Freezing Temps Stretch South to Florida
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The first cold wave of the season brought an early white Christmas to much of the East on Monday and kept winter-haven states like Florida in an icy grip.
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A high pressure system pushing south from Canada will bring drier conditions to the northern Plains and cooler air to the Great Lakes region on Thursday.
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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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Bitterly cold winter weather gripped the Midwest on Saturday, and whiteout conditions were blamed for traffic pileups in Michigan and Ohio.  Blizzard warnings were in effect for parts of Michigan, and temperatures reached as low as 17 below zero in the Upper Peninsula.
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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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A brief surge of bitter cold and  powerful wind will sweep into the U.S. Midcontinent Wednesday  and Thursday, sending temperatures down as much as 40 degrees  in some cities, weather forecasters predicted.
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By Susan Salisbury, The Palm Beach Post, Fla.  Jan. 30--Glades-area farmers were scrambling Monday to line up protection  for their sweet corn and green bean crops as the coldest weather of the season  rolled into the region.
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EVERGLADES NATIONAL PARK, Fla. -- &quot;SNAKE!&quot; Hearing this shout, Skip Snow slammed on the brakes.
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Mother nature is fickle. Just two weeks ago, freezing ice and snow blanketed the region. Last week, she teased us with mild weather. Dare we say it? Spring is just around the corner.
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A slightly weakened Hurricane Frances , lingered over the Bahamas on Friday on its resolute path to Florida&#39;s crowded eastern shore.
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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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By DANA BARTHOLOMEW\\ Staff Writer  Blame the freeze. Blame the record dry spell. Whatever the cause, hills covered with tinder-dry brush could easily go up in smoke unless they see some rain -- soon.
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A wintry system that added inches to record snow accumulations in some Northern states sent temperatures plummeting Wednesday in the South, where farmers scrambled to protect their crops.
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Freezing rain and sleet coated parts of the Southeast with a layer of ice Saturday, canceling hundreds of airline flights, knocking out power to thousands of customers and shutting down sections of every interstate highway in the metro Atlanta area.
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TORONTO (CP) - A cold snap that stretched across southeastern Ontario on Tuesday prompted Toronto officials to issue an alert and kept police busy and school busses off the roads in Orillia.
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Hundreds of airline flights were canceled Saturday and fleets of road plows were warmed up as a paralyzing snowstorm barreled out of the Midwest and spread across the Northeast with a potential for up to 20 inches of snow driven by 50 mph wind.
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By ROBERT LIEBMAN FLORIDA seems to be a state of two halves. The Sunshine State's 250-mile-long east coast borders the cold and relatively rough waters of the Atlantic Ocean, and the similarly extensive western coast is caressed by the calmer waters of the Gulf of Mexico.