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In a Jan. 10, 2013, photo, Richard Emanuel, a National Weather Service forecaster in Cheyenne, Wyo., looks at radar images of a storm as it dumps heavy snow on the western plains and Black Hills. This winter, the Weather Service is trying out simple, descriptive language to possibly replace its 14 watches, advisories and warnings for wintry weather — from ice storms to blizzards, wind chill to lake-effect snow. (AP Photo/Mead Gruver)

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** FILE ** In this Sept. 2, 2012, file photo, Don Duplantier walks through his flooded home as water recedes from Hurricane Isaac in Braithwaite, La. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

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A frost-covered orange lies on the ground in an orchard near Sanger, Calif., on Saturday, Jan. 12, 2013, after a night of freezing temperatures. (AP Photo/The Fresno Bee, Craig Kohlruss)

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A man carries a child on his back to a car waiting for them along Highway 425 outside of Clayton, La., as waters rise in their yard near their house on Jan. 10, 2013 during a rainstorm. The National Weather Service says southwest Louisiana is emerging from downpours that has rivers and streams at or approaching flood stage. (Associated Press/The Natchez Democrat)

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Madison Homes is building 12 single-family homes in McLean’s Chesterbrook Manor. The homes will be built on lots of 9,313 to 19,009 square feet and will be priced from the upper $1,500,000s to $1,700,000.

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This aerial image provided by the U.S. Coast Guard shows the Royal Dutch Shell drilling rig Kulluk aground off a small island near Kodiak Island on Jan. 1, 2013. Officials said no leak has been seen from the drilling ship, which grounded off the island during a storm. (Associated Press/U.S. Coast Guard)

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** FILE ** In this Friday, May 11, 2007, photo, a mosquito is sorted according to species and gender before testing for West Nile Virus at the Dallas County mosquito lab in Dallas. Scientists have been working on mathematical models to predict outbreaks for decades and have long factored in the weather. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)

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Snow paints corn stalks in a field near La Vista, Neb., in late December but it hasn’t been enough to calm the worst fears of farmers amid the longest dry spell in decades. “If we don’t get snow, we’d better get rain this spring or we’re done,” Nebraska farmer Tom Schwarz said. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** In this Nov. 28, 2012, photo, a worker constructs a home in Chicago. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

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Cornstalks poke up through the snow in a field near La Vista, Neb., on Friday, Dec. 28, 2012. Despite getting some big storms in December, much of the United States is still desperate for relief from the nation’s longest dry spell in decades, and experts say it will take an absurd amount of snow to ease the woes of farmers and ranchers. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)