Weather News

• High winds, winter weather for Colorado (AP)
  AP - Flights at Denver International Airport are being delayed because of strong winds hitting Colorado.
  
  
• One Year Later: Lessons Learned from Deadly Japan Earthquake (LiveScience.com)
  LiveScience.com - VANCOUVER, British Columbia — In 2011, Japan was one of the most prepared countries in the world for a massive earthquake. Yet when a mega-quake hit Japan last March, sparking a huge tsunami, it was shockingly devastating.
  
  
• 2 US rescue helicopters in Montenegro (AP)
  AP - Two U.S. helicopters arrived in Montenegro Wednesday to join rescue operations in the areas of the tiny Balkan state hit by the heaviest snowfall in 60 years.
  
  
• The nations weather (AP)
  AP - Weather Underground Forecast for Wednesday, February 22, 2012.
  
  
• Chile says Peru border to reopen by late Wednesday (AP)
  AP - Chile's government says it will reopen the border with Peru by Wednesday night, following heavy rains that displaced land mines and floated some onto the Pan-American Highway.
  
  
• Photos make slow way home in tsunami-hit Japan (Reuters)
  Reuters - In a large, bright room not far from the ocean that raged through this coastal Japanese city nearly a year ago, a handful of people with magnifying glasses pore over boxes of photographs of friends or loved ones.
  
  
• Southern snowstorm leaves icy roads, power outages (AP)
  

  AP - A day after a winter storm dumped several inches of snow on a handful of southern states, crews worked Monday to restore power to tens of thousands of customers as police responded to dozens of accidents on slippery roads.

  
  
  
  
• Cold winter kills at least 40 in Afghanistan (AP)
  

  AP - More than 40 people, most of them children, have frozen to death in what has been Afghanistan's coldest winter in years, an Afghan health official said Monday.

  
  
  
  
• NWS: Storm to bring snow to parts of South (AP)
  AP - Forecasters say wintry weather will be bringing snow to parts of the Southeast this holiday weekend after what has so far been a mild season.
  
  
• Joplin High School Demolition Begins Amid Tornado Tourism Controversy (ContributorNetwork)
  ContributorNetwork - KOAM-TV reports demolition of Joplin High School began Friday nearly nine months after a deadly EF5 tornado swept through the city of 50,000 people. The building will be torn down to make way for a new school to be constructed at the same site beginning in May. The building's demolition comes at a time when the Joplin Convention and Visitors Bureau is under fire for a tourist map that has citizens upset over "tornado tourism."