precipitation
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Climate Change Is Causing Wetter, Heavier Rainfall, New Study Shows
It’s raining harder across most of the U.S. and climate change is to blame, new research has found.
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Rare and Beautiful Snow Blankets the Mediterranean Coast
It’s a winter wonderland in parts of the Mediterranean — a rare sight in a region of the world known for its azure seas and beautiful beaches. A major snowstorm blanketed parts of Greece and Turkey this weekend, causing havoc in an area not accustomed to winter weather.
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China Is Using Rockets to Control the Weather
What do you do when you urgently need to improve a city’s air quality ahead of a major event? If you’re the Chinese government, the answer is launching a military-style strike on the sky.
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17th-Century England Had Some Seriously Horrible Weather
Recent years have brought record-breaking wildfires, hurricanes, and other natural disasters supercharged by climate change. But even to our jaded modern eyes, the weather that befell Bristol in Western England at the turn of 17th century is pretty shocking.