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At Least Seven Dead As Tornado Hits North Carolina
Miami (AFP) Nov 16, 2006 At least seven people died and 20 more were wounded when a tornado slammed down Thursday in North Carolina, the US state's governor said as a severe weather system traveled across the southern United States. "Fatalities resulting from the tornado are seven at this point, about 20 people have been transported to hospitals in neighboring communities and there are four people unaccounted for," Governor Michael Easley said at a news conference. The tornado tore through a community of mobile homes near the city of Wilmington. Local television showed footage of homes smashed to pieces, uprooted trees and downed power lines. Easley said dozens of mobile homes were destroyed and that at one stage 100,000 people had lost power. The state governor urged residents to remain on alert as a severe weather system continued to threaten the southern state. "This storm system has the potential to cause more tornados during the day and isolated flooding in our state," he said. Storms and possible tornados also hit other parts of the state, where officials reported several mobile homes destroyed, five people injured and power lines down. In addition, two children reportedly suffered minor injuries when a tornado destroyed an entertainment center in Alabama on Wednesday night as the storm system traveled across the southern United States. A total of 31 children who were in the building at the time were all accounted for, local officials said.
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Many Weather Factors Needed for Accurate Climate Change Predictions
West Lafayette IN (SPX) Nov 08, 2006Current climate change impact models that consider only one weather variable, such as increasing temperature, sometimes spawn unsubstantiated doomsday predictions, according to researchers at Purdue and North Carolina universities. Climate change studies that assess the full range of interactions among temperature, radiation, precipitation and land use can better aid humans to prepare for extreme shifts in weather patterns, the scientists report in a special issue of the journal Global and Planetary Change. |
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