Cold snap leaves deep South in deep freeze
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Residents of the Deep South awoke to a powerful blast of cold weather on Friday, which brought the lowest temperatures of the season to many parts of the United States.
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Wet weather will persist across portions of the Southeast on Friday, as a cold front pushes through the region. Moist air from the Gulf of Mexico will collide with cooler, drier air, causing thunderstorms.
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It was so cold Sunday in the Upper Midwest, and visibility was so poor in blowing snow, that church services were called off in parts of Michigan. At noon, thermometers in one North Dakota town still registered only 20 below zero.
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A cold snap has brought freezing temperatures, unusual snows and heavy rains to Mexico and Central America, and authorities said the weather may be to blame for several deaths.
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Severe weather howled through much of the nation Sunday, producing damaging tornadoes in the South that injured nearly 30 people and treating winter-weary parts of the Midwest to freezing rain, snow and flooding.
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By Jan Perry  Good golly, Miss Molly, it's been cold out there! So cold that some schools have been closed.
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Snow. Floods. Icy winds. Maybe even a tornado. South Africans are facing one of their harshest winters in years, with at least four deaths blamed on flooding from heavy rain that has caused travel delays in the south and west of the country.
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A winter storm battered states from the Plains through the Midwest on Wednesday, sending travelers slipping and sliding over icy roads, dumping a foot of snow over some areas and pushing temperatures to bitter-cold levels.
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Snow, ice and howling winds hit a broad section of the central United States on Friday with a first-day-of-December punch that closed roads, disrupted commercial air travel and left hundreds of thousand of people without power.
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Rain two weeks ago followed by a deep cold snap could not have worked out more perfectly.
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A winter storm rushed across the Southeast on Thursday, closing schools and grounding flights a day after coating roads with deadly ice in the Plains.
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From shoveling to playing Monopoly, snow packs a big impact in cold-front country.
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A cold snap forecast for the U.S.  Northeast is expected to start on Friday and last about a week,  but it could last longer in the southeastern part of the  country, weather forecasters say.
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A cold front is expected to move through much of the eastern third of the country on Saturday, bringing rain to areas east of the Mississippi River.
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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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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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Scattered showers and thunderstorms will develop in many parts of the U.S. on Tuesday, as a cold front pushes through the East and South.