Shelters Brace for Frigid Blast
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With the coldest weather of the season expected to sweep through the Washington region today, several jurisdictions are extending shelter hours and mobilizing workers to try to provide shelter for everyone who needs it.
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By The News-Sentinel, Fort Wayne, Ind.  Feb. 7--The bitter cold that has blanketed the Midwest has touched all areas of the city, causing problems on the roads, filling homeless shelters, bursting pipes and water mains, and delaying flights.
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MELBOURNE, Fla. - Bracing for a monstrous storm, residents and tourists clogged shelters or made last-minute preparations Friday as Hurricane Frances churned toward the Atlantic coast, where the state's second pummeling in three weeks could begin as soon as Saturday...
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The blowtorch heat that blistered California last week gripped the Midwest on Monday, prompting communities to throw air-conditioned buildings open to the public and endangering millions of people with outdoor jobs &#151; including NFL players in training camp.
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High temperatures were traded for low ones as short sleeves turned long Friday.  National Weather Service meteorologist Mike Seaman said a strong cold front swept over the state midafternoon Friday, plunging temperatures from the day's high of 73 to the low 40s.
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A powerful storm system pounded a large swath of the nation's midsection on Tuesday, spawning everything from heavy snow and numbing cold to hail and possible tornadoes, and forecasters warned more could be on the way.
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By ED CULLEN  I stood looking at volunteer zinnias in the rain this morning thinking, "So long, summer children. Nice try." There are hard freezes predicted tonight and tomorrow night with a couple of nights of lows in the mid-30s thrown in.
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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.
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A deadly winter storm brought snow and sleet to the Northeast on Thursday, while crews in the Plains and Midwest worked to restore power to hundreds of thousands
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Frigid temperatures, blasting wind and more snow than some places normally see in a year left parts of the Midwest and South paralyzed Thursday, and transformed a section
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Thousands of weary survivors of Japan&#39;s deadliest earthquake in a decade prepared for a third tense night in makeshift shelters and outside as rain threatened
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Millions of homeowners from the Dakotas to New York State, currently  enduring a week of record-setting low temperatures and snowfall, should  take precautions to protect water pipes from freezing.
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Frigid weather that slammed the U.S. Midwest and Northeast over the weekend could stick around for several more days, ushering in a month of below-normal temperatures, forecasters said on Monday.
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Harsh winter weather is threatening to cut off more than 300,000 survivors of last year's killer South Asian earthquake from critical food supplies, the United Nations warned Monday as the season's first snows began to fall.
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It's a sweltering 90 degrees and soldiers Kevin Messmer and Kroften Owen are hunched in a rubble-strewn apartment. Peering from a window to avoid sniper fire, they see a bustling Iraqi city.
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HARRISBURG, Pa., Feb. 12  /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- With bitter cold weather affecting most of the state, fire Commissioner Edward A. Mann is urging Pennsylvanians to practice safety when they heat their homes.
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Firefighters kept watch on the weather Tuesday as they lined up trucks and other equipment to defend a residential area from a wildfire that had forced the evacuation of 30 homes.