Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but Florida Man is back. Lane Pittman, who has built a brand off doing dumb shit like walk into dangerous hurricanes instead of seeking shelter, drove to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina to fight Hurricane Florence. As everyone else in...
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From a ground-level perspective, blazing wildfires and different varieties of storm are terrifying displays of nature's might. But viewed from space, through the right (computer-enhanced) eyes, they're all things of beauty. On Friday, NASA released a visualization of Earth showing the aerosols that were swirling through...
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Harrowing new footage released by California's firefighting agency Cal Fire reveals the massive fire tornado that led to the death of a firefighter on July 26. The fire tornado was part of the Carr Fire that's engulfed 223,610 acres of land in Northern California so far....
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San Diego's Coronado bridge extending off the coast.Image: Shutterstock / ArtbySVDBy Mark Kaufman2018-08-15 10:00:00 UTC Ocean temperatures off the Southern California coast have been profoundly warm in August, with a number of all-time high temperatures recorded in San Diego's almost bath-like waters. These extreme marine temperatures...
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Fire has returned to California's wine country as the flames thrive on bounties of parched land. The County Fire began on Saturday afternoon and since then has devoured over 1,000 acres of land each hour. As of Tuesday morning, the Golden State's largest fire had spread...
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[ad_1] The eruption from Hawaii's Mount Kilauea has seen lava oozing from the volcano in stunning, frightening pictures, but it's also brought about quite the oddity: Falling glass. It's called Pele's hair, and they're light strands of volcanic glass that have been falling downwind from the...
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[ad_1] The National Hurricane Center has named the first storm of the 2018 Atlantic hurricane season, precisely one week before the season is expected to begin on June 1. Currently spinning off of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, forecasters named the subtropical storm "Alberto," which is the first...
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[ad_1] Thunderstorms on Earth can be terrifying things. But from space those same events take on a beautiful, even ghostly edge. A new time-lapse video from the Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) onboard the GOES-17 weather satellite, which launched to space on March 1, 2018, shows flashes of...
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[ad_1] 11. Tornadoes Tornadoes are such a rare weather phenomena that they attract hundreds, if not thousands, of storm chasers to the Great Plains each spring and early summer, in the hope of glimpsing one of these beasts. Tornadoes, which are not their own cloud type,...
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[ad_1] Image: U.S. Geological Survey via Getty ImagesBy Adam Rosenberg2018-05-05 17:19:14 UTC Right on the heels of Thursday's volcano eruption in Hawaii, a pair of earthquakes struck the state as residents contended with ongoing evacuations and noxious gas in the air. The first, a 5.4-magnitude quake...
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