Category Archives: Weather

Oil complicates forecasts on hurricane season

By doris | Published: May 31, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com VENICE, La. – As hurricane season approaches, the giant oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is taking weather forecasters into nearly uncharted waters. The Gulf is a superhighway for hurricanes that form or explode over pools of hot water, then usually move north or west toward the coast. It’s now [...]

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Telethon Raises $1.5 Million for Nashville

By doris | Published: May 25, 2010

Full Story at gnn.com NASHVILLE, Tenn. (MAY 17) — Country music singers Brad Paisley, Keith Urban and Lady Antebellum joined other entertainment stars in performing and answering phones to help raise more than $1.5 million for flood relief for Tennessee.“If there is a silver lining, it’s that the world is getting to see Nashville at [...]

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Efforts to stop leak under way after oil rig explosion

By doris | Published: April 27, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Efforts were under way Sunday to contain and stop oil leaking from a well after a rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico, the U.S. Coast Guard said. Officials found oil was leaking Saturday from the well. The Deepwater Horizon oil rig was drilling when it exploded Tuesday night, [...]

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Groundhog sees shadow, more winter

By doris | Published: February 3, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Punxsutawney Phil, America’s most famous rodent prognosticator, saw his shadow Tuesday, signaling six more weeks of winter. Phil emerged from his ceremonial tree stump at Gobbler’s Knob, Pennsylvania, to a cheering crowd that had waited in the cold for his annual prediction. It is the 99th time that Phil [...]

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China vows to slow carbon emissions growth

By doris | Published: November 27, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com BEIJING – China announced plans Thursday to cut its carbon emissions by up to 45 percent as measured against its economic output — a commitment from the world’s largest polluter that builds momentum ahead of a widely anticipated climate conference in Copenhagen next month. The announcement comes a day after President [...]

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Authorities search house in ‘balloon boy’ case

By doris | Published: October 18, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com Heene is the storm-chasing father whose giant Mylar balloon ascended into the sky late last week, sparking fears that his 6-year-old son Falcon was aboard. A dispatcher with the Larimer County Sheriff’s Department declined to release any information about the search, but said the office will hold a news conference at [...]

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Flood rescuer repeats father’s heroic actions

By doris | Published: October 4, 2009

Full Story atCNN.com The youngest of five children, he was only 8 when his father died. For three decades, he’d carried with him mere snapshots of memories: Family time at Christmas. Riding on the back of Dad’s motorcycle. Tommie Stephney’s love for drag-racing. But as the 37-year-old Douglasville, Georgia, man set out September 22 to [...]

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India launches satellite for ocean study

By doris | Published: September 24, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com NEW DELHI, India (CNN) — India on Wednesday launched a second satellite to study oceans. The cube-shaped Oceansat-2 will monitor the interaction between oceans and the atmosphere, as part of climate studies, according to the country’s main space agency. The satellite, launched from India’s southeast coast, carried six nanosatellites from European [...]

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Greenland’s frozen landscape warming up

By doris | Published: September 23, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com Delicious,” he says, kissing the tips of his fingers on one hand, making the universal sign for good tasting food. William tells me he went out on a boat with some friends a few days ago and shot the whale. I’m not sure how I feel about this. Welcome to Greenland. [...]

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Tropical Storm Claudette makes landfall in Fla.

By doris | Published: August 17, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com PENSACOLA BEACH, Fla. – Tropical Storm Claudette made landfall on the Florida Panhandle early Monday, making it the first named storm to hit the U.S. mainland this year. Even before its arrival, Claudette dumped heavy rains in some areas Sunday. But it was not expected to cause significant flooding or wind [...]

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Federal water may be cut off from Calif. farms

By doris | Published: February 21, 2009

Full Story At msnbc.com SACRAMENTO – Federal water managers said Friday that they plan to cut off water, at least temporarily, to thousands of California farms as a result of the deepening drought gripping the state. U.S. Bureau of Reclamation officials said parched reservoirs and patchy rainfall this year were forcing them to completely stop [...]

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Man who froze had history of late utility payments

By doris | Published: February 19, 2009

Full Story At  CNN.com A review of records by city workers reveals Schur, at one point, went to his own bank to make back payments, but was unable to do so because that bank was not an approved pay station for the city. “Maybe he had dementia. I don’t know that. We may never know,” [...]

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Meals sent to Ky., Ark. had recalled peanut butter

By doris | Published: February 5, 2009

Full Story At Yahoo! News LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Officials on Thursday warned victims of last week’s ice storm not to eat peanut butter packets from emergency meal kits distributed by the federal government because they had been recalled for possible salmonella contamination. The kits were shipped to Arkansas and Kentucky to help feed some of [...]

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Mixed Reviews For FEMA’s Kentucky Response

By doris | Published: February 3, 2009

Full Story At  CBS News (CBS/AP) In the first real test of the Obama administration’s ability to respond to a disaster, senior Kentucky officials are giving the federal government good marks for its response to a deadly ice storm. Yet more than 300,000 residents remained without power Monday and some areas had yet to see [...]

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Crippling Ice Storm Sweeps Heartland

By doris | Published: February 2, 2009

Full Story At  CBS News (CBS) The digging out continued across much of the heartland Sunday after a crippling ice storm last week killed at least 42 people. Nearly 700,000 people in five states are still without power, including hard-hit Kentucky, which has mobilized its entire National Guard, reports CBS News correspondent Hari Sreenivasan. Kentucky [...]

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