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231-mph NH wind gust is no longer world's fastest

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Winter storm in Midwest brings fierce winds

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Rain, wind lead to flood warnings, airport delays

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Raw Video: Barge Breaks Loose, Runs Aground

Coast Guard officials say a 570-foot barge carrying containers of chemicals has grounded in Virginia Beach after it broke free Thursday night from a tugboat. Crews are trying to prevent it from striking a fishing pier.

Ida's Remnants Slam East Coast; 5 Dead

A drenching, wind-driven rain lashed much of the Atlantic seaboard Thursday, flooding streets, closing schools, roads and bridges and causing at least five deaths.

San Francisco Pounded by Heavy Rain, Wind

The long dry spell of summer is over as heavy rain and lashing winds began pounding northern California Tuesday.

Report: Cowboys facility should have survived wind

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Wind farms can wreak havoc on Doppler radar

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Wild weather lashes Southern Australia

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"Wild weather has led to local flooding in parts of the Adelaide Hills.

SES crews have sandbagged several homes at Nairne to protect them from flooding.

Carmen Lewis says crews are expecting the waters to subside overnight."

Winds of more than 100km/h leave trail of destruction

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"Winds of up to 110km/h have been recorded across Melbourne as a storm front moved eastwards over the state.

Trains on the Werribee and Williamstown lines have been suspended after a tree fell on train tracks."

Maine's windkeepers: From ship masts to windmills

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QuikScat Finds Tempests Brewing In 'Ordinary' Storms

> Larger image QuikScat image of a mature North Atlantic extratropical cyclone from December 1, 2004. The color bar in the upper right indicates wind speed in knots. The storm’s hurricane-force winds, located to the south of the center of the low pressure system, are depicted as red wind barbs. Image credit: NOAA Satellite, Now Entering Its Second Decade, Has Revolutionized Marine Weather Forecast

"June is busting out all over," as the song says, and with it, U.S. residents along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts begin to gaze warily toward the ocean, aware that the hurricane season is revving up. In the decade since NASA's QuikScat satellite and its SeaWinds scatterometer launched in June 1999, the satellite has measured the wind speed and wind direction of these powerful storms, providing data that are increasingly used by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) National Hurricane Center and other world forecasting agencies. The data help scientists detect these storms, understand their wind fields, estimate their intensity and track their movement.

Raw Video: Window Washers Dangle During Storm

Two window washers in Sao Paulo are recovering from a scare Tuesday, after 49-m.p.h winds caused their cart to swing dangerously back-and-forth, nearly 100 feet above ground. Both men were taken to the hospital for minor cuts and bruises.

Wind-tossed chihuahua found safe; owners credit psychic

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"Waterford Township -- Two days after Tinker Bell, a six-pound chihuahua, blew away in high winds at the Dixieland Flea Market, her owners found her safe and sound about three-quarters of a mile away. The Rochester couple credits a pet psychic for the discovery."

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California continues cleaning up from wild wind...concerns over potential fuel spill in Bay

The fierce wind that ripped through the San Francisco Bay area on Tuesday have left a mark that may take a long time to clean up.  The San Francisco Chronicle has done a fantastic job covering the many angles of this big weather story for the Bay Area:

• 26,000 lost power in the Bay Area
• Dust storms predicted in the San Joaquin Valley
• Windy, cold weather poses risk to Southern Cali orchards
• Boat brings concern of fuel spill into Bay
• Wind gust causes crash at North Las Vegas airport

High winds suspend play in Houston

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Deadly Winds Sweep Through New York

A fierce windstorm swept through the New York City area on Thursday, toppling trees onto train tracks, hurling garbage cans onto busy streets and causing a construction worker to die under a collapsed wall.

Winds cause damage, power outages, loss of life across the Northeast

Late-Breaking:  NationalWeatherOnline.com has learned via the National Weather Service that one life was lost in Mountainview, New Jersey (Union County), when wind blew over a tree onto a car there.

From the AP:  "Wild wind with gusts sometimes reaching hurricane force has knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of customers from the Great Lakes to the East.

A downed power line forced the closure of Interstate 90 west of Erie, Pa., on Thursday morning.

About 255,000 customers were without power in Ohio alone. There were also about 52,000 outages in Michigan, more than 30,000 around Buffalo, N.Y., and about 80,000 in Pennsylvania. Outages are also reported in Tennessee, Kentucky, North Carolina, Indiana, Maryland and other states..."

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Flights halt at 3 Paris airports due to windstorm

PARIS (AP) -- The French civil aviation authority ordered flights at the three airports serving the French capital halted for 14 hours starting Monday evening because of a severe windstorm.

Flights were being halted at Charles de Gaulle, Orly and Le Bourget airports from 8 p.m. (1900 GMT, 3 p.m. EST) Monday until 10 a.m. (0900 GMT, 4 a.m. EST) Tuesday.

The storm was expected to bring winds reaching at least 60 mph (100 kph).

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