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TOLEDO, Ohio — April started off with heavy rainfall, and May has followed suit with over two inches of precipitation in the first week of the new month. How does this May stack up to previous years, ...

When a hurricane or tornado starts to form, your local weather forecasters can quickly pull up maps tracking its movement and showing where it’s headed. But have you ever wondered where they get all ...

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LAFAYETTE, Ind. and WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Rainfall data collected by a network of radars operated by the National Weather Service will be integrated into an application that helps farmers forecast ...

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