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Wicked Local
March 24, 2018
"Much of the storm-weary Northeast may have a real taste of spring later next week," according to AccuWeather Chief Meteorologist Elliot Abrams. Even if temperatures just approach average for the end of March, it is likely to feel quite warm, compared to the weather of recent weeks with its snow, cold rain,ÃÂ ...
AccuWeather.com (blog)
March 23, 2018
A band of snow is likely to affect the area from eastern Iowa to western Virginia, but only lake-effect and ocean-effect snow flurries/showers are anticipated from the eastern Great Lakes through the Middle and North Atlantic states. Much milder air seems likely to reach the Northeast for the middle and lateÃÂ ...
Mosaic
March 23, 2018
In 2007, then-Mossad chief Meir Dagan came to Washington with overwhelming evidence that Syria, with North Korean help, had built a nuclear reactor for military use. After a debate among his advisers, President Bush told then-Prime Minister Ehud Olmert that he had chosen to pressure Bashar al-AssadÃÂ ...
AccuWeather.com (blog)
March 23, 2018
By Elliot Abrams, AccuWeather chief meteorologist. 3/22/2018, 10:18:23 AM. 1. These maps show the change in the pressure pattern between early yesterday and early today. Today, the recent storm is getting ready to leave as a cold high pressure area takes over. 2018-03-21_07-09-46pan.jpg. 2018-03-22_07-05-10.jpg.
AccuWeather.com
March 23, 2018
A taste of spring is in store for the northeastern U.S. next week while the storm-battered region gets a break from nor'easters for several days. "Much of the storm-weary Northeast may have a real taste of spring later next week," according to AccuWeather Chief Meteorologist Elliot Abrams.
The Herald-Times
March 20, 2018
On March 3, 2018, the Tocqueville Lecture Series, based in the Ostrom Workshop, brought Elliott Abrams to give a talk on our campus with money donated by neoconservative groups such as the Earhart Foundation. This is the same lecture series that brought Charles Murray to campus last April.
AccuWeather.com (blog)
March 20, 2018
By Elliot Abrams, AccuWeather chief meteorologist. 3/20/2018, 10:57:49 AM. 1. The pressure analysis shows a low pressure area that has sent precipitation into the Ohio Valley and parts of the Middle Atlantic region already. A cold high pressure in anchored north of Lake Superior. 2018-03-20_07-09-37pan.jpg. 2.
wajr
March 20, 2018
“Up in the mountains, some places, you're going to get a foot of snow,” said Accuweather Meteorologist Elliot Abrams. During the day, a mix of snow, sleet, and rain could lead to some slippery conditions, but isn't expected to cause the same type of issues that will occur once the sun sets. “(Tuesday) we'llÃÂ ...
AccuWeather.com (blog)
March 19, 2018
By Elliot Abrams, AccuWeather chief meteorologist. 3/19/2018, 9:35:05 AM. 1. This map shows the pressure pattern at 7 a.m. There is a cold high pressure area in east central Canada and a low pressure area heading east from the southern Plains. 2018-03-19_07-12-10pan.jpg. 2. There is great uncertainty as to whetherÃÂ ...
AccuWeather.com (blog)
March 14, 2018
3. This map shows the pressure pattern as of 8 a.m. ET today. Cold winds continue across the Northeast. 2018-03-14_08-59-19pan.jpg. Today's video (blog version only):. The views expressed are those of the author and not necessarily those of AccuWeather, Inc. or AccuWeather.com. More Elliot AbramsÃÂ ...
NPR
March 13, 2018
And let's talk about this breaking news with Elliott Abrams. He's a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. He is - was former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's choice to be No. 2 at the State Department, though that appointment was blocked by President Trump. Abrams is a longtime diplomat whoÃÂ ...
Jacobin magazine
March 7, 2018
One of its current board members, Elliott Abrams, is a war criminal with a history of subverting democracy overseas. To prevent the odor of US imperialism from contaminating the NED's work, the Reagan administration made it a private organization that in turn funded several more private institutions,ÃÂ ...
AccuWeather.com (blog)
March 6, 2018
... storm is likely to be at its peak in the Northeast corridor: 2018-03-05_08-40-34gfse2.jpg. 5. Cold dry air will follow the storm later in the week. Today's video (blog version). The views expressed are those of the author and not necessarily those of AccuWeather, Inc. or AccuWeather.com. More Elliot AbramsÃÂ ...
Indiana Daily Student
March 6, 2018
Last Friday, former diplomat Elliott Abrams spoke at IU as part of the Tocqueville Lecture Series. Abrams' visit was met with protest. Within the first several minutes of his speech, audience members held up signs accusing Abrams of complicity in violence that ravaged Central America throughout the 1980s.
AccuWeather.com (blog)
March 2, 2018
2. It will spread rain over the East Coast by early tonight. As the storm cranks up, wind-driven downpours will cause street and highway flooding. Between 1 and 3 inches of rain looks likely from NYC to Boston. Onshore gales will send massive waves into the beaches, and there will be overwash, especiallyÃÂ ...
AccuWeather.com (blog)
March 1, 2018
By Elliot Abrams, AccuWeather chief meteorologist. 2/28/2018, 9:49:08 AM. 1. The following surface pressure map doesn't look too threatening. There's a southwesterly flow of mild air in the East and a not-too-strong cold front west of the Great Lakes. 2018-02-28_08-54-17pan.jpg. 2. However, a storm now over Missouri willÃÂ ...
AccuWeather.com (blog)
February 23, 2018
An atmospheric river of moisture stretched from the Pacific Ocean through Mexico and then northeast over Arkansas and the Ohio Valley. You can see it on the map below. A recent research study (see, for example https://www.researchgate.net/publication/284256679_Atmospheric_rivers_A_mini-review)ÃÂ ...
Newsweek
February 23, 2018
On February 20, the government of Bahrain condemned a leading human rights activist, Nabeel Rajab, to five years in prison. His crime: tweeting. Keep up with this story and more by subscribing now. Rajab has been in and out of prison for years for such “crimes,” all of which involve the government's effortÃÂ ...
Voice of America
February 23, 2018
Host Carol Castiel speaks with Elliott Abrams, Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, about his new book “Realism and Democracy: American Foreign Policy After the Arab Spring.” Abrams tells VOA that “chaos” is the real enemy of political progress and that aÃÂ ...
AccuWeather.com (blog)
February 16, 2018
In the high stratosphere, it looks like a cold signal but the first thing we get in the Northeast next week is unseasonable warmth. On Tuesday and Wednesday, it could be near 60 in Boston and 70 in Philadelphia. The views expressed are those of the author and not necessarily those of AccuWeather, Inc. orÃÂ ...
Newsweek
February 6, 2018
In May, 2017 Major General Qassem Soleimani, chief of the Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps' foreign operations branch known as the Qods Force, visited the Iraq/Syria border in the company of an Iran-backed Shia militia. A spokesman for the militia, called the Popular Mobilization Forces, was quoted inÃÂ ...
Duke Today
February 4, 2018
Elliott Abrams has helped shaped American foreign policy under numerous presidents, attracting praise and criticism for taking bold and often controversial stands from the Iran-Contra Affair to the second Gulf War. He's consistently staked a position of aggressive action to aid American interests, but he'sÃÂ ...
Newsweek
January 26, 2018
In testimony to the House Foreign Affairs Committee last November, I raised some doubts about U.S. military aid to the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF). My main concern was that the LAF "is increasingly intertwined with Hezbollah." Now there is another reason to doubt that American military aid to LebanonÃÂ ...
The Japan Times
February 27, 2018
Elliott Abrams, who worked for Presidents Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush, has argued that Trump has adopted a “fairly familiar Republican approach to foreign policy.” Matthew Kroenig, who advised the Mitt Romney and Marco Rubio presidential campaigns, contends that the administration has “theÃÂ ...
Voice of America
February 24, 2018
Host Carol Castiel speaks with Elliott Abrams, Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, about his new book “Realism and Democracy: American Foreign Policy After the Arab Spring.” Abrams tells VOA that “chaos” is the real enemy of political progress and that aÃÂ ...
AccuWeather.com (blog)
February 23, 2018
An atmospheric river of moisture stretched from the Pacific Ocean through Mexico and then northeast over Arkansas and the Ohio Valley. You can see it on the map below. A recent research study (see, for example https://www.researchgate.net/publication/284256679_Atmospheric_rivers_A_mini-review)ÃÂ ...
Newsweek
February 23, 2018
On February 20, the government of Bahrain condemned a leading human rights activist, Nabeel Rajab, to five years in prison. His crime: tweeting. Keep up with this story and more by subscribing now. Rajab has been in and out of prison for years for such “crimes,” all of which involve the government's effortÃÂ ...
AccuWeather.com (blog)
February 22, 2018
1. The pressure analysis shows the Northeast weather is being dominated by a cold high pressure area to the north. However, the flow looks too easterly for subfreezing air to reach south much past Boston or Providence. In contrast, Bradford and Warren in northwestern Pennsylvania have had heavy snowÃÂ ...
AccuWeather.com
February 17, 2018
"Some locations have already received, or will receive, more than a month's worth of rain from a single storm," according to AccuWeather Chief Meteorologist Elliot Abrams. From a cumulative aspect, there is the potential for 5-10 inches of additional rain to fall on some communities from the middle to theÃÂ ...
AccuWeather.com (blog)
February 17, 2018
In the high stratosphere, it looks like a cold signal but the first thing we get in the Northeast next week is unseasonable warmth. On Tuesday and Wednesday, it could be near 60 in Boston and 70 in Philadelphia. The views expressed are those of the author and not necessarily those of AccuWeather, Inc. orÃÂ ...
AccuWeather.com (blog)
February 15, 2018
2018-02-14_08-44-56snowabe.jpg. 4. Regardless of what the storms does, it appears the Northeast could have a longer and stronger warmup next week than this week. The views expressed are those of the author and not necessarily those of AccuWeather, Inc. or AccuWeather.com. More Elliot AbramsÃÂ ...
Patch.com
February 12, 2018
The warmup is due to Arctic air remaining pent up in central Canada for much of the week, according to AccuWeather Chief Meteorologist Elliot Abrams. "As long as that's the case, no really cold air is going to be coming into the Northeast in the foreseeable future," Abrams said. However, a late-week stormÃÂ ...
AccuWeather.com (blog)
February 12, 2018
1. In the wake of a cold front that is moving out to sea, colder air is moving into the Northeast today. A band of snow moved in with the cold air from western Pennsylvania into West Virginia, but that result is not expected to be repeated in the I-95 corridor. This is the surface pressure map from 8 a.m. ET:.
AccuWeather.com (blog)
February 10, 2018
1. In the prestigious journal Science, published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Oct. 19, 2001, issue had an article on page 581 entitled, "Stratospheric Harbingers of Anomalous Weather Regimes." The main point I got from the article was that the weakening or reversal ofÃÂ ...
Newsweek
February 6, 2018
In May, 2017 Major General Qassem Soleimani, chief of the Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps' foreign operations branch known as the Qods Force, visited the Iraq/Syria border in the company of an Iran-backed Shia militia. A spokesman for the militia, called the Popular Mobilization Forces, was quoted inÃÂ ...
Newsweek
January 26, 2018
In testimony to the House Foreign Affairs Committee last November, I raised some doubts about U.S. military aid to the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF). My main concern was that the LAF "is increasingly intertwined with Hezbollah." Now there is another reason to doubt that American military aid to LebanonÃÂ ...
The Australian
January 19, 2018
Shiraz Maher's Salafi-Jihadism: The History of an Idea is a compellingly written study that should be compulsory reading for anyone venturing an opinion on Islamism, terrorism or the wars in the Middle East. A senior research fellow at King's College London who specialises in radicalisation and politicalÃÂ ...
KING5.com
January 6, 2018
Mount Washington, right, and the presidential range is covered in snow in this 2013 file photo. The summit of Mount Washington was the second coldest spot on earth on Jan. 6, 2017,. according to the Mount Washington Observatory. Jim Cole, AP. How cold is the latest brutal blast of arctic air? In NewÃÂ ...
WKYC-TV
January 6, 2018
"While heavy precipitation is not anticipated by the storm at this time, it just takes a small amount of ice to make roads and sidewalks a skating rink," according to AccuWeather Chief Meteorologist Elliot Abrams. Copyright 2017 USATODAY.com. Terms of Service ÷ Privacy Notice ÷ Your California Privacyà...
Newsweek
December 30, 2017
Why Is the New York Times Playing Down the Protests in Iran? By Elliott Abrams On 12/30/17 at 11:17 AM. Error loading player: Network error. Share. Opinion ÷ This article first appeared on the Council on Foreign Relations site. In the last few days there have been anti-government protests all over Iran. The BBC reports thisà...
Berkshire Eagle
December 28, 2017
"We're in for a siege of cold air, and we haven't seen the bottom of it yet," said Elliot Abrams, chief forecaster for AccuWeather.com. By Monday, he added, "we see more blasting into New England, the coldest we ever get to see at this time of year." The normal late-December readings at the PittsfieldÃÂ ...
AccuWeather.com (blog)
December 27, 2017
By Elliot Abrams, AccuWeather chief meteorologist. 12/27/2017, 9:55:46 AM. Cold weather is common in winter, but it is somewhat unusual to have a one- to two-week period when it is cold every day. However, these upper-air forecasts show why that is the outlook now: 2017-12-27_07-07-22gfsWednesday.jpg. This is for 1ÃÂ ...
AccuWeather.com (blog)
December 20, 2017
2. Tomorrow night and Friday, the cold air will retreat. Moist, mild air rising over the cold air will cause clouds. A few inches of snow can accumulate in central and northern New England. Farther south, areas of freezing or frozen precipitation will get underway then change to intermittent rain, drizzle and fog.
Newsweek
December 1, 2017
Elliott Abrams is senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) in Washington, DC. He served as deputy assistant to the president and deputy national security advisor in the administration of President George W. Bush, where he supervised U.S. policy in the Middle EastÃÂ ...
Foreign Affairs
June 13, 2017
Imagine two U.S. foreign policy analysts plucked from their Washington think tanks and marooned on desert islands, one just before Donald Trump announced his presidential candidacy and the other just before the 2016 election itself. After the election, both are told that the Republican candidate won andÃÂ ...
AccuWeather.com (blog)
December 31, 1999
That will help send milder more moist air northeastward to promote cloudier skies and spotty rain or drizzle. If true, we should expect some area of fog to show up as well. The views expressed are those of the author and not necessarily those of AccuWeather, Inc. or AccuWeather.com. More Elliot AbramsÃÂ ...
NBCNews.com
December 31, 1999
"We should be expressing support," said Elliott Abrams, former deputy national security adviser to President George W. Bush, dismissing calls for Trump to be silent about the protests as "dead wrong." "The regime is going to claim that these protests are generated and supported by foreigners no matterÃÂ ...
AccuWeather.com (blog)
December 31, 1999
It appears that a strong storm will develop off the Southeast coast and move to near the New England coast on Thursday. It will be loaded with moisture but should have a sharp western edge. In a distance of 100 miles, you could go from getting 1 inch of snow to more than a foot. Until the storm actuallyÃÂ ...
AccuWeather.com
December 22, 2017
"Boston is likely to be on the southeastern edge of the accumulating snow during the first part of the storm on Friday and into Friday night," according to AccuWeather Chief Meteorologist Elliot Abrams. As milder air filters northward, a zone of freezing rain and drizzle will develop from southern Michigan toÃÂ ...
AccuWeather.com (blog)
December 21, 2017
2. Tomorrow night and Friday, the cold air will retreat. Moist, mild air rising over the cold air will cause clouds. A few inches of snow can accumulate in central and northern New England. Farther south, areas of freezing or frozen precipitation will get underway then change to intermittent rain, drizzle and fog.
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