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The National Weather Service is warning that the seas could top 15.3 feet at the tidal gauge in Boston Harbor. Significant impacts will occur during the high tide Friday morning, which falls just before noon.
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Winter Storm Riley is already clobbering the Northeast with damaging winds, heavy, wet snow, as a significant, long-lived, destructive coastal flooding event is just now underway as Riley becomes an intense nor'easter.
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Half a million homes and businesses were without power from the Great Lakes to the mid-Atlantic to the Northeast on Friday morning as Winter Storm Riley kicked up winds and dumped snow on its trek northeast, where Massachusetts officials told some coastal residents to leave because the power
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The worst flood event in 20 years is underway along the Ohio River in Ohio and Kentucky, and damaging moderate to major flooding continues from Texas to Michigan in the wake of heavy rains that fell last week in the center portion of the country.
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How do scientists gauge the state of Arctic sea ice?
They look at a number of different metrics and take note of long-term trends. Some key metrics are:
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Astonishing summer-like heat cooked the Eastern U.S. on Wednesday, smashing all-time records for February warmth in cities in at least ten states, from Georgia to Maine.
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Records were dropping on Wednesday amid what appears to be an unprecedented February ridge of high pressure and all the heat that comes along with it.
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New York City hit record highs Wednesday, with temperatures stretching into the 70s.By noon Wednesday, it was 72 degrees in the city, breaking the old record of 68 that was set back in 1930.
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January 2018 was the planet's fifth warmest January since record keeping began in 1880, said NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) on Tuesday. NASA also rated January 2018 as the fifth warmest January on record, with the only warmer Januarys being 2016,
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A climate scientist says our summer is on track to be New Zealand's hottest ever - and warmed ocean surfaces have helped "rev up" Cyclone Gita.
