Lightning strikes near St. George, Utah.
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A new study shows how often lightning strikes and how it behaves, often hitting the ground with multiple strikes from the same flash.
Low-income communities often have a longer wait for electricity to come back after outages.
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Researchers tracked power outages after 8 major storms to see how wealth corresponded to recovery time.
A satellite image shows a powerful atmospheric river hitting the U.S. West Coast on Jan. 31, 2024.
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These giant rivers in the sky are both destructive and essential for the Western U.S. water supply.
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The impacts of record heat on the global water cycle were severe and wide-ranging – and the trend will continue in 2024.
Flood water filled streets in downtown Montpelier, Vt., on July 11, 2023.
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An atmospheric scientist explains how rising temperatures are helping to fuel extreme storms, floods, droughts and devastating wildfires.
Extreme downpours filled downtown Montpelier, Vt., with water in July 2023.
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The US saw a record number of billion-dollar disasters in 2023, even when accounting for inflation. The number of long-running heat waves like the Southwest experienced is also rising.
A storm cell over Brisbane in 2014.
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Global climate models don’t let us zoom in on the fine details. A new set of high-resolution climate models for Australia is solving this problem.
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Muttonbird ‘wrecks’ are becoming more common. Despite speculation about many possible causes, the evidence points to changes in the Arctic ocean ecosystem from where the birds migrate to Australia.
Storm Ciarán has caused severe disruption on the south coast of England.
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Storm Ciarán unleashed extremely strong and destructive winds in parts of the southern UK and northern France – here’s why.
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Storms are the greatest threat to beach erosion, not sea level rise, research reveals. This is the longest continuous beach monitoring survey in the Southern Hemisphere.
The Royal Charter was shipwrecked at Porth Alerth near Moelfre on Anglesey.
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More than 800 lives were lost in the Royal Charter storm but it also led to improvements in weather forecasting.
A tornado in Pembrokeshire, Wales.
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Britain doesn’t have huge violent twisters like the US. But it does have lots of little tornadoes.
Tidal surges can cause enormous damage.
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Local communities need to be warned more clearly and effectively if there is a threat of a storm surge and of coastal flooding.
The costs of climate change are clear with the flood devastation in Lybia simply being the latest grim example. What is also clear is that traditional policymaking has failed and climate assemblies may provide a novel and more equitable path forward.
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Climate assemblies may just provide the breakthrough required to develop popular, just and sustainable climate and energy policies.
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Public interest in climate change and global warming peaks after bushfires and lasts for months, research reveals. But Australians do not respond to storms and floods in the same way.
A beaver-like dam at Wilde Brook on the Corve catchment in Shropshire.
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A new study shows that river barriers, similar to those built by beavers, can protect areas at risk of flooding by storing water upstream.
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2016 was the world’s warmest year on record, due in part to a very strong El Niño event. But 2023 (and 2024) could beat that record – what should we expect?
The hardest-hit homes in Florida’s mid-April flooding were in modest neighborhoods in low-lying areas.
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Nationally, 57% of the population says they’re not prepared for a flood disaster. Surveys and disasters show that those most at risk are least prepared.
The higher your vantage point, the more likely you’ll see more of the rainbow’s circle.
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Each rainbow is personal – the rainbow you see isn’t exactly the same rainbow the next person sees. It’s all in the eye of the beholder.
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Extreme weather is a threat to the UK’s electricity system – and climate change is likely to make it even worse.