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Weather brightens up for the weekend (The New Zealand Herald)

Ex tropical cyclone Rene will combine with a front in the Tasman Sea bringing mostly gloomy, humid, drizzly weather to the upper and western North Island for the rest of today, while a low in the Tasman will see heavy rain across the West Coast and Mt Taranaki.

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Weather brightens up for the weekend (The New Zealand Herald)

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Wild weather turns Whistler downhill track treacherous (The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada Sports)

VANCOUVER, B.C. - The weather problems that have plagued the Vancouver Winter Games have taken a new toll, turning the downhill course in Whistler into an icy, treacherous stunt track, where one competitor after another is losing control during the women’s downhill event.

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Wild weather turns Whistler downhill track treacherous (The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada Sports)

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Once again, ugly weather wins (Richmond Times-Dispatch)

WHISTLER, British Columbia - It’s another Alpine weather wipeout. Women’s downhill training didn’t go on as planned yesterday because of heavy rain and snow. It’s the third women’s training session that has been called off at the Vancouver Games

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Once again, ugly weather wins (Richmond Times-Dispatch)

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Luge: Weather woes continue, Loch wins emotional luge final - AFP News : Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics (Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics)

VANCOUVER (AFP) - The elements continued to play havoc with the Winter Olympics on Sunday when women’s downhill training was cancelled, as Germany’s Felix Loch won an emotion-charged final of the disaster-hit luge. France claimed two gold medals on day three of a Games struggling to bounce back from the horrific death of Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili and the persistent weather woes that …

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Women’s downhill training canceled due to weather (SportingNews)

WHISTLER, British Columbia — It’s another Alpine weather wipeout: Women’s downhill training won’t go on as planned Sunday because of heavy rain and snow.

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Japan looking forward to poor weather (NBC Olympics)

Many athletes might groan at the thought of soaring from a ski jump in heavy rain and then struggling through a wet cross-country course but the forecast for bad weather suits the Japanese fine.

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Japan looking forward to poor weather (NBC Olympics)

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Be prepared: more wild weather to hit Melbourne (The Age)

Victorians are being warned to prepare for heavy rain, strong winds and flash flooding when severe thunderstorms hit the state this afternoon, the weather bureau says.

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Be prepared: more wild weather to hit Melbourne (The Age)

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Warm weather, rain forces early closure of Olympic mountain to preserve snow (The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada News)

WEST VANCOUVER, B.C. - Olympic officials who’ve been dreaming of a white Winter Games are instead being met with a brown, muddy nightmare as unseasonably warm weather, heavy rain, and lack of snow forced the closure of the mountain that will host next month’s snowboarding and freestyle skiing events.

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Warm weather, rain forces early closure of Olympic mountain to preserve snow (The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada News)

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Warm weather, rain forces early closure of Olympic mountain to preserve snow (The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada Sports)

WEST VANCOUVER, B.C. - Olympic officials who’ve been dreaming of a white Winter Games are instead being met with a brown, muddy nightmare as unseasonably warm weather, heavy rain, and lack of snow forced the closure of the mountain that will host next month’s snowboarding and freestyle skiing events.

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Warm weather, rain forces early closure of Olympic mountain to preserve snow (The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada Sports)

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Weather is stunning for Florida turtles sent into coma by the chill (Times Online)

A mass rescue was continuing yesterday for more than 2,000 endangered sea turtles that were shocked into a coma by freezing weather in Florida.

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Weather is stunning for Florida turtles sent into coma by the chill (Times Online)

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