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Michael Feigin, the meteorologist for Mount Everest. (Courtesy of Alan L. Bauer, www.alanbauer.com)

Questions and answers for the forecaster of the roof of the world

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The storm's electrical charge can cause headaches and communication disruptions. Photography: Kevin, Flcikr

Israel is electrified

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Deputy Mayor of Tel Aviv Mittal Lehavi, who is one of the winners of the Green Globe Award. From her Facebook page

9 winners of the Green Globe award and the Ministry of Energy who won the Black Globe

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One of the 60 micrometeorites found in a 2.7 billion year old limestone from the Pilbara region of Western Australia. These micrometeorites are composed of iron oxides formed when meteoric iron dust particles oxidized as they traversed Earth's atmosphere, revealing that the upper atmosphere was surprisingly rich in oxygen.Credit: Andrew Tomkins

Cosmic dust has revealed Earth's ancient atmosphere

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The night glow of the atmosphere. Stephen D. Miller

The Night Watch / Stephen D. Miller

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A large lightning storm as photographed from the International Space Station by the Danish astronaut Andreas Mogensen, 10/9/15. Photo: European Space Agency

The Danish astronaut photographed giant elves from the space station

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A layer of dust covers Israel, 8/9/2015. Photo: NASA

"Because of global warming, the frequency of haze and dust storms like the one occurring now will increase"

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four Seasons. Photo: shutterstock

Empire of the Sun

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The wind regime in the Pacific Ocean in a normal year and in an El Niño year. Photo: esignua/Shutterstock

El Niño is coming back in a big way. The World Health Organization fears disruptions in the food supply

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Astronaut Andreas Mogelsen. Photo: European Space Agency

Prof. Yoav Yair will accompany a reenactment of Ilan Ramon's lightning experiment by a Danish astronaut

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The ozone hole. Illustration: shutterstock

Don't make me a hole in the ozone!

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Omega blockage over Europa on June 30, 2015. The omega-shaped jet stream is artificially highlighted. Severe Weather Europe / EUMETSAT

The reason for the heat wave in Europe: the stuck jet stream

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A figurine of the three wise monkeys. Photo: shutterstock

Covering their eyes with their hands: the Senate Science Committee (led by a climate denier) wants to cut NASA's budget for Earth exploration

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On January 31, a major winter storm swept across the central US, leaving a trail of snow from Arizona to Wisconsin. Image prepared by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center from data captured by NOAA weather satellites.

The Jet Stream Gets Weird / Jeff Masters

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Shelling pots in the tundra

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The meteorological balloon of Maal'a - the engineers of the future for the environment at the Technion. Photo: Technion Spokesperson

breathing around

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Prof. Yoav Yair and his team members with the balloon participating in the experiment that monitors the electricity levels in the atmosphere. Photo: Herzliya Interdisciplinary Center

An act in five scientific balloons

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El Niño conditions in the Pacific Ocean. From a NASA video

El Nino - will 2014 be the new 1997?

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Forecasting storms using soap bubbles. The color code indicates the intensity of the turbulence [courtesy of CNRS]

Can soap bubbles help predict the strength of storms?

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A recent picture of North America and the polar winds blowing cold air to the east coast, while the west remains dry. Photo: NOAA

The jet stream that changed as a result of the warming of the North Pole caused the current winter mirages

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Dead Sea cores. Photo: Dr. Michael Lazar, University of Haifa

In the past there were periods of drought lasting hundreds of years in the Land of Israel

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The frozen Niagara Falls, February 2014. Photo: from the Facebook page of Prof. Yitzhak Ben Israel

The weather in the USA is going crazy: the east is freezing, the west is suffering from a drought

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Prof. Daniel Rosenfeld, screenshot from a TV7 program, January 19, 2014.

Does the curtain of smoke and clouds hide the extent of global warming

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Image caption: NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite captured infrared and microwave images of the storm as it crossed Leyte Island in the central Philippines.

Typhoon Haiyan, which killed more than 10,000 people in the Philippines, is the biggest typhoon to ever hit land

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A living creature discovered at a height of 27 kilometers in the atmosphere. Did it come from space? Photo: University of Sheffield

Living creatures from space or just drifting?

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