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The winter of 2017/18 will go down in the record books as the snowiest on record in Billings, Montana's largest city.
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An enormous heat dome, parked over Germany, has covered a large part of the continent in record or near-record warmth.High temperatures in the 70s and 80s (roughly 20 to 30 Celsius) were widespread Thursday.
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Snowmelt flooding has been reported in parts of northern Montana, leading to evacuations.Facebook video shows the dramatic rescue of a 61-year-old woman whose vehicle was nearly submerged.Some local farmers say they have never seen flooding this bad in their lives
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Typically, sea ice forms in protected waters of the southern Chukchi and northern Bering seas during October. Freeze-up in 2017/18 was exceptionally late, and in the Bering Strait, ice moved in and out of the region repeatedly. Communities were significantly impacted....
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Climate science at a glance
Three mega-fires have burned in Oklahoma over last three years.
Unusually hot temperatures amplified the drought conditions that fueled the Rhea fire.
Grass and shrubland fires have increased by 100,288 acres per decade since t
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Rivers continue to swell in the Ohio and Mississippi Valleys. More than 10 inches of rain fell last week in Arkansas and Louisiana. While the individual weather pattern may allow for heavy rain, the heaviest of this precipitation is increasing as the world warms from climate change.
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With flooding in parts of the Mississippi Valley and a strong Pacific storm coming into the Northwest, we examined the trend in the number of days each year with heavy precipitation at 244 individual sites in the U.S.
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Texas, Florida and Puerto Rico are still recovering from last year’s devastating hurricane season, the most destructive in U.S. history. And it looks like another rough hurricane season is just eight weeks away.
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Weatherwise, it's already been a disastrous start to the year in the U.S., even before the tornado season ramps up and long before any direct hits from hurricanes.
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Exactly a year after more than 100 scientists gathered to discuss the connections between Arctic sea ice loss and midlatitude climate (see our coverage), the picture has become a bit clearer.
