Did Surfer Break World Record on This Mammoth Wave?
Monday, Jan. 28, 2013 Facebook: Tó Mané Big-wave surfer Garrett McNamara already has the record for surfing the biggest wave ever ridden -- a 78-foot beast at Nazaré, Portugal, in 2011. But on Monday,...
View ArticleCongress Passes $50.5B Superstorm Sandy Aid Bill
Jan. 28, 2013 A woman walks with her dog by homes damaged by Hurricane Sandy along the beach in the Rockaways in Queens, New York. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images) WASHINGTON (AP) - Three months...
View ArticleKatrina's Scars Harder to See as Super Bowl Looms
Jan. 29, 2013 Members of the San Francisco 49ers answers questions from the media ahead of Super Bowl XLVII at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome on Jan. 29, 2013, in New Orleans, La. (Photo by Michael...
View ArticleSmog Thick Enough to Cancel Flights Hits Beijing
Jan. 29, 2013 Beijing residents wear face masks as they ride bikes during severe pollution on Jan. 29, 2013. (Photo by Feng Li/Getty Images) BEIJING (AP) - Thick, off-the-scale smog shrouded eastern...
View ArticleObama Says He'll Sign $50.5B Sandy Aid Bill Soon
A beach front home that was severely damaged by Superstorm Sandy rests in the sand in Bay Head, N.J., in this Jan. 3, 2013, photo. (AP Photo/Mel Evans) WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama said...
View ArticleAustralian Floods Peaking; Thousands in Shelters
People use a kayak to make their way through floodwaters in Lismore, northern New South Wales, Australia, on Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013. (AP Photo/NSW State Emergency Service, Samantha Cantwell) BRISBANE,...
View ArticleWarm-Up Arrives; Second Arctic Outbreak on the Way
Another blast of arctic air will sweep from the northern Plains to the mid-Atlantic and New England as the week progresses. The cold wave will follow a brief warm-up that will lead to severe weather...
View ArticleWatch: Can It Rain on the Sun?
Showers were in the forecast for the sun recently, but not the kind we have here on Earth. This video, taken with the Solar Optical Telescope (SOT) aboard the Hinode satellite, shows plasma at roughly...
View ArticlePhotos: Extreme Smog Once Again Engulfs Beijing
Feng Li/Getty Images 1 of 12 Extremely high pollution levels shrouded eastern China for the second time in about two weeks Tuesday, forcing airlines in Beijing and elsewhere to cancel flights because...
View ArticleHow Will We Know if This Was the Biggest Wave Ever Ridden?
Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013 Facebook: Tó Mané The moment Bill Sharp saw this photo in his inbox Monday, Jan. 28, he knew it would rock the surfing world. "Even after all these years, when a classic photo...
View ArticleObama Signs $50.5B Superstorm Sandy Aid Bill
Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013 A stairway to nowhere sits on what is left of the beachfront in Toms River, N.J. on Nov. 29, 2012. The beach used to extend to the top of the staircase before Superstorm Sandy...
View ArticleSevere Storms Pummel Central US, Southern States
Lightning streaks across the sky in Tyler, Texas as a line of thunderstorms from reaching from Texas, to Chicago move east, on Tuesday evening. (AP Photo/Dr. Scott M. Lieberman) JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -...
View ArticleBarge on Mississippi Leaked 7,000 Gallons of Oil
Five barges sit waiting for traffic to open along the Mississippi River near Vicksburg, Miss. on Monday, Jan. 28, 2013. (AP Photo/The Vicksburg Evening Post, Melanie Thortis) VICKSBURG, Miss. (AP) -...
View ArticleWatch: Massive Sinkhole Swallows Building Complex
An enormous sinkhole swallowed an entire building complex in China's southern Guangdong province on Monday. Incredibly, no one was injured. Minutes after the complex collapsed, as second, neighboring...
View ArticleAustralians Clean Up From Floods; Supplies Dwindle
A police officer gestures on a highway covered with floodwaters caused by torrential rains, in Lismore, northern New South Wales, Australia Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013. (AP Photo/NSW State Emergency...
View ArticleUS Navy to Dismantle Ship Stuck on Philippine Reef
The USS Guardian sits aground in this Jan. 22, 2013 file photo on the Tubbataha Reef in the Sulu Sea in the Philippines. (AP Photo/U.S. Navy. Naval Aircrewman 3rd Class Geoffrey Trudell) MANILA,...
View ArticleViolent Storms to Strike Alabama to Pennsylvania
The same storm system that brought the first severe weather outbreak of the season to the Deep South and Mississippi Valley on Tuesday will bring more nasty storms today into tonight. Violent storms...
View ArticleSix More Weeks of Winter for Northeast?
AccuWeather issues a spring outlook for the U.S. every year, focusing on the major highlights of the season. AccuWeather's Long-Range Forecasting Team is predicting that winter will hold on the...
View ArticlePhotos: Weather-Related Mass Pileup on Detroit Freeway
AP Photo/Paul Sancya 1 of 6 Snow squalls and slippery roads led to a series of accidents that left at least three people dead and 20 injured on a mile-long stretch of southbound I-75 in Detroit,...
View ArticlePhotos: Surfer Rides Jaw-Dropping Wave off Nazare, Portugal
To Mane/Nazare Qualifica/AP Photo 1 of 16 U.S. surfer Garrett McNamara rides a massive wave off Praia do Norte beach in Nazare, Portugal, on Monday Jan. 28, 2013. McNamara may have broken his own...
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