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UK and Ireland: Cold March Continues, Contrasts 2012

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Accuweather.com - 3/25/13, Evan Duffey

 

 

Snowstorms, heavy rain, damaging wind and bitter cold have marked much of the winter throughout Europe, but especially the U.K., as multiple pushes of cold Arctic air have arrived in the region and brought significant departures from normal.

 

On the other side of the coin, the storminess responsible for the cooler temperatures has also led to well-above-normal precipitation. Rain and snow have been almost twice the normal amount for much of the U.K. and Ireland.

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Parts of Drought-Stricken Midwest Flood

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Weather.com - 3/18/13

 

 

ST. LOUIS – Another wet weekend has caused a renewed rise of Midwestern rivers, creating flooding that is an ironic end to a winter spent fretting about drought.

 

Parts of eastern Missouri and southwestern Illinois were hardest hit by rain that began Saturday afternoon and fell through Sunday. National Weather Service meteorologist Jayson Gosselin said Monday that Potosi, Mo., got 4.4 inches of rain, Randolph County, Ill., received 4.1 inches, and Farmington, Mo., had 3.9 inches.

 

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Record Warmth for Phoenix, Las Vegas

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Accuweather.com - 3/15/13, Courtney Spamer

 

 

High pressure centered over the Four Corners will continue to expand, allowing temperatures to surge again Friday in the Southwest.Temperatures in cities such as Phoenix, Ariz., and Palm Springs, Calif., are expected to make it into the 90s for the second day in a row.

 

Palm Springs has gotten an early jump on the warmth, with the "heat wave" starting back on Tuesday, reaching 90 degrees, then following with a warm 95 on Wednesday. Phoenix last reached this temperature in the beginning of November; however, even for that time of the year, a temperature in the low 90s is more than 10 degrees above the climatological average.

 

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New Zealand Suffering Biggest Drought in 30 Years

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Weather.com - 3/15/13, Nick Perry

 

A sign warns about the risk of fire on Thursday, March 14, 2013, near Carterton, New Zealand. A drought in New Zealand's North Island is costing farmers millions of dollars each day and is beginning to take a toll on the country's economy. (AP Photo/Nick Perry)

 

CARTERTON, New Zealand -- Dairy farmer John Rose has sent more than 100 of his cows to the slaughterhouse over recent weeks as a severe drought browned pastures in New Zealand's normally verdant North Island. He had to thin his herd so the remaining 550 cows have enough to eat, and he's supplementing their diet with ground palm kernel as the grass in his fields withers.

Monarch Butterflies Drop Ominously in Mexico

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Weather.com - 3/14/13, Mark Stevenson 

 

 

MEXICO CITY -- The number of Monarch butterflies making it to their winter refuge in Mexico dropped 59 percent this year, falling to the lowest level since comparable record-keeping began 20 years ago, scientists reported Wednesday.

 

It was the third straight year of declines for the orange-and-black butterflies that migrate from the United States and Canada to spend the winter sheltering in mountaintop fir forests in central Mexico. Six of the last seven years have shown drops, and there are now only one-fifteenth as many butterflies as there were in 1997.

 

Severe droughts in Indian state of Maharashtra

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The Watchers.com - 3/14/13, NIX

 

 

Maharashtra, an Indian state, is facing one of the worst droughts in the past 40 years. Reports say severe droughts have prompted people to migrate to Mumbai and neighboring states of Gujarat, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh from 3,905 villages in 12 districts of the state.

 

Districts of Ahmednagar, Aurangabad, Jalna, Beed and Osmanabad are reported to have only enough drinking water reserves to sustain through March. Impending summer will only worsen the situation and the state will have to transport water from neighboring districts and even by trains from other states, a high-ranking bureaucrat told Times of India.

 

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Tropical Cyclone Sandra Churns Well East of Australia

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Accuweather.com - 3/11/13, Eric Leister

 

 

Tropical Cyclone Sandra was still a very strong storm, hovering at sea northwest of New Caledonia on

Monday.While far to the east of Australia, Sandra was helping to whip up rough surf and rip currents, which will be likely to last through at least Wednesday, along some Queensland beaches.

 

 

Recap: Severe Weather Rattles Texas, Oklahoma

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Accuweather.com - 3/10/13, Brian Edwards

 

 

AccuWeather meteorologists monitored a zone from central Texas to southern Oklahoma for severe weather Saturday afternoon and night.

 

A potent storm system, also responsible fornear-blizzard conditions in the Rockies and Plains, spent Saturday afternoon through early Sunday morning generating strong thunderstorms.

 

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