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Severe Weather Hits Upper Midwest

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Cnn.com - 6/12/13, Greg Bothelo

 

A fast-moving storm system struck parts of the Upper Midwest hard on Wednesday evening, delivering blows to Chicago and many other communities before moving quickly to inflict damage farther east.

The Windy City itself experienced gusts that measured about 50 mph around 6 p.m. (7 p.m. ET), in addition to dime-size hail, the National Weather Service's Chicago branch said.

 

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Ancient Irish texts show volcanic link to cold weather

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Bbc.co.uk - 6/6/12, Matt McGrath

 

Annals written at the monastery at Clonmacnoise
recorded significant events including extreme weather

 

 

Researchers have been able to trace the impact of volcanic eruptions on the climate over a 1200 year period by assessing ancient Irish texts.

The international team compared entries in these medieval annals with ice core data indicating volcanic eruptions.

Of 38 volcanic events, 37 were associated with directly observed cold weather extremes recorded in the chronicles.

 

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Indian Ocean countries unite to improve weather forecasting

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Weatherzone, By: Olivia Garnett, 05/28/2013

Scientist from Indian Ocean nations have gathered in Perth today to learn about Australia's ocean forecasting models to better predict the weather. 17 countries from right around the Indian Ocean are represented at today's workshop whom all sit under umbrella of the Indian Ocean Rim Association for Regional Corporation (IOT-ARC).

 

It's hoped each country can contribute their local information to one big system to help predict weather up to seven days ahead. Oceans play a huge part in weather predictions and in the past scientists have only really been able to predict very short-term weather or long-term weather on a seasonal time scale.

 

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Scientists get a better grip on El Nino

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Weatherzone, By; Michael Cavanagh, 05/30/2013

A team of Sydney climate researchers believe they now have a better understanding of when droughts will end and when rain may fall. The El Nino climate pattern, which in Australia leads to drier than normal conditions, is triggered by changes to water temperature off the South American coast around Christmas time.

 

Dr Shayne McGregor, from the University of NSW's Climate Change Research Centre, says while the build up of El Nino is still difficult to predict, the latest findings mean that forecasters will have a better idea of when it would end and bring rain.

 

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Season-breaking rain to soak SA, VIC and NSW

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Weatherzone, By: Press Release, 05/30/2013

Rain is about to spread across South Australia, Victoria and New South Wales and it looks like season-breaking rain for many inland areas, according to weatherzone.com.au. "In the next few days much of SA, northern Victoria and southern and central NSW can expect widespread falls of 25-to-50 millimetres with potential for as much as 80mm in places. The wettest area should be northeastern Victoria and southwestern NSW where more than 100mm is possible," Weatherzone meteorologist Brett Dutschke said.

 

This will turn out to be season-breaking rain for many farming areas, a boost for those hoping to sow their winter crops after a long dry spell. It had become a desperate situation for much of the region. Since last winter most of it has received less than half the average rainfall and some has fallen into drought.

 

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22 people survived tornado in bank vault

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CNN.com- 5/22/13, The Situation Room

 

 

 

 

Jan Davis & Teresa Price of Tinker Federal Credit Union describe how they hid in a vault along with 12 other workers and eight bank members as the building was destroyed.

"It was crowded" says Davis, "but if there were more people we would have crowded them right in."

 

 

 

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Severe weather moves to the east

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CNN - 5-21-2013, Josh Leves

 

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The storm system behind Monday's Oklahoma twister brought strong rainstorms to parts of the South on Tuesday evening before heading toward the Great Lakes and the Tennessee Valley.

Tornado watches continued for portions of Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Missouri and Tennessee. Those watches were set to expire by 10 p.m. CT Tuesday.

 

 

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Heavy May rainfall breaks records in the NT, WA and SA

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Weatherzone, By: Kim Westcott, 05/21/2013

Over the past 24 hours, a northwest cloud band has delivered some spectacular rain from the northwest WA to the inland SA and the NT. Cygnet Bay in Western Australia saw 155mm in the 24 hours to 9am Tuesday, which is four times the May average and highest May rainfall in at least 50 years. Giles saw its highest May rainfall in 21 years will 50mm hitting the rain gauge.

 

In the Northern Territory, Curtin Springs reached 61mm, while Uluru (Yulara) saw 42mm which is more than three times the average May rainfall.

 

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