disasters – rising home premiums are a de facto ‘carbon price’ on consumers as extreme weather events become more frequent
30 votes -
Category 6 hurricanes have arrived
30 votes -
Norway hit by hurricane-force winds – is climate change making Europe's extreme storms worse?
12 votes -
Has anyone else noticed a difference in their winters?
I moved to a place with an "actual" winter just over a decade ago -- snow, freezing temperatures, etc. In the first couple of years, I got what felt like a genuinely solid winter. Lots of...
I moved to a place with an "actual" winter just over a decade ago -- snow, freezing temperatures, etc. In the first couple of years, I got what felt like a genuinely solid winter. Lots of blisteringly cold days. Snow that fell in large amounts and stuck around for most of the season. I love winter, so this was great for me.
In recent years, however, the winters have been milder and milder. When we do get snow, it's only around for a bit because days above freezing are now frequent enough that it's able to melt between snowfalls. Also, the snowfalls themselves are more intermittent. This year specifically we've actually had more rain than snow. I don't remember getting rain in January when I first moved here.
It irks me a bit because the shift has been so stark and noticeable in such a short period of time. There's a part of me that thinks that it's not a big deal and maybe my first years here were unnaturally cold and snowy for the area, so what I'm seeing now is simply the other side of the mean, but then there's another part of me that feels like that's simply a comforting lie I can tell myself in the face of the obvious effects of climate change.
Is there anyone else here that feels like they're missing their winters?
56 votes -
How a huge rainfall simulator helps Japan study and prevent landslides
8 votes -
Russia’s fabled war ally ‘General Frost’ turns on Moscow
16 votes -
Helsinki Airport clears runway snow in just eleven minutes – why do some airports cope better with snow than others?
11 votes -
Swathes of Siberia freeze in temperatures below -58 degrees Celsius
20 votes -
Weather extremes threaten food security (2012)
9 votes -
Review: The Man Who Rode the Thunder, by William H. Rankin
3 votes -
Despite it still being spring in Brazil, temperatures reach 35-40 degrees Celsius almost every day in dangerous heatwave
34 votes -
Use of weather derivatives surges as extreme climate events rock the globe
12 votes -
Parker Probe’s path through solar blast yields unparalleled space weather insights
12 votes -
Solar storm confirms Vikings were settled in North America in 1021AD
28 votes -
Red sky at night and other weather lore
24 votes -
Burning Man attendees advised to 'shelter in place,' conserve food and water due to heavy rain
61 votes -
A wrong turn in fog off the California coast led to the largest peacetime disaster in American naval history
8 votes -
Should airships make a comeback?
25 votes -
Hurricane Hilary could dump over a year’s worth of rain on parts of the Southwest US
37 votes -
‘We’re changing the clouds.’ An unforeseen test of geoengineering is fueling record ocean warmth.
80 votes -
Hurricane Hilary is expected to bring significant flooding to Baja California, southern California, and the southwest US
28 votes -
F1’s wet weather problem is proving difficult to solve
18 votes -
Landslides, a stranded town and two deaths so far reported as extreme weather sweeps across southern Norway
14 votes -
How California’s weather catastrophe turned into a miracle
20 votes -
Expanding heat wave prompts alerts for 115 million people in the United States
59 votes -
How quantum physicists explained Earth’s oscillating weather patterns
6 votes -
Prisons aren't remotely ready for extreme weather: The Texas heat dome showed how vulnerable incarcerated individuals are to heat waves
27 votes -
Weather extremes are thrashing the world, and it’s just a taste of what’s to come
15 votes -
I’m hot! So are my plants!
21 votes -
Solar storm risks and the threat of large-scale internet outage examined
12 votes -
Heat and smoke are smothering most of the US, putting lives at risk
14 votes -
Denmark sets new record - month of June has been the most sunny since records began
11 votes -
Can you recommend a simple world weather map that shows weather fronts and upcoming lightning?
I enjoy a few weather tools. For example, I enjoy blitzortung that shows live lightning. Currently, you can see a long chain of lighting through eastern Germany and up through Denmark, Sweden and...
I enjoy a few weather tools. For example, I enjoy
blitzortung that shows live lightning. Currently, you can see a long chain of lighting through eastern Germany and up through Denmark, Sweden and Norway.This is expected, since we’ve had very warm weather for a while, and it’s supposed to change to colder weather soon.
But is there a good website that can show me easily the weather front that is currently creating all those lightning strikes? The sites I know only shows vague colors and you can perhaps implicitly see some change in pressure, wind, temperature etc, but nothing that clearly shows an east front where for example you would expect lightning soon.
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Has anyone else gone down the weather rabbit hole recently?
I was always familiar with tornadoes living close to or in Oklahoma for a vast majority of my life. However, with the odd weather patterns we’re seeing this year producing severe weather, I’ve...
I was always familiar with tornadoes living close to or in Oklahoma for a vast majority of my life. However, with the odd weather patterns we’re seeing this year producing severe weather, I’ve gone way down the rabbit hole. Watching weather livestreams, subscribing to chasers, the works. Has anyone else been on the bandwagon?
20 votes -
World lightning mapping in real time
19 votes -
June 2023 ENSO update: El Niño is here
17 votes -
Scientists use rocket to create artificial Northern Lights to better understand space weather
3 votes -
New Zealand: Airport flooded and homes swamped in Auckland
5 votes -
Bomb cyclone hits California with flooding, high winds and heavy snow
9 votes -
United States holiday travel upended as forecasters warn of ‘bomb cyclone’
14 votes -
Finnish radio telescope aims to protect satellites from solar storms – Metsahovi Radio Observatory has been tracking the Sun's solar cycles for decades
3 votes -
Storm Eunice blows off rooftops with highest wind speeds on record in England
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SpaceX loses forty Starlink satellites to geomagnetic storm a day after launch
16 votes -
US west coast braces for ‘atmospheric river’ as huge storm brews
12 votes -
We look at a fascinating object loaned to the Royal Society - a Campbell-Stokes sunshine recorder
3 votes -
DeepMind worked with UK weather forecasters to create a model that was better at making short term predictions than existing systems
9 votes