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And meteorologists say the heavy rainfall across the South could mean weeks more of high water.
CNN: 'Crazy old' Tennessee man waits out the flooding
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Seasoned storm trackers provide critical field data that can't be gleaned from high-powered Doppler radar, veteran meteorologists say.
NPR: Storm Chasing Critical, Profitable And Dangerous
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And there could be more coming, though meteorologists say the worst is over.
WSJ: Worst storms over in East, South but more coming
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Meteorologists say warm weather from the Gulf of Mexico collided with a cold front from the west, creating volatile conditions.
BBC: Storms leave two dead in Georgia and Tennessee
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Meteorologists say the dry conditions in the Midwest started with a lack of snow, which usually replenishes soil with moisture.
WSJ: Midwest's Dry Spell Threatens to Intensify
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But predicting how much harm a storm will cause is complicated, economists and meteorologists say, because hurricane strikes to the U.S. are rare enough that there are few apt historical comparisons.
WSJ: Few Precedents to Help Predict Hurricane Damage
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The Jersey shoreline needs to brace for a direct hit of this superstorm, and those who have survived Cat-1 storms in the past should not be treating Sandy the same way, Weather Channel meteorologists all say.
FORBES: Aliens, Sandy And The Coming Global Superstorms
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Many meteorologists and scientists say that a single warm winter is all part of the natural variations of an unpredictable climate, but a new climatic survey has reported that Europe's Alpine region is now warmer than at any other time since the Middle Ages, so could the current conditions be a taste of things to come?
CNN: Alpine resorts feel the heat
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So global warming models say global warming has little or no impact on North Atlantic storms and meteorologists report a convergence of natural factors that made Sandy especially powerful.
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