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List of major natural disasters in the United States
This is a list of major natural disasters in the United ... > more -
Larsen Ice Shelf
The Larsen Ice Shelf is a long, fringing ice shelf in the northwest part of the Weddell Sea, extending along the east coast of Antarctic Peninsula from Cape Longing to the area just southward of ... > more -
1991 Halloween Nor'easter
The 1991 Halloween Nor'easter, also known as the Perfect Storm, was an unusual and very powerful nor'easter combining an extratropical low and two hurricanes in October of ... > more -
Year Without a Summer
The Year Without a Summer, also known as the Poverty Year and Eighteen hundred and froze to death, was 1816, in which severe summer climate abnormalities destroyed crops in Northern Europe, the ... > more -
Severe weather terminology (United States)
This article describes severe weather terminology used by the U.S. National Weather Service. The National Weather Service has developed a multi-tier concept for forecasting all types of hazardous ... > more -
Precipitation (meteorology)
In meteorology, precipitation is any form of water that falls from the sky as part of the weather to the ground. This includes snow, rain, sleet, freezing rain, hail, and virga. Precipitation is a ... > more -
Temperature record
The temperature record shows the fluctuations of the temperature of the atmosphere and the oceans through various spans of time. The most detailed information exists since 1850, when methodical ... > more
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