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Snow-blanketed US battles freezing winds and ice
AFP – Thu Dec 10, 1:36 pm ET

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CHICAGO (AFP) - Heavy snow blanketed much of the central United States Thursday after a massive winter storm left residents battling frigid temperatures and icy roads. Full Story »
NOAA: El Nino changes in Pacific getting stronger
AP – Thu Dec 10, 12:41 pm ET

WASHINGTON - The El Nino climate phenomena has strengthened and is expected to last into spring, potentially affecting weather around the globe for the next few months, the government said Thursday. Full Story »
Deputies search for snowbound hunters in Arizona
AP – 49 mins ago

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. - Searchers fanned out across a wide swath of Northern Arizona on Thursday in an effort to reach more than a dozen hunters stranded in deep snow and freezing temperatures. Full Story »
The nation's weather
AP – Thu Dec 10, 5:24 am ET

A strong winter storm was forecast to continue to bring snow and cold air to the Central U.S. on Thursday. Full Story »
Colo. team predicts above-average hurricane season
AP – Wed Dec 9, 9:01 pm ET

FORT COLLINS, Colo. - Colorado State University researchers are predicting a more active Atlantic hurricane season next year, with six to eight hurricanes, at least three of them major. Full Story »
Stubborn storm leaves behind a shivering nation
AP – 1 hr 29 mins ago

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BUFFALO, N.Y. - A deadly, windy storm that has paralyzed a wide swath of the nation for days left bitter cold behind as it finally made its exit Thursday, with temperatures below freezing in several states and gusts that made it feel as cold as minus 25. Full Story »
Snow wreaks havoc in U.S. Midwest, Plains
Reuters – Wed Dec 9, 1:11 pm ET

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Blowing snow and freezing temperatures slowed grain and livestock movement, shut some processing plants, and halted the protracted corn harvest in portions of the U.S. Midwest and Plains on Wednesday. Full Story »
Active 2010 Atlantic hurricane season predicted
Reuters – Wed Dec 9, 11:54 am ET

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MIAMI (Reuters) - The 2010 Atlantic hurricane season will be "above-average" in activity and produce 11 to 16 tropical storms, including six to eight hurricanes, a leading team of U.S.-based researchers said on Wednesday. Full Story »
Sao Paulo swamped by floods, reports of 6 dead
AP – Tue Dec 8, 11:02 am ET

BRASILIA, Brazil — Brazil's largest city of Sao Paulo has been hit by severe floods for the second time in less than a week. Local media report that six people have died in mudslides caused by heavy rain. Full Story »
NOAA to move faster to reform commercial fishing
AP – 51 mins ago

The federal agency in charge of protecting the nation's oceans announced Thursday it is ramping up efforts to expand new rules aimed at lessening the cutthroat competition among fishermen that has threatened dozens of ocean species. Full Story »
IMF gives 9.3-mln-dollar lifeline to tsunami-stricken Samoa
AFP – Mon Dec 7, 7:14 pm ET

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WASHINGTON (AFP) - The International Monetary Fund announced Monday it would provide a 9.3-million-dollar lifeline to Samoa to help the country recover from a September earthquake and tsunami disaster. Full Story »
Why Jobs Are Easy to Kill but Hard to Create
U.S. News & World Report – Mon Dec 7, 4:41 pm ET

Eight million may finally be enough. That's the approximate number of jobs lost since the recession began at the end of 2007. The latest government data show that after 23 straight months of job losses, the unemployment rate has finally stopped rising and started falling. That's the most hopeful sign to date that the tsunami of layoffs is abating. If the trend continues, it will confirm an end to the devastating recession. Full Story »
Snow dusts the South from Louisiana to Georgia
AP – Sat Dec 5, 4:42 pm ET

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NEW ORLEANS - Louisiana got its earliest snowflakes ever as people across the South awakened to a dusting of powder. Full Story »
British weather service to publish 150 years of data
AFP – Sat Dec 5, 1:49 pm ET

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LONDON (AFP) - Britain's Met Office national weather service said Saturday it would publish data from weather stations worldwide and had "every confidence" it would show temperatures had risen in the last 150 years. Full Story »
Rain, winds, record heat hit Northeast on same day
AP – Fri Dec 4, 2:06 am ET

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PORTLAND, Maine - A storm packing blustery winds and driving rain knocked out power to thousands of homes and businesses in the Northeast on Thursday before giving way to sunny skies and record high temperatures — all in the same morning. Full Story »
Samoan Tsunami wave was 46 feet high
AP – Fri Dec 4, 1:23 am ET

WELLINGTON, New Zealand - The tsunami that killed more than 200 people in the Samoan islands and Tonga earlier this year towered up to 46 feet (14 meters) high — more then twice as tall as most of the buildings it slammed into, scientists said Friday. Full Story »
Warmest December 3 in U.S. Northeast in a decade
Reuters – Thu Dec 3, 4:01 pm ET

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Northeast, the world's biggest heating oil market, is experiencing its warmest December 3 in more than a decade, according to weather forecasters. Full Story »
Storms to hit Philippine growth, raise poverty: World Bank
Reuters – Wed Dec 2, 5:39 am ET

MANILA (Reuters) - Two typhoons which struck the Philippines' main island of Luzon in recent months will probably dampen growth in the near term, stretch state finances and push 480,000 people into poverty, a post-disaster report showed on Wednesday. Full Story »