Coldest Easter on Record in United Kingdom

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Accuweather.com- April 1st, 2013- Eric Leister 

 

The lowest Easter temperature in recorded history across the United Kingdom occurred in Braemar, Scotland, as the temperatures fell to -12.5 C (9.5 F) Sunday. This broke the previous record of -9.8 C (14.4 F) set in 1986, according the the Met Office.

Meanwhile, the low temperature fell to -2.8 C (27 F) in London, well below the normal low of 3.9 C (39.0 F).

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Severe Storm Recap from Easter Sunday

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Accuweather.com- April 1, 2013-Kristina Pydynowski

 

Easter Sunday brought the month of March to a close with severe storms across the Deep South and Texas.

Severe thunderstorms with a history of producing hail and damaging winds continued to race southeastward across the central Gulf Coast in addition to southeastern and central Texas well into the evening.

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Swarms of Locusts Tormenting Middle East, Madagascar

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Wunderground.com - 3/28/13, Sean Breslin

A swarm of locusts fly over the Negev desert near the Egyptian-Israeli border on March 12, 2013 at the Beduin village of Bir Hadage, Israel. (Uriel Sinai/Getty Images)

A modern-day plague of locusts have been swarming the Middle East in March, and now, they're even turning up elsewhere.

Millions of the crop-destroying insects were first reported in Egypt, but quickly crossed over into neighboring Israel, where images of the biblical plagues resurfaced. They showed up by the millions, just before Passover, forcing a rapid response to exterminate the critters that are notorious for reproducing and growing their swarms at an alarming pace.

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83 Miners Trapped in Tibet Landslide

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Wunderground.com - 3/31/13


Tibet Landslide Traps 83

Rescuers lead sniffer dogs while searching through rock and debris at a gold mine after a mudslide in Gyama village, in Maizhokunggar County of Lhasa, Tibet, on March 30. (AP Photo)

BEIJING — Authorities in Tibet said Sunday that chances were slim that any survivors would be found after a massive mudslide at a gold mine buried 83 workers in piles of earth up to 100 feet deep. Searchers have found 11 bodies and were searching for the remaining missing.

The landslide Friday has spotlighted the extensive mining activities in the mountainous Chinese region of Tibet and sparked questions about whether mining activities have been excessive and destroyed the region's fragile ecosystem.
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There goes Peter Cottontail: Iconic rabbit facing extinction

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NBC News - 3/31/13

Credit: Lou Perrotti / Roger Williams Park Zoo

A cottontail, not Peter.

 

By Sofia Perpetua, Writer
 

The grass is not that green for the New England cottontail rabbit anymore, as its habitat is disappearing — and if there is no intervention the Massachusetts famous rabbit could become extinct, experts warn.

This rabbit species was once so popular that it inspired Peter Cottontail, Thornton Burgess children’s story character, a century ago, as well as songs, comic strips, movies and television specials.

How a Storm Became Big Enough to Span the Atlantic

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Weather.com - 3/31/13, Douglas Main, livescience.com

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There is currently a massive storm churning over the Atlantic that spans the entire ocean basin, stretching all the way from Canada to Europe, and from Greenland to the Caribbean.

It's the same weather system that brought a massive spring blizzard to much of the United States and Canada earlier this week (on Tuesday (March 26), 44 of 50 states had some snow on the ground), and which has now ballooned in size, according to Jason Samenow, chief meteorologist with the Washington Post's Capital Weather Gang.

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Foggy Pileup Claims 3 Lives in Virginia

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Weather.com - 3/31/13

Photo taken by Virginia State Police Sgt. Mike Conroy at the scene of the crash.

Virginia State Police are on the scene of a multi-vehicle crash in the southbound lanes of Interstate 77 in Carroll County that has claimed three lives and injured more than 20 others.

Foggy conditions and hilly, treacherous terrain created treacherous travel conditions along the interstate in the area of Fancy Gap Mountain.

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