The Northeastern U.S. braced Thursday for what the National Weather Service called a "potentially historic" blizzard that threatened to dump up to two feet of snow across a swath of New England and the mid-Atlantic.
The currents are what keep Europe's weather from taking after that of Canada, its latitudinal partner across the ocean.
In the meantime it's building 11 more plants around the U.S. as part of a diversification strategy designed to weather what could be severe downturns in the electricity market in such regions as Texas and the Midwest.
Joel Myers, founder of what has become the world's best-known commercial weather service, AccuWeather, pioneered ready-for-air color weather graphics for TV stations and print-ready weather pages for newspapers.
The National Weather Service called the region's flooding a life-threatening situation similar to what happened in October 1998.
But before we get started, in light of what's been going on with our weather situation here on the east coast, I want to take a moment to talk about the devastating storm that is affecting so many communities, including some right here in Virginia.
If you haven't noticed, I'm thrilled to be here. (Applause.) But before we get started, something that I just have to do, given what's going on on the east coast in terms of the weather, we need to take a moment just to always say how focused we are, how heartbroken Barack and I are about those who have suffered because of the hurricane, Sandy.
"They talk about what great weather we're having, but that's actually the reason we're having such terrible allergies, " said Guy Robinson, who manages the pollen tracking station at Lincoln Center, which is associated with Fordham University.
Then there's Rahimi's direct boss, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who can't ask what the weather is like without calling for the annihilation of the Jewish people.
The state-funded Met Office, which bills itself as "one of the top two national weather services in the world, " is in overdrive, sending extra weather balloons into the atmosphere to try to get a read on what's to come and providing daily updates to government officials and other Olympics honchos.
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In the meantime it's building 11 more plants around the country, as part of a diversification strategy designed to weather what could be severe downturns in the electricity market in certain regions such as Texas and the Midwest.
But what we've got now is a situation where it is falling, that's helpful but bad weather on the way and we've got to hope in fact it's fallen sufficient not to create any further effects in York.
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