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US – Sandy fund not all spent
Seven months after superstorm Sandy, the Red Cross still hasn’t spent more than a third of the $303m it raised…
US – Fire threatens Santa Barbara
Fire crews watched the winds overnight in Santa Barbara as they struggled to corral a wildfire that sent thousands of…
Kidstime – Thunderstorms
The West Coast gets the most thunderstorms in New Zealand whereas coastal Canterbury barely averages 2 or 3 a year….
Hurricane names for 2013
US Weather forecasters are predicting another busy Atlantic hurricane season. The storms will get their names from an alphabetical list…
UK – Spring just not cricket
With hailstones, dipping chilly temperatures and heavy intermittent showers you could be forgiven for thinking the UK is in November….
Kidstime – All types of wind
There are so many ways to describe wind and today we’ve got a few ways of breaking it all down…
Oklahoma tornado – Upgraded to EF5
The tornado in Moore, Oklahoma has now been upgraded to a rare EF5. Tornadoes of EF5 intensity have top winds…
Column: “The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away”
By head weather analyst Philip Duncan — On Tuesday someone tweeted a video from Oklahoma capturing the moment a family…
VIDEO – Unsettled skies for much of NZ
As a low crosses the country today and tomorrow it’s dumping its contents across parts of New Zealand. Head weather…
US: Monster tornado – death toll 51, expected to rise
A monstrous tornado up to 1.6 kilometres wide has roared through the Oklahoma City suburbs, killing 10, flattening entire neighbourhoods,…
