Storms News
April 18, 2024
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Apr. 4, 2024 A research group was able to measure a spike in radiocarbon concentration of trees in Lapland that occurred after the Carrington flare. This discovery helps to prepare for dangerous solar ...
Mar. 26, 2024 A study is the first to evaluate substrate recolonization by sponges in the U.S. Virgin Islands after two catastrophic storms using genetic analyses to understand how much clonality verses sexual ...
Mar. 11, 2024 Winter storms known as western disturbances that provide crucial snow and rainfall to northern India are arriving significantly later in the ...
Mar. 1, 2024 Large scale-power outages caused by tropical cyclones can be prevented almost entirely if a small but critical set of power lines is protected against storm damages, a new study finds. Scientists ...
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Feb. 28, 2024 Thousands of historic and archaeological sites in Georgia are at risk from tropical storm surges, and that number will increase with climate change, ...
Feb. 25, 2024 Understanding cloud patterns in our changing climate is essential to making accurate predictions about their impact on society and nature. Scientists published a new study that uses a high-resolution ...
Feb. 5, 2024 For more than 50 years, the National Hurricane Center has used the Saffir-Simpson Windscale to communicate the risk of property damage; it labels a hurricane on a scale from Category 1 (wind speeds ...
Jan. 24, 2024 A group has found that larger, slow-moving typhoons are more likely to be resilient to the effects of global warming. However, more compact, fast-moving storms are more likely to be sensitive. These ...
Jan. 25, 2024 European forests with a greater diversity of tree species are more resilient to storms, according to new ...
Jan. 24, 2024 A new method predicts how much flooding a coastal community is likely to experience as hurricanes evolve due to climate change. Using New York as a test case, the model predicts Hurricane Sandy-level ...
Dec. 21, 2023 Research reveals a steady increase in the number of people at risk from tropical cyclones and the number of days per year these potentially catastrophic storms threaten health and livelihoods. The ...
Dec. 19, 2023 A winter wonderland calls to mind piles of fluffy, glistening snow. But to reach the ground, snowflakes are swept into the turbulent atmosphere, ...
Dec. 11, 2023 Train accidents could be caused by solar storms switching signalling from red to green according to new research examining the impact of space weather. Solar storms can trigger powerful magnetic ...
Dec. 1, 2023 An international multidisciplinary team consisting of solar physicists, geophysicists, and historians from nine countries analysed observations of an ...
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Feb. 22, 2024 If storms become stronger in the future due to climate change, more nitrogen may be released from the bottom of coastal ...
Dec. 14, 2023 Researchers sought to investigate whether socioeconomically vulnerable households experienced longer power outage durations after extreme weather events. The team analyzed data from the top eight ...
Nov. 17, 2023 After a massive cyclone transformed the ecosystem of Gorongosa National Park, researchers studied the immediate and knock-on impacts to garner lessons for wildlife managers around the ...
Oct. 30, 2023 Large geomagnetic storms disrupt radio signals and GPS. Now, researchers have identified the previous underestimated role of the ionosphere, a region of Earth's upper atmosphere that contains a ...
Oct. 26, 2023 Scientists at NCAR have identified two entirely different modes of hurricane rapid intensification. The findings may lead to better understanding and prediction of these dangerous ...
Oct. 25, 2023 New research suggests that increasingly severe weather driven by climate change may push oceangoing seabirds to their limits. ...
Oct. 19, 2023 The focus of new research was to determine how deep, how much and how frequently water in the stratosphere was being increased by ...
Oct. 19, 2023 New research by climate scientists indicates that there have been great changes to Atlantic hurricanes in just the past 50 years, with storms developing and strengthening ...
Oct. 13, 2023 A new study has investigated how future changes in weather patterns could affect the tropical Pacific Ocean and its ecosystems. The research, based on complex computer models, has shown that these ...
Oct. 9, 2023 An international team of scientists have discovered a huge spike in radiocarbon levels 14,300 years ago by analyzing ancient tree-rings found in the French Alps. The radiocarbon spike was caused by a ...
Oct. 6, 2023 New research has revealed that since the 1980s, Category 4 and 5 hurricanes (maximum wind speed greater than 131 miles per hour) have been arriving three to four days earlier with each passing decade ...
Sep. 12, 2023 Climate experts project a decline in the frequency of future tropical storms but an increase in their strength across the Ganges and Mekong basins allowing for better future ...
Aug. 14, 2023 Dry lightning can still be disastrous even when conditions aren't so dry, a study has found. These cloud-to-ground strikes during little to no rainfall were previously thought to pose wildfire ...
Aug. 1, 2023 A new study uses nearly a century of data to show that the average heights of winter waves along the California coast have increased as climate change has heated up the ...
July 21, 2023 Changes in ocean wave and storm conditions have not caused long-term impacts on sandy coastlines in the past 30 years, a new study has ...
June 27, 2023 As human-driven climate change amplifies natural disasters, hurricanes and typhoons stand to increase in intensity. Until now, there existed very few freely available computer models designed to ...
June 20, 2023 New research showed that the plume emitted by the Hunga Volcano eruption in 2022 created the highest lightning flash rates ever recorded on Earth, more than any storm ever ...
June 14, 2023 Newly planted vegetation on coastal sand dunes can accelerate erosion from extreme ...
May 1, 2023 Researchers have characterized two different types of surface water in the hyperarid salars -- or salt flats -- that contain much of the world's lithium deposits. This new characterization ...
Apr. 24, 2023 The conversion of handwritten weather records into digital information will help weather better understand future weather ...
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- New Extremes in Stratospheric Water Vapor
- New Study Finds 50-Year Trend in Hurricane Escalation Linked to Climate Change
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- AI Could Set a New Bar for Designing Hurricane-Resistant Buildings
- Machine Learning Model Helps Forecasters Improve Confidence in Storm Prediction
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- The World's Atmospheric Rivers Now Have an Intensity Ranking Like Hurricanes
- Underused Satellite, Radar Data May Improve Thunderstorm Forecasts
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- Big Rains Bring Big Algae Blooms ... Eventually
- Seagrass Crucial to Stemming the Tide of Coastal Erosion
- When Cyclones and Fires Collide...
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- Ground-Breaking Research Finds Pelagic Seabirds Fly Into the Eye of the Storm When Faced With Extreme Weather Conditions
- Cosmic Rays Used to Track and Visualize Tropical Cyclones Offer New Perspectives
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- Coarse Sea Spray Keeps Lightning Strikes Away, Study Finds
- Dry Lightning Sparks Some of the Most Destructive and Costly Wildfires in California
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- Kauai's 2018 Record-Setting Rain Caused by a Series of Supercell Thunderstorms
- Study Finds Offshore Wind Could Drive Down Energy Costs in New England, US
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- Officials Leading Hurricane Response Need ‘risk Literacy’
- Nature’s Archive Reveals Atlantic Tempests Through Time
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- Stormwater Could Be a Large Source of Microplastics and Rubber Fragments to Waterways
- Record-Shattering 2020 Trans-Atlantic Dust Storm