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Latest news · Weather

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GuideWes Dunbar23 Sept 20266 min

How Weather Forecasts Are Made and When to Stop Trusting Them

Balloons, supercomputers, and chaos theory go into the number on your phone. Knowing where the skill runs out is the useful part.

Five Ways to Start a Fire Without Matches, Ranked by Reliability

Stop picking the destination first. Pick the week and let the weather decide.

Coconut.com flips trip planning around: you say when you can go, it finds where the weather's best and the price is right. Here's how it works and how to use it.

GuidePreparednessWes Dunbar23 Sept 20265 min

The Rule of Threes Tells You What to Fix First

Three minutes without air, three hours without shelter, three days without water, three weeks without food. The order is the whole point.

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GuideGuides & ChecklistsWes Dunbar23 Sept 20268 min

Your Hurricane Season Plan From June 1 to November 30

The work that saves your house gets done in May, not in the checkout line at Home Depot with a storm 40 hours out.

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Preparedness6 min read

The Bag in Your Desk for the Day the Roads Close

Fourteen miles is a five-hour walk in good shoes and a very long night in the ones you wore to the office.

Poll

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GuidePreparednessWes Dunbar23 Sept 20266 min

A Tarp, a Hundred Feet of Paracord and Three Knots

It won't replace a real shelter, but it'll keep your people and your gear dry the night the roof opens up. Learn it in the backyard first.

GuidePreparednessWes Dunbar23 Sept 20266 min

Wet Wood Still Burns If You Split It Open

Rain doesn't stop a fire. Soaked tinder, soggy ground and bad technique do. Here's how to get flame when everything outside is dripping.

Delicious.com — Nine thousand recipes and a plan for tonight

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GuidePreparednessWes Dunbar23 Sept 20266 min

Day Nine Is the Hard One in a Two Week Outage

The first 72 hours run on adrenaline and a kit. The other eleven days run on a schedule, a fuel budget and clean socks.

Quiz

Does your wardrobe actually fit you?

Five questions, honestly answered, and a plan for the next fortnight.

GuidePreparednessWes Dunbar23 Sept 20266 min

Stay With the Car, Clear the Exhaust, Wait It Out

The blizzard doesn't kill you in the driver's seat. It kills you two hundred yards from the door, walking toward a light that was three miles off.

GuidePreparednessWes Dunbar23 Sept 20266 min

Crate the Cat Before the Wind Picks Up

The pet plan that works is the one you build on a quiet Tuesday: carrier, records, microchip, and a hotel two counties inland that takes dogs.

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GuidePreparednessNina Castellan23 Sept 20266 min

What to Do Before the Power Goes Out When You Live Alone

One pair of hands changes the math on every emergency plan. Here's the version that actually works for a household of one.

CancerDefying.com — The research, protocols and reading in one place

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GuidePreparednessDean Shaw23 Sept 20266 min

When the Internet Goes Down, the Radio Still Works

How to set up a weather radio, program it for your county, and keep getting real information when the cell towers are overloaded.

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GuidePreparednessWes Dunbar23 Sept 20266 min

What a Week Without Power Actually Takes

Seven days off the grid isn't one big problem. It's four small ones, and each has a clock on it.

GuidePreparednessWes Dunbar23 Sept 20266 min

Get the House and the Truck Ready Before the Ice Comes

Your gas furnace still needs electricity, your freezer has 48 hours, and your tires lost air last week. Fix all three this weekend.

Coconut.com — Tell us when. We find where the sun is.

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GuidePreparednessWes Dunbar23 Sept 20266 min

Where To Shelter From A Tornado In Every Kind Of House

Pick your spot on a calm Tuesday, not during a warning. A room-by-room plan for basements, slabs, apartments and manufactured homes.

Quiz

Is your money actually in order?

Six questions. No email required, no sales pitch at the end.

Preparedness6 min

The Hurricane Checklist You Should Start in May

Preparedness6 min

The Seventy-Two Hour Kit Your Family Will Actually Use

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GuideTools & OrganizingDean Shaw3 Oct 20267 min

The Ten Minutes Before You Start a Chainsaw After a Storm

Chaps, chain tension, a clean air filter and fresh fuel. The checks that keep a cleanup Saturday from ending in the emergency room.

GermProof.com — An invisible germ barrier on your skin for hours

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Outdoors6 min read

The Family Gear That Survives Twenty Weekends a Year

What to spend real money on, what to buy cheap on purpose, and the four items that quietly end more family trips than weather does.

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Weather in Science & Space

Latest news · Weather

How Weather Forecasts Are Made and When to Stop Trusting Them

Size Your Battery Bank to the Fridge, Not the Box Art

Layers, Dry Socks And The Fire That Gets You Home

Winterize the House in One Weekend, Starting With the Water

Heat One Room and Cook Outside When the Power Quits

Five Ways to Start a Fire Without Matches, Ranked by Reliability

Stop picking the destination first. Pick the week and let the weather decide.

The Rule of Threes Tells You What to Fix First

Your Hurricane Season Plan From June 1 to November 30

The Bag in Your Desk for the Day the Roads Close

A Tarp, a Hundred Feet of Paracord and Three Knots

Wet Wood Still Burns If You Split It Open

Day Nine Is the Hard One in a Two Week Outage

Stay With the Car, Clear the Exhaust, Wait It Out

Crate the Cat Before the Wind Picks Up

What to Do Before the Power Goes Out When You Live Alone

When the Internet Goes Down, the Radio Still Works

What a Week Without Power Actually Takes

Get the House and the Truck Ready Before the Ice Comes

Where To Shelter From A Tornado In Every Kind Of House

The Hurricane Checklist You Should Start in May

The Seventy-Two Hour Kit Your Family Will Actually Use

The Ten Minutes Before You Start a Chainsaw After a Storm

The Family Gear That Survives Twenty Weekends a Year