We document how actors reacted to these circumstances, and analyze the factors that influenced their capacity (or lack thereof) to benefit from extreme weather event-driven market vagaries. We find that ethnicity, position, and role along the commodity chain, plus access to financial and social ...
Perfect Storm: What Causes A Severe Outbreak? April 2, 2025 When meteorologists talk about severe weather, we mean the possibility of tornadoes, damaging winds, lightning and large hail. We look for certain ingredients that need to come together for weather to turn violent. Here is what we ...
After debating whether to sail through the building storm or to wait it out, the crew decide to risk the storm. However, between the Andrea Gail and Gloucester is a confluence of two powerful weather fronts and a hurricane, which the crew of Andrea Gail underestimate. After repeated warnings...
Oil sands producers have faced more than their fair share of challenges in recent years. Despite battling wildfires, pipeline disputes and tough environmental regulations, the sector pumped almost C$13 billion (US$9.7 billion) into the Canadian economy last year, with roughly the same expected for...
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Rather, the ship was ensnared by a perfect storm of circumstances that conspired her to doom. Such a chain is familiar to those who study disasters – it is called an “event cascade”. The best planning in the world cannot eliminate every factor that might negatively impact on the design ...
The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has a special role, acting as an early warning system for weather events such as the recent storm. It was the orbiter's wide-angle camera, called the Mars Color Imager, that offered the Opportunity team a heads up about the storm. This imager, built and ope...
Will Tua Tagovailoa and the Miami Dolphins finally beat the cold weather curse? Have the Chicago Bears and Caleb Williams turned the corner with new Offensive Coordinator Thomas Brown? Who will bolster their playoff case as Texas and Texas A&M face each other for the first time in 13 ...
As weather systems move through the area, clouds form when they interact with the tall mountains that generally run north to south in the center of the island. They drop an abundance of rain. For example, one localized, unnamed event unleashed roughly 43 cm (17 in.) of rain ...
Weather systems are complex and there are many factors that contribute to any individual extreme weather event. El Niño and La Niña, for example, are the biggest fluctuations in the Earth’s climate system[9]and can have consequences for weather patterns across the globe. ...