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  1. Gillan1220

    What if Tacloban City was evacuated before Typhoon Haiyan made landfall in the Philippines?

    The mayor of Tacloban City in the province of Leyte did not issue order of an evacuation prior to Haiyan striking the Philippines on November 8, 2013 because the days leading to it were clear-bright skies. That would cause over 6,000 deaths and millions of pesos in damage. Though the damage from...
  2. WI: USA begins naming typhoons and hurricanes before 1940s/1950s

    As many of us know, tropical cyclones worldwide are named to reduce confusion with communicating between forecasters and the general public. In the late 19th century, Australian weather forecaster Clement Wragge began informally naming them with letters from the Greek alphabet, South Sea Island...
  3. FickleCrossroad

    WI: Overlord Weather Forecast Wrong?

    June 5-6 was chosen for the full moon and the tides, with the 5th being cancelled due to weather. What if, for some reason, the speed of frontal passage is underestimated enough that the 6th is cancelled early, forcing a month's wait for the next full moon. However I forget what the weather was...
  4. JMT

    Another 9/11

    Ok, so, what if Osama Bin Laden decided not to strike the US on September 11th? What if, instead, a major storm cell developed over DC and spawned an EF-5 tornado that directly collided with the White House? Since Bush is in Florida, how does the nation react to DC being destroyed by nature?
  5. Incanian

    The Eye of the Storm that stared on Vietnam

    .......Hey, Vsauce Michael here.. Where are your fingers? But seriously, I was watching Vsauce, and I saw his video Is all fair in love and war? It talked about the Environmental Modification Convention, banning modifying weather as a weapon. During Operation Popeye, U.S planes ceded planes...
  6. Effect of the 1816 "Year without a Summer" on a surviving Napoleonic Empire

    The 1816 Year without a Summer was one of the most devastating European winters ever, worst famine in the 19th century, and caused a mass agricultural disaster. The areas with the biggest temperature drops were at the center of Napoleon's First French Empire. However, in terms of famine...
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