Winter storms batter western states
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Storms battered the western United States on Saturday with strong winds, heavy rains and a blanket of snow that caused widespread power outages, a levee break in Nevada and two deaths in California.
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Howling windstorms and heavy rains caused at least four deaths, closed bridges and highways and cut power to about 1.5 million homes and businesses in Washington and Oregon, authorities said Friday.
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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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A massive late winter storm swept across the United States Thursday, dumping snow on the north and spinning tornadoes to the south, killing at least one person.
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Scorching temperatures in the western US cause a string of fires, threatening homes and highways.
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The winter storm that roared through the Northwest and Rockies &#151; causing traffic nightmares and helping break a Seattle rain record &#151; blew across the southern Plains and Midwest, bringing with it the first significant ice and snow of the season.
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Driving snow leaves half a million people without power as a winter storm hit the central United States.
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More than 10 feet of snow could fall on California mountains by Sunday and winds could reach the strength of an extremely strong hurricane as powerful winter storms move through the state.
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At least one tornado  touched down in Dumas, Arkansas, on Saturday, injuring a number  of people and destroying much of the small town's business  district, while a strong winter storm moved across Colorado and  into the Midwest.
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A rare convergence of weather patterns has drenched the west and blanketed much of the country with snow.
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CINCINNATI, Ohio  - A winter storm barreled out of  the U.S. Midwest on Thursday, creating misery for holiday  travelers, knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of  people and breaking snowfall records.
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An unrelenting storm brought more rain and snow to Southern California on Friday, while residents in the Sierra Nevada dug out from as much as 8 feet of snow. More wet weather was expected through the New Year's weekend for most of the state, giving skiers mountains of fresh snow &#151; but dangerous driving conditions to get there.
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A powerful winter storm that unleashed a thick blanket of mountain snow, heavy rain and at least one tornado pounded Southern California for a fifth straight day Friday.
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CHICAGO, Dec. 1 -- A surprising early winter storm rolled across the central United States overnight and today, stranding airline passengers, shutting schools and leaving hundreds of thousands of households in darkness due to ice and wet snow.
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A slow-moving, powerful storm battered the West for a third straight day Wednesday, forcing hundreds of people out of a scenic region of Arizona and blacking out thousands of homes in Southern California.
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A winter storm that pounded the Sierra Nevada over the weekend delivered a snowy, icy mess across the nation's central states, stalling holiday travel, closing stretches of highway and making a nationally televised football game look at times like the tuner was off by a channel.
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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.