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Rogue waves tall as a ten-story building were dismissed as sailors’ myths for centuries

By Everett Sloane

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Ball lightning is so rare and strange that scientists long doubted it was real

By Everett Sloane

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A wall of dust a mile high can swallow an entire city in minutes

By Everett Sloane

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A rare summer El Nino is smothering the Atlantic hurricane season, forecasters say

By Everett Sloane

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One spot in Venezuela is struck by lightning almost 300 nights a year

By Everett Sloane

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A fast-moving wildfire forced more than 20,000 people to flee Canada’s Okanagan Valley

By Everett Sloane

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5 cities redesigning daily life around dangerous heat

By Everett Sloane

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A stalled storm dumped 11 inches of rain on Indiana, unleashing deadly flash floods

By Everett Sloane

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Colorado’s heat put 72 people in the hospital as a record-hot summer grinds on

By Everett Sloane

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10 of the strongest hurricanes ever to strike the US mainland

By Everett Sloane

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The northern lights could push as far south as 21 states on August 19

By Everett Sloane

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The 1883 Krakatoa eruption was so loud it circled the Earth four times and burst eardrums 40 miles away

By Everett Sloane

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The southern San Andreas has been quiet for 300 years, and seismologists say that is the scary part

By Everett Sloane

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A wall of mud from Mount Rainier could reach Seattle’s suburbs in under an hour

By Everett Sloane

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A restless supervolcano under Naples has bulged upward beneath 500,000 people

By BeckhamLangford

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The Cascadia fault is locked and loaded for a magnitude-9 quake scientists say is overdue

By Everett Sloane

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A derecho tore across northern Illinois with punishing winds and spun up tornadoes near Chicago

By Everett Sloane

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Oregon and Washington have now burned past 3 million acres

By Everett Sloane

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A magnitude 7.7 quake off Indonesia has killed at least 47 people

By Everett Sloane

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A wildfire can create its own weather, spinning up fire tornadoes that fling burning debris for miles

By Everett Sloane

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