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Billions of dollars in storm, weather damage mark 2011, setting U.S. record
WASHINGTON (AP) -- America's wild weather year has set another record: a dozen billion-dollar catastrophes.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Wednesday that it has recalculated the number of weather disasters passing the billion-...Tags: Environmental Issues, Global Warming, Meteorological Disasters, Weather, Foreign Exchange Market
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Vikings' players playing 'avoid the media'
MINNEAPOLIS - Two light purple bar doors separate the Vikings' locker room from the rest of the team's Winter Park facility. And on many days, those swinging doors can seem a lot like the curtains on Let's Make a Deal. Who's behind there? Which Viking...Tags: Adrian Peterson, Christian Ponder, Jamarca Sanford, Chad Greenway, Brian Robison
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Interactive look back at the year's billion dollar weather disasters
From extreme drought, heat waves and floods to unprecedented tornado outbreaks, hurricanes, wildfires and winter storms, a record 12 weather and climate disasters in 2011 each caused $1 billion or more in damages — and most regrettably, loss of...Tags: Hurricanes, Meteorological Disasters, Weather, Tropical Weather, Disasters and Accidents
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Year of Extreme Weather: Snowmageddon
The Hartford CourantA year ago, the season's first dusting of snow veered east over Cape Cod and the forecasters were reassuring. Take heart, snow lovers, they said. Your day will come. It did. Over and over again, with back-breaking, bone-chilling, roof-flattening...Tags: April Fools' Day, Holidays, East Hartford, Newington, Religious Festivals
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Readers: Hey, Tom Skilling, wasn't this supposed to be an awful winter?
Isn't the weather pleasant for December? Trib Nation asked WGN Chief Meteorologist Tom Skilling about the temperate temperatures, and why the seasonal picture now seems to be shaping up so differently from October predictions of another catastrophic...Tags: Tom Skilling, Illinois State Toll Highway Authority, Journalism, Social Media, Science
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Local Groundhogs Likely to be Sleeping on Feb. 2
TribLocal - ElmhurstGroundhog Day is on its way, when dozens of towns across the country look to local groundhogs to determine how long winter weather will wait …... -
Scientists take bite of 'alien' space cloud that encompasses us
Nation NowAlien space cloud: Our solar system is adrift in an "alien" cloud, and NASA, at long last, has tapped into this interstellar wonder.... -
Groundhog Day 2012: Will N.Y. Mayor Bloomberg be bitten again?
Nation NowGroundhog Day 2012: Groundhog Day is upon us. Sure, we want to know the weather prediction, but what we really want to know is this: Will New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg get bitten again by Staten Island Chuck?... -
Indiana right-to-work law: Gov. Mitch Daniels makes it done deal
Nation NowIndiana right-to-work law: Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels on Wednesday signed a measure making Indiana the first in the nation’s Rust Belt to have a right- work-law.... -
Indoor tanning: Not as sunny as depicted, Congress' Democrats say
Nation NowThe indoor tanning industry is providing false and misleading information about the health risks of tanning, congressional Democrats say. Their criticism follows an investigation in which their staff, including college interns, phoned salons... -
Indiana will become first Rust Belt state with right-to-work law
Nation NowIndiana Gov. Mitch Daniels will make the state the first in the Rust Belt -- once the home of powerful unions -- to have a right-to-work law. The Indiana measure received final legislative passage Wednesday morning.... -
Philadelphia cardinal Bevilacqua dies; tenure marred by sex abuse
Nation NowCardinal Anthony J. Bevilacqua, former head of the Philadelphia archdiocese, was accused during his 15-year tenure of ignoring sexual abuse of children by hundreds of priests. Bevilacqua died Tuesday night....
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