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How Paris Plans to Keep Athletes Cool Sans Air Conditioning During the 2024 Olympics
Organisers of the 2024 Paris Olympics are hoping to keep world athletes cool during the summer without relying on air conditioners. Their goal is to use an underground water cooling system beneath the Athletes Village instead.
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Life-Threatening Cold Grips the Northern Rockies and Midwest
The U.S. is in a race to cram in as much unhinged weather as possible before the year ends. The latest addition to the trophy case: bone-chilling cold in the Northern Rockies and Midwest, where wind chill values could reach minus-50 degrees Fahrenheit (minus-46 degrees Celsius) over the next two days, with the freeze lingering…
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Unseasonable European Warmth Smashes All-Time February Temperature Records
Winter has receded in Europe this week. Temperature records are falling as unseasonably warm weather sweeps across the continent delivering an early spring thaw, even while neighbouring Russia is simultaneously going through a deep freeze.
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A Guide To The Chemistry Of Cold Weather
You might have noticed that it’s pretty cold throughout much of the United States right now — frostbite-inducing, school-closing, scald-yourself-with-boiling-water-while-attempting-that-stupid-instant-snow-trick cold videos are all over the internet right now. And while we are experiencing a scorcher of a summer down here, up in the northen hemisphere things are getting astronomically worse – so lets look…