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Eastern U.S. sees warm Christmas, winter storm looms for Plains
2015-12-25 19:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Much of the U.S. East Coast basked in unseasonable warmth on Christmas Day with record high temperatures set or tied in several cities, including New York, even as a tornado hit Alabama and a major winter storm loomed for the southern Rockies and Great Plains. The twister in Birmingham, Alabama, late on Friday afternoon damaged several homes, uprooted trees and caused a handful of minor injuries, police and weather officials reported. National Weather Service meteorologist Jody Aaron said the...
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In Canada's far north, warm weather threatens vital ice road
2015-12-25 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Each winter, in the far reaches of Canada's north, a highway of ice built atop frozen lakes and tundra acts as a supply lifeline to remote diamond mines, bustling with traffic for a couple of months before melting away in the spring. This year, the world's busiest ice road is running late. Unseasonably warm weather has set back ice formation on the Tibbitt to Contwoyto Winter Road, named after the first and last of hundreds of lakes on the route. The road is still expected to open on schedule...
Why the freakishly warm December?
2015-12-25 09:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CNN: The eastern U.S. is warm. Really, really warm. In Central Park, the daytime high on Christmas Eve was 71 degrees Fahrenheit. That's 8 degrees over the previous record for the day. Similar records are being set all over the east. And it hasn't just been a couple days of warm weather; it's been weeks. Record high temperatures have been set by the thousands during December so far, and the month isn't over yet. The average December temperature in New York City may reach 14 degrees above average by the...
Christmas Eve may wrap up warm, wet weather records in US
2015-12-22 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Santa may want to install air conditioning and heavy-duty wiper blades on his sleigh for his Christmas Eve ride into what U.S. weather forecasters say may be record-breaking warmth and wet. Along the East Coast, absurdly warm weather was expected to shatter records on Thursday including in Washington, D.C., where a forecasted high of 75 degrees Fahrenheit (24 degrees Celsius) may top the record of 69 F (21 C) set in 1933, said meteorologist Richard Bann of the National Weather Service. Thermometers...
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Floridas record warm 2015 an outlier in US East
2015-12-22 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: The reasons for Floridas out-of-sync warmth could be myriad and have likely varied with the seasons, experts said. Drought, incredibly warm ocean waters and natural climate cycles may all have contributed to the likely record. While no studies have been done to look for any role of global warming in the states warm year, one of the clearest trends of a warming world is for record highs to outpace record lows. That background warming due to the accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere...
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