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A researcher stands an area of bushes and tall dry grass in the Kalahari region of southern Africa, looking up at a wooden pole roughly 3 to 4 meters tall. The pole is equipped with multiple sensors for measuring weather conditions.

Environment

COP27: Forecasting overhaul may reduce extreme weather hazards

A UN program to revamp weather forecasting in lower-income countries could improve global climate models and help people prepare for extreme weather events

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The Slumgullion landslide

Earth

Landslides can be triggered by small changes in atmospheric pressure

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A woman walks before the Opera House while it rains in Sydney on October 6, 2022. (Photo by Muhammad FAROOQ / AFP) (Photo by MUHAMMAD FAROOQ/AFP via Getty Images)

Environment

Sydney has wettest year on record with 2.2 metres of rain in 279 days

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Lightning bolts over the Las Vegas skyline

Physics

Firing a laser into the sky can redirect lightning鈥檚 path

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Mandatory Credit: Photo by SpaceX/ZUMA Wire/Shutterstock (10664346i) A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft is launched on NASA's SpaceX Demo-2 mission to the International Space Station with NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley onboard. NASA's SpaceX Demo-2 mission is the first launch with astronauts of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station as part of the agency's Commercial Crew Program. SpaceX Demo-2 Historic Manned Launch, Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S. - 30 May 2020

Earth

Emissions from rocket launches could affect Earth’s weather systems

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Lightning storm

Physics

Strange gamma ray flashes from lightning storms may have explanation

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Dallas

Environment

Circular cities experience more rain than square or triangular ones

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Debris litters a beach after cyclone Mekunu hit Salalah, Oman in May 2018

Physics

Ocean waves from a tropical storm could be focused like laser beams

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Lightning hits Florence, Arizona, during the North American monsoon in 2021

Environment

North American monsoon triggered by air currents over Mexico mountains

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Groundstaff pull the covers over the grass court as rain stops play between Germany's Tatjana Maria and France's Kristina Mladenovic during their women's singles second round match on the third day of the 2018 Wimbledon Championships

Technology

DeepMind AI can accurately predict if it will rain in next 90 minutes

AI software developed by DeepMind and the Met Office in the UK can predict whether it will rain within 90 minutes more accurately than current forecasting models

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Space

NASA鈥檚 Perseverance rover has been hit by 100 鈥榙ust devils鈥� on Mars

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Lightning

Technology

Preparing for a warming world will take a new information revolution

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Earth

Hailstones are not spheres 鈥� they鈥檙e shaped more like a rugby ball

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