Bracing for Winter in Louisiana
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By ED CULLEN  I stood looking at volunteer zinnias in the rain this morning thinking, "So long, summer children. Nice try." There are hard freezes predicted tonight and tomorrow night with a couple of nights of lows in the mid-30s thrown in.
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LSU football head coach Nick Saban spoke with members of the media after practice Wednesday. BATON ROUGE -- With one eye on Hurricane Ivan, LSU continued to prepare for Saturday&#39;s contest against 14th-ranked
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A winter storm was expected to intensify along the East Coast on Monday, dropping heavy snow from New Jersey to Maine, while the Plains and Southeast were expected to be clear and dry.
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A winter storm brought near-blizzard conditions to much of the U.S. Midwest on Tuesday, forcing schools to close and disrupting transportation across the region, while a deadly New Orleans tornado ripped through New Orleans.
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California is bracing for a series of powerful winter storms poised to deliver a one-two-three punch to the West Coast, bringing snow, rain and high wind throughout the Golden State, forecasters said.
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ALEXANDRIA, Louisiana  - The primary elections have been called the most gripping in recent years but not in the Deep South state of Louisiana where parties struggled to motivate voters on Saturday.
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Forecasters predicted cooler temperatures in both the West and Northeast on Wednesday, while rain and thunderstorms were expected in the Plains and along the Gulf Coast.
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Snow was forecast for large parts of the Mid-Atlantic region and Northeast on Wednesday, with as much as 2 feet or more possible in some areas of the northern Mid-Atlantic and New England.
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A storm off the West Coast will move southeast on Wednesday, bringing heavy precipitation and strong winds. Snow accumulations could exceed a foot in the mountains above 4,000 feet, and winds of 20 to 30 mph with gusts to 40 mph were expected.
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LAFAYETTE - As winds and rains from the ghost of once-Hurricane Ivan began to whip the Louisiana and Texas coast on Thursday, a small possibility began to loom that the diehard storm might circle again over open water and make a third landfall along the
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Affected by a weak El Nino, winter  weather in the United States will be warmer in the West and  cooler and wetter in the South and Southeast, forecasters  predicted Thursday.
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It might be a long winter for Coldwater Creek.
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Warmer-than-usual winters are stoking fears for the survival of New Englandâs maple forests.
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Rain was expected to dampen much of the nation on Saturday, with snow falling in mountainous areas of the West. Widespread showers were forecast for the Ohio Valley, Great Lakes, Northeast, Mid-Atlantic and the central Tennessee Valley.
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Forecasters predicted up to a foot of snow in the Cascades and stormy weather from the central Plains to the Mississippi Valley on Saturday.
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Winter will be warmer than normal in  the U.S. Western and Plains states and colder than usual in the  Southeast and mid-Atlantic regions, but the return of El Nino  is making it hard for forecasters to hazard a guess for much of  the country, meteorologists said on Wednesday.
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As the first signs of winter push into the Northeast, researchers have some good news for fair weather fans â-pring is coming earlier than it used to.