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Zoom Claims Another Victim as NYC Schools Cancel Snow Days
Chalk up one more precious thing the pandemic has ruined. On Tuesday, the New York City Department of Education announced that it would no longer allow kids to stay home from school on especially snowy or bad weather days; instead, schools will switch to remote learning. With the pandemic waning in the U.S., schools in … Continued
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Record-Breaking Lightning Just Chilled in the Sky for 17 Seconds
Lighting usually lasts for a couple seconds at most. Except for when it really, super doesn’t. On March 4, 2019, there was a lightning flash in Argentina that lasted for 16.73 seconds. Again, a lightning flash went on for almost 17 seconds! That’s almost the length of the chorus of “Raspberry Beret!” It’s three times … Continued
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Check Out the Historic Weekend Blizzard Canadians Are Still Digging Out Of
It’s been one hell of a weekend in eastern Canada. Less of a “snow day,” more of a—and, yes, this is a real weather term—“bomb cyclone.” The capital of Newfoundland, St. John’s, was hit with 30 inches of snow in 24 hours, shattering a previous record, the Weather Channel reported. Officials also recorded snowdrifts as … Continued
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The Internet’s Longest-Streaming Webcam Is Shutting Down
After a quarter-century of continuous operation, the San Francisco FogCam is set to go offline on August 30. Jeff Schwartz and Dan Wong, who go by Webdog and Danno, set up the cam on the San Francisco State University campus in 1994. Schwartz told SF Gate he decided to try the FogCam as an experiment … Continued
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At Least 22 Dead, Over a Million Reported Displaced as Typhoon Lekima Makes Landfall in Eastern China
At least 22 deaths have been reported, and more than a million have been forced to leave their homes after Typhoon Lekima smashed into China near Wenling in southeastern Zhejiang province, between Taiwan and Shanghai, the BBC reported on Saturday. According to the BBC, a barrier lake (a natural dam) formed during the heavy rains … Continued
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Now-Tropical Depression Barry Mostly Spares New Orleans, But Flood Risk Remains High
Tropical Depression Barry has been downgraded to its current status after smashing into Louisiana as the first hurricane of the season on Saturday, and it mostly spared the city of New Orleans from a potentially devastating direct hit. But torrential downpour has put 11 million people at risk of “epic flooding” as it crawls across … Continued
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Incredible Observation Links Two Different Radioactive Phenomena Inside a Thunderstorm
Scientists in Japan reported seeing two radioactive weather phenomena at the same time, for the first time, according to a new paper. The observation establishes a link between the two, adding to our knowledge of the wild physics that takes place inside thunderstorms. The researchers reported the “unequivocal simultaneous detection” of a minute-long “gamma-ray glow” … Continued
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‘ClusterDuck’ is IBM’s Rubber Duck-Inspired Wifi System for Emergency Relief
A new concept for providing emergency wifi to areas struck by natural disasters has completed a successful test in Puerto Rico. The system uses rubber duck-inspired devices to create what the developers are calling a “ClusterDuck” network for disaster victims to connect to. It may sound like quackery, but this is a legitimate project backed … Continued
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Downtown Davenport, Iowa Floods After Temporary Levees Fail
Downtown Davenport, Iowa flooded after HESCO barriers in the region failed sometime around 3:30 p.m. local time as the Mississippi River rose to nearly 22 feet, with no injuries reported but authorities and volunteers having to rescue some people by boat, the Quad-City Times reported on Tuesday. KWWL Storm Track 7 tweeted that after flood … Continued
By Tom McKay