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Heavy rains in Australia leave four dead
2013-01-30 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Punishing winds, torrential rains and powerful ocean swells have inundated large areas of Australias two most populous states, driving thousands of people from their homes and killing at least four people. The floods add one more blow to a barrage of bizarre and destructive weather in the country, which was in the grip of a searing four-month heat wave and scores of huge wildfires before the remains of Tropical Cyclone Oswald made landfall late last week. As the storm system crept south along...
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Heavy rains may be too much for LA farming industry
2013-01-12 05:37:30| Agriculture - Topix.net
Louisiana's agriculture industry lives and dies by rainfall or the lack of it. But this week's deluge means different things out in the fields of Louisiana, depending on the crop.
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Walls and winter rains afflict Palestinian towns
2013-01-09 16:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Heavy winter downpours have turned some Palestinian lands in the occupied West Bank into a morass of filth and flooding as an Israeli barrier blocks the waters from draining away. In Qalqilya, a town of 42,000 in the northern West Bank almost completely surrounded by the concrete wall, Khaled Kandeel and his family huddled by an open fire in a shed as trash-laden water swelled through his pear orchard. "Before the wall, the water used to drain fine, and flowed down to the sea easily. They could...
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Rains to ease drought in Delta; cold snap for Plains
2013-01-09 14:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Heavy rains in the Delta and southeast over the next week will provide some relief from the worst drought in over 50 years while a cold snap early next week is posing a threat to the struggling wheat crop in the U.S. Plains States, an agricultural meteorologist said on Wednesday. "That is something that definitely will need to be watched," said Andy Karst, meteorologist for World Weather Inc. referring to a turn to bitter cold weather early next week. Karst said warmer weather this week would...
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