When the 10,000th observation was submitted to Mountain Rain or Snow on the morning of March 15th, wet snow was falling on much of the Sierra Nevada. The National Weather Service was predicting slick mountain passes and possible ...
Environment
May 11, 2022
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In the Sierra Nevada, midwinter "rain-on-snow" events occur when rain falls onto existing snowpack, and have resulted in some of the region's biggest and most damaging floods. Rain-on-snow events are projected to increase ...
Environment
May 3, 2022
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Better protection of humans and the environment requires precise forecasts of extreme weather phenomena, such as winter storms. Researchers of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have now compared methods of statistics ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 28, 2022
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The powerful tornado that claimed one life and caused widespread damage as it roared through the New Orleans area Tuesday was one of the region's strongest in history and one of more than 100 tornadoes to strike in the past ...
Environment
Mar 24, 2022
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The Blue Hill Observatory, a few miles south of Boston, recorded the deepest snow cover in its 130-year history, an incredible 46 inches, in February 2015. The same month, Bangor, Maine, tied its record for deepest snow at ...
Environment
Jan 28, 2022
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California begins the new year in much better shape for escaping its drought thanks to a massive October atmospheric river and wet December that delivered more rain and snow so far than the state saw in all of its last paltry ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 3, 2022
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A powerful winter storm battered the western United States Monday, dumping much-needed snow on the drought-parched mountains of California, but causing travel misery over a wide area.
Environment
Dec 28, 2021
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Tuesday at 9:58 a.m. marked the arrival of winter, and with it came a weather record.
Environment
Dec 21, 2021
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A federal agency on Monday granted a license for a launchpad that would fly commercial rockets from coastal Georgia.
Space Exploration
Dec 20, 2021
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Multiple tornadoes and thunderstorms that struck the Great Plains and upper Midwest on Dec. 15 were the result of a rare event called a derecho, according to the National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center. It was ...
Environment
Dec 20, 2021
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