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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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Hail, Tornadoes, Damaging Winds Hammer the Southeast

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Weather.com - 3/19/13

 

 

Winter Storm Ukko's severe side brought severe weather into the southern states, including intense thunderstorms that produced huge hailstones throughout the southern United States.  

 

In all, there were 264 reports of severe weather Monday and Monday night across seven states from southeast Arkansas and northeast Louisiana to South Carolina.  For the entire month of March prior to Monday, there had been a total of 165 severe reports, including just a single tornado. 

Red tide, mysterious ailment killing Florida manatees

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MELBOURNE, Fla. - Even as a Red Tide algae bloom is wiping out a record number of manatees in southwest Florida, a mysterious ailment is killing off dozens more manatees on the state's East Coast. So far, state biologists have been unable to pinpoint what killed them.

Pat Rose, a former government manatee biologist who is now executive director of the Save the Manatee Club, said he could not recall another time when manatees were being killed under similar circumstances on both coasts at the same time.

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Autumn soaking for Victoria and Tasmania

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Weather Zone.com - 3/17/13, Drew Casper Richardson

 

 

A cold front and trough have brought the heaviest March rain in 12 years to parts of Victoria with Tasmania also getting a good soak. 
On Saturday night a trough and cold front swept through Victoria and Tasmania bringing widespread showers and the odd storm. Showers continued through Sunday morning in the wake in the front in brisk southerly winds.

 

Victoria's Central district had some of the highest totals, including some suburbs of Melbourne. Epping picked up 37mm making it their highest March fall in 12 years. Essendon had their highest fall since May with 31mm reaching the gauge. Melbourne city itself dodged the heaviest rain but still recorded 15mm. Although not has heavy as other areas it was the heaviest fall so far this month. The city has now recorded 16mm for March, making it the driest start to Autumn in five years. Further north, parts of Kinglake had 46mm.

 

Swarm Of 80 Million Yellow Locusts Hit SAUDI ARABIA 2013

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Swarms of desert locusts are expected to invade Saudi Arabia at the end of March and the beginning of April, posing a major threat to farmers and agriculture.

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization confirmed that the desert locusts originated in Sudan and then moved to the southern part of Egypt including Cairo. According to reports, it has been eight years since there has been such a massive invasion of locusts in Egypt.

 

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.

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