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A rare tornado warning was issued Sunday for New York City and surrounding areas as high winds and rain swept through the northeast.

In response to deadly flooding in recent days, Wuhan, China, upgraded its emergency response for flood control to the second-highest level on Monday, China’s state-run Xinhua News Agency reported.

A Jonesboro, AR, man, sheltering inside his business, caught footage of a violent Tornado as it raged across a parking lot on Sunday morning.

Thousands of volunteers have descended upon the tornado-torn areas of Tennessee to help clean up after Tuesday’s storms.

TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday expressed his “deep shock” over the drowning of a man and a woman in an elevator, the result of massive flooding in Tel Aviv following record rainfall over the weekend. 

India’s capital city has recorded its coldest December in over a century, with its lowest average temperatures since 1901, Firstpost reported Saturday.

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A strong typhoon that barreled through the central Philippines left at least 28 dead and 12 missing, and forced thousands to flee their homes, devastating Christmas celebrations in the predominantly Roman Catholic country.

Severe storms are raging across Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas, damaging homes and threatening lives.

NEW YORK — A powerful winter storm that’s bedeviled Thanksgiving travelers across the United States is taking aim Sunday at the northeast.

San Francisco saw record-breaking cold on Thanksgiving Day with temperatures plummeting to 48 degrees, ty ing the city’s record for November, according to a report.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A day after bringing havoc to the Rocky Mountains, a powerful winter storm rolled across the Midwest on Wednesday, threatening to scramble Thanksgiving plans for millions of people during one of the busiest travel weeks of the year.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A storm packing heavy snow and high winds that wreaked havoc as it whipped through Colorado, Wyoming and Nebraska marched into the upper Midwest on Wednesday as anxious Thanksgiving travelers buckled up and barreled headlong into a busy, if not perilous, holiday week.

The Lancet Countdown, an arm of the Lancet scientific journal associated with its controversial report linking autism and vaccines, has issued a report on the threat of climate change based on more controversial data from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez suggested that the price tag for their multitrillion-dollar climate change proposals are irrelevant because we are “paying for it now” in the form of natural disasters.

Forecasters are predicting a blast of Arctic air will blanket most the United States next week with record-breaking temperatures.

A cross remained standing inside a church in Dallas, Texas, after an F-3 tornado tore the building apart on Sunday. 

Tropical Storm Nestor and a tornado battered Florida on Friday, destroying a middle school, overturning vehicles on a highway, and leaving nearly 10,000 Floridians without power.

The Guardian newspaper announced it is changing its style rules to reflect that it is not “climate change” but a “climate emergency.”

Researchers from University College London are forecasting an average temperature in the UK of just 3.9ºC (39ºF) for January to February in what is expected to be “the coldest weather in 30 years.”

The official death toll is 30 so far in the Bahamas after Hurricane Dorian hit the country as a devastating Category 5 storm on Sunday with winds hitting 185 miles per hour, but an official there said “thousands” of people are missing.

The National Hurricane Center (NHC) released another update on Hurricane Dorian, which has been downgraded to a Category 4 storm but continues to pose a major risk – packing life-threatening flash floods and hurricane-force winds – to the coasts of Florida, Georgia, and the Carolinas.

Hurricane Dorian has continued to build in strength over the past 12 hours and now has maximum sustained winds of 160 mph, according to the National Hurricane Center (NHC).

Officials said they have upgraded Tropical Storm Barry to a Category 1 hurricane Saturday morning after it exhibited maximum sustained winds of 75 mph. 

Elba Island has launched an ambitious program to combat inaccurate weather forecasts by reimbursing tourists’ hotel fees if it rains for more than two hours on any given day.

Presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg said in his announcement speech this week that climate change could be “the greatest security issue of our time” as evidenced by a series of severe weather events.

Several winter storms that have pounded Washington state have killed about 1,600 dairy cows in the area, a group of dairy farmers said Tuesday.

The Pennsylvania groundhog known as America’s most famous weather forecaster — Punxsutawney Phil — did not see his shadow Saturday morning, forecasting an early spring.

(AP) — The body of a University of Iowa student has been found on the campus, and officials say they believe his death was weather related.

Chicago has officially broken its coldest record for January 30 as a deadly arctic blast freezes large swaths of the Midwest.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The frigid arctic air blanketing parts of the Midwest is setting records in the Dakotas.

Power outages and natural gas interruptions were reported in parts of the Midwest as bitterly cold weather wreaks havoc across the region. 

Chicago railway employees are setting train tracks on fire to ensure trains can continue running as extreme cold freezes most of the Midwest.

Xcel Energy is urging customers to lower their thermostats to prevent natural gas shortages as a deep freeze enveloped the Midwest. 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A deadly arctic deep freeze enveloped the Midwest with record-breaking temperatures Wednesday, triggering widespread closures of schools and businesses, and prompting the U.S. Postal Service to take the rare step of suspending mail delivery to a wide swath of the region.

AFP – Governors in Wisconsin, Illinois and Michigan declared emergencies as the worst of the cold threatened on Wednesday.

Winter’s sharpest bite in years moved past painful into life-threatening territory across parts of the Midwest Tuesday.