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Survivors beg for help as Ike hits Texas

It remained unclear how many people may have perished as the worst of Ike was passing over the Houston-Galveston area. But even before daylight arrived, damage was considered extensive. Thousands of homes and government buildings flooded, roads were washed out, 2.9 million people lost power and several fires burned unabated as crews could not reach them.

600 dead from N. Korea floods

Floods that swept across North Korea earlier this month killed at least 600 people, double the previously known toll, the country s official news agency said Saturday.

Girl, woman drown in Texas flooding

Be glad you don't live in a mobile home in Texas. I wonder if the Texas national guard is adequately prepared to respond.

Hurricane season gets an early start

Still, Andrea's emergence gives scientists an opportunity to study the storm's unusual features its early timing, its formation outside the usual tropical-storm-incubation zone to gain a better understanding of a class of storm that until recently has been overlooked and, therefore, difficult to forecast accurately.

Strong nor'easter hits East Coast - Weather

A nor easter battered the East with strong wind and pouring rain Sunday, grounding hundreds of airline flights, downing power lines and threatening severe coastal flooding overnight.

World Sweats Through Warmest Winter

Congratulations, global citizens, for weathering the warmest winter in the Northern Hemisphere since record-keeping began in 1880. From December to February, combined land and ocean temperatures were 1.3 degrees Fahrenheit above average, says a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration study published Friday in Science.

Seattle Breaks Temperature Record by 9 Degrees Today

All-time high temperatures at SeaTac, Olympia, Bellingham and at the National Weather Service office in Seattle were recorded, meteorologist Johnny Burg said. In Seattle the previous record, 62 degrees, was blown away by 71 degree weather.

Warmest January ever recorded worldwide in 2007: US scientists

The combined global land and ocean surface temperature was 1.53 degrees Fahrenheit (0.85 Celsius) warmer than the 20th-century average of 53.6 degrees F (12 C) for January based on preliminary data, NOAA said.

N.Y. residents dig out from heavy snow

8 feet of snow in some areas. That is a lot of snow.

14 killed in Florida storms - Weather

Storms blew through central Florida early Friday, killing at least 14 people, flattening dozens of homes and a church and lifting a tractor trailer into the air, authorities said.

The Races Will Go On (With Imported Snow)

Where does snow come from? The helicopters honey. If this isn't the poster-story for global warming, then I must be a drowning polar bear.

Triple Threat of Rain, Snow and Sleet Set Seattle Record

Today's snowstorm melted away overnight: "With barely 24 hours to spare to break Seattle s rainfall record for a single month, it was not just rain but snow, sleet and other unlikely provocations that lifted the level of the city s official precipitation gauge to a historic high late Wednesday."

City That Takes Rain in Stride Puts on Hip Boots

A rainy November catapults Seattle into the New York Times.

Wash. state braces for record flooding

A windy Pacific storm dumped heavy rain Monday on western Washington, raising the threat of record-breaking flooding and closing the main road in Mount Rainier National Park.

El Niño could cause Northwest drought, mild winter elsewhere, forecasters say

Drier than normal is anticipated in the Tennessee Valley, northern Rockies, Pacific Northwest and Hawaii. "Other regions have equal chances of drier, wetter or near-normal precipitation," the agency said. Not goog news for Northwest skiers