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Meteorologist Kristen Currie discusses the instruments meteorologists use to observe and forecast the weather.

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A remote Arctic island once used as a Soviet weather station has become overrun by polar bears. On Kolyuchin Island, in Russia’s Chukchi Sea, dozens of bears now roam through abandoned buildings and ...

A Georgia Tech researcher says we may need more tools to measure the full impacts of strong hurricanes like Melissa.

For the first time, L.A. County's homelessness sales tax is providing dedicated funding directly to all 88 cities — a key selling point of Measure A that was supposed to empower local leaders to ...

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A storm buried tents and stranded people on the mountain last weekend. Some experts think it might have set a record. By Judson Jones Judson Jones is a meteorologist and reporter for The Times. The ...