This video, which depicts what is known as a haboob, was filmed by professional storm chaser Mike Oblinski. With winds ripping an estimated 50-75 miles per hour, the dust storm took over an Arizona highway. The word haboob is derived from the Arabic w…
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The Opportunity rover has survived Martian hell for 15 years. Here’s how.
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A dust storm the size of North America has smothered NASA’s Opportunity rover for the past week, shrouding much of the red planet in darkness and depriving the robot’s solar panels of light.
Opportunity’s battery power has dropped so low that it’s now in a sleep mode and unable to send information back to Earth.
“It’s gotten so bad she’s not talking to us,” Bill Nelson, chief of the Opportunity mission’s engineering team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said in an interview.
“It’s a bit scary — we like to hear from our rover.” Read more…
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This super clear video of a nearly perfect tornado is stunning
Mother nature is terrifyingly beautiful.
Storm chaser James Hammett caught footage of this tornado in Laramie, Wyoming. Driving along a highway, he managed to record the storm as it developed into a perfect cylinder.
It’s so perfect, …
Did a nor’easter whip a puffer fish into a tree? An investigation
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A powerful nor’easter pounded New England last week, prompting coastal evacuations and causing flooding so extreme that water rushed into downtown Boston.
In the storm’s aftermath, a local, freelancing weather man, Peter Lovasco, who once contributed weather reports to The Gloucester Daily Times, tweeted a couple pictures of what appears to be some species of puffer fish or porcupine fish impaled on a Gloucester tree.
Omg #Pufferfish one of my fiancee’s friends found this fish in a tree from the past weekends Monster Nor’easter #Gloucester ma .. those waves ment business.. Crazy fish in a tree.pic.twitter.com/c6BK2hiY8n
— NEMAStormWatch (@PeterLovasco) March 7, 2018 Read more…
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View More Did a nor’easter whip a puffer fish into a tree? An investigationDoes ordering delivery during a snowstorm make me a trash human?
*Stretches widely*
*Inhales deeply and peacefully*
Aaahhh! A snowstorm!
Time to bundle up with all your blankets. Time to sip hot chocolate while staring wistfully at the accumulating snow. Time to ask yourself the age old question: “If I order deliv…
‘Beast from the East’ intensifies, bringing more extreme weather to Europe
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The “Beast from the East” is getting worse, with Europeans experiencing more extreme winter weather on what was supposed to be the first official day of spring.
The “Beast,” resultant from intense east to west winds from Siberia, has now combined with Storm Emma, causing the UK Met Office to issue another “red” warning for snow — the highest level — for parts of southwest England and South Wales.
It’s the second “red” warning this week but only the office’s third since the system started in 2011Tuesday’s “amber” warning was upgraded due to widespread heavy snow and blizzard conditions caused by strong easterly winds. Read more…
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View More ‘Beast from the East’ intensifies, bringing more extreme weather to EuropeDestructive rainfall pummels Southern California after massive wildfires
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After the fires, the rain. Southern California has been drenched in torrential showers for several days and the deluge has hit areas recently scarred by huge wildfires.
LA’s National Weather Service office reports rainfall of over six inches in just three days for areas in Ventura and LA county, with ten other regions receiving over 4 inches.
The resulting mud bath has been described by one sheriff in Santa Barbara County as similar to “a World War I battlefield”, with “a carpet of mud and debris everywhere.”
At least 15 people have died amid evacuation orders while many homes have been completely washed away. Cars have been plucked out of gloopy swamps and roads have been closed. Read more…
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What sparked the ‘bomb cyclone’? Huge temperature contrasts, jet stream energy
It all started innocently enough.
Shortly before New Year’s celebrations kicked off in the Southeast, a record-cold air mass blew in from the north. This air had a direct connection to the Arctic, spilling out as if someone left the Northern He…
Mini drives through crashing waves from Storm Eleanor and do not try this at home
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The phrase “don’t try this at home” has never been more relevant than when applied to the video below.
On Tuesday, Ireland was hit by Storm Eleanor. The BBC reported widespread flooding, winds of up to 100mph, and — unsurprisingly — all sorts of travel disruption.
Some road-users were undeterred, though.
That video was shot in Galway, Ireland, on Tuesday evening, and has since been shared thousands of times on Twitter. It’s worth reinforcing again that this is horrifically unsafe and should not be attempted.
People didn’t quite know what to make of it. Read more…
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Oh nothing, just ‘spider lightning’ dancing across a stormy sky in Australia
“Spider lightning”: It’s a thing.
An especially hard weather phenomenon to catch on film but one savvy videographer managed to capture it illuminating the sky in South Australia.
During an electrical storm illuminating the seaside suburb of Glene…