2007 a year of weather records in U.S.
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When the calendar turned to 2007, the heat went on and the weather just got weirder.
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The Old Farmer's Almanac says it used time-honored, complex calculations to predict that 2008 will be the warmest year in a century, along with a bit of folklore &#151; years that end in "8" have weird weather.
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By Chrystian Tejedor,, South Florida Sun-Sentinel  Dec. 15--Super soaker storms doused West Palm Beach with more than 8 inches of rain Thursday, erasing a 51-year-old record of 3.75 inches for Dec. 14, set in 1955.
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By Halverson, Jeffrey B  THE OFFICIAL TALLY FOR THE 2006 ATLANTIC HURRICANE SEASON STANDS AT nine named storms, slightly below the average of 10 per year. Of its own accord, the statistic hardly seems unusual; nine is just a slight dip below long-term expectations.
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The United States, which has emerged from this year's hurricane season largely unscathed, should brace itself for a potentially devastating hurricane season in 2007, a leading windstorm forecaster warned.
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_U.S. deaths as of Jan. 31, 2007: 3,080.
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With the 2007 Atlantic hurricane season just a few hours away, researcher William Gray released his newest forecast Thursday still showing an expection for 17 major storms and nine hurricanes, five of them intense.
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Rain fell in the city for a fourth consecutive day Sunday and meteorologists decided it probably would be enough to save 2007 from going down as the drought-stricken Atlanta area's driest year on record.
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The likelihood of an above-average Atlantic hurricane season is growing as a Pacific Ocean El Nino system, which drove storms away from the Gulf Coast in 2006, ended in the past few weeks, meteorologists said on Thursday.
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Graceful breakup announcements, photogenic small animals, outrageous slurs: a look back at 2007.
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US sales of previously owned homes rose 2.7 percent to a record in November, making 2004 the best year ever for housing. Existing homes sold at a 6.94 million annual rate, up from a 6.76
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U.S. airline delays for 2007  surpassed the 1 million mark in July, the same month major  carriers scheduled a record number of flights - 647,600, the  government reported on Tuesday.
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A look at the highlights and lowlights of 2007.
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More than 60 percent of the United States now has abnormally dry or drought conditions, stretching from Georgia to Arizona and across the north through the Dakotas, Minnesota, Montana and Wisconsin, said Mark Svoboda, a climatologist for the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln.
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The bad news: more tornadoes were reported in Kansas and the nation last year than at any time since records have been kept.
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(Nationwide) Dec. 25, 2004 - Americans already at their Christmas destinations are thankful to be through the holiday weather. It&#39;s caused problems nationwide, as bitter cold, snow and ice are creating travel
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Ideal fall weather in the Midwest  boosted the U.S. corn crop to a record 11.613 billion bushels  and soybeans to a record 3.11 billion bushels while cotton will  hit a record 21.545 million bales despite hurricane damage in  the Southeast, the government forecast on Tuesday.