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Knowledge of precise climatic events decreases as the record goes further back in time. The timeline of glaciation covers ice ages specifically, which tend to have their own names for phases, often with different names used for different parts of the world. The names for earlier periods and events come from geology and paleontology.
The timeline of meteorology contains events of scientific and technological advancements in the area of atmospheric sciences.The most notable advancements in observational meteorology, weather forecasting, climatology, atmospheric chemistry, and atmospheric physics are listed chronologically.
The U.S. Weather Bureau would describe this tornado as "the most officially observed one in history". [52] 1940 Blizzard: 154 $2 million Armistice Day Blizzard: North and Central Midwest Damage total not adjusted for inflation. 1938 Hurricane: 600 Great New England Hurricane: 1938 Flood: 115 Los Angeles Flood of 1938: Los Angeles 1937 Flood ...
A natural disaster is a sudden event that causes widespread destruction, major collateral damage, or loss of life, brought about by forces other than the acts of human beings. A natural disaster might be caused by earthquakes, flooding, volcanic eruption, landslide, hurricanes, etc.
On Presidents' Day 1958, another major Northeast snowstorm was finishing up after dumping over 30 inches of snow in the Catskills and Poconos and just over 14 inches in Washington, D.C.
Severe weather can occur under a variety of situations, but three characteristics are generally needed: a temperature or moisture boundary, moisture, and (in the event of severe, precipitation-based events) instability in the atmosphere.
The weather has been the backdrop to every momentous occurrence in history. Sometimes it plays a major role in influencing the outcome of seismic events, as it did on D-Day during World War II ...
The global weather phenomenon El Niño, in which surface waters are abnormally warm in the eastern tropical Pacific, was a major player in many of the top weather events in 2023. The major shift ...