Stories tagged "weather" - Page 32

While the U.S. Midwest dug out from under a heavy snowstorm that left 11 dead in road accidents over the weekend, Canada seemed to be easing into Christmas Monday without the same level of climate chaos.

A winter storm packing heavy snow walloped the central United States, causing at least 5 deaths and dozens of injuries as multi-car pileups forced authorities to close parts of several major highways.

German scientists are working hard to honor a promise made to Indonesia to create an Indian Ocean alert system to prevent a repeat of the 2004 tragedy.

Social media is a lot like the weather. Not just because it is unpredictable, always changing, and catastrophic at times, but because, just like the weather has major societal impacts, social media is making a huge impact on society as well.

Power outages kept more than 91,000 homes and businesses in the dark more than a week after an ice storm battered Oklahoma, and the emergency has outlasted the ability of many residents to pay for it...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has changed its policy and will provide some reimbursement for homeowners who spent their own money to elevate hurricane-damaged houses above flood level.

Energy futures fell Monday after a tropical depression that moved the Gulf of Mexico late last week turned out to be a dud.</p>

Shirley Murillo is a research meteorologist at the NOAA Hurricane Research Division in Miami, Fl., an expert on the behavior of hurricanes when they reach landfall.

Nobel laureate Al Gore accused the United States on Thursday of blocking progress at the U.N. climate conference, and European nations threatened to boycott U.S.-led climate talks next month unless Washington compromises on emissions reductions.

Why does weather reporting need to be so boring, predictable and dated? Do we really need our newspapers to tell us it snowed yesterday or that it's cold outside?