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The hope has been El Niño, a weather pattern in the Pacific Ocean that often means wetter-than-normal weather across Texas. So far, though, any nascent El Niño has been playing hide-and-seek, much to the consternation of long-range forecasters.
“They started off the summer with an 80 percent chance of an El Niño developing by August,” said Dr. Robert Mace, deputy executive administrator of the Texas Water Development Board. “Then it went down to 65 percent, and now it’s at 60 to 65 percent.”
The latest El Niño discussion from the National Weather Service’s Climate Prediction Center, released Thursday, said the consensus of forecasters is a 2-in-3 chance of a weak El Niño between November and January despite weather data that changed little over the last month.
“In summary, El Niño is favored to begin in the next one to two months and last into the Northern Hemisphere spring,” the discussion said.
Mace doesn’t find much hope in the numbers he’s seen.

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Say “drought” and Americans are likely to think California, but the Golden State is hardly alone when looking across the Western Hemisphere: A dry spell has killed cattle and wiped out crops in Central America, parts of Colombia have seen rioting over scarce water, and southern Brazil is facing its worst dry spell in 50 years.

In the U.S., the few who have taken notice of this wider water scarcity include a former director of the U.S. Geological Survey. Now editor-in-chief of the journal Science, Marcia McNutt last month penned an editorial highlighting what she called “a drought of crisis proportions” across the Americas.

http://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/not-just-california-droughts-extend-across-americas-n220376

West Africa could face up to 10,000 new Ebola cases a week within two months, the World Health Organization warned Tuesday, adding that the death rate in the current outbreak has risen to 70 percent.WHO assistant director-general Dr. Bruce Aylward gave the grim figures during a news conference in Geneva. Previously, the agency had estimated the Ebola mortality rate at around 50 percent overall. In contrast, in events such as flu pandemics, the death rate is typically under 2 percent.

Either this earthquake was in the middle of the ocean buried down underneath bunch of her dead fish or near nothing because a seven point four quake should be doing a lot more damage than killing one person and knocking down if you chimneys. I've been following earthquakes ran off a long time since about 1988 and I have never seen a 7.4 that is so shallow do such little damage on it so close to town. That may say something for building on stilts and grass. I know El Salvador is not known for his extra building requirements. The answer is the quake must've been that it was sort of deep 40 miles.not sure exactly of why there was so little damage perhaps it was because of it's 40 mile depth and the fact that it was about 40 miles offshore. One person died and that's one person too many but it certainly better than the hundreds to die in Pakistan and Indonesia. Each one 10th of a number on the MW scale is approximately 100 times stronger than the last one so if you're expecting that Cascadian 9.0 Quake then there will be your story. I'm not sure why people still move to Oregon knowing that it's in the center of the Cascadia subduction zone and the fact that we're into that window of probability. I have family living down there I have a daughter and grandchildren and a son and I and I have a cousin with many kids. My daughter did mention something again about Arizona and I don't mind that that'll be a beachfront territory according to some. I'm sort of stuck wondering if they take section 8 in those fancy towns in Arizona. You don't see too many gangs and you don't have so much crazy business down there. I do believe we have a crazy sheriff running rampant around down. Maybe that pounds on the problems for them. I spent a lot of time in the wilderness of 3500 feet with bears and cougars and coyotes and trees and streams and fun things like that. Arizona is NOT known for its heavily forested areas. That's the one thing I think I'd miss if I moved to Flagstaff. Although there are alternatives I understand There some open mics down there. I'll get my wife and we'll sing some duets. Stop laughing Jane. 

 

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Spokane Police investigating report of attempted child abduction on South Hill
SPOKANE, Wash. - Spokane Police are trying to determine if an attempted child abduction took place at a South Hill elementary school Tuesday ...Spokane Police investigating report of attempted child abduction on South Hill
http://www.khq.com/story/26783210/spokane-police-investigating-report-of-attempted-child-abduction-on-south-hill

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Lewiston boy may have died from flu-like virus
Lewiston Morning Tribune (subscription)
The boy, whose age was not immediately available, died over the weekend at Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane, according to the ...

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Two Silicon Valley giants now offer women a game-changing perk: Apple and Facebook will pay for employees to freeze their eggs.

Facebook recently began covering egg freezing, and Apple will start in January, spokespeople for the companies told NBC News. The firms appear to be the first major employers to offer this coverage for non-medical reasons.

“Having a high-powered career and children is still a very hard thing to do,” said Brigitte Adams, an egg-freezing advocate and founder of the patient forum Eggsurance.com. By offering this benefit, companies are investing in women, she said, and supporting them in carving out the lives they want.

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