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Ex-Tropical Cyclone "Nora" dumped extremely heavy rain on parts of Queensland over the past 24 - 48 hours, causing major floods and emergency evacuations. Many locations exceeded or even doubled their March average rainfall.
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A new study finds that the months of November to February are seeing an increase in average tornado activity, with a shift away from the Southern Plains
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Montecito is coming back to life this morning. The 9,000 person town to the east of Santa Barbara has been empty since Tuesday, when mandatory evacuations forced residents out of their homes for the fifth time in four months.
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Heavy rains worked their way through coastal Southern California on Thursday along a cold front, marking the final—and perhaps most dangerous—phase of a prolonged atmospheric-river storm.
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Winter was much warmer than average across northern, central and western Alaska, the southeast and southwestern parts of the country, while the High Plains, parts of the Pacific Northwest, southeastern Alaska, and southern Texas experienced below normal temperatures.
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Much of Arizona, California and coastal areas of Oregon and Washington show an earlier “first leaf,” the appearance of greenery on the earliest budding plants and shrubs, compared to the 1981-2010 average.
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Global energy-related carbon emissions rose to a historic high of 32.5 gigatons last year, after three years of being flat, due to higher energy demand and the slowing of energy efficiency improvements, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said.
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A burst of wet, heavy snow swept its way up the U.S. East Coast on Wednesday, threatening to set major records for late-season snowfall. In a paradox of an equinox, springtime arrived on Tuesday to find winter storm watches plastered along the East Coast from Virginia to Massachusetts.
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Between the end of February and early March 2018, a series of massive storm systems called nor’easters have brought strong winds, heavy snow, and tremendous coastal flooding to communities from the Mid-Atlantic to northern Maine.
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Scientists studying a remote and icy stretch of the North Atlantic have found new evidence that fresh water, likely melted from Greenland or Arctic sea ice, may already be altering a key process that helps drives the global circulation of the oceans.
