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When it gets hot, power companies can be pushed to the brink, but knowing when everyone is going to blast their AC at the same time can help them plan for all eventualities. There's no getting around it; the number of extreme weather events has significantly increased over the past few years. Heat waves--along with their accompanying droughts and strains on the electrical grid--are some of the most common extreme weather phenomena.

PGT: It's may be hard to believe, but Phil Mickelson is playing well enough to overcome the weather and course conditions to end up with the claret jug at the British Open on Sunday.

At least the weather outside will keep its cool in "camageddon" this weekend. However, the weather inside thousands of vehicles may get hostile. What Is Carmageddon?

Creativity can come out of nowhere. The trick is to sense itand ride it to the end.

In Silicon Valley the Campbell Union School District 's sprinklers used to dutifully water the soccer fields and gardens at 12 campuses even during spring showers. Temporarily shutting off each of the 45 irrigation control boxes, by hand, wasn't worth the custodians' time.

Poynt deserves the "super app" moniker by which it is often described: The free application, which works for Android, iPhone, Windows 7, BlackBerry (including integration with Playbook), and Nokia QT, is a third-party service aggregator that provides local business listings and entertainment options (via Citysearch), directions (Google Maps), dining options and reviews (OpenTable), movie listings, and ticket purchases (CinemaSource and Movietickets.com).

The black-and-blue rule of baseball--if your pitcher beans our batter, our pitcher will bean yours--it turns out, is highly dependent on the weather. [More]

Farming in India is a brutal business. mKrishi makes it a little easier, by giving farmers predictive data about how to save their farms--and their lives. A farmer commits suicide every 30 minutes in India

Climate change will cause the price of staple foods like corn, rice, and wheat to more than double over the next 20 years.

While the search for survivors of the nightmarish Joplin, Mo., tornado is still far from over, AccuWeather.com meteorologists are forecasting that another round of deadly storms is about to occur today. As of Tuesday afternoon, the death toll had already raised to 118, ranking the event among the top 10 deadliest U.S. tornadoes of all time.

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Gabriela (not her real name), a 42-year-old investment counselor, has been receiving therapy by computer chat for more than a year now. She fell into a deep depression after her last breakup and needed an ear she could count on to be consistently supportive and objective.

Gliese 581d was thought to be uninhabitable. But we're in luck. It seems like a lovely place to live

The ability to predict the weather with godlike accuracy began with a single invention: the barometer. In 1643, a student of Galileo discovered that by measuring air pressure one could forecast sun, rain, wind, or thunderbolts, and barometers soon went from meteorological tools to status symbols of the elite, with ...

Severe weather experts at AccuWeather.com are forecasting the intense weather outbreaks in the U.S. to continue beyond April into much of May. According to Severe Weather Expert Meteorologist Henry Margusity, "We see no let-up in the weather pattern that has led to the outbreaks this month." [More]