HALIFAX - A blizzard swept across parts of Atlantic Canada on Wednesday, closing schools and government offices as well as disrupting travel throughout the region.
Flights were delayed or cancelled, universities and colleges shut down and recreational programs postponed as crews worked to clear roads in blinding conditions.
"It's absolutely horrible," said Shelby Smith, a McDonald's restaurant employee in downtown Halifax who was among many workers sent home early.
As gusts howled and a sudden blast of icy shards caught her off-guard, her assessment was succinct.
"It's the wind, that's the worst," she said.
Just up the street, which climbs at a fairly steep pitch next to Halifax's historic Citadel Hill, a Metro Transit bus roared and snorted as its back wheels spun helplessly in the growing mire of snow and slush.
Matt Speight, originally from Saint John, N.B., wasn't impressed.
"I've seen worse," he said.
Environment Canada said there were two distinct phases to the storm, with the first bringing between three and five centimetres of snow on Tuesday night through Wednesday morning in western Nova Scotia and the Halifax area.
A second, more powerful blow hit later, dumping heavier snowfall amounts that were expected to range from 15 to 30 centimetres in Nova Scotia and 15 to 25 centimetres in southeastern New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island by late Wednesday. Similar amounts were predicted for western Newfoundland through Wednesday night.
Doug Mercer, a meteorologist with Environment Canada, said gusts in some points of Nova Scotia were as high as 82 kilometres per hour during the evening.
"It turned out to be fairly severe," said Mercer. "We're getting visibility that is fairly low."
Marine Atlantic cancelled its ferry crossings between Port aux Basques, N.L., and Sydney, N.S. due to high winds and rough sea conditions. Flights at airports in Halifax, Fredericton, Moncton, N.B., and Charlottetown were delayed or cancelled.
Shopping malls, libraries and some government services were also closed. The health board that oversees services in Cape Breton moved to emergency services only as the storm swept through and most liquor stores in Nova Scotia closed their doors at 4 p.m.
The storm also brought powerful winds and snow to western Newfoundland and the Northern Peninsula.
The Avalon Peninsula and southeastern Newfoundland was forecast to receive rain, while the centre of the province was expecting an unpleasant mix of rain, freezing rain and wet snow.
"As this sweeps through it's going to be a royal mess of snow switching over to freezing rain and then switching over to rain," said Mercer.
Mercer said the storm should have largely cleared the Maritimes by Thursday morning, though strong winds are expected to continue through the day in Newfoundland.
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Vistara airline diverts multiple Delhi-bound flights citing bad weather conditions
The latest spate of diversions comes as the visibility conditions worsen in Delhi due to dense fog
As a blanket of fog engulfed the parts of national capital, the Vistara airline on Wednesday diverted multiple Delhi-bound flights to nearby airports citing bad weather conditions. The airline shared the diversion update through its social media handle and informed that the Delhi-bound flights from Patna, Guwahati, and Bangalore were diverted to Indore. The flight from Hyderabad was diverted to Mumbai while the one flying from Chennai was diverted to the Jaipur airport.


Temperatures will climb to a sunny 85 degrees Wednesday, officials said.
You'll want to catch the sun setting perfectly between Manhattan's skyscrapers on these four nights.
The city will give free rain barrels to up to 200 homeowners on Saturday.
More than an inch of rain fell on the city since May 1, forecasters said.
Preliminary measurements of the January storm were almost an inch off, the NOAA announced Thursday.
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The billion-dollar weather disasters keep piling up, with the USA now at a record-shattering 12 for the year, according to Steve Bowen, a meteorologist at insurance broker AON.
Bowen says economic losses from Tropical Storm Lee — which drenched the East Coast in September but was never a hurricane — reached $1 billion, with most of the damage due to flooding along the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania.
So far, damage from Hurricane Irene has reached at least $7 billion, he says.
"However, many locations in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic are still in the midst of trying to separate out flood losses between Irene and Lee," he says.
On a side note, Bowen adds that the National Climatic Data Center, which tracks these disasters, will likely need to add another billion-dollar tally to a severe weather event that occurred in mid-June. Combined with Lee, that should make at least 12 separate billion-dollar events in the USA this year.
The previous single-year record for billion-dollar disasters was nine, set in 2008.


This morning we are getting a clear view of the destruction that is happening in the Bahamas as Hurricane Dorian is wrecking the island. This hurricane is still a category 5 at 165mph wind, but its moving very slow through the island at about 1 mph.
The devastation is HORRIBLE. Rain water is coming in houses and buildings about two feet deep which can be deadly if people can't get out or swim.
Right now, the Bahamas needs all the thoughts and prayers it can get and of course for this hurricane to move more quickly north away from them.


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The work week is off to a great start! We're going to see plenty of sunshine both today and tomorrow with highs in the low-60s.
Overnight lows tonight will be very chilly as most areas cool into the upper-30s and low-40s under clear skies, so don't forget to wear a coat as you head out the door.Read full story
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The Leonid meteor shower 2012 peak will be here in a matter of hours, and the weather forecast couldn't be much better: Clear skies above with temperatures that are expected to be chilly but not brutal.
This year, look for about 15 meteors each hour. Along with clear skies, the weather forecast for Waukee calls for temperatures of about 36.
The Leonids occur over Iowa every year about this time, when Earth glides through a trail of dust left behind by the comet Tempel-Tuttle. This shower follows some nice shows: the Taurid Meteor Shower, earlier this month, and the spectacular Perseid Meteor Shower, which wowed gazers in August.
MORE LEONID METEOR SHOWER INFORMATION:
- The No. 1 tip is to find an area that isn't impacted by light pollution. A great little spot to see the shower is in Centennial Park near the bridges and away from street lights. Lie down, point your feet east and look carefully. Space.com has more tips for watching the Leonids.
- These meteors are fast (about 40 miles per second) and can leave trails of smoke, according to Astronomy.com. They will appear to radiate from the constellation Leo the Lion.
- One of the 10 cool things to know about the Leonids, from Space.com: "Leonids are spawned by the comet Tempel-Tuttle. Every 33 years, it rounds the Sun and then goes back to the outer solar system. On each passage across Earth's orbit, Tempel-Tuttle lays down another trail of debris..."
- This shower is called the Leonid shower because the meteors seem to come from a point in the constellation Leo. But they are really much closer to Earth than these stars are. The starting point, called the radiant, is found in the part of Leo that looks to be a backwards question mark.
- The Leonids has been called, some years, a "meteor storm" (rather than just a "shower"), but reports say this year will be limited to "at best 10 to 15 meteors per hour." The last Leonid storm, with thousands of shooting stars per hour, was in 2002.
- A report, from MSNBC says there is a reason this year's display is a bit different: "Two peaks of activity, one on Saturday morning and another on Tuesday morning (Nov. 20).
- Fireballs may be seen with the naked eye.


TAMPA, Fla.(WFLA) – Today’s Runcast Index is a 3. The excessive humidity will make your workout seem much harder. We still have tropical air with Tropical Depression Sally to our north, and winds start coming from the Gulf of Mexico to add humidity.
With the onshore wind pattern, watch for a few showers along the coast this morning, and those showers spread inland through the day. Overall, today’s rain chance is 50%. While a light shower may feel refreshing and give you some relief from the heat and humidity, if you can hear thunder, you need to head inside quickly.
Dew points are in the mid 70s. Which means, a high of 88 degrees will feel closer to 100 degrees.
Winds coming from the Gulf of Mexico increase humidity, so you body works overtime to try to keep you cool. That’s energy you no longer have to put toward exercise. Make sure to take it easy on your workout so you don’t get overheated.
With the high humidity, there’s never a great time to exercise outside, but as long as you lower your intensity and you don’t hear thunder, you should be fine. Stay hydrated. Hold off on more intense workouts until early next week when we should be less humid.


Accession Number : AD0440215
Title : TORNADO SFERICS FIELD PROGRAM.
Descriptive Note : Final rept.
Corporate Author : RAYTHEON CO WAYLAND MA
Report Date : Apr 1964
Pagination or Media Count : 1
Abstract : The electrical features of tornadoes are reviewed. A discussion f the electrical and mechanical energy budgets for the Blackwell tornado is given and for tornadoes in general. A field program is reported which emphasizes electrical measurements taken for three tornadoes which occurred in the Norman area of Oklahoma in the Spring of 1963. The electrical measurements reported are corona current, field in tensity, 18.5 kc sferics and sferics across the spectrum of 10, 50, 100, 175 kc and 30 megacycles. The data is interpreted to show that large horizontal field gradients could exist in tornado clouds. An anomalous sferics pattern acorss the sferics spectrum is reported, which shows that the sferics associated with the tornado have repetitious but aperiodic bursts of sferic radiation. Correlation of this data with a laboratory experiment illustrating electrostatically generated fluid vorticity is suggested. (Author)
Descriptors : *ATMOSPHERICS , TORNADOES , MEASUREMENT , MAGNETIC FIELDS , ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION , THUNDERSTORMS , SPECTRUM ANALYZERS , TEMPERATURE , PRESSURE , ELECTRICAL CORONA , INTENSITY , OKLAHOMA , METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENA , ELECTROSTATICS , VORTICES
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Altitude; 68 m (223 ft). The average temperature in Ghana is 26.5 °C (80 °F). The range of average monthly temperatures is 4 °C. The warmest average max/ high temperature is 32 °C (90 °F) in January, February, March & April. The ... 5 sunlight hours for each day. On balance there are 0 days annually with measurable frost and in January there are on average 0 days with frost.


The Perseids are one of the most watched meteor showers. Occurring during northern hemisphere summer, the shower can be appreciated on a summer night. Quite a difference from the other reliable showers such as the Leonids and Quadrantids, that occur in November and January. Consider a warm summer evening under a dark sky full of stars, a picnic blanket, relaxing while shooting stars streak across the sky. What could be better?
The Perseid meteor shower occurs when the Earth passes through a stream of debris along the orbit of Comet Swift-Tuttle. This shower has been consistent throughout recorded history, mentioned in Chinese, Japanese and Korean records as early as the 1st century. Active from July 17th to August 24th, the shower will build slowly for weeks before the peak. A week before or after peak the shower can still be seen with around 20 meteors each hour. The shower is a northern hemisphere event, for southern observers the radiant never rises above the horizon.


Breakdown: Why December may be the most wonderful time to look into the nights sky
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) -Get ready because December is going to be a great month to look into the nights sky. December contains the highly active Geminids to several close approaches of planets to the moon.
December 11th is the peak of yet another meteor shower in December: the Sigma Hydrid meteor shower. On this night, you can spot a few meteors per hour. The best time to try to see the meteors will be in the pre-dawn hours from 2:00am to 5:00am on the morning of 13th. However, you should be able to see some meteors after sunset on December 12th.
Just a day later on December 12th the moon and Venus will be nearby in the pre-dawn hours on December 12th. Venus and the Moon will pass less than 1°of each other in the sky. This will be a beautiful site to see a sliver of the crescent moon which will be only 4% illuminated as it appears near bright Venus.
Just two days later on December 14th, this will be the night to check out the Geminid meteor shower! The shower will be active from December 4- 17th. It will peak with up to 120 meteors per hour on December 13 & 14. Meteors will be coming from the constellation of Gemini look toward the northeastern sky. Meteor activity is expected to start between 9 or 10 pm. both nights. The Geminids are usually one of the best meteors shower of the year and the meteors are often bright and colorful. Moonlight could interfere as the moon will be 78% illuminated. The Geminids are caused by debris from an asteroid called 3200 Phaethon.
Another close approach will happen on December 16 of the Moon, Jupiter & Saturn. Jupiter and Saturn will move even closer in the night sky and will appear close to the Moon on the night of December 16th. The closest they will be at 1:00am on Dec. 17.
We go from a close approach to yet another meteor shower on December 19 which is the peak of the December Leonis Minorid Meteor Shower. This meteor shower is not as known and least active of the month, however it could be a nice celebration for the winter solstice that will occur on December 21st. It only produces about 3 meteors per hour and it will be low in the northwestern sky.
On this same night on the December 21, the Great Conjunction of Jupiter & Saturn will be visible. The pair have been visible in the nights sky quite frequently over the past few months but this time they will be the closest to each other since 1623. This only happens every 19.6 years because of their orbital paths. This will be a great night to grab the telescope and see them both in the same view!
On December 22 the Ursids Meteor shower will peak but will be active from December 17th to 26th. On the night of peak, the Ursids could produce up to 10 meteors per hour. The Ursids will radiate from the constellation Ursa Minor. Look for the North Star to find Ursa Minor, and then scan the whole northern.
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Tornado touches down in Hidalgo County, crosses into Mexico
Fri, 01 Jul 2011 00:04:35 GMT —
The National Weather Service in Brownsville has confirmed that a tornado touched down in Pharr and Hidalgo and then crossed the Rio Grande into Mexico.
Pharr Police Chief Ruben Villescas confirms authorities investigating reports that the twister touched in the Las Milpas area of the city.
It all happened in a small subdivision off South Cage Boulevard and East Jacobo Street around 6 p.m. Thursday.
Vehicles and homes have reportedly sustained some damage but Chief Villescas said no serious injuries are being reported.
Action 4 News received a report that a car was overturned on the 7700 block of South Cage Boulevard.
Chief Villescas said a driver was hurt after a bit of debris flew through her window, but the extent of her injuries did not require her to be hospitalized.
Meteorologist Alfredo Vega with the National Weather Service that the same tornado was also spotted near the State Farm Arena in Hidalgo.
National Weather Service radar tracked the weather phenomenon across southern Hidalgo County.
There is no threat of another tornado developing.
But Vega said winds in the Hidalgo County tornado were clocked at 100 mph, which would classify it as an F0.
"It's one of the weakest ones but it can still cause damage," Vega said.
Vega said the torando was last seen crossing the Rio Grande and into Mexico.
Reynosa Civil Protection officials told Action 4 News said there are no reports to indicate that a tornado touched down there.
Officials said rains from Tropical Storm Arlene did not cause any major damage in Reynosa but three neighborhoods flooded:
Colonia El Anhelo Colonia Lazaro Cardenas Ampliacion Lazaro Cardenas
Officials said those neighborhoods are located next to the Laguna La Escondida on the city TMs eastside.
The neighborhoods reportedly flooded because they still had standing water from last week TMs rain.
RAW VIDEO: Tornado Touches Down in Pharr
Tornado Forming In Las Milpas, Texas!!!


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Intercity bus services canceled in Primorye due to bad weather
Due to the snowfall in Primorsky Krai, transport companies canceled several intercity bus services. Also, due to bad weather and ice, heavy cargo was banned from entering Vladivostok.
According to the website of the Vladivostok bus station, flights to Nakhodka, Bolshoi Kamen, Slavyanka, Zarubino, as well as to other destinations, were canceled. At the same time, the airport of the coastal capital is operating normally.
“Only intra-regional flights to Kavalerovo, Dalnerechensk and Dalnegorsk were delayed due to bad weather conditions in these settlements. Also, due to weather conditions, the flight from Blagoveshchensk is delayed at the departure airport, ”the press service of Vladivostok Airport told EastRussia.
A storm warning was announced in Primorye; precipitation began on Wednesday night, March 4. According to weather forecasters, peak weather in Vladivostok will be in the afternoon.


NEW DELHI, May 13: More than 30 people were killed on Sunday across the country as rain, thunderstorms hit various states throwing life out of gear. Deaths were reported from Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal and Delhi-NCR.
At least 12 people were killed and over 15 injured in different districts of West Bengal after lightning struck them amid heavy rain today, an official of the state disaster management department said.
Five deaths were reported from Howrah district’s Uluberia sub-division, while there were two deaths each in Paschim Midnapore, North 24 Parganas and Nadia districts, and one in Murshidabad district, he said.
A person in Howrah district suffered serious injuries and was undergoing treatment at a local hospital, the official said.
According to Murshidabad district police, Shankar Mondal (50) was working at a field in Jalangi area of the district, when he was killed in a lightning strike.
In Howrah district, among the five dead, four children, aged between 8 and 12 years, were in a field collecting mangoes during a thunderstorm when lightning hit them in Bordanga under Uluberia police station, a police officer said.
9 dead in Andhra Pradesh
Nine people were struck dead by lightning and three injured in Srikakulam and Kadapa districts of Andhra Pradesh, official sources said.
While seven people were killed in Srikakulam district alone, two more were killed in Kadapa and three injured, they said.
Lightning struck at different places in Srikakulam since afternoon even as rain, coupled with gales, lashed the district.
Srikakulam district collector Dhananjay Reddy told PTI that the seven casualties were reported from different mandals in the district.
Rain was also reported from Visakhapatnam and East Godavari districts.
11 people killed as thunderstorm hits Uttar Pradesh
At least 11 people were killed and 28 people were injured after a thunderstorm hit the state on Sunday.
Principal secretary (Information) Awanish Awasthi told PTI, “Four deaths have been reported from Kasganj, while two persons died in Bulandshahr. Apart from this, one death each has been reported from Kannauj, Aligarh, Sambhal, Ghaziabad and Noida.”
2 dead, over 18 injured in Delhi; 70 flights diverted
At least two people were killed and more than 18 injured in Delhi after a squall and dust storm with a wind speed of up to 109 kmph barrelled through Delhi and neighbouring areas today.
The storm affected flight, rail and metro operations, uprooting trees, and leading to incidents of wall collapse.
The sky turned dark grey around 4:30 pm. Gusty winds and rain lashed the national capital, causing the temperature to drop around 10 notches to 25.2 degrees Celsius.
The strong winds knocked down 189 trees in the city. Four incidents of wall collapse were reported from Najafgarh, Transit Camp, Nehru Place, Mohan Garden in Uttam Nagar and Raj Nagar in Palam, said a senior officer of the Delhi Fire Service. (Agencies)


Regulating Untaxable Externalities: Are Vehicle Air Pollution Standards Effective and Efficient?
SeriesSpatial Economics Seminar
Speaker(s)Arthur van Benthem (University of Pennsylvania, United States)
LocationTinbergen Institute Amsterdam, room 1.01
Date and time
May 19, 2022
11:45 - 12:45
Abstract: What is a feasible and efficient policy to regulate air pollution from vehicles? A Pigouvian tax is technologically infeasible. Most countries instead rely on exhaust standards that limit air pollution emissions per mile for new vehicles. We assess the effectiveness and efficiency of these standards, which are the centerpiece of US Clean Air Act regulation of transportation, and counterfactual policies. We show that the air pollution emissions per mile of new US vehicles has fallen spectacularly, by over 99 percent since standards began in 1967. Several research designs with a half century of data suggest that exhaust standards have caused most of this decline. Yet exhaust standards are not cost-effective in part because they fail to encourage scrap of old vehicles, which account for the majority of emissions. To study counterfactual policies, we develop an analytical and a quantitative model of the vehicle fleet. We conclude that tighter exhaust standards increase social welfare and that increasing registration fees on dirty vehicles yield even larger gains by accelerating scrap, though both reforms have complex effects on inequality.
Co-authors: Mark Jacobsen, Jim Sallee and Joe ShapiroIf you are interested in joining the seminar, please send an email to Hedda Werkman.


Moon, Venus, Perseid meteor shower radiant point
Tonight for August 10, 2013
Courtesy U.S. Naval Observatory
Before tonight’s meteor shower even begins, look for the waxing crescent moon plus the planets Venus and Saturn at dusk and early evening. The meteors won’t really fly in significant numbers until Saturn has already set by mid to late evening.
By astronomers’ best estimates, the night of August 11-12 (mornings of August 12) will probably feature the most Perseid meteors in North America. In Asia, the peak night might come later, on the night of August 12-13 (morning of August 13). But any clear night from here on out should be fine for watching this reliable summer meteor shower. Last year, observers under dark skies reported over 60 meteors an hour, according to the International Meteor Organization. Will you see that many tonight? Only way to find out is to look.
As evening deepens into late night, the number of meteors will start to increase. The intensity will pick up after midnight, and the greatest numbers of meteors typically bombard the sky in the dark hours just before dawn. A typical count is 60 an hour. You might see more. Plus the planets Jupiter and Mars will rise into the eastern sky before dawn.
Appreciably south of the equator, the count will be less – perhaps 10 to 15 meteors per hour. Also, at southerly latitudes, the first Perseids probably won’t appear until midnight or the wee hours of the morning. That’s because the constellation Perseus – the radiant point for the Perseid meteors – is a far northern constellation. Perseus rises earlier in the evening and climbs higher in the sky at northerly latitudes.
Mira the Wonderful, the famous variable star, may – or may not – be visible
That’s the constellation Perseus the Hero at the top of this post. It’s the reason this meteor shower is best between the hours of midnight and dawn. One way to think about it is this. The shower’s radiant point – the point in the sky from which the meteors appear to radiate – needs to be above your horizon before you can see the most meteors. At this time of year, the constellation Perseus ascends appreciably high in the northeast by about midnight and highest in the sky before dawn. The Perseid meteor shower is named for this constellation.
Do you have to be able to identify the radiant point, or the constellation Perseus, to see the meteors? No. The meteors will appear in all parts of the sky – especially between midnight and dawn on the mornings of August 11, 12 and 13. If – just for fun – you do want to spot Perseus, look first for the W-shaped constellation Cassiopeia. The constellation Perseus is faint, but Cassiopeia is noticeable and can help you find it. If you do see a Perseid meteor, and trace its path backward, you will find that it radiated from a point in the sky within the boundaries of the constellation Perseus.
Double Cluster in Perseus: Two star clusters
Many people look forward each summer to the Perseids. It’s a great time to go camping. This shower always peaks around this time of year, and in years when the moon is out of the sky, it reliably produces 50 or more meteors per hour at its peak at northerly latitudes, or an average of about one a minute.
Fortunately, in 2013, the thin waxing crescent moon in the evening hours won’t intrude at all on the Perseid shower.
Bottom line: The bright starlike object near tonight’s moon is really a planet, Venus. You can also find Saturn this evening. Late night or between midnight and dawn, find a dark, open spot away from pesky artificial lights, sprawl out comfortably on a reclining lawn chair and enjoy the best nights of the Perseid shower. The meteors will probably fall most abundantly – from anyplace worldwide – from about 2 a.m. until dawn on Monday, August 12. But this weekend, through Tuesday morning (August 13), should feature good meteor displays, too.
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BACKGROUND: Weathering of bottom ash (BA) might induce change of its surface texture and pH when it is applied to the arable soil and affect physical and chemical properties of soil associated with greenhouse gas emission. This study was conducted to determine effect of weathering of BA in mitigating emission of greenhouse gases from upland soil.
METHODS AND RESULTS: In a field experiment, methane (CH4), carbon dioxide (CO2), and nitrous oxide (N2O) emitted from the soil was periodically monitored using closed chamber. Three month-weathered BA and non-weathered BA were applied to an upland soil at the rates of 0, 200 Mg ha-1. Maize (Zea mays L.) was grown from July 1st to Oct 8th in 2018. Both BAs did not affect cumulative CH4 emission. Cumulative CO2 emission were 23.1, 19.8, and 18.8 Mg/ha/100days and cumulative N2O emission were 35.8, 20.9, and 17.7 kg/ha/100days for the control, non-weathered BA, and weathered BA, respectively. Weathering of BA did not decrease emission of greenhouse gases in this study. Both BAs did not decrease biomass yields of maize.
CONCLUSION: BA might be a good soil amendment to mitigate emissions of CO2 and N2O from arable soil without adverse effect on crop productivity.


KITSAP COUNTY: Air pollution triggers countywide burn ban
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* Cold temperatures and stagnant air are the root cause of a burn ban for Kitsap County.
For the first time in six years, poor air quality due to stagnant air and heavy use of wood stoves has prompted a winter burn ban in Kitsap County.
The Puget Sound Air Pollution Control Agency placed the burn ban into effect on Tuesday as a layer of hazy smoke settled over Kitsap County.
The ban also extends to King, Snohomish and Pierce counties. All outdoor burning is prohibited, and only those with certified fireplaces and wood stoves are allowed to burn indoors. An exemption is made for homes with uncertified wood stoves that have no other source of heat.
Susan Alotrico, the communication specialist for the regional pollution control agency, said the ban will extend at least through Thursday. She said air quality monitoring stations across Puget Sound, including one in East Bremerton, began indicating a problem on Monday.
"It's a wood smoke problem in residential areas," Alotrico said. "We're trying to keep levels down to protect health."
Children, the elderly and people with cardiopulmonary disease are at risk, Alotrico said. A spokeswoman at Harrison Hospital said there were no reported increases of any such cases as of Tuesday afternoon.
The burn ban was prompted when the particulate matter - the fine particles that billow up with wood smoke - pushed up the county's Pollutants Standards Index to 64 on Tuesday. A score of 0 to 50 is considered good air quality. When the PSI is between 50 to 100, air quality is considered moderate. Above 100, the air quality is considered unhealthful.
"It's difficult to predict when things will change," Alotrico said. "We may or may not call the ban off on Thursday."
Wind speed in Bremerton was measured at zero Tuesday afternoon and weather predictions called for light winds today. Until the winds pick up, people will need to watch the way they burn wood to heat their homes.
Alotrico said wood stoves began to be regulated in 1988. She said older models are probably uncertified and should not be used until the ban is lifted. According to her agency, older, uncertified wood stoves pump out more than five times as many pollutants as those approved by the Environmental Protection Agency. Alotrico said it is fairly easy to determine if a stove is in compliance.
"Chances are it says on the back of a stove," she said. "If people don't know, they have to assume it's not certified."
Those who still plan to burn wood indoors in the next few days need to follow proper guidelines, including using dry wood and plenty of air, Alotrico said.
"It's not only a health issue, but a nuisance issue," Alotrico said. "Were not asking people to make a huge change in their lives. We're only asking for a couple days this winter. We're asking for people to take some action, to be a good neighbor and do the right thing for air quality."
According to the Puget Sound Air Pollution Control Agency, besides not burning, other actions also can have a positive effect on air quality, including carpooling, taking the bus and driving less. For more information about the burn ban, certified wood stoves and air quality issues, contact the agency at (800) 595-4341 or at www.psapca.org.
Reach reporter Michael Wagar at (360) 792-3343 or at firstname.lastname@example.org.


Leeds has become the bookies' favourite to experience a white Christmas as northern England braces itself for a spell of wintry weather.
William Hill has shortened the odds of snow falling at Leeds-Bradford airport on Christmas Day from 6-1 to 3-1.
There is little sign of the odds on festive snow drifting, with forecasters' warnings of “a little ice age” next week prompting bookies to offer shorter prices on a white Christmas at 12 major airports than in previous years.
A mild November is set to make way to a cold snap in the coming days and Exacta Weather have predicted the coldest Christmas since 2010.
The odds of snow on December 25 at Liverpool and Manchester have been cut to 7-2 and 4-1 from 8-1 and 13-2 respectively.
Former favourite Edinburgh is priced at 10-3, with Glasgow 7-2 and Newcastle and Birmingham both 4-1.
Bookies believe residents of Belfast (9-2), Dublin and London (both 6-1), and Bristol and Cardiff (both 8-1) are less likely to enjoy a white Christmas.
William Hill spokesman Rupert Adams said: “Forecasting snow is done with near-perfect accuracy within five days, and so it remains notoriously tricky business, especially for bookmakers.
“But with a keen eye on long-range forecasting and available modelling, coupled with the increased likelihood of cold spells during the early part of the winter, due to an expected La Nina ENSO state, the stars, or clouds, could well align this year, and deliver a White Christmas.”
The UK has not seen snow on the ground on Christmas Day since 2015, when it was observed at a 10th of weather stations. Those 2015 flurries came five years after widespread snow and the coldest December for a century in 2010.
The last widespread white Christmas (2010) saw snow on the ground at 83% of weather stations (the highest amount ever recorded), while snow or sleet fell at 19% of stations.
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Canadian astronomer Paul Wiegert announced at a meeting of professional astronomers in Canada that the annual Draconid meteor shower might produce unusually high peak meteor rates of 1,000 per hour on October 8, 2011.
Wiegert is an astronomer at University of Western Ontario. His specialty is solar system dynamics. In other words, he conducts numerical analyses of the way objects in our solar system move. He says he likes working with smaller bodies particularly: asteroids, comets and meteoroid streams.
Like most meteors in annual showers, any fiery Draconid meteors we see streaking across a dark night sky actually started out in a meteoroid stream in space – a river of icy, rocky debris – left behind in the orbit of a comet. The comet that spawns the Draconid shower is named Giacobini-Zinner. Known for over 100 years, this comet takes about 6.6 years to orbit our sun once. Astronomer Paul Wiegert – in his analysis of the movement of Giacobini-Zinner and its attendant meteoroid stream of icy bits – has determined that conditions will line up just right in 2011 for us to see a spectacular Draconid meteor shower. A shower of 1,000 meteors per hour would be spectacular indeed.
Not yet. The peak of the shower is very narrow (lasting only one hour), and it so happens that narrow peak of the Draconids will come during daylight on October 8, 2011 for us in North America. The 2011 Draconid outburst is expected to occur between 17 and 18 Universal Time on October 8 – translating to between 1 and 2 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time on that day. In other words, pretty darn close to high noon for us in the continental U.S.
Can you see meteors in daylight? No. So Wiegert says the best locations from which to view the shower – which is primarily a northern hemisphere event, since the meteors radiate from a point that’s far to the north on the celestial sphere – will be Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East.
But there is yet another factor. The moon will be in a waxing gibbous phase on October 8. And as all meteor-watchers know, a large bright moon can drown out a meteor shower.
A typically strong meteor shower like the Perseid shower, which occurs every summer in mid-August, might produce up to 100 meteors per hour under favorable skies. Normally, the Draconids (so-named because its meteors appear to radiate from the northern constellation Draco) are a weak shower producing perhaps 10 meteors per hour. However, this shower has proved strongly variable in the past. In 1933 and 1946, the Draconids produced “meteor storms” where shooting stars were produced at rates of 10,000 per hour or even more. Other less dramatic outbursts — where the meteor counts nonetheless ran into the hundreds per hour — occurred in 1952, 1985, and 1998.
Though the peak of the outburst is predicted to occur during daylight hours in North America, the shower is expected to continue to produce meteors, albeit at a reduced level, into the evening of October 8. So North Americans will still have a chance to see a stronger-than-usual Draconid meteor shower.
Paul Wiegert, an astronomer at University of Western Ontario, who is presenting his results at this week’s CASCA 2011 meeting in Ontario, Canada, said:
And you never know. Meteor showers are as difficult to predict as rain showers. The Draconids have surprised us before, and they may do so again. I’d encourage anyone outside on the night of October the 8 to look to the northern skies, just in case.
How to view the Draconid shower
This meteor shower really favors the northerly latitudes, but that’s not to say the Draconid meteors can’t be seen from the northern tropics. Predicting the intensity and the peak (or multiple peaks) of a meteor shower is a very tricky business, and represents a best guess – not an ironclad guarantee. You’ll never know for sure what a meteor shower has to offer unless you watch.
Wherever you may reside worldwide, the best viewing of these meteors will probably be at nightfall and early evening on October 8. That’s when the radiant point for the shower will be highest in the sky for the night. All other things being equal, the most meteors tend to fall when the the radiant point is highest in the sky. North of about 35 degrees north latitude – the latitude of Memphis, Tenessee – the radiant is actually circumpolar. Circumpolar means that the radaint stays above the horizon all night long.
Even so, the radiant will fall downward during the night and reach its low point around 5:00 a.m. local time (6:00 a.m. local daylight saving time). Generally, you see few – if any – meteors when the radiant of the shower falls close to the horizon. However, if the Draconids should burst into storm during the predawn hours (that’ll be in Asia and possibly Alaska on October 9, if the prediction holds), you might not see an abundance of meteors but you may see some earthgrazers – unusually bright and long meteors that go horizontally across the sky.
However, nightfall and early evening (on October 8, 2011) will probably provide the greatest number of meteors. At this time, the waxing gibbous moon will be rather low in your east to southeast sky and casting long shadows. Sit in the shadow of a barn or hedgerow of trees, though with an otherwise open view of sky. This should help darken the night for meteor watching.
Source of the Draconid meteor shower
Comet Giacobini-Zinner is the source of the Draconid meteor shower and was the first comet to be examined by a spacecraft, when in 1985 the International Cometary Explorer flew through its tail, passing approximately 4,847 miles (7,800 km) from its nucleus.
A comet’s tail may extend for millions of km, but that spectacular display all originates from the much-smaller nucleus at its head. Essentially an ice asteroid, the frozen nucleus partly evaporates when its orbit brings it close to the sun. At this time the comet’s tail, which is composed largely of water vapor and chemically related species, grows in size and may achieve naked-eye visibility from Earth. The vaporization process also releases copious quantities of small rocks and dust because the nucleus is far from pristine ice: it is more like a dirty city snow-bank after a long winter.
The solid rocky material produced by a comet continues to orbit the sun after its release. If that orbit brings it into collision with the Earth, its high speed — which may exceed 155,342 mph (250,000 kph) — causes it to burn up in the upper atmosphere and produce a bright flash we call a meteor, shooting star or falling star. Particles no larger than a pea and which burn up at altitudes of 62 miles (100 km) are easily noticeable from the ground; in fact, this describes most meteors visible to the human eye. When these particles arrive in large numbers, they produce a beautiful display called a meteor shower.


Warm week to continue as temperatures could soar to 27C
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Tomorrow is set to be the hottest day of the week with blistering sunshine of up to 27Cexpected.
Consistent hot temperatures are set to continue throughout the week with consistent temperatures of around 25C predicted until Sunday when temperatures could hit 27C.
Forecasters at Weatherquest say west Norfolk will be the hottest area of the county throughout the week due to a south-easterly wind, making the north Norfolk coast the coolest place to be.
Adam Dury from the Norfolk-based forecaster said: "Norfolk is looking at the hottest temperatures being tomorrow at 25 degrees as a high temperature, but it may just reach 26 on Sunday.
"Generally the weekend is a bit warmer so basically tomorrow is the warmest of the working week and then it could get that degree or two warmer going into the weekend.
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In this year Draconid meteor shower in October will be impressive, but few people on the ground will get a chance to appreciate its true scope. According to a recent study on October 8, up to 1,000 meteors per hour will streak through Earth’s atmosphere. Unfortunately, the flurry will peak around 1 p.m. or 2 p.m. EDT (1700 or 1800 GMT), meaning the sun will drown it out throughout the Western Hemisphere. The skywatching prospects in Europe are a little better, than in America, since the sun will have set in many places when the shower peaks. However, even European skies won’t be very dark. According to Bill Cooke of the Meteoroid Environment Office at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., the moon will be about 90 percent full on October 8, washing out much of the Draconid meteor shower.
Like other meteor showers, the Draconids result when Earth plows through bits of debris shed by a comet on its path around the sun. In the Draconids’ case, this comet is called Giacobini-Zinner (hence the Draconids’ other name, the Giacobinids). These shed comet particles tend to cluster into “streams” or “trails.” If Earth happens to slam into a particularly dense particle stream or two, the meteor shower can be much more spectacular than usual. That’s what happened during previous big Draconid years. And it will happen again this October, when Earth will barrel through streams of comet material ejected by Giacobini-Zinner during the 1890s and early 1900s. In the recent study, astronomer Paul Wiegert of the University of Western Ontario calculated that the 2011 Draconids will peak at a rate of about 1,000 per hour.
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Mumbai, July 8: With heavy downpour gripping the maximum city on Monday, another concern for the Mumbaikars is arising from the Arabian sea in the form of high tide. According to the tide-forecast, the high tide upto 14.34 feet (4.37 metres) would hit the city at 4:18 pm. Mumbaikars have been advised not to venture nearby the beaches or Marine drive.
Due to the heavy rainfall returning back to the financial capital with full force, massive traffic jams and waterlogging incidents are brought reports from several parts is King's Circle, Sion Road, Andheri, Bandra and Ghatkopar. Visibility has decreased and has led to flight operations suspension at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport. Mumbai Rains Live News Updates, Traffic And Local Train Status Today, July 8, 2019
Among the other sectors affected included are Mumbai's Local trains, including Central, Harbour, Western and Tran Harbour train services. Some trains are running late, but fighting the waterlogging on tracks. Commuters could be seen stranded at almost every railway station and trains are plying fully packed.
Mumbai received the first heavy rainfall of the monsoon season on June 28 with record rainfall of 375 mm, breaking the record of 1974 of the highest rainfall in just 24-hours. And now with the high tide warning, it can be speculated that relief is far-sighted for the Mumbaikars.


DOTr stops Edsa busway consortium operations as Rolly hits Metro Manila
MANILA, Philippines — Operations of the Edsa busway consortium was suspended on Sunday afternoon as Typhoon Rolly threatens Metro Manila and most Luzon areas, the Department of Transportation (DOTr) said.
“Due to the inclement weather, and considering that the National Capital Region (NCR) is under typhoon signal no. 4, the EDSA busway consortium will suspend their operations at 1:00 PM today (Sunday),” read the statement.
The Edsa busway has more than 30 routes across Metro Manila and was established to help commuters go to their workplaces amid the limited public transportation services during the community quarantine.
The DOTr also suspended train operations in Metro Manila to prepare for the impact of the typhoon.
Rolly was downgraded to a typhoon status earlier this morning. It is packing maximum sustained winds of 215 kilometers per hour (kph) near the center and gustiness of up to 295 kph, while moving west at 25 kph.
Signal No. 4 remains hoisted over Metro Manila and other provinces, the weather bureau said.


Hurricane Rita has grown into a monster Category 5 storm, taking aim at Texas as authorities began to evacuate more than a million people from most of the coast and parts of Houston.
"We hope and pray that Hurricane Rita will not be a devastating storm, but we've got to be ready for the worst," said US President George Bush, who was heavily criticised for an ill-prepared federal response to Hurricane Katrina.
Bush on Wednesday ordered a state of emergency in Texas and Louisiana as they brace for the arrival of Hurricane Rita, the White House said.
The US National Hurricane Centre said Rita's winds increased to 265kph as it moved over the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico after lashing the Florida Keys on Tuesday. The storm did little damage to the vulnerable Florida islands, but had intensified to a Category 4 storm by morning.
The latest upgrade made Rita stronger than Hurricane Katrina, which devastated parts of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama last month and killed at least 1037 people, Aljazeera reported.
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Karnataka: IMD issues red alert in Kodagu; extremely heavy rains expected
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Kodagu: Just when the people of Kodagu were breathing a sigh of relief after the devastation caused by last year’s floods and landslides, the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) on Thursday (July 9) issued a red alert for Kodagu, Karnataka.
Heavy rains have again started pounding the district since the last 48 hours. This rain is set to destroy the standing paddy crop and if it rains continuously, the coffee crop too will be affected. The IMD has predicted heavy to very heavy rains in some places and extremely heavy rains at isolated places.
Kodagu deputy commissioner Annies Kanmani Joy, who heads the District Disaster Management Authority, issued the red alert and has asked people living in hilly areas to move to plains and be watchful about landslides.
Following heavy rains in Kodagu, the outflow from Harangi Reservoir has been stepped up to 15,000 cusecs and subsequently, there is also an increased outflow from the Krishna Raja Sagar (KRS) Dam which is releasing 17,000 cusecs of water.
In case of any rain-related emergencies and landslides, the public can seek assistance by calling the district control room on 08272-221077 or 8550001077(WhatsApp number).
Meanwhile, traffic on Bhagamandala–Talacauvery Road, which was disrupted on July 7 after a mudslide, was restored on the same night. A team from the NDRF, with help of earth movers, cleared the mud from the road amidst rain to make way for the movement of vehicles.
The water level at Triveni Sangam at Bhagamandala is steadily rising following heavy rains and the road connecting Napoklu from Bhagamandala was flooded. Bhagamandala had recorded 135 mm rain till 8 am on July 7.
The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) has already placed several rescue teams at vulnerable positions across the district. According to the weather forecast released by the Kodagu District Disaster Management Authority, the district is likely to receive over 204.5mm rain between Thursday and Friday.


Three yellow – “be aware” – severe weather warnings for strong winds, snow and rain are in force for central and western Scotland for various periods up to 9pm.
The latest alerts were issued yesterday as snow and strong winds caused havoc for drivers and rail and ferry passengers.
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More than 115 schools were closed, including 98 in the Highlands, eight in Perth and Kinross, five in Shetland and four in Argyll and Bute. Scottish Hydro Electric said some 1,500 homes suffered power cuts yesterday, including several hundred in the Western Isles, 200 in Perthshire and 100 in Oban.
Some 600 people in Scalloway, near Lerwick in Shetland, were reconnected early yesterday after being cut off following a suspected lightning strike.
A Met Office spokesman said: “A further spell of very strong winds from the west is expected from late Thursday morning into the evening, with gusts of 70mph or more in places. The public should be aware of the risk of disruption to transport and possibly to power supplies.”
The agency also warned of snow above 300m this afternoon, which could affect higher roads, and said heavy rain could cause flooding.
Driver information firm Tom Tom Traffic said weather had contributed to 299 congestion “hotspots” in Scotland yesterday morning, causing tailbacks of nearly 200 miles – around one third worse than normal.
It said the A9 was worst affected, with traffic at a standstill for 17 miles.
The road was blocked several times, including by lorries jackknifed or stuck in the snow at Newtonmore and Trinafour, north of Blair Atholl.
Two workers escaped with minor injuries after a Shetland Islands Council gritter rolled down an embankment near Voe.
Other roads closed by snow included the A93 between Glenshee and Braemar, the B974 from Banchory to Fettercairn, and the A939 Ballater to Corgarff, all in Aberdeenshire.
The A82 was also shut between Spean Bridge and Invergarry, north of Fort William, after a collision between a car and a lorry.
Strong winds caused problems elsewhere, including on the Forth Road Bridge, Clackmannanshire Bridge, Skye Bridge and the Friarton Bridge at Perth.
CalMac has cancelled some west coast ferry sailings today because of offshore winds of up to 80mph, including to Arran, Islay, Iona, Lismore and Mull, Rum and Canna. Some sailings were halted yesterday between Oban and Colonsay, Barra, Mull and South Uist, and to Islay, Gigha and Lismore.
Passenger trains have been halted on six routes on the west coast until around 6pm today as a precaution against obstacles such as trees and debris being blown on to tracks.
The ScotRail services affected are between Dumbarton and Helensburgh, Kilwinning and Largs and Ardrossan, Glasgow and Oban and Mallaig, and Dingwall and Kyle of Lochalsh.
Trains between Inverness and Perth were severely delayed by the bad weather yesterday, with one Edinburgh-bound service from Inverness running nearly three hours late. Network Rail snowploughs cleared up to 3ft of snow from tracks but one broke down at Slochd summit, south of Inverness.
Some 30cm of snow fell in Aviemore and 24cm at Tulloch Bridge, east of Fort William.
Eight flood warnings were issued for Perthshire by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency, including on stretches of the Rivers Tay, Tummel and Lyon, mainly expected to affect farmland.
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FAIRBANKS - Fairbanks set another record high temperature on Saturday, breaking a mark that was set in 1915.
The thermometer topped out at 82 degrees at Fairbanks International Airport, 2 degrees warmer than the previous record. Fairbanks also set a record high of 79 on Friday. The normal high for this time of year is 60.
Interior Alaska, already under dry conditions, pulled through two days of record-breaking hot weather without a wildfire starting.
The fire service was ready for fire activity, Mowry said, as temperatures climbed on Saturday, hitting a high of 82 degrees at Fairbanks International Airport about 7 p.m. and setting a new record for a high temperature for May 14.
The old record of 80 degrees was set in 1915, according to National Weather Service meteorologist Ryan Metzger.
“(Saturday) was the first time we hit 80 degrees this season,” Metzger said.
It was so warm on Saturday that the low temperature, 59 degrees, broke a record too for highest minimum temperature on May 14. Metzger said the previous record, set in 2005, was 52 degrees.
Fairbanks’ low temperature on Saturday beat Chicago’s high temperature of 47 degrees, the meteorologist said.
Wow, 80 degrees in May. I'm glad it cooled off and rained some, especially since there has been so much pollen lately. I went to the clinic to get stuff for allergies and when the doctor looked inside my nose he was like "wow, it looks brutal in there!" It was too swollen to even breathe..luckily the stuff I got has helped some, phew
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1946 Windsor–Tecumseh tornado
|Formed||June 17, 1946 Around 6:00 PM. EDT (2200 UTC)|
|Max rating1||F4 tornado|
($137 million in 2018 dollars)
|Areas affected||Windsor, Ontario, La Salle, Ontario, Tecumseh, Ontario and surrounding area|
|1Most severe tornado damage; see Fujita scale
The Windsor–Tecumseh Tornado of 1946 was the most powerful tornado to hit Windsor, Ontario, being an F4 in strength, touching down on June 17 of that year. The tornado touched down near River Rouge, Michigan, then crossed the Detroit River and made landfall in the Brighton Beach neighbourhood of Windsor. It then cut across southern Windsor and northern Sandwich West Township, Ontario (now the Municipality of LaSalle, Ontario), along a path 60 kilometres (40 mi) in length. It also cut across Highway 3 before weakening somewhat. The storm then touched down as an F4 again at the modern-day intersection of Walker Road and Grand Marais Road, near the center of the city.
Path of destruction
The tornado took a northeastward path, cutting through farmland and forest, an area with few housing subdivisions (at the time, but still many homes), and narrowly missing Windsor Airport (which was located just south of the tornado), before tearing through the northwest part of the Town of Tecumseh, Ontario and dissipating over Lake St. Clair.
The storm's path was roughly 30 metres (100 ft) wide, and followed Turkey Creek for much of its length after crossing the Detroit River, and travelled 60 km. The storm's damage ranged from F3-F4, to some speculated F5 damage from completely destroyed houses that were lifted off their foundations.
Since the tornado had cut power to The Windsor Star's main printing offices downtown the Detroit News offered to help them print their newspapers at their printing facilities until the Star's were repaired, and even gave the Star priority so they could report the news of the tornado to the cities of Windsor, Detroit, and the rest of Ontario.
The tornado knocked out power to most of the city for about a day, and damaged or destroyed roughly 400 homes in Windsor.
Though Windsor had CKLW as a radio station from Detroit, Michigan, there were no records kept from them. CBC Toronto was the only radio station that has kept their archives for the reports on this event. CBC Archives helps to explain what happened in Windsor the day after on Windsor, Ont. struck by tornado in 1946. The report explains what happened, how many were killed, how citizens feel and even what was stolen and who came out to help. In addition to this report, there were many reports to explain how the tornado was formed for this tornado. The reports also hold onto interviews from people who viewed the tornado first hand.
After the tornado, civility and order were quickly restored by the police. Many accounts of the tornado were told over the radio (notably, CKLW, which was Windsor's CBC radio affiliate at the time), and the Ontario Provincial Government even explained the conditions that are favourable for tornado development, to alleviate the public's fears of an "epidemic of tornadoes", especially since one week later, a tornado struck the towns of Fort Frances and International Falls.
It was also just half a mile from the same spot the Windsor Tornado of 1974 touched down.
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Smoky haze returns Delhi: National capital registers 208 fire-related incidents on festive day
Delhi post Diwali: A day after the revelry of Diwali, a blanket of smoke and haze covered parts of the 'City of Cities’, Delhi.
Post-Diwali celebrations have left the pollution hanging in the air as smoky smog. Roads of the city have also been littered with remains of crackers, boxes of sweets, edibles, beverage bottles and other such waste.
Despite battling with deteriorating air quality, crackers craze among people on Diwali night counters rain relief and leads to heavy pollution all across the city
Delhi witnessed upward trend in pollution level as thick layer of smog engulfed the national capital post Diwali.
According to the reports, Delhi Fire Service registered 208 calls of fire-related incidents, 22 of them caused by firecrackers, on Diwali.
The major fire incident cases were reported from Delhi’s Sadar Bazar, East of Kailash and Tilak Nagar.
Meanwhile, in a horrific incident, massive fire broke out at a house in the East of Kailash area in South Delhi last night.
In another dreadful incident, fire engulfs odown in Deputy Ganj of Sadar Bazar in Central Delhi. Twenty-two fire tenders pressed into service took two hours to control over the blaze.
Despite a blanket ban on fireworks in the national capital owing to runaway pollution and worsening air quality, revellers across the city engaged in bursting firecrackers with abandon on Diwali night.
The AQI at many places peaked in the 'severe' category and continued to remain toxic for several days, but after Diwali, it is now very likely that the national capital will once again witness a rise in pollution levels, making it difficult for the people inside the city to breathe.
In some areas across Delhi, air quality index (AQI) reaches above 500, with some areas reaching above 900. The AQI at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium is of 910, Lajpat Nagar at 959 and Karol Bagh 779.
- With inputs from agencies


Updated: Feb 8
Heavy snow across Linn County overnight left several inches of the white stuff on the ground with an additional 3 to 5 inches of snow expected later today and tonight. The area remains under a Winter Storm Warning by the National Weather Service (NWS) until Thursday evening.
All three school districts announced yesterday that classes were cancelled today, Feb. 2.
The NWS is also predicting highs for today and tomorrow in the lower 20s, while lows for the next two nights will be in the single digits.
Linn County Pubic Works Administrator Shaun West said earlier today that, because there was little ice associated with the storm, county road crews would be working to clear according to a preset plan.
That plan includes clearing paved roads and roads that connect to main arteries first. Once those high-usage roads were clear, crews would start working on the secondary roads, he said.
Also once the main roads are cleared, crews can start addressing trouble spots like bridges and intersections where ice, particularly black ice, has become a problem, West said. Had there been more freezing rain, addressing those areas would have been more of a priority.
West said that V-plows have been mounted on some trucks to work the backroads and graders are ready to clear as well.
He said he expected crews to be working over the next two days to clear the snow and hoped to have the work done by Thursday evening. However, he also said that with additional snow and breezy conditions drifting could be a problem.
Winds out of the north northeast are expected to bring wind gusts up as high as 28 mph, which could cause drifting, particularly on roads that run east to west.
In that case, county crews would continue to return to those areas to get those roads clear.
This tractor-trailer rig got sideways on U.S. Highway 69 this morning because of icy roads. The Linn County Sheriff's deputies were kept busy handling slide-offs on main roads. (Screen captures, Linn County Sheriff's Office)
Kansas Department of Transportation road crews will be working to clear state and federal highways.
Linn County Sheriff Kevin Friend urged drivers to slow down and be more attentive to road conditions. "People should stay home if they can," he said.
If drivers must get out on the highways, they should take special care to give themselves plenty of space between vehicles, he said.
He pointed out that, unlike previous relatively light snows over the past couple of years, a heavy snow like the one expected will be a game-changer. It will make it more challenging to get places for motorists, but it will also slow down responses on 911 calls from all emergency responders.
It also suggested that if you must travel, keep an extra flashlight, food, and water in your vehicle in case of an emergency. The latest road conditions for the state you are calling from can be obtained by calling 5-1-1 or you can go to the Kansas Department of Transportation website, kandrive.org.


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Patchy Fog again in the morning. Lows in the upper 40s to mid 50s. Grab a jacket for shopping early in the morning, but you will not need it during the day!
A frigid winter storm system that put Dallas in the deep freeze is hitting the East Coast on Sunday. Luckily for those people, it should be a short visit.
Snow, ice or freezing rain will fall on Washington, Philadelphia and New York City, the National...


TODAY | February 08, 2013
>> al roker and he's in boston . boy, the folks up there are getting ready, al. good morning.
>> good morning, matt. yeah, they absolutely are. and this is a powerful storm. it will probably rank as one of boston 's top five storms before it's all over. schools are already closed. flights, airports being canceled. thousands of flights. we're talking amtrak canceling trains this afternoon between new york and boston . let's take a look, show you what's the ingredients for this system getting itself together. we've got a clipper coming across the great lakes. we've also got a storm system across the east coast . both are going to come on a collision course, energy from the clipper will transfer to this low pressure system offshore, creating a classic nor'easter. so as you can see, as we get into the morning hours, the snow starts to really pick up from new york city to the north, inland sections of new york state, new england, making its way up the coast through saturday morning and those lines in between, you see those are isobars. the tighter those lines, the more the winds we see. as far as winter storm warnings, blizzard warnings, everything you can see from michigan all the way to upstate new york . we've got winter storm warnings, but closer along the coast from new york , boston , up to portland. we have blizzard warnings in effect. sustained winds of over 35 miles per hour with heavy snow, creating low visibility and dangerous conditions. as far as accumulations are concerned, we're generally looking from anywhere to three to six inches of snow. new york city to up to a foot of snow, back through the great lakes as well. but look along from providence all the way up to east port . we're talking one to two feet of snow and in eastern massachusetts , one to two feet possibly and very likely we're talking about three feet of snow to the west of boston . boston will most likely see somewhere around two feet of snow. as you look right now along the west side of manhattan , the snow coming down, they have 1,800 sanitation trucks ready with snow plows on them. they expect to spread 250,000 tons of salt at some point during this. so, we are really looking at a


A Brilliant Meteor Shower Is Headed Our Way—Here’s How to Watch
Thanks to a gravitational assist from Jupiter, August’s Perseid meteor shower will be even stronger than usual. Find out when to go outside and start stargazing.
Every August, Mother Nature treats us to a brilliant light show: the Perseid meteor shower. Even for the most amateur of astronomers, this summer star show is one of the year’s best with up to 100 shooting stars zipping across the sky each hour. But for 2016, the Perseids are expected to be twice as nice with up to 200 meteors visible each hour under ideal conditions, says Bill Cooke, the lead at the NASA Meteoroid Environment Office.
The Perseid meteor shower gets its name from the constellation Perseus, from which the meteors appear to originate. In reality, the meteors are space debris from the Swift-Tuttle comet, which takes around 132 years to orbit the sun. When the Earth passes through the comet’s debris field once a year, the particles (traveling 132,000 miles per hour!) burn up in the Earth’s atmosphere, creating the sea of shooting stars we see each August.
The Perseids will be particularly magnificent this year, thanks to Jupiter’s gravitational pull. “Jupiter is the strongest gravitational influence in the solar system outside the sun, so it tends to be a bully and push things out of their paths in the solar system,” Cooke says. While the Earth typically only grazes by Swift-Tuttle’s comet tail, this year Jupiter is pushing the comet closer to Earth.
But when exactly is the best time to view the Perseids? The meteor shower will peak after after midnight on Thursday, August 11, especially after the waxing gibbous moon sets just after 1 a.m., and continue into early Friday, August 12. To ensure the best view, get away from city lights and give your eyes 30 to 40 minutes to fully adjust to the darkness. Dress comfortably, bring a blanket, and pack bug spray. To properly enjoy the show, you will need to spend a few hours outside. If weather or lights affect your viewing, don’t worry: NASA will be broadcasting the show live on its UStream channel on both August 11 and 12.


t tyjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj tyjjjtdfbsdfrgbsefrgsedfrThe Earth's climate is constantly changing over time. Many climatologists believe that the temperature of the Earth slowly fluctuates over time. In fact, several scientists estimate that between 15,000 and 30,000 years ago the Earth was covered by large sheets of ice. This period of time was known as the Ice Age. As the temperature of the Earth began to rise 7,000 years ago, the Ice Age came to an end.
The first theory of global warming came in 1824 when French mathematician Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier discovered that the Earth's temperature was slowly increasing. Fourier argued that the earth's atmosphere traps solar radiation and reflects it back toward the earth.
In the late 19th century Fourier's theory was labeled the "greenhouse effect" when Nobel Laureate Svante Arrhenius coined the term to explain how carbon dioxide traps heat in the Earth's atmosphere.
Today, scientists disagree on the effects of global warming while some deny the phenomena all together. Despite these arguments many historians point out the direct relationship between man and the environment, often referencing the American Dust Bowl of the 1930s, where large scale soil erosion reduced parts of Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas to arid deserts. Currently, many governments and corporations are working to reduce fuel emissions and produce "Earth friendly" products such as hybrid cars. Yet, many scientists warn that global warming is an imminent and pressing problem that needs to be addressed before it becomes irreversible. (History of Global Warming, The New York Times, page 1)
I would like to start with three opinions on global warming. “It’s complete nonsense. Global warming is just nonsense. I’m not seeing any destroying of planet Earth, I haven’t been seeing, and I do not think that any wise and intelligent person could say that there is global warming on planet Earth. We can rather suppose if the ocean will be warmer, there will be more snowing in Antarctica and the mass of icebergs will increase.” (VACLAV KLAUS, speech on global warming) This is how Czech president thinks about this topic. His speeches about this topic are very controversial every time he talks about it. Many people have been influenced by him. Every president or head of the country has some effect on people who live in certain country. It is obvious that he is extremely against global warming.
“Some of the scientists, I believe, haven’t they been changing their opinion a little bit on global warming? There’s a lot of differing opinions and before we react I think it’s best to have the full accounting, full understanding of what’s taking place. (GEROGE W. BUSH, presidential debate, Oct. 11, 2000) He probably thinks that there is maybe some kind of global warming, but he wants more evidences about it.
The last example had been told by Tony Blair, ex-prime minister of the United Kingdom. His opinion is different than the two previous ones. “Global warming is too serious for the world any longer to ignore its danger or split into opposing factions on it.” (TONY BLAIR, speech, Sept. 27, 2005)
Global warming exists. How would you want to explain all the big changes of climate in last few years, glacier discharging and other things which have something in common with climate on the Earth? I sharply disagree with my president, that all the global warming is only nonsense. However is difficult to find any pieces of evidence which are warranted. Mostly all of the “facts” are only presumptions. Rising temperatures and melting icebergs are indisputable evidence that the Earth is warming. There is global
warming. It may be just part of nature, but I think we take the biggest share in that is all this happening. One thing for sure global warming is taking its toll on the Earth.


Magnetic-Shield Cracks Found; Big Solar Storms Expected
| Victoria Jaggard in San Francisco |
National Geographic News
|December 17, 2008|
| An unexpected, thick layer of solar particles inside Earth's magnetic field suggests there are huge breaches in our planet's solar defenses, scientists said. |
These breaches indicate that during the next period of high solar activity, due to start in 2012, Earth will experience some of the worst solar storms seen in decades.
Solar winds—charged particles from the sun—help create auroras, the brightly colored lights that sometimes appear above the Earth's poles.
But the winds also trigger storms that can interfere with satellites' power sources, endanger spacewalkers, and even knock out power grids on Earth.
"The sequence we're expecting … is just right to put particles in and energize them to create the biggest geomagnetic storms, the brightest auroras, the biggest disturbances in Earth's radiation belts," said David Sibeck, a space-weather expert at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland.
"So if all of this is true, it should be that we're in for a tough time in the next 11 years."
(Related: "Sun's Power Hits New Low, May Endanger Earth?" [September 24, 2008].)
Into the Breach
Data from NASA's THEMIS satellite showed that a 4,000-mile-thick (6,437-kilometer-thick) layer of solar particles has gathered and is rapidly growing within the outermost part of the magnetosphere, a protective bubble created by Earth's magnetic field.
Normally the magnetosphere blocks most of the solar wind, flowing outward from the sun at about a million miles (1.6 million kilometers) an hour.
"The solar wind is constantly changing, and the Earth's magnetic field is buffeted like a wind sock in gale-force winds, fluttering back and forth in response to the solar wind," Sibeck said this week during a meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco.
Earth's magnetic field lines align themselves in different directions over various regions of the planet.
Near Earth's Equator, where solar winds press against the magnetosphere, the field lines point north.
Solar winds also carry magnetic field lines toward Earth, and those solar field lines point in different directions during the sun's 11-year cycle of activity.
Conventional thinking had suggested that north-pointing field lines would act like reinforcements to Earth's northward field, causing the planet to "raise shields" against solar winds.
The idea is based, in part, on the fact that auroras are brighter and space-weather hazards increase when solar winds carry southward-pointing field lines, Sibeck said.
"So it's reasonable to think that during periods when the sun's magnetic field lines point south, that's when the most particles get into Earth's magnetosphere."
THEMIS, however, showed that the opposite is true.
The satellite system "found the solar particle layer is much thicker when the two fields are pointing in the same direction," said Marit Øieroset, a THEMIS scientist based at the University of California, Berkeley, who first saw the effect.
In fact, 20 times more particles get through Earth's magnetic shield when the field lines are aligned than when they are opposed, she said.
To find the mechanism behind this discovery, Oieroset and Sibeck turned to computer models that could simulate the conditions observed by THEMIS.
The models showed that the likely driver is north-facing field lines connecting with Earth's magnetosphere, said Jimmy Raeder, a physicist at the University of New Hampshire in Durham who helped build the simulations.
As a field line approaches, it latches onto the poles and wraps around the planet like an octopus using a tentacle to snare its prey, he said.
The latching, known as magnetic reconnection, tears huge cracks in the magnetosphere and allows solar plasma to leak in.
"We have other observations from other satellites that this reconnection process happens over the poles at times, but we had never appreciated what it actually does," Raeder said.
A thicker layer of solar particles, however, isn't enough by itself to create geomagnetic troubles for Earth.
Right now the planet is enjoying a period of low activity called solar minimum. But particles have been building up inside the magnetosphere as the solar wind carries northward-facing field lines to Earth.
During the next solar cycle, the winds are expected to carry southward-facing field lines, which connect with the magnetosphere in such a way that they provide extra charge to any plasma inside the shield.
"You can sort of compare [the situation] to a gas stove," Raeder said.
"If you turn on the gas and you light it right away, nothing will happen—the gas stove will go on and there will be a flame.
"But if you turn on a gas stove and you don't do anything for a while and then you throw in a match, what will happen? It will say, Boom!"


EYEWITNESSES from across the UK - including Walsall - have reported seeing glowing objects in the night sky, thought to be meteors.
The lights were seen as far north as Caithness in north-east Scotland and as far south as Norfolk in East Anglia.
Experts said the meteors could be space junk, possibly satellite debris, burning up on entry to the atmosphere.
The meteor shower has so far also been reported in parts of north-east England, Wales and in Scottish cities such as Glasgow and Edinburgh.
Brian Guthrie in Grangemouth near Edinburgh, who watched the objects pass through the sky, told the BBC it appeared to be something "pretty large breaking up in the atmosphere".
"I've seen shooting stars and meteor showers before, but this was much larger and much more colourful."
One person who contacted the BBC said it was "kind of a mass of light, gold light. Everything moving in unison".
"It wasn't diverging or whatever. I thought it was a plane at first. It was quite low on the horizon and moving much slower than I'd expect to see a shooting star, but it was amazing."
Another said the sight was "like Independence Day" in reference to the film about an alien invasion of Earth.
"It was broken up by the time I saw it. There must have been 10 or 15 huge pieces on fire, white hot with red down the side."
Dr Tim O'Brien, associate director of the Jodrell Bank Observatory, said it was difficult to know the cause the meteor shower.
"These bright lights seen over the skies of Lisburn, Northern Ireland, are possibly pieces of satellite. It's hard to say exactly, whether it was a chunk of rock coming in from outer space, burning up in the atmosphere or a bit of space debris, we call it, space junk, which is basically man-made stuff from a spacecraft that's burning up in the atmosphere.
"[The meteor was] probably 80 miles up or so, high up, moving very fast, actually, 18,000 miles an hour, probably, at least."


This year’s monsoon has rekindled hope among the farmers in the land of Cauvery.
Monsoon has gained momentum since the beginning of June.
The district has received more rainfall in the first week of June, which in turn, has helped in improving the groundwater table.
The rain in Kodagu has brought cheers to the farmers in Mandya and Mysuru region as well.
All the waterfalls in the district have come alive in the last 15 days.
The district had received poor rainfall in 2016 and it had affected paddy cultivation. In 2017, the district had received below normal showers.
Rain so far
Kodagu district has received 1,225.99 mm rainfall from January till date.
Last year, the district had received 525 mm rainfall in the corresponding period.
Last year, Virajpet had received only 398 mm of rainfall from January to June. This year, it is 883.12 mm.
Normally, Kodagu receives heavy rain in the month of July. As a result, the urban local bodies in Madikeri, Somwarpet, Virajpet, Kushalnagar and Shanivarasanthe have not taken any precautionary measures.
The locals charged that the failure of the officials in clearing stormwater drains has led to artificial floods.
Meanwhile, the coffee growers are worried over fruit rot disease affecting coffee plants following heavy rain.
The farmers in the irrigated area are preparing paddy seedlings for cultivation following the increase in water level in Harangi reservoir.
Following less rainfall, the government had decided not to release water to the canals from Harangi reservoir last year.


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"And milder tomorrow, extra clouds and sunshine. I seventy five will turn out mostly clear tonight. Lows sixty one and breezy and nice on Saturday sunny to partly cloudy. I eighty one low seventies at the beaches and breezy more humid Sunday shower thunderstorm around I seventy four. I'm AccuWeather is John Feerick WBZ Boston's NewsRadio right now. It's fifty four degrees in Saugus, sixty four in born and fifty two in Lowell in Boston. It's cloudy and fifty five degrees vase days. Most of us are looking for ways"


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The incessant rainfall that continued for about two hours on Thursday caused water-logging in many areas of Himachal Pradesh’s Chamba. Vehicular movement was also obstructed and some drowned in water. The road clearance process is underway in the affected areas. Incidents of houses getting affected were also reported from several areas after rainfall started suddenly at 3.30 pm and continued till late evening.
The movement was obstructed due to debris filling on the national highway. Residents living in Julahkadi, Mugla, Karian, Hardaspura wards were struggling with the water logged inside their houses.
Sub-Divisional Magistrate (SDM) Sunil Kumar said that officials are assessing the damages caused by rainwater.
The administration is looking into all the problems faced by the residents.
According to a ANi report, locals have alleged that the situation has occurred due to government’s negligence. Some of the residents have alleged that even after repeated attempts their requests to get the areas fixed were unheard.
The Meteorological Center, Shimla, has forecasted continuous rainfall and thunderstorms in Himachal Pradesh till July 7. A yellow alert has been issued for plains and central mountainous parts of the state from July 1 to 5.
At a time when Chamba district received heavy rainfall on Thursday, a higher than the normal maximum temperature was recorded in four districts of the state -Sirmaur, Solan, Una, and Kangra. A record 42.2 degrees celsius temperature was recorded in Una on Thursday, which is 3 to 4 degrees more than normal.
The maximum temperature was more than 30 degrees in 12 cities of the state including Sundernagar, Bhuntar, Dharamsala, Una, Nahan, Palampur, Solan, Kangra, Mandi, Bilaspur, Hamirpur, Chamba.
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Lightning strikes kill around 2,000 people in India every year
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Eleven people have been killed by a lightning strike as they were taking pictures at a tourist attraction in northern India.
The victims were snapping selfies in the rain on the top of the 12th Century Amber Fort watchtower in Jaipur when they were hit by the devastating bolt on Sunday.
A senior police officer told local media that most of the group were young.
On Monday, officials confirmed that at least 38 people had been killed by lightning across two Indian states over the preceding 24 hours.
Along with the 11 watchtower victims, at least nine more people were killed and nearly 20 others were injured in separate strikes when the state of Rajasthan was lashed with thunderstorms and monsoon rains.
In Uttar Pradesh, 18 people were killed by lightning on Sunday, a government official confirmed. Most of those killed were farm laborers working in fields.
Both state governments announced financial compensation for the families of the victims and those who were injured.
The Indian Meteorological Department has warned of more lightning in the next two days.
Lightning strikes are common during India’s monsoon season, which runs from June to September.
More than 2,900 people were killed by lightning in India in 2019, according to the most recent official figures available.


Dalgety Bay Weather: As at 12:30 pm on 8th June 2020
Here is the weather for Monday
Temperature: A high of 13 °C and a low of 11 °C feels like 10 °C.
Sunny earlier today, but now cloudy until after lunch
In the afternoon the cloud continues with sunny intervals followed by more cloud and then showers mid-afternoon.
After the showers, there are clouds in the sky for an hour or two. This is followed by sunny intervals until tea time
From tea-time, the sunny intervals continue until the close of play.
Then for the evening, we have a cloudy sky until early Tuesday morning.
Wind: East South Easterly, (Easterly), Easterly, (Easterly), (Easterly)
Speed: 10, (9), 8, 11, (10), 9, 10, 9, 10, (9) mph
Gusts: 12, (11), 12, 11, 14, (13), 12, 15, (12) mph
Risks: Of frost on the ground tonight and overnight in country areas. An Easterly wind until early Tuesday morning will mean there is a risk of planes overhead fro Edinburgh airport.
That is it from me and have a magical Monday. The birds have been singing for their lunch and looking forward to golden seed pie covered with a sprinkling of fruit and nut.
Weather report broadly based on IFTTT and Met Office forecasts


Japanese authorities recommended this Sunday to more than 370,000 residents in southwest Japan to leave their homes due to torrential rain.
The rain front that has been affecting the southern half of the Japanese archipelago has caused particularly significant damage in Shimane prefecture, where 20 river overflows and 15 landslide incidents have been recorded.
Local authorities asked more than 370,000 people from two parts of the province to leave their homes and go to reception centres, in addition to recommending the suspension of regional and high-speed trains.
According to the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), more than 100 millimeters of precipitation were recorded in the region in the space of six hours.
Police and rescue services are looking for possible passengers in a vehicle that was swept away by a river, local media reported.
Weather conditions also disrupted high-speed trains between Hiroshima and Hakata stations in the southwest of the country, according to the operator.
The JMA warned of the risk of continuous flooding, landslides and other incidents related to the torrential rains forecast for all of Sunday in the west, southwest and center of the country.


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Cargo On The Move Through California: Evaluating Container Fee Impacts on Port Choice.
Publication Date: July 2006
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In many coastal areas, marine freight traffic contributes significantly to overall air pollution levels. This is particularly true in the vicinity of major marine ports in California, where active freight movement, including ocean-going vessels shipping consumer goods in large freight containers, has led to increases in ambient levels of particulate matter (PM), nitrogen oxides (NOx), and sulfur oxides (SOx).1-2 Additionally, elevated levels of these pollutants have been linked to significant local and regional health impacts such as asthma, heart disease and premature death.


Hurricane-battered New Yorkers are bracing for another violent storm that’s expected to hit tomorrow, as Mayor Bloomberg ordered parks, playgrounds and beaches closed.
The storm is moving up the Atlantic now, though forecasters are holding hope the system veers off the coast and misses New York.
Even so, it’s believed winds could reach 50 mph in New York and New Jersey tomorrow and Thursday.
All city parks, playgrounds and beaches will close from noon Wednesday to noon Thursday due to the storm.
The city’s department of buildings also order all construction work halted at noon tomorrow as well.
Mayor Bloomberg stopped short of calling for an evacuation of coastal areas — but urged those residents to be careful.
“So even though it’s not anywhere’s near as strong as Sandy…out of precaution and because of the changing physical circumstances we are going to going to some small areas and asked those people to go to higher ground,” Bloomberg said.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said Garden State residents who just got their power back might lose it again tomorrow because of this nor’easter. It could also slow other recovery efforts.
“[There’s] nothing we can do to stop the storms,” Christie said.
Coast surges from this oncoming nor’easter are expected to reach as high as three feet along the New Jersey and New York coasts, only about a third of the power of last week’s Hurricane Sandy.
If temperatures are cold enough, snow might even fall in northeastern New Jersey and the lower Hudson River Valley.
Central Massachusetts and western Connecticut also could get an inch or two of snow.
“There’s a feeling of foreboding and fear,” said Bruce Alco, 51, whose Rockaways home already is without power from last week’s Frankenstorm.
“No one thought the last storm was going to be as bad as this, and look what happened,” added Alco, an engineer.
“Even if [the new storm] is milder, it might do more damage because of the weakened infrastructure.”
It’s going to be a cold week in New York with temperatures only expected to top 40 degrees tomorrow 41 degrees Thursday — with the wind chill making it seem like a freezing 32 degrees or less, said Brian Edwards, a meteorologist with AccuWeather.
“When it rain, it pours,” said Gov. Cuomo. “When it storms, you get more storms.”
“The storm that they forecast is a serious storm. It would hit communities, some of which may not have power, some of which already have flooding, so it complicates the situation.”
The forecast was freaking out Hazel Ayala, 27, whose Rockaway Beach Boulevard home is without power and gas — and, therefore, without heat — leaving her, her boyfriend and her two kids freezing.
“I’m scared this is going to happen again,” Ayala said. “I only live three houses away from the water. I just want to leave from here.”
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1348-4483 - Cyclone Gafilo, Indian Ocean, In 2004, True Colour Satellite Image. Tropical Cyclone Gafilo over the Indian Ocean, Northwest of Madagascar, on 6 March 2004. True-colour satellite image using MODIS data.
1348-4514 - Mayotte, Africa, True Colour Satellite Image. Satellite view of Mayotte, an overseas collectivity of France, in the northern Mozambique Channel in the Indian Ocean. This image was compiled from data acquired by LANDSAT 5 & 7 satellites.


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