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Wanted: Rain. Las Vegas to reach 200 days in a row of no precipitation

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LAS VEGAS — Las Vegas is about to see its 200th day with no measurable rain picked up at the city’s airport monitoring station.

Wednesday will mark Sin City’s 200th day without the station measuring more than one-hundredth of an inch of rain. The longest consecutive dry streak the valley saw previously was in 2020, with 240 days of no ...Read more

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You think it's cold now? Here's how much colder it will get in Miami and across Florida

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MIAMI — Planning a weekend road trip in North Florida to frolic in the record-setting snowfall?

You may have missed your opportunity to make a “Snow in Florida” TikTok video. Meteorologists aren’t predicting more snow because the front that led to the winter scenes has moved on.

But Pensacola, which set a record with nine inches of ...Read more

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Worst snowstorm in 130 years plunges US South into frigid chaos

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Across the U.S. South, extreme weather usually means boarding up windows against hurricane winds and lining streets with sandbags to hold back floods. This week, freezing temperatures and record-breaking snowfall are instead sending residents from Florida to Texas rushing to warming centers, and causing chaos on roads and runways.

The region�...Read more

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Bitter cold sets a new record for Kansas City. Now there's snow in the forecast

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Those heading outdoors should bundle up Tuesday as extreme cold temperatures and bitter wind chills hover around the Kansas City metro.

The National Weather Service in Kansas City has issued a Cold Weather Advisory through noon Tuesday. At 5 a.m., wind chill values were -16 degrees in downtown Kansas City, and -15 degrees ...Read more

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Cold weather advisory with dangerous wind chills in effect for Chicago area

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CHICAGO — National Weather Service officials issued a cold weather advisory in effect until 2 p.m. Tuesday for portions of central, east central and northeast Illinois as well as northwest Indiana.

Officials said dangerously cold wind chills may reach as low as 28 below zero causing frostbite to those exposed to the frigid temperatures in as ...Read more

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Frigid subzero weather grips Chicago on 40-year anniversary of record low

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CHICAGO — Forty years ago today, temperatures in Chicago dipped to an all-time low of minus 27 degrees. The cold stretched to D.C., where it forced Ronald Reagan’s presidential inauguration ceremony indoors.

As a blast of Arctic air hits most of the country, Donald Trump is being sworn in as president inside the Capitol on Monday because of...Read more