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Easter bunny brings biggest rains to Top End

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weatherzone By Andrew Thompson, Monday April 1, 2013 - 22:36 EDT

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The Easter holidays have seen the Top End break its dry spell. - ABC

 

A bumper burst of Easter weather has delivered the Top End's largest amount of rainfall so far this wet season, the Bureau of Meteorology has said.

This season had been unusually dry, but parts of Darwin have received up to 130 millimetres over the past few days.

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Moscow Records Highest March Snow Depth in 20 Years

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Accuweather.com - 3/31/13, Vickie Frantz

Russians cover themselves from a blizzard as they walk outside Moscow's Kremlin, Russia, on Sunday, March 24, 2013. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)
 

As of March 26, 2013, the snow depth in Moscow, Russia, was 30 inches, their highest March snow depth in more than 20 years.

"A previous record snow depth of 29 inches was recorded March 19, 1994," said Senior Expert Meteorologist Jim Andrews.

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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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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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