It's challenging to predict extreme thunderstorms—improving this will help reduce their deadly and costly impacts

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Aug 9, 2025, 1:50 pm188 ptsTrendingTop
Our ability to predict extreme weather from thunderstorms, like the recent catastrophic flash floods in Texas, is unsettlingly poor, even in the hours leading up to the event. Improvements in understanding, detecting and predicting extreme thunderstorms—and increasing community resilience to them—are badly…

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