Fierce ‘weather bomb’ batters Britain
Saturday, December 10th, 2011 | Post a comment
Hurricane-force winds which have closed schools and cut off power to tens of thousands of homes were described as a “weather bomb” as they battered Britain.
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rise in extreme weather
Thursday, November 3rd, 2011 | Post a comment
WASHINGTON – For a world already weary of weather catastrophes, the latest warning from top climate scientists paints a grim future: more floods, more heat waves, more droughts and greater costs to deal with them.
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2010 hurricane season seen more active than feared
Thursday, June 3rd, 2010 | One comment
A satellite image of Hurricane Katrina taken on August 29, 2005.
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The 2010 Atlantic hurricane season will be even more active than feared, leading U.S. forecasters said on Wednesday as they predicted 10 hurricanes, five of them major, with a 76 percent likelihood that a major hurricane would hit the U.S. coastline.