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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.
- Weather
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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?
- Weather
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New technology targets slick winter roads
Three states are deploying snowplows this winter with custom-designed sensors to better monitor weather and road conditions.
- Weather
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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.
- Weather
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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.
- Weather