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Strange Spring: Explaining This Year's Wild Weather
Description: According to experts, this season's higher-than-normal highs, lower-than-normal lows and extreme storms are, to some degree, symptoms of what tends to be a volatile time of year. But there are also some more insidious factors behind the latest round of weather grief, including an unusually strong La Niña, a strange pocket of warm air in Arctic, and overall climate warming. [Source: Discovery News]
URL: http://news.discovery.com/earth/spring-weather-wildfire-tornadoes-110421.html
Availability: Full Text
Source: Discovery News
Publish Date: 4/21/2011
Reading Level: Basic
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