-12.29.10- Along with strong winds and significant snowfall, the storm ushered in freezing temperatures to much of the state. A winter storm warning — defined as a mixture of heavy snow and strong winds — remains in effect until late Thursday afternoon. Read more

-12.29.10- The cold weather is suspected in yet another manatee death in the area. Tuesday afternoon a manatee carcass was discovered floating in the Pascagoula River. It’s the second in less than a week. Read more

-12.30.10- People aren’t the only ones in Florida who don’t like cold weather. Manatees � those giant aquatic mammals with the flat, paddle-shaped tails � are swimming out of the chilly Gulf of Mexico waters and into warmer springs and power plant discharge canals. On Tuesday, more than 300 manatees floated in the outflow of Tampa Electric’s Big Bend Power Station. Read more

-12.30.10- Denver and other parts of Colorado as well as New Mexico were getting hammered Thursday by a winter storm system tied to the deaths of a snowboarder and a snowmobiler � and to a nearly 100 vehicle pile-up in North Dakota. Read more

-12.30.10- Western states battled nasty winter weather that shut down major roads in Arizona and California, blasted Nevada with frigid winds and left an area of western Washington in a whiteout. Read more

-12.30.10- Parts of northeast Australia braced for more flooding Thursday, a day after the nation’s prime minister promised aid to flood-ravaged towns, and half of the state of Queensland was declared a disaster zone. Read more

-12.30.10- A renewed Pacific storm was “a contributing factor” in the death of a 70-year-old woman in a northern California exotic-wildlife preserve, authorities said Wednesday. Read more

-12.23.10- Even as they enjoyed their first glimpses of sunshine in five days, residents of soaked California and three nearby states in the Southwest worked Thursday to recover from the damage and dangers wrought by torrential rains. Read more

-12.28.10- Flooding in north-eastern Australia has forced residents to evacuate towns and closed down more than 300 roads. Read more

-12.28.10- The Blizzard of 2010 continued to impact millions on Tuesday � from travelers stuck at airports across the country trying to get to the Northeast, to New Yorkers mad that their streets still haven’t been plowed.

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