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From Foreign Policy : Snow in the Desert -- From Turkey to Jordan, heavy overnight snowfall Thursday jammed transportation, closed busin...

Bitter Cold Records Broken In Alaska – All Time Coldest Record Nearly Broken, But Murphy’s Law Intervenes -- WUWT Jim River, AK closed in on...

Earth will be at its closest point - some 221,567 miles away - to the moon in 19 years on March 19. Some fear the 'lunar perigee' wi...

Here the terrestrial gamma ray flash (pink) is 1.98 milliseconds old, and its electron(yellow) /positron(green) beam is reaching altitudes w...

The radar image on the left, taken at 11:56 a.m. on May 8, 2009, shows the super derecho's bow-shaped structure, with a tropical-storm-l...

A lightning researcher at the University of Bath has discovered that during thunderstorms, giant natural particle accelerators can form 40 k...

Rainfall could increase by 20 percent around the eye of intense storms, according to a recent study. Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Land Rapid R...

Source : Rutgers University Global Snow Lab From Watts Up With That?: According to Rutgers University Global Snow Lab, last week’s Northern ...

From USA Today: What a difference a rain makes. The nationwide drought that had farmers, communities and entire states fighting to conserve ...

Whistler Resort, Vancouver, British Columbia (Photograph by Julie Bishop/Getty Images) From Popular Mechanics: Weather forecasting during th...

From Time Magazine: As the blizzard-bound residents of the mid-Atlantic region get ready to dig themselves out of the third major storm of t...

The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Terra satellite captured this true-color image on February 7, 2010, ...

From Live Science: As if tornadoes, hurricanes and blizzards weren't enough to keep us on our toes, Mother Nature occasionally surprises...

Snow covers a decorative iron fence at the White House in Washington, on Saturday, during a snow storm in the Washington area. Photo: AP via...

From Live Science: Write this one down. President Obama called it "Snowmageddon." Remember back when we just called them things li...

A high-storm surf pounds the beach in front of an oil rig at Seal Beach, Calif. AP Photo/Nick Ut From Discovery News: The recent California ...

From Slate: Wind chill dropped as low as 52 below zero in parts of the Midwest on Thursday, with similar conditions expected for early Frida...

White areas show where snow covers the ground completely as of Jan. 5, 2010. Credit: NOAA From Live Science: If this winter's record-bre...

Just when you think it can't get any colder (Image: Michael Studinger/Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory/Columbia University) From New Sci...

From Discovery News: Just when we might be expecting the influence of unusually high Pacific ocean temperatures to warm us up -- or for glob...