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How climate change can affect our winter weather

Extreme weather events happen every year and are being seen more and more lately as we continue to experience climate changes.

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An Impressive Winter Blast is STILL A Hot Topic for Massachusetts

We hope that history does NOT repeat itself as this catastrophic event was one-of-a-kind in nature

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An Impressive Winter Blast is STILL A Hot Topic for Massachusetts

We hope that history does NOT repeat itself as this catastrophic event was one-of-a-kind in nature

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An Impressive Winter Blast is STILL A Hot Topic for Massachusetts

We hope that history does NOT repeat itself as this catastrophic event was one-of-a-kind in nature

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An Impressive Winter Blast is STILL A Hot Topic for Massachusetts

We hope that history does NOT repeat itself as this catastrophic event was one-of-a-kind in nature

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44 Years Ago - One of the Most Brutal Snow Storms Blasts Michigan

It was 44 years ago this month that Michigan faced one its most severe snow storms in US history.

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A Look Back at the Most Devastating Snowstorms in Connecticut

Two monumental snowstorms that buried buried Connecticut...

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This Week In Illinois History: World's First BBS Goes Live (Feb. 16, 1978)

This Week In Illinois History: World’s First BBS Goes Live (Feb. 16, 1978)
The hardware built by Chicago’s Randy Suess in 1978 to operate the first computerized bulletin board system.
Credit Wikipedia user Jscott (CC BY-SA 3.0)
The Great Blizzard of 1978 was one of the worst storms in Illinois’ history. One-hundred-mile-an-hour winds whipped up snow drifts as high as 12 feet. Wind chills were so low they caused railroad tracks to buckle and break. Northern Illinois, especially Chicago, ground to a halt. And a couple of snowed-in computer nerds created a major technological achievement.
It was Feb. 16, 1978, just after the great blizzard, when two Chicagoans, Ward Christensen and Randy Suess, launched the world’s first computerized bulletin board system (BBS).

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Maine Could See Several Winter Storms Next Week

We warned you the Polar Vortex would bring some nasty weather our way in February.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20130420:04:51:00

mile radius to shelter in place. when that blizzard swallowed new england in february this year the governor ordered statewide bans on driving. technically you did not have to shelter in place but for 24 hours could not drive anywhere. it's the first time we'd seen a ban like that in massachusetts since the great blizzard of 1978. what happened in boston today has really no precedent in our country. shelter in place orders affecting this many people in this big an american city for this long, freezing a big city like this, emptying it out. it's so weird that dwe do not know how to measure the consequences. afterall this emptiness and have boston looking like a zombie movie when authorities lifted this order in place, somebody in

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