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A woman surveys damage from a hurricane.
A woman inspects the damage on Pine Island Road, Florida, after the passage of Hurricane Ian.
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Aerial footage of a volcano eruption in Iceland on Monday evening.
Aerial footage of a volcano eruption in Iceland on Monday evening.
Gizmodo : Environment

Some train track circuits are at the mercy of distant storms on the Sun’s surface, researchers found, which could cause train signals to jump from red to green and vice versa as a result of extreme space weather.

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Residents help a young child while trying to cross a road damaged by El Niño rains in Tula, Tana River county in Kenya on Saturday, Nov. 25, 2023.
Residents help a young child while trying to cross a road damaged by El Niño rains on November 25, 2023.
Gizmodo : Environment

A strong geomagnetic storm will hit Earth tonight following a significant solar flare that occurred on Tuesday, NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center reported today.

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Hurricane Irma
Deepmind's AI model was able to predict where a hurricane would make landfall days before conventional forecasters.
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Finally, a robot to tell you which jacket you should wear to the function. Google DeepMind, the search giant’s AI-centric brain trust, just announced a new weather forecasting model that beats traditional systems more than 90% of the time. Named GraphCast, the machine learning model promises 10-day predictions that…

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state capitol with light green dome
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
Gizmodo : Environment

Communities throughout the East Coast woke up to a cold blast of air, as temperatures dropped below freezing overnight. Even people in the overheated South needed to break out their warm-weather apparel today.

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Temperatures are currently cooling down across the U.S., but much of the country is in for a warmer, wetter winter than usual, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said in this year’s winter outlook.