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Matt Daniel
It’s official: 2012 was warmest year for the United States
NCDC finally made it official and announced that 2012 was the warmest year ever recorded in the contiguous United States.
January 9, 2013
U.S. meteorologists gather in Austin today for annual meeting
Check out some of the awesome events that are occurring at the annual meeting of the American Meteorological Society, which starts today.
January 5, 2013
Top five weather and climate stories of 2012
Matt Daniel picks his top five weather and climate stories that affected the globe in 2012.
January 1, 2013
In 2012, 11 billion-dollar weather disasters in US
Two most expensive 2012 U.S. weather disasters have been ongoing drought ($40 billion in damages so far) and Superstorm Sandy ($62 billion so far).
December 30, 2012
Recap of 2012 Christmas storm in US
This storm will go down as producing the most tornadoes ever recorded on Christmas Day in the United States since record keeping began. Photos and videos here.
December 28, 2012
Significant storm to affect the U.S. on Christmas
A Major storm system will bring an outbreak of severe storms across the U.S. southeast and a major winter storm across the center of the country on Christmas Day.
December 24, 2012
I’m dreaming of a white Christmas!
Congratulations! You survived the end of the world, and Christmas is around the corner. Time to focus on that popular question: will we have a white Christmas?
December 21, 2012
Temperature records from nature reaffirm climate warming
In a large compilation, scientists used used 173 independent datasets - from natural sources such as ocean sediments - to show warming over the past century.
December 20, 2012
2012 set to be warmest year ever recorded in US
2012 is likely to break 1998 for the warmest year ever recorded since record keeping began in the contiguous United States.
December 14, 2012
At least 650 dead and hundreds still missing from Super Typhoon Bopha
Super Typhoon Bopha struck the Philippines on December 4, 2012 as a Category 5 storm with 160 mile per hour winds.
December 12, 2012
