Yes. It&#39;ll be a long winter
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NEW YORK -- National Hockey League owners will meet at a Times Square hotel today as the league counts down the final hours toward a work stoppage that has been predicted for more than a year.
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Winter will be warmer than normal in  the U.S. Western and Plains states and colder than usual in the  Southeast and mid-Atlantic regions, but the return of El Nino  is making it hard for forecasters to hazard a guess for much of  the country, meteorologists said on Wednesday.
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Baseball is coming down the pike. Thatâs the consolation for the cold wave that has hit the Northeast as we hunker down for Sundayâs Super Bowl.
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The storms are expected to bring high winds, heavy rains and snow in the higher elevations.
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THIS WEEK, we&#39;ve had snow in the north and of locusts in the south, which seems like a pretty fitting illustration for the extremes that exist in this small sliver of the globe.
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BERLIN: Three teams have the chance to lift the honorific title of &#39;winter champions&#39; heading into the final weekend of fixtures before the Bundesliga takes a five-week winter hiatus.
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By Jenny Dolan, La Crosse Tribune, Wis.  Dec. 11--'Tis the season to be jump-started.   Wisconsin winters aren't easy on cars or their owners.
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Top forecasters predict normal to colder-than-normal weather for the U.S. Northeast this winter, but high fuel stockpiles may buffer consumers in the world's biggest heating oil region from price spikes.
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The U.S. winter will be longer and slightly colder than the last, private forecasters say, spelling a spike in heating oil and natural gas demand even as high oil prices drive up the cost of heating.
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From shoveling to playing Monopoly, snow packs a big impact in cold-front country.
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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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Weather forecasts are notoriously fickle, but bees, caterpillars and bears are proving as divided as meteorologists on how long winter will last.
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By Frank Fitzpatrick, The Philadelphia Inquirer  Feb. 16--The people, places and things we encounter in a lifetime are much like snowflakes: Some land in shade and linger with us all winter. Others, nearly identical, hit sunny asphalt and vanish as quickly as they came.
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With the Knicks shedding assistant coaches like a volcano emits warning rumbles, and the Nets reverting back to the bad old days, it could be a long winter for New York.
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By SAM POWELL World Sports Columnist  Winter show season continues, and there will be an outdoor exposition of some sort in Oklahoma every week this month.
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A four-year-long study of the Arctic climate confirms what many in Canada&#39;s North have been saying for years -- the Arctic is melting, and faster all the time.
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Residents in northern New York state brace for more heavy snowfalls as they try to clear up to six feet of snow.