Midwest Getting Its Summer in September
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CHICAGO - At a time when restaurants typically put away their patio furniture, sweaters replace T-shirts and sailboats are plucked from the water, Midwesterners are out enjoying activities usually reserved for July and August - not weeks past Labor Day. Summer is here...
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People in Philadelphia would swelter through as many as 30 days with temperatures higher than 100 degrees each summer. The Northeastern ski industry, except for western Maine, would probably go out of business. And spruce and hemlock forests -- as well as songbirds such as the Baltimore oriole --...
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MONTREAL - There are reports Bombardier Aerospace is being courted by at least three midwest American states that want to see the Montreal-based company transferred to the United States.
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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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Most of the United States will experience warmer than normal weather this summer and the Pacific Northwest will be drier than normal, said the National Weather Service said on Thursday.
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Â·  No rain forecast in south of state until September Â·  Sprinklers and car washing could be stopped
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By Lea Blevins; Roman Gokhman  It's not officially summer yet, but the Bay Area got an early taste of summer heat this week.  "We have a high-pressure cell building over Central California," said Brooke Bingaman, National Weather Service spokeswoman.
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By Art Campos, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Jun. 7--The warm weather has arrived, and so has the potential for accidents in lakes, rivers and swimming pools.
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By Jim Guy, The Fresno Bee, Calif.  Sep. 5--Valley residents took to area parks, lakes and rivers Monday, trying to capture the last summer holiday on the Labor Day weekend.
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By ELIZABETH HOCK  Labor Day weekend at the lake provided a preview of what the next few weeks will bring. The leaves on some of the trees were just beginning to turn, and there was the slightest hint of crispness in the air.
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Storms continue to drench the US Midwest, which is already enduring record floods.
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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.
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By Frederick Melo, Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn.  Feb. 22--Fans of the great outdoors appear to really enjoy themselves in Dakota County. If only they'd swing by a little more often.
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Points: Though it is still September, this key divisional clash could determine who represents the East Division in the Mid-American Conference title game - as it has for five of the past six years.
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By Sam Cook, Duluth News-Tribune, Minn. Sep. 6--If you enjoyed last fall's pheasant season, you ought to like this fall's. Wildlife biologists with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources released results from their August roadside counts Tuesday.
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By Omaha World-Herald, Neb.  Sep. 16----
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If you think President Bush has been in Michigan a lot this summer, you&#39;re right. The Republican president made weekly visits to Michigan in July and has been here every other week in August.