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Saturday, April 21, 2012 8:30 PM PDT

Today's Weather News Headlines - Yahoo! News: Nice Weather Continues 8 Ways Global Warming Is Already Changing the World Space Shuttle's New York Arrival Delayed by Bad Weather Bad weather halts Westwood's charge in Indonesia Weather forecast delays shuttle's arrival to NYC Perfect Main St. Ft. Worth Arts Fest Weather! Space Shuttle Enterprise's NYC Delivery Delayed By Weather Concerns Space Shuttle Fly Over Delayed by Weather EU delays vote on labeling oil sands oil dirty Economic weather report by IMF's Christine Lagarde: 'umbrella' still needed Mexico's Senate passes climate change bill Did Cold Weather Cause the Salem Witch Trials? Showers & Storms, But No Severe Weather Climate change impacts Europe's mountain plants: study Spotty Showers Before Beautiful DFW Weather Africa sitting on sea of groundwater reserves Good weather, car fuel worries drive strong UK retail sales gain in March Fresh iPhone Apps for Apr. 20: Fragile Earth, Time to Enjoy, Chalk Walk, Shaun the Sheep Afghan official: US chopper crashed in bad weather The nation's weather Polar bears older than previously thought: study Climate change 'impacts Europe's mountain plants' Evening Weather Update 4-19-2012 Mild weather spurs record March visitation, Smokies park up nearly 20 per cent year to date Is Warm Weather Casting a Cloud Over U.S. Job Growth? Nice Weather Continues Sat,21 Apr 2012 01:24 PM PDT CBS Dallas Fort Worth (RSS) - Full Story Top 8 Ways Global Warming Is Already Changing the World Sat,21 Apr 2012 12:42 PM PDT LiveScience.com - Over the last 100 years, global temperatures have warmed by about 1.33 degrees Fahrenheit (0.74 degrees Celsius) on average. The change may seem minor, but it's happening very quickly — more than half of it since 1979, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Full Story Top Space Shuttle's New York Arrival Delayed by Bad Weather Sat,21 Apr 2012 11:13 AM PDT Mashable - Bad news, New York City-based space enthusiasts: You'll have to wait a few more days before Space Shuttle Enterprise takes to the skies over Gotham. Full Story Top Bad weather halts Westwood's charge in Indonesia Sat,21 Apr 2012 07:55 AM PDT Yahoo! Sports - Lee Westwood of England celebrates sinkling a birdie putt on the 18th green during final round play in the 2012 Masters Golf Tournament at the Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia, April 8, 2012. REUTERS/Mike Segar Full Story Top Weather forecast delays shuttle's arrival to NYC Fri,20 Apr 2012 09:08 PM PDT Associated Press - The space shuttle Enterprise's scheduled arrival in New York City has been pushed back because of possible bad weather. Full Story Top Perfect Main St. Ft. Worth Arts Fest Weather! Fri,20 Apr 2012 03:30 PM PDT CBS Dallas Fort Worth (RSS) - Full Story Top Space Shuttle Enterprise's NYC Delivery Delayed By Weather Concerns Fri,20 Apr 2012 03:24 PM PDT SPACE.com - WASHINGTON — Space shuttle Enterprise's jet flight from Washington, D.C., to New York has gone from "on time" to "delayed." Full Story Top Space Shuttle Fly Over Delayed by Weather Fri,20 Apr 2012 02:00 PM PDT DNAinfo (RSS) - Full Story Top EU delays vote on labeling oil sands oil dirty Fri,20 Apr 2012 01:07 PM PDT Associated Press - The European Commission will delay asking members to approve a measure that would label oil from oil sands as worse for climate change than crude oil — a temporary victory for Canada, where such oil is produced. Full Story Top Economic weather report by IMF's Christine Lagarde: 'umbrella' still needed Fri,20 Apr 2012 12:55 PM PDT Christian Science Monitor - The international economics journalists who piled into the conference room at the International Monetary Fund's Washington headquarters Thursday morning might have thought they were in for a complex and technical-term-laden readout on the state of the global economy.  Full Story Top Mexico's Senate passes climate change bill Fri,20 Apr 2012 11:53 AM PDT AFP - Mexico's Senate has unanimously passed a climate change bill aimed at reducing carbon emissions by 50 percent by 2050, following Britain in creating legally binding emissions goals. Full Story Top Did Cold Weather Cause the Salem Witch Trials? Fri,20 Apr 2012 09:22 AM PDT LiveScience.com - Historical records indicate that, worldwide, witch hunts occur more often during cold periods, possibly because people look for scapegoats to blame for crop failures and general economic hardship. Fitting the pattern, scholars argue that cold weather may have spurred the infamous Salem witch trials in 1692. Full Story Top Showers & Storms, But No Severe Weather Fri,20 Apr 2012 08:22 AM PDT CBS Dallas Fort Worth (RSS) - Full Story Top Climate change impacts Europe's mountain plants: study Fri,20 Apr 2012 07:51 AM PDT AFP Relax News - The acceleration of climate change is stressing mountain plants in Europe and driving them to migrate to higher altitudes, according to a study released Thursday by US researchers. Full Story Top Spotty Showers Before Beautiful DFW Weather Fri,20 Apr 2012 07:00 AM PDT CBS Dallas Fort Worth (RSS) - Full Story Top Africa sitting on sea of groundwater reserves Fri,20 Apr 2012 06:57 AM PDT Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - Huge reserves of underground water in some of the driest parts of Africa could provide a buffer against the effects of climate change for years to come, scientists said on Friday. Researchers from the British Geological Survey and University College London have for the first time mapped the aquifers, or groundwater, across the continent and the amount they hold. "The largest groundwater volumes are found in the large sedimentary aquifers in the North African countries Libya, Algeria, Egypt and Sudan," the scientists said in their paper. ... Full Story Top Good weather, car fuel worries drive strong UK retail sales gain in March Fri,20 Apr 2012 06:02 AM PDT Associated Press - LONDON - Warm weather and a spate of panic-buying for car fuel caused retail sales in Britain to surge by 1.8 per cent in March compared with a month earlier, official data showed Friday. Full Story Top Fresh iPhone Apps for Apr. 20: Fragile Earth, Time to Enjoy, Chalk Walk, Shaun the Sheep Fri,20 Apr 2012 05:22 AM PDT Appolicious - Get geared up for Earth Day on April 22 with Fragile Earth, today's leading Fresh iPhone App. It's filled with aerial photos that can give users an idea of how huge and incredible planet Earth is, and what the effects of things such as climate change and natural disasters actually look like. Time To Enjoy, our next app, lets users find things to do all around them. Chalk Walk, an educational iPad game that teaches young children how to properly hold a pencil to prepare them for school, leads our game offerings into the weekend, followed by tilt-based racer Shaun the Sheep – Fleece Lightning. Full Story Top Afghan official: US chopper crashed in bad weather Fri,20 Apr 2012 04:38 AM PDT Associated Press - A U.S. Army helicopter crashed in bad weather during the night in Afghanistan as it was en route to respond to a suicide attack on a local police checkpoint, an Afghan official said Friday. Full Story Top The nation's weather Fri,20 Apr 2012 02:32 AM PDT Associated Press - Weather Underground Forecast for Friday, April 20, 2012. Full Story Top Polar bears older than previously thought: study Thu,19 Apr 2012 10:16 PM PDT AFP - Polar bears diverged from their closest relatives 600,000 years ago, far earlier than previously thought, suggesting more challenges in the face of climate change, scientists said. Full Story Top Climate change 'impacts Europe's mountain plants' Thu,19 Apr 2012 10:10 PM PDT AFP - The acceleration of climate change is stressing mountain plants in Europe and driving them to migrate to higher altitudes, according to a study released by US researchers. Full Story Top Evening Weather Update 4-19-2012 Thu,19 Apr 2012 03:00 PM PDT DNAinfo (RSS) - Full Story Top Mild weather spurs record March visitation, Smokies park up nearly 20 per cent year to date Thu,19 Apr 2012 11:58 AM PDT Associated Press - GATLINBURG, Tenn. - Officials of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park say mild weather probably had a lot to do with March being a record month for visits. Full Story Top Is Warm Weather Casting a Cloud Over U.S. Job Growth? Thu,19 Apr 2012 10:13 AM PDT U.S.News & World Report LP - Spring break may be long past, but the economy could long be feeling the hangover from the February and March it had. Full Story Top

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