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Winter Preview: Warmer in U.S.; Cooler Worldwide

(July 16) -- It's the middle of summer and much of the country is blazing, following a record-high June. So what better time to take a look at what we can expect for the winter of 2010-2011? Interestingly, it looks be warmer than average from December through February in the U.S., but much of the remainder of the globe...

As Red River Rises, US Braces for Spring Floods

(March 17) -- Officials and volunteers in Minnesota and North Dakota built up levees and filled sandbags today against a rapidly rising Red River, even as the federal government predicted potentially record flood levels this spring following the El Niño storms over the winter. Gov. Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota declared a...

Sunken Town Re-Emerges After 25 Years

(Feb. 26) -- Intentionally flooded in 1985 to make way for a reservoir, the former Venezuelan town of Potosi has suddenly made a haunting reappearance thanks to a historic drought brought on by the El Nino weather pattern. Two and a half decades ago, Potosi was home to roughly 1,200 residents, Sky News reports. Then, on...

Calif. Tenants Stay Put in Units Perched on Eroding Cliff

PACIFICA, Calif. (Jan. 23) -- It wasn't the thunderous sound of a massive chunk of ocean bluff plummeting to the beach that jarred Marva Seaton to life Thursday at 5:30 a.m., but a rap at her door. For her own safety, she was ordered out of her apartment building, perched atop an eroding seaside cliff about 80 feet above...

More Storms for California, But Mountainsides Hold

LOS ANGELES (Jan. 21) – The nation's weather paradise is taking it on the chin this week, with four straight days of punishing storms that dumped more than a half-foot of rain at low elevations, sent massive waves crashing along the coast, spawned tornadoes and dropped a thick layer of snow over mountains. But in...

Background on ElNino

El Niño/La Niña-Southern Oscillation, or ENSO, is a quasiperiodic climate pattern that occurs across the tropical Pacific Ocean roughly every five years.

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