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Storms leave widespread outages across Texas, cleanup continues after deadly weekend across U.S.


Storms with damaging winds and baseball-sized hail have pummeled Texas again.

Karen Warren/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images In the Midwest, an unusual weather phenomenon called a "gustnado" that looks like a small tornado brought some dramatic moments to a western Michigan lake over the weekend. In addition to the Memorial Day weekend death toll, in Magnolia, Texas, about 40 miles north of Houston, one person died Tuesday when a house under construction collapsed during a storm, the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office reported. BRANDON BELL / Getty Images Harold Brooks, a senior scientist at the National Severe Storms Laboratory in Norman, Oklahoma, said a persistent pattern of warm, moist air is to blame for the string of tornadoes over the past two months.

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