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With the help of thunderstorms and everyday fiber-optic cables, these scientists are revealing a hidden world underground.
Costs from severe storms are increasing – and this global shift in hailstorm spells bad news for crops, too.
A rover recently captured sounds of lightning crackling on Mars, over a decade after scientists uncovered the first evidence for electric discharges on the planet.
Lightning also influences our environment in ways scientists are only beginning to understand.
New research suggests global warming is increasing the frequency and intensity of wind gusts from thunderstorm downbursts, with serious consequences for air travel.
Warm air rises, but it also expands because air pressure decreases with height. The latter effect wins out and air becomes colder in the mountains.
Puffy to wispy, barely there or dark and menacing, clouds come in many shapes and sizes. Each tells a story about what’s going on in the atmosphere.
This week, unusually widespread thunderstorms are expected to bring rain, hail and intense winds to swathes of southern Australia. Here’s why – and what threat they can pose.
Fire-produced thunderstorms and tornado-like fire whirls are more common than anyone realized, as high-resolution satellite images and data now show.
An atmospheric scientist explains how hail forms and what to do if you’re suddenly being pelted by giant ice chunks falling from the sky.
Spring 2024 was menacing for large parts of the US, with a tornado nearly every day in May. Tornado outbreaks tore up communities across multiple states.
Why have we seen so many extreme floods in recent years? Climate change is supercharging thunderstorms, adding moisture and heat.
Extreme winds from thunderstorms have downed transmission towers from Victoria to Western Australia in recent years. What’s going on?
A new study shows how often lightning strikes and how it behaves, often hitting the ground with multiple strikes from the same flash.
A number of environmental factors, including thunderstorms, are likely to be contributing to the current hay fever havoc.
Researchers are turning to computer models, drones and other methods to improve tornado forecasting.
Lightning doesn’t travel in a straight line, with many so-called ‘leaders’ coming down from the cloud in a series of jagged steps. Until now, no one has known why.
Are severe and extreme weather events on the rise? And does this have anything to do with manmade climate change? The simple answer is: it’s complicated.
Fires today are hotter and more destructive, thanks in part to a warming climate.
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Principal Research Scientist in Extreme Weather, The University of Melbourne
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Research Fellow in Climate Science, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Atmospheric Science and Colorado State Climatologist, Colorado State University
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Professor of Atmospheric Science, Iowa State University
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Meteorologist and Research Program Manager, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Associate Professor of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Exeter
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Associate professor in electrical engineering, University of the Witwatersrand
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Senior Research Scientist, Australian Bureau of Meteorology
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Lecturer in Civil Engineering, The University of Queensland
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Sydney Horizon Fellow, University of Sydney
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Chair Professor of Electrical Power Systems, The University of Melbourne
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Adjunct Research Professor of Physics, Adelaide University
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Professor of Urban Engineering, University of Illinois Chicago
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ARC Future Fellow and Associate Professor in Climate Science, ARC Centre of Excellence for 21st Century Weather, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, The University of Queensland