In Alaska, minus 59 takes toll on cars, pipes, state of mind
Cynthia Erickson woke up early, hoping her four furnaces were working.
Environment
Jan 19, 2017
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News tagged with cold weather
Japan culling 122,000 more birds for avian flu
Japan began killing about 122,000 farm birds on Tuesday to contain another outbreak of a highly contagious strain of avian flu, officials said.
Ecology
Dec 20, 2016
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Dangerous wind chills, snow in Midwest; cold grips Northeast
Dangerously cold temperatures gripped the Upper Midwest in advance of a storm that's expected to bring several inches of snow in coming days, while schools and officials in the Northeast braced for their own blast of wintry ...
Environment
Dec 15, 2016
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Dangerous wind chills on their way to Northeast
Plunging temperatures and gusty winds are making their way to the Northeast, the next victim in the path of dangerously cold temperatures that have gripped the Upper Midwest.
Environment
Dec 15, 2016
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Slow as molasses? Sweet but deadly 1919 disaster explained
The Great Molasses Flood of 1919—one of Boston's most peculiar disasters—killed 21 people, injured 150 others and flattened buildings when a giant storage tank ruptured.
General Physics
Nov 24, 2016
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Hong Kong hit by coldest temperatures in nearly 60 years
A cold snap gripped Hong Kong on Sunday, with residents shivering as temperatures plunged to the lowest point in nearly 60 years and frost dusted the mountaintops of a city accustomed to a subtropical climate.
Environment
Jan 24, 2016
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NASA sees post-Patricia moisture, winds stalking the Mid-Atlantic
The remnant moisture from what was once Hurricane Patricia and moisture from the Gulf of Mexico were being transported north by a trough of low pressure over Wisconsin. The clouds and moisture were streaming into the Eastern ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 28, 2015
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NASA measures frigid cloud top temps of the Arctic air outbreak
Some of the coldest air of the 2014-2015 winter season was settling over the eastern two-thirds of the U.S. on February 13, 2015. That Arctic air mass brought wind chills from below zero to the single numbers from the Midwest ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 13, 2015
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Cold-stunned turtles rehabilitated in New Orleans, released
Nearly two dozen turtles that were stranded by cold weather last year in Massachusetts have successfully undergone rehab and have been returned to waters off Louisiana's coast.
Ecology
Jan 30, 2015
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Summer no sweat for Aussies but winter freeze fatal
Australians are more likely to die during unseasonably cold winters than hotter than average summers, QUT research has found.
Environment
Jan 12, 2015
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