storms
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Neptune’s Stinky Dark Vortex Is Fading Away Like A Bad Fart
In 2015, the Hubble Space Telescope detected a strange feature in the skies over Neptune – a swirling dark vortex the size of China. Packing copious amounts of hydrogen sulfide – the chemical ingredient that gives farts their awful smell – this storm is not behaving as astronomers predicted, with the latest results suggesting the…
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This Storm Chaser Captures Monsoon Footage Like You’ve Never Seen Before
Video: Meteorologists can predict, with some degree of accuracy, whether or not it’s going to rain tomorrow. But determining the exact severity of an approaching storm isn’t quite as easy. So in order to capture the amazing timelapse sequences in his new film, Monsoon IV, Mike Olbinski had to drive nearly 21,000km across the southern…
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Thunderstorm Turns Into A Nuclear Reactor And Blasts Radiation Everywhere
Image: Ricardo Faria/Flickr Thunderclouds rolled into the Japanese beach town of Uchinada early one December morning in 2015. The scientists expected the storms; they’d staked out the location specifically for studying something normally only seen by satellites. Sometime after 5am, a flash of lightning struck a wind turbine. And along came a more perplexing weather…
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There Are Now Officially Three Hurricanes Churning In The Atlantic
As the strongest Atlantic hurricane in recorded history continues to wreak havoc in the Caribbean, two more threats have emerged in the form of hurricanes Jose and Katia. Though it’s unusual for three hurricanes to be active in the Atlantic basin at the same time, it isn’t without precedent.