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Over the years on his family's organic farm in Wrenshall, some of the most fertile soil in the region, Janaki Fisher-Merritt has noticed an uptick in large rain events as well as unfavorable weather patterns that seem to get stuck.
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The frequency of downpours of heavy rain—which can lead to flash floods, devastation, and outbreaks of waterborne disease—has increased across the globe in the past 50 years due to climate change, a
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If it seems as if the weather has been particularly extreme lately, there's a reason for that.
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Atmospheric researchers at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) have developed a climate model that can accurately depict the frequently observed winding course of the jet stream, a major air current over the Northern Hemisphere.
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Zac Robinson remembers hiking through B.C.'s Monashee Mountains last August and, on a cloudless day, staring directly into the sun.
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Climate science at a glance
Global warming is fueling extreme rainfall, increasing the threat of rain and flooding driven by hurricanes.
Sea level rise has significantly extended the reach of hurricane-driven storm surge and coastal flooding.
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A heat wave set new all-time May records Memorial Day weekend, sending temperatures soaring into the triple digits, and will persist over the next several days in parts of Florida, Georgia, Alabama and the Carolinas.
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Waterlogged parts of the central U.S. were bracing Wednesday for more rain, following days of severe storms that have battered Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma and caused at least three deaths....
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An early season heat wave is expected to build this week and send temperatures to near record levels by the holiday weekend. Humidity will also jump leading to feels like temperatures above 100°.
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The floods of 2009 and 2015 in north-west England were the worst for more than 550 years, according to groundbreaking analysis of lake sediment in the region.
