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New York Nears Record Snowfall After Blizzard Pummels City, East Coast

2016-01-23 23:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

NY Magazine: The Latest As of midnight Saturday, a light snow is still falling in New York City, where a total snowfall of as much as 30 inches was forecast from the powerful storm. Regardless, it has already become the second biggest snowstorm in the city's recorded history (since 1869). Snowfall in Central Park had reached 26.8 inches as of midnight, just one tenth of an inch short of matching the all-time record, which the storm will still likely break. In addition, Saturday was already the snowiest single...

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UK flights cancelled due to US east coast blizzard

2016-01-23 18:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: The huge blizzard affecting much of the US east coast has also caused travel disruption in the UK, with at least 45 flights cancelled on Saturday. Inbound and outbound flights from major airports across the country are being affected by the US weather system. Ten US state governors have declared emergencies and at least eight people have died, mostly in car accidents on icy roads. Residents have been told to stay at home until the blizzard subsides. More than 4,300 flights into, within,...

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Millions prepare potentially 'paralyzing' east coast winter storm

2016-01-23 00:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Millions of people across a dozen states are bracing for a weekend of travel disruption, possible power outages and white-out conditions as a potentially paralyzing winter storm begins to bear down on the eastern US on Friday. Washington DC is at the center of the blizzards aim. Forecasters have warned residents of the nations capital to brace for more than 30in of snow and wind gusts up to 50mph in some places. If predictions are accurate, snow totals in the District could shatter records...

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Ex-Alaska Airlines pilot charged with flying drunk on the West Coast

2016-01-22 20:39:44| Airlines - Topix.net

A former Alaska Airlines pilot has been charged with flying two passenger flights between California and Oregon in 2014 while under the influence of alcohol, federal prosecutors said. David Arntson, 60, was arrested on Wednesday and arraigned in U.S. court in Los Angeles on a felony charge of piloting a plane with passengers after drinking, Eileen Decker, U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California, said in a statement on Thursday.

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