Extreme weather News
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A global survey of experts and decision-makers shows they believe nuclear war, cyberattacks and environmental disasters are the likeliest threats to the world in 2018.
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From hurricanes to wildfires, heatwaves, and droughts, 2017 was a devastating year all across the planet, and while we tend to use the term "natural disaster," in most cases, they have been climate disasters.
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After making landfall on Friday night as a powerful Category 4 storm, Hurricane Harvey has been downgraded to a tropical storm that has created a disaster of epic proportions in southeast Texas.
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At the end of last week, U.S. fire managers raised the National Fire Preparedness Level status to its highest level for the first time in two years as California and a number of other Western states are at high risk for lightning storms.
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Firefighters are battling home-threatening wildfires in four southwestern states today, along with gusting winds and extreme, possibly record-breaking heat.
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University of Exeter researchers are playing a crucial role in our understanding of climate change. They have created a comprehensive new report detailing the increasing risk to the global population due to extreme weather.
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Toledo residents get their water from Lake Erie, but they had to avoid drinking water from their taps this past weekend because the water contained a toxin from blue-green algae that had showed up in the municipal water supply.
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Hurricane Arthur kicked off the 2014 Atlantic hurricane season along the United States’ eastern seaboard, Thursday night, making landfall as far north as North Carolina.
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Hailstones like “bursts of machine-gun fire” laid waste to large parts of one of France’s leading wine regions, the Burgundy vineyards, at the weekend.
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The U.S. economy could face major, systemic disruption due to climate change unless legislators and businesses alike take urgent action to reduce climate risk, says a new report released this week.
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As parts of the US remain gripped in a big freeze, one of the worst on record, news reports of strange events continue. The latest is a Wisconsin video which shows boiling water turning to snow in seconds.
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The death toll from Typhoon Haiyan which struck the Philippines, Nov. 7, is likely to escalate to five figures as officials in the Philippine island of Leyte, hardest hit by the monster storm, began assessing the damage.
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A researcher at the University of Missouri (MU) has found a link between Pacific Ocean temperatures and the locations where tornadoes occur in the United States.
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Residents along India’s Eastern Seaboard battened down Saturday, as Cyclone Phailin, the most powerful cyclone in more than a decade, bore down on the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Odisha.
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Scientists meeting at this week’s annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Boston have warned that extreme weather events like Hurricane Sandy and the Texas drought are here to stay.
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After extreme weather and floods in Australia, the Sunshine and Gold Coast has now been blanketed with several feet of "sea foam," astonishing local residents and tourists.
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According to a new study published at the weekend in the journal, Nature, large cities, most of which lie in the northern hemisphere, could be affecting weather systems more than 1000 miles away.
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Cold winters should be no surprise to Canadians. Winter, for those living north of the 49th parallel should be second nature and relatively easy to cope with. It seems that the cold snap has most Canadians running for cover and somewhat unprepared.
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In one of the worst ever tragedies in the Scottish mountains, four mountaineers died and one was seriously injured when a party of six climbers fell victim to an avalanche at Bidean Nam Bian in Glencoe in Scotland.
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New Jersey residents battered by Hurricane Sandy find help from neighbors, government, and local non-profit groups such as a new non-profit start up "Restore The Shore."
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A NASA time-lapse video shows a satellite view of Hurricane Sandy's journey across the U.S. East Coast on Monday, from dawn to dusk.
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A Florida woman died Sunday after a tornado reportedly ripped through her home hurling her and her daughter through the air--landing nearly 200 feet away. Investigators say the woman's lifeless body was found grasping her young daughter to her chest.
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Extreme weather events in the US this year have caused more than $10 billion in damages, with recent events likely to drive the figure skyward as experts say climate change will cause even greater destruction in years to come.
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A new report on climate change shows more extreme weather is on the way, and the current US energy infrastructure is poised to fail unless it goes through a detailed transformation, including appropriate wind and solar sites.
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A comprehensive global study has shown that oceanic wind speeds and wave heights have increased significantly in the last two decades.
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NASA atmospheric scientists had an unexpected chance to study a curious phenomenon called "thundersnow" when a recent storm unleashed right over their heads.
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While the east of Australia mops up after floods and Cyclone Yasi in Western Australia hundreds of people are fleeing life threatening fires.
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An international team of researchers has reinvestigated the five “reasons for concern” described first in the Third Assessment Report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 2001.
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In most part of the U.S., extreme weather condition is creating nightmares for residents and travelers as strong wind continues to blow and temperature in most areas of the Midwest dropped to as low as 40 degrees.
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Extreme weather events have a greater effect on flora than previously presumed. A one-month drought postpones the time of flowering of grassland and heathland plants in Central Europe by an average of 4 days.
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Extreme weather damage. whisperwolf/flickr
Screen shot from CTV News video showing damage from extreme wind event in Red Deer, Alberta Tuesday night. CTV News Canada
The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite 13 (GOES-13) captured this image of Hurricane Sandy at 1:45 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (17:45 Universal Time) on October 28, 2012. A line of clouds from a continental weather system runs south to north along the Appalachians, approaching from the west to meet the offshore storm. NASA Earth Observatory image by Robert Simmon with data courtesy of the NASA/NOAA GOES Project Scien
Global warming is predicted to lead to more frequent and extreme climate hazards. European Commission SCIENCE HUB
MIT scientists have found that extreme precipitation events in California should become more frequent as the Earth’s climate warms over this century. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
A three minute hailstorm devastated large tracts of France's famed Burgundy vineyards June 28, 2014. BFMTV - Screengrab
By the end of the century, Oregon, Washington, and Idaho could well have more days above 95°F each year than there are currently in Texas; babies being born right now in the Southwest could see nearly four additional months of days over 95°F within their lifetimes. Risky Business - Rhodium Group
Schematic from Accuweather showing projected course of super-storm Cyclone Phailin toward the east coast of India Accuweather
Typhoon Haiyan approaching the Philippines, Nov. 7, 2013 Image captured by geostationary satellite JMA / EUMETSAT
Extreme weather events, like heatwaves and droughts, could impact on our food supply. screen grab
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