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	EF-4 Tornadoes Are Rare For North Texas The National Weather Service estimated that 16 twisters landed across North Texas, and some of them were EF-4 tornadoes. What does that mean? Read More » What to Do Around Washington, D.C., This Weekend: May 17-19, 2013 It should be warm this weekend, May 17-19, for Washington, D.C., though we might see some rain showers or thunderstorms, according to forecasts. No matter what the weather, though, there's lots going on in and around D.C. -- read on for details. Read More » Scientists: Climate change is real As if the backing of NASA, 18 independent American scientific societies, and an intergovernmental panel established under the United Nations weren't enough to quell the protests popping up in comment sections across the Internet, a new study published in the journal Environmental Research Letters confirms — once again — that climatologists almost unanimously believe that climate change is directly related to human-made carbon emissions. Read More » NWS: Estimated 16 North Texas Tornadoes, Some EF-3 & EF-4 Officials with the National Weather Service (NWS) have determined the strength of several tornadoes that touched down across North Texas Wednesday night. As of Thursday afternoon NWS officials estimate that 12 tornadoes touched down. Read More » Allstate: $216M in catastrophe losses in April Severe weather led to $216 million in catastrophe losses in April for Allstate Corp., the insurer said Thursday. Two severe weather events accounted for more than 75 percent of the estimated loss for the ... Read More » North Texas Hit Hard By Deadly Tornadoes A line of deadly thunderstorms struck North Texas late on Wednesday, dropping giant hailstones and a series of tornadoes that leveled whole subdivisions. Six people were killed and as many as 14 were still missing as of Thursday morning.  Read More » Resources For Tornado Victims For information about loved ones, to locate a shelter in the areas affected by severe weather, or to make a donation, visit our storm resources page. Read More » Good Weather App Read More » Analysis: Obama climate agenda faces Supreme Court reckoning By Lawrence Hurley and Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With a barrage of legal briefs, a coalition of business groups and Republican-leaning states are taking their fight against Obama administration climate change regulations to the U.S. Supreme Court. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other industry groups, along with states such as Texas and Virginia, have filed nine petitions in recent weeks asking the justices to review four U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regulations that are designed to cut greenhouse-gas emissions. ... Read More » National Weather Service gets big computing boost By Tom Brown MIAMI (Reuters) - The U.S. National Weather Service is getting a quantum jump in computing power that will significantly improve its forecasting and storm tracking abilities to better protect the country from severe weather. "This is a game changer," Louis Uccellini, who took over as director of the National Weather Service in February, told Reuters in an interview, calling it "the biggest increase in operational capacity that we've ever had. ... Read More » What to Do in Detroit This Weekend: May 17-19, 2013 Forecasts promise warm weather with some thunderstorms this weekend, May 17-19, for Detroit. But don't let thunder and lightning stop you from having fun. Read More » UGI 2Q profit tops Wall Street's expectations Propane distributor UGI said Wednesday that cold winter weather helped push its net income higher in its fiscal second quarter. The company on Wednesday revised the results for the quarter that it initially ... Read More » The United Nations Wants Us All to Start Eating Bugs The world is expected to be populated by a whopping 9 billion people by 2050, and between overfishing and climate change, it's gonna be kinda hard to come up with enough food for all those hungry mouths. So the U.N. thinks they've stumbled upon a novel solution: We all need to learn to love the taste of bugs. Read More » US, India dance awkwardly around the man who might be India's next leader Narendra Modi, India's potential next prime minister, addressed expatriate Indians in 18 US cities Sunday evening via video conference. He spoke of global warming and malnutrition, gave a shout-out to the mayor of Chicago, and applauded the Indian diaspora for their achievements. He even told them he was building a statue twice the size of the Statue of Liberty to be called the Statue of Unity. Read More » Extreme Weather Drove More Than 30 Million People from Their Homes in 2012 See full coverage Read More » Warmer weather continues to help ND farmers Warmer weather conditions across North Dakota helped farmers make significant progress on their fieldwork. The U.S. Department of Agriculture says in its weekly crop report that producers had 5.5 days ... Read More » UN: Eat more insects; good for you, good for world ROME (AP) — The latest weapon in the U.N.'s fight against hunger, global warming and pollution might be flying by you right now. Read More » Greenhouse gas milestone; CO2 levels set record WASHINGTON (AP) — Worldwide levels of the chief greenhouse gas that causes global warming have hit a milestone, reaching an amount never before encountered by humans, federal scientists said Friday. Read More » A Bad Day for Two Agencies IN THE NEWS: IRS admits targeting conservative groups … Clinton urged to testify again on Benghazi … E-mails reveal editing … Obama to Belfast, Berlin in June … The coming GOP civil war over climate change … The highest-paid employee in your state? A coach, likelyTHE TAKE Read More » Uganda coffee exports up 76 pct yr/yr in April on good weather KAMPALA (Reuters) - Uganda's coffee exports rose 76 percent in the year to April, boosted by better weather in key coffee growing regions, a source at the state-run Uganda Coffee Development Authority (UCDA) said on Friday. The UCDA source said Uganda exported 248,749 60-kg bags of coffee in April, a jump from 141,220 bags shipped in the same period last year. "South and Southwestern regions experienced goods rains when the crop that is now in harvest was in its development stage and that really has been key in the big surge in exports," the UCDA source told Reuters. Read More » Inside the Cover: The Coming GOP Civil War Over Climate Change A concerted push has begun within the Republican party—in conservative think tanks and grassroots groups, and even in backroom, off-the-record conversations on Capitol Hill—to persuade Republicans to acknowledge and address climate change in their own terms. The effort will surely add heat to the deep internal conflict in the years ahead. Read More » Thursday Afternoon Weather Update RADAR at 3PM – Rain still steady across Dallas and Collin County and areas to the south.  Strongest storms remain from Hillsboro southward.  Rain was tapering off in Tarrant County and we will have several […] Read More » Alco Stores says cold weather hit its 1Q sales Alco Stores Inc. said Thursday that its first-quarter sales were hurt by wintry weather in the Midwest. Alco said sales from continuing operations rose about 1 percent to $116 million in the quarter ended ... Read More » Conn. bill bars price gouging for storm services Members of the Connecticut Senate continued a three-year effort to extend a ban on severe weather price gouging to services such as snow removal, with proponents expressing hope they can persuade the House ... Read More » Tracking Severe Weather Chances for North Texas Severe storms breaking out across West Texas up into Kansas.  These storms will be moving eastward this evening and may affect areas NW of DFW later tonight. RADAR AT 4PM – Severe Thunderstorm Watch well […] Read More »