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A Wetter Midwest Challenges Planning and Infrastructure

FiveThirtyEight explores how planners in the Midwest are trying to get ahead of an intensifying climate.

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One Government Agency You Don't Second Guess

One silver lining from Hurricane Sandy is that it proved the accuracy of the National Hurricane Center, an agency under the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) due largely to its hi-tech tools. Do you know what a 'dropsonde' is?

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