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Earth sweats to its hottest day on record Monday, breaking record set the day before

Monday was measured as the hottest day ever recorded on Earth as the planet’s temperature keeps rising in a world of climate change.The previous record lasted 24 hours, set on Sunday.Preliminary data by Europe's Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) shows that the average planetary temperature reached 17.15 degrees Celsius (62.87 degrees Fahrenheit) on Monday, the day after breaking the record on Sunday at 17.09 degrees Celsius (62.76 degrees Fahrenheit).Before this week, the record had stood...
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Florida to see 'dirty rain' as plume of Saharan dust layer arrives this weekend

ORLANDO, Fla. – Usually a good downpour can help wash the ground clean, but storms in Florida this weekend may leave things dirtier than before the rains began.A thick layer of Saharan dust that is among the massive plume covering much of the tropical Atlantic is moving across the Florida Peninsula this weekend.The dust usually moves through between 5,000 and 15,000 feet, but summer thunderstorms can stretch 20,000-40,000 feet tall in Florida. While the dust can work to dry out the atmosphere, s...
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More than 30 million bake under heat alerts as dangerous triple-digit temps return to West

SPOKANE, Wash. — One of the hottest starts to summer on record across much of the West is ready to write its next chapter as yet another dangerous bout of heat is building.The worst of the heat wave this weekend will focus on two areas — the Inland Northwest and, farther south, the interior valleys of California, stretching into southern Nevada and western Arizona.Excessive Heat Warnings cover about 16 million people across seven states as temperatures soar to within shouting distance of all-tim...
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Tropical Storm Warnings, Hurricane Watches issued for Texas coastline ahead of Beryl's impacts

As of Saturday at 5:00 P.M. EDT, Hurricane Warnings have been issued as Tropical Storm Beryl approaches Texas. Continuous coverage of Tropical Storm Beryl has moved here. CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Texas is now bracing for impact from what will likely be a direct strike from Hurricane Beryl, and the first warnings have been hoisted.Currently, Beryl remains a tropical storm, and a Tropical Storm Warning is now in effect from just south of Baffin Bay, Texas to the mouth of the Rio Grande River, meani...
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Rare Alaska severe thunderstorms bring over 75,000 lightning strikes near Arctic Circle

FAIRBANKS, Alaska — An intense warm and unstable weather pattern in the Arctic throes of Alaska brought a rare bout of strong, widespread thunderstorms that lit up the Last Frontier with an extreme number of lightning strikes Thursday.Lightning sensors employed by Vaisala Xweather recorded an electrifying 78,506 lightning events across about 260 square miles of the northern third of Alaska over 24 hours Thursday. A lightning event can be a cloud-to-cloud, cloud-to-air, or cloud-to-ground lightni...
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It’s now been 25 years since Las Vegas has broken a low-temperature record

LAS VEGAS – It was 25 years ago Tuesday that the low temperature in Las Vegas dropped to a relatively chilly 50 degrees. It smashed the record-low temperature of the day, which had been 54 degrees and stood since 1951.While breaking a record-low temperature may not seem that unusual, it is an event 21st-century Las Vegas has yet to experience.Las Vegas has not broken another record-low temperature since that June 4, 1999, day, according to the National Weather Service office there. It has tied j...
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Weekend Weather Wows: Historic American heat wave by the numbers

PHOENIX – It's a good thing most historical weather observations are kept electronically these days because otherwise, the amount of ink that would be needed to rewrite all the record books this month could plunge the pen industry into a national supply crisis.It's time for our weekly feature, "Weekend Weather Wows," where we go back and find the most exciting tidbits of weather you might have missed over the past week, so you'll be ready to impress at the water cooler (or virtual water cooler)...
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Weekend Weather Wows: We've found America's worst place to daydream

It was the sunniest of times; it was the cloudiest of times.Welcome to our weekly feature, "Weekend Weather Wows," where we'll go back and find the most exciting tidbits of weather you might have missed over the past week, so you'll be ready to impress at the water cooler (or virtual water cooler) come Monday.I've spent the past two weekends highlighting just how cloudy Southern California has been these past several weeks. San Diego was the cloudiest city in the Lower 48 in May, and Los Angeles...
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Deadly California atmospheric river triggers flood emergency, evacuations amid relentless rain

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. – Torrential rains and extreme mountain snows pummeled California at the hands of yet another potent atmospheric river, triggering an "extreme" risk of flash flooding for some regions. At the same time, new snowfall totals in the highest elevations could reach 100 inches, and ridgetop wind gusts have reached well over 100 mph.Torrential rains triggered a dire Flash Flood Emergency in the central California towns of Springville and Porterville Friday morning, where spotters rep...
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1 dead, 15 hurt as tornadoes tear through Oklahoma City area, hurricane-force winds sweep across Plains

NORMAN, Okla. – A line of severe thunderstorms spanning hundreds of miles swept across the central and southern Plains Sunday evening, killing one, injuring more than a dozen others and bringing destruction at the hands of rare February tornadoes in Oklahoma.Tornado sirens wailed across the Oklahoma City metro area as multiple twisters were spotted while the severe storms raced through the region late Sunday evening.There were several reports of damage to homes, trees and power lines in nearby N...
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2 dead as bomb cyclone, ‘Pineapple Express’ blasts California with life-threatening rain, flooding

SAN FRANCISCO – A powerful double whammy of an atmospheric river and bomb cyclone continues to drench California on Thursday, dropping several inches of rain on a region that has struggled to wring out from an onslaught of winter storms and creating a widespread risk of flooding, mudslides and power outages in what some forecasters are suggesting will become one of the most impactful storms to strike the state in years.The storm has been blamed for at least two deaths in the San Francisco Bay Ar...
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How a dog bite led to the only death during the infamous Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapse

TACOMA, Wash. -- It was 83 years ago Tuesday that a windstorm would first turn the months-old Tacoma Narrows Bridge into an extreme version of "Galloping Gertie," then lead to its spectacular demise as the bridge collapsed into Puget Sound below.Miraculously, no people died, but the bridge did claim a life: Tubby, a three-legged black Cocker Spaniel that remained trapped in his car as the bridge wobbled, then fell.Leonard Coatsworth, a news editor for the Tacoma News Tribune, was driving on the...
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How meteor smoke can turn into a dazzling display of glowing clouds at dusk

If you’ve ever been up early for the sunrise or stayed up late past sunset around the heart of summer, you might just be treated to a stunning display of bluish clouds that appear to have luminescence.These "Polar Mesospheric Clouds" — informally known as noctilucent clouds, or "night-shining" clouds, glow with a beautiful blue hue as the sun sits just below the horizon. But they are not the typical ones that portend rain; instead, they are in the highest reaches of the atmosphere."PMCs are wate...
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What's the difference between a tornado, waterspout, landspout and dust devil?

A vast majority of people could correctly identify a tornado if presented with a photo of one, but some funnels mimic tornadoes yet are formed by different processes.  Tornadoes are born from supercell thunderstorms containing descending currents of relatively cold, dense air, known as downdrafts. These downdrafts help a developing tornado maintain its rotation while also pushing it downward toward lower altitudes.THIS IS A LIFE CYCLE OF A TORNADOThe rotation can eventually become so concentrate...