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'Major disruption' has caused Arctic polar vortex to slide off North Pole, scientists sayA sudden stratospheric warming event reversed the winds that make up the northern polar vortex on March 9. A new animation shows the vortex also moved away from the Arctic towards Europe.
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1-in-1,000-year flood about to hit central USForecasters have warned of historic flooding in the central US this week, anticipating multiple bouts of heavy rainfall and extreme thunderstorms.
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Scientists drilled into Belize's Great Blue Hole and discovered a worrying trendTropical storms have been steadily increasing in frequency over the past 5,700 years, new evidence from sediment in the Great Blue Hole reveals, with a massive spike in the past two decades.
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Giant, near-perfect cloud ring appears in the middle of the Pacific OceanEarth from space A 2014 satellite image captured a rare glimpse of a massive, eerily circular ring of clouds that formed slap-bang in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
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Mount Washington: Home to 'the world's worst weather' with record wind speeds of 231 mphMount Washington is a prominent mountain in New Hampshire, known for its dramatic weather and conditions that are extremely dangerous for hikers and climbers.
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'Take shelter!': Tornado strikes Florida's Seminole County, destroying homes and interrupting live TV broadcastA tornado hit central Florida on Monday, destroying two homes, uprooting trees and disrupting a FOX TV show as it was tracking the storm live on air.
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'Winter is far from over': Polar vortex reversal could bring springtime snow to USThe polar vortex could be reversing in a sudden stratospheric warming event, with the potential to send Arctic air and storms to the central and eastern U.S.
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Spectacular photo taken from ISS shows 'gigantic jet' of upward-shooting lightning towering 50 miles over New OrleansA newly unveiled astronaut photo shows a "gigantic jet" shooting upward from a thunderstorm above Louisiana in November 2024.
