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Tornado, severe storms batter Harford Co., Baltimore region
An intense, widespread storm system spawned at least one tornado Friday and battered parts of the Baltimore region with damaging winds and torrential rain, halting flights and flooding roads during rush hour.
The storm ripped through Harford County,...Tags: Howard County, Baltimore County, Baltimore Weather, Towson, Walmart
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Storm rips through Fallston, collapsing buildings
The Friday storm, that might have spawned at least one tornado in Fallstion, ripped through Harford County, doing some of the most severe damage in the triangular area bordered by Belair Road, Harford Road and Route 152. What witnesses said was a tornado,...
Tags: Harford Road, Hospitals and Clinics, Tornadoes, Bel Air (Harford, Maryland), Dave Williams
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Severe storms spawning tornado warnings across region
8:57 p.m. Tornado warning until 9:30 p.m. for Frederick, Carroll, western Baltimore and NW Howard counties, including Eldersburg, Westminster, Hampstead and Manchester.
8:45From The Aegis: The storm ripped through Harford County, doing some of the most...Tags: Howard County, Crofton, Sykesville, Baltimore County, Baltimore Weather
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Update: Schools releasing students in wake of tornado warning
Carroll County Public Schools said it was dismissing students at 4:15 p.m. in the wake of a tornado warning that passed through Carroll County. School officials are reminding parents that the dismissals are one and a half hours behind schedule. All...Tags: Schools, Tornadoes, Mount Airy, Weather Warnings, Weather Reports
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Drought conditions moderating across Maryland
Sporadic rains have helped moderate drought conditions that had spread across most of the state, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor. As of May 22, all of the Baltimore region was considered “abnormally dry” except for southern Anne Arundel...
Tags: Droughts, Weather Reports, Anne Arundel County, Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport
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Harford executive withdraws employee bonus bills; county council goes along
Citing the new financial burden caused by last week's Maryland General Assembly action on teacher pension obligations, Harford County Executive David Craig withdrew legislation that would have paid a one-time, $625 bonus to all county government and...Tags: Annapolis, Teachers, Unions, Tropical Storms, Teaching and Learning
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Harford council laments passing of bonus plan but still lets it die
The plan to pay a $625 bonus this spring to nearly 7,400 Harford County government, sheriff's office and school system employees died an unceremonious death in the Harford County Council chambers Tuesday evening. Though they lamented the latest turn...Tags: Annapolis, Teachers, Tropical Storms, Teaching and Learning, Lawyers
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Forecasters predict subdued hurricane season
Forecasters are expecting the fewest Atlantic hurricanes and tropical storms since 2009, particularly if the weather phenomenon El Niņo develops by the heart of the hurricane season. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is predicting...
Tags: Hurricanes, Science, Hurricane Andrew (1992), Tropical Storms, Weather Reports
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Damp week expected despite Tropical Storm Alberto remaining at sea
Tropical Storm Alberto isn't expected to reach Maryland, but it should be a damp week nonetheless. In the Baltimore area, at least, it may not be damp enough to remedy developing drought conditions, though. A low-pressure system is expected to stall over...
Tags: Droughts, Tropical Storms, Weather Reports, National Hurricane Center, Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport
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Don't leave hunger off the global agenda
When the leaders of the globe's biggest economies — the G8 — meet at Camp David in Maryland's Catoctin Mountains this weekend, they will have a plate full of problems: banking and liquidity and bonds and loan guarantees and such. Somewhere on...Tags: Camp David, Roman Catholicism, Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011), Thomas Yayi Boni, International Organizations
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Hurricane season getting an early start
Hurricane season is off to an early start in the Pacific, but not quite yet in the Atlantic. The season’s first tropical depression has formed in the Eastern Pacific, about 645 miles from the Mexican coast. A low pressure system in the Eastern...
Tags: Hurricanes, Tropical Storms, National Hurricane Center, Meteorological Disasters, Tropical Weather
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Drought watch extended to rural central, western Maryland
The Maryland Department of the Environment on Tuesday extended a drought watch to western Maryland and parts of central Maryland. A drought watch was already in effect for the Eastern Shore since April 13. The drought watch includes all of Harford and...
Tags: Droughts, Water Supply, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Frederick County (Maryland)
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