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Listen • 8:05 In this file photo taken May 4, 2011, Tuscaloosa Fire Lt. Brian Phillips climbs a pile of rubble in search of survivors or bodies at an apartment building in Tuscaloosa, Ala. On April 27, 2011, a series of tornadoes killed hundreds of people, injured thousands and reduced countless buildings to rubble across a swath of the U.S. On April 27, 2011, one of the worst tornado outbreaks in U.S. history struck the Deep South. It was what forecasters call a Super Outbreak with at least 100 major, destructive tornadoes. More than 300 people lost their lives, and the...

lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring ― T.S. Eliot (The Waste Land, 1922) No wonder there’s widespread frustration over the past few days of wintry chill, especially in the morning, following last month’s 10-day spell of spring delight that was suddenly undone by half an inch of snowflakes on April Fools’ Day. But the wild swings in temperatures we’ve endured, or enjoyed, are very much par for our course. As AccuWeather’s senior meteorologist Alex Sosnowski points out, “New England can sometimes be one of the last places in the Lowe...

Polar vortex to unleash frigid Arctic blast By Jeff Berardelli Ice storm lashes South ahead of snow and cold The polar vortex has become synonymous with winter's most brutal cold. For days, the weather system has been sitting and spinning right along the U.S.-Canada border, with temperatures as low as 43 degrees below zero in northern Minnesota.  But now, there are signs it is about to surge south, bringing with it record-shattering cold air from the far reaches of Alaska and Northern Canada. By the weekend, temperatures in Kansas City and St. Louis will be below what's n...