- Death Valley, California recorded a temperature of 130 degrees Fahrenheit on August 16, 2020 and again on June 17, 2021.
- Once the World Meteorological Organization verifies the reading, it will be the hottest global temperature reliably recorded.
- Death Valley is so hot thanks to a mix of geography, a lack of water, and blistering heat.
Summers can be hot in Death Valley, California. In fact, it is likely the hottest place on Earth. Especially on Sunday, August 16 and—again—on June 17, 2021. The mercury spiked to a sweltering 130 degrees Fahrenheit in the national park, drawing crowds of tourists who flocked to take pictures with the park’s digital thermometer.
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) confirmed the 130-degree temperature in 2020 as the hottest temperature ever reliably recorded. (At the very least, it will go down as the hottest temperature ever recorded in August.)
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“Reliably recorded” is the key phrase when it comes to the hottest place on Earth. On July 10, 1913, the mercury at Furnace Creek in Death Valley, California, spiked to 134 degrees Fahrenheit, according to the WMO. To this day, it is often cited as the highest temperature recorded on Earth, but is debated by some in the meteorological community. Some have argued that instruments at the time weren’t reliable enough to have accurately recorded such temperatures. (The WMO, for its part, is sticking to the story.)
A previous record of 136.4 degrees Fahrenheit, recorded in 1922 in El Azizia, Libya, was disqualified 90 years later, according to the Guinness Book of World Records. The organization noted that the record could have been off by as much as seven degrees due to the type of surface it was recorded on. (By the way, Dallol, Ethiopia, has been dubbed as the hottest regularly inhabited place on Earth.)
Why is Death Valley so hot?
Air temperatures often jump to around 120 degrees Fahrenheit, and that’s all thanks to geography, a lack of water, and blistering heat, according to the National Park Service. Less than two inches of rain falls in the valley on average each year, leaving the plants and animals that live there parched. The Sun’s rays bake the valley, which dips 282 feet below sea level and is surrounded by mountain ranges on all sides.
Here’s how Death Valley reaches these sweltering temperatures as the hottest place on Earth: Hot air in Death Valley rises and trapped by the surrounding mountain ranges. It cools and falls back into the valley, where it is compressed and heated by air pressure found at such low elevations. Death Valley may have the hottest recorded air temperature on Earth, but there are other hot spots on Earth.
Temperatures in the colorful geothermal pools at Yellowstone National Park, for instance, can spike to over 250 degrees Fahrenheit, according to the national park’s website. Hydrothermal vents at the bottom of the ocean spit out liquids that can reach temperatures of over 750 degrees Fahrenheit, according to National Geographic. Some organisms—extremophiles—have adapted to live life in these severe environments.
The temperature of Earth’s core is about 11,000 degrees Fahrenheit, according to Discover magazine. How exactly do scientists measure this? Earth has a solid iron inner core and a liquid iron outer core. The boundary between the two is expected to be the temperature at which pressurized iron melts. To estimate this number, scientists placed a tiny piece of iron between two diamond points, heated up the experiment and squeezed. To get the precise temperature, they measured how x-rays trained on the spec of iron were diffracted.
What about the hottest temperatures in the solar system? To find that, you’d have to travel all the way to the Sun’s core, which scientists estimate could tip the mercury at around 15 million Kelvin—that’s roughly 26 million degrees Fahrenheit. Looking for a planetary heat source? Jupiter’s core, according to researchers, can reach temperatures of around 30,000 Kelvin, or about 53,000 degrees Fahrenheit.
Surprisingly, the hottest temperature in the universe can be found a lot closer to home. Just outside of Geneva, Switzerland, scientists and engineers at the Large Hadron Collider have been smashing atoms together in a slew of incredible experiments. Temperatures inside these chambers have reached an astounding 7.2 trillion degrees Fahrenheit, according to Inside Science News Service. That’s hot!
Our planet is only getting warmer, and records are sure to break in the coming years. We’ll be keeping an eye on the mercury to see how high it jumps.


The National Weather Service issued Flash Flood Watch for Fairfax County and surrounding areas.
The watch was issued around noon and is in effect until 8 p.m. tonight (July 31).
More from NWS:
* Until 8 PM EDT this evening
* Showers and thunderstorms capable of producing very heavy
rainfall are expected across the area this afternoon and into
the evening. This heavy rain may lead to localized total
rainfall amounts of up to 3 inches. Much of this rain may fall
in short periods of time in any given location, resulting in the
risk for flash flooding.
Heavy rain up to 3 inches could pose a risk for flash flooding, according to NWS.
A Flash Flood Watch has been issued for areas along the I-95 corridor from Washington D.C northward through Maryland until 8 pm. Showers and thunderstorms capable of producing heavy rain may lead to localized areas of flash flooding. pic.twitter.com/YH3IWjo14R
— NWS DC/Baltimore (@NWS_BaltWash) July 31, 2019
The anticipated cost of renovating Patrick Henry Library has escalated in recent years, leading Fairfax County to seek a bigger contribution from the Town of Vienna.
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Meteorologist Ben Pringle joined the KAKE First Alert Weather team in March 1994.
Ben is designated as a Certified Broadcast Meteorologist™ by the American Meteorological Society®. Before being superseded by the CBM™, Ben was awarded the Television Seal of Approval from the American Meteorological Society®. Today, he also maintains the Television Seal of Approval from the National Weather Association.
He came to KAKE from Washington, North Carolina where he was the Chief Meteorologist for WITN-TV. Previously he was a weekend and morning meteorologist for KOTV in Tulsa, Oklahoma. His television weather career began in 1981, as a weekend and morning meteorologist for WIBW in Topeka.
A Kansas native, Ben is originally from Arkansas City, Kansas, and received his degree in meteorology from the University of Kansas.
In his free time, Ben is an avid tennis player and also enjoys the study of general science and astronomy. You might catch his band, Midlife Crisis, playing at a club near you. Additionally, he is a Technician Class Amateur “Ham” Radio operator, working with volunteer storm spotters.
Ben and his wife Kim have been married for over 30 years. They live in Wichita and have three children, Nolan, Hatti, and Jess.


Today will be our fourth straight day with high temperatures in the mid 90s, but the forecast will gradually trend in a less-hot direction over the next several days.
But, it will still be steamy today:Factoring in the humidity, the "feels-like" temperature will hover around 100 degrees this afternoon: Once again, we'll just see the slightest chance of a passing shower. A few blips on the HRRR model's radar simulation aren't anything to get excited about:
A better chance of spotty showers and storms enters the forecast tomorrow and Thursday -- it's still less than a 50-50 chance, but the North American Model's simulation from noon through midnight does show at least a chance for some atmospheric fireworks:Even if you don't get any rain in your neighborhood, the additional cloud cover will knock about 5 degrees off our temperatures: That just means it will be "normally hot" instead of "ridiculously hot". Any showers and storms that pop up should quiet down after sunset, so I'm optimistic that the weather won't mess with fireworks displays in the evening.
Temperatures will remain close to average Thursday and Friday, before the best chance of showers and storms heads our way Friday night and Saturday. The medium-range forecast data has been shifting around a little bit, but in a good way -- this morning's model runs indicated an increasing chance that a cold front will move ALL the way through central North Carolina. That would give us some relief from both the heat and humidity into early next week:Before you celebrate too much, a word of caution -- the weekend is still pretty far down the line in forecasting terms, so more changes could be in store. We'll keep you updated!
- While we'll catch a tiny break from the worst of the heat later this week, the rest of the country won't be quite so lucky.
- The updated Atlantic seasonal forecast from Colorado State University now calls for a below-average season with 11 named storms (including Alberto), 4 hurricanes, and 1 major hurricane.
- Over the weekend, Des Moines became the latest area to be hard hit by a siege of damaging flash floods since mid-May, all of which prompted emergency situations. The Washington Post's Capital Weather Gang put together a list.
- A few reasons why Americans are becoming more vulnerable to major disasters.
- Some good news: For only the second time on record, there were zero tornado-related fatalities in the U.S. in May and June.
- A five-ton tractor is "missing" in South Dakota following a tornado.
- Large fires are becoming more common and severe, and the smoke from these fires has serious public health impacts.
- Plenty of stuff to look at for amateur astronomers this month: an extra-long lunar eclipse, a dazzling meteor shower, and Mars will be at its closest to Earth in 15 years.
- Astronomers have traced the origin of 200,000 asteroids in our solar system to just a handful of obliterated parents.
- With the Very Large Telescope (yes, that's actually its name), astronomers have spotted a planet being born around a young star.
- The 7 most powerful fireworks shows in the Universe.
- Is an artificial tan safer than the real thing?
- Family speaks out after man released from jail following encounter with Raleigh police
- Raleigh police respond to shooting on Woodpecker Court
- Man, woman hospitalized with life-threatening injuries after shooting at Raleigh motel
- UNC historian calls Confederate monument movement 'a turning point in history'
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Sunday March 17 2019
Happy St. Patricks Day. Perhaps we can day the luck of the Irish brought us a sunny and dry weekend. Today will be chilly, but less wind will make it more tolerable if you head outside. Since it is March, there is no way the weather will remain the same, and we do have that little system Monday morning. This will arrive a little later and does not look like a big deal. If you want snow, this will be sparse.
Snow showers or flurries on Monday may be more likely after sunrise and through noon. See the timeline below. The temperatures will slowly moderate as we go through the week, and expect it to be mild when the next system arrives Thursday.
Local Weather Stats For March 17, 2019 in Baltimore
Average High: 54ºF
Record High: 85ºF in 1945
Average Low: 34ºF
Record Low: 10ºF in 1993
*Record Snow: = 5.0 in 1931
Sunrise: 7:15 AM
Sunset 7:15 PM
*Daylight = 2:36 longer than yesterday
*Bay Water Temperature = 43ºF at Thomas Pt. Light House
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Violent winds caused landslides and flooding and cut off roads in Comoros in the vanguard of tropical storm Kenneth, set to hit on Wednesday evening before heading to recently cyclone-ravaged Mozambique, officials said.
As the storm neared, schools were closed and inter-island hopper flight suspended.
Chief of the Comoros Centre for Relief and Civil Protection Centre (COSEP) Mouigni Daho said the arrival of the cyclone on the island was preceded by strong winds and floods.
There have been no reports of injuries.
Comoros Interior Minister Mohamed “Kiki” Daoudou urged citizens Wednesday to “stay calm and follow the instructions.”
After Comoros, Kenneth is expected to reach the far north of Mozambique late Thursday or early Friday, if it stays on its current course.
This comes a month after cyclone Idai ravaged the country and neighbouring Zimbabwe, claiming some 1 000 lives and causing about $2-billion in damage, according to the World Bank.
The Mozambique National Meteorology Institute (INAM) warned in a statement that the storm system was intensifying.
“The severe tropical storm has intensified in the past few hours into a Category Three tropical cyclone, and forecasts project that the cyclone could intensify to a Category Four on April 25,” it said.
Heavy rains and winds of up to 140 kilometres per hour would follow, it added.
Mozambique’s National Institute of Disaster Management (INGC) cautioned on Wednesday that 692 000 people could be affected.
The INGC said it would relocate rescue equipment, including boats and helicopters previously reserved in Sofala province for victims of Idai, to Cabo Delgado where Kenneth is expected.
“We have water, we have a generator, we are prepared. We’ve done everything we were told to,” said a hotel owner in the small town of Mucojo which is projected to be close to the eye of the cyclone.
“We’ve learned with Idai that it’s a good strategy to allocate the rescue means before the cyclone…” Augusto Maita, general director of INGC told AFP.
The province of Cabo Delgado, bordering Tanzania, is also dealing since 2017 with a wave of deadly violence attributed to a jihadist group that advocates the application of Islamic law.
Volunteers of the Red Cross and Red Crescent, who had assisted in cyclone Idai rescue efforts, said teams were already “on alert”.
“We are concerned about the impact that this storm could have across the three countries,” regional director for Africa for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFC), Dr Fatoumata Nafo-Traore said.
“We are especially concerned about its possible impact in Mozambique where communities are still recovering from the devastation of Cyclone Idai,” she said.
In Mozambique alone, Idai killed more than 600 people and affected 1.85 million, while over 340 died in Zimbabwe.
“Typically cyclones occur in the rainy season which is already over. This cyclone at the end of April is unusual,” Comoros environment ministry expert Youssouf Hamadi told AFP.
“It confirms the increasing intensity and frequency of cyclones in the Indian Ocean” — a phenomenon some blame on global warming.
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A ring of sunshine will blaze above parts of Africa on Thursday as the moon glides between the sun and Earth. The solar spectacle is called an annular eclipse, and sometimes referred to as a “ring of fire” eclipse.
Unlike its better-known relative the total solar eclipse, an annular eclipse occurs when the moon does not completely blot out the sun. For viewers on the ground, instead of witnessing a white halo they will see red slivers of sunlight shining around the moon’s dark silhouette.
“If they look up with protective eyewear they are going to see this strange ring in the sky, more spectacularly they will see these circular shadows,” said C. Alex Young, a solar astrophysicist from NASA. “It’s a cool event, the shadows are kind of eerie.”


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‘Ursula’ now a typhoon, Signal #3 hoisted over Eastern Visayas
Marje Pelayo • December 24, 2019 • 370
MANILA, Philippines – The weather disturbance located east of the country has developed into a typhoon, state weather service PAGASA said Tuesday afternoon (December 24).
As of 1:00 PM, the eye of Typhoon Ursula (International name Phanfone) was spotted at 95 kilometers East of Guiuan, Eastern Samar, moving westward at 20 kph with maximum winds of 120 kph and gustiness of up to 150 kph.
‘Ursula’ is forecast to bring occasional to frequent heavy rains over Dinagat Islands, Siargao and Bucas Grande Islands, Eastern Visayas, Sorsogon, Masbate, northern and central Cebu, northern Negros Provinces, Aklan, Antique, Capiz, Iloilo, Guimaras and Romblon between this afternoon until tomorrow morning.
Light to moderate with intermittent heavy rains, meanwhile, will prevail over the rest of Bicol Region, Quezon, Marinduque, Oriental Mindoro, and the rest of the Visayas and Surigao del Norte.
PAGASA has raised tropical cyclone wind signal #3 over several areas in the Visayas where winds of greater than 121 kph up to 170 kph may be expected in at least 18 hours:
and Camotes Islands
Meanwhile, the following areas remain under TCWS #2 due to Typhoon Ursula:
Southern portion of Quezon
Occidental Mindoro including Lubang Island
Masbate including Burias and Ticao Islands
Extreme northern Cebu including Bantayan
Southern Leyte and extreme Northern Negros Occidental
These areas may expect winds of greater than 61 kph and up to 120 kph in at least 24 hours.
TWCS #1 or winds of 30-60 kph in at least 36 hours or intermittent rains within 36 hours may be expected over the following areas:
MANILA, Philippines – State weather agency PAGASA is monitoring a low-pressure area (LPA) near the southern island of Mindanao.
As of 4:00 a.m. Thursday (February 6), the weather system was located at 705 k.m. east of Davao City.
The trough of the LPA is currently bringing cloudy skies with scattered rainshowers and thunderstorms in areas of Visayas, CARAGA, Northern Mindanao and the entire Davao Region.
Meanwhile, the Northeast Monsoon (Amihan) is seen affecting Luzon particularly Cagayan Valley, Cordillera Administrative Region, Bicol Region, Aurora, and Quezon where cloudy skies with light rains can be observed.
Partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rainshowers will prevail over Metro Manila and the rest of Luzon due to Amihan.
Similar conditions will also be experienced in other areas of Mindanao due to localized thunderstorms.
MANILA, Philippines – Authorities are still looking for Alvin Bantugan, a crew of F/B Gemver 1, more than a week after the onset of Typhoon Ursula in Occidental Mindoro.
According to his wife Hazel, he was looking after their motor banca when large waves came ashore and washed him away along with the sea vessel.
“Kalmang kalma iyon, tapos biglang dalawang bugso (The sea was calm that day. Suddenly, the waves went wild),” she said.
“Doon po siya naanod, sa unahan daw po siya ng bangkang GemVer 1. Bigla na lang po iyong tumaob. Bukod tangi po siyang hindi nakikita sa mga tauhan, (That’s when he was washed away. The motor banca turned upside down over him. He was the only one left missing),” she added.
Aside from his missing husband, Hazel is also worried because no one would help her repair the damages caused by the typhoon to their house.
“Sana po matulungan ni Mayor kami na makita ang aking asawa, (I pray that our Mayor can help us search for my husband),” she asked.
“At matulungan niya ako dahil sira pa rin po ang aking bahay (I also ask for help in the repair my house,)” she added.
F/B Gemver 1 was the same sea vessel involved in the controversial maritime incident with a Chinese vessel in West Philippine Sea last year.
It took five months to repair the vessel’s damage before it was able to venture out again at sea. – MNP (with reports from Von San Pedro)
MANILA, Philippines – The death toll from Typhoon Ursula has climbed to 47 while 9 others remain missing.
Meanwhile, a total of 143 individuals were injured, according to authorities.
Based on the latest data gathered by the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC), more than a million families (1.979M) were affected by the weather system.
Also, a total of 27, 263 families remain in evacuation centers.
Typhoon Ursula has left more than one billion pesos-worth of damage to agriculture and infrastructure.
Because of the extent of damage, 10 municipalities are now under a state of calamity, specifically the town of San Jose in Occidental Mindoro; Kalibo in Aklan; Libertad in Antique; Sigma in Capiz; Carles and Concepcion in Iloilo.
Also, under a state of calamity are the cities of Madridejos in Cebu; Borongan in Eastern Samar; Tacloban City in Leyte; and Daram in Samar.
Meanwhile, the government is currently working on providing the needs of those affected by the typhoon. MNP (with details from Vincent Arboleda)
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You know hurricanes are powerful, but there's much more to the story. See how hurricanes form, when they are most active, exciting facts about hurricanes and how a hurricane's projected path might affect you.
Forecasters at NOAA anticipate an above-average hurricane season with 18 named storms, with 9 of these becoming hurricanes, including 4 major hurricanes reaching category 3, 4, or 5. With improvements and advancements to NOAA’s modeling, they can deliver this forecast with a 70% confidence rating.1
Hurricane risk extends beyond the storm itself. Lower-lying areas can be affected by storm surge and flooding, and rain and wind damage can extend well inland. In 2017, for example, Hurricane Irma brought 140mph gusts and storm surge ten feet above ground level to parts of Florida, and virtually all of the state felt its effects. By the time it was over, Irma had done more than $50 billion in damage.3, 4
Click the maps to view the relative risk of damage from tropical cyclones along the U.S. Atlantic and Gulf coasts.5
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Objective: A secular trend towards increased current and lifetime asthma prevalence has been observed in the US. The current study compared ambient Air Quality Index (AQI) data and asthma prevalence data from all fifty US states.
Methods: Air pollution is measured as AQI by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). County level AQI data are available at the EPA website. Asthma prevalence data for each state are available on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website. Data from 50 US states (2011-2013) were analyzed for AQI and asthma prevalence. The average of proportions for all counties in each state was used to obtain a mean value for good air quality days (“Good Days”) in each year. An Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) was conducted to evaluate if 1) asthma prevalence and 2) AQI differences across 2011, 2012 and 2013. A regression analysis was conducted to assess the association between AQI and asthma prevalence.
Results: The analysis showed a reduction in air pollution from 2011 to 2013. The ANOVA revealed that this decrease in AQI was significant, F (2, 147) = 5.7678, p = 0.0039. While an increase in asthma prevalence was observed from 2011 to 2013,the ANOVA revealed that the increased asthma prevalence was not significant, F (2, 147) = 0.2794, p = 0.7566. Regression analysis showed no significant association between AQI and asthma prevalence (p>0.05).
Conclusion: US Asthma prevalence did not change significantly despite significant AQI reduction from 2011 to 2013; AQI was not related to asthma prevalence.
Nagar, G. A. (2016). Is the Breeze Making you Wheeze? Air Quality and Asthma in the US. Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio.


Welcome to our essential afternoon round-up, featuring latest news and regional traffic and weather information plus a picture of the day.
Today’s picture shows a wintry scene with a house surrounded by snow-covered trees in Mold, North Wales, after snowfall throughout today when the Arctic blast returned to Britain.
Among other headlines today, Matt Smith is reportedly set to exit Doctor Who at Christmas and Post Office staff are set to go on strike at Easter .
Harsh weather is thought to have claimed its first victim, as forecasters warned this month could be the coldest March in 50 years. Details of local weather are below.
There is heavy traffic on the M6 northbound between junctions 4A and 6, due to the build-up of cars entering a zone of roadworks. The congestion was made worse by a broken-down vehicle earlier today but no incidents are reported at present.
Slight delays are reported on the M6 southbound between junction 1 at Rugby and the M1 Catthorpe Interchange.
Traffic is moving slowly on the M5 southbound between junction 3 and 4 because of congestion caused by a broken-down car transporter.
All lanes on the M5 southbound between junction 1 and 2 have now been reopened following a five-car accident earlier.
The Met Office forecasts heavy snow in the Birmingham area this evening, with temperatures at 0C (feeling like -5C due to bitterly cold winds). The snow will continue through the night.
Lighter snowfalls are forecast throughout Saturday, with 0C to -1C temperatures feeling more like -8C.
There will be more snow on Sunday, with -3C temperatures feeling more like -10C at times. The snow will ease off by Sunday lunchtime, leaving cloudy skies for the rest of the day and into Monday.


Airline passengers are in for a bumpy ride
A warning for passengers on transatlantic flights: remain seated and buckle up because flights have become increasingly bumpy over the past 40 years and are likely to continue doing so.
Clear-air turbulence, an invisible atmospheric phenomenon at cruising altitudes, is to blame. Thousands of aircraft each year encounter this violent form of turbulence, which can be so severe that passengers are hurled out of their seats; hundreds of airline staff are hurt. The financial cost of delays, damage and injuries is estimated to be $1 billion.
The phenomenon is created by winds in the jet stream rapidly changing direction or speed at different heights. This is called wind shear, and University of Reading researchers have found that this has increased by 15 per cent over


It’s been many years since we have had a Tropical Storm or a Florida hurricane!
Right now…Saturday about 6:30 PM CST, the weather from 30A to Destin, FL is sunny and about 85. Tropical Storm Isaac will be heading our way and remains to be seen as to where it will make landfall.
My husband stated on Facebook “The rest of the country can keep their no warning tornados, floods and wild fires. I’ll take a hurricane with a week+ of time to prepare and then get out of its way. It’s a small price to pay to live in paradise”.


The National Weather Service in Jackson, KY confirms a weak tornado touched down in Harlan County Tuesday night.
It's the first time there's been a confirmed tornado in Harlan County since weather events have been recorded.
Officials say the twister touched down and caused damage along route 72 between Harlan and Teetersville.
The storm also damaged the roof over the Harlan ARH Emergency Room and blew apart a dugout on the baseball field at Cawood High School.
Another tornado has been confirmed in Laurel County.
Weather service officials say straight line winds, not a tornado, caused damage in Clay and Knox Counties.
About 1,200 Kentucky Utilities customers in areas around Somerset, London, Pineville, Middlesboro and Harlan were still in the dark this afternoon.
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Researchers discover that the arrangement of cities’ streets and buildings affect how much heat they trap.
Yuen Yiu, Staff Writer
Behind the scenes of forecasting winter weather at the Olympics
Emilie Lorditch, Staff Writer
Considering humidity as well as temperature emphasizes humanity's impact on the climate.
Nala Rogers, Staff Writer
The science and technology of taking pictures of tiny snowflakes in the early 1900s.
Tornadoes and flash floods can happen at the same time, but safety instructions for each one is the opposite.
How the role of social media can save lives.
A former storm chaser recounts being in the path of a tornado.
A new study shows that predicting temperature and precipitation trends three to four weeks in advance is possible.
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Estimating a city's solar potential based on its road network is comparable to more complex computer simulations, researchers find.
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On June 27, a minor meteor shower will grace the midnight sky, the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said.
Bootids, a shower derived from the debris ejected by comet 7P/Pons-Winnecke, will peak predawn of June 27, the PAGASA said in its astronomical diary.
Normally, the shower is active from June 26 to July 2.
Scientist William Frederick Denning once described Bootid shower as large meteors which came in quick succession from Botes and Draco constellations. (Bootids are) moderately slow, white with yellowish trains, and paths rather short in the majority of cases.
Several of the meteors burst or acquired a great intensification of light near the termination of their flights, and gave flashes like distant lightning, he said.
Astronomy fanatics, which has been a growing community in the Philippines, can view up to a dozen shooting stars under clear sky.
An outburst in 2004 surprised everyone by producing meteors on June 23 before any previous historical Bootid activity.
The radiant of the shower will originate from the constellation Bootes, the herdsman, which lies nearly overhead, the Pagasa said.
Meanwhile, summer solstice, the time when day is noticeably longer than night occurs 7:59 a.m.(


Hurricane Sandy turned 'Frankenstorm' may be headed for Connecticut next week (interactive map, video)
State and local officials are urging residents to prepare for what may be a monster storm, currently making its way toward Connecticut's coastline.
Hurricane Sandy has been called a "Frankenstorm" by the National Weather Service, due to an "unusual merger" of meteorological forces. As of Thursday evening the Category 2 hurricane was in the Bahamas, north of Cuba, but is expected to merge with a polar cold front to create a "hybrid vortex" and some uncertainty.
"Once the combined gyre materializes, it should settle back to the interior Northeast through Halloween, inviting perhaps a ghoulish nickname for the cyclone along the lines of 'Frankenstorm,' an allusion to Mary Shelley's Gothic creature of synthesized elements," the National Weather Service wrote in its forecast.
Add to that a full moon high tide Monday evening, which will cause the water level to rise about a foot, even without high wind and rain.
Expected to make landfall near the Connecticut coastline at about 2 p.m. Tuesday, the National Weather Service said residents can expect to "feel the impacts of a dangerous coastal storm late this weekend into early next week." High winds, "widespread" downing of trees, "significant" flooding and other damage can be anticipated.
Quincy Vagell, a meteorologist with Storm Team 8 at WTNH, said where the storm will strike land is a "coin flip." The latest models, he said, show landfall somewhere between New Jersey and Rhode Island.
If the eye bears down on New Jersey, Vagell said winds could whip waves in Long Island Sound as high as 30 feet.
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Most hurricanes, Vagell said, like last year's Tropical Storm Irene, hug the coast and lose strength. Sandy is following an unusual route, remaining over water and gaining power as a result.
"I don't think a storm has come in from that direction since the '50s," he said. "Depending on where it makes landfall, it could be worse than Irene."
"We will prepare for the absolute worst and hope for the best," Rick Fontana, New Haven's deputy director of Emergency Management Operations, said during a phone interview Thursday night. "I can only look at what the scientists are saying, and I take it all pretty serious. There is some significance to this storm."
Fontana said the odd combination of tropical hurricane and polar cold front, not seen, he said, since 1991, is creating some level of uncertainty. He's looking forward to the possibility of rain, hail or even snow.
"I'm not a doom and gloom kind of guy," Fontana said. "But we have to take this serious."
Fontana echoed the sentiments of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, who said in a statement Thursday that residents should begin preparing now.
"Just as the state is monitoring and preparing, the public should do the same," Malloy said. "Some models predict that Sandy may move onshore somewhere in New England early next week. Although we are not certain the storm will impact the state, we need to be prepared. That means everyone, especially the state's utility companies."
Fontana spent Thursday making sure communication lines were open in New Haven, and that equipment was prepped and ready. Officials in other towns were doing the same.
East Haven Fire Chief and Emergency Management Director Douglas Jackson said the fire department has started getting all their equipment ready whether it's for rescues, clearing trees or pumping out water. Jackson said he's been in communication with the state and other officials to get as ready as they can.
Thursday, Jackson said he and others were down in the area of Cosey Beach Avenue, where homes are still missing or in the process of being rebuilt after Tropical Storm Irene ravaged the area over a year ago.
"It's still unsure what we're going to get, if we're going to get really nailed in a storm worse than Irene last year, it's not known for sure yet," he said.
In New Haven, Fontana said officials learned from last year's lessons, when Irene and a freak October snowstorm caused widespread power outages across the state. Since then, Malloy put together a two-storm panel, tasked with improving the state's emergency responses. It helped, according to Fontana.
"Based on the models and the tracking, it could replicate what Irene did," he said. "The planning process and response process is going to be better than last year.


FAIRFIELD COUNTY, Conn. -- Any lingering clouds will clear from Fairfield County on Friday, paving the way for a warm and sunny weekend, according to the National Weather Service.
Temperatures will climb into the high 70s on Friday with a northwest wind of about 14 mph.
Saturday will be mostly sunny with a high near 81. Temperatures will drop into the low 60s during the evening hours.
Sunday will be more of the same, with mostly sunny skies a high of 79 before cooling into the 60s after sundown.
Showers and thunderstorms could roll into the area to start the week on Monday.
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What A Way To End January - 81ºF Today.
Reported High Temperatures Today. Local Personal Weather Stations (PWS) High Temps. (Unofficial Temperatures). Whitney Farms Southeast Of Roswell. Cottonwood Northwest Of Artesia. Alfadale Farms In Atoka - South Of Artesia. Carlsbad. Hobbs. Nothing like going out of January into February with afternoon highs topping out at 81ºF today. The Artesia Airport checked in with a high of 81ºF , the Carlsbad Airport 80ºF , and the Roswell Airport 78ºF . Which incidentally put us some 20-degrees above normal for the date. Relatively Mild The Next 7-10 Days. Weather In History - January 31st. The Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction!


PORT ARANSAS, Texas -- Along the Texas coast Thursday night, people are boarding up, piling sandbags around homes and businesses, and leaving store shelves empty as they stock up on food and water.
It's all in preparation for-- expected to make landfall as a and cause potentially catastrophic damage.
Some towns, like Port Aransas, issued mandatory evacuations. Others, like Corpus Christi, have only called for voluntary evacuations.
"We are recommending in the strongest terms, if you live in the low lying areas to get out and get out now," Corpus Christi Mayor Joe McComb said.
Dionysia Cervantes and Harold Page are doing just that, leaving their new home on Padre Island with only their safe and some artwork.
Page told CBS News he is feeling "real stressed. Extremely stressed. We just bought the house." They have only lived in their home for 30 days.
"It's kind of sad. 'Cause we don't know what's going to happen. We don't know if we're gonna come back to a home or what damage we're coming home to," Cervantes said.
The last hurricane to hit Texas was Ike in 2008. It packed winds above 140 miles per hour and killed 113 people in the U.S.
But powerful winds aren't the only danger. Storm surge -- water pushed onshore by the force of the winds -- is the greatest threat to life, responsible for nearly half of hurricane fatalities, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
For the first time, the National Weather Service issued an official storm surge warning, covering most of the Texas coastline. Surge levels could rise up to 12 feet north of Padre Island.
That still wasn't enough to get Amy Watson to evacuate and leave the restaurant she manages.
"I don't want looters to come in after it hits and all that. So, I just want to stay around and keep an eye on everything," Watson said.
Is there anything anyone could tell her to change her mind? "Probably not," she said.
To the east of Port Aransas, Louisiana is also under a declared state of emergency, and that could meanfor New Orleans. Two weeks ago, when several pumps failed. New Orleans is bracing to be inundated with several inches of rain.
CBS Dallas/Fort Worth meteorologist Scott Padgett told CBS News that Harvey has sustained winds of 85 mph and as of Tuesday, was located 305 miles southeast of Corpus Christi.
"It definitely is looking like a major hurricane is on the way," Padgett said.
With plenty of warm water and open water to strengthen it, Harvey will make landfall late Friday night or early Saturday morning as a Category 3 storm. By late Saturday afternoon, Harvey will weaken and slow down and will make its way back to the coastline as a Category 2, Padgett said.
As it moves its way toward the Southeast and possibly out on the open water, Harvey could possibly restrengthen going into Tuesday, Padgett said.
The storm surge could hit up to 6-10 feet in some areas, but the big concern is the flooding. Some areas could have as much as 25-30 inches of rain. The rain will spread its way into parts of Louisiana as the track of Harvey starts to move its way northeast. As of Thursday, New Orleans is facing 4 inches of rain, but that number could go up, Padgett said.


The first significant snowfall of the year fell on Shimla’s neighbouring tourist destinations, created a magnificent scene. He said chances of another spell of snow in the state would continue till Thursday due to western disturbances.
Snow has fallen for the first time this season, turning Udhampur’s Basantgarh Valley into a winter wonderland. New snowfall has also covered Mahore in the Reasi area and Gulmarg, resulting in tranquil, white landscapes on Thursday. With the first light snowfall of the season, Srinagar, the capital of Jammu and Kashmir, is blanketed in snow and has a beautiful winter backdrop. According to Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, the Baramulla-Banihal train service in Jammu and Kashmir continues despite persistently heavy snowfall, demonstrating the railway ministry’s steadfast determination. The tribal areas of Kasol experienced the first heavy snowfall of the year, resulting in the closure of 134 roads, including four national highways.
While rain battered the plains in Jammu and Kashmir, several higher altitudes, particularly those along the Zojila axis on the Srinagar-Leh route, saw new snowfall.
Snowfall has begun at two more beautiful tourist destinations: Dalhousie in Chamba district and Manali in Kullu district. This is the first snowfall of the season in these locations.
After Tuesday night’s severe snowfall, some 300 visitors were reportedly rescued by police from the vicinity of the Atal Tunnel, a highway tunnel beneath the Rohtang Pass in the eastern Pir Panjal range of the Himalayas in upper Manali. There was one HRTC bus and maybe fifty cars carrying the tourists.
“High-altitude areas of Lahaul and Spiti, Chamba, Mandi, Kullu, Kinnaur, Sirmaur and Shimla districts have been experiencing moderate snow,” said the official. Lower areas of the state including Dharamsala, Shimla, Solan, Nahan and Mandi received mild to moderate rain, bringing the temperature down considerably. Farmers and hotel owners in the area are happy because of the snow and rain.
Tourism industry representatives are also happy after the snow in Shimla’s nearby areas and in Manali.
“We are hopeful that the good spell of snow will attract the tourists,” said an elated hotelier in Manali. First-time visitors are encouraging people to take in the singular experience and see the “heavenly” grandeur of nature in the Himalayas, mesmerised by the captivating snowfall. Kufri has grown to be a popular destination for travellers drawn by the enchanted charm of newly fallen snow. The now is attracting many youngsters who are headed to the hills to experience the beauty of the fresh snowfall.
Different parts of the world have seen different temperatures over the last twenty-four hours. Notably, the lowest recorded temperatures were minus 2.8 degrees Celsius at Kukumseri in Lahaul-Spiti, minus 1.2 degrees Celsius at Kalpa in Kinnaur, and 0.17 degrees Celsius at Reckong Peo in Kinnaur. Different minimum temperatures were also recorded in other areas, including as Dalhousie, Dharamshala, Shimla, Manali, Kufri, Bhunter, Solan, and Narkanda.
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More than 92,000 customers were left without power in Texas early Friday after the state was likely hit by tornadoes and a powerful storm system moving eastward.
The outage tracker showed 92,948 residents and businesses without power in the Lone Star State.
The severe weather forced residents in northern and central areas to take cover.
The National Weather Service warned of damaging winds with gusts over 70 miles per hour and large hail – in addition to issuing tornado and severe thunderstorm warnings.
TEXAS, LOUISIANA SLAMMED BY HURRICANE-FORCE WINDS, TORNADOES
In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, teams from the agency planned to survey areas for likely tornado damage in the storm’s path.
In Louisiana, a possible tornado reportedly touched down near Louisiana State University in Shreveport.
There were more than 11,800 customers without power in the Gulf Coast state on Friday.
FLIGHTS INTO, OUT OF TEXAS CANCELED WITH STORMS APPROACHING
The storms also impacted travel, overturning four 18-wheelers – with authorities reporting only minor injuries – allowing U.S. Highway 75 in Texas and leading to the cancelations of hundreds of flights into and out of the Dallas area.
Tracker FlightAware.com showed 36 cancelations at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport on Friday.
Some Dallas-Fort Worth area school districts canceled after-school activities due to the forecast and the suburb of Richardson asked residents to stop using water after the storm knocked out power to pumping stations.
“Water is currently in city water storage facilities, but will run out if all customers do not immediately cease use of water, except for emergency needs only,” Richardson officials said in a statement.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Today is a three-layer-of-clothing day with a high of 15 and an overnight low of 6 degrees.
We may have cloud and some showers however these will be interspersed by fine spells.
This day in 1996 New Zealand’s first wind farm became operational and going back further in NZ history, in 1823 the first NZ Wesleyan mission was established on this day.
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Have a great day today and keep warm tonight.


Fiji: Sugarcane crushing activities in Fiji’s three sugar mills have been affected due to wet weather. Graham Clark, FSC Chief Executive, stated that the mills are not able to crush fully to their capacity due to incessant rainfall in the region.
According to the local media report, he said, “Due to wet weather, we are not able to procure the cane from the fields and are facing difficulties in crushing with full capacity. We are expecting the weather to clear so we can continue to buildup cane and crush.”
“Heavy rainfall has created problems for us in procuring and continuing harvesting activity. Everything was favourable this year but the rainfall created a problem now.” said a farmer from the Northern Division.
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Every weather event is a learning experience for active weather bloggers. While there are many who track weather models only to see when & where will it rain, a majority stay back at this level without trying to graduate to the hows & whys leading to disappointments many a time when the rains eventually dont turn up as expected by weather models.
But some decide to take the “Road less taken” in terms of trying to understand the “Hows & Whys” in their quest to learn. Those who become detached to rains but purely look at each weather event as a learning experience are those who have possibly reached Zen state. They hold no disappointment of missing rains but possibly feel happy when they locate the answers they search for among weather model behavior.
Off season is the best time to make this journey towards learning as it provides for slow paced activities which show up sometimes well in advance in weather models allowing us to track & observe the trends for possible changes and learn through the exercise.


Virginia Beach is located along the Atlantic Ocean straddling the two largest estuaries in the world, the Chesapeake Bay and the Albemarle-Pamlico Sounds.
Virginia Beach offers a moderate climate and geographic location without climatic extremes but with four distinct seasons. Based on data from the Virginia Beach/Norfolk International Airport, the National Climatic Data Center reports, the winters are usually mild, while the autumn and spring season usually are delightful. Summers, though warm and long, frequently are tempered by cool periods, often associated with northeasterly winds off the Atlantic. Winters pass on occasion without a measurable amount of snowfall. The geographic location...with respect to the principal storm tracks is especially favorable, being south of the average path of storms...and north of the usual tracks of hurricane and other tropical storms."
2015 Annual Averages
Snowfall - 2.0 inches Rainfall - 42.2 inches
2017 Monthly Temperature Averages
On average, July is the hottest month in Virginia Beach, while January is the coldest.
Average 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
|January||51° F||44° F||36° F||0.62 in.|
|February||60° F||49° F||38° F||5.29 in|
|March||57° F||48° F||39° F||4.49 in.|
|April||73° F||64° F||55° F||2.52 in.|
|May||74° F||66° F||58° F|
|June||84° F||75° F||66° F||3.28 in.|
|July||88° F||80° F||72° F||5.46 in.|
|August||84° F||76° F||70° F||7.97in.|
|September||79° F||72° F||65° F||2.8 in.|
|October||74° F||65° F||56° F||3.83 in.|
|November||61° F||52° F||43° F||1.07 in.|
|December||50° F||42° F||33° F||2.37 in.|


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Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano is assuring Oklahoma’s governor that the Obama administration will provide all possible help to the state after a massive tornado tore through the Oklahoma City suburbs.
Federal weather forecasts for Superstorm Sandy were exceptionally accurate last fall, but the warnings themselves were confusing, an internal review found.
The National Weather Service has issued a Tornado Watch that is in effect through much of the D.C. Metro area until 10 p.m.
Spring is just days away but winter made one last statement Monday morning.
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Just when it seemed the D.C. area was getting ready to say hello to spring, it appears winter isn’t ready to say good bye just yet.


MANILA (AFP) - Millions of people in the Philippine capital hunkered down on Monday as a major storm churned towards the megacity, after killing several people and destroying thousands of homes on remote islands.
However Hagupit weakened from a typhoon as it moved slowly across the central Philippines, fuelling cautious optimism that the disaster-weary South-east Asian nation may avoid another calamity involving hundreds of deaths.
In Metro Manila, a sprawling coastal megapolis of 12 million people that regularly endures deadly flooding, well-drilled evacuation efforts went into full swing as forecasters warned of heavy rain from dusk.
"We are on 24-hour alert for floods and storm surges... it's the flooding that we are worried about," Joseph Estrada, mayor of Manila, the original city of two million within Metro Manila, told AFP.
Thousands of people, mostly the city's poorest residents who live in shanty homes along the coast and riverbanks, crammed into schools and other government evacuation centres across the megacity on Monday.
Schools were also suspended, the stock market was closed, many office and government workers were told to stay at home, and dozens of commercial flights were cancelled.
- Prepared -
The preparations were part of a massive effort led by President Benigno Aquino to ensure minimum deaths, after 7,350 people died when Super Typhoon Haiyan devastated large parts of the central Philippines in November last year.
Millions of people in communities that were directly in the path of Hagupit over the weekend were sent into evacuation centres or ordered to remain in their homes.
The storm, the strongest to hit the Philippines this year with wind gusts of 210 kilometres an hour when it made landfall, caused massive destruction in remote farming and fishing towns.
Thousands of homes were destroyed, power lines were torn down, landslides choked roads, and flood waters up to one-storey high flowed through some towns.
Despite the damage, the government had by Monday morning confirmed just two deaths and there was widespread optimism that the intense focus on evacuations had saved many lives.
"All reports from affected areas have yet to come but we remain hopeful that more people have been spared," presidential spokesman Abigail Valte told AFP.
"The common factor between them is that preemptive evacuation was carried out and warnings by authorities were taken seriously."
In Tacloban, a city of 220,000 people that was one of the worst-hit during Haiyan, authorities said there were no casualties over the weekend despite fierce winds that destroyed homes.
"There is a collective sigh of relief... we were better prepared after Yolanda," Tacloban vice mayor Jerry Yaokasin told AFP on Sunday, referring to Haiyan by its Philippine name.
However just as crucially, Hagupit's winds were significantly weaker than Haiyan, which was the strongest storm ever recorded on land. There was also no repeat of Haiyan's tsunami-like storm surges.
Hagupit's sustained winds dropped to 140 kilometres an hour on Sunday, then continued to weaken after leaving the eastern Philippine islands and passing over the Sibuyan Sea south-east of Manila.
Its winds were down to 110 kilometres an hour on Monday morning and were expected to weaken further as it passed just south of the capital in the evening, according to local weather agency Pagasa.
However, Pagasa said the winds were still capable of doing major damage to homes, and heavy rains were expected within Hagupit's 450-kilometre-wide weather front.
- Climate change -
The Philippines endures about 20 major storms a year, many of them deadly.
But scientists say the storms are becoming more violent and unpredictable because of climate change.
Greenpeace International director Kumi Naidoo called on United Nations negotiators currently meeting in Peru to take note of Hagupit and act with more urgency to hammer out a world pact on global warming.
"Nature does not negotiate. We actually have to wake up and smell the coffee," Naidoo, who is in the Philippines to "bear witness" to Hagupit, told AFP.
"We need to understand that we are running out of time."


Well, this is going to be a short post - no pics even.
Just to let you all know, we are still alive and well. Things are going slowly now with the shop. I'm having to reorganize the garage at the same time and shuffle stuff around. The good news is that all the woodworking tools are now in the new woodshop.
Bad news....if y'all have been watching the news lately, my part of the world has been coming under attack by horrendous thunderstorms and straight line wind, not to mention close calls with tornados.
I have spent most of my days cleaning tree branches & limbs, and various other debris out of the yard as well as help a few others who have had trees come down.
I am a weather spotter for the city, as well as CERT trained, and have just received the following bulletin from our city's police chief:
The National Weather Service warns of a possible tornado outbreak in the Great Plains tomorrow with conditions similar to a deadly day in 1974 when 39 tornadoes touched down.
Computer forecasting models resemble those on June 8, 1974, when more than three dozen tornadoes touched down in the southern Plains and killed 22 people, including six in Emporia .
NWS meteorologist Robb Lawson said, "this event warrants more advance warning."
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Storm Prediction Center has been warning for days of the outbreak.
Mike Smith is CEO of WeatherData, a subsidiary of AccuWeather. He said some forecasters are predicting the tornadoes could hit a corridor stretching from northern Oklahoma to central Iowa . That area would include much of Kansas and northwest Missouri .
Smith said, "If you take April dynamics and June thermodynamics, you have a potentially disastrous combination."
In all my years of living in Kansas I have yet to see a warning come out this early for this type of storm. Come to think of it, I can't remember every having a year as full of tornados, high winds, and hail like we have had this year. It is being called "the Perfect Storm" for tornado season.
I don't know what it worse, going through it or waiting for it to happen.
Hopefully I will be able to post by this time Friday to let you all know what has happened.
Till next time...
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The storms on Wednesday brought an end to the exceptionally high temperatures for May - up to 37.5C last Sunday. On Thursday and Friday, highs were more in keeping for the time of the year; a maximum of 26.4 on Friday. But on Saturday, much of Mallorca experienced temperatures over 30 degrees, which are above average.
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Optimistic but nevertheless a record breaker
Thursday's high was actually 51 degrees, according to National Weather Service meteorologist John Hoppes. "For Park Rapids we only have records for about the last five or ten years so it wouldn't take much to break a record," he said. "The high was 51 degrees at 3:06 in the afternoon.
A lot of those (bank temperature gauges) put their sensors by the concrete so when the sun hits it they get a little high," Hoppes said. And yes, we will pay for the balmy temperatures. "Our climate guy, the best he can see is toward the end of the month, we'll kind of go back to normal or a little below normal," Hoppes said. "We don't store that many records for Park Rapids, but quite a few sites set a record, Fargo, here at the office, in Grand Forks. The records are mostly in the lower 40s so you can be reasonably safe to say you broke a record."


The National Weather Service is now warning that Michael is a "potentially catastrophic" weather event, which could result in "the strongest hurricane to landfall" upon Florida's Panhandle in over a decade.
A hurricane warning has been issued for the Alabama-Florida border to the Suwannee River, and a hurricane watch is in effect from the Alabama-Florida border to the Mississippi-Alabama border. The storm is moving north at 12 miles per hour.
Parts of Florida's marshy, lightly populated Big Bend area could see up to 12 feet (3.7 meters) of storm surge, while Michael also could dump up to a foot (30 centimeters) of rain over some Panhandle communities as it moves inland, forecasters said.
But Michael will be a strong storm when it makes landfall in and around Florida.
"Let me be clear, Hurricane Michael is a monstrous storm", Florida Gov. Rick Scott said during a media conference Tuesday morning. "The time to prepare is now". Forecasters also warned spinoff tornadoes would also be a threat.
People in areas that could be affected should take no chances against such a powerful surge, Scott said, adding, "No one's going to survive", such a wall of water.
"The center of Michael will continue to move over the southern Gulf of Mexico this morning, then move across the eastern Gulf of Mexico later today and tonight", said the agency's 5 a.m. ET update.More news: Microsoft puts Windows 10 update on hold after file deletion reports
Many schools, businesses and government buildings will be closed and energy companies have halted almost a fifth of the oil production on the Gulf of Mexico, a part of the United States which is responsible for 17% of daily USA crude oil output. The partial shutdown ahead of Michael helped drive oil prices slightly higher on Tuesday.
The NHC said that it could hit anywhere along the Florida Panhandle or Florida Big Bend area.
Most gas stations in downtown Tallahassee are out of gas as Hurricane Michael approaches.
Florida State University announced it was closing for the week on Tuesday, along with schools in Leon County, home to the state capital Tallahassee. Because he owns two businesses in the area, Givens, who lives inland, said he was not evacuating.
Scott also told caregivers at north Florida hospitals and nursing homes to do all they can to assure the safety of the elderly and infirm.
About 2,500 National Guard troops were deployed to assist with evacuations and storm preparations, and more than 4,000 others were on standby.
By 11 a.m., Michael had winds of 110 miles per hour, just below a major Category 3 hurricane, and was getting stronger, drawing energy from Gulf waters in the mid-80s.More news: American Music Awards: See Photos From the Red Carpet
"Up to four to six inches of rain is now expected over the Carolinas, still recovering from the floods caused by Hurricane Florence".
The NHC said the storm was packing sustained winds of up to 120 miles per hour (195 km per hour), jumping from a Category 2 to Category 3 hurricane on the five-step Saffir-Simpson wind scale.
A high risk of rip currents at Atlantic Coast beaches. "It's forecast to be a large and unsafe hurricane at landfall".
The heaviest rain will tend to fall in areas that were missed by Florence and focused from the Florida Panhandle to southwestern and central Georgia to part of central SC.
Landfall is expected Wednesday on the northeastern Gulf Coast, where authorities warned of a potentially devastating strike.
In Alabama, Gov. Kay Ivey issued a statewide state of emergency, saying on Twitter that it was "in anticipation of wide-spread power outages, wind damage and debris produced by high winds & heavy rain associated with #HurricaneMichael".More news: Here's how to order everything Google just announced
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Climate change is one of the most daunting problems which is being faced by living beings for some time now humanity is facing today. Almost every big summit, every talk between nations isn’t incomplete without strategizing discussion on how to overcome climate change issues. Environmentalists are asking for more cut in the emissions rate which is certainly the need of the hour. Scientists are coming up with new and sooner deadlines to cut our emissions before the effects become irreversible. But everything that is being said and all the targets that are being set laid down are for to cut down the CO2 emissions only. Environmentalists are completely ignoring the contribution of other gases to in Global warming.
Global warming has rightly been recognized as a biggest challenge to our future. Environmentalists are doing a tremendous job by putting pressure on global leaders to work for cutting on emissions level and by spreading awareness about the greenhouse gases against it among the masses. But again the environment lobby has pushed for reforms only against the CO2 emissions. They have completely ignored all other kinds of gases which too are responsible for global warming.I am convinced cutting emissions from vehicles and industries need to be a priority but overlooking other kinds of green house gases can prove disastrous. Cars emit CO2 but along with that aerosols as well which act ascoolant though not for a long time but CO2 stays on, so in short term it is not dangerous. But there are gases which are many a times more potent of causing warming and more quickly as well.
One of the most important sources of non-CO2 warming is methane and its major source is animal agriculture. Methane is 21 times more capable of causing warming than CO2. Since pre-industrial times, where the concentration of CO2 has risen 31%, the concentration of methane in environment has more than doubled. And human triggered methane emission amounts to one and a half times the natural emission while for CO2 the same figure stands at 3%. So the imbalance that has been created by us in the concentration of methane in atmosphere is massive. Moreover, the increased concentration of methane in airspace above stimulates microbial decay of organic matter in wetlands- the primary natural source of methane, thus compounding our problems.
There are numerous sources of methane like coal mining, landfills but the major source is animal agriculture which alone is responsible for 100 million tones of methane a year. In the last five years, the global consumption of meat has increased five folds and is still on a rise. About 85% of the gas is produced in the digestive tracts of livestock and the remaining 15% of methane is released from gigantic lagoons where organic farm wastes are stored which itself are under attack these days for being a large source of water pollution. By turning to vegetarianism we can significantly control our methane gas emissions which the numbers suggest is a significant contributor to the global warming.
Turning vegetarian is a small price to pay for preventing climate change as it does not n’t demand severe alterations in one’s life. Vegetarianism is full of options capable of substituting non-veg products without harming or even having any miniscule effect on one’s health. The efforts can be done at more local level, and even on by an individual level. Even the environmentalists find themselves helpless in fighting CO2 emissions with their effort being reduced to just petitioning or asking citizens to switch off their lights. The fight against CO2 involves fighting against big industrialists and lobbyists and none’s expecting any positive news soon. Every country is trying to shirk its responsibility as fight against CO2 emission can derail the growth of a country. At In these times if turning into a vegetarian diet can help then it must be propagated. Government should consider discouraging meat consumption by increasing taxes on them. For a country like India, which is still developing, this can be the way it can give to the global battle against climate change.
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Scotland weather forecast: Sunny and dry weekend as lockdown travel ban lifted
Met Office forecasters predict clear skies from Friday to Sunday as lockdown eases – with thousands set to visit friends and family for the first time in months.
Scots will be able to travel anywhere in the country for outdoor socialising or exercise from Friday.
And at the same time, the rules on outdoor gatherings will change from four people from two households to six people from six households.
It’s good news for picnics and visits to the beach with no rain until Monday.
The central belt will be the warmest part of the country with temperatures peaking at around 12C in both Glasgow and Edinburgh on Saturday.
Aberdeen and the Western Isles will be a cooler 9C.
Meanwhile down south will be treated to a 20C heatwave next week.
Hospitality was allowed to reopen in England after being closed for months.
Brits were seen at pub beer gardens, outdoor bars and restaurants around the country despite cold temperatures – with some people even braving heavy snow to enjoy a pint.
But Scots will be forced to wait until April 26 for a long-awaited pint.
The weather is set to remain cold for the rest of this week, reaching highs of just 15 by Sunday.
By next Monday, temperatures are predicted to rise to a warm 20C, according to WXCharts.
BBC forecasters said the end of this month and the start of May is set to be characterised by warmer, more settled conditions.
They said: “The tail end of April and first part of May will be at the mercy of high pressure that should often find itself to the north or west, and low pressure to the south near Spain.
“The UK will be caught between these two large-scale pressure systems, so we will likely continue to see changeable weather.
Today temperatures will be between 11C and 14C, as they increase slightly after a cold start to the week.
Northern Ireland is set to be the warmest spot in the UK on Wednesday, Mr McGivern said.


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The Orionid meteor shower takes place every year at this time as the Earth passes through a stream of dusty debris from Halley’s Comet and it should reach a peak this Sunday morning, October 21st, in the pre-dawn hours. This year might be especially good with no moon to spoil the show and at least 25 meteors per hour can be expected when the meteor shower hits its peak. Of course, this is all predicated on the idea that skies will be mostly clear and there is some hope for good viewing conditions in the Mid-Atlantic region as the weekend weather looks pretty decent from this vantage point.
The meteors for this event will streak out of the constellation Orion and the overall shower setting is framed by constellations Taurus and Gemini and, in this particular year, Venus and Jupiter will form a bright triangle with the bright star called Sirius (the Dog Star) in the pre-dawn eastern sky.
One of the characteristics of this particular annual meteor shower is that the meteoroids from Halley’s Comet travel at very highs speeds (148,000 mph) with only the November Leonids being faster. Speed is important because fast meteors have a tendency to explode and these “fireballs” can occasionally leave incandescent streams of debris in their wake that linger for minutes. In fact, the “meteor smoke” can be twisted by upper air winds into intricate shapes that may be quite interesting.


A giant sunspot on the solar surface has erupted for the sixth time in a week.
It is the third major flare in the last 48 hours, from the sunspot which is 14 times larger than Earth and almost as big as Jupiter.
Nasa said the activity confirms the areas as the largest active region seen on the sun in 24 years
‘A giant active region on the sun erupted on Oct. 26, 2014, with its sixth substantial flare since Oct. 19,’ Nasa said.
‘This flare was classified as an X2-class flare and it peaked at 6:56 a.m. EDT.
‘This is the third X-class flare in 48 hours, erupting from the largest active region seen on the sun in 24 years.


From the Lyrids Meteor Shower to a full Pink Moon, April has treated us to some stunning astronomical displays.
If you missed any of these events, the good news is that May is just as jam-packed with celestial displays.
Next month sky-gazers can look forward to the Eta Aquarids Meteor shower and a full Blue Moon.
Here’s everything you need to know about astronomical events in May, including how and when to see them from the UK.
May 6 - Eta Aquarids Meteor Shower
The first event to look forward to in May is the Eta Aquarids Meteor Shower, which peaks on the evening of May 6.
This is one of the most active meteor showers in 2018, with up to 60 meteors shooting through the sky ever hour in the Southern Hemisphere, and 30 meteors per hour in the Northern Hemisphere.
The Eta Aquarids meteors are produced when dust from comet Halley enters the Earth’s atmosphere, where it burns up.
For your best chance of seeing a shooting star, look to the skies in the early hours of May 7.
May 18 - Full Blue Moon
On May 18, a full Blue Moon will light up the night sky.
A full moon occurs when the moon is located on the opposite side of the Earth as the Sun, meaning its face is fully illuminated.
This particular moon is known as a blue moon as it’s the third of four full moons in this season.
Normally there are only three full moons in a season, making this a rare event - hence the phrase ‘once in a blue moon’.
In early Native American tribes, this moon was known as the Full Flower Moon, because it appears in spring, as flowers also begin to bloom.
For your best chance of seeing the Blue Moon, look to the skies from 21:11 BST.


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How Is Global Warming Affecting The Animals?
The process of the slow increase in the average temperature of the Earth’s atmosphere is called Global Warming. Earth acts as a greenhouse that helps to capture the required amount of the Sun’s heat, and it also radiates out the unwanted heat into outer space. Gases like carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, etc. form the greenhouse gases that help to maintain Earth’s temperature. The adequate amount of greenhouse gases helps Earth to remain fresh and it also helps to maintain an average temperature for the survival of ling organisms on Earth.
Human activities are responsible mainly for the emission of greenhouse gases, thus, causing global warming. An increase in the human population has led to a rise in the number of activities that emit a large number of greenhouse gases. Carbon dioxide, Methane, Nitrous oxide, Sulphur hexafluoride, and other Fluorinated gases are the primary gases that add up to the cause of global warming.
Pollution, an increase in the number of vehicles, animal agriculture, burning of fossil fuels, the use of individual appliances, etc. are the main reasons that lead to the emission ...
... of greenhouse gases. Due to our practices, we have led to an increase in the number of greenhouse gases. This has resulted in a rise in the temperature of Earth.
Global warming is raising the temperature of Earth at a tremendous rate, thus, making it difficult for living organisms to survive especially wildlife:
Habitat Disruption – Habitat disruption is caused when animals fail to get their habitat due to climatic changes. Different animals need different kinds of habitats to survive but, due to global warming, their habitat is disturbed. This is because the climate gets warmer and It also does not allow some specific species to survive as they can only survive in cold temperatures.
Shifting life cycles – Phenology has recorded that global warming has not only led to the habitat disruption of animals but also has an effect on their life cycle. This has led to the shift of various cyclical and seasonal events in the life of animals.
Extinction of some species – Global warming is leading to the extinction of various species that can only survive in a cold atmosphere. Heat waves, forest fires, and droughts have caused some plants and animal species to get endangered.
Effects both wildlife as well as humans – The presence of animals is compulsory for the survival of mankind. Plants and animals are the main elements of Earth. Therefore, the effect on wildlife due to global warming will also have an impact on us.
Due to this reason, when an extra amount of heat is added to any one system, it raises the global climate. So, changes in temperature change the great patterns of the environment:
Due to the overheating of water bodies, more water evaporates and converts into clouds. This causes the scarcity of water and also results in several calamities.
Global warming leads to climate change and therefore results in energy-intensive storms like hurricanes and typhoons.
An increase in temperature makes the atmosphere warmer. It results in the melting of mountain snow, Polar ice caps, and other snow from the Earth. It leads to an increase in the water level, therefore, increasing the chances of floods and tsunamis.
Global warming changes the patterns of wind that bring monsoons, rain, and snow. It leads to an increase in the chances of drought.
Today, the whole world is facing the problem of global warming. It is an international issue that needs to be resolved as soon as possible. Nowadays, Boarding schools in India also make their students aware of such global issues. So that they use fossil fuel judiciously.
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SAN DIEGO (CNS) - The first of two Pacific storms was expected to move into the San Diego area early Saturday morning bringing with it intermittent rain showers and light winds inland and along the coast, heavy, potentially damaging wind gusts to the mountains and deserts, and then on Sunday, high surf and dangerous riptides, according to the National Weather Service.
Showers will douse the area Saturday, taper off Saturday night and then return on Monday, forecasters predict. Temperatures in the area will range from the mid 50s to the mid 60s along the coast and further inland, according to the NWS.
Forecasters have also issued a high wind warning for the mountains and deserts. Winds there are expected to range from 20 to 40 miles per hour with gusts up to 65 miles per hour. The NWS issued a wind warning for the mountain and desert area that will go into effect at 6 a.m. and continue until at least 10 p.m. Saturday.
The high winds will make driving high-profile vehicles like trucks and motor homes difficult on mountain and desert roads today, according to the NWS.
The storm front will also churn up the surf on Sunday, bringing with it 4 foot to 7 foot surf with sets up to 8 feet and dangerous riptides, according to the NWS. Forecasters have issued a high surf advisory for San Diego beaches that will go into effect 5 a.m. Sunday and run through 5 a.m. Monday.
Forecasters also predict the rain in the San Diego area will end Saturday night and that the second weaker storm front will begin to slide into the region late Sunday night, producing even less rain than the first system before it clears out Monday afternoon.
San Diego County is making a major investment in technology to detect wildfires breaking out in the back country.
A controversial ordinance that prohibited feeding the homeless in public spaces in El Cajon expired Tuesday, after the county lifted its emergency declaration on the hepatitis A outbreak.
An alliance of California marijuana growers filed a lawsuit Tuesday to block state rules that they fear could open the way for vast farms that would drive smaller cultivators out of business or send them into the black market.
PETA is offering a reward of up to $5,000 for information about the person or people who left four puppies out with the trash in San Diego in recent weeks.
A dispute between two students at Lincoln High School escalated Tuesday into a stabbing that sent one of them to a hospital.
San Diego police are investigating a rapid increase in the number of cases of stolen catalytic converters from cars.
A 19-year-old man accused of groping and sexually assaulting four female students as they walked to their off-campus housing near San Diego State University must stand trial on seven charges, including false imprisonment and sexual battery, a judge ruled Tuesday.
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...FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... The Flash Flood Watch continues for * Portions of CENTRAL ARKANSAS, EASTERN ARKANSAS, NORTH CENTRAL ARKANSAS, NORTHEAST ARKANSAS, SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS, and SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS, including the following areas, in CENTRAL ARKANSAS, Conway, Faulkner, Garland, Grant, Lonoke, Perry, Prairie, Pulaski, Saline, and White. In EASTERN ARKANSAS, Jackson, Monroe, and Woodruff. In NORTH CENTRAL ARKANSAS, Cleburne, Fulton, Independence, Izard, Sharp, Stone, and Van Buren. In NORTHEAST ARKANSAS, Lawrence and Randolph. In SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS, Arkansas, Bradley, Cleveland, Desha, Drew, Jefferson, and Lincoln. In SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS, Calhoun, Clark, Dallas, Hot Spring, and Ouachita. * Through this evening * Several rounds of showers and thunderstorms will affect the area today. The rain will be heavy at times, with amounts of one to three inches expected. * With already saturated ground, it will not take much rain to cause flash flooding issues.
Current Condition: Light Rain
Wind Speeds: 1.42mph
Chance of Precipitation: 1%
Temperature: 66/44 Partly cloudy starting in the afternoon, continuing until evening. Saturday:
Temperature: 75/52 Clear throughout the day. Sunday:
Temperature: 81/61 Partly cloudy starting in the evening. Monday:
Temperature: 82/64 Partly cloudy until afternoon. Tuesday:
Temperature: 80/64 Rain overnight.
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7:00 am, Monday, December 31, 2012 -- Today's temperatures in southwestern Connecticut will rise to a daytime high in the mid-30s, with a west wind 9 to 14 mph.
Tonight will be mostly cloudy, with the temperature dips to a low in the upper-20s and a west wind about 14 mph.
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Cyclone Helen makes landfall at Andhra coast
Indian Meteorological Department has predicted heavy rainfall in a few places over coastal Andhra Pradesh and adjoining north Tamil Nadu.
New Delhi: Cyclone Helen made landfall at the Krishna district in Andhra Pradesh on Friday afternoon. Heavy rainfall has been reported from Guntur, West Godavari and adjoining coastal areas in Andhra Pradesh and Chennai in Tamil Nadu.
Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has predicted heavy rainfall in a few places over coastal Andhra Pradesh and adjoining north Tamil Nadu.
Winds reaching 100 kilometres per hour may prevail in area. Sea conditions are rough and fishermen have been asked not to go out to sea.
A Coast Guard ship from Vishakapatnam has set out to help rescue 20 fishermen stranded in rough sea near the coast. The Navy has been asked to be on standby.
Just a a month ago the area faced the fury of severe cyclone Phailin.
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THUNDER BAY – NEWS – The Lakehead Region Conservation Authority has issued a Flood Outlook Statement Update for the Lakehead Region including the City of Thunder Bay, Municipalities of Neebing, Oliver Paipoonge, Shuniah and the Townships of O’Connor, Conmee, Gillies and Dorion.
Area gauges have recorded between 12 to 23 millimetres of precipitation over the last 24 hours. Minimal additional precipitation is forecasted over the next few days.
In response to the recent rainfall and snowmelt, area watercourses have risen and are expected to crest later today.
The public is advised to exercise caution in and around area waterways. High flows and unstable and slippery banks could be dangerous. Parents and caregivers advised to keep children away from all waterways and discuss the hazards of flooding and fast flowing water.
As part of the Authority’s Flood Warning System, staff will continue to monitor conditions and issue Flood Messages as warranted.


I'm a 31 year old weather enthusiast from Central Ohio. Certified SKYWARN storm spotter.
By: Buckey2745 , 3:02 PM GMT on November 13, 2010
We're on day 6 of an Indian Summer here in Central Ohio. Since last Monday the 8th we have been above 68° every day (in the 70's since Tuesday).
This week's temps
We're used to getting a warm streak in November. In 2008 we started the month with 6 straight 70° days, and last year we saw multiple 70° days, with our latest coming the 17th of the month. Unfortunately, it comes to an end tomorrow.
A dynamic system that is bringing the upper midwest its first snowstorm of the season will roll through overnight tonight and bring a drop in temperatures.
Once this system leaves the area, we're back to Fall. Typical Fall, too. Chilly, kind of cloudy, and brisk.
Where's the Snow?
We're midway through November right now and it's fair to start thinking about the first snowfall. The past couple years we've not seen measurable snow in December. Will that change this year? Early model runs indicate no. We could see a chance of flurries Thursday night as a weak system drops down out of the Great Lakes, but measurable snow seems pretty unlikely.
The final 70° seems to be behind us after today, and now we officially turn our attention to snow and cold weather. Settle in, it'll be an interesting Winter.
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It's another hot one to finish out the weekend, but relief is on the way!
Temps will once again climb into the low 90s for inland locations, topping out right around 90 degrees again in the city.
With the humidity, it'll feel more like the mid 90s. Of course, the coasts will be cooler with highs in the upper 70s and low 80s at the beaches.
Expect partly sunny skies with a slim shower risk into early afternoon, primarily north and west.
A better chance of scattered showers and thunderstorms for everyone rolls in after 2 p.m. as a cold front approaches.
Some storms could be on the strong to severe side with gusty winds, especially away from the coasts and in our northwestern counties. Not a washout, but just keep an eye to the sky later on.
The front rolls through tonight ushering in a drier and more seasonable airmass. Highs on Monday will be back into the mid 70s.
Enjoy the rest of your weekend!
How New Yorkers can stay cool
With the weekend warmup, New York health officials are reminding people to use extra caution this weekend and offering guidance to prevent heatstroke.
They say never leave vulnerable adults, children or pets alone in a car. Temperatures in the 60s outside can cause the temperature inside the car to rise above 110 degrees Fahrenheit.
Twenty-three children died in 2021 after being left in hot cars, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.


High pressure, dry months created drought
Published 08/10/2012, INFORUM
Temperatures soar to make 2012 warmest summer with little relief from rain
GRAND FORKS – A high-pressure system causing a shortage of rain and excessive heat is to blame for the drought conditions that have plagued the central plains states, according to drought experts.
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The National Weather Service has issued an Excessive Heat Warning for our area, with temperatures near or over 100 degrees forecast through Thursday. The potential for heat related illnesses, particularly for those working or participating in outdoor activities is high. Please take precautions. Stay hydrated and check on vulnerable friends and neighbors. Public areas with air conditioning can provide relief and keep you from becoming overheated.
The City of Springfield and Willamalane Park and Recreation District have several resources available to help people keep cool; please check their websites for additional information. For other human services information, dial 2-1-1 or visit 211info.org


Hurricane Season starts June 1st
It’s the final countdown. The official start of the 2019 hurricane season is just hours away, beginning tomorrow, June 1st.
Are you ready? That’s the question posed by local emergency management officials as we forge into the new hurricane season.
Experts predict there will be 12 to 14 storms this season with five to seven of them forecast to become hurricanes. Of those, two to four are predicted to become major hurricanes.
You may remember last year we took you on a ride with Keesler Air Force Base’s Hurricane Hunters and flew you into the eye of Hurricane Michael before it made landfall in Florida. Hurricanes Michael and Florence battered coastlines here in the U.S.
Just two years ago, Hurricane Nate made landfall here on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, but its impact was minimal. Harrison County EMA Director Rupert Lacy said, “The humbling side of this year is that we’re having the 50th anniversary of Camille in August. So, we live in paradise, but we must be prepared for what Mother Nature may throw at us during the summer months into the fall.”
Don’t forget ‘Your Hurricane Authority Special 2019’ will air later today at 6:30 p.m. on NBC and FOX. It will give you an in depth look at this year’s predictions and let you hear from hurricane experts from the National Hurricane Center.