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• Severe Weather Possible for Parts of the Northern Plains and Upper Midwest on Friday
• Global May temperatures are third highest on record
  According to NOAA scientists, the globally averaged temperature for May 2013 tied with 1998 and 2005 as the third warmest May since record keeping began in 1880.
• 2012 ranks as 2nd costliest year with 11 billion-dollar disasters causing more than $110 billion in damages
  Sandy caused approximately $65 billion and drought nearly $30 billion in damage, according to a final report by NOAA's National Climatic Data Center.

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• Possible record-setting dead zone for Gulf of Mexico
• NOAA releases draft proposal to expand Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary
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• Acting NOAA Administrator Dr. Kathryn Sullivan gives keynote address at Capitol Hill Oceans Week
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