Word: weather
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weather has prevented the germination of a fungus that kills the locusts' eggs, enabling two particularly harmful species to hatch in overwhelming numbers. Since spring the hungry hordes have infested thousands of acres in 36 counties, chewing up wheat, corn, sugar beets and soybeans. Normally, fewer than ten locusts occupy the average square yard of land; crop damage begins when the number rises to about 30. This summer some Minnesota fields are aswarm with as many as 1,200 hoppers per sq. yd. Fields in the worst areas look as if they had been struck by hailstones...
Since the end of the three-day heat wave arrived last night in a burst of thundershowers, there is likely to be little discussion. According to weather service spokesperson Todd A. Patstone, today's storms are likely to be "pretty severe, but [how much] is going to be determined later...
Although Boston's unseasonably mild winter caused many this year to worry that the summer would break all records for the area's hottest, meteorologist Jeffrey S. Waldstreicher of the National Weather Service said there is little cause to worry...
...nothing to do with the other," Waldstreicher said. "Weather patterns just don't last that long...
Similarly, he said, fears that the past year's weather might have signalled the beginning of a global warming process are probably misplaced...