WEATHER REPORT

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SMOS sees triple superstorms
Oct 28, 2013 (ESA)
ESA's versatile water mission tracked Asia's recent storms over land and sea. Over the past three weeks, tropical cyclone activity has intensified over the seas...
Ten dead as storm lashes northern Europe
Oct 28, 2013 (AFP)
At least 10 people were killed on Monday as a fierce storm tore across northern Europe, causing mass disruption to transport. Four people were killed in Britain...
Scientists eye longer-term forecasts of US heat waves
Oct 28, 2013 (SPX)
Scientists have fingerprinted a distinctive atmospheric wave pattern high above the Northern Hemisphere that can foreshadow the emergence of summertime heat wav...
Britain braces for worst storm in a decade
Oct 27, 2013 (AFP)
Britain was braced on Sunday for its worst storm in a decade, with heavy rain and winds of more than 80 miles (130 kilometres) an hour set to batter the south o...
China launches new weather satellite
Sep 26, 2013 (XNA)
China successfully launched a meteorological satellite into orbit at 11:07 a.m. Monday, Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center said. The third Fengyun-III satellite, c...
At least 13 die in Bolivia as landslide sweeps away two buses
Sep 24, 2013 (AFP)
A landslide triggered by torrential rain swept two buses off a road and into a river, killing at least 13 people and injuring 18, police said. An unknown number...
Researchers develop model to correct tornado records
Sep 20, 2013 (SPX)
In the wake of deadly tornadoes in Oklahoma this past spring, Florida State University researchers have developed a new statistical model that will help determi...
Hottest days in some parts of Europe have warmed 4 times more than the global average
Sep 16, 2013 (SPX)
Some of the hottest days and coldest nights in parts of Europe have warmed more than four times the global average change since 1950, according to a new paper b...
Landslide kills 13 in Mexico
Sep 11, 2013 (AFP)
Heavy rain caused sand to collapse from a hill and engulf homes in the eastern Mexican state of Veracruz, killing at least 13 people including three children, o...
Global warming has increased risk of record heat
Sep 11, 2013 (SPX)
Drought shriveled crops in the Midwest, massive wildfires raged in the West and East Coast cities sweltered. The summer of 2012 was a season of epic proportions...
Tornados tear off roofs in eastern Japan
Sep 04, 2013 (AFP)
Tornados hit eastern Japan on Wednesday, tearing off roofs, shattering windows and injuring at least three people, two days after twisters ripped through other ...
Western Japan records hottest summer ever
Sep 02, 2013 (AFP)
The west of Japan had its hottest ever summer this year, official figures showed Monday after a season in which heatstroke reportedly killed hundreds and hospit...
Tornado rips through eastern Japan, injures dozens
Sep 02, 2013 (AFP)
A tornado ripped through parts of eastern Japan Monday, injuring several dozen people, tearing off roofs and uprooting buildings. Footage of Koshigaya city, nor...
Study: Tornadoes seek high ground, do more damage going uphill
Aug 27, 2013 (UPI)
A study of the effect of terrain elevation changes on a tornado's path shows tornadoes cause more damage going uphill than downhill, U.S. researchers say. Engin...
Thirteen dead in Mexico mudslides: authorities
Aug 26, 2013 (AFP)
Mudslides crashed through several homes in eastern Mexico on Monday, killing at least 13 people after a tropical storm pelted the state of Veracruz with heavy r...
Extreme weather events fuel climate change
Aug 23, 2013 (SPX)
When the carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere rises, the Earth not only heats up, but extreme weather events, such as lengthy droughts, heat waves, heavy ra...
Multifold increase in heat extremes by 2040
Aug 20, 2013 (SPX)
Extremes such as the severe heat wave last year in the US or the one 2010 in Russia are likely to be seen much more often in the near future. A few decades ago,...
Changing climate may have driven collapse of civilizations in Late Bronze Age
Aug 20, 2013 (SPX)
Climate change may have driven the collapse of once-flourishing Eastern Mediterranean civilizations towards the end of the 13th century BC, according to researc...
Extreme weather, climate and the carbon cycle
Aug 19, 2013 (SPX)
Extreme weather and climate events like storms, heavy precipitation and droughts and heat waves prevent the update of 3 giga-tonnes of carbon by the global vege...
Heat waves to become more frequent and severe
Aug 16, 2013 (SPX)
Climate change is set to trigger more frequent and severe heat waves in the next 30 years regardless of the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) we emit into the atmo...
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