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NOAA predicts another busy hurricane season

NOAA predicts another busy hurricane season

Published by on May 23, 2013

(Photo: Wikipedia) COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) — Federal forecasters are predicting yet another busy hurricane season. Thursday’s outlook calls for 13 to 20 named storms, 7 to 11 that strengthen into hurricanes and 3 to 6 that become major hurricanes. The prediction by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is more than what’s considered an average Atlantic season. Last year… Read more →

iReporter Jeff Lechus talks about driving to pick up his son from school as a tornado hit the area.

The Oklahoma City Medical Examiner’s Office says the death toll from a massive tornado that churned through Oklahoma City Monday has been downgraded from 51 to at least 24.

“To date, 24 deceased victims of the tornado have been transported to our Oklahoma City Office, and positive identification have been made in the vast majority of those, and these are ready for return to their loved ones,” spokeswoman Amy Elliott told FoxNews.com in an e-mail.

Seven of the bodies are children.

Elliott said during early recovery efforts, 51 deaths were reported to the medical examiner’s office, but some of them may have been double-counted.

 

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Deadly Twisters Rip Through Midwest — with More Storms on the Horizon

Published by on May 20, 2013

At least one person has been killed and 21 injured in Oklahoma as a severe storm system generated several tornadoes Sunday in Kansas, Oklahoma and Iowa, leveling neighborhoods and sending frightened residents scurrying for shelter as extreme conditions are expected to linger across the Midwest. The tornadoes, high winds and hail were part of a massive, northeastward-moving storm system that… Read more →

Texas tornadoes: 6 dead, dozens injured

Published by on May 16, 2013

Photo: (Mike Fuentes/AP) Officials and residents in north Texas had to wait until daybreak to assess the damage caused by a string of tornadoes that touched down Wednesday night, leaving at least six people dead, dozens injured and hundreds homeless. In Granbury, Texas, about 65 miles southwest of Dallas, about 50 people were injured, Hood County Sheriff Roger Deeds said. Of… Read more →

Amazing, Historic Snowstorm From Texas to Michigan

Published by on May 2, 2013

The list containing the number of locations that have received record May snowfall from a storm that brought up to 2 feet of snow over the central Rockies continues to grow. The storm is still going on Thursday and could reach even more unlikely locations over the Plains, Midwest and the South before it is all said and done. Omaha,… Read more →

Flooding threatens already drenched Midwest, South

Published by on April 24, 2013

(CNN) – A powerful spring cold snap brings more rain and snow to a soggy U.S. heartland Wednesday, putting more pressure on riverside communities from the upper Midwest to the Deep South. The residents of Grafton, Illinois, north of St. Louis, will see the worst of the floodwaters through Friday as the Mississippi River peaks at more than 11 feet above… Read more →

Big freeze in Poland

Published by on April 1, 2013

http://www.euronews.com/ Heavy snowfall has caused chaos in Poland. Up to 100,000 homes in central and western parts of the country had to go without electricity after a combination of the snow and falling trees caused power cuts. Authorities said road conditions remain difficult, although all main roads are passable.

Germany Faces Coldest March Since 1883

Published by on March 28, 2013

Photo: DPA Complaining about the weather has reached epidemic proportions in northern Germany this “spring.” And with good reason. With Easter just around the corner, meteorologists are telling us this could end up being the coldest March in Berlin and its surroundings since records began in the 1880s. Easter, after all, may be upon us. But spring weather most definitely… Read more →