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• Climate talk shifts from curbing CO2 to adapting
  Efforts to curb global warming have quietly shifted as greenhouse gases inexorably rise. The conversation is no longer solely about how to save the planet by cutting carbon emissions. It's becoming more about how to save ourselves from the warming planet's wild weather.June 15, 2013
• Updraft: A mostly lovely weekend
  It has certainly been a gorgeous Friday across most of Minnesota, and temperatures have been close to their June normals for a change. Some precipitation is ranging across the state, however.June 14, 2013
• Photos: Colorado wildfires burn out of control
  A wildfire burning near Colorado Springs has destroyed at least 360 homes, making it the most destructive in state history.June 13, 2013
• As Drought turns to flood, farmers get 'weather whiplash'
  Midwestern farmers are suffering from "weather whiplash," according to meteorologist Jeff Masters. In the past three years, there's been flooding, then record-setting drought, and now flooding again. Experts say jet stream pattern changes are the cause. "It's a term I'm going to be using a lot in the coming years, I think, because the jet stream patterns that we're familiar with have changed in the last few years,"June 13, 2013
• State-by-state look at big storm's damage
  Massive thunderstorms began moving into the Midwest on Wednesday. Meteorologists warn that the line of storms could launch a weather event called a derecho, which is a straight-line wind storm spanning at least 240 miles. Here's a snapshot of what is happening, state by state:June 13, 2013
• AP Interactive: Severe weather
  Track the storms moving through the Midwest with this interactive. An unusually massive line of storms packing hail, lightning and tree-toppling winds rolls from Iowa to Maryland.June 12, 2013
• Big storm threat brewing from Iowa to Mid-Atlantic
  An unusually massive line of storms packing hail, lightning and tree-toppling winds Wednesday could affect more than one in five Americans as it rolls from Iowa to Maryland.June 12, 2013
• Agreement with China seen as significant step
  Deal described as "biggest, fastest, cheapest" initiative available.The Daily Circuit, June 12, 2013
• Beef. It's what's on the grill. And it's going to cost more
  Multi-year droughts in states that produce most of the country's beef cattle have driven up costs to historic highs. Last year, ranchers culled deep into their herds which pushed the U.S. cattle herd to its lowest point since the 1950s.June 12, 2013
• Updraft: Severe thunderstorms for southern Minnesota
  A cluster of showers and thunderstorms will move east across southern Minnesota this morning and into Wisconsin, northeast Iowa and northern Illinois.June 12, 2013
• After Sandy, a new threat: Soaring flood insurance
  After Superstorm Sandy, in the hardest-hit coastal stretches of New Jersey and New York, homeownersa re in limbo as they wait to see if tough new coastal rebuilding rules make it just too expensive to stay. In the federal government's newly released advisory flood maps, some homes in the most vulnerable area must be raised 14 feet on stilts at a cost of $150,000, or owners will face up to $30,000 a year in flood insurance premiums.June 9, 2013
• Updraft: Partly soggy weekend
  What did we do wrong to earn this endless "Seattle spring" this year? Atmospheric payback for the warmest spring on record in 2012?June 7, 2013
• Snowy year added up in Minn. road salt
  Just how snowy was Minnesota's winter and spring? The road salt tells the tale.June 7, 2013
• Drought conditions persist despite heavy spring precipitation
  Record-setting wet spring in southeast Minnesota included more than 12 inches of precipitation in Rochester in May. There was also a rather sharp cutoff that has resulted in a section of west central Minnesota remaining in drought. How can this be?June 6, 2013
• Tornado controversy: 'Drive away,' or shelter 'above ground?'
  Let's face it, once an EF-5 tornado is heading your way, you are in the position of making the best choice from some potentially bad options. One broadcast meteorologist in Oklahoma City is catching flak for his advice to "drive south" away from the tornado in El Reno last Friday.June 5, 2013

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