- The nations weather
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AP - Weather Underground Forecast for Tuesday, February 07, 2012.
- Dam bursts in Bulgaria, 8 killed in floods
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AP - A dam in southern Bulgaria burst Monday after days of heavy rain, sending an eight-foot-high (2.5-meter) torrent surging through a village along the Greek border. The disaster brought the region's toll from flooding to eight dead, 10 missing.
- Rescuers dig to reach trapped in Philippines quake
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AP - Rescuers dug with picks and shovels trying to reach dozens of people trapped under houses collapsed by a strong earthquake Monday that shook a central Philippine island and set off landslides.
- Children among 12 dead as quake hits Philippines
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Reuters - A magnitude 6.7 earthquake struck the central Philippine island of Negros on Monday, triggering landslides that toppled houses and killing at least 12 people, including two children, officials said.
- Europe's cold snap claims more victims, travel hit
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Reuters - Bitterly cold weather sweeping across Europe claimed more victims Sunday, brought widespread disruption to transport services, and left thousands without power with warnings that low temperatures would continue into next week.
- Storm blankets Nebraska after dumping on Colorado
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AP - A powerful winter storm that covered parts of Colorado with up to 6 feet of snow crept east across the Plains Saturday, knocking out electricity to thousands in Nebraska as the blanket of heavy, wet precipitation downed power lines and made travel treacherous.
- 5.7 quake recorded off BC, no tsunami
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AP - A magnitude 5.7 earthquake has been recorded about 105 miles west of Ucluelet off the coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia.
- Rome struggles with more snow; govt shovels issued
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AP - Romans bewildered by their city's first big snowfall in 26 years used government-issued shovels to clear sidewalks, and kitchen utensils to clear windshields Saturday.
- Major snowstorm barrels down on Central Plains
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Reuters - A major winter storm that dumped two feet of snow on the Denver area marched eastward on Saturday, buffeting the Central Plains with heavy snowfall and wind gusts of 25 miles per hour.
- Greece, Bulgaria battle flooding; 8 dead
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AP - A swollen river in Greece bursts its banks, flooding homes and forcing authorities to declare a state of emergency Tuesday, officials said, as rescuers scrambled to a Bulgarian village nearly washed away when a dam collapsed, killing eight people.
- Heathrow Airport cancels flights ahead of snow
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AP - The owner of Heathrow Airport says it has canceled 30 percent of flights for Sunday amid forecasts for snow and severe weather in London.
- Afghan officials try to open Kabul airport
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AP - Afghan officials say they are hopeful that the country's largest airport will reopen after being closed due to heavy snowfall.
- Romania rescues children as Europe's freeze deepens
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Reuters - Nine Romanian children were taken into care after a baby died in an unheated house, joining at least 189 others killed by a Siberian front which strengthened its hold over Eastern Europe on Friday and spread further west.
- Major winter storm sweeping across Colorado
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AP - A powerful winter storm swept across Colorado on Friday, forcing the state Department of Transportation to close portions of Interstate 70 and Interstate 25. The National Weather Service said snow was falling at 2 inches an hour on the Eastern Plains.
- Storm over climate change among weather forecasters
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Reuters - You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.
- June-uary Weather: 6 More Weeks of Mild Winter?
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LiveScience.com - Punxsutawney Phil, the weather-forecasting groundhog, saw his shadow today (Feb. 2), which is supposed to mean six more weeks of winter are to come. Just about everyone in the United States, except for Alaska, can be forgiven for thinking, "What happened to the first six weeks of winter?"
- Warm fall, little snow help storm-battered farms
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AP - After being battered by flooding last year, farmers across the Northeast and Midwest can at least be thankful that a relatively warm and largely snowless winter has made it easier to get started healing their rutted and debris-strewn lands.
- Warm winter creates winners and losers in U.S. economy
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Reuters - Halfway through what might turn out to be the second mildest U.S. winter on record, major parts of the nation's economy are feeling the impact, for better or worse.
- Storm hampers search for 8 missing crew
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AP - Strong winds and high seas are hampering efforts to find eight crew members missing after their freighter ship sank off Turkey's Black Sea coast in a winter storm, officials and reports said Wednesday.
- Talk of 'tornado tourism' stirs anger in Joplin
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AP - Eight months after a tornado laid waste to much of this city, Joplin is wrestling with an emotional question: Should the community market its devastated neighborhoods to tourists?