WEATHER REPORT

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Mass power cuts, man dead in storm-battered Britain
Feb 13, 2014 (AFP)
Hurricane-force winds from an Atlantic storm left tens of thousands of Britons without power Thursday and one man dead, adding to widespread misery after devast...
UI researchers evaluate best weather forecasting models
Feb 11, 2014 (SPX)
Two University of Iowa researchers recently tested the ability of the world's most advanced weather forecasting models to predict the Sept. 9-16, 2013 extreme r...
Storms decimate puffin colonies on French coast
Feb 10, 2014 (AFP)
The Atlantic storms that have buffeted Europe in recent days have killed at least 5,000 sea birds on the French coast, half of them puffins. Most of the birds w...
Shorts banned in Brazil heat, worker opts for skirt
Feb 05, 2014 (AFP)
Faced with searing heat, no air conditioning and a ban on wearing shorts to work, a male civil servant in Rio swapped his trousers for his wife's skirt. Andre A...
British storms cause power cuts, batter sea walls
Feb 05, 2014 (AFP)
More than 8,000 homes were without power in southwest England on Wednesday after fresh storms battered the region, sending huge waves crashing onto the coastlin...
Winter weary US struck by another big storm
Feb 04, 2014 (AFP)
Winter-weary Americans were hit with another massive storm Tuesday which was expected to dump as much as a foot of snow and a dangerous mix of freezing rain and...
Sao Paulo swelters in record heatwave
Feb 02, 2014 (AFP)
Residents of Brazil's business hub Sao Paulo are sweltering in record temperatures after a January with the highest average in 70 years, while low rainfall coul...
US groundhog Phil sees shadow, predicts more winter
Feb 02, 2014 (AFP)
In a colorful annual ritual of dubious accuracy, the groundhog Punxsutawney Phil emerged from his burrow Sunday and saw his shadow, thus predicting six more wee...
Venezuelan region wins Guinness record for lightning
Jan 29, 2014 (AFP)
It turns out there is a Guinness record for the place with the most lightning, and an area of Venezuela with 20,000 flashes of it per hour has won. The certific...
Lightning kills seven Burundi students, wounds 51
Jan 25, 2014 (AFP)
Lightning in Burundi killed seven high school students and wounded 51 others when it struck a classroom where they were sheltering from a ferocious storm, offic...
One dead, 12 missing in Indonesian landslide
Jan 23, 2014 (AFP)
A woman has been killed and 12 other people are missing after torrential rains triggered a landslide that buried sleeping villagers on Indonesia's main Java isl...
Death toll from Philippines storm climbs to 40
Jan 19, 2014 (AFP)
The death toll from the first storm to batter the disaster-prone Philippines this year has climbed to 40, officials said Sunday, as forecasters warned more heav...
Australian heatwave set to worsen as fires rage
Jan 16, 2014 (AFP)
Australians sweltering through a severe heatwave were warned Thursday that the worst is yet to come, with hundreds of fires raging in several states and tempera...
Australia braces for fire danger as heatwave hits
Jan 14, 2014 (AFP)
Australian authorities warned Tuesday of some of the worst fire danger since a 2009 inferno which killed 173 people, with most of the continent's southeast swel...
Torrential rains in Honduras strand 20,000 people
Jan 08, 2014 (AFP)
Rivers swollen by torrential rains have left some 20,000 people cut off in Honduras, the government said Tuesday. Evacuations were ordered in the western depart...
British landmarks damaged by storms as PM suspects climate change
Jan 08, 2014 (AFP)
Fierce storms have destroyed several ancient landmarks on Britain's coastline with Prime Minister David Cameron saying Wednesday he suspects climate change is t...
Wave sweeps three family members out to sea in Spain
Jan 07, 2014 (AFP)
Rescuers found the body of a man Tuesday on Spain's northwestern coast where three members of the same family were swept out to sea by a huge wave while reporte...
Weakened 'polar vortex' blamed for N. American chill
Jan 06, 2014 (AFP)
The bitter chill gripping North America is a result of Arctic air that has spilled southwards, and global warming may be a cause, an expert said on Monday. Arct...
Man dies as storms continue to batter Britain
Jan 05, 2014 (AFP)
A man died after his mobility scooter fell into the River Thames on Sunday, police said, as dozens of flood warnings remained in place across Britain. The 47-ye...
Britain sees new flooding after storms and high tides
Jan 03, 2014 (AFP)
High tides and strong winds caused flooding in Britain on Friday, and authorities warned sightseers seeking to witness the huge waves that they were putting the...
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