The tropical storm Edouard has begun to weaken, which has likely spared oil rigs and refineries in the Gulf of Mexico from sustaining any real damage."The storm's winds slowed to 60 miles (96 kilometers) per hour...
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Parts of Texas was pounded by baseball-sized hail, 70-mph winds, and possible tornadoes yesterday, knocking down power lines and trees and damaging some buildings.So far, there are no reports of injuries." In...
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Hopefully the weather permits a nice view of this phenomenon on the day
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Mark Wednesday, Feb. 20, on your calendar as "Lunar Eclipse Night," for if the weather is fair you should have no difficulty...
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From Associated Press:
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ATLANTA — A storm crashed through the Southeast and brought up to an inch of rain in parts of drought-stricken Georgia, but forecasters said the storm likely did little to ease the state's historic drought.
"The ground probably sucked it all...
"Fire-fanning Santa Anas likely to worsen
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Ken Hively / Los Angeles Times
"The strongest winds have not occurred yet. They're going to peak [on Monday]," said Ken Clark, a Rancho Cucamonga-based expert senior meteorologist for Accuweather.com.
Forecasters say the...
Hurricane season has officially begun, and Tropical Storm Barry is wasting no time. In this case, though, Florida could really use the rain. UPDATE:"Tropical
storm Barry weakened into a tropical depression as it...
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UPDATE (12:10pm, 02/03): President Bush is set to visit two locations--likely in the hardest hit areas of Alabama and Missouri, though officials won't disclose just where yet--where this year's tornadoes have hit...
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"Gristmill points us to an unlikely environmental debate between a Weather Channel personality and a staffer for the King of the Flatearthers and Mayor of Crazytown Sen. James Inhofe. Weather Channel house expert Dr....
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"Patzert said that a blast of Arctic air was cascading like a huge U-shape across the Canadian border from Seattle to San Diego and much of the country, bringing stinging cold with it.
"We've had jet streams on...
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Global warming could wipe out the Amazon rainforest in less than a century say Brazilian researchers:"Jose Antonio Marengo, a meteorologist with Brazil's National Space Research Institute, said that global warming, if left unchecked, will reduce rainfall and raise...
A Richmond, Virginia weatherman was fired by his employer, after nude photos of him were found on Myspace.com. According to the Roanoke Times, the photos of the weatherman were taken as a joke."A WSLS-TV...
"Workers on snowmobiles delivered food and water to motorists stuck along the New York Thruway, which was shut down for more than 100 miles by the storm. Buffalo's normally busy downtown streets were deserted."