Cloud seeding – spraying materials into clouds to increase precipitation – has been around for nearly 80 years. But only recently have scientists been able to measure how effective it really is.
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Despite the exams algorithm fiasco, UK government bodies are making positive uses of the technology.
Climate change has boosted the likelihood of heavy rainfall, hailstorms, flooding and drought seen in some parts of the world. What does the future hold?
You might have already felt what it would be like inside a cloud made of condensed water vapor.
The future climate that scientists predict for the middle of the United States is one that will foster more hail events with bigger hailstones.
New “dual-pol” weather radars promise to spot large hailstones forming inside thunderstorms, giving people a heads-up when it’s about to hail.
Severe storms bring a complex mixture of weather conditions, often in a very localised area. This unpredictability can make them very damaging, and very hard to study too.
The supercell that hit Brisbane on November 27 this year caused more than A$500 million worth of damage, produced hail up to 7.5 cm in diameter, and lashed the city with winds of more than 140 km an hour…
Hail, heavy rain, lightning and flash flooding – not necessarily typical summer weather in southeast England. But the recent unexpected deluge saw homes evacuated, stations flooded, and road and rail services…
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