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Big Story Weather – March 20, 2013

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Red Orbit.com - 3/20/13, Joshua Kelly

 

 

Big Story Weather from March 19: The big news of the day was the rain and snow that moved through the Northeast with some places getting a pretty good amount of snowfall. Another big story of the day was the strong thunderstorms that moved through Texas during the overnight hours with some places getting hail. The third story of the day comes from the Northern Plains and the return of Arctic air this late in the season with many places seeing temperatures running about 20 degrees below normal for this time of year.

 

Lightning strikes spark grass fires

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WeatherZone.com - 3/21/13

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Firefighters are battling several blazes sparked by lightning strikes across southern parts of the state overnight.
A fire at Uleybury near Gawler burnt 100 hectares of farmland near Kentish Road after it started about 4:00am.

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Flood of Dead Pigs, Trickle of Answers in China

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Weather.com - 3/20/13, AP

Sanitation workers collect dead pigs from Shanghai's main waterway on March 11, 2013. Nearly 3,000 dead pigs have been found floating in the water. (Peter Parks/AFP/Getty Images)

BEIJING -- The pig carcasses - now nearly 14,000 of them - have been floating down rivers that feed into Shanghai for nearly two weeks. The city's residents have been told not to worry, and not much else.

Where the pigs came from, how they died and why they suddenly showed up in the river system that supplies drinking water to a city of 23 million has not been explained. Officials have told residents their drinking water is safe, while authorities have censored microblog posts suggesting that the public organize peaceful protests.

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'Spring' arrives in London

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CTV News.ca - 3/20/13

 

 

Old Man Winter obviously did not get the memo. Spring officially arrived at 7:02 a.m. Wednesday, but most of the region is under a fresh blanket of snow and more flurries are expected into Thursday. And the Forest City is not out of the snowy woods just yet.


In fact, up to four centimetres of snow is expected to fall before Friday, and up to an additional seven centimetres will fall Sunday and Monday next week.

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Mudslides kill 16 in Brazilian town of Petropolis

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The Extinction Protocol - 3/19/13

 

 

 

 Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, in Rome to attend Tuesday’s installment of Pope Francis, called Cabral to offer federal help to deal with the impact of the flooding, her office said. Among the victims are two civil defense officials who took part in rescue efforts, Sergio Simoes, the Rio state civil defense secretary, told Globo television earlier.

 

Ukko's Snow Ushers in Spring in Northern New England

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Weather.com-3/20/13, Associated Press

 

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BOSTON -- New Englanders were preparing for another messy day of snow as they welcomed spring's unseasonable arrival.

Forecasts called for as much as 16 inches of snow in parts of northern New England through Wednesday morning, bringing slippery road conditions. Snow was expected to taper off in other locations.

"Ukko has delivered a foot or more of snow to parts of five states in the Northeast including New York, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine," said weather.com meteorologist Chris Dolce. "Boston's storm total of 7.2 inches pushed their seasonal total over the 60-inch mark (63.1 inches)."

 

Tremors a mystery in South Jersey

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NBC40.net - 3/19/13, Megan Wolf

SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY - Just after 3 o'clock Tuesday afternoon residents in Atlantic, Cape May, and Cumberland counties say they felt multiple earthquake-like tremors that rattled their homes and offices.

Absecon resident, Kay Stadlmeir, said, "I don't think it would be an earthquake, but what could it be? It's just really odd."  Somers Point resident, Bob Mower, explained, "There was a rattling of my windows and I felt the house shake just a little bit - it was unusual."  Stadlmeir told NBC40, "It has to be something really big to be witnessed in such a widespread area of South Jersey."

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