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60-Year Data: Tornadoes a Major Threat Beyond 'Tornado Alley'

"Tornado Alley," the Southern Plains, has earned its infamous reputation for being the most tornado-prone region in the world. From a climate perspective, though, the tornado threat is relatively high across much of the United States. The recently updated severe report database of the government's Storm Prediction Center,...

Thunderstorms, Possible Tornadoes Threaten Plains and East Coast

A powerful spring storm system will spawn dangerous thunderstorms over a large area from the Plains to the East Coast, starting later Sunday and continuing through Tuesday. The system includes the threat of large hail, damaging winds and isolated tornadoes. The storm will also produce more late-season snow in the Northern...

Major Northeast Snowstorm Is No April Fools' Day Joke

As the calendar changes from March to April, the Northeast will be hit with a winter storm beginning tonight that would be impressive even in the heart of winter. The result will be heavy snow and potential travel delays, downed tree limbs and power outages over a large portion of New England and upstate New York from...

April Could Shower Some of US With More Snow

Late-season snow has been fairly common from the western mountains to parts of the East Coast this year, and a persistent weather pattern of cooler-than-average temperatures and an active storm track means that more of the same is likely in the coming weeks. In other words, it might be April snow -- not showers -- that...

Spring on Hold as Nearly a Foot of Snow Expected in Northeast

ALBANY, N.Y. -- Winter isn't done with some areas of the Northeast just yet. A springtime storm could bring nearly a foot of snow to areas of northern Pennsylvania and upstate New York. The National Weather Service says some communities in Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains can expect more than 11 inches by the time the...

Northeast News From the Web

05/31/12 Theatre books its seat for the Fringe Source: JournalLive - Newcastle - Northumberland - UK THE North East will have its own venue at this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe, showcasing innovative theatre from the region and across the North of England.
05/31/12 Sexually-transmitted infections on the rise in the... Source: Sunderland Echo - Sunderland - Tyne and Wear - UK SEXUALLY-TRANSMITTED Infections (STIs) are on the increase across the North East. New figures from the Health Protection Agency (HPA) showed 20,602 people in the region were diagnosed with an STI last year, compared to 20,567 in 2010.
05/31/12 North East industrialists set on helping SMEs grow Source: nebusiness.co.uk AROUND 60 of the North East's leading industrialists meet today to decide how they can help 400 businesses as part of a Â£1.5m business growth programme.
05/31/12 Threat lifted from birds of prey Source: JournalLive - Newcastle - Northumberland - UK NATURE organisations in the North East last night welcomed a Government U-turn on plans to destroy the nests of protected buzzards.
05/31/12 This Land is your Land, this Land is my Land Source: Daily News of Sri Lanka T he above line from a popular song of yesteryear, often blared forth on our English radio programmes, is certain to have drifted into the minds of many of our readers on perusing an observation by Defence and Urban Development Ministry Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa that the Northern Province is not the exclusive enclave of this or that community.

Background on Northeast

The Northeast Region of Brazil () is composed of the following states: Maranhão, Piauí, Ceará, Rio Grande do Norte, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Alagoas, Sergipe and Bahia, and it represents 18.26% of the Brazilian territory.

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