Cooler; a passing shower in the morning, then a couple of showers possible in the afternoon
Occasional evening rain and drizzle; otherwise, mostly cloudy and mild
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The northern US will remain in the deep freeze on Wednesday.


Dairy farms deliver significant quantities of two points: milk and poop. Milk finds its way into delicacies like incredibly hot cocoa and grilled cheese sandwiches but the poop just piles up.
Dairy farmers bulldoze the mess into synthetic ponds known as manure lagoons, the place anaerobic microbes break it down into methane, a highly effective greenhouse gasoline. Methane traps 80% far more warmth in the ambiance than carbon dioxide, contributing to about 1-fourth of weather improve to day. The cow digestive tract also provides methane and releases it when the cow burps.
About 50% of the methane that California emits will come from dairy farms. In order to meet up with strict local weather goals, the condition has proposed ways to control dairy methane emissions. But these endeavours run up towards a major problem: There is not presently a responsible way for dairy farmers to measure the total of methane created on their farm.
The volume of methane generated relies upon on the selection of cows, their diet, the weather, and how soaked the manure is saved. Estimates of how considerably methane a farm creates are consequently uncertain. Measurements designed by satellite or plane return the most exact estimates, but these applications are costly and do not constantly function at the amount of particular person farms.
UC Riverside postdoctoral fellow Javier Gonzalez-Rocha wants to transform that. He’s operating with mechanical engineering professor Akula Venkatram and environmental sciences professor Francesca Hopkins to establish aerial robotic methods that can quantify methane emissions immediately around a particular dairy facility.
To attain this intention, Gonzalez-Rocha has formulated a new process for extracting wind velocity estimates from disturbances to drone movement induced by wind. This algorithm has been tailored to a drone-dependent “air core” procedure designed by environmental engineering professor Don Collins and graduate college student Zihan Zhu.
An air main is related to an ice main, a plug of ice pulled from a glacier that can expose changes in atmospheric composition above time. By combining wind velocity and air-main measurement abilities, drones can help detect, localize, and estimate methane emissions at high-quality spatial scales normally tough to take care of making use of normal wind and air composition measurement tactics. The skill of drones to hover and maneuver in constrained environments, where it is hard for typical set-wing plane to work, also supplies new choices for obtaining specific observations of greenhouse gasses in the reduced environment.
The work getting led by Gonzalez-Rocha and Zhu will quickly yield new conclusions addressing the dependability of drone-centered atmospheric measurements in comparison to common wind and air composition sensors.
Gonzalez-Rocha is testing the drones at UCR’s agricultural functions website and at dairy farms in California, where by he is applying them to evaluate methane concentrations at various distances downwind from emission sources. Knowing how methane concentrations vary at differ downwind locations is significant for quantifying emission sources.
Whilst the strategies formulated by Gonzalez-Rocha and Zhu are in their infancy phase, there continues to be a terrific probable for enhancing the precision of drone-centered measurements. Ongoing work is discovering a multi-inlet air main system to sample air composition at multiple heights concurrently as the drone moves across a methane plume. The scientists believe that that they are on a class for farmers to use this technology inside of the following 5 to 10 a long time.
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Mild weather returns this weekend
WICHITA FALLS, Texas (KAUZ) - For your Thursday, we will have a high of 51 with morning clouds. By this afternoon, we will start to see a little bit of sunshine.
Friday, we will have a high of 51 with sunny skies. Saturday, south winds return allowing us to warm up to 68. Sunday, we will have a high of 65 with sunny skies.
Monday and Tuesday, temps will get close to 70. Monday, we may see a stray shower or two develop. Wednesday, we will have a strong cold front move through. This will drop our high down to 46 and our low to 17.
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Six inches of snow falls on Breck Mar. 23, 2013
Six inches of new snow has fallen on Breckenridge overnight. Ullr has certainly been kind to us these last few days. We’ve received 14 inches in the past 48 hours and it is still dumping. Be sure to check out the gallery below and keep your eye on OpenSnow for the latest forecast for Breckenridge. There is plenty of soft snow to go around, so get out there and have fun!
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After Wednesday's rainout, the weather hasn't gotten any better for the Rangers and Cubs at Wrigley Field on Thursday.
With heavy storms throughout the evening, numerous reports of flooding in the area have filtered in Thursday morning. By 9:45 a.m. CT, there was still a steady rainfall with the field and bullpen at Wrigley covered and rain water pooling in certain parts of the warning track.
According to weather services, heavier storms are expected to come around 11 a.m. Media has been informed that the teams will wait as long as needed to get the game in to avoid any scheduling headaches that may occur due to a pair of rainouts. First pitch is scheduled for 1:20 p.m.


The Sun is making itself scarce as seen from the northern hemisphere right now. That’s because tomorrow night marks the winter solstice, so the next couple of days are the shortest of the year — the days with the shortest interval between sunrise and sunset.
Astronomically, the solstice marks the beginning of winter. The Sun stands farthest south in the sky, so the southern hemisphere receives most of the Sun’s energy, leaving the north dark and cold.
Perhaps a bit surprisingly, though, the solstice isn’t the coldest time of year. If you look at the average temperatures here in the United States, you’ll find that the weather is coldest anywhere from a few days to a couple of months after the solstice. The lag tends to be greater from northern latitudes than southern ones.
The effect is called the seasonal lag. And there are a couple of reasons for it. For one thing, the Sun stays low in the south for a good while after the solstice, so its rays come in at a low angle. That’s the least efficient angle for heating things up — they get warmer much faster when the Sun is higher in the sky.
The most important reason for the lag, though, is that it takes the land and oceans a long time to begin warming up — especially the oceans. It’s not until well after the solstice that they absorb enough energy to start warming up — and to start heating the air as well — building toward their peak well after the summer solstice in June.
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MARYSVILLE — Despite more snow on the ground Thursday morning, the worst of a winter cold spell is behind us.
Streets and lawns from Marysville to Monroe were pelted with 3 to 5 inches of new snow Wednesday night and Thursday morning, said Carly Kovacik, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Seattle. Southern parts of the county, like Edmonds and Lynnwood, saw more like 2 to 3 inches.
Everett had already been hit with as much as 7 inches.
Forecasts show minimal incoming snow in Snohomish County through the weekend, however. There could be a narrow band, but that wouldn’t be much. And there’s a chance another weather system Saturday morning could put under an inch of snow on the ground. Rain is then in the forecast for Sunday, according to the National Weather Service.
It could still take a few days for the existing snow and ice to melt as high temperatures hover around freezing on New Year’s Eve. Those will rise through the weekend, peaking with temperatures in the 40s Sunday.
Any melting Thursday and Friday would likely refreeze overnight, as lows were still predicted to be in the low 20s, Kovacik said. That means continued slick conditions on local roads. Just because drivers can see the pavement doesn’t mean it’s dry, she noted.
Snohomish County Public Works crews have plowed over 50,000 miles of county roads since the weekend.
There’ll likely be a “decent amount of melting” Sunday with the higher temperatures, Kovacik said. She predicted most of the snow would be gone early next week.
Since the Christmas holiday, demand for Snohomish County cold weather shelters has risen. The number of occupied beds jumped from the 50s to nearly 150 as unsheltered residents looked for a warm respite. There are shelters in Everett, Monroe, Snohomish and south county.
Worries over a lack of shelter in the northern parts of the county resulted in a Marysville church opening its doors Wednesday at 8240 64th St NE. Generations Community Church housed three people Wednesday night, pastor Craig Laughlin said. With capacity to serve up to 50 between two rooms, Laughlin expects more to show up through the weekend as word gets out that the church is an option.
The church is seeking volunteers. If interested, contact Laughlin at firstname.lastname@example.org.
Meanwhile, fire officials were “very, very busy” dealing with burst water pipes, said Leslie Hynes, a spokesperson for South Snohomish County Fire & Rescue. Freezing water can expand and rupture pipes. This usually happens when the water begins to thaw.
The fire department suggests calling 911 if water gets near electrical outlets or panels, or if water threatens a pilot light or power to a water heater or furnace. If pipes burst, turn off the water at the main shutoff valve and call a plumber.
And garbage pickup for much of the county continued to be postponed as collectors waited for conditions to improve.


(KFVS) - It's Tuesday, April 11, 2017.
First Alert Weather Outlook:
FIRST ALERT: You may need to keep your umbrella handy this morning as rain and showers make their way out of the Heartland. You may wake up to light showers and a few isolated thunderstorms, but the rain is expected to quickly dissipate as the morning goes on. It will be another windy day, with some gusts reaching 15-20 mph. With temps in the upper 60s and low 70s, it's also going to be another warm day for the Heartland. A LOOK AHEAD: The warm air will linger through the weekend along with the chance for rain and thunderstorms
HUD relocates 185 residents in Cairo, IL: The Department of Housing and Urban Development announced yesterday that 185 residents in Cairo, Illinois must relocate from their current homes.
Tillerson, top diplomats hold urgent meeting on Syria crisis: With fresh urgency but scant solutions, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and top foreign diplomats held an urgent meeting today to strategize on a way forward to end the protracted civil war in Syria.


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PERRY COUNTY - Tuesday's predawn snowfall wasn't large as winter events go. About an inch or so fell across most areas of the county. But the precipitation packed a punch, sending dozens of motorists trying to get to or from work into ditches.
No serious injuries were reported but police officers and tow-truck operators were kept busy from before dawn until at least mid-morning.
In some areas, the first rounds of snow showers that began falling around 3 a.m. melted but refroze, creating a thin but very slick coating of ice.


Extreme winds cause damage to Norris Point homes
Unofficial winds clocked at 201 km/h
Electricity was restored Thursday in the communities of Norris Point and Rocky Harbour on the Northern Peninsula, after a ferocious blizzard with winds topping 200 km/h stormed through the area.
Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro said customers were slowly being brought back at 4 p.m. Full power was restored on Thursday night.
The utility said the 16-hour outage was caused by problems with equipment, following severe weather that hit the island on Wednesday night, which also slowed restoration times. Electricians traveling to Rocky Harbour were delayed due to harsh road conditions on the Northern Peninsula.
Hydro estimated about 1,100 customers were without power.
In addition to the snow, extreme winds were felt in Norris Point. An unofficial weather observation site in the town clocked wind speed at 201 kilometres an hour shortly before midnight.
A number of homes were also damaged.
According to Nicolle, power was lost Wednesday night during the height of the storm in both Norris Point and Rocky Harbour.
Nicolle said his town was prepared in case the outage dragged on.
"We do have a backup if we need to use it and if it stays cold. We got a generator and that for the community centre, so we could invite people in there for a coffee or to warm up," he said.


COLD temperatures and occasional flurries and light snow will prevail today for much of Southern Colorado. Heaviest and most persistent snow showers will remain in the mountains. Watch out for some icy spots on the roads too and don't expect much melting... highs will only climb to the teens and 20s today... For complete details click on the 'Weather' tab!
The recent warm weather is melting Colorado's snowpack fast. As of Friday it was only 59% of average.
The quick melting could mean water shortages this summer, and may also increase the risk of serious wildfires.
Colorado's snowpack is only 66% of what it was at the same time last year.
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RENO, NV - Sierra Front confirms the smoke hitting the Reno area is not coming from the American Fire in the Tahoe National Forest; instead, it's coming from the Rim Fire west of Yosemite National Park in California.
Thick smoke and even ash have been the norm for much of several days in the Tahoe Basin, Douglas County, Carson City and into Reno, plus surrounding rural areas.
Here is the health alert from the Washoe County Health District:
AQMD is notifying the public of the potential for poor air quality conditions through Tuesday, August 27, 2013 due to smoke from the Rim Fire and American Fire in California. Widespread haze and smoky conditions will continue to affect Southern Washoe County especially valley locations including Reno and Sparks.
The smoke is highly dependent upon the wind direction and fire activity which can change rapidly. Expect smoke to become more concentrated in lower elevations during the evenings and early mornings with partial clearing in the afternoons as atmospheric mixing or favorable winds lifts the smoke out of the breathing zone.
Air quality is expected to remain in either the Unhealthy range, Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups range or the Moderate range as wind and weather conditions change.
Fine particulate matter known as PM2.5 is comprised of microscopic particles that can travel deep into our lungs and is the pollutant of concern found in wildfire smoke. While everybody may experience varying degrees of symptoms, persons in the sensitive groups category include children, the elderly, and anyone with respiratory and heart conditions are of greatest risk at experiencing more aggravated symptoms and serious complications. Smoke can irritate the eyes and airways, causing coughing, a scratchy throat, irritated sinuses, headaches, stinging eyes or a runny nose.
If you have heart or lung disease, smoke might make your symptoms worse. People with heart disease might experience chest pain, palpitations, shortness of breath, or fatigue. People with lung disease may not be able to breathe as deeply or as vigorously as usual, and they may experience symptoms such as coughing, phlegm, chest discomfort, wheezing and shortness of breath.
In general, if you smell smoke and feel it’s affecting you, then take precautions such as:
• Staying indoors with the windows and doors closed and air conditioner on.
• Limiting prolonged or heavy exertion and physical activity while outdoors.
• Drinking plenty of fluids.
Persons experiencing questionable or severe symptoms should contact their doctor if they have any questions.
Here is Friday's warning from Carson City and Douglas County:
The Nevada Division of Environmental Protection (NDEP) air quality
monitors in Gardnerville and Carson City indicate extremely elevated amounts of particulate matter in the air due to wildfires in California. The levels of particulate matter equate to “Very Unhealthy” on the Air Quality Index (AQI) level of health concern. The AQI is an index for reporting daily air quality and what associated health effects might
be an issue.
In conditions that lead to a “Very Unhealthy” designation, all residents may begin to experience adverse health effects. Members of sensitive groups (young children, the elderly, people with asthma or other respiratory issues) may experience more serious affects. People should avoid prolonged or heavy exertion outside and consult with their health care provider if needed.
Based on National Weather Service forecasts, NDEP expects very unhealthy air quality conditions to remain in Carson City and Douglas County throughout the weekend.
Due to unhealthy air quality levels in northern Nevada, Carson Tahoe Health encourages the public to be
aware of the following:
• Air quality is so bad that even the healthiest of individuals
could be in danger if they spend too much time outdoors
• Shelter in place, stay indoors.
• Keep hydrated to progress a cough and help prevent smoky air from settling in the lungs
• Use air conditioning if possible, to help filter air throughout a house
• Keep all doors and windows shut in both home and vehicles, if in a vehicle make sure the air conditioner is set to reticulate the air
• Humidifiers will help the air quality in a home or building
• Masks are available for purchase at hardware stores and can really help filter the air and aid in comfort.
Seek emergency care if:
• You are having trouble breathing or can’t say more than four words without having to stop and take a breath
• You experience excessive sweating
• Your lips are turning blue
• You are confused or lose consciousness


High winds that caused dust storms prompted closures of the Antelope Valley (14) Freeway and State Route 138 in the Lancaster area Monday.
The 14 Freeway was closed in both directions about 10 a.m. between Avenue A and Avenue I, according to the California Highway Patrol. A short time later, authorities reported that SR138 was closed in both directions from 130th Street to 175th Street.
The dust storms resulted in “low to zero visibility” in the area, according to the CHP. About 1:30 p.m., the 14 Freeway was reopened. However, the SR138 closure was expanded to include the area from 110th Street to 180th Street, the CHP reported.
Source: NBC Los Angeles


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Naval Air Station Corpus Christi is closed until further notice. The Navy has ordered the evacuation of all non-essential active-duty military personnel. Texas governor Greg Abbott has declared a state of disaster for at least 30 of the state’s 254 counties, and has reportedly asked the President for a federal disaster declaration. Nearby Louisiana has also declared a state of emergency—just in case. Schools have been preemptively shut down for Monday. On Twitter, users are posting emergency preparedness kits that include battery operated radios, go-bags, and six packs of Shiner Bock, a local brew. If all else fails, there’s always beer.
Harvey, formerly a troubling tropical storm barreling its way towards the Gulf of Mexico, is behind the panic. The storm strengthened to a Category 2 hurricane on Friday morning, then got the ominous upgrade to a Category 3 storm later the same day. At 7 pm EST, Harvey was upgraded to a Category 4 hurricane, exceeding all expectations. The last Category 4 hurricane to touch down in the United States was Hurricane Charley, which hit Florida and the Carolina’s in 2004.
The upgrade from Category 3 to 4 was made because of data received from NOAA’s specially outfitted Lockheed WP-3D Orion airplanes, better known as the Hurricane Hunters. The planes actually fly into the eye of the hurricane, where they use onboard instruments to transmit measurements of pressure, humidity, temperature, and wind direction to create a more detailed picture of its structure and intensity.
As of 7 pm EST, the storm was located 40 miles east of Corpus Christi and moving northwest at around 8 mph, according to NOAA. Earlier in the day, NPR reported that strong gusts were already being recorded in the area.
When Harvey lands sometime on Friday evening, it will be the first major hurricane on American soil since 2005 (only Category 3 and above are considered major hurricanes). That year hurricanes Katrina, Rita, Dennis, and Wilma walloped the nation, killing more than 4,000 people and causing nearly $160 billion dollars in damage.
To count as a hurricane, a tropical cyclone must have sustained winds of at least 74 miles per hour. A Category 3 hurricane like Harvey was previously predicted to be, has sustained winds of 111-129 miles per hour, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Hurricane Center. At wind speeds that high, the roof of even a well built frame home be ripped from the underlying building. Trees will be snapped and uprooted. Electricity and water can become unavailable for days to weeks after the storm passes. A Category 4 hurricane includes wind speeds of between 130-156 miles per hour; though currently Harvey is at the lower edge of a Category 4. A Category 4 hurricane includes all of the risks associated with a Category 3. In addition, mobile homes will likely be destroyed, and residents who do not evacuate should expect widespread communication outages. Most of the area will be uninhabitable for weeks or months.
Hurricane Harvey was expected to slam into Corpus Christi, a city of 350,000 right on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, though it now seems possible the city won’t be hit with the full force of the storm. Harvey will also hit Houston, which is Texas’s largest city with a population of 2.3 million. Both cities are heavily invested in oil refining. In fact, Houston is home to the nation’s largest refining and petrochemical complex; the home of billions of gallons of dangerous chemicals.
In 2016, Pete Olson—a Republican congressman from the Houston suburb of Sugar Land—told ProPublica that, “If a storm hits the region in the right spot, ‘it’s going to kill America’s economy.'” In addition to being incredibly difficult to clean up (one of many factors that stymied relief efforts in New Orleans post Hurricane Katrina) a well placed storm would shut down the region’s refineries and shipping channels, sending the price of gas soaring.
In 2008, the Category 2 storm Hurricane Ike caused $30 billion dollars in damage and killed 74 people in Texas. Houston was hit hard, but it was spared the worst. The storm was supposed to be a direct strike on the city, but shifted course 50 miles offshore. The storm was still the third worst on record after Hurricane Katrina and Superstorm Sandy. In terms of Houston’s ability to protect its infrastructure from the storm, not much has changed in the year since ProPublica published their story.
And if the refineries leak it will further complicate rescue efforts. Since the chemicals are toxic, even more so when comingled, workers can’t be sent in unless they know the area is safe. As Steven Drielak who served as a Director with the EPA’s National Counter Terrorism Evidence Response Team during Katrina, told Popular Science earlier this year, “You need to picture hundreds of gasoline stations, and hundreds of chemical storage facilities all flooding out. The water enters, picks up all of these chemicals, mixes it into a huge toxic soup, and then flows through the city streets. Once the water recedes it all soaks into the ground. Now you’ve got this toxic material in the ground and you don’t know whether it’s safe or not.”
But while the wind damage of a hurricane can be horrifying, inland flooding is actually a bigger threat. In 2011, it was water that made Irene (which made land as a minor Category 1 hurricane) so devastating. As Irene lingered over the state of Vermont, it dropped more than 11 inches of rain. Rivers overflowed, the state’s famous covered bridges collapses, and their debris went barreling down water ways. It was the sixth most expensive hurricane on record.
And in Texas, it’s water that has meteorologists, lawmakers, and residents especially concerned. Scientists predict storm surges—sea level rises due to a combination of low atmospheric pressure, high winds, and high waves—of up to 12 feet. Storm surges can be made even worse by coastal erosion, or the sinking of coastal areas, and by rising sea levels associated with human caused climate change. Residents on the coast are advised to evacuate inland, and their window to do so is closing.
Beyond the storm surge, Texas residents are also dealing with the fact that Harvey plans to malinger. After hitting Corpus Christi, the storm seems set to remain over the state until Wednesday. Along the way it will drop 15 to 25 inches of rain, with some isolated pockets receiving as much as 35 inches. June, Houston’s wettest month, normally sees around 6 inches of rain.
Already, Harvey is drawing comparisons with Tropical Storm Allison, which hit Houston back in 2001. With winds at a mere 60 miles per hour, Allison barely moved the indicator on the anemometer. But in Harris County (where Houston is located) she left between 10 to 30 inches of rain over the course of four days. The ensuing flooding killed 22 people, left another 30,000 homeless, and caused $5 billion dollars in property damage. The devastation was so great that Allison bore the dubious distinction of being the first storm to have its name retired without ever becoming a hurricane.
In May, NOAA predicted a 45 percent chance that the 2017 Atlantic Hurricane season—which runs from June 1 through November 30—would be more active than normal. They predicted that there would be a 70 percent likelihood of 11 to 17 names storms (containing winds of 39 mph or higher) 5 to 9 of which could become hurricanes. Harvey is the eighth named storm this year, and the third hurricane so far.
The Governor’s website has a list of the mandatory evacuation zones. Earlier today at a press conference, Patrick Rios, the Mayor pro tem of the City of Rockport—a city in the mandatory evacuation zone—told residents who are staying to write their names and Social Security numbers on their arms with permanent marker, according to ABC News. It’s a surprisingly common piece of advice among disaster preparedness experts, who often also suggest writing down a phone number of a close relation who has either evacuated or is not in the evacuation zone. Once the storm clears, both assist rescue workers in identifying bodies.
If you have chosen to remain in an evacuation zone, please take care. You can read our preparedness tips here.


ISLAMABAD, Sept 15: As the monsoon season ends Saturday, the three main reservoirs supplying water to the twin cities could not reach the maximum level due to low rains and experts fear that this reservoir would not reach their maximum level even in the next coming ten months.
The change of weather can be observed after September 15, and with the reduction in the heat — generated from sunshine — the fast moving monsoon winds stop arriving from the Bay of Bengal, as a result, the widespread rains and thunderstorms also stop. However, the last remnant system is in effect in the country and scattered rain-thundershowers are expected in Islamabad, Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan.
“Monsoon currents are penetrating upper parts of the country, while a westerly wave also affecting upper parts of the country and likely to persist for next 2 to 3days,” said Dr Muhammad Hanif, director at Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD), “But this is the last of monsoon rains.”
The met office predicts that apart from the rains at scattered places, hot and humid weather is expected elsewhere in the country.
Pakistan faced lower than normal rainfall in the monsoon season this year due to the El-Nino effect; as a result the water reservoirs across the country have not been filled to capacity.
Same is the case with three local water reservoirs and despite the blue grey looks of fresh water at Rawal Lake, Khanpur Lake and Simly Lake; the level is far less than the upper limit, and their spillways have not been operational even for one time this season.
The five year data of Rawal Lake shows that except for the year 2012, the water level had reached its maximum level of 1,752 feet, whereas the official data highlights on September 15 the water level remained at 1,740 feet only, the dead level at Rawal Lake is 1,708 feet.
Similarly, the water level at Simly Lake had been at around 2,312 feet on September 15 during 2010 and 2011 but it was far less than the maximum level of 2,315 feet on September 15, 2012 at 2,288 feet.
While, the conditions are bleak at the Khanpur Lake, as the water level was above 1,980 feet on September 15, during the past two years at the Lake, whereas the current level was 1,939 feet against the maxim limit of 1,982 feet.
The officials say that it is less likely that the reservoir would be filed before the next monsoon season, which would start in July 2013.


Hurricane Michael is intensifying as it races toward Florida, with winds forecast to exceed 120 miles an hour and a “life-threatening” ocean surge expected to cause as much as $15 billion in damage.
Homeowners in Michael’s path have been advised to evacuate by late Oct. 9, before it makes landfall Oct. 10 near Panama City. The storm has already cut oil production in the Gulf of Mexico by 40 percent and natural gas output by 28 percent.
Michael is set to be the second hurricane to make landfall in the U.S. in a month. It has been upgraded to a Category 3 storm at latest report, according to the National Hurricane Center, and it is expected to drop 4-8 inches of rain on the region, with some areas getting as much as 12 inches.
“Additional strengthening is expected, and Michael is forecast to be a major hurricane at landfall,” said Dan Brown, a senior hurricane specialist at the National Hurricane Center, in a forecast analysis.
Michael is arriving after Florence hit North Carolina on Sept. 14, causing devastating floods, killing at least 39, and causing about $45 billion in estimated damages. While Michael will land with stronger winds, it won’t linger after it comes on shore the way Florence did, inundating the Carolinas with rain for days and days.
“It will be a different monster than Florence,” Brett Rathbun, a meteorologist at AccuWeather Inc. in State College, Pa., said by telephone. Rather than lingering, Michael is expected to race off across Georgia on Oct. 11, and settle off the coast of Massachusetts by this weekend, he said. Duke Energy Corp. which saw about 1.5 million customers in the Carolinas lose power from Florence, is warning its 1.8 million Florida customers to prepare for extended power outages. The company is moving utility crews and resources into the area to help restore power as soon as it’s safe to do so.
The impending storm also drew multiple tweets from President Donald Trump on Oct. 9. “Good news is, the folks in the Pan Handle can take care of anything,” one of the tweets noted, “@FEMA and First Responders are ready—be prepared!”
Damages from the storm could reach between $5 billion and $15 billion, depending on its intensity after landfall and how quickly it moves through the region, analysts said. AccuWeather forecasts total damage and economic impact will be close to $15 billion, while Chuck Watson, of Enki Research in Savannah, Georgia, suggests it will cause $7 billion to $10 billion in damage, with Panama City, Florida, taking the hardest hit.
“Michael is definitely shaping up to be a classic hurricane,” Watson said by telephone. “So the estimates are a bit more stable since you don’t have the stall and wander problem” that made Hurricane Florence hard to calculate.
While the panhandle is more sparsely populated than many other areas of Florida, it includes the capital city of Tallahassee, Pensacola and Panama City.
After making landfall in the Panhandle region, the storm is forecast to bend back across Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina later in the week, ending up back in the Atlantic.
Here’s the latest on the storm’s effects: Hurricane warnings are in effect from Suwannee River, Florida, to the Florida-Alabama border, and a hurricane watch is in effect for the entire coast of Alabama. The Coast Guard on Oct. 9 closed ports at Gulfport and Pascagoula in Mississippi, Mobile in Alabama, and Panama City, and Pensacola in Florida, and restricted vessel traffic on the Intracoastal Waterway.
Energy companies pulled crews off 75 production platforms of the 687 currently in the Gulf of Mexico, according to the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement.
The Atlantic has produced 14 named storms this year. They include Hurricane Florence, the most powerful one so far this year, and Tropical Storm Gordon, which made landfall on the Alabama-Mississippi border last month.
The panhandle region has suffered significant storm damage in the past, hit by Hurricane Ivan in 2004 and Hurricane Dennis in 2005. In 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill hit Pensacola Beach, hurting the fishing and tourism industries.
The area is also home to a number of military bases, including the Naval Air Station at Pensacola and Eglin Air Force Base.
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Prepare the blankets and start setting up camp as the November night sky will be filled with multiple astronomical events.
Among the expected events, astronomers can expect a total lunar eclipse, multiple meteor showers, and sightings of the “Ice Giant” planet in its largest and brightest form.
TAURID METEOR SHOWERS
While not always the flashiest, the currently active Southern Taurids will peak November 4-5, displaying their dark but still impressionable fireballs. According to NASA, the spectacle is created when dust from Comet Encke hits Earth’s atmosphere and heats up.
From Nov. 11-12, the Northern Taurids should be brighter than usual this year if the shower follows the seven-year pattern of increased fireball activity, according to the American Meteor Society.
BEAVER MOON IN A TOTAL LUNAR ECLIPSE
According to the Old Farmer’s Almanac, the full “beaver” moon is expected November 7-8 and will be accompanied by a total lunar eclipse, giving the moon a copper color. Also known as a “blood” moon, this lunar eclipse occurs when the moon, sun, and Earth align with Earth at the center, casting a shadow on the moon.
The total lunar eclipse will peak around 6 a.m. EST, when most of North America can enjoy its reddish glow.
URANUS IN OPPOSITION
Uranus, known as the “Ice Giant” planet and famous for its cold atmosphere and many moons, will reach opposition this month, allowing anyone with a pair of binoculars to catch a glimpse of the seventh planet from the sun. . On November 9, Uranus will be opposite the sun, which means that once the sun sets, the planet will rise and shine brightest and be seen at its best.
It will be visible all night, and a good telescope may also be able to pick up the planet’s green hue, according to the Old Farmer’s Almanac.
LEONIDS METEOR SHOWER
Scheduled to peak on the night of November 17-18, the Leonids meteor shower will light up the night sky with a burst of debris from previous showers from Comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle. According to NASA, this meteor is known to be one of the fastest, with speeds reaching 71 kilometers per second. Space enthusiasts will be able to see 15 meteors per hour at its peak, which only happens once every 33 years.
NASA recommends camping at midnight local time and preparing for a long night as the shower lasts until dawn.
TIPS TO KEEP IN MIND
The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) recommends some tips for optimal vision before heading out at night.
His advice is similar for most astronomical events: check the weather ahead, stay away from city lights, and settle in an open area away from tall buildings and trees.
Most importantly, any skywatching activity should begin 30 minutes before the event in question, as human eyes need time to adjust to darkness. The CSA recommends not using phones or bright white flashlights beforehand and instead using red flashlights for getting around.
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The blowing dirt and 50-mph-plus winds of Wednesday afternoon's dust storm hindered visibility for Lubbock-area drivers and made for a hectic afternoon for tow truck operators.
"It's pretty nasty out here," said Thomas McKinney, a tow truck driver for Red Raider Wrecker. "We've seen all kinds of fender benders."
McKinney said he had responded to tow vehicles from about half a dozen crashes around the city by 5:30 p.m. Wednesday.
The dust blew into the Lubbock area about 12:30 p.m. as part of a cold front expected to keep wind speeds above 35 mph through Thursday morning and drop the overnight low to below freezing, according to the National Weather Service in Lubbock.
The Lubbock Police Department sergeant's desk reported a significant increase in fender-bender crashes throughout the city Wednesday afternoon, though the department hadn't tallied a total by late Wednesday.
Charles Martinez, a driver with RP's Heavy Duty Towing, said his company's drivers were prepared for the dusty, blustery afternoon.
"We knew the dust was coming and we made sure all our running lights were good so, even in the day, we could increase our visibility and see where we were going," he said.
Martinez said RP's saw steady demand for tow services through the afternoon.
"Mostly, it was that our customers were losing sight of curbs, didn't see pot holes and we were having to go out and fix flats," he said.
RP's drivers were advised to avoid needing a wrecker themselves.
"We slow down, even if it's just 5 mph," Martinez said. "We make sure we're driving safe."
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THE UST Central Student Council (CSC) on Sunday appealed to administrators to suspend online classes from Nov. 3, 2020 to Nov. 7, 2020 out of consideration for students affected by typhoon “Rolly” and the incoming typhoon “Siony.”
“[T]he UST CSC Central board would like to request a university-wide suspension of synchronous and asynchronous classes including submissions of academic deliverables,” the CSC wrote in a letter dated Nov. 1.
The letter was addressed to Task Force Veritas chair Prof. Clarita Carillo, Secretary General Rev. Fr. Jesus Miranda, Jr., O.P. and task force co-chair Assoc. Prof. Pilar Romero.
The student leaders pointed to the loss of electricity and weak internet connections due to inclement weather and the effects of the two typhoons.
“Even after Typhoons Rolly and Siony subside, the aftermath of the typhoons are still evident,” they said.
The CSC also suggested that the University implement precautionary measures against severe weather disturbances.
On Nov. 2, all cyclone warning signals were lifted, with Rolly at 195 kilometers west of Subic, Zambales and sustaining winds of 65 kph and gusts of up to 80 kph.
Siony was located 620 km east of Aparri, Cagayan and maintained winds of 65 kph and gusts of up to 80 kph. Weather forecasters said it was expected to exit the Philippine Area of Responsibility on Saturday.


This post may be updated.Hurricane Matthew has made violent landfall in Haiti, killing at least one person and destroying homes with heavy rain, strong winds, and surge flooding throughout the island\u0026#039;s south-western peninsula in the Caribbean\u0026#039;s most powerful storm in almost a decade.#Matthew TweetsThe eye of the Category 4 hurricane hit Haiti just after 7:00am, with maximum sustained winds of 145 miles per hour. Weather Channel meteorologist Kevin Roth said it could dump 20 inches of rain in the island\u0026#039;s lower ground and 40 inches in its mountains.\u0022Hurricane Matthew became the first Category 4 landfall in Haiti in 52 years, and parts of eastern Cuba and the Bahamas are next in line for a pummeling from this major hurricane,\u0022 the Weather Channel said.Reuters also reports:One man died when a wave crashed through his home in the beach town of Port Salut, Haiti\u0026#039;s civil protection service said. He had been too sick to leave for a shelter, according to officials.Overnight, Haitians living in vulnerable coastal shacks on the Tiburon peninsula had frantically sought shelter as Matthew closed in, bringing heavy rain and driving the ocean into seaside towns. Poor Haitians are often loath to leave home in the face of storms, fearing their few belongings will be stolen.The storm comes as the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere continues to grapple with the long-term aftermath of the 2010 earthquake that killed more than 200,000 people, as well as an expected outbreak of cholera, which the U.N. recently acknowledged it had a part in spreading.\u0022We\u0026#039;re expecting a lot of houses to go down because of the poor housing infrastructure in a lot of the rural areas where we work,\u0022 John Hasse, an aid worker in Haiti, told USA Today. \u0022With wind this strong, it will be extremely damaging and dangerous and homes for the average person are made of mud and sticks or poorly constructed cinderblocks.\u0022In the beach town of Les Cayes, about 150 people were forced to take shelter in a school, where they were reportedly left without supplies. \u0022Since yesterday we\u0026#039;ve had nothing...We must sleep on the floor...Everyone is hungry,\u0022 Erick Cange, a resident of the town\u0026#039;s La Savanne neighborhood, told Reuters.Meanwhile, NBC News meteorologist Bill Karins warned that Matthew could also be a \u0022major hurricane\u0022 from Florida to North Carolina, although impacts might be different in various regions.At Wunderground, meteorologists Bob Henson and Jim Masters explain what that could mean:One particular concern is the risk of very heavy rain from eastern North Carolina into the Delmarva region. The last two weeks have already left totals exceeding 10\u0022 in some areas. Any rains from Matthew would fall atop saturated soil, and even strong tropical-storm-force winds could lead to widespread tree uprooting. We can also expect major beach erosion as Matthew churns northeastward.Florida Governor Rick Scott declared a state of emergency on Monday, putting the National Guard on standby.The storm is also expected to hit Cuba in the province of Guantánamo, also home to the controversial U.S. military prison. Alexis Iglesias, head of the evacuation committee at Guantánamo University, which is acting as a storm shelter, told Reuters, \u0022We are receiving people living in villages prone to flooding.\u0022Last week, the Guantánamo Navy base evacuated about 700 family members of troops and other military staff to a \u0022safe haven\u0022 in Pensacola.


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For the Riverina area, July turned out to be consistently wet and warm.
Builders at the flooded Myer redevelopment site in Hobart have been able to stop water flowing into retailer's Liverpool Street store.
Parts of New South Wales woke to a blanket of low cloud and fog this morning, reducing visibility dramatically.


CARRABELLE, Fla. (WTXL) - Things have been rough out on Carrabelle beach Monday as the center of Alberto nears the coast just west of here.
Since we’re on the eastern side of the storm, we’re getting the nasty part of Alberto with plenty of rain and gusty winds.
WTXL's Valerie Mills was at the beach earlier Monday afternoon, but conditions started to get dangerous so she moved into town. Things are calmer, but the water is still choppy on the bay and boats are rocking around.
Winds have been consistently blowing at 30 mph with gusts closer to 45 mph.
The area has mostly been dealing with heavy rain and some flooding on the roadways.
Even though the weather is threatening, some locals have still been coming out to the beach to check out the surf.
“I love the weather and this is really interesting. It’s not the first storm we’ve been through," said Bob black, a Carrabelle resident. "We rode out Andrew out on St. George back in 95. It was a little more of a storm.”
Strong winds are expected to continue in Carrabelle Monday with a surge between 2 and 4 feet.
As Alberto pushes north, conditions will start to improve in Carrabelle. There’s still a chance for downpours, high winds and choppy waters Tuesday.


A Russian motorist's dashcam captured a mysterious flash that lit up the night sky over the Ural Mountains last Friday. "For a few moments night turned into dazzling day, then everything went dark again," one witness told The Siberian Times. Some have speculated a missile explosion or object from space caused the bright flash but meteorologists and scientists are baffled by the phenomenon. The strange light was not accompanied by sound and, according to a local observatory, nothing fell from the sky that day. Check out the video here.


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Three feet of water still remains in many North Carolina homes, and a spin-off tornado that touched down
in Hampton, Va. displaced nearly 1,000 people and injured at least a dozen.
Despite reports of widespread flooding, the heavy rains provided a respite to many Mid-Atlantic residents
who have been coping with water restrictions as the result of a lengthy drought. While the storms have
been helpful in replenishing water supplies, weather forecasters warn, that much more rain is needed to
actually break the drought.
As Dennis' remnants continued to drift northward, most people are counting their blessings at the same
time they calculate damages. "Today is just beautiful," said the Rev. Ellis Bedsworth from his office at the
Trinity United Methodist Church in the town of Marshallberg on the North Carolina coast, as the clouds
"Years ago, I heard a man say he hoped he never died during a hurricane because the next day was always
so beautiful. Now I know what he meant. I'm sitting here, lookingat the water damage here in my office --
the roof has been leaking all week -- but I'm still grateful just to be here."
In nearby Davis, N.C., resident Richard Wade had a slightly different perspective. "We have just been
tormented by water," he said. "It rained for days, and the streets are still filled with water. The salt water
came up so far during high tide that it ruined crops and everyone's garden."
On Monday, Davis plans to volunteer, along with teams from churches and other community
organizations, to help clean debris out of people's yards. "A lot of people -- the elderly for example -- just
can't do that themselves."
Weather forecasters are also marveling at Dennis persistence and "staying power." Generally, tropical
storms affect a single area for 12 hours or less, including the approach and retreat.
Yet Dennis hung over the Carolina coast for nearly a week, and the extended rain and a nine-foot storm
surge caused flooding in many North Carolina communities. No significant injuries have yet been
At the peak of the storm, more than 18 shelters were opened in nine North Carolina coastal counties.
The North Carolina Division of Emergency Management reported that some 150 homes were flooded in
Craven County and more than 100 in Pamlico County, where floodwaters were up to four feet deep, and
some county buildings were also flooded and diesel fuel spills and propane tanks are causing pollution
Reports also indicated that half of Ocracoke Island is flooded. The communities of Belhaven, Washington,
Washington Park, Aurora, Core Point, and Cedar Island were also hard-hit, and assessment teams are still
Highway 12 -- the only route to North Carolina's Outer Banks -- was open to 4-wheel-drive vehicles
Sunday, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency continues to assist people from disaster field
offices throughout the state.
People on Hatteras Island who ignored evacuation orders six days ago were stranded again when
gale-force winds disrupted ferry service to the mainland. Earlier in the week, Dennis stranded some 5,000
people on Hatteras and elsewhere on the Outer Banks.
Scattered power outages are still reported in North Carolina, Maryland, and Virginia. At the storm's peak,
nearly 5,000 people were without power in North Carolina. Although Dennis' sustained winds were
clocked at 70 mph Saturday, by Sunday winds in North Carolina dropped to 35 mph. The system has
continued to weaken as it travels over land.
But even before Dennis left North Carolina Sunday night, the storm caused spin-off tornadoes that
touched down in Virginia on Saturday. A tornado in Hampton, which touched down on Saturday,
damaged an assisted living center, nursing home, and two apartment buildings. The Red Cross has opened
shelters in two local schools to help house nearly 1,000 displaced people, and the Salvation Army and local
churches are helping to meet immediate needs.
A tornado also touched down in Chesapeake, Va., destroying a barn and downing power lines. Residents
there -- and in neighboring states as well -- are marveling that no one was killed. "This storm simply didn't
come on with as much force as it might have," said Tom Lamkin, a Morehead City, N.C. resident.
Heavy rains were hitting Philadelphia late Sunday, and residents there, and in Maryland and Virginia,
experienced a regional rarity of tropical 80-degree temperatures combined with rapidly shifting and
spinning clouds, localized spiking rain, and gusting winds. Rain could last in those areas through Tuesday.
There, even brief intervals of sunlight were cause for concern as weather forecasters warned that, as
sunshine warmed the air, the temperature rise increased the chances a tornado would form.
Virginia Power and the Potomac Electric Power Company reported a few thousand power outages
Sunday. Emergency response officials remain concerne d that, particularly in more mountainous areas,
torrential rains will cause flash flooding as water runs rapidly off the drought-hardened ground.
Throughout the past week, parts of the Southeast baked as temperatures soared way above seasonal
averages. Parts of Alabama reached record highs of 101 degrees, and Atlanta, Ga., hit 96.
Weather forecasters are also closely watching the seventh tropical depression of the season, formed in the
southwestern Gulf of Mexico late Sunday, which may hit northeastern Mexico as early as Monday evening
bringing heavy rain to that area. Tropical storm warnings are in effect along the Gulf coast of Mexico.
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21.10.2016: A Polar front heading south towards Spain is going to change the weather in the Canary Islands during the next week.
17.10.2016: The rain that was headed towards the Canary Islands yesterday faded away before it reachedus. All we got in Gran Canaria was a few drops of rain scattered across the island.
13.10.2016: Spain got seriously wet yesterday and the tail end of that weather is arriving in the Canary Islands today. It won't affect the south of the island, but the north can expect the odd shower (although the sun is blazing this morning).
The months of stable weather we've had in Gran Canaria are ending and there's a chance of rain towards the end of the week.
The dregs of the British press (Express, Star; Mail won't be far behind) reported yesterday that Teide volcano on Tenerife is about to erupt. Here's why they are talking nonsense.
03.10.2016: We were expecting a weak but wet front to arrive today or tomorrow and brings showers to most of Gran Canaria. However, it's gone north and won't affect us.
29.09.2016 Gran Canaria, and particularly the south of the island is currently under a surprise cloud of dust.
The Trade Winds have faded and we're now in the period of calm, sunny weather known in the Canary Islands as 'las bonanzas de Septiembre'.
Visitors to the Canary Islands have been warned to watch out for fake ambulances and a scam based around food poisoning in hotels.
The Spanish AEMET weather service has confirmed that summer 2016 was a hot one and that it expects autumn in the Canary Islands to be warmer than normal.
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The spirit of Tauro beach lives on even as Anfi's bulldozers wait for its new coating of Saharan sand, but chances are it will never be quite the same again.
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A series of tornadoes tore through Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Iowa on Sunday, killing at least 18 people.
The deadly tornadoes hit Arkansas the hardest, killing as many as 10 people, including two children, in Faulkner County, and destroying at least 150 homes in the area.
“What I’m seeing is something that I cannot describe in words,” Faulkner County Sheriff Andy shock told NBC News. “It is utter and sheer devastation.”
At least one other person was killed in neighboring Oklahoma, and there was at least one other fatality in Keokuk County, Iowa.
A twister that touched down in Baxter Springs, Kan., on Sunday night also destroyed several dozen homes and injured more than 30 people, according to officials.
Several states are still under tornado watch for Tuesday and Wednesday as the storm progresses eastward, including parts of Indiana, the Florida Panhandle, the Virginia coastline, Georgia, and the Carolinas.


Flash floods in Texas, Oklahoma kill 2, 100s of homes gone
Record rainfall was wreaking havoc across a swath of the US Midwest, causing flash floods in normally dry riverbeds, spawning tornadoes and forcing at least 2,000 people to flee
San Marcos: Record rainfall was wreaking havoc across a swath of the US Midwest, causing flash floods in normally dry riverbeds, spawning tornadoes and forcing at least 2,000 people to flee. Tornadoes struck, severely damaging an apartment complex in Houston, Texas yesterday. A firefighter in Oklahoma was swept to his death while trying to rescue 10 people in high water.
And the body of a man was recovered from a flooded area along the Blanco River, which rose 26 feet (7.8 metres) in just one hour and left piles of wreckage 20 feet (6 metres) high, authorities in Texas said. "It looks pretty bad out there," said Hays County emergency management coordinator Kharley Smith, describing the destruction in Wimberley, a community that is part of a fast-growing corridor between Austin and San Antonio.
"We do have whole streets with maybe one or two houses left on them and the rest are just slabs," she said. From 350 to 400 homes were destroyed in Wimberley, many of them washed away, Smith said. Several people remained missing. Kenneth Bell, the emergency management coordinator in nearby San Marcos, said the damage in Hays County alone amounts to "millions of dollars."
Authorities also warned people to honour a night-time curfew and stay away from damaged areas, since more rain was on the way, threatening more floods with the ground saturated and waterways overflowing. Rivers rose so fast that whole communities woke up yesterday surrounded by water.
The Blanco crested above 40 feet (12 metres) more than triple its flood stage of 13 feet (3.9 metres) swamping Interstate 35 and forcing parts of the busy north-south highway to close. Rescuers used pontoon boats and a helicopter to pull people out. Dallas also faced severe flooding from the Trinity River, which was expected to crest near 40 feet (12 metres) today and lap at the foundations of an industrial park.
The Red and Wichita rivers also rose far above flood stage. This May is already the wettest on record for several cities in the southern Plains states, with days still to go and more rain on the way. So far this year, Oklahoma City has recorded 27.37 inches (69.52 centimetres) of rain. Last year the state's capital got only 4.29 inches (10.9 centimetres).
The reasons include a prolonged warming of Pacific Ocean sea surface temperatures, which generally results in cooler air, coupled with an active southern jet stream and plentiful moisture from the Gulf of Mexico, said Meteorologist Forrest Mitchell at THE National Weather Service office in Norman, Oklahoma.


SIGHTINGS of the Northern Lights in the UK will be wiped out within the next few decades due to changes in solar activity, scientists claim.
These fluctuations could make the Earth more vulnerable to devastating solar blasts and cancer-causing cosmic rays, according to researchers at the University of Reading.
The phenomenal light is one of Iceland's biggest selling points, but the very north of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland get treated to a display every now and again.
Dr Mathew Owens, from the University of Reading’s Meteorology department, led the research. He said: "The magnetic activity of the sun ebbs and flows in predictable cycles, but there is also evidence that it is due to plummet, possibly by the largest amount for 300 years.
"If so, the Northern Lights phenomenon would become a natural show exclusive to the polar regions, due to a lack of solar wind forces that often make it visible at lower latitudes.
"As the sun becomes less active, sunspots and coronal ejections will become less frequent. However, if a mass ejection did hit the Earth, it could be even more damaging to the electronic devices on which society is now so dependent."
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The Northern Lights is caused geomagnetic storms whipped up by solar flares blasting from the Sun toward our atmosphere.
These storms may create beautiful natural scenes, but can prove devastating to human civilisation as we know it, experts have warned.
They wreak havoc on navigation systems and cause entire national power grids to grind to a halt.
US president Barack Obama was forced to issue a chilling warning to the nation in preparation for devastating space weather storms earlier this year.
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Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionAmbulance rescued on snowy road in Basingstoke Freezing temperatures are continuing into the weekend after snow once again left many motorists stuck in their vehicles overnight. Highways England said police had worked until 02:00 GMT on Saturday to free vehicles from the M3 near Basingstoke. And Kent
Freezing temperatures are continuing into the weekend after snow once again left many motorists stuck in their vehicles overnight.
Highways England said police had worked until 02:00 GMT on Saturday to free vehicles from the M3 near Basingstoke.
And Kent Police tweeted it had had an “incredibly busy night” with “numerous” collisions and stranded cars.
The Met Office said temperatures could reach -16C (3F) in Scotland on Saturday night but that Sunday should be milder.
Services on South Western Railway – which runs trains from London as far west as Exeter – could face disruption until midday on Saturday after “a band of heavy snow”, National Rail warned.
Yellow weather warnings for snow and ice are expected to remain in place across the UK until noon on Saturday.
The weather has also affected this weekend’s football programme, with Saturday’s match between Port Vale and Tranmere Rovers postponed because of a frozen pitch.
Five Scottish League One and Two matches have also been postponed.
Several of Saturday’s matches will be subject to pitch inspections on Saturday morning but fans heading for matches can check for the latest updates on postponements on the BBC Sport website.
London City Airport cancelled or diverted several flights on Friday evening because of heavy snowfall but said it expected the runway to be “open as normal” on Saturday.
The airport said any concerned passengers should “check their flight status in advance” with their airline.
Bristol Airport also closed its runway due to snow on Friday but it too is expecting services to return to normal.
Southern England bore the brunt of Friday’s fresh snowfall, with the Met Office recording snow at a depth of 19cm (7.5in) at RAF Odiham near Basingstoke on Friday evening.
Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital made an appeal for nursing staff within walking distance to help, as it faced staffing issues when the town’s roads becoming gridlocked on Friday.
In Bath, the Corridor shopping centre was closed after two separate roof collapses due to snow.
However, the poor weather meant few shoppers were around at the time and no-one was hurt.
Temperatures fell to their lowest level this winter in the early hours of Friday, with Braemar, Aberdeenshire, dropping to -15.4C (6F).
This is the lowest in the UK since 2012 – when temperatures fell to -15.6C in Holbeach, Lincolnshire.
What’s the weekend forecast?
BBC weather presenter Chris Fawkes said travel disruption was likely to continue into Saturday due to lying snow and ice.
It will remain cold on Saturday but wintry showers will become increasingly confined to eastern coasts of the UK, leaving some spells of sunshine.
What warnings are in place?
There are yellow warnings for snow and ice covering northern Scotland, most of Northern Ireland, the eastern coast of England and the west coast of Wales until 12:00 GMT on Saturday.
They warn of some snow showers, with heavier accumulations of up to 5cm (2in) possible in northern Scotland and up to 10cm (4in) over higher ground.
A separate warning for ice is in place for southern England until late morning.
Yellow warnings are issued for low level impacts, including some disruption to travel. People should check the latest forecast to see how they might be impacted.
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I’ve been busy lately visiting Grade 5 students who are studying the weather unit in class.
It doesn’t take long before we get on to the topic of hurricanes. One day last week, a young boy asked if hurricanes from the Pacific can cross over to the Atlantic?
Yes and no.
A hurricane-strength storm is unable to cross over that much land and still be a hurricane. However, tropical storms and remnants of hurricanes are able to cross over. When this does happen, the new storm is referred to as a Pacific-Atlantic crossover hurricane. That can work the other way, too and it’s called an Atlantic-Pacific crossover hurricane. When the storm enters the new basin or body of water, it is given a new name.
Remember Willa? On Monday, Willa was a Category 5 Pacific hurricane off the coast of Mexico. Willa quickly weakened after making landfall as a Category 3 on Tuesday. Energy – aka rain bands – have been travelling eastward across the southern states. As the remnants of Willa push off the coast and move back over water, what was once a Category 5 hurricane will become a Nor’easter and a snowstorm for parts of Ontario and Quebec this weekend.


Storm Chase Details
Chase Date: August 4, 2008
Miles Logged: 378
States Chased: MI, IN
Highest Wind Encountered: 65MPH
First PDS Severe Watch
Severe Risks: SPC Outlooks
I knew the potential for Severe Storms was great, however, I also came to the realization that the best chance of severe weather was in the 8600 CAPE area in Central and North Central Illinois. Having worked all day Monday and having to work Tuesday, I decided that was pretty much a chase that wouldn’t happen.
After work I drove to Battle Creek and ended up sitting around for a couple hours. I filled up and washed & Rain-X’ed my windows.
A Derecho formed in North Central IL and was heading towards the Chicago Area. I decided to start dropping southwest towards the South Bend, IN area to intercept. The SPC then issued a Particularly Dangerous Situation (PDS) Severe Thunderstorm Watch for Northwest Indiana. It was the first time I had really seen a PDS Severe watch in our area – and was the first time I had ever been IN one.
I headed down US-131 to US-20 south of Elkhart and South Bend. I took US-31 South to Lakeville, IN. I wanted to make it all the way to Plymouth, IN but knew I would never make it so I found an open spot where chances of debris hitting me would be significantly less. While I was sitting there waiting on the storm to hit me, The Weather Channel called and asked if I could do a phoner with Jim Cantore.
I ended up driving east on US-6 and not finding any damage so I drove west to where all the reports of damage was coming in from La Porte and Michigan City. I ended up finding nothing and returned home up 94 to 69 to Lansing. I pulled in around 3 am. I was at work again at 745 am the next morning. Needless to say, Tuesday I was tired.
Weather Channel Phoner
PDS Severe Thunderstorm Watch Text
URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 807 NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK 715 PM CDT MON AUG 4 2008 THE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST ILLINOIS NORTHWEST INDIANA EXTREME SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN LAKE MICHIGAN EFFECTIVE THIS MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY MORNING FROM 715 PM UNTIL 200 AM CDT. …THIS IS A PARTICULARLY DANGEROUS SITUATION… EXTREMELY DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS TO 90 MPH…LARGE HAIL TO 2 INCHES IN DIAMETER…AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH AREA IS APPROXIMATELY ALONG AND 50 STATUTE MILES NORTH AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM 55 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF MEIGS FIELD ILLINOIS TO 30 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SOUTH BEND INDIANA. FOR A COMPLETE DEPICTION OF THE WATCH SEE THE ASSOCIATED WATCH OUTLINE UPDATE (WOUS64 KWNS WOU7). REMEMBER…A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES. OTHER WATCH INFORMATION…CONTINUE…WW 806… DISCUSSION…DEVELOPING INTENSE BOW ECHO IN NRN IL WILL LIKELY MOVE THROUGH THE CHICAGO AREA INTO NW INDIANA DURING THE NEXT FEW HOURS. THE MCS SHOULD MAINTAIN INTENSITY MOVING ALONG A GRADIENT OF EXTREME INSTABILITY ACROSS NE IL INTO NW INDIANA. VERY DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE POSSIBLE IN A NARROW SWATH INCLUDING CHICAGO…ALONG WITH AN ISOLATED/BRIEF TORNADO AND LARGE HAIL. AVIATION…A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HAIL SURFACE AND ALOFT TO 2 INCHES. EXTREME TURBULENCE AND SURFACE WIND GUSTS TO 80 KNOTS. A FEW CUMULONIMBI WITH MAXIMUM TOPS TO 600. MEAN STORM MOTION VECTOR 28050.


The power of the federal government is limited by the U.S. Constitution. That shouldnâ€™t be a controversial statement. But in some quarters, it is. As the Obama administration readies a new slate of power grabs by the Environmental Protection Agency, it has called in former Republican EPA head Christine Todd Whitman to justify its actions.
â€śThe Environmental Protection Agency has the authority to address climate change,â€ť she wrote for Politico.com on Monday. â€śThat shouldnâ€™t be a controversial statement, but in some quarters, it is. â€¦ As administrator of the EPA from 2001-03, I served in the administration of President George W. Bush. I may sometimes disagree with his successor on the best way to address climate change as a matter of policy, but I absolutely agree that the EPA has broad authority to issue regulations addressing climate change.â€ť
The issue is regulation of â€śgreenhouse gases,â€ť including carbon dioxide. That issue came before the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday.
As Reuters reported, â€śThe nine justices will weigh whether the agency has authority to regulate greenhouse gases under a program for issuing permits for stationary sources of pollution, such as power plants and oil refineries. A decision is expected by the end of June.â€ť
Whitman argues that the government does have such power. Or at least, it should.
â€śClimate change is the defining environmental challenge of our time, and there are huge consequences for inaction â€” whether measured in human lives or economic disruption,â€ť she claimed. â€śGiven these stakes, I wish Congress would step up and do its job, refining Americaâ€™s approach to climate change and expanding the tools at the EPAâ€™s disposal. In previous decades, the EPA could rely upon bipartisan majorities to revise the Clean Air Act and address new and growing air pollution problems directly. Today, gridlock and partisanship make such common-sense action all but impossible. Nevertheless, the Clean Air Act â€” as written â€” remains the most powerful tool the EPA has at its disposal to address the issue of climate change.â€ť
Her reasoning, then, goes something like this: Since climate change is so important, and since Congress isnâ€™t doing its job, the EPA must use its â€śmost powerful toolâ€ť to address it.
But Daniel Fisher of Forbes points out that the Clean Air Act was never intended to do any such thing.
â€śCertainly Congress wasnâ€™t thinking of carbon dioxide when it passed the Clean Air Act in 1970,â€ť Fisher writes. â€śThe law was designed to reduce soot, ozone and other pollutants that contributed to smog and breathing problems on the ground. There was a direct relationship between reducing these pollutants and the quality of the air in cities like Los Angeles and New York.â€ť
In fact, when the Clean Air Act was passed, scientists were warning of apocalyptic global cooling. There was even a scientific consensus.
What Whitman and the Obama administration miss is that governmentâ€™s powers are limited â€” by design.
They argue that Congress is divided â€” but thatâ€™s a reason for not expanding an agencyâ€™s powers.
Thereâ€™s no justification for the EPA to seize more power.


New air quality research is investigating a major, but often overlooked contributor to outdoor pollution and climate: burning of solid fuel for cooking and heating.
London's mayor has issued a smog alert for the British capital, advising people with heart and lung conditions to avoid outdoor exercise.
China is suspending local meteorological bureaus from issuing smog alerts, media reported Wednesday, raising suspicions the government is attempting to suppress information about the country's air pollution as public anger ...
Indiana University research reveals a pattern of companies strategically locating facilities where wind will carry pollution across state lines.
Oslo will ban diesel cars from the road for at least two days this week in a bid to combat rising air pollution, angering some motorists after they were urged to buy diesel cars a few years ago.
Officials in Beijing have announced a new environmental police squad to root out illegal burning in the city, the latest government response to the widespread public anger over China's persistent problems with smog.
Hundreds of Mongolians braved frigid weather Monday to stage a protest in the country's capital demanding that the government do more to address worsening air pollution that they fear is sickening their children and shortening ...
Chinese weather forecasters and state media say the dense, gray smog that has smothered much of China, closing schools and grounding planes, may finally soon give way.
China's capital and other northern cities have banned half of all vehicles from city streets and ordered factories, schools and construction sites closed in response to a five-day smog red alert.
The French government has announced an anti-pollution plan, including a financial boost to buy electric vehicles, as Paris and other cities in the country are emerging from a particularly severe episode of air pollution.


Mumbai authorities ordered offices and factories to shut and people to stay home Wednesday, reversing a move to ease a coronavirus lockdown as the Indian megacity faced its first cyclone in more than 70 years.
Mumbai is bracing for its first cyclone in more than 70 years (Photo: AFP)
Cyclone Nisarga was expected to make landfall near the coastal town of Alibag, around 100 kilometres (60 miles) south of Mumbai, on Wednesday afternoon, forecasters said.
Maharashtra state, of which Mumbai is the capital, and neighbouring Gujarat have evacuated at least 100,000 people to safer locations and ordered fishermen not to go out until the storm passes.
The evacuees include nearly 150 coronavirus patients from a recently built field hospital in Mumbai, underscoring the difficulties facing the city ahead of the monsoon season as it struggles to contain the pandemic, with around a fifth of India's cases.
Mumbai police announced fresh restrictions on the city of 18 million people, which was just beginning to emerge from a months-long lockdown, and banned gatherings of four people or more until Thursday afternoon.
"Refrain from venturing out to coast-beaches, promenade, parks and other similar places along the coastline," the police tweeted early Wednesday.
"Do not leave your house for your own safety and well-being," Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray tweeted late Tuesday, warning of possible disruptions to the power supply due to heavy rainfall.
"Offices, industries and other activities, which have started functioning, will be shut tomorrow and day after," he added.
Slum-dwellers in low-lying areas of Mumbai have been instructed to move to higher ground, Thackeray said earlier on Tuesday, with city authorities turning empty schools into temporary shelters.
Inter-state railway services were also disrupted with delays and diversions to ensure that trains would not travel through Mumbai until the cyclone had passed.
Indian meteorologists have warned of heavy rainfall -- with winds of 100-110 kilometres per hour (60-70 miles per hour) and gusts of up to 120 kph -- causing damage to thatched huts, power lines and one to two metre-high (three to 6.5 feet) storm surges inundating low-lying areas of Maharashtra.
Mumbai has rarely faced the brunt of cyclones -- the last severe storm to hit the city struck in 1948, killing 12 people and injuring more than 100.
Nisarga comes on the heels of Cyclone Amphan, which killed more than 100 people as it ravaged eastern India and Bangladesh last month, flattening villages, destroying farms and leaving millions without electricity.


PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Heavy rains from the outer bands of Hurricane Matthew drenched Jamaica and Haiti on Monday, flooding streets and sending many people to emergency shelters as the Category 4 storm approached the two countries. Two deaths were reported in Haiti, bringing the total for the storm to at least four.
Matthew had sustained winds of 140 mph as it moved north, up from 130 mph earlier in the day. The center was expected to pass just east of Jamaica and near or over the southwestern tip of Haiti early Tuesday before heading to eastern Cuba, the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said.
“We are looking at a dangerous hurricane that is heading into the vicinity of western Haiti and eastern Cuba,” said Richard Pasch, a senior hurricane specialist with the center. “People who are impacted by things like flooding and mudslides hopefully would get out and relocate because that’s where we have seen loss of life in the past.”
Many were taking that advice. In Jamaica, more than 700 people packed shelters in the eastern parish of St. Thomas and the Salvation Army said there were about 200 people at its shelters in Kingston as it put out a call for mattresses and cots. Many streets flooded throughout the country’s southeast.
Still, many people chose to stick it out. Local Government Minister Desmond McKenzie said all but four residents of the Port Royal area near the Kingston airport refused to board buses and evacuate.
Fisherman Carlos Smith in St. Catherine Parish said he realized the storm appeared to be dangerous but he couldn’t abandon his property. “I want to leave anytime now and go to a shelter, but we can’t leave our things because that’s how we hustle and make a living,” he said.
In Haiti, authorities went door to door in the south coast cities of Les Cayes and Jérémie to make sure people were aware of the storm. At least 1,200 people were evacuated to shelters in churches and schools.
“We are continuing to mobilize teams in the south to move people away from dangerous areas,” said Marie Alta Jean-Baptiste, head of Haiti’s civil protection agency.
In Port-au-Prince, schools were shuttered and residents lined up at gas stations and cleared out the shelves at supermarkets as a light rain fell in the capital. Some worried the city of roughly a million people would not fare well. “We are not prepared,” unemployed mason Fritz Achelus said as he watched water pool on a downtown street.
At least two fishermen died in rough water churned up by the storm, Jean-Baptiste said. A boat carrying one of the men capsized early Monday off the tiny southwestern fishing town of Saint Jean du Sud as he was trying to bring his wooden skiff to shore. The body of the other was recovered a short time later off the nearby town of Aquin after he apparently drowned.
Their deaths brought the total for the storm to at least four. One man died Friday in Colombia and a 16-year-old in St. Vincent and the Grenadines on Sept. 28 when the system passed through the eastern Caribbean.
Forecasters said the storm was expected to dump as much as 40 inches of rain on some isolated areas of Haiti, raising fears of deadly mudslides and floods in the heavily deforested country where many families live in flimsy houses with corrugated metal roofs.
Matthew is one of the most powerful Atlantic hurricanes in recent history and briefly reached the top classification, Category 5, becoming the strongest hurricane in the region since Felix in 2007. The hurricane center said the storm appeared to be on track to pass east of Florida through the Bahamas, but it was too soon to predict with certainty whether it would threaten any spot on the U.S. East Coast.
“Although our track is to the east of Florida, interests there should remain vigilant and we can’t rule out the possibility of impacts,” Pasch said.
As of 11 a.m. EDT, the storm was centered about 275 miles southwest of Haiti’s capital of Port-au-Prince and 205 miles southeast of Kingston. It was moving north at 6 mph.
A hurricane warning was posted for the southeastern Bahamas. A hurricane watch was in effect for eastern Cuba, the southeastern Bahamas and the Turks and Caico Islands.
After passing Jamaica and Haiti, Matthew’s center was expected to pass about 50 miles east of the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where authorities evacuated about 700 spouses and children of service members on military transport planes to Florida.
The U.S. installation has a population of about 5,500, including 61 men held at the detention center for terrorism suspects. Navy Capt. David Culpepper, the base commander, said emergency shelters had been set up and authorities were bracing for 80 mph winds along with storm surge and heavy rain that could threaten some low-lying areas, including around the power plant and water desalination facility.
“We have no choice but to prepare ourselves to take a frontal assault if you will,” Culpepper said.


I love it when it's storming outside
Especially when the thunder shakes the house, lightning lights up the sky almost non-stop, it's raining so hard you can barely see, and the wind makes the trees look like they're about to fall. It's beautiful. The only thing missing would be a funnel cloud. Thank god we don't get tornados in Northern Michigan.


Local climate improve is the outcome of a fatal calculus: human lives are well worth jeopardizing and even getting rid of above the profits of global companies.
The Globe Meteorological Group (WMO) recently dropped a bombshell announcement that really should have garnered information headlines in the significant world-wide and U.S. media, but did not. New WMO investigation concludes that “[t]here is a 50:50 prospect of the once-a-year typical world wide temperature temporarily reaching 1.5 degrees Celsius earlier mentioned the preindustrial level for at least a person of the up coming five several years.”
WMO Secretary-General Professor Petteri Taalas described, “The 1.5 degree Celsius figure is not some random statistic. It is fairly an indicator of the place at which local climate impacts will develop into progressively hazardous for people and in fact the whole world.”
In 2015, the chance of achieving that threshold inside of 5 several years was just about zero. In 2017 it was 10 percent, and nowadays it is 50 per cent. As we continue on to spew greenhouse gases […]


In this paper, the effect of possible missing data on wind power estimation is examined. One-month wind speed data obtained from wind and solar observation station which is constructed at Iki Ey- Campus of Anadolu University is used. A closed correlation is found between consecutive wind speed data that are collected for a period of 15 second. A very short time wind speed forecasting model is built by using two-input and one-output Adaptive Neuro Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS). First, some randomly selected data from whole data are discarded. Second, 10%, 20% and 30% of all data which are randomly selected from a predefined interval (3-6 m/sec) are discarded and discarded data, are forecasted. Finally, the data are fitted to Weibull distribution, Weibull distribution parameters are obtained and wind powers are estimated for all cases. The results show that the missing data has a significant effect on wind power estimation and must be taken into account in wind studies. Furthermore, it is concluded that ANFIS is a convenient tool for this kind of prediction.


There is light at the end of the tunnel that is winter in Grey-Bruce.
After a late-season winter storm that dumped record amounts of snow on the region over the weekend, forecasters are expecting conditions to improve slowly as the week goes on.
Geoff Coulson, a warning preparedness meteorologist with Environment Canada, said Monday morning that southern Ontario was on the back edge of the system as it continued to move eastward, but there was still a bit more snow in the forecast for Monday night and some flurries for Tuesday. There will likely be some sunshine Wednesday, but it is to get cooler again before more spring-like weather arrives beginning on Friday.
“We finally break into more sunshine and approaching seasonal temperatures for the weekend,” said Coulson. “Looking at the forecast into next week there are more indications that we could be closer to seasonal temperatures.”
The region, and much of southern Ontario, were hammered over the weekend that brought heavy snow, freezing rain and ice pellets that left roadways a slippery, sloppy mess.
In Grey-Bruce, much of it came in the form of snow, with 39.6 centimetres of the white stuff recorded at the Wiarton airport, a new single-day high for the month of April, besting the 26.8 cm of snow recorded there on April 10, 1992.
And it continued Sunday with significant accumulations of ice pellets, and on Monday with heavy, wet snow.
Coulson said as of Monday morning, 110 cm of snow and ice pellets had been reported at the Wiarton airport, shattering the previous snowfall record for the month of April, which was 45.4 cm in 2003. Weather station records go back to 1948.
“This is way above what we would normally expect,” said Coulson. “Normal snowfall for the month of April for the area should be about 17.3 cm.”
On Monday all school buses across the two counties were cancelled. Heavy, wet snow fell throughout the morning in Owen Sound, though by the noon hour, those who had lost power in and around the city had the lights back on.
As of 1:30 p.m., the Hydro One storm centre was reporting outages across the province, including about 450 customers in the Durham area. There were also outages affecting customers in the Chesley, Markdale, Kincardine and Walkerton areas.
In Owen Sound, winter snow clearing operations usually wind down by mid-April, but the winter-like conditions were anticipated this weekend and the winter control shift has been extended a week until Friday.
“We had our normal winter crews in and they have continued to basically work through the weekend to keep the roads cleared,” city manager Wayne Ritchie said on Monday. “Certainly I think the roads were less travelled so I think some people were heeding the advice to not go out unless you had to, and that certainly helped.”
Ritchie said the sheer weight of the snow and ice pellets that had fallen appeared to be the biggest obstacle, with residents finding it difficult to keep their driveways clear.
“It is just that odd kind of occurrence where we have to keep going because the forecast is that this will continue,” said Ritchie. “Our crews continue to do what they do.”
Owen Sound's manager of water and wastewater Matt Prentice said the city ordered more salt in on the weekend to ensure they had enough and provisions were made to pump fuel into the city's trucks in case power was lost, but power had not been lost by late Monday morning.
Prentice said that they were down a plow for a short time on the weekend, but it was quickly back into service, while a sidewalk plow that was out of service was expected to be back on Monday.
The city also had a water distribution crew and a public works crew clearing catchbasins of snow and slush to allow water to drain.
“We are trying to make sure we don't have flooding issues,” said Prentice. “That is part of the focus right now, but obviously we have all the equipment going as well, including sidewalk plows and snow plows.”
Prentice said the weight of the snow was slowing down the sidewalk plows, while snowplows were running as normal.
“We are on it as much as we can be anyway,” said Prentice. “Everything we have is on it anyway. We can't do any more than we already are.”
Prentice said staff was keeping an eye on the forecast, which seemed to be jumping around a bit.
“This snow we are having right now was supposed to be rain all day for us, so it is better this way I think than having continued rain and making the flooding worse,” said Prentice. “At the same time, January can go away now.”
Ritchie said the city had budgeted almost $1.6 million for snow removal in 2018 and already close to $1 million of that had been spent before the weekend.
“Hopefully we have a good fall and we make it up,” said Ritchie. “We are definitely over budget at this time on winter maintenance.”