It’s happened.  The unthinkable has happened.  Just when we thought it couldn’t get any worse.  Just when we had suffered through not one, but two blizzards in one week.  Just when it looked like it might stop snowing and the sun might come out.  It happened.
It stalled.  The Great Baltimore Blizzard of 2010 Part II [...]

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The snow has finally stopped and the Blizzard Warnings have been dropped.  This storm packed a wallop that much of the Mid-Atlantic will be dealing with for quite some time.
Stay tuned to our Snowpocalypse page for full coverage.
To make matters worse, there is already talk of another possible blizzard hitting on Wednesday.
First things first, however.  [...]

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No, hell hasn’t frozen over, but the state of Florida has.  The weather down south has been just plain weird lately.
In addition to reports of frozen iguanas falling from trees, there is now something else you don’t see very often…snow in Florida.
Reports indicate that it is currently snowing in Orlando, FL, home of Walt Disney [...]

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Our HQ here at Blippitt is located in Baltimore, MD which is at the center of this weekend’s #snowpocalpyse, currently a hot topic over on Twitter.
For full coverage, click here: Blizzard of 2009
The 6 p.m. EST totals from the National Weather Service and local meteorological experts put snowfall totals in the range of 18-24 inches.  [...]

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The National Weather Service has issued a tsunami advisory for some coastal areas of California, including Santa Cruz County, following the 8.3 earthquake that struck American Samoa on Tuesday.
The advisory is really just a heads-up to mariners because the threat seems to be minimal. The tsunami size is being estimated in centimeters.
“It could generate some [...]

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The National Weather Service has predicted that Tropical Storm Danny could evolve into Hurricane Danny within the next few days. The Tropical Storm Danny projected path also shows the storm affecting several east coast states.
The National Hurricane Center issued the first official advisory for Tropical Storm Danny on Wednesday at 11:00am EST.
The storm’s current speed [...]

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Just about the only things that are predictable about the 2009 hurricane season are the names of the storms.
For U.S. readers, there are two lists to which you should refer…the Pacific-based hurricane list and the Atlantic list.
Here is how the National Weather Service explains it:
“Since 1953, Atlantic tropical storms have been named from lists originated [...]

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Severe storms led to flash flooding in both Kentucky and Indiana on Tuesday, closing down a college campus in Louisville, closing highways and severing power to thousands.
The flooding closed down the University of Louisville, where more than 10 buildings had no power and about 12 more had some flooding, according to university [...]

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