storms
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How To (Maybe) See An Aurora Light Display Tonight
A geomagnetic storm has been forecast to hit Earth this week, due to high speed solar wind streams resulting from a coronal hole. This all sounds very scary, and media coverage of the event has ranged from apocalyptic to promising a planet bathed in beautiful auroras, but the truth is a little less spectacular than…
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Why Snow Is So Hard To Predict
People who live in areas where it snows may be aware at just how terrible snow forecasts tend to be. That’s because snow is especially difficult to predict.
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Thunderstorm Asthma: What We Know (And How To Prepare For It)
A fourth death has been attributed to Melbourne’s “thunderstorm asthma” emergency on Monday night, and it was lucky there were not more, according to the state’s health minister. More than 2000 people suffered breathing problems when a severe storm combined with an extreme pollen count to cause what is being described as “thunderstorm asthma”.
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Briefly: Supanova Boycott, Drugged-Out Eyeballs, Sydney Storm
Brief news items of note for Lifehacker readers, including: Supanova founder steps into controversy (again), why your eyeballs go weird when you’re on drugs, the best photos from Sydney’s crazy weekend storm.