News on Weather

Wind, rain knock out power to 450K in Northeast

2010-03-13T18:00:14Z

<div id="subtitle">Strong wind, rain in Northeast knock out power for 450,000, diverts flights from NY to Mass.</div><div><p>Strong winds and heavy rain pounded parts of the Northeast on Saturday, knocking out power to more than 450,000 customers, diverting international flights and toppling a boom crane at an Atlantic City casino construction site, injuring one police officer.</p><p>The winds downed tr...

Tropical storm Hubert leaves 14 dead in Madagascar

2010-03-13T07:15:20Z

<div><p>At least 14 people were killed and nearly 38,000 left homeless when tropical storm Hubert smashed into Madagascar this week, authorities said Saturday.</p><p>"So far we have counted 14 dead, two missing and 37,891 homeless on the east coast," of the Indian Ocean island, the press service of the nati...

The nation's weather

2010-03-13T02:30:25Z

<div id="subtitle">The nation's weather</div><div><p>The East was expected to remain quite active on Saturday as a complex of low pressure systems rotated through the area.</p><p>These storms were to carry a significant amount of moisture that was to translate to widespread precipitation from the Upper Mississippi Valley through the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast. The heaviest rain was forecast to...

Crop Circles

2010-03-13T08:22:48Z

"The storms about this part of Western Surrey have been lately local and violent, and the effects produced in some instances curious. Visiting a neighbour's farm on Wednesday evening (21st), we found a field of standing wheat considerably knocked about, not as an entirety, but in patches forming, as viewed from a distance, circular spots. I could not trace locally any circumstances accounting for the peculiar forms of the patches in the field, nor i...

Floods kill 20, destroy dams in Kazakhstan

2010-03-12T04:00:10Z

<div><p>ALMATY (Reuters) - Around 20 people died and thousands were evacuated in Kazakhstan on Friday after severe floods destroyed two dams in the south of the Central Asian state, the emergencies ministry said.</p><p>Separately, a helicopter crashed in stormy weather during a parallel rescue operation in easter...

Starving sea lion pups wash up on Calif. beaches

2010-03-11T21:45:23Z

<div id="subtitle">Starving sea lion pups wash up on Calif. beaches, experts blame El Nino ocean currents</div><div><p>Marine mammal experts say dozens of hungry and sick sea lion pups have washed up on Southern California beaches this winter and many have died at rescue centers.</p><p>Veterinarian Richard Evans said Thursday that the Taiwan could experience even bigger mudslides than those that buried hundreds alive last year, when the worst typhoon in half a century hit the island, experts warned Thursday.</p><p>Typhoon Morakot touched off massive landslides in August, killing about 700 people, including an estimated 400 buried in the village of Hsiaolin alone.</p><p>...

Whale Sushi Sting

2010-03-10T19:17:52Z

The Hump Restaurant, located on the floor above the Typhoon Restaurant, is seen in Santa Monica, Calif., Wednesday, March 10, 2010. Federal prosecutors Wednesday filed a criminal complaint that charges Typhoon Restaurant, Inc. – the parent company of The Hump restaurant – and Atlantic City's casinos buried in bad financial news</div><div><p>The snowiest month ever recorded in Atlantic City kept would-be gamblers frozen in their homes in February, contributing to a 15.7 percent decrease in casino revenues.</p><p>The 11 casinos in the nation's second-largest gambling market took in $261.6 million last month as three major snowstorms ...

How Snow Removal Companies Work

2010-03-10T09:33:52Z

With the winter weather seeming to get worse with each passing year a service that is starting to grow in popularity is snow removal. Snow removal companies are a welcomed sight to see when the snow has fallen several inches overnight and you still need to get to work.<br><br>Sure you can always shovel yourself out, but many people either don?t have the time or the patience needed to conduct this arduous task. Many snow removal companies are also landscaping companies in the warme...

After slow start, tornado season under way

2010-03-09T15:00:36Z

<div id="subtitle">Oklahoma tornado destroys homes, kicks off action in Tornado Alley after slow start to season</div><div><p>Forecasters say a wetter-than-usual winter and a jet stream ripping over the part of the country known as "Tornado Alley" could lead to an active spring — perhaps starting with the strong twister that nicked a small western Oklahoma town Monday night.</p><p>"It's time to get ready,"

Snow snarls traffic, strands thousands in southern Europe

2010-03-09T12:18:56Z

<div><p>Heavy snow Tuesday stranded thousands of road travellers on the French-Spanish border, blanketed Italian cities and left 10,000 homes in Corsica without power.</p><p>A freak snowstorm dumped more than a metre (3.3 feet) of snow on the Pyrenees mountains, stranding more than 6,000 travellers Tuesday and blocking some 40 roads between France and France and Spain.</p><p>Barcelona on Monday saw its heaviest snowfall since 1962, triggering emergency measures. Disruption was felt across the region, as far away...

Rain, warm weather could spark Midwest flood

2010-03-08T10:00:08Z

<div><p>CHICAGO (Reuters) - Rains and warmer weather this week could trigger flooding in portions of the Midwest grain belt, prompting concerns of delays to field work ahead of seeding the corn and soy crops, a forecaster said on Monday.</p><p>Farmers in top grain states like Iowa and

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NASA's high-tech GOES-P weather satellite lifts off

2010-03-04T17:16:10Z

<div><p>NASA on Thursday launched the latest in its family of high-tech meteorological satellites, adding to a constellation of spacecraft that watch storm development and weather conditions on Earth.</p><p>The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-P (GOES-P) lifted off from Cape Canaveral in Florida at 6:57 pm (2357...

El Nino dissipating, but may linger through 2010

2010-03-04T13:16:11Z

<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters) - The deadly El Nino weather anomaly should dissipate by early summer in the northern hemisphere, but there is a chance a weak version will linger for the rest of 2010, according to a U.S. government report issued Thursday.</p><p>The federal government's Climate Prediction Center said in a monthly up...

Katrina victims seek to sue greenhouse gas emitters

2010-03-04T10:20:24Z

<div><p>Victims of Hurricane Katrina are seeking to sue carbon gas-emitting multinationals for helping fuel global warming and boosting the devastating 2005 storm, legal documents showed.</p><p>The class action suit brought by residents from southern Mississippi, which was ravaged by hurricane-force winds and driving rains, was first filed just weeks aft...

Park Service predicts peak for DC cherry blossoms

2010-03-04T10:15:43Z

<div id="subtitle">National Park Service predicts DC's peak cherry blossom bloom will start April 3</div><div><p>Those famous pink and white flowers in Washington are expected to bloom on schedule on trees around the nation's capital as soon as the end of March, the National Park Service predicted Thursday.</p><p>Horticultural...

Economy

2010-03-03T13:19:57Z

FILE - In this Feb. 26, 2010 file photo, people shovel snow off a sidewalk in front of businesses as pedestrians make their way during a snowstorm in the Brooklyn Borough of New York. The economy has continued its slow growth but harsh snowstorms crimped activity along the East Coast last month, according to a