Mild January weather keeps lake and river ice dangerously thin
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The first weeks of January have been several degrees warmer than average in Finland.
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Unusual mild weather has led to a lack of snow in Europe, threatening tourism and trade, say two BBC reporters.
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By BOB RIEPENHOFF  The recent blast of bitter cold weather is a welcome development for those looking forward to the Lake Winnebago system sturgeon spearing season, which opens Saturday.
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WASHINGTON -- Sales at the nation's retailers barely budged in February as bad winter weather kept already cautious shoppers away from the malls.
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By Mike Archbold, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash.  May 30--A forecast of hot weather this week and two cold river drowning deaths over Memorial Day weekend are a cautionary tale for swimmers and boaters.
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By Scott Richardson  Jonn Graham doesn't wait for warm weather to chase smallmouth bass.  He fishes as long as the ice is off area rivers, including the Mackinaw and Vermilion.
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A dangerous winter storm brought a mix of snow, sleet and freezing rain to the Washington area yesterday, and the National Weather Service said that the region  might face severe and disruptive icing by this morning.
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Arctic ice has shrunk to the lowest level on record, new satellite images show, raising the possibility that the Northwest Passage that eluded famous explorers will become an open shipping lane.
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By Sean Rose, The Lexington Herald-Leader, Ky.  May 27--A dam is in need of repair and there's less water for boating, but for Kentucky geologists, a 40-foot drop in the water level at Lake Cumberland is just fine.
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PARIS - Arctic ice has shrunk to the lowest level on record, new satellite images show, raising the possibility that the Northwest Passage that eluded famous explorers will become an open shipping lane.
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After an unusually warm December and a mostly snow-free January, winter returned with a vengeance Tuesday to the Upper Midwest and Northeast, dumping heavy snow on parts of New York and keeping temperatures well below zero in many cities.
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MILWAUKEE _ People are worried Lake Michigan water levels are lower than normal, but most have no grasp of what "normal" is for the world's fifth largest freshwater lake.
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By Stowe, Gene  Winter weather has delayed the boating season by about three weeks, says Don Daly, who owns Eagle Lake Marine in Edwardsburg with his wife Charmayne.
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Mild weather was expected to linger in  most of the United States until at least early January,  continuing a prolonged spell of balmy conditions that has cut  deeply into heating demand, government and private forecasters  said on Tuesday.
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Ice cover in the Arctic Ocean, long held to be an early warning of a changing climate, has shattered the all-time low record this summer, according to scientists from the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder.
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By John Dobberstein, Tulsa World, Okla.  Feb. 9--The drought has weakened its grip on Oklahoma, thanks to several shots of snow, sleet, ice and rain this winter.   More than half of Oklahoma is not suffering from drought conditions, according to data from the U.S.
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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.