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Big Hail Is Bad | Wired Science

Seeded on Sat May 12, 2012 2:09 AM EDT (Wired News)

I have other stuff to do, but I can’t continue after seeing this video of baseball-sized hail in St. Louis.

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Newfoundland & Labrador - RECORD APRIL HEAT & EARLY SUMMER PREVIEW

Seeded on Tue May 1, 2012 11:37 PM EDT (CBC)

This April finished with an temperature average of 5.4°, which is an all time monthly record. The previous YYT weather station record for April was 4.3°, set back in 1986. However the all time record we beat, was from the OLD St. John's Weather station, which was 5.3&de …

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Warming could stunt Corn Belt

Seeded on Tue Apr 10, 2012 1:43 PM EDT (Latest News)

PEORIA — The Corn Belt may be in trouble as the planet gets warmer, according to a decadelong research effort on climate change. The study, published this week by a team at Northern Arizona University, shows that plants may thrive in the early stages of a warming enviro …

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Anchorage, Alaska Breaks Seasonal Snowfall Record

Seeded on Mon Apr 9, 2012 7:42 AM EDT ()

An epic winter in Anchorage, became an historic one Saturday afternoon. With several inches of new snowfall, according to the National Weather Service, the city officially broke the all-time record of 132.6 inches of snow. That record snowfall came in the winter of 1954-55, bef …

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Texas Drought Pushes Sandhill Cranes to the North:

Seeded on Sat Apr 7, 2012 2:59 AM EDT (Bloomberg.com)

Sandhill Cranes gather in a cornfield near the Rowe Sanctuary, south of Gibbon, on Monday, Jan. 16, 2012. The cranes usually spend the winter further south in Texas and Oklahoma but due to drought conditions many cranes have been spending the winter in Kansas and Nebraska. In …

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McAllen says 1,100 buildings damaged by hail

Seeded on Wed Apr 4, 2012 1:51 AM EDT ()

McALLEN — The freak hailstorm that battered McAllen late Thursday damaged more than 1,100 buildings, according to a block-by-block damage assessment conducted by city workers. Most damage occurred in central and north McAllen, where baseball-sized hail pummeled homes and bus …

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March Heat Records Crush Cold Records by Over 35 To 1, Scientists Say Global Warming Loaded The Dice

Seeded on Wed Apr 4, 2012 12:47 AM EDT (Think Progress)

The final data is in for the unprecedented March heat wave that was “unmatched in recorded history” for the U.S. (and Canada).

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"Strong" Links of Manmade Heat, Rainfall Extremes: Study | Climate Central

Seeded on Sat Mar 31, 2012 6:59 PM EDT ()

Following on the heels of the March heat wave, which was one of the most remarkable extreme weather events on record in the U.S., are two new scientific papers that discuss the relationship between extreme weather events and global climate change. Both studies help frame the d …

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Many northern Minnesota lakes ice-free in March for first time on record

Seeded on Sat Mar 31, 2012 6:57 PM EDT (Duluth News Tribune)

Northern Minnesota lakes continue to lose their ice at all-time record early dates — even big Ontario border lakes like Gunflint, Crane and Sand Point — all ice-free in March for the first time on record. Gunflint Lake, which more often loses its ice in May, lost i …

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March temperatures shatter records - chicagotribune.com

Seeded on Sat Mar 31, 2012 5:58 PM EDT (Chicago Tribune)

This month will be the warmest March on record both in Chicago and statewide by the time it comes to a close at midnight Saturday, shattering temperature records that stood for decades, weather experts said Friday. The average daily temperature in Illinois through Thursday was …

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Cities Clinch Warmest March on Record

Seeded on Sat Mar 31, 2012 5:13 PM EDT (The Weather Channel)

We're wrapping up an extraordinary March, one many folks won't soon forget. From violent tornadoes to unusual hailstorms to nearly 15,000 new records for daily high temperatures and warm nighttime lows, March has seemed like a time warp, with many communities having pole-vault …

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Great Lakes ice cover down 71% since 1973

Seeded on Sat Mar 31, 2012 3:42 AM EDT (Weather Underground)

Ice cover on North America's Great Lakes--Superior, Michigan, Huron, Ontario, and Erie--has declined 71% since 1973, says a new study published in the Journal of Climate by researchers at NOAA's Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory. The biggest loser of ice during the …

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New Archaeology Technique Exposes 8,000 Years Of Civilization - Space News - redOrbit

Seeded on Thu Mar 22, 2012 12:38 AM EDT ()

An archaeologist from Harvard University is using computers and satellites images to search the Earth for early human settlements. Jason Ur, the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences, worked with Bjoern Menze, a researcher at MIT, to develop a system that ide …

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Jellyfish inspires latest ocean-powered robot

Seeded on Wed Mar 21, 2012 10:38 PM EDT (Science Daily)

ScienceDaily (Mar. 21, 2012) — American researchers have created a robotic jellyfish, named Robojelly, which not only exhibits characteristics ideal to use in underwater search and rescue operations, but could, theoretically at least, never run out of energy thanks to it …

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APNewsBreak: Agricultural losses hit $7.62 billion

Seeded on Wed Mar 21, 2012 5:05 PM EDT (CBS News)

HOUSTON — The driest year in Texas history has caused record-setting agricultural losses, costing the state's farmers and ranchers about $7.62 billion in 2011, the Texas AgriLife Extension Service said Wednesday. The estimate provided to The Associated Press before its p …

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Heat Wave Sends Temps Soaring Into Uncharted Territory ·

Seeded on Wed Mar 21, 2012 2:52 PM EDT ()

The March heat wave went from extreme to downright unprecedented in parts of the Midwest on Tuesday, as Chicago, Detroit and areas all the way north into Canada shattered longstanding records. So many records have been broken — 3,550 record daily highs and 3,109 daily war …

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Stubborn drought expected to tax Mexico for years

Seeded on Wed Mar 21, 2012 1:43 PM EDT (Reuters)

* Current drought seen as sign of drier years to come * Government bracing for climate change damage * Water authority sees need for $24 billion investment By Mica Rosenberg and Noe Torres CHIHUAHUA, Mexico, March 21 (Reuters) - A severe drought in Mexico that has cost farm …

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Flooding Rain Pounds Australia

Seeded on Mon Mar 19, 2012 1:03 PM EDT (AccuWeather.com)

Heaviest rain, many spots having 250 to 500 mm (about 10 to 20 inches) since last Friday, pelted coastal Queensland from Cairns to Townsville and Mackay. A 24-hour fall of 418 mm (16.5 inches) was registered at Black River north of Townsville, the ABC said. An automated rain g …

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Historic March Heat Wave Sets New Milestones

Seeded on Mon Mar 19, 2012 1:01 PM EDT ()

The March heat wave continues to shatter longstanding records from the Upper Midwest to the Northeast, with more than 2,200 warm temperature records set during the month so far. It’s quite possible that this March heat wave will be considered as an unprecedented event in …

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The Glass House Effect: Heartland Institute Tried To Steal Documents From Greenpeace | ThinkProgress

Seeded on Mon Mar 19, 2012 12:35 PM EDT (Think Progress)

A Heartland Institute front man phoned a Greenpeace activist and lied about his identity in an effort to get her to turn over UN climate conference documents to which he had no legitimate access. Heartland senior fellow James Taylor then boasted about the scam in a press releas …

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CapitalClimate: Preliminary Data Lift March Heat Records to Nearly 19 Times Cold Records

Seeded on Sun Mar 18, 2012 5:31 PM EDT ()

The surge of early spring heat records reached over 400 yesterday alone in preliminary reports from the National Climatic Data Center. This includes 68 official National Weather Service locations out of 290 possible records. In other words, over 23% of all official reporting lo …

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Summer in March continues for Midwest; Dexter, MI tornado an E F-3

Seeded on Sat Mar 17, 2012 2:04 PM EDT (Weather Underground)

For the third consecutive day, Chicago, Illinois hit their warmest temperature on record so early in the year, going back to 1872. The mercury hit 82°F, giving the city its third consecutive day of 80°+ temperatures, smashing the old record by a month. Previously, the e …

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Global Warming: Pine beetles thriving at higher elevations

Seeded on Fri Mar 16, 2012 11:25 PM EDT ()

The effects seem particularly pronounced at higher elevations, where warmer temperatures have facilitated beetle attacks. In the last two decades at the Mountain Research Station, mean annual temperatures were 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than they were in the previous two dec …

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Monarch Butterfly Numbers Take a Hit

Seeded on Fri Mar 16, 2012 4:05 PM EDT (Live Science)

Monarch butterflies have taken a hit this year, according to researchers who monitor the colorful insects' numbers at their traditional overwintering grounds in a forest in central Mexico. This winter's surviving population covers only about 7 acres (2.89 hectares), almost a t …

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Early spring drives butterfly population declines: 'Ahead-of-time' snowmelt triggers chains of events in the Mormon Fritillary butterfly

Seeded on Fri Mar 16, 2012 3:58 PM EDT (Science Daily)

ScienceDaily (Mar. 16, 2012) — Early snowmelt caused by climate change in the Colorado Rocky Mountains snowballs into two chains of events: a decrease in the number of flowers, which, in turn, decreases available nectar. The result is decline in a population of the Mormon …

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Hello, new friend!

I don't live in Colorado now, but did for almost 20 years. Boulder (worked at Ball Aerospace), Longmont, Fort Collins, Allens Park (near Estes).

Are you near any of those places?
— Physicist-retired