News & Weather Sites To See



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BREAKING NEWS:

News Headlines From 1st Headlines
http://1stheadlines.com/
Current headlines from more than 480 newspapers, radio and TV stations, and Internet news sources worldwide.

News Tracker Top Stories
http://nt.excite.com/
Use Excite! to search for news articles originating from the Reuters News Service, and from magazines, newspapers, television, weather centers, and other sources.

Poynter.org - Links to the News
http://poynter.org/dj/shedden/index.htm
Links to websites, news groups, and other information about headline news topics.

 



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NEWSPAPERS:

AJR NewsLink
http://ajr.newslink.org/news.html
The American Journalism Review provides links to more than 3,400 U.S. and 2,000 foreign newspapers -  and to many magazine - web sites.

Litchfield Independent Review
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?brd=1267
The American Journalism Review

MNA Directory
http://www.mnnewspapernet.org/Directory/dir-abc.htm
Arranged by city, this is a comprehensive directory of newspapers published in Minnesota, their street addresses, voice and fax numbers, publishers, circulation statistics, and email/web site addresses. Some of the newspapers included are:

NAA: Hotlinks to Newspapers Online
http://www.naa.org/
Extensive links to U.S. and foreign newspapers on the World Wide Web.

Ultimate Collection of News Links
http://pppp.net/links/news/
Links to over 10,000 magazine and newspaper publishers worldwide.


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NEWS ARCHIVES:

News Library
http://www.newslibrary.com/
You can search the archives of over 65 U.S. and Canadian newspapers here. Some of the archives date back to 1979. Citations and summaries of articles can be viewed for free, but the articles themselves cost $1.95 each.

NewsTrawler
http://www.newstrawler.com/nt/nt_home.html
Simultaneously searches the archives of over 300 mostly English-language newspapers, magazines, and journals, worldwide, on the Web. Searches are free, but the full-text of these articles may not be.

Northern Light
http://www.northernlight.com/
Search all of Northern Light for free. The full-text of most articles, however, costs $2.95 or more.

Opinion Pages
http://www.opinion-pages.org/
Indexes approximately 600 editorial and opinion pages from English-language newspapers and magazines. Divided into six topical categories (general and political, business and finance, technology, sports, health and arts and leisure), Opinion Pages provides the author, date, source, and full-text of  each piece.

TV News Archive
http://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/
Vanderbilt University in Nashville has, since August 5, 1968, been summarizing and archiving news programs presented by these four television producers:



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RADIO & TV:

MIT List of Radio Stations on the Internet
http://wmbr.mit.edu/stations/list.html
Lists call letters, frequency, location, and format of over 9,000 radio stations worldwide.

TvRadioWorld
http://www.tvradioworld.com/
This worldwide directory of radio and TV stations on the Web lists the street addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses and web sites of stations, including these Minnesota stations:



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CURRENT WEATHER:

CNN.com - Weather
http://www.cnn.com/WEATHER/
This is THE place for world weather! It has radar maps for the U.S., worldwide satellite maps, 5-day forecasts for 10,000 U.S. and foreign cities, allergy reports, information on surviving extreme weather conditions, and special reports about weather phenomena.

National Weather Service Twin Cities: Local Forecasts
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/mpx/mpxtext.html#weather
National Weather Service forecasts for the Twin Cities, and other parts of Minnesota. Scroll down for aviation terminal forecasts, radar and satellite images, climatological data for the Twin Cities from 1995 onward, and severe weather information.

Channel 4000 Weather - [Minnesota News, Weather, Sports and Local Information for Minnesota]
http://www.channel4000.com/weather/
Find the current temperature and weather conditions here for many Minnesota cities, including Fairmont, Mankato, New Ulm, and St. James.

United States Weather Pages
http://www.uswx.com/us/wx
Severe weather warnings across the U.S. at a glance.

Weather Channel
http://www.weather.com/homepage.html
Check out the Doppler radar maps or get a 5-day forecast for the Twin Cities and other cities.

WeatherNet
http://cirrus.sprl.umich.edu/wxnet/
Get current National Weather Service forecasts for the U.S. and Canada, radar maps, tropical storm-related information, skiing conditions reports, and links to hundreds of other weather sites.

Weather Underground
http://www.wunderground.com/
Want to know what the weather's like in Timbuktu? The University of Michigan's Weather Underground reports temperature, humidity, pressure, conditions, weather warnings, dewpoint, wind, visibility, sunrise/sunset, and moon phase for data collecting locations worldwide.

 



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HISTORICAL WEATHER DATA:

Minnesota Climatology Working Group Home Page
http://climate.umn.edu/
Has current and historical temperature and precipitation data for Minnesota and the century's top 10  weather events in Minnesota, among them the Armistice Day Blizzard, flooding of the Minnesota River, and the St. Peter tornado. The site also includes "Agricultural Climate Information", "U.S. Drought Monitor", weather predictions, and daily/weekly/monthly/annual temperature and precipitation readings from Minnesota weather collecting sites.

Historical Climate Summaries
http://mcc.sws.uiuc.edu/Summary/Data/217405.txt
Find temperature and precipitation extremes for Minnesota from 1893-2000 at the Midwestern Regional Climate Center's web site.

 



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