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Storm Damage near Shreveport

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Wunderground.com - 5/16/13

One day after devastating tornadoes ripped apart towns in North Texas, severe weather pounded Shreveport, La.

Dangerous storms pounded through the area late Thursday afternoon, spawning at least one reported tornado as well as damaging hail and blinding rain.

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Cyclone Mahasen Weakens After Killing 45 in Bangladesh

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Weather.com - Farid Hossain, AP

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A Bangladeshi woman holds an infant while resting at a cyclone shelter center before Cyclone Mahasen made landfall in Chittagong, Bangladesh, Thursday, May 16, 2013.

 

COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh — Cyclone Mahasan weakened Thursday afternoon into a tropical storm and then dissipated, causing far less damage than had been feared as it passed over Bangladesh and spared Myanmar almost entirely, meteorological officials said.

Tornado Count Rises to 16 in Texas

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Weather.com - 5/16/13

A tornado 4 miles south of Millsap in Parker County, Texas. (Tori Marshall/Dallas Morning News)

 

The number of tornadoes confirmed in North Texas Wednesday night has now increased to 16, including an EF4 twister that claimed six lives in the town of Granbury.

Several survey teams documented the damage Thursday. The NWS released new details on the strength and location of the tornadoes.

Mount Everest's Ice Is Melting

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Weather.com - Becky Oskin, LiveScience, 5/15/13

Mount Everest is the world's highest mountain located in the Mahalangur section of the Himalayas. (Jupiterimages)

 

Earth's global thaw has reached Mount Everest, the world's tallest peak, researchers said Tuesday at the Meeting of the Americas in Cancun, Mexico.

Glaciers in the Mount Everest region have shrunk by 13 percent in the last 50 years and the snowline has shifted upward by 590 feet, Sudeep Thakuri, a graduate student at the University of Milan in Italy, said in a statement. Located in the Himalaya Mountains on the border between China and Nepal, Everest's summit is 29,029 feet above sea level.

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Report: Coldest April in Over a Decade for U.S.

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Weather.com - Chris Dolce and Andy Cox, 5/15/13

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April 2013 Temperature Rank (since 1895)

April 2013 ranked as the 23rd coolest April on record. The north-central states saw temperatures the farthest below average. North Dakota recorded its coldest April on record. Six additional states had a top ten coldest April. The Middle Atlantic, Vermont, Florida and the Southwest had above-average temperatures in April.
April 2013 was wetter-than-average and the coldest since 1997, according to a report released Wednesday by the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), an arm of the federal government's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

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6 Confirmed Dead From Possible Tornado in Texas

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Weather.com - 5/16/13, AP

Johnny Ortiz, left, and James South, right, carry Miguel Morales, center, who was injured in a tornado, to an ambulance in Granbury, Texas, on Wednesday May 15, 2013. Officials report the tornado caused "multiple fatalities" as it tore through two neighborhoods of a North Texas town. Hood County sheriff's Lt. Kathy Jiveden reported the multiple fatalities, but she had no estimate of dead or injured. AP Photo/Mike Fuentes

 

GRANBURY, Texas (AP) -- Officials awaited daybreak to fully assess the scope of the destruction left in the wake of a deadly tornado in Granbury.

Hood County Sheriff Roger Deeds said he hoped the death toll from the tornado would hold at six, with about 50 people injured and 250 people left homeless.

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Record Cold in the Midwest, Northeast

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Accuweather.com - 5/15/13

It felt more like late March than mid-May across the Midwest and the interior mid-Atlantic on Sunday and Monday as cold Canadian air penetrated the United States once again this spring.

This cold snap began early on Saturday afternoon when a cold front pushed through the Great Lakes. Cold air filtered in behind this front and was accompanied by rain and snow showers that lasted into Sunday morning across Michigan and Wisconsin.

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