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How Hot Was It in Australia? Hot Enough to Melt Asphalt

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Across large areas of Australia, temperatures hit life-threatening levels. Penrith, a suburb of Sydney, reached 47.3 degrees Celsius on Sunday, or just over 117 degrees Fahrenheit.
Maggie Astor
01/07/2018

Researchers can now blame warming for individual disasters

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Over the last few years, dozens of studies have investigated the influence of climate change on events ranging from the Russian heat wave of 2010 to the California drought, evaluating the extent to which global warming has made them more severe or more likely to occur.
Chelsea Harvey
01/02/2018

States Across U.S. See Record-Cold New Year's Day As Rest Of The World Boils

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As morning temperatures across the U.S. broke records Monday ― residents of Watertown, New York, woke up to minus 31 degrees Fahrenheit and temperatures plunged to minus 19 degrees in Des Moines, Iowa ― many other parts of the world were warmer than usual.&
Alexander C. Kaufman
01/01/2018

Eastern US Arctic Invasion and Winter Storm January 2018

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Climate science at a glance Climate change has been linked to an intensification in nor'easter storms.[1]The temperature contrast between warm off-shore waters and cold continental air fuels nor'easters, and warming of Atl

Arctic Outbreak Setting Record Lows as Dangerously Cold Wind Chills Infiltrate Plains, Midwest and East

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Record Cold RecapMonday, Jan. 1Subzero wind chills plunged all the way into parts of the South Monday morning.
Jonathan Erdman, Chris Dolce and Brian Donegan
01/01/2018

UK's recent extreme weather linked to Arctic warming

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The UK has been hit by a number of extreme weather events in the past decade, including heavy rain in summer 2007 and 2012, the record wet and stormy winter of 2013/14 and cold and snowy winters in 2009/10 and 2010/11.
Emily Beament
01/01/2018

US and Canada: Extremely cold temperatures continue, list of broken records

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List of notable records broken since December 25Thursday, December 28
12/29/2017

New Year’s Freeze-Out: It Can Still Get Cold, Even in a Warming Climate

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Are we safe to ignore global warming because it’s cold outside? In a tweet published on December 28, President Donald Trump wrote this:
Bob Henson
12/29/2017

For remote Vanuatu islanders, fleeing climate disasters is an uphill battle

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Villagers in South River, a palm-fringed coastal community in the low-lying South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu, are used to battling cyclones, floods and tsunamis but are now facing a new threat - rising seas.
Lin Taylor
12/20/2017

A Swath of the Midwest Is Nearing Its Longest Wait Ever For the Season's First Snow

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As the Christmas holiday nears, parts of the Midwest are nearing a record-long wait for the season's first snow.Des Moines, Iowa, hasn't seen measurable snow – at least 0.1 inch – since March 21, the day after spring officially arrived.
Jonathan Erdman
12/20/2017
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