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| | | | Long before Hurricane Ida made | |
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| | | | Typhoon Haiyan not only shattered records for fatalities, property damages, and precipitation volumes when it made landfall in the Philippines in November 2013. Reaching wind speeds up to 315 km/h (195 mph), it also broke the thresholds of the Saffir-Simpson Windscale, used worldwide to communicate damage risks from extreme storms. The scale currently defines a [...] | |
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| | | | Floods are among the most destructive and misunderstood natural hazards in the United States. While hurricanes and tornadoes dominate headlines, flash floods quietly take more lives on average each year. According to NOAA's National Severe Storms Laboratory, flash floods-which occur within six hours of intense rainfall-kill more people annually than lightning, hurricanes, or tornadoes. And [...] | |
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| | Around the world, from India, to the Middle East, to southern Europe to North America, people are dropping in tens of thousands under the blazing heat of a Northern summer. Many die. In one of the harshest ironies of the climate madness now unleashed, hundreds of religious pilgrims died visiting the home of the world's... |