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NORWAY - A weather vane atop the historic Opera House clock tower on Main Street needs repairs, but even if there was money to do it, the question is how.

VietNamNet Bridge – Officials of the National Hydro-meteorology Centre met with correspondents on November 18 to explain why their weather forecasts have been consistently wrong lately.

A flood watch has been issued for Fort Bend County and several other Southeast Texas counties by the National Weather Service through Wednesday morning.

When the men from the National Weather Service drove into Jack Kersting's farmyard 35 years ago, they asked if he would do them a favor. The good deed became a daily commitment. Each morning after some form of precipitation has fallen, whether in the form of rain or snow, Kersting steps out the front door of his farmhouse on the Ford/Edwards County line and checks the standard rain gauge that ...

SYDNEY, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Australia's 2008/09 wheat harvest is running more than two weeks behind normal in some parts of the country because of wet weather that might cut the quality of some crops.

There were not many fishermen on the water Tuesday; however, those few who were had some outstanding catches to go along with the great weather.

Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Crude oil rose, pulled higher by heating oil and natural gas, on speculation the arrival of cold weather in the eastern U.S. will increase fuel consumption.