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At least 37 dead as mile-wide tornado with winds of 320kph wipes out Oklahoma City suburb
A monstrous tornado as much as a mile wide roared through the Oklahoma City suburbs Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods with winds up to 320 kph, setting buildings on fire and landing a direct blow on an elementary school. At least 37 people were reported killed.
The storm laid waste to scores of buildings in Moore, south of the city. Block after block of the community lay in ruins. Homes were crushed into piles of broken wood. Cars and trucks were left crumpled on the roadside.
The National Weather Service issued an initial finding that the tornado was an EF-4 on the enhanced Fujita scale, the second most-powerful type of twister. (AP Photo/The Oklahoman, Paul Hellstern; AP Photo Sue Ogrocki; AP Photo/KFOR-TV)
Lightning over windmills — Flashlights light the sky over a wind energy park during a thunderstorm near Jacobsdorf, eastern Germany, Thursday, May 9, 2013. (AP Photo/dpa, Patrick Pleul)
NASA captures stunning photos of gigantic hurricane whipping across Saturn’s North Pole
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has captured stunning views of a monster hurricane at Saturn’s North Pole. The eye is an enormous 2,000 kilometres across. That’s 20 times larger than the typical eye of a hurricane here on Earth. And it’s spinning super-fast. Clouds at the outer edge of the storm are whipping around at 530 kilometres per hour. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI)
‘Indictment’ issued against groundhog Punxsutawney Phil for ‘purposely’ predicting an early spring falsely
Famed groundhog Punxsutawney Phil might want to go back into hibernation.
Authorities in still-frigid Ohio have issued an “indictment” of the furry rodent, who predicted an early spring when he didn’t see his shadow after emerging from his western Pennsylvania lair on Feb. 2.
“Punxsutawney Phil did purposely, and with prior calculation and design, cause the people to believe that spring would come early,” Mike Gmoser, the prosecutor in southwestern Ohio’s Butler County, wrote in an official-looking indictment.
Gmoser wrote that Punxsutawney Phil is charged with misrepresentation of spring, which constitutes a felony “against the peace and dignity of the state of Ohio.”
The penalty Phil faces? Gmoser says — tongue firmly in cheek — is death. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File)
Birds perch on snow covered trees in a city park after heavy snowfall in Beijing on March 20, 2013. Beijing and the northern China have been experiencing its coldest winter in more than 30 years and have seen tens of thousands of the country’s livestock dying and transport chaos as flights and highways are shut down. (MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images)
Up to 3,000 flights already cancelled as ‘dangerous’ storm bears down on U.S. northeast
Schools across New England have closed and thousands of flights have been scratched as the Northeast hunkers down for a storm poised to dump up to 2 feet of snow. S
Toronto weather live: Ontario school closures, road conditions and TTC updates
A snowstorm that forecasters warn could be the worst in more than four years has moved into Ontario and police are warning of treacherous driving conditions
(Photos: AP Photo; The Canadian Press; John Richardson/National Post)
It’s Groundhog Day (again) and the rodents can’t agree when spring will come
It’s Groundhog Day — the day millions of North Americans turn to weather prognosticating rodents in the hope they’ll call for an early spring.
And Wiarton Willie, Canada’s most celebrated of all its furry forecasters is predicting an early spring.
On the East Coast, Nova Scotia’s Shubenacadie Sam was the first out of his burrow this morning to make his prediction to a worldwide audience via webcam, and sadly for those hoping for an early spring, the pride of Shubenacadie did see his shadow.
Stateside, Pennsylvania’s Punxsutawney Phil is generally regarded as the groundhog of record and his prediction this morning is for an early spring. (Keith Srakocic/The Associated Press; Frank Gunn/The Canadian Press; Andrew Vaughan/The Canadian Press)
Canada continues to shiver through record cold snap — and there’s little relief in sight
Canadians continue to battle a wicked spate of winter weather that has brought torrents of snow to parts of the country and sent temperatures plunging to their lowest levels in years. Just winter weather or “extreme weather” media hype?
Photo: Ice fog from the St. Lawrence river blankets Montreal as windchill temperatures hit -38C, Jan. 23, 2013. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz)
A homeless man is covered in snow while sleeping on the Bay Street sidewalk in Toronto’s financial district, as temperatures dip to -25 degrees with windchill on January 22, 2013. (Darren Calabrese/National Post)
Superstorm Sandy: NYC neighbourhood burns to the ground, three New Jersey towns under water as death toll rises to 33
While the full extent of Hurricane Sandy’s damage remains unclear, millions of Americans awoke to a crippled East Coast Tuesday with flooded and damaged homes, a Manhattan shrouded in darkness while a New York neighbourhood burned to the ground and “unthinkable” damage to the Jersey Shore. (Map: Andrew Bar, Richard Johnson/National Post)
Sandy’s wrath: N.J. flooded, 50 N.Y. houses burn, millions powerless, blizzard strikes
Millions of people in the eastern United States awoke on Tuesday to flooded homes, fallen trees and widespread power outages caused by the giant storm Sandy, which swamped New York City’s subway system and submerged streets in Manhattan’s financial district.
• 50 houses burn to ground in NYC neighbourhood
• Three New Jersey towns flood when natural levee broken
• Blizzard hits West Virginia
• NYC’s subways face ‘worst disaster’ in 108 year history
At least 15 people were reported killed in the United States by Sandy, one of the biggest storms to ever hit the country, which dropped just below hurricane status before making landfall on Monday night in New Jersey. (Photos: AP Photo; Getty; Reuters)
‘Stay off the streets’: NYC mayor as Sandy wreaks havoc on East Coast
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg says backup power has been lost at New York University hospital and the city is working to move people out as Cyclone Sandy wreaks havoc in much of the Eastern U.S. and Canada.
The mayor delivered a news conference Monday night and said rain was tapering off in the city and the storm surge was expected to recede by midnight.
He urged residents not to call 911 unless it was an emergency and implored them to stay off the roads so emergency vehicles could get around.
Photo: A man in snorkelling gear wades through the flooded streets of Brooklyn, New York, October 29. (Gary He/Reuters)
Hurricane Sandy morphs into winter cyclone as massive storm’s reach spreads
The storm called Sandy messily morphed from hurricane into hybrid storm, losing the hurricane part of its name, but not the weather mayhem surrounding it.
The National Hurricane Center officially pronounced the storm a “post-tropical” cyclone Monday evening, as the centre of Sandy perched 32 miles south of Atlantic City, knocking at the coast’s door. The change is part of a transition into a more diffuse storm that is bigger and sloppier, even as its force weakened.
Sandy continues to merge with what was once two cold weather systems already dumping snow in West Virginia, forming what the hurricane centre calls post-tropical and others call Frankenstorm or Perfect Storm 2. Whatever name it visits as, it isn’t leaving the Eastern U.S. anytime soon.
(Top) A flooded street in Atlantic City, New Jersey, is seen at nightfall on October 29, 2012. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)
(Bottom) Rising water, caused by Hurricane Sandy, rushes into a subterranian parking garage on October 29, 2012, in the Financial District of New York. (Andrew Burton/Getty Images)
Hurricane Sandy makes landfall, hammering the coast of southern New Jersey
Hurricane Sandy, one of the biggest storms ever to hit the United States, made landfall along the New Jersey coast on Monday at roughly 8:00 p.m. ET.
The vast storm has already knocked out electricity to more than 1.5 million people and figured to upend life for tens of millions more. It hammered the densely populated East Coast on Monday, shutting down transportation, forcing evacuations in flood-prone areas and interrupting the presidential campaign.
Fierce winds and flooding racked hundreds of miles of Atlantic coastline and heavy snows were forecast farther inland at higher elevations as the center of the storm moves ashore along the coast of southern New Jersey or Delaware on Monday evening. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
