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Airlines are facing thousands of canceled flights for tomorrow and Wednesday as a developing nor’easter is forecast to bring high winds, rain, and snow to much of the east coast. American Airlines and its affiliates alone have already canceled over 950 flights, mostly out of the Dallas/Fort Worth hub. The National Weather Service has issued an advisory: The bad weather …

FEMA has recalled furloughed workers in advance of Tropical Storm Karen. A hurricane watch is in effect from Grand Isle to Indian Pass in the Florida Panhandle. A tropical storm watch also was in effect for parts of the Louisiana coast west of Grand Isle, including the New Orleans area. “Based on applicable legal requirements, and consistent with its contingency …

In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, New York City has greatly expanded the boundaries of the mandatory hurricane evacuation zones.  Gothamist reports: The mayor’s office says that the new “zones are based on coastal flood risk resulting from storm surge – the ‘dome’ of ocean water propelled by the winds and low barometric pressure of a hurricane; the geography of …

Nine months after Hurricane Sandy put the lights out for a week or more in much of the city, Gotham’s delivery rooms will see a surge in babies. “There’s definitely an uptick,” said Dr. Jacques Moritz, director of the division of gynecology at St Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center. “This is just old basic physiology. There’s no Internet and no cable. What …

Amazing and terrifying footage.

Via the National Weather Service: The six lists above are used in rotation and re-cycled every six years, i.e., the 2013 list will be used again in 2019. The only time that there is a change in the list is if a storm is so deadly or costly that the future use of its name on a different storm would …

Finally. Today’s is a six-month high. Back to the low 40s on Friday, but we’ll take it for now.

So much for yesterday’s cruel tease, when we broke 60 degrees for the first time in almost six months. Not so much as a single bud on the trees on my street. Groundhog stew for lunch.

Ohio’s Butler County prosecutor has indicted Punxsutawney Phil for lying about an early spring. Gmoser says that on Groundhog day, Phil “did purposely, and with prior calculation and design, cause the people to believe that Spring would come early. Contrary to the Groundhog day report, a snowstorm and record low temperatures have been and are predicted to continue in the …

This will send the End Times folks into a hilarious tizzy. Pope Benedict XVI’s resignation came like a bolt from the blue overnight. And the weather around the Vatican was eerily appropriate, with lightning striking St Peter’s Basilica, one of the holiest Catholic sites, on the same day that Pope Benedict announced he would be stepping down. Global news agency …

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Forecasters are pondering airport and rail closures this weekend as the nor’easter Nemo bears down on New England. (Things sound so much more serious now that winter storms have names.) Anyway, if you’ve got travel plans, you might want to keep an eye on things.  This hasn’t been much of a winter so far around here. UPDATE: Gawker is mocking …

We’re finally getting some real winter weather in NYC, with single-digit wind chills predicted for much of the week and the possibility of actual snow.  By this date in 2011, we’d had about 55 inches of snow. So far in the 2012-13 season: 5.1 inches.

In the wake of widespread flooding to most of New York City’s subway and vehicle tunnels, Homeland Security has renewed testing of a giant inflatable plug. The Resilient Tunnel Plug has been years in development and testing, but it may be more relevant than ever: Superstorm Sandy sent a record 14-foot storm surge into New York Harbor, flooding subway tunnels …

Here we go again?

Seven years ago the New York Press made a startlingly accurate prediction of Hurricane Sandy. The piece opens by imagining what kind of storm would most threaten New York City. A hurricane like this one can usually be counted on to curve eastward and die a harmless death over the Atlantic. But with a large area of high pressure hovering …

Boats and probably a whole lot of other debris.