News Noreaster churns up East Coast bringing rare April snowflakes, rain and high winds
04-23-2012
http://www.washingtonpost.com, By Associated Press
A spring noreaster packing soaking rain and high winds churned up the Northeast Monday morning, unleashing a burst of winter and up to a foot of snow in higher elevations inland, closing some schools and sparking concerns of power outages.
News MAPS: March Was an Epically Weird Weather Month
04-14-2012
http://motherjones.com, By Julia Whitty
March was a whole new breed of insane for the record books according to NOAA's State of the Climate report for the month.
News Will Climate Refugees Get Promised Aid?
04-09-2012
www.commondreams.org, by Marwaan Macan-Markar
With extreme weather pounding countries across a wide arc in the Asia-Pacific region, questions hover over entitlements for millions of people displaced by climate change
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News Anchorage breaks seasonal snowfall record
04-08-2012
http://edition.cnn.com, CNN Wire Staff
While winter is a distant memory for most Americans, it continues unabated in Anchorage, Alaska
News Space Weather Study Could Illuminate Alien Planet Climates
04-07-2012
http://www.space.com, Staff
The U.K. agency tasked with monitoring the country's weather forecasts is expanding its research on how space weather affects Earth and the atmospheres of alien planets around other stars.
News Winds at 140 km/h: Strongest storm in decades batters Japan (VIDEO, PHOTOS)
04-04-2012
http://rt.com
A powerful rainstorm is battering Japan, paralyzing traffic and leaving thousands of homes without electricity.
News And You Thought That Heat Wave Was Bad?
03-29-2012
http://motherjones.com,
Climatologist Matthew Huber on our broiling, miserable, wish-it-were-sci-fi future.
News Global Warming May Force Pacific Nation of Kiribati to Move to Fiji
03-10-2012
http://www.commondreams.org, by Abby Zimet
In what could be the first climate-induced relocation of a country, the leaders of the low-lying archipelago of Kiribati plan to buy nearly 6,000 acres on Fiji in case rising tides force their entire population to leave.
News Decoding The Allure Of The Almanac
03-05-2012
by Scott Neuman
There's been something wacky with the weather this winter, and many forecasters never saw it coming.
News Rescuers scour rubble for survivors after tornadoes kill dozens in Midwest, South
03-03-2012
By the CNN Wire Staff
Rescuers searched for survivors Saturday after powerful storms spawned tornadoes that killed dozens as they ripped through the South and Midwest, flattening towns and turning churches into shelters.
News Tornadoes Slow, With Destruction In Their Wake
03-03-2012
by Dana Farrington
As night approached, the death toll rose in areas affected by extreme weather in the Midwest and the South. Towns have been wrecked and the number of people missing is unclear.
News Tornado Threat Looms Large in Storm-Rattled Midwest and South
03-02-2012
By KEVIN DOLAK, KATIE KINDELAN, CATHERINE COLE and
Stronger twisters and extreme weather are expected today to again hit the areas of the Midwest and South rattled earlier this week by 33 confirmed tornadoes that left 13 people dead.
News At Least 12 People Killed In Deadly Midwest Storms
03-01-2012
by Eyder Peralta
A line of severe storms moving across the Midwest left death and destruction in its wake early today.
News Deadly tornadoes pound Midwest
02-29-2012
CBS/AP
Twisters roared through the nation's heartland in the early morning darkness Wednesday, flattening entire blocks of homes in small-town Illinois and Kansas and killing at least nine people.
News Europe cold snap claims 260 lives, causes ferry scare
02-05-2012
www.rawstory.com
Hundreds of people were rescued Saturday after a ferry caught in a snow storm hit a breakwater off Italy, as a vicious cold snap that has claimed over 260 lives across Europe tightened its grip.
Ukraine has suffered the heaviest toll with 122 dea
News Snow falls in Rome for the first time in 26 YEARS
02-03-2012
www.dailymail.co.uk -36c temperatures across eastern Europe send death toll to 150
News Snow falls in Rome for the first time in 26 YEARS
02-03-2012
www.dailymail.co.uk
Snow fell in Rome today for the first time in 26 years as freezing temperatures took the death toll across Europe to more than 150.
News Pa. groundhog 'predicts' 6 more weeks of winter
02-02-2012
www.news.yahoo.com
Pennsylvania's Punxsutawney Phil emerged from his lair to "see" his shadow on Thursday, in the process predicting six more weeks of winter.
News Military Jet Being Transformed from 'Tank Killer' to 'Storm Penetrator
11-19-2011
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Tornado chasing is already extreme, but it's about to be taken to a whole new level.
The National Science Foundation will spend $10 million to convert a A-10 Thunderbolt attack aircraft, aka "tank killer," into a severe storm penetrator.
News Geomagnetic field going wild: Winter superstorms likely
10-31-2011
Terrence Aym
NASA and the ESA agree the Earth is going into an extended cooling period in the years ahead. Some experts even believe it could thrust the Northern Hemisphere into a mini-Ice Age lasting decades. But the winter of 2011 to 2012 may shape up to be hor
Terrence Aym
News Winter Storm in Fall Leaves Millions Without Power
10-31-2011
TheSlatest.com
A large winter storm that caused flight delays and surprised residents across the Northeast with heavy snow has left nearly 3 million customers without power and three people dead.
News Snow in forecast for mountains around Aspen
09-15-2011
www.aspentimes.com
A slow-moving storm is expected to bring the mountains surrounding Aspen an early taste of snow on Wednesday night, according to the National Weather Service.
News Who Serves During Disaster?
09-12-2011
mises.org
Mayor Mike Bloomberg's plan for New York City with hurricane Irene bearing down on the Big Apple was to evacuate residents and force businesses to close in low-lying areas.
News NASA Satellites Watch as Hurricane Irene Bears Down on East Coast
08-29-2011
www.popsci.com
If you live in the eastern time zone, odds are you're battening down the hatches in advance of Hurricane Irene, a Category 2 monster threatening much of the eastern seaboard. Coastal communities are under mandatory evacuation orders in several states
News Japan Tsunami Video From Inside a Car!
07-19-2011
wimp.com via e-mail fom a friend
I couldn't stop watching. It's still hard to imagine, even after seeing it.
Headlines: Japan Tsunami Video From Inside a Car! -- NASA Satellites Watch as Hurricane Irene Bears Down on East Coast -- Who Serves During Disaster? -- Snow in forecast for mountains around Aspen -- National Digital Forecast Database -- Winter Storm in Fall Leaves Millions Without Power -- Geomagnetic field going wild: Winter superstorms likely -- Military Jet Being Transformed from 'Tank Killer' to 'Storm Penetrator -- Pa. groundhog 'predicts' 6 more weeks of winter -- Snow falls in Rome for the first time in 26 YEARS -- Snow falls in Rome for the first time in 26 YEARS -- Europe cold snap claims 260 lives, causes ferry scare -- Deadly tornadoes pound Midwest -- At Least 12 People Killed In Deadly Midwest Storms -- Tornado Threat Looms Large in Storm-Rattled Midwest and South -- Tornadoes Slow, With Destruction In Their Wake -- Rescuers scour rubble for survivors after tornadoes kill dozens in Midwest, South -- Decoding The Allure Of The Almanac -- Global Warming May Force Pacific Nation of Kiribati to Move to Fiji -- And You Thought That Heat Wave Was Bad? -- Winds at 140 km/h: Strongest storm in decades batters Japan (VIDEO, PHOTOS) -- Space Weather Study Could Illuminate Alien Planet Climates -- Anchorage breaks seasonal snowfall record -- Will Climate Refugees Get Promised Aid? -- MAPS: March Was an Epically Weird Weather Month -- Noreaster churns up East Coast bringing rare April snowflakes, rain and high winds --