je.st
news
Tag: severe weather
Severe Weather Rolls Through Las Vegas
2013-09-10 08:20:26| Semiconductors - Topix.net
After days of complaints and busy signals, the Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation announced Monday that the majority of claims have been paid.
Tags: las
weather
vegas
severe
Insurance Companies Given Severe Weather Warning
2013-07-08 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: The global insurance industry's own analysts warn that it faces potentially serious financial losses unless it plays an active role in urging governments to address climate-change factors such as greenhouse gas emissions. The Geneva Association, a leading international insurance thinktank that examines trends in the global insurance industry, has published a report this week that identifies "a significant upward trend in the insured losses caused by extreme weather events." It warns that changes...
Tags: companies
insurance
weather
warning
Canada: Severe flooding a sign of future weather woes, UW researcher says
2013-06-22 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Record: Extreme rainfall and flooding in Alberta could result in one of the most costly natural disasters in Canadian history -- and it may not be an isolated event. Flooding in southern Alberta that occurred in 2005 was then considered a one-in-100-years disaster, yet the heavy rains this week that have led to flooding in Banff, Canmore, Calgary and south toward Lethbridge have caused more widespread damage than the previous event. According to Jason Thistlethwaite, director of the Climate Change...
Severe weather temporarily halts some Metra service
2013-06-13 22:36:14| Railroads - Topix.net
Metra spokesman Tom Miller said trains were stopped in both directions early this evening on the Burlington Northern, Union Pacific Northwest and Union Pacific West lines due to the strong winds and storms.
Tags: service
weather
severe
temporarily
Severe weather threatens U.S. East Coast with possible tornadoes
2013-06-13 15:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A severe storm system sweeping the U.S. East Coast on Thursday delayed flights and threatened to snarl work commutes a day after causing several tornadoes, damaging hail and high winds across the upper Midwest. Thunderstorms with winds strong enough to down trees and power lines were expected from the Mid-Atlantic south into Virginia and North Carolina, and more tornadoes and hail were possible, said meteorologist Roger Edwards of the National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center in Norman,...
Tags: east
weather
coast
severe
Sites : [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] next »