Heavy rain as thunderstorm threat moves into southern Ontario
The threat for training thunderstorms moves into southern Ontario with heavy rain for Monday. More details with Meteorologist Melinda Singh.
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USA TODAYThe 2024 NOAA hurricane season forecast is unlike any other. See the record predictions.
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DENVER (AP) — Residents in a small city in northeastern Colorado were cleaning up Tuesday after hail the size of baseballs and golf balls pounded the community, with heavy construction equipment and snow shovels used to clear ice that piled up knee-deep the night before.
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Can you spot the Yellowstone bison and three grizzly bears?
Hiking guide Douglas Scott posed the question after capturing images of a grizzly bear family and a large bison in a single frame.
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Ripe recipe for severe weather in Ontario, Quebec means more storms possible
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It's so hot in Mexico that howler monkeys are falling dead from the trees
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‘Peculiar’ 8-legged creature found hiding at resort in India. It’s a new species
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Miami Weatherman Blows Back At Ron DeSantis' Climate-Denial Law On The Air
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Family says Alaska photographer killed in moose attack knew the risks, died doing what he loved
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Animals feast on cicadas at Chicagoland zoo
Animals at a Chicagoland zoo are experiencing cicadas for the first time in 17 years. The Cicadas landed at the Brookfield Zoo on Tuesday afternoon, and have since become a tasty treat for all the animals living there.
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Texas to Face Heat Index of 110F in Late Spring Test for Power Grid
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Wind towers crumpled after Iowa wind farm suffers rare direct hit from powerful twister
A wind farm in southwest Iowa suffered a direct hit from a powerful tornado that crumpled five of the massive, power-producing towers, including one that burst into flames. Video of the direct hit on the wind farm near Greenfield, Iowa, showed frightening images of the violent twister ripping through the countryside, uprooting trees, damaging buildings and sending dirt and debris high into the air. Several of the turbines at MidAmerican Energy Company's Orient wind farm recorded wind speeds of more than 100 mph as the tornadoes approached just before the turbines were destroyed, the company said in a statement.
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Remains of endangered North Atlantic whale found off N.S. southwestern shore
The "gruesome discovery" of the remains of a critically endangered North Atlantic right whale is another blow to the species, a global environmental advocacy group says.
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5 dead and at least 35 hurt as tornadoes ripped through Iowa, officials say
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Carbon capture is a man-made scheme for a man-made problem being used to make pollution worse
Of all the scientific “solutions” to deal with our warming planet, carbon capture might only be slightly more viable than the idea held by a select few tech mega-billionaires who think rocketing off to another solar system will allow humans to leave Earth’s challenges behind. Whether you believe in colonizing distant planets, or using technology to cleanse the atmosphere — or in the idea that carbon polluters can capture and store enough of the emissions they create to turn around the chaos they
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Severe thunderstorm warning, watches issued for parts of eastern Ontario, western Quebec
Environment Canada had issued severe thunderstorm warnings for parts of eastern Ontario and western Quebec Tuesday afternoon, as a storm moved east toward Ottawa and Montreal.Several regions had their thunderstorm watches turn into warnings throughout the afternoon. Those have since ended.As of Tuesday evening, a warning for areas in and around Cornwall, Ont., remain.Heavy downpours can cause flash floods, while strong wind gusts can toss objects and damage buildings and trees, warned the agency
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Weather forecasters warn Pakistanis to stay indoors ahead of new heat wave
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Authorities in Pakistan on Tuesday urged people to stay indoors as the country is hit by an extreme heat wave that threatens to bring dangerously high temperatures and yet another round of glacial-driven floods.
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Sun's magnetic field may form close to the surface. This finding could improve solar storm forecasts
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — New research indicates the sun’s magnetic field originates much closer to the surface than previously thought, a finding that could help predict periods of extreme solar storms like the ones that slammed Earth earlier this month. The magnetic field appears to generate 20,000 miles (32,000 kilometers) beneath the sun’s surface. Previous calculations put the roots of this process more than 130,000 miles (209,000 kilometers) below, an international team reported Wednesda
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Big Sur landslide has blocked part of Hwy. 1 for more than a year. Take a look at the work
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