Weather.com - 4/08/13

LOS ANGELES -- Powerful winds raked much of California on Monday, toppling trees, causing scattered power outages, whipping up blinding dust storms, and sending waves crashing ashore as a vigorous spring weather system swept through the state on its way across the West.

Rising winds were reported in Arizona, where 34 miles of Interstate 40 near Winslow had to be closed to traffic.

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weatherzone Ben McBurney, Monday April 8, 2013 - 16:22 EST

Perth is currently sweating through an unseasonal spell of April heat, with the city seeing its hottest start to April on record.

The Western Australia capital has so far averaged a summer-like maximum 32.4 degrees over its first eight days, well above its long-term average of 26 degrees. This also makes it the hottest start to April in 137 years of records. The last time it got even close to being this warm to kick off April was back in 1949, when the first eight days averaged 32.1 degrees.

Today the mercury soared to 37.3 degrees at 1pm, which makes it the hottest April day in 103 years and second hottest April day on record. The April record is 37.6 degrees, set in 1910 on the 9th day of the month.

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Weather.com - 4/07/13, Ramit Plushnick-Masti

SHORE ACRES, Texas  — A city administrator looks out at the Gulf of Mexico from this Southeast Texas town, wondering what vicious hurricanes it may spawn. In the Panhandle, a farmer tries new techniques to keep soil from turning to dust. In West Texas, ranchers watch prairie grass die. Others grow algae as water becomes too salty for other crops. And statewide, reservoirs dry up.

Want to see what happens when the impacts of climate change are felt? Well, just look at Texas, some scientists say.

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Huffington Post UK - 4/05/13, PA

The carcasses of more than 3,000 farm animals which died when a blizzard engulfed Northern Ireland have so far been collected in a state funded disposal scheme.

The Stormont Executive agreed to pay for the recovery operation as part of a multimillion-pound aid package for the farmers worst hit by last month's snow storm.

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