International Weather in 1981: A Year of Extremes
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By Comte, Douglas Le  Spring Drought in China  On China's North China Plain, water supplies were very low, as dry weather in the spring worsened a drought dating back to the previous July. Millions of people were affected by shortages of drinking water and food supplies.
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Fears of a new El Nino, a phenomenon that brings extreme weather patterns, are unfounded despite unusual ocean temperatures which often herald the devastating weather anomaly, the World Meteorological Organization said Thursday.
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More frequent and more economically costly storms, floods, droughts and other extreme weather. Wetter conditions in northern Europe but drier weather in the south that could threaten agriculture in some areas. More frequent and more intense heatwaves, ...
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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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This year is on track to be the second warmest since records began in the 1860s and floods in Pakistan or a heatwave in Greece may herald worse disruptions in store from global warming, experts said on Friday.
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The Met Office's prediction that 2007 could be the hottest year on record has been defied by torrential rain.
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When the calendar turned to 2007, the heat went on and the weather just got weirder.
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Oddball weather is the norm in 2007. As the year draws to a close, it's shaping up to be the hottest year on record in the Northern Hemisphere. Most alarming to climate scientists, the Arctic, which serves as the world's refrigerator, dramatically warmed in 2007, shattering records for the amount of melting ice.
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A weak El Nino, the weather anomaly  that distorts wind and rainfall patterns worldwide, is expected  to develop and affect the United States this fall and winter,  U.S. government weather experts said on Thursday.
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The Sun is in the thick of one of the longest and stormiest periods in 8000 years, say researchers who have tracked down an 11,400-year record of stormy sunspot activity in tree rings.
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By JOHN MALAN  Warm weather is settling in for the weekend, with highs in the middle 70s to low 80s across the state.
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On New Year's Day, let us contemplate signs of future weather. In my Findings column, I argue that "availability entrepreneurs" have been exploiting short-term weather in order to awaken the public to what could be a real long-term danger, global warming. Hurricanes, blizzards, floods, droughts, exceptionally hot years â all these have been linked to [...].
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Meteorologo, record dovuto a intensita', durata e estensione
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A weak El Nino, the weather anomaly that distorts wind and rainfall patterns worldwide, is expected to develop and affect the United States this fall and winter, U.S. government weather experts said on Thursday.
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Global warming is set to continue, and bring with it an increase in extreme weather such as hurricanes and droughts, scientists from the United Nations' World Meteorological Organization warned on Wednesday.
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Relatively calm weather was the standard forecast for the  Sun, which is near the end of another 11-year solar  cycle, but raging solar storms just spotted at its south pole now tell a  different story.    Video: Sun Storms
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Scotland, Northern Ireland and northern England have been hit by fierce storms, with winds up to 124mph. Have you been affected?