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Eastern U.S. sees warm Christmas, winter storm looms for Plains
2015-12-25 19:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Much of the U.S. East Coast basked in unseasonable warmth on Christmas Day with record high temperatures set or tied in several cities, including New York, even as a tornado hit Alabama and a major winter storm loomed for the southern Rockies and Great Plains. The twister in Birmingham, Alabama, late on Friday afternoon damaged several homes, uprooted trees and caused a handful of minor injuries, police and weather officials reported. National Weather Service meteorologist Jody Aaron said the...
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Winter storm knocked out power to more than 400,000 over three days
2015-03-03 01:16:53| Energy - Topix.net
Duke Energy says last week's winter storm knocked out power to more than 400,000 Carolinas customers over three days. The most out any one time was about 220,000 customers who found themselves in the dark early Feb. 25. The storms did the most damage in the Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill region.
Another winter storm to pummel eastern United States with snow & sleet
2015-02-21 19:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A fresh band of winter weather was churning up the East Coast on Saturday after pummeling parts of the South and Midwest, threatening to pile up more snow in storm-weary Boston and send the region back into a deep freeze. The system cut a curving, 2,000-mile path from southern Missouri to Maine, with a winter storm warning in effect until Sunday for parts of southern Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia and western Pennsylvania, the National Weather Service (NWS) said. In Kentucky and Tennessee, forecasters...
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Winter storm edges U.S. Northeast near new snowfall records
2015-02-09 15:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A massive snowstorm that parked itself over the northeastern United States on Monday was forecast to drop up to two feet (60 cm) of snow over a region that has been repeatedly pounded over the past two weeks, closing schools and snarling travel. Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker asked residents of the state to avoid traveling, Boston's mass-transit system was operating on a limited scheduled and a majority of flights at Boston's Logan International Airport had been canceled by early Monday...
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Winter storm expose vulnerability nuclear power plants
2015-01-30 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: Two days after a major New England blizzard contributed to the shutdown of the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Plymouth, Mass., the facility remains closed. Due to climate change, more of the most extreme precipitation events, such as this recent snowfall, are expected to slam the area in the coming decades. Nuclear power critics cite the Pilgrim shutdown as proof the industry isn't ready now--and won't be any time soon. Federal regulators counter that several initiatives to improve nuclear...
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