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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 ...
Join scientists as they drive into hailstorms to study the costly weather extreme
A team of scientists is driving into severe storms to study hail. It's one of the nation’s costliest but least-appreciated ...
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Ahead of the Storm: Outlook for 2025 hurricane season, remembering Hurricane Katrina
The StormTracker Team at Louisiana First News has everything you need to know for hurricane preparedness. On the “Ahead of ...
Extreme weather’s true damage cost is often a mystery – that’s a problem for understanding storm risk, but it can be fixed
Forecasters already patch together very rough estimates, and ending NOAA’s ‘billion-dollar disasters’ list means less access ...
Florida’s ‘Fallen Tree Act’ postponed just as hurricane season begins — here’s what to know about this bill
The bill was originally slated to take effect this July — in time for peak hurricane season between mid-August and late ...