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‘Life-threatening’ tropical storm Hermine crossing Florida
Updated 8:52pm Friday — After boarding up windows and filling sandbags, residents took shelter tonight as Tropical Storm Hermine (earlier…
Changing opinions on climate change, from a CNN meteorologist “Why I’m no longer a skeptic”
CNN Senior Meteorologist and good friend of WeatherWatch.co.nz, Chad Myers, has written a piece for CNN.com discussing the changing opinions…
Japan faces third typhoon in a week
Just a week after the deadly Typhoon Mindulle and Kompasu pummeled Japan, the country is bracing for another powerful typhoon…
Animation: Sub-tropics helping feed rain & cloud to parts of NZ
A northerly airflow that’s coming from around Fiji and New Caledonia is helping feed widespread rain that is over the…
Earth-like planet discovered – and it’s a ‘mere’ 4.2 light years away
In a discovery that has been years in the making, researchers have confirmed the existence of a rocky planet named…
Earthquake hits Italy, people buried under debris
The mayor of a quake-hit town in central Italy says people are buried under debris and that the town “isn’t…
Today in Photos (x13) – Gloom, gloom and gorgeous
The land of the long white cloud is today long and white from above and grey and dull from below,…
Video Just In: Haboob (Dust storm) engulfs Phoenix Arizona
Video Just In — A wall of dust reduced visibility down to 400 metres and less at times. This affected portions…
Devastation in Louisiana – 26,119,341,309,600 litres of rain in one week
The catastrophic flood devastating Louisiana is now the worst natural disaster to strike the United States since Hurricane Sandy four…
Video: How the world map looks wildly different to what you might think
All of us have seen a world map but it is very difficult to imagine how various countries and parts…
