Weather helps battle against Southwest wildfires

2012-05-20T00:50:16Z

PHOENIX (Reuters) - Improving weather helped firefighters in Arizona make progress on Saturday against wildfires that have charred more than 65 square miles (168 square km) of forest, brush and grass in the U.S. Southwest and forced the evacuation of several small towns. More than 2,000 firefighters were battling five blazes in Arizona and Colorado from the ground and air. Meanwhile, a small blaze in New Mexico's Gila Wilderness area ballooned in size as wind whipped the flames. ...

Cool weather aids in fight against Colo. wildfire

2012-05-19T22:42:54Z

Lower temperatures and higher humidity Saturday were helping crews assigned to a wildfire that has scorched 12 square miles in northern Colorado, one of several burning across the West.

Beautiful Weather For The Asian-Pacific American Festival In Center City

2012-05-19T18:05:31Z

Atlantic storm could bring early start to hurricane season

2012-05-19T16:59:57Z

MIAMI (Reuters) - A swirling mass of thunderstorms off the South Carolina coast has a 50-percent chance of developing into a tropical depression or a tropical storm and could bring an early start to the Atlantic hurricane season, forecasters said on Saturday. The weather disturbance was in the Atlantic Ocean about 120 miles southeast of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, forecasters at the National Hurricane Center in Miami said. "Showers and thunderstorms have increased near the circulation center. ...

This Is Your Child's Brain on Exercise; How to Make Schools Healthier

2012-05-18T22:23:00Z

Discovered: Kids brains look different than adults brains when exercising, how to make schools healthier and how thunderclouds are contributing to climate change. This is your child's brain on exercise. It looks different than your adult brain, finds research. When kids exercise they change the way their brains work. "In the last several years there have been data suggesting that neurobiological changes are happening -- [there are] very brain-specific mechanisms at work here," explains researcher David Bucci. ...

Wheat jumps again on worries about dry weather

2012-05-18T21:15:05Z

Wheat futures soared again Friday as more concerns about dry weather hit the market.

Rocket, weather look good on eve of new space era

2012-05-18T20:28:45Z

NASA hasn't seen this much launch jitters since the space shuttle program ended last summer.

Crews at CO wildfire to face warm, stormy weather

2012-05-18T18:22:52Z

Firefighters at a wildfire burning about 12 square miles in northern Colorado expect warm stormy weather will make their work more difficult Friday, but they hope to be able to allow evacuated residents to return home soon.

The High Cost of Summer: How Hotter Weather Hits Your Wallet

2012-05-18T13:33:33Z

Summer started earlier this year and is on track to be hotter than almost any on record. And that means it's going to be expensive, because whatever it is you like to do during the summer, you're going to do more of it and that's going to cost you.

The nation's weather

2012-05-18T09:56:20Z

Weather Underground Forecast for Friday, May 18, 2012.

Federal government spent nearly $70 billion on ‘climate change activities’ since 2008

2012-05-17T22:48:04Z

The Congressional Research Service estimates that since 2008 the federal government has spent nearly $70 billion on “climate change activities.”

A Beautiful Day To Talk About The Weather

2012-05-17T21:47:43Z

Wheat, gold, silver rise in a down market

2012-05-17T20:46:26Z

Wheat prices rose again Thursday on concerns about poor weather conditions, while gold and silver shot higher as traders sought refuge from a steep decline in the stock market.

UN talks take first steps on 2015 climate deal

2012-05-17T20:09:18Z

UN members on Thursday took their first steps in a marathon to negotiate a new global pact by 2015 that for the first time will place rich and poor under a common legal regime to tackle climate change.

Hot Summer Projected for Much of US

2012-05-17T18:24:52Z

More than half of the United States may be in for a hot summer, a continuation of a year-long trend of high temperatures across much of the country, according to scientists with federal agencies that monitor large-scale climate conditions and severe weather.

Blame that yucky maple syrup on the weather

2012-05-17T15:43:01Z

LITTLETON, New Hampshire (Reuters) - Bad news for waffle lovers. Historic warmth in March slashed this year's U.S. maple syrup output as much as 40 percent as sugar maple trees, which need freezing temperatures at night to sustain sap production, dried up early or largely produced bad-tasting syrup. In the Northeast, where nearly all U.S. maple syrup is produced, sugarmakers traditionally gather sap from maple trees during a six-week season from late February to early April before buds appear on the trees. The 2012 season was cut short by the warmest March on record. ...

New Weather Channel update shines on iPhone and iPad

2012-05-17T15:01:00Z

The popular app from one of the leading sources in weather news and information, just got a great update today.

Cato 1Q profit up, warmer weather boosts revenue

2012-05-17T13:03:20Z

Cato Corp.'s first-quarter net income rose 4 percent as the women's clothing retailer got a boost from warmer weather and its expenses dropped.

Weather Watch: Rain showers here and there in U.S. Midwest

2012-05-17T13:00:34Z

UNITED STATES Showers expected in Minnesota, northern Iowa, northern Nebraska and the Dakotas this weekend, bringing 1/2 to 1-1/2 inches of rain to those areas, said Joel Widenor, meteorologist with Commodity Weather Group. The rest of the Midwest should be mostly dry during the next 10 days, although there is a chance for some light showers in the Ohio River Valley early next week. Soil moisture will need a boost in southern areas if rain does not develop, particularly if temperatures rise into the low 90s degrees Fahrenheit as expected. ...

Hot & Windy Weather Continues For DFW

2012-05-17T13:00:10Z

El Nino could cut global 2012/13 cocoa output: ICCO

2012-05-17T12:36:15Z

LONDON (Reuters) - Possible El Nino weather conditions later this year could exacerbate a potential global cocoa deficit in the coming 2012/13 season, causing prices to climb, the International Cocoa Organization (ICCO) said. "We know that when we have El Nino conditions it's likely that this will impact negatively on world cocoa production. We would have less production and this would have an impact on price," ICCO statistician Laurent Pipitone told Reuters. ...

About 750,000 households escape fuel poverty in 2010

2012-05-17T11:13:28Z

LONDON (Reuters) - About 750,000 households were lifted out of fuel poverty in 2010 due to rising incomes among cash-strapped consumers and lower consumption following the roll out of energy efficient boilers, helped by stable energy prices, the government said. The latest report on fuel poverty statistics by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) shows that the number of households spending over 10 percent of total income on warmth fell from 5.5 million in 2009 to 4.75 million in 2010. ...

Wheat soars on dry weather; crude and gold sink

2012-05-16T21:32:58Z

Wheat futures soared 5 percent as dry weather in the U.S. brought worries that the crop wouldn't be nearly as large as traders had expected.

Blame that yucky maple syrup on the weather

2012-05-16T17:16:49Z

LITTLETON, New Hampshire (Reuters) - Bad news for waffle lovers. Historic warmth in March slashed this year's U.S. maple syrup output as much as 40 percent as sugar maple trees, which need freezing temperatures at night to sustain sap production, dried up early or largely produced bad-tasting syrup. In the Northeast, where nearly all U.S. maple syrup is produced, sugarmakers traditionally gather sap from maple trees during a six-week season from late February to early April before buds appear on the trees. The 2012 season was cut short by the warmest March on record. ...

UK climate experiment canceled on patent concerns

2012-05-16T16:45:04Z

LONDON (Reuters) - British scientists have abandoned an experiment to test the possibility of spraying particles into the upper atmosphere to stem global warming, largely due to concerns over a patent for some of the technology, the project's leader said. Scientists and engineers from the universities of Bristol, Cambridge and Oxford are behind a three-year, 1.6 million pound ($2.5 million) geo-engineering project called Stratospheric Particle Injection for Climate Engineering (SPICE). ...