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Hello from the outside: heat domes impeding radio and other signals in US midwest

First publishedJul 13, 15:00 UTC
Last updatedJul 13, 22:49 UTC · just now ago
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Higher temperatures can cause radio, TV and microwave signals to travel hundreds of miles farther, upsetting communications It was 3am in north-east Indiana’s Huntington county when the outdoor emergency alarm went off on 1 July. There wasn’t a storm, tornado or any other emergency weather event forecast or present anywhere for hundreds of miles.

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Higher temperatures can cause radio, TV and microwave signals to travel hundreds of miles farther, upsetting communications It was 3am in north-east Indiana’s Huntington county when the outdoor emergency alarm went off on 1 July. There wasn’t a storm, tornado or any other emergency weather event forecast or present anywhere for hundreds of miles. “It happened right in the middle of the night. I woke up at around 5am and saw on our Facebook page multiple comments [of people writing], ‘Hey, our siren went off last night.’ I thought, ‘That’s weird,’” recalled Thomas Fuller, Huntington county’s deputy director for emergency management.

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Higher temperatures can cause radio, TV and microwave signals to travel hundreds of miles farther, upsetting communications It was 3am in north-east Indiana’s Huntington county when the outdoor emergency alarm went off on 1 July. There wasn’t a storm, tornado or any other emergency weather event forecast or present anywhere for hundreds of miles.
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