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Extreme weather’s true damage cost is often a mystery – that’s a problem
Critics in the past year called for more transparency and vetting of the procedures used to estimate billion-dollar disasters ...
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Here’s How to Build a House That Can Withstand Texas Weather, According to the Best Builders in Dallas
Smart building strategies—and the right materials— can help North Texas homes stand strong against fire, freeze, flood, and ...
NWS confirms tornado near Royals, Chiefs stadiums, gives it ‘oddball' EF designation
The National Weather Service confirmed a tornado touched down Tuesday at the Truman Sports Complex near Kauffman Stadium and ...
The Muscatine Journal2d
String of tornadoes hit from New Boston to Quad-Cities metro Tuesday evening, NWS says
A string of tornados struck from New Boston to the Illinois Quad-Cities during Tuesday's storms, the National Weather Service ...
Extreme weather's true damage cost is often a mystery. That's a problem for understanding storm risk
On Jan. 5, 2025, at about 2:35 in the afternoon, the first severe hailstorm of the season dropped quarter-size hail in ...
The Island Packet3d
What the tornado rating scale means in SC and how to be safe during hurricane season
As summertime showers and hurricane season start, here are some tips to stay safe if a tornado comes with an South Carolina ...
Extreme weather’s true damage cost is often a mystery – that’s a problem for understanding storm risk, but it can be fixed
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, compiled information for major disasters, including insured losses by state. Bulk data won’t tell communities or counties about their ...
Storm damage costs are often a mystery – that’s a problem for understanding extreme weather risk
Forecasters already patch together very rough estimates, and ending NOAA’s ‘billion-dollar disasters’ list means less access to insurance data. Texas’ state climatologists explain why that matters.
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Large-Scale Uniform Two-Dimensional Hexagonal Arrays of Gold Nanoparticles Templated from Mesoporous Silica Film for Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy
A good surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) substrate requires precise control of the enhancement factor in large area which may be achieved with large-scale hot spot engineering. Here, we ...
40 years ago a rare and deadly tornado outbreak struck Pennsylvania. Are more in our future?
It was “one of the rarest” tornado outbreaks on record, says a tornado expert, but “things like that are possible.” ...
Kiowa County Press5dOpinion
Commentary - No 24-hour National Weather Service in Goodland, Kansas? We’ll all pay, one way or another.
A public affairs specialist for the NWS at Silver Springs, Maryland, did not respond to a request for comment by deadline.