Articles filed under Weather
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Fog warning overnight in the suburbsDec 02, 2012 9:39 pm - The National Weather Service has issued a dense fog advisory for the Chicago area for overnight Sunday after an usually warm December weekend. According to the advisory,...
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UN climate scientist: Sandy no coincidenceNov 27, 2012 1:18 pm - DOHA, Qatar — Though it’s tricky to link a single weather event to climate change, Hurricane Sandy was “probably not a coincidence” but an example of the extreme weather...
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U.S. roads, airports unprepared for natural disastersNov 22, 2012 6:00 am - WASHINGTON — The nation's lifelines — its roads, airports, railways and transit systems — are getting hammered by extreme weather beyond what their builders imagined, le...
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Superstorm shines light on federal beach programNov 19, 2012 5:46 pm - SPRING LAKE, N.J. — Towns along the Jersey shore that made use of federal money to build up beaches came through Superstorm Sandy with far less damage than those that di...
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What does it take to get people to flee a storm?Nov 14, 2012 4:57 pm - NEW YORK — Despite days of dire forecasts and explicit warnings, hundreds of thousands of people in New York and New Jersey ignored mandatory evacuation orders as Supers...
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Global warming talk heats up, revisits carbon taxNov 13, 2012 6:35 pm - WASHINGTON — Climate change is suddenly a hot topic again. The issue is resurfacing in talks about a once radical idea: a possible carbon tax. On Tuesday, a conservative...
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Slick lanes Monday night lead to fatal crash on Elgin-O'HareNov 12, 2012 7:00 pm - This season's first snowfall — a rainy, snowy mix — quickly turned to ice Monday evening creating chaos on area roadways and led to one fatal traffic accident overnight....
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Images: Nor’easter hits the East CoastNov 08, 2012 8:50 am - ...
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New storm bears down on Sandy-battered NYC, NJNov 07, 2012 5:31 am - NEW YORK — A nor’easter blustered into New York and New Jersey on Wednesday with rain and wet snow, plunging homes right back into darkness, stopping commuter trains aga...
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Sandy’s destruction no match for KatrinaNov 07, 2012 4:36 am - ATLANTA — In the Rockaways section of the New York borough of Queens, residents are comparing their battered community to New Orleans’s Ninth Ward, which was all but des...