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Building roof collapses under heavy rainfall in Hattiesburg

Heavy rainfall that moved across the Hattiesburg area early Sunday afternoon is being... more

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Monsoon thunderstorms trigger incredible dust storm in Arizona

A massive dust storm spread blinding dirt and dust across a large swath of Arizona on... more

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More than a dozen people struck and or injured by lightning over holiday weekend

More than a dozen people were struck and or injured by lightning across parts of the... more

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United States observes Lightning Safety Week (June 19-25)

The summer months mark the peak season for lightning strikes in the United States and... more

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Lightning at Camp Shelby, Mississippi sends 77 military personnel to hospital

Camp Shelby is sending 77 Air Force Cadet personnel to local hospitals in the... more

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Tornado Slams La. Town, Downed Tree Kills Mother

Debris was littered throughout Rayne, a town of about 8,500 people, after a line of... more

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Song Of Rain

Beats mixed with ambient sounds. Birds, thunder & rain.

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Scientists monitor 'first direct evidence' of thunderstorms blasting antimatter clouds into space

It was once the preserve of Star Trek and other science-fiction television shows.But... more

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NASA's Fermi Catches Thunderstorms Hurling Antimatter Into Space

Scientists using NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have detected beams of... more

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Mississippi tornadoes confirmed rise to 6; first United States tornadoes of 2011

The number of tornadoes confirmed in Mississippi from severe storms New Year's... more

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At least three tornadoes confirmed; long-tracked tornado path confirmed across the Jackson metro

The significant severe weather outbreak that closed out 2010 and ushered in 2011 has... more

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Tornado strikes the Jackson metro area; widespread damage reported

Strong to severe storms with very heavy rainfall pounded much of Central Mississippi... more

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Threshold Sea Surface Temperature for Hurricanes and Tropical Thunderstorms Is Rising

Scientists have long known that atmospheric convection in the form of hurricanes and... more

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A dozen tornadoes now confirmed across Mississippi; biggest November tornado outbreak in 6 years

After further damage surveys on Wednesday, the National Weather Service (NWS) has now... more

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8 tornadoes confirmed across Mississippi; State of Emergency declared

After surveying the major damage in several Mississippi counties on Tuesday, the... more

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UFO sightings in Australia were giant fireballs

UFO sightings from Australia has been explained by ball lightning and other atmospheric phenomena, said the country's leading astrophysicist Stephen Hughes.The scientist has made a detailed study of an unusual event in 2006 when large meteors were observed over Brisbane which caused the public to report numerous UFO sightings. Their appearance occurred at the same time as a brilliant green object was seen to roll over nearby mountains.Dr Hughes has put forward a theory linking the object - presumed to be ball lighting - to the fireballs. His idea is that one of the fireballs may have momentarily triggered an electrical connection between the upper atmosphere and the ground, providing energy for the ball lightning to appear above the hills.He has written up his explanation in a journal of the Royal Society."If you put together inexplicable atmospheric phenomena, maybe of an electrical nature, with human psychology and the desire to see something - that could explain a lot of these UFO sightings," he told BBC News.Dr Hughes, who is a senior lecturer at the Queensland University of Technology, initiated the study after being called in by the local TV station to look over and explain photos of the fireballs captured by members of the public on camera phones.Fireballs are exceptionally bright meteors and are produced by fragments of space rock larger than the sand-grain-sized particles responsible for shooting stars; but like shooting stars they cross the sky at great speed.It seems at least three individual fireballs were seen on the night of 16 May 2006.A survey organised by the university brought forward many more eyewitnesses, including a farmer who recalled seeing a luminous green ball rolling down a slope of the Great Divide, a mountainous ridge about 120km west of Brisbane. This object described as being about 30cm in diameter appeared to jump over some rocks and follow the path of a metal fence for "some minutes". The farmer said he saw the green object come into view just after a fireball had passed overhead. He thought at first he was witnessing a plane crash and called the police, but a search the following day found no wreckage.

Eyewitnesses were asked to draw what they saw. This is how graphic designer David Sawell recalled a fireball
Ball lightning seems an obvious explanation, says Dr Hughes. These bright, hovering spheres of light are not fully understood. They are known to be associated with thunderstorms, but not always, and there was certainly no electrical storm activity in the vicinity of the Great Divide mountain ridge.Dr Hughes does not offer a new explanation for the causes of ball lightning, merely how enough energy might have been put into the ground to trigger it.He proposes that the natural flow of current that exists between the upper-most reaches of the atmosphere, the ionosphere, and the ground was increased by the passage of the meteor that streamed charged particles and other conductive materials in its wake. UFO sightings from Australia has been explained by ball lightning and other... more

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Dramatic video as a tornado ripped across Rice, Texas; other possible tornadoes reported

The Fall severe weather season got off to a roaring start on Sunday across parts of... more

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Tropical Storm Richard takes shape in the Caribbean; 2010 hurricane season 6th most active on record

The 2010 hurricane season continues to move up the list of the top ten most active... more

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US lightning deaths rise to 20; lightning campaign does not fit most summer thunderstorms

A total of 20 people have been killed so far this year with 9 of those deaths this... more

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Exploding storms over Kansas likely cause of severe flight turbulence that resulted in injuries

A flight carrying 255 passengers and 10 crew members from the Dulles International... more

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