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Hurricane Gustav over Haiti1:44 raw footage from Associated Press 800 AM EDT SUN AUG 31 2008 TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL ... THE NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER IS ISSUING ADVISORIES ON EXTREMELY DANGEROUS ...>>

Aerial Tornado Damage In Atlanta Uploaded by: WSBTVdotcom, March 15, 2008; 4:19min A severe weather system moved into Georgia March 14 resulting in numerous injuries and major destruction and damage to areas of Atlanta and Fulton County, Ga. The syst ...>>

Up to 80 different fires claimed already more than 50 lives in Greece, Europe. Yesterday Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis declared a nationwide state of emergency, mobilizing all resources. International help started arriving today, with planes or firemen ...>>

The death toll from flood-related incidents in the archipelagonow stands at 46 according to officials and media reports. About 340,000 are displaced, many of them were staying with friends or family or at mosques and government buildings. Some places ar ...>>

Indonesia is very vulnerable to climate change. The country is tropical, poor, crowded and archipelago. It's capital Jakarta counts nearly 10 million inhabitants, has 12 rivers, is located directly to the coast and some 40 percent of the city's land area i ...>>

The Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS) integrates remote sensing and GIS technologies to deliver MODIS active fire locations to natural resource managers and other stakeholders around the World in near real time. With a resolution of 1 squ ...>>

Though Kyrill was not an extrem storm its footprint is impressive. The storm struck Europe with hurricane-force winds over the course of two days, causing significant flight, rail, ferry and power disruptions, flooding, and building damage over a large part ...>>

Last weekend Sweden was hit by a strong storm with wind speeds of more than 100kph. Falling trees killed at least five people and hundreds of thousands were left without power. An estimated amount of that 12 million cubic metres of forest was felled. The ...>>

Today Bushfire swept through transmission lines near Benalla, caused a massive blackouts in Victoria and affected 200,000. Temperature was at 39°C and network came under demand by cooling devices. Seen by Daily Terra, 2007-01-15. ...>>

Today tropical cyclone Clovis struck Madagascar. Clovis brought 1-minute maximum sustained winds to the region of around 120 km/h. Wind gusts in the area have been considerably higher. Captured by Daily Terra, 2007-01-02. ...>>

More than 40,000 travellers are affected by heavy fog descended on the capital. BA cancelling a further 174 flights today. The Met Office says the current radiation fog, caused by a clear skies in recent days followed by a large high pressure front and ver ...>>

About 1800 firefighters are battling fifty bushfires ignited by lightning in the Alpine National Park north of Licola and Dargo. The resort is discouraging tourists and others from making non-essential trips up the mountain. Seen by Daily Terra, 2006-12-06 ...>>

Midwest's first big snowstorm of the season left hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses without electricity. The storm was blamed for at least 13 deaths as it spread ice and deep snow from Texas to Michigan. Photo captured by Daily Terra, 2006-12-02 ...>>

Filmmaker Geoff Mackley published impressive photos on his website. Up to 400 deaths are reported. With gusts of 265kph typhoon Durian prompted the evacuation of around 14,000 people, caused ramping floods and landslides, damaged transmission lines and ...>>

Super typhoon tore through the eastern Philippines on Thursday with winds of up to 225 kph, blowing away small houses, uprooting trees and cutting off power to thousands of homes. Now heading magacity Manila with more than 10mill inhabitants. Manila Bulleti ...>>

Fire started 10 days ago and had scorched some 12,000 hectares of inaccessible forest land in the Blue Mountains. During November to February bushfire are very common in Australia. Picture captured by Daily Terrra, 2006-11-23. ...>>

Big Storms of Tornado Alley9:31 min, added November 9th, 2006 by extremeinstability. Compilation of different tornados from 2005 chased by Mike, extremeinstability.com. The website presents an impressive collection of tornado photos and chasing tips. ...>>

A routine safety operation in Germany has triggered a massive power blackout that affected millions of people across Western Europe on Saturday evening. The grid failure in Germany led to the biggest pan-European power collapse in at least 30 years thro ...>>