Massive flooding unleashed by deadly monster storm Harvey left Houston—the fourth-largest city in the United States—increasingly isolated Sunday as its airports and highways shut down and residents were rescued from their ...
Environment
Aug 28, 2017
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The early eclipse weather forecast looks best in the West and least in the East with patchy clouds muddling up the picture in between.
Space Exploration
Aug 18, 2017
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Lightning—once one of nature's biggest killers —is claiming far fewer lives in the United States, mostly because we've learned to get out of the way.
Environment
Aug 15, 2017
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Researchers running highly detailed simulations using satellite images, radar and ground-based weather stations were able to predict a specific violent storm 90 minutes before it hit a western Oklahoma town and killed a man ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 15, 2017
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Heavy rain resulted in significant flooding in the U.S. Midwest over the week of July 7 to 14, 2017. Using satellite data, NASA estimated the amount of rain that fell over those areas and used satellite data to create 3-D ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 14, 2017
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The first day of summer brought some of the worst heat the Southwest U.S. has seen in years, forcing flights to be canceled, straining the power grid and making life miserable for workers toiling in temperatures that reached ...
Environment
Jun 20, 2017
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Extremely heavy rain has recently fallen over Florida and the Global Precipitation Measurement or GPM mission core satellite looked at that some of that rainfall on June 7. Rainfall records were broken on that date as the ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 8, 2017
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Make fun of the weatherman if you want but modern forecasts have quietly, by degrees, become much better.
Environment
Jun 1, 2017
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Better known for leaf peeping on crisp autumn days and the nor'easter blizzards that follow, New England is nevertheless subject to spells of punishing summer heat and humidity. A new study that analyzed the health effects ...
Environment
May 10, 2017
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NASA and NOAA satellites are providing various views of the major winter storm marching toward the U.S. East coast on March 13. The storm is forecast to merge with another system and is expected to bring large snowfall totals ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 13, 2017
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