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Northeast Snow Storm Piles On

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AP, By: Mark Scolforo, 12/15/2013

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — At this rate, the Northeast will be tired of winter before winter even arrives. Another shot of wintry weather moved through Ohio and Pennsylvania on Saturday as it headed into New England, hampering travel by car and airplane and complicating shoppers' plans less than two weeks before Christmas. Nearly a foot of snow was reported in parts of central Pennsylvania late Saturday as the sprawling storm moved into New England, where the National Weather Service warned Maine could see near-blizzard conditions Sunday due to heavy snow and strong winds before the storm moves out.

 

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Corporate Extortion: States Are Giving Billions to Corporations That Don’t Create Jobs

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AlterNet, By: Steven Rosenfeld, 12/12/2013

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As the nation turns its attention to the latest federal budget deal where curtailed spending and cuts are the defining principal, a dozen blue and red state governors are in a bidding war recklessly offering to spend billions for tax breaks and other public-paid subsidies to lure the corporate giant Boeing to build its next-generation aircraft factory.

 

Beyond the schizophrenic spectre of congressional negotiators saying no to spending as governors are offering mountains of cash is a maddening reality: these taxpayer subsidies do not create the promised jobs or investments, a series of striking academic studies have found. All they do is boost bottom lines by cutting corporate costs.

 

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Deadly ice storm pushes up US east coast as temperatures drop to -29C

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By: Adam Withnall, 12/09/2013

A powerful icy storm system is sweeping across the US, resulting in temperatures dropping to -29C and lower as well as deaths, power cuts and massive travel disruption. Yesterday the winter storm began pushing up the country's densely-populated Eastern Seaboard, and forecasters say it will continue to drop freezing rain, sleet and snow on cities from West Virginia to Maine. A severe warning was issued by the Government’s National Weather Service (NWS) at the weekend, and officials say temperatures will remain low until late on Monday (local time) when the system exits to the northeast.

 

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Winter Storm Dion Update: State-by-State Impacts

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By: weather.com, 12/09/2013

The Mid-Atlantic and Northeast are waking up to a layer of snow and ice this morning from Winter Storm Dion, which will ground flights and make road travel dangerous for a second day. "Assume everything under your feet this morning is ice unless it’s a treated road or surface,” said The Weather Channel meteorologist Mike Seidel, reporting from Leesburg, Va. "You have as much as a quarter of an inch or half an inch of ice on top of the 4 inches of snow. It's coating sidewalks, driveways, cars, trees. Power outages continue to increase (Monday) morning.”

 

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Decembrrrr! Arctic Blast Bringing Subzero Chill to Rockies, Plains; Hard Freeze for California

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By: Nick Wiltgen and Chris Dolce, 12/07/2013

Current Temperatures

A bitter cold air mass has spread across the western states and into the Plains and Midwest the last couple of days. On Saturday morning, temperatures dropped as low as -39 degrees in Havre, Mont. and Jordan, Mont. In some cities, the frigid air mass has been the coldest seen in years or has broken daily record lows.

 

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Five Biggest Weather Changes Since Thanksgiving

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By: Jon Erdman, 12/04/2013

South Plunge

Thanks to a powerful plunge of Arctic air, several locations are seeing major changes in their weather since Thanksgiving Day. First, consider Arkansas' capital. Highs Wednesday may top out near 70 degrees. Then comes the Arctic plunge, including a threat of freezing rain or sleet Thursday into Friday, followed by lows Saturday morning near 20 degrees. To recap, a 50-degree plunge – from warmth more typical of late October to a potential icy threat.

 

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Winter Storm Cleon: Heavy Rockies, Midwest Snow; Icy Mess to South

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By: John Erdman, 12/02/2013

Rockies Forecast Snowfall

Winter Storm Cleon, the third named winter storm of the 2013-14 season. Cleon will usher in a period of very cold weather across much of the western and northern U.S., along with zones of significant snowfall. Heavy snow is expected Tuesday and Tuesday night from east-central Nevada into primarily the mountains and high plateau of Utah and western Colorado, before tapering off Wednesday morning. The heaviest snow accumulations are expected in the Tetons and Beartooth Range of southwest Montana, northwest Wyoming, the Wasatch of Utah and mountains of Colorado, where over a foot of total snow may accumulate.

 

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50 kg meteor explodes and illuminates sky over southeastern USA

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The Watchers-8/30/13, Adonai

 

A meteor with estimated mass of over 50 kg exploded over Tennessee, USA, around 07:27 UTC on August 28, 2013 (02:27 local time). Head of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office, Bill Cook, said the fireball reached a peak magnitude of -13. It was brighter than a full moon, and casted shadows on the ground. This indicated that the meteor had a mass of over 50 kg (110 lbs) and was about 40 cm (16 inches) in diameter.

All 6 NASA's all sky cameras in the southeast picked up a very bright fireball that may have produced meteorites. The cameras were completely saturated, necessitating a manual solution.

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5.7-Magnitude Earthquake Shakes Northern Calif

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Abcnews, By: ABC, 05/24/2013

An earthquake has struck Northern California's Plumas County with a preliminary magnitude of 5.7. Rafael Abreau, a geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey's National Earthquake Center, says the temblor struck at 8:47 p.m. and was centered six miles west northwest of Greenville, and 26 miles southwest of Susanville.

 

Abreu says there have been no reports of damage in early field reports. KCRA-TV in Sacramento reports that the quake was felt in downtown Sacramento, about 145 miles south of the epicenter. There have been eight aftershocks ranging from 2.6-to-3.5-magnitude.

 

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