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Salem had a year of wacky weather

2013-12-31 23:08:12| Agriculture - Topix.net

It was a year of unusual weather events in Salem: flash floods, single-digit temperature drops and long stretches of extreme dry in a region often plagued with year-round rain.

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Wacky jet stream blame for wild North American weather

2013-09-25 20:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Grist: A lot of wild weather has afflicted North America this year: deluges in Colorado and Alberta, a heatwave in Alaska, and bitter cold in Florida. But there`s a high-altitude link between each of these unusual events which itself might be tied to climate change: erratic behavior by the polar jet stream. This famous current of air zips eastward at high altitudes from the continent`s West, normally passing over North America somewhere near Seattle. It is one of two jet streams in the Northern Hemisphere...

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London 'Cheesegrater' Building Joins Skyline of Wacky Nicknames

2013-06-25 16:39:31| ENR.com: Headline News

Topped out on June 18, the building joins a growing cluster of eccentrically shaped skyscrapers including the Gherkin and still-emerging Walkie Talkie.

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