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United Kingdom and Ireland dig out from snowstorm. Bangkok record heat

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Wunderground.com-3/27/13, Christopher C. Burt

 

A snowdrift buries a country pub in Cheshire County, England following last weekend’s blizzard. Photo by Rod Kirkpatrick for the Daily Mail newspaper.

 

Portions of southwest Scotland, northwest England and Northern Ireland experienced their heaviest snowfall in 30 years last weekend (March 23-24) followed by bitterly cold weather making this the coldest March since 1962 according to the U.K. Met Office. Meanwhile, in stark contrast, Bangkok, Thailand has registered its hottest temperature on record.

 

Whidbey Island landslide shifted massive amount of earth

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KPLU.org - 3/28/13, AP

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At 4:15 a.m. Wednesday along Driftwood Way in the Ledgewood Beach Community in Coupeville, Whidbey Island, residents awoke to a noise that sounded like thunder or a sonic boom.

Twenty properties on a scenic island hillside were damaged by the massive landslide in Washington state that displaced 200,000 cubic yards of earth, or about 40,000 dump truck loads, officials said Thursday.

Not all the affected properties suffered structural damage — some lost portions of their yards, said Christopher Schwarzen, a Snohomish County spokesman drafted to assist Island County.

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Massive landslide threatens Washington state homes

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Fox6Now.com - 3/27/13, Trisha Bee

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(CNN) — A massive landslide in Washington has destroyed one home and threatens more than a dozen others, CNN affiliates in the Seattle area reported Wednesday.

One home has only about 10 feet of its backyard left after the slide on Whidbey Island, north of Seattle, CNN affiliate KIRO reported. That home along with others were being evacuated.

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Nearly 50 Percent of Nation Covered in Snow

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AccuWeather.com-3/27/13, Alex Sosnowski

 

Snow cover on March 25, 2013, covered 48.7 percent of the country. Compared to March 25, 2012, only less than 8 percent of the nation had at least an inch of snow on the ground. Most of that was limited to the high country in the West and in northern New England.

 

Much of the northern United States has a blanket of snow on the ground this March, when compared to practically no snow this time last year.

A series of storms sweeping across the nation from the Northwest to the Northeast and at times dipping into part of the South has delivered near- to above-normal snowfall in many locations this winter and early spring.

 

For more information, charts, and videos: Please see AccuWeather.com.

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