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Colorado’s Front Range faces a risk of hail damage unlike any other area in the country, and it also happens to bewhere homeowners have installed solar panels on their roofs at some of the highest rates, according to a study from Roof Gnome, a platform that connects consumers with roofing and solar installation contractors. The combination can be a costly one when storms do hit and a contributor to rising home insurance premiums in the region. “Hail accumulation is an uncommon phenomenon but is most prevalent along the…

This story originally appeared on Inside Climate News and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.Picture the minute hand at about 8 past the hour. That’s the slope of Viet’s backyard in southern Los Angeles County. It’s a bit too aggressive for a slip-and-slide. In fact, Viet doesn’t even let his 7-year-old daughter play on the family’s small back patio.“I don’t need her falling down that hill,” he said.When Viet and his wife bought their house-on-a-hill five years ago, it was a win, their piece of “the Hollywood…

January 22, 20243 min readClimate instability could be distorting the polar vortex, causing cold air outbreaksBy Mathew Barlow & The ConversationA pedestrian navigates a snow-covered sidewalk on January 09, 2024 in Iowa City, Iowa. Extremely cold Arctic air and severe winter weather swept southward into much of the U.S. in mid-January 2024, breaking daily low temperature records from Montana to Texas. Tens of millions of people were affected by dangerously cold temperatures, and heavy lake-effect snow and snow squalls…

An Embraer E175LR passengers aircraft of American Eagles airlines (C) taxxing before take-off to Pittsburg is seen at La Guardia Airport on January 9, 2024.Charly Triballeau | Afp | Getty ImagesAirlines canceled about 2,000 U.S. flights Friday as they grapple with winter weather and the grounding of Boeing 737 Max 9 planes. Storms in the Midwest helped drive more than 4,500 delays, with major disruptions around Chicago and Detroit, major hubs for the largest U.S. carriers, according to flight-tracker FlightAware.About 40%…

On the night of October 2 a worrisome earthquake shook the towns above Campi Flegrei, a huge, long-dormant volcano immediately west of Naples, whipping local media and authorities into a frenzy. Journalists speculated that lava might start flowing from the volcano, threatening the 1.3 million people who live in high-risk areas near its center. Vulcanologists called for existing evacuation plans, which assume that an eruption can be predicted 72 hours in advance, to be updated to include the possibility of having to…

The global rise in extreme weather is likely to bring along more fatal heart attacks, new research this week suggests. The study found that exposure to heat waves and cold snaps was associated with higher odds of heart attack deaths. This associated risk was even greater on extreme heat days that also featured high levels of certain air pollutants.California’s Snowpack Gets a Much Needed Boost | Extreme EarthThe research was led by scientists at the Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China. The team analyzed recent data…

In this aerial image, damage is seen to a Pfizer pharmaceutical factory after a tornado hit the facility two days earlier, on July 21, 2023 in Rocky Mount, North Carolina.Sean Rayford | Getty ImagesPfizer on Friday said there does not appear to be major damage to the drug manufacturing areas of its plant in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, after a tornado hit the facility two days earlier. The plant supplies nearly 8% of all sterile injectable medicines used in U.S. hospitals, including anesthesia, analgesia, therapeutics,…

Severe storms that brought hail and high winds to places such as Texas and states in the central U.S. are wreaking havoc on insurers’ profits. Severe storms that brought hail and high winds to places such as Texas and states in the central U.S. are wreaking havoc on insurers’ profits. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks…

The plant in Rocky Mount, N.C., produces a quarter of the sterile injectable medicines used by U.S. hospitals. The plant in Rocky Mount, N.C., produces a quarter of the sterile injectable medicines used by U.S. hospitals. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks belong to their rightful owners, all materials to their authors.…

Seasonal outfits that work across breadbasket states lost business with a slow start. Seasonal outfits that work across breadbasket states lost business with a slow start. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks belong to their rightful owners, all materials to their authors. If you are the owner of the content and do not…