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Weather Hurricane Irma: One of the most powerful Atlantic Ocean storms on record 07 September 2017 On Tuesday 5 September 2017, Hurricane Irma grew into a Category 5 storm
Weather Hurricane Harvey causes catastrophic flooding in Texas 29 August 2017 Hurricane Harvey has brought "catastrophic" flooding to the US state of Texas, in what could be one of the 10 costliest storms in US history.
Weather Dancing cyclones: The 'Fujiwhara effect' 30 July 2017 The Fujiwhara effect is a rare phenomenon that sees nearby cyclones ‘dancing’ round each other.
In the Spotlight World records for extreme weather-related mortality 26 June 2017 The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has recently announced the world record for the highest reported historical death tolls from tropical cyclones, tornadoes, lightning and hailstorms.
In the Spotlight The jet stream: chicken or egg? 19 June 2017 Does the position of the warm and cold upper air masses determine the route of the jet stream, or does the jet stream determine the position of the cold and warm upper air masses? Which is the chicken and which the egg?
Weather Mysterious lightning 30 November 2016 Sprites, elves and blue jets are more than just mythical creatures but a type of weather
In the Spotlight Wind speeds in Saturn's jet stream whizz round at over 1,000mph 11 November 2016 New research has revealed the planet has the widest, most intense jet stream out of all the planets in the solar system
In the Spotlight NASA satellite captures heavy rain from Tropical Cyclone Winston 01 March 2016 Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission core satellite passed directly over Tropical Cyclone Winston on 20th February.
Weather Dark Lightning 15 June 2015 This ‘dark opponent’ discharges from storm clouds and flings antimatter into space. Astrophysicists and meteorologists are now trying to understand what they have termed ‘dark lightning’.