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Hurricane Isaac Captured in Eerily Beautiful Images from Orbit
Isaac at Night, August 28, 2012NASA Goddard Space Flight Center via FlickrHurricane Isaac has now made two landfalls in southern Louisiana, and the Gulf Coast region is no doubt in for a long...
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How Hurricanes Work [Infographic]
Anatomy Of A HurricaneClick here to see this infographic larger.Rianovosti via VizworldA visualized look inside a storm. How they start, and the ways we measure how bad they get. With Hurricane Sandy...
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The Dictionary Of Hurricane Sandy: Landfall
Hurricane Sandy: 10:16 a.m. MondayWunderground.comA lot of meteorological terms will be thrown around for the next few days. We're here to define them so you can understand what's going on. Welcome to...
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The Dictionary Of Hurricane Sandy: Baroclinic Energy
Hurricane Sandy: 10:16 a.m. MondayWunderground.comA lot of meteorological terms will be thrown around for the next few days. We're here to define them so you can understand what's going on. Welcome to...
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BeerSci: What To Drink During A Hurricane
Hurricane Malt LiquorThe cure for what ails ya.Self-medication is only the start. Team BeerSci is trapped at home with a few Zone A refugees and we're contemplating how to pass the time as Hurricane...
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How The PopSci Staff Prepares For A Hurricane
Kindle Paperwhite GlowsDan BracagliaMost of the Popular Science staff is based in New York City and the surrounding areas, which is great usually, but not so much today. Here's how we prepared for the...
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5 Things Hurricane Sandy Reveals About Global Warming
Sandy Makes LandfallClimate change may worsen and increase the frequency of storms like hurricane Sandy -- with some caveats.NCDOTcommunications/FlickrIt's tempting to link the nature of this week's...
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Daily Infographic: Gorgeous Wind Map Captures Sandy In Real-Time
Wind Map of SandyA screengrab of the Wind Map infographic taken at 10:26AM 30 Oct 2012.Fernanda Viégas and Martin WattenbergInfographic artists visualize a storm's haunting beauty, using real-time...
View ArticleIn New York, The Day After Sandy
Having weathered the storm, PopSci staff in New York venture out on Tuesday to inspect the aftermath.
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The Latest On Hurricane Sandy's March Up The East Coast [Live Update]
Hoboken Terminalmeetingpeopleiseasy3:18 p.m.: 8.5 million homes are without power. That represents 7 percent of the U.S. population. Here we go, folks. Hurricane/snowstorm/apocalyptic omen Sandy is...
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FYI: Why Does Salt Water Make Hurricane Damage So Much Worse?
Damage To New York TransitMetropolitan Transportation Authority of the State of New York via FlickrThe white stuff can stick around and ruin, well, pretty much everything. That puts the officials...
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News Writers: Stop Trying To Scare People With Made-Up Storm Language
Superstorm?Robert Simmon with data courtesy of the NASA/NOAA GOES Project Science teamHurricane Sandy wasn't a "superstorm." Not because it wasn't a "super""storm," but because "superstorm" is an...
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Which Weather Satellite Is Watching You? [Infographic]
Zone CoverageNASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Meteosat-9 image courtesy of NASA/Rob Simmons using EUMETSAT data ©2010 Hurricane Sandy image courtesy of NASA GOES Project Space object illustration...
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Why Can't We Stop A Hurricane Before It Hits Us?
Some methods that people have suggested for preventing, or stopping, a hurricane--and why they might not work Hurricane Sandy has caused untold billions of dollars in damage and insane casualties. And...
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How To Create A More Resilient Power Grid
Home GridDavviWhen a failure occurs along a line now, everything downstream from that point loses power. But there's a better way. HOME1) Generate Power Home solar systems can save money and reduce...
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Why It's So Hard To Predict Hurricanes
Hurricane KatrinaNOAAOur models of where storms are going have gotten much better, but we can't really predict how strong they'll be once they get there. At 6:10am on August 29, 2005, the eye of...
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BeerSci: What To Drink During A Hurricane
Hurricane Malt Liquor The cure for what ails ya. Team BeerSci is trapped at home with a few Zone A refugees and we're contemplating how to pass the time as Hurricane Sandy approaches. It's not a tough...
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How The PopSci Staff Prepares For A Hurricane
Kindle Paperwhite Glows Dan Bracaglia Paul Adams, Senior EditorIn the course of everyday life at PopSci, I find myself pleasingly well equipped for disaster to strike. Here's the stuff I'm glad is...
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5 Things Hurricane Sandy Reveals About Global Warming
Sandy Makes Landfall Climate change may worsen and increase the frequency of storms like hurricane Sandy -- with some caveats. NCDOTcommunications/Flickr Hurricane Sandy pummeled the eastern United...
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Daily Infographic: Gorgeous Wind Map Captures Sandy In Real-Time
Wind Map of Sandy A screengrab of the Wind Map infographic taken at 10:26AM 30 Oct 2012. Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg Storms such as the one formerly-known-as-hurricane-Sandy are a font of...
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