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BBC News
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China is celebrating Lunar New Year, a festival which has been overshadowed by the worst snowstorms in decades.
Across the country, people gathered and set off fireworks to welcome the Year of the Rat.
But millions of migrant workers are spending th..
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CNN
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Gaining strength overnight, Tropical Storm Noel lashed Cuba and the Bahamas early Tuesday after making a deadly pass over the Dominican Republic. Heavy downpours triggered flooding and mudslides that left 11 people dead, a Dominican government spokesman s..
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CNN
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Hurricane Dean churned toward a second dangerous encounter with Mexico on Wednesday, as government officials warned residents of Veracruz and other coastal towns to prepare for its arrival. The storm is expected to hit central Mexico after crossing Campec..
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BBC News
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Jamaica is bracing for what could be a devastating storm as Hurricane Dean blows in from the Caribbean Sea in the next few hours.
The island sits right in Dean's path and meteorologists warn the storm could reach Category Five strength, with "potential..
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Al Jazeera
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Ahmad al-Harthi, director of the meteorology department, said: "Oman is normally affected by tropical cyclones from time to time, but this is one of the severest since the 1977 storm, bearing in mind we have records going back to 1890."
A weather serv..
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CBC
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Residents in southwestern B.C. will spend their weekend cleaning up in the wake of the third powerful storm to hit the region this week...
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MSNBC
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When the storm made landfall early Saturday at the mouth of the Irrawaddy River, its battering winds pushed a wall of water as high as 12 feet some 25 miles inland, laying waste to villages and killing tens of thousands.
Victims lived in the low-lying..
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MSNBC
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Several flights to the region from Manila were canceled.
In Manila, workers started rolling up giant roadside tarpaulin billboards on steel frames to prevent them from being blown down by strong winds.
Mass evacuations ordered
Philippine Presiden..
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BBC News
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Rescuers are searching for eight sailors reported missing after a powerful storm hit the Sea of Azov and parts of the Black Sea on Sunday.
Russian officials say four ships have sunk, including an oil tanker, and four others are in danger of breaking up..
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SF Gate
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Tropical Storm Noel buffeted south Florida with high surf and winds as it swirled slowly toward the Bahamas Thursday after triggering mudslides and floods in the Caribbean that killed at least 81 people.
Forecasters warned of worsening storm conditions..
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CNN
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Churning in the warm waters of the Caribbean Sea, deadly Tropical Storm Noel approached Andros Island in the Bahamas early Thursday, bringing a torrential downpour of rain and tropical storm-force winds. The National Hurricane Center said it expects Noel..
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BBC News
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At least 20 people have been killed in flooding in the Dominican Republic following torrential rains dumped by Tropical Storm Noel.
Most of the deaths were reported along the south coast, east of the capital Santo Domingo.
It is feared the death tol..
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CNN
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Tropical Storm Noel's top winds began weakening Monday morning, but the heavy rains dumped on Haiti and the Dominican Republic flooded roads and homes as the storm moved westward across the Caribbean Sea. The National Hurricane Center in Miami called Noel..
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SF Gate
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Hurricane Lorenzo weakened into a tropical storm early Friday as it bore down on Mexico's Gulf Coast with strong winds and rain and forced low-lying coastal communities to evacuate.
Earlier, Lorenzo made landfall along the east-central coast of Mexico,..
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CNN
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A tropical storm watch is likely for the Mexican coast Wednesday as a tropical depression gains strength in the Gulf of Mexico, the National Hurricane Center reported. As of 5 a.m. ET, Tropical Depression 13 was centered about 205 miles (330 kilometers) e..
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USA Today
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Typhoon Wipha weakened Wednesday as the storm swept through eastern China, bringing torrential rains that flooded streets and disrupted air traffic but caused little damage in China's financial center of Shanghai.
Wipha was downgraded to tropical storm..
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USA Today
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Tropical Storm Ingrid became the ninth storm of the Atlantic hurricane season Thursday when it formed in the open ocean, The National Hurricane Center said.
At 11 p.m., Ingrid's center was located about 840 miles east of the Lesser Antilles.
Ingrid..
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CBS News
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Subtropical Storm Gabrielle moved toward the east coast of the United States early Saturday, and a tropical storm watch remained in place for portions of the South Carolina and North Carolina coast.
At 8 a.m. Eastern time, Gabrielle had top sustained w..
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BBC News
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Thousands of residents and tourists have been fleeing coastal areas in Central America as Hurricane Felix churns through the Caribbean.
It has become a category five storm for the second time, with winds at 257km/h (160mph). Forecasters warn it is "ext..
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MSNBC
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Same as Mitch
The storm was following the same path as 1998's Hurricane Mitch, a sluggish storm that stalled for a week over Central America, killing nearly 11,000 people and leaving more than 8,000 missing, mostly in Honduras and Nicaragua.
The U.S..
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