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It was one of those “one-in-one-hundred-year’’ weather events we hear so much about that it has become a statistical cliche.

From 1980 to 2000, the United States sustained 48 weather-related disasters that exceeded at least $1 billion in damages and ...

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Notably, 2025 was the first year in over a decade when the U.S. was not impacted by a major hurricane. Still, largely due to ...

On Sunday [January 6] night last, and during yesterday morning, this town [Belfast] and its neighbourhood were visited by one ...

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Photographs taken from space have helped the Sky News Data and Forensics team cover natural disasters, war and humanitarian crises.

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