1. Snow and the Super Bowl: Chicago's worst blizzard struck in January 1967

    Forecasting the big game: 1967 vs. 2014

    If the official weather forecast holds, Sunday's Super Bowl won’t have to be postponed. But the outlook would be far more uncertain if predictions today were as primitive as they were at the time of the first Super Bowl in 1967.

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  2. Can a two-week forecast warn us of Super Bowl snow? Pictured: 1950 "Snow Bowl"

    A super forecasting challenge

    Next month’s Super Bowl will be the first ever held in an open stadium in the northern U.S. What weather might we expect two weeks from now, and how might research improve a forecast in that time range?

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  3. Winter driving on I-84 at Meacham Hill, Oregon

    New technology targets slick winter roads

    Three states are deploying snowplows this winter with custom-designed sensors to better monitor weather and road conditions.

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  4. Forecasts of long-lived wildfires: June 2010 fire in Great Sand Dunes National Park

    Scientists nearing forecasts of long-lived wildfires

    Using new satellite data, scientists have developed a technique that may produce continually updated, 24-hour predictions of wildfire growth throughout the lifetime of long-lived blazes.

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  5. Long-term forecasts of heat waves: illustration with 5 high pressure ridges, typical of wavenumber-5 pattern

    New research may enable longer-term forecasts of U.S. heat waves

    Scientists find that an atmospheric pattern can foreshadow the emergence of summertime heat waves in the United States more than two weeks in advance.

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