Great South Jersey Places to See Meteor Shower of the Year
This weekend's Perseid meteor shower is expected to be the best meteor shower of the year -- perhaps of the last several years -- if the weather cooperates.
This year's meteor shower peaks this weekend, Aug 11-13, between midnight and dawn, but the meteor shower could start as early as 10 pm.
Last year's Perseid peak days coincided with the full moon, making seeing those "shooting stars" harder to see in the bright night sky. This year, the Perseid meteor shower is much closer to a new moon, with the sky only expected to be illuminated by 8 to 10%.
Meteorologist Dan Zarrow's Meteor Shower-Watching Forecast
Updated on Friday, Aug. 11th. You may want to look for some meteors on Friday. Friday night should be clear to partly cloudy, low of 70 degrees. Saturday night we will have a few clouds and a hazier sky, possibly obscuring visibility.
What Is the Perseid Meteor Shower?
The Perseid Meteor Shower is an annual celestial natural phenomenon caused by the Earth passing through a stream of debris from the comet Swift-Tuttle, which leaves behind tiny meteoroids in its wake as it orbits around the Sun.
Where Are the Best Places in South Jersey to Watch the Perseid Meteor Shower?
In Atlantic County, telescopes will be set up in the field adjacent to the parking lot at the Batsto Visitors Center, 31 Batsto Road in Washington Township, Saturday, Aug 12, beginning at 7:30 pm. The event is free and open to everyone. Call the Wharton State Forest Batsto office for more information at 609-561-0024.
In Cape May County, join Astrophysicist Dr. Francis Toriello, from Atlantic Cape Community College at Cape May Point Science Center for a viewing party on Saturday, Aug 12, beginning at 8:00 pm.
In lower Ocean County, Bass River State Forest is hosting a free Meteor Shower Watch on Saturday, Aug. 12, from 11 pm - 1 am.. Join volunteer “astronomy guide” Wayne Vogel at Lake Absegami beach to view the Perseids.
What If I Want to Watch the Perseid Meteor Shower on My Own?
You will want to find a spot far away from the lights of a city. No special equipment is needed, just find a wide open dark sky.
EarthSky.org says that you can expect 50-75 meteors per hour at peak times, which are the early morning hours. They recommend that you get a comfortable chair, find a dark part of the sky, and settle in to watch the show. Near dawn, you should see the most activity.


Tornado Reported in Wilton, NY
No State Is Immune To Sever Weather and Tornados, on average New York State has records 10 tornadoes per year with an average ground track of 3 miles, as recorded over the last 30 years. The EF1 Tornado in Wilton on May 15, 2020 at around 6PM EST did not stay on the ground long, but it was long enough to damage several home with wind speeds estimated between 80-95 mph. This EF1 Tornado was about 50 yards wide and stretched across the state 1.8 miles.
The National Weather Service in Albany, NY reported the Tornado on Friday, May 15, 2020
Tornado – Wilton, NY
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A brief tornado hit the Wilton, New York area in Saratoga County during the evening of May 15, 2020. The tornado touched down near the intersection of Nichols Road and Woodard Road and tracked east for about two miles before lifting at the intersection of Wilton-Gansevoort Road and Blanchard Road. The path was nearly continuous with several softwood trees snapped and uprooted (some onto houses), and street signs blown down and displaced. Also, part of the sheeting of a warehouse roof was peeled off and landed on a van, and an empty trailer was blown on top of a van.


Good morning! We have partly cloudy skies this morning. The air temp is 42 degrees and the water temp is 68 degrees. Low tide is at 8:34 am and high tide is at 10:13 pm. We have light offshore winds at about 3 mph out of the NE, causing glassy conditions out there on the water. Not much surf this morning ankle-high lines, maybe a shin-high line breaking right on shore every once in a while. We do have some surf forecasted for the next couple of days, so stop by Innerlight, grab a wetsuit, some wax, and a leash and get ready for some surf!


Cyclone Gaja set to hit Tamil Nadu, Puducherry; school, colleges shut
Cyclone Gaja centred over Bay of Bengal is likely to intensify into a severe cyclonic storm and cross Tamil Nadu coast between Pamban and Cuddalore on Thursday night.
Cyclone Gaja is expected to make a landfall between Cuddalore and Pamban on Thursday night bringing heavy rainfall to Tamil Nadu and Puducherry, the weather department said, prompting authorities to shut schools and colleges in the area.
“The Cyclonic storm ‘GAJA’ over Southwest Bay of Bengal moved further west-southwestwards with a speed of 10 kmph during past 06 hours and lay centred at 2330 hrs IST of 14th November, 2018 over Southwest Bay of Bengal near latitude 12.0°N and longitude 83.8°E, about 410 km east-southeast of Chennai (Tamil Nadu) and 450 km east-northeast of Nagapattinam (Tamil Nadu),” the India Meteorological Department said in its latest bulletin.
“It is very likely to move west-southwestwards and intensify further into a Severe Cyclonic Storm during next 12 hours. While moving west-southwestwards thereafter, it is likely to weaken and cross Tamil Nadu coast between Pamban and Cuddalore, around Nagapattinam during 15th November evening as a Cyclonic Storm with a wind speed of 80-90 kmph gusting to 100 kmph,” it added.
Live updates: 87,000 evacuated in Nagapattinam
As a result, Karaikal in Puducherry and the coastal districts of Cuddalore, Nagapattinam, Thanjavur, Tiruvarur, Pudukkottai, Ramanathapuram and Tuticorin in Tamil Nadu would receive heavy to very heavy rainfall on Thursday.
Chennai would be spared from the onslaught of the cyclone though it would bring isolated rainfall. Sporadic rainfall was reported in Chennai and the vulnerable districts in the central Tamil Nadu remained cloudy on Thursday.
The district collectors of Thanjavur, Thiruvarur, Pudukottai, Nagapattinam, Ramanathapuram and Cuddalore have declared a holiday for schools and colleges on Thursday. All educational institutions in Puducherry and Karaikal regions would also remain closed. All university examinations have also been deferred, officials said.
Indian Railways has cancelled all the train services in the districts, which will be affected by Cyclone Gaja.
The IMD’s bulletin also warned that the gale winds and rain could damage huts, rooftops and power and communication lines besides uprooting trees and causing havoc to paddy fields and other crops as well as orchards. Officials of the state agriculture department have urged farmers to insure their crops immediately.
‘We are ready’
State revenue minister RB Udhayakumar has said the state government has taken all precautionary measures to face Cyclone Gaja.
“Eight National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) teams and seven squads of the state disaster response force have been dispatched to Nagapattinam, Cuddalore, Thanjavur, Pudukkottai, Ramanathapuram and Tuticorin districts,” Udhayakumar said while speaking to reporters on Wednesday.
“Besides setting up a 24-hour control room in Chennai, we have directed the district collectors to form rescue teams. Cyclone management committees have been formed in all the 2,559 vulnerable places. 410 zonal teams are also in place. Further, 22,495 people are ready to engage in rescue works,” he said.
In addition, 368 mobile medical teams, 315 veterinary medical teams, motor pumps, swimmers, snake catchers are also ready to render timely assistance.
The Union water resources department has advised the state government to monitor all the dams to prevent any calamity in view of the prediction of a heavy rainfall.
The Central Water Commission has advised action as per the Standard Operating Procedure as heavy rainfall in catchment areas could fill up the dams fast in less than 24 hours.
Udhayakumar said mobile operators have assured to move ‘Cell on Wheels,’ mobile platforms to provide uninterrupted mobile connectivity to Nagapattinam and Cuddalore districts which are likely to witness the cyclone impact during landfall.
The government has also held discussions with oil marketing companies and they have been advised to maintain sufficient fuel stock, he said.
While reiterating caution to fishermen to not venture into the sea, Udhayakumar said a comprehensive list of do’s and don’ts have been circulated to the people on cyclone eve.
The Indian Navy has been put on high alert in view of Cyclone Gaja approaching the coast of south Tamil Nadu and Puducherry, officials said.
Navy officials said the Eastern Naval Command (ENC) has assumed a high degree of readiness to render necessary humanitarian assistance as the cyclone is poised to cross the coast of the two states on Thursday evening.
“Two Indian Naval ships, Ranvir and Khanjar, are standing by to proceed to the most affected areas to undertake humanitarian aid and distress relief,” a navy official said, according to news agency PTI.
He said these ships will have additional divers, doctors, inflatable rubber boats, integral helicopters and relief material on board. The official said helicopters, Dornier aircraft and one P8I aircraft are on standby to undertake reconnaissance, rescue and casualty evacuation.
(With agency inputs)


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Freezing rain and snow has led to numerous accidents just to the north of Boston.


NASA Curiosity's Old Parachute Flaps in the Wind on Mars [VIDEO]
The supersonic parachute that helped NASA's rover Curiosity land safely on Mars eight months has become the focal point of some recently released images from NASA.
Over the course of six months, the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter kept an eye on the parachute which assisted in Curiosity's landing.
When strung together, the seven images show the parachute moving as the wind sweeps over the landscape. Researchers may use this to help them understand wind patterns and how they affect the surface of Mars.
The Red Planet's atmosphere is 100-times thinner than Earth's, but for Curiosity's discarded parachute, the wind is strong enough to cause it to flap around.
The fading of the dark streaks could be explained by the deposition of airborne dust, according to the University of Arizona's Alfred McEwen, who heads the HiRISE science team.
"Sometime between September 8, 2012 and November 30, 2012, there was a major change in which the parachute extension to the southeast (lower right) was moved inward, so the parachute covers a smaller area," McEwen said. "In the same time interval some of the dark ejecta around the backshell brightened, perhaps from deposition of airborne dust."
"This type of motion may kick off dust and keep parachutes on the surface bright, to help explain why the parachute from Viking 1 (landed in 1976) remains detectable," McEwen wrote in Wednesday's image advisory.


The predictions for this year’s hurricane seasons are the highest they’ve been in about 4 years, so it really is important to make sure your home has storm protection and hurricane shutters to keep you and your family safe from the storms.
Besides being the strongest in 4 years, there will also be more hurricane landfalls in America since the 11 back in 2004 and 2005, and we don’t need to be reminded of the destruction we faced back then.
They predicted hurricanes Ike, Irene, and Sandy, (2008, 2011, and 2012). Both Hurricane Irene and Hurricane Sandy were predicted about 2-3 years in advance and were both correct. If there is anyone you should trust on knowing the future storm predictions, it is GWO.
The upcoming years have been predicted by GWO as being very favorable conditions for tropical storms and hurricanes to develop, also known as a “Climate Pulse Hurricane Enhancement Cycle”.
On average The Atlantic Basin Hurricane Season has 12 named storms, 6 hurricanes, and 2-3 major hurricanes while it runs from June 1 to December 1.
The hurricane season of 2015 ended with 11 named storms, 4 hurricanes, and 2 major hurricanes. Hurricane Alex formed on January 14th so was not counted in 2015, but as the first hurricane of 2016.
2016 and 2017 will most likely be the most dangerous and costly years from hurricanes in over 10 years. 2016 is estimated to have 17 named storms, 9 hurricanes, and 4 major hurricanes while 2017 has 17 named storms, 9 hurricanes, and 5 major hurricanes.
If you have not made additional changes to your home to help keep it safe from storms, you don’t want to wait any longer. Three of the United States prediction zones of GWO are at high risk for 2016 and several of these zones will be at high risk for major impact hurricanes in 2017.
Over the next two years, it is expected that 5-8 Hot Spots will be found in the United States. A dangerous time is approaching and if we aren’t prepared, it will be even more dangerous. You can read GWO’s official Press Release by clicking here.
Now that you know the facts about the upcoming year, it is time to do something about it. Make sure your home has storm protection with hurricane shutters so you stand the best chance of emerging from a hurricane with the least amount of damage to your home.
You don’t want to wait too long, just in case nothing happens, because that is a great way to end up in peril when the storms hit.
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The Deadly winter storm It killed at least 30 people And it caused travel chaos across the U.S., creating a “life-threatening hazard” for those going out or working outside on Christmas Day, forecasters warned Sunday.
“In some areas, being outdoors can lead to freezing temperatures within minutes,” the National Weather Service said in a statement Bulletin.
“If you must travel or be out in the elements, prepare for extreme cold by dressing in layers, covering exposed skin as much as possible, and packing winter protective gear in your vehicles,” it said.
The storm, which stretched from the Great Lakes near Canada to the Rio Grande on the Mexican border, swept across the United States in recent days, killing at least 30 people, NBC News reported.
Deaths were reported in 11 states as of Sunday afternoon: Colorado, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Wisconsin.
Four people died Saturday in a three-vehicle crash on an interstate highway in Ohio and at least three more in the Buffalo area, including two who suffered medical emergencies at their homes and could not be saved because emergency crews could not reach them. Historical blizzard conditions.
New York Gov. Cathy Hochul said Friday that every fire truck in the city was stuck in the snow, and she urged residents to “bundle up, stay indoors and stay safe this weekend.”
The city’s international airport was also closed.
Blinding blizzards, freezing rain and bitter cold knocked out power in places from Maine to Seattle.
The start of the NFL’s Tennessee Titans game in Nashville was delayed an hour due to a planned power outage.
Power was restored early Christmas morning, but more than 250,000 homes remained without power, including nearly 100,000 across Maine, according to the website Poweroutage.us.
National Grid, which serves customers in New York and Massachusetts, on Saturday asked its customers in Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island and Long Island to reduce their natural gas use until Sunday afternoon.
Thousands of flights were also canceled as people tried to return home for Christmas. On Sunday, at least 1,200 flights were canceled across the country, leaving last-minute holiday travelers stranded.
Climate change may be responsible in part for the increase in snowfall, according to Environmental Protection FundAn environmental advocacy group said, “A warmer planet is evaporating more water into the atmosphere.”
“That moisture means more precipitation in the form of heavy snow or rain,” it said on its website.
“During the warmer months, this can cause record flooding. But in winter – when our part of the world is away from the sun – temperatures drop, and we can get massive winter storms instead of rain,” it said.
Meanwhile, the National Weather Service said “conditions are expected to improve slowly as the system weakens.” But by Sunday it said it would “continue to filter cold Canadian air into the eastern two-thirds of the country.”
It said “severe lake-effect snow, gusty winds and reduced visibility” will continue downwind of the Great Lakes and “bitter conditions” across much of the country.
“Lake-effect snow may persist into Christmas Day with locally blizzard conditions,” it said.
Daniel Arkin And Associated Press Contributed.


Posted: Sep 29, 2013 7:00 AM by John Patrick
Updated: Sep 29, 2013 1:40 AM
TUCSON - Normal temps return today with little change ahead.
After another relatively cool night for a southern Arizona September normal temperatures in the low 90s will return this afternoon. According to Meteorologist John Patrick, a strong zonal flow will set up over the state keeping things unchanged into the start of October.
Warm sunny days and clear cool nights will dominate the next seven days. The only minor changes will come late this week as another system moves into the Great Basin knocking our temps back a few degrees by Friday.
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Radio Smart Talk for Monday, October 29, 2012:
Monday's Radio Smart Talk will provide the latest up-to-date information on Hurricane Sandy.
The storm is expected to bring up to ten inches of rain and high sustained winds of 30-50 miles-per-hour with gusts up to 70 MPH to the midstate. Sandy is potentially one of the most dangerous storms to hit Pennsylvania in decades. Gov. Tom Corbett has already a state of emergency and many municipalities have as well.
Most schools are closed and mass transit systems shut down, including Amtrak service for most of the Northeast.
We'll get the latest information to you on the storm's path and how it is impacting the state. The program will also have the latest from emergency services, the utilities, and road conditions.
We also encourage you to call the show or email us with news you may have about how the storm is affecting you or to pass along any information that may be useful.
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Striking images of lightning storms raining down on Earth, captured by an astronaut 400 miles above
- Astronaut Karen Nyberg has captured the images from the International Space Station earlier this week
- One of her images captured an elusive red sprite, where instead of shooting down towards the ground, lightning explodes in the clouds
Stunning pictures from the top of the world show a unique view of lightning storms as they rain down on Earth.
The stellar images take storm chasing to new heights, having been snapped from a space station 400 miles above the Earth.
One of the most the impressive images shows the early morning Californian skies above Los Angeles and San Diego aglow with powerful flashes of lighting.
As the UK endured summer thunderstorms, here's how lightening looks from space. The images, taken by NASA, demonstrate the power of nature seen as flashes of white over the Earth's surface
The white bursts can clearly be seen forming abstract patterns above the orange lights of the cities below.
The photographs were taken from the International Space Station (ISS) orbiting the planet by NASA astronaut Karen L. Nyberg.
The storms erupted earlier this week, providing a spectacular light show for the astronaut.
NASA astronaut Karen L. Nyberg captured the stunning images. They reveal storms above West Africa and Asia, with this one of capturing an elusive red sprite. Sprites are shards of light caused by large-scale electrical discharges that take place high above thunderstorm clouds
Strom clouds, trails of meteor showers and the Sun rising on the horizon can also been seen in Nyberg's breath-taking photographs
She also photographed storms above West Africa and Asia, with one of her images capturing an elusive red sprite.
The phenomenon occurs when instead of shooting down towards the ground, lightning explodes in the clouds 50 miles up and fire the red tendrils even higher.
The massive explosion happened above Malaysia and the red sprite seen in this rare picture is six miles wide.
The storms erupted earlier this week, providing a spectacular light show for the astronaut
Strom clouds, trails of meteor showers and the Sun rising on the horizon can also been seen in Nyberg’s breath-taking photographs.
Nyberg, 43, was the 50th woman in space and is on board the ISS as a flight engineer – one of six astronauts taking part in the mission, Expedition 36.
The mother-of-one grew up in Minnesota and is married to fellow NASA astronaut Douglas Hurley.
Karen Nyberg, 43, who took the photos, was the 50th woman in space and is on board the International Space Station as a flight engineer
Her images follow that of an amateur astronomer, released yesterday, who has become the first person to capture a massive lightning strike 'into space' above the British Isles.
The atmospheric phenomena, known as sprites, had never been recorded in the UK before an amateur astronomer in East Yorkshire managed to take the photographic first.
Richard Kacerek, 33, spotted the sprite - caused by an upward lightning discharge five miles east of Hull.
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Schumann resonances are global electromagnetic resonances in the cavity formed between the earth’s surface and the ionosphere. Schumann resonances were named after German physicist Winfried Schumann, who first predicted them in 1952. Electromagnetic impulses like those from global lightning flashes (Earth’s thunderstorm activity) fill this cavity and excite the Schumann resonances. The first accurate measurements of the Schumann resonances were made from 1960 to 1963 and since then there has been an increasing interest in them across a wide variety of fields.
Radiation from the sun ionizes part of the earth’s upper atmosphere and forms a conductive plasma layer, the ionosphere. The ionosphere surrounding our planet is negatively charged relative to the earth’s surface, which creates a strong electrical field between the earth and ionosphere. Schumann resonances occur because the space between the surface of the earth and the conductive ionosphere acts as a closed waveguide. This waveguide acts as a resonant cavity for electromagnetic waves. Schumann resonances appear as distinct peaks at extremely low frequencies starting around 7.8 hertz, which is considered the fundamental frequency.
Resonances can be observed at around 7.8, 14, 20, 26, 33, 39 and 45 hertz, with a daily variation of about ± 0.5 hertz, which is caused by the daily increase and decrease in the ionization of the ionosphere due to UV radiation from the sun.
The amplitude of Schumann resonances does change and is bigger when ionospheric plasma gets excited. Ionospheric plasma excitation happens because of solar activity, thunderstorms, use of scalar plasma weapons and HAARP and lately also when the Light forces are clearing the plasma anomaly.
The great variations that nobody can explain but that give us a clear sign that the planet is changing. The Earth is vibration higher and higher, just like us!
A more powerful activity that went above 40 Hz from 17:00 UTC on July 3rd and it’s apparently ongoing.


November 14, 2018 10:12:57 AM
MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- Forecasters are warning that snow, sleet and freezing rain are likely Wednesday and Thursday across parts of the South.
The National Weather Service says accumulating snow is likeliest in northeast Arkansas, southeastern Missouri, northwest Tennessee, western and central Kentucky and southern Illinois and Indiana. Farther south, forecasters expect lighter snow, sleet and freezing rain.
Snow flurries on Tuesday were reported in northern Louisiana.
Forecasters are warning drivers to use caution, saying roads may be slippery and visibility may be poor.
Officials say they're preparing to clear icy roads and bridges, with Mississippi Transportation Commissioner Mike Tagert saying Tuesday that crews in that state were readying plows and salt spreaders.
Forecasters say moisture from the Gulf of Mexico is interacting with colder air during the year's first cold snap across much of the region.
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We call them ‘scattered.’ Sometimes we refer to them as ‘unfair’ or ‘unequally distributed.’ Those descriptors still don’t really paint a great picture of how strange the rainfall patterns can be around Alabama and Tennessee in the summertime.
Take this map for example. It’s a map of how much rainfall we’ve had in the past 30 days relative to average. Western Lauderdale County? Four to five inches above normal. Northern Madison County? Almost three inches below normal or ‘average.’ Average June rainfall, by the way, is 4.62″ in Huntsville.
So, some have had over 8″ of rain in the past month, and some have had little more than one inch. Put yourself in the forecaster’s shoes for a moment and ask the question: ‘how do you really describe that?!?’ The picture is worth a thousand words. Scattered storms like this are 100% ‘expected’ but about 99.9% unpredictable when it comes to the precise location, duration, and how much rain you will get.
That’s where our ‘chance’ of rain comes into play.
Tuesday’s chance: 20% of at least 0.1″ of rain or greater. That means we are confident a few spotty downpours will develop in North Alabama and Southern Tennessee; however, they will be few in number leaving the odds at any one spot very low.
The chance goes up to 30% on Wednesday and Thursday (July 4th), and 40% for Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
What do you do with that kind of information? Two things: (1) understand that a storm could develop nearby and (2) be flexible with your plans because the rain/lightning threats are usually short-lived, and you can get back to business as soon as it’s over.
By the way, the spotty, uneven storms kept missing the rain gauge at Huntsville International practically all month. At one time this year, we had a 12″ surplus. That’s now been cut to 7.85″ because of the relatively dry weather since mid-May!


WASHINGTON — Amid daylight assessments of the toll inflicted on the southeast by Hurricane Michael, Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said on the Senate floor today that “if we did more on climate change, we’d have fewer of these hurricanes and other types of storms.”
“Everyone knows that, except for a few. Why? Why won’t they admit the truth? Maybe there are two words that explain it: oil industry,” he said.
Michael made landfall close to a Category 5 storm on Wednesday afternoon, ripping apart Florida panhandle buildings and severely damaging Tyndall Air Force Base.
Two deaths have been reported due to the hurricane, which inflicted heavy winds and rain across Georgia and the Carolinas this morning on its march up the coast. More than 900,000 homes and businesses were without power this morning.
“This year has seen huge a number of powerful storms and hurricanes buffet the Atlantic seaboard and the Gulf. Harvey, Irma, Maria, Florence, and now Michael have wrought severe damages. According to NOAA, 2017 was the most expensive year on record for disasters in the US. At some point, we have to acknowledge that the intensity of these storms is much greater than in past years and is a symptom of a changing climate,” Schumer said. “Climate change is real, it is being driven by human activity, it is happening right now. These are facts; they are not in dispute. Our scientists know it, our businesses know it, the world knows it, and the American people know.”
“But too many senators on the other side of the aisle just put their head in the sand,” he added. “It costs us more, and more, and more.”
Schumer cited a new UN report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that says there’s currently a 12-year window to make “far-reaching and unprecedented changes” to avert dramatic effects of global warming.
“So while we are thinking about the people of Florida and Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina and everyone in Hurricane Michael’s path, let’s remember that we are running out of time to do something about climate change, and the kind of storms we are seeing now will only increase if this body continues to keep its head in the sand, ostrichlike, and ignore the scientific realities,” he added.
Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen was asked at a Wednesday meeting of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee if climate change is a security threat to the homeland.
“We measure out rain storms now, the amount of rain by the foot, not by the inch,” said Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.). “We have parts of Montana, Idaho, Oregon, Washington, even California where they — they’re on fire, they’ve been on fire earlier this year. Places bigger than my state, a big state I might add. And the extreme weather we’ve had, I think in the last 100 years, 33 Category 5 hurricanes in the whole Atlantic.”
“I think it’s very serious. As you said, just in 2017 alone, 15 percent of the United States population was affected by either a hurricane or a forest fire. So the intensity, the changes in weather patterns, the changes in which the hazards manifest all require us to update everything we do,” Nielsen replied.
She added that pre-mitigation grants “will really help to prepare areas, but we have to increase our modeling.”
“We’re working much more closely with NOAA, working much more closely with the Department of Interior, USDA,” Nielsen added. “We have to do more to anticipate and understand how these start to manifest.”


Does it Snow in Portland?By Teo Spengler; Updated August 11, 2017
How Portlandia does winter
Despite it's motto, "Keep Portland Weird," this is one West Coast city with the reputation of offering a pleasant lifestyle. But one person's "pleasant" might be another person's "awful," and anyone who has spent time in Portlandia knows that the region gets its share of rain. But how about snow? When? How much? These are obviously things you are going to want to know before you head west in winter. Read on for Portland climate tips.
Snow? In Portland?
When they were handing out weather, Portland could have done a lot worse. It's climate is mild, with warm, dry summers and cool, rainy winters. A comparison to nearby Seattle shows that Portland's average temperatures are warmer, its hours of sunshine longer and its precipitation less.
Portland's average high temperature year-round is about 63 degrees F and its average low around 46 degrees F. It gets a yard or more of rain every year, from 36 to 44 inches, depending on who you ask. And a little snow. Really very little – some 3 to 4 inches. Compare this to the U.S. average of 26 inches per year, and it looks as negligible as it is.
Breaking down the weather
Portland is a city with distinct seasons. Summers in Portland are truly warm. Average highs shoot up to between 74 and 81 degrees F in the summer months. The average lows for those months (54 to 58 degrees F) are warmer than the average highs in winter.
Average high temperatures in spring and fall are 15 to 20 degrees lower than summer weather, although the shoulder months of May and September are warmer and closer to summer temperatures. December, January and February are the cold months, with average low temperatures just above freezing.
It's important to know when all that rain falls, so you can plan when to go and what to pack. November and December get the most rain, about 5.5 inches each month, followed by January in second place with a little under 5 inches. February and March tie for third at just under 4 inches. The summer months of July and August get just over half an inch each, while June and September are only slightly higher.
Packing for Portlandia adventures
If you're heading to Portland in fall, winter or spring, prepare for rain. That means you want to pack a solid raincoat and comfortable rain boots or waterproof shoes. The umbrella question is one you must tackle yourself. An umbrella might come in very handy, but locals scorn umbrellas and aren't partial to tourists who use them.
This cool city in the Pacific Northwest is the perfect place to layer clothes. Even summer afternoons can get breezy, and night temperatures drop way too low for shorts and a T-shirt. In other seasons, you'll regularly need long sleeves, hoodies or jackets to stay warm at times. For winter, make room for a warm coat.
Don't worry about sartorial elegance. Bring comfortable, "crunchy" clothing and you'll fit right in. Jeans work well by day, but women might bring flowing hippie-style skirts if that suits your mood. Stiletto heels and furs will definitely stand out – and not in a good way.


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The 2001 Leonid meteor storm whetted the appetites of sky watchers for more meteors. Fortunately the Geminids will soon be here. Peaking in mid-December, the Geminids produce as many as 100 shooting stars per hour. That's about 10 times less intense than the recent Leonid peak, but nevertheless a nice display.
Geminid meteors fly out of a point in the sky (called "the radiant") near the star Castor in the constellation Gemini. Fortunately for novices it isn't necessary to find Gemini to enjoy the show. During the shower, meteors can appear anywhere in the sky -- although their trails will point back to the radiant. To see them simply go outside (don't forget to dress warmly if you live in the wintry northern hemisphere) and look up; the unaided eye is the best tool for watching meteors.
Observers in the northern hemisphere will have the best view of the shower because Gemini climbs so high in northern skies. As seen from mid-Northern latitudes, Gemini rises just after sunset and soars overhead around midnight. The hour after sunset on Dec. 13th will be a good time for sky watchers in Europe, North America, northern Africa, and western Asia to spot a few Geminid Earthgrazers. Later, during the hours between midnight and dawn on Dec. 14th, the meteor rate will climb to 100 or more per hour.
East Asians will see the greatest number of Geminids during the hours before dawn on Friday, Dec. 14th, and perhaps a smattering of Earthgrazers after sunset on the same day.
Above: As viewed from mid-northern latitudes, Gemini will appear high in the western sky at 4 o'clock in the morning on Dec. 14th. This is true for all time zones. The Geminid radiant is denoted by a red dot.
Southern-hemisphere observers won't see as many Geminids because the constellation never rises much higher than 30 degrees above their horizon. Nevertheless, the shower will produce dozens of bright shooting stars and so it's worth watching. Sky watchers in southern Africa and South America might see a few Earthgrazing Geminids around 10 p.m. local time on Dec. 13th, and a larger number of "ordinary" Geminids between local midnight and dawn on Dec. 14th. Sky watchers in Australia, New Zealand, and surrounding areas near the international date line will see the greatest number of Geminids during the hours between 1 a.m. and dawn on Friday, Dec. 14th, and perhaps some Earthgrazers after sunset later that same day.
Above: The northern sky as viewed from South Africa on the date of the 2001 Geminid meteor shower. The Geminid radiant, about 30 degrees above the horizon, is denoted by a red dot.
And finally, Earthgrazers: They are disintegrating meteoroids that fly over the horizon nearly parallel to the atmosphere. Earthgrazers are slow-moving and produce long colorful tails. Observers in North America, Europe and western Asia are favored for Geminid Earthgrazers just after local sunset on Dec. 13th.
Clear skies and good meteor hunting!


GREENVILLE, N.C. (WNCT) — 9 On Your Side has all the bases covered when it comes to coverage of the remnants of Elsa.
The tropical system made landfall in Florida Wednesday morning and has been making a trek up the East Coast. The storm is expected to pass through North Carolina on Thursday and continue a march toward the north before eventually fizzling out completely.
We’ll update this blog throughout the day with the latest news from our reporters in the field along with updates from our meteorologists. So check back often for the newest information.
Coverage of Elsa wraps up with our 10 p.m. report on improving conditions in our state now that the tropical system has moved into Virginia. Emily Cervarich was in Washington while Caroline Bowyer has a wrap in New Bern.
Meteorologist Jordyn Jenna reports a fair amount of rain for places like Lenoir and Craven counties while the bulk of the rain appeared to fall in the Sandhills.
Nexstar affiliate WNCN reports a number of trees were blown down and there was some flooded roads in the Wake County area, which felt the brunt of Elsa as it moved through North Carolina.
A tornado warning has been issued for Currituck County until 9 p.m., according to the National Weather Service.
In addition to Nexstar sister station WAVY.com’s news coverage, check out their weather blog, which has the latest on conditions there as Elsa moves through the Tidewater, Va., area.
The National Hurricane Center indicates the center of Elsa was about 65 miles west of Norfolk as the majority of the storm is now in Virginia. It had maximum sustained winds of 50 mph and was moving northeast at 21 mph.
There is still a tropical storm warning out from Surf City to Sandy Hook, N.J., including the Pamlico and Albemarle sounds and the Chesapeake Bay area. A tropical storm warning means conditions are still expected somewhere within the warning area.
Farmville is reporting some power outages in the area.
Nexstar sister station WAVY.com has full coverage of Elsa as it continues to move into Virginia.
Check out the scene in Atlantic Beach. The sun is coming out and the clouds are moving up north. We also have weather cameras in Greenville, New Bern and Jacksonville for you to check out.
Meteorologist Jerry Jackson has an update on Elsa.
Before Elsa arrived here, it left some extensive damage in parts of Georgia and South Carolina.
Beaufort and Washington counties are seeing a number of power outages, according to Poweroutage.us. There were 887 people without power in Beaufort County, especially in the eastern area after a tornado warning earlier. Washington County had nearly 1,300 without power.
A tornado warning has been issued for parts of Beaufort and Hyde counties until 7 p.m. Specific areas include Belhaven, Bath and Bayview. Tune to WNCT-TV now for the latest.
Before the tornado warning was issued for parts of Beaufort and Hyde counties (see above post), the skies were clearing up on the waterfront in Washington, Emily Cervarich reported.
Kayla Schmidt filed these two reports, one on the conditions at North Topsail Beach, which continue to be windy with big waves from the ocean. She also spoke with a couple about why they chose to come out to the beach as Elsa continued to churn things up.
The skies are beginning to clear in Washington, Emily Cervarich reports.
Lindsey Mooney sent us this photo of the tornado seen in Hyde County earlier today.
The calm after the storm, from photographer Samantha Schweihs in New Bern
Caroline Bowyer and photographer Samantha Schweihs were in New Bern for a 5 p.m. report. From rain to sunshine, wind and the choppy waters of the Neuse River, the city was experiencing a little bit of everything from Elsa.
Kayla Schmidt (North Topsail Beach) and Emily Cervarich (Washington) were live with the latest as Elsa continues to move through North Carolina on its way to Virginia.
The National Weather Service’s 5 p.m. update on Elsa has the storm now 125 miles west southwest of Norfolk, Va. It has strengthened some with winds now at 50 mph.
Tune to 9OYS News at 5 for team coverage at three locations in Eastern North Carolina along with the latest from Jerry on the storm and conditions.
WAVY.com has the latest on Elsa there as the storm continues on a path toward the Tidewater, Virginia area.
Kelci O’Donnell had our WNCT NOW update with the latest on Elsa and other news happening today.
People helping people during a storm like this what it’s all about. Check out this post from the Jacksonville Government Facebook page.
Caroline Bowyer and Samantha Schweihs are in New Bern where the wind is whipping and the waves are crashing on the waterfront. There has been some rain, too. She will have a live report from there on 9OYS News at 5.
We may have a future meteorologist on our hand. Check out the reports from 9-year-old Matthew Westbrook of Dunn. Good job!
A tornado warning was issued for parts of Northampton and Hertford County until 4:30 p.m. Jerry will have the latest on the storm and where it’s heading on 9OYS News at 5.
Emily Cervarich and Kenneth Roundtree are in Washington, which has seen the winds whip and the water slosh around off and on all day on the Pamlico River side of the town.
That wind in North Topsail Beach is no joke, as Kayla Schmidt shows in this tweet.
Kayla Schmidt had an update on conditions at North Topsail Beach during a Facebook Live.
Meteorologist Jordyn Jenna reports a confirmed tornado on the ground near the White Tail Farms neighborhood in Fairfield, moving northeast.
Some children are swimming in the ocean at North Topsail Beach while a few people are out on the beach. Then, minutes later, it’s quiet again.
A tornado warning has been issued for Columbia in Tyrrell County and Creswell in Washington County until 3:45 p.m. We are live on WNCT with the latest.
Conditions continue to be bad in North Topsail Beach.
A tornado warning is in effect for areas of Hyde County, including Swan Quarter and Fairfield, until 3:15 p.m. Tune to 9OYS Now for the latest.
Some parts of Jacksonville are experiencing power outages, which means some traffic signals are not working, according to the City of Jacksonville Government Facebook page
WNCT’s Kayls Schmidt filed this report from North Topsail Beach on the conditions there.
Meteorologist Jerry Jackson is live with an update on Elsa.
Here’s more details from Storm Team 9 on Elsa, which was posted to our Facebook page.
The National Hurricane Center has a 2 p.m. update on the location and conditions of Elsa. The center of the storm was located about 25 miles southwest of Raleigh and was producing heavy rain through parts of North Carolina and into Virginia.
A tornado watch continues through 11 p.m. for Beaufort, Dare, Hyde, Martin, Pitt, Tyrrell and Washington counties.
Emily Cervarich reports that the winds have picked up in Washington. However, it has not been raining much. She also reports not many people have been out and about in the downtown area and along the waterfront.
“People seem like they are staying in and avoiding the weather,” she said.
Meteorologist Alex Wasilenko reports that after some threats of tornado activity in places like Greene, Edgecombe, Wilson and Nash counties, the storm is continuing its trek through North Carolina as it continues to move north.
Kelci O’Donnell will be live in the WNCT Digital Studio at 1:30 p.m. with an update on storm conditions. She’ll also speak with Emily Cervarich, who is Washington, to get an update on conditions there.
Minimal power outages have been reported from Elsa in Eastern North Carolina. According to PowerOutage.us, which keeps track of all the electric providers and power outages that are reported, shows Montgomery, Cleveland, Orange and Person counties with the most power outages as of 1 p.m.
Our team of meteorologists are not only updating us on TV to the conditions from Elsa, they are also posting graphics and other information to our Facebook page. Click here to check out the latest.
Wilson and Edgecombe counties were added to tornado warning list.
Gov. Roy Cooper is reminding North Carolinians to be prepared for possible power outages and flooding as Tropical Storm Elsa makes its way into the state.
A tornado warning has been issued for Greene and Pitt counties until 1 p.m. A tornado warning was also issued for Nash County until 12:30 p.m. Earlier, Wayne County was under a tornado warning through 11:45 a.m.
Nine counties in central NC are now under a tornado watch until 3 p.m., including Cumberland, Hoke, Sampson, Edgecombe, Johnston, Wayne, Harnett, Nash, and Wilson, click here for the latest Elsa update from Raleigh.
Tune to 9OYS News at noon for continued coverage of Elsa.
Click here to go to the National Hurricane Center page for the latest coordinates, wind speed, and other details on Elsa.
Elsa maintains strength as it moves through the Carolinas and a tropical storm warning is in effect for the Myrtle Beach area.
As Elsa moves up the East Coast toward North Carolina, Virginia, residents, crews, and businesses are getting prepared. Click here for the latest in Virginia.
9OYS Ford Sanders provides a live update from Harkers Island via the WNCT Facebook page.
9OYS Ford Sanders is in Harkers Island with the latest as Elsa approaches North Carolina today.
Watch 9OYS Morning Edition from 4:30-7 for the latest on Elsa and other news. Click the icon to watch.
We have you covered with reporters and photographers covering the storm
- Ford Sanders and Kelly Hunter, Harkers Island
- Kayla Schmidt and Claire Curry, Crystal Coast
- Emily Cervarich and Kenneth Roundtree, Washington
- Caroline Bowyer and Samantha Schweihs, Craven County
9OYS had reports from several locations in Eastern North Carolina as preparations were being made for Elsa.


Storm leaves damage in southern Illinois | News
MURPHYSBORO, IL (KFVS)- Storms from last night have left some damage in areas of southern Illinois.
According to the National Weather Service in Paducah, there were tree limbs reported down in on the southwest side Murphysboro, with some limbs landing on cars.
Carbondale authorities reported a tree down on South Oakland Ave. that fell against a home.
"My wife and I were on the porch kind of looking at the storm," said Jason Thomas of Carbondale. "We noticed that the winds were going across each other. And then there was big hollow cracking sound. I saw that tree start to move and we ran into the house and ran into the basement."
Also, winds caused tree limbs to fall on some power lines in Murphysboro causing power outages.
Authorities say on the corner of 22nd and Clay Streets there was a power line down Sunday morning. The street was blocked off while crews repaired the line.
There was also tree limbs down on Roblee Ave. in Murphysboro.
Heavy rains also reportedly caused some localized flooding in southern Illinois. Reportedly around 4 inches fell overnight in Carbondale.
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Andrea is hitting Florida The first named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, it whipped up gusts as high as 58 mph in Punta Gorda, about 100 miles south of Tampa, the Miami-based National Hurricane Center reported. It is going to go up the East Coast. Georgia, South and North Carolina, and Virginia. Some will scoff and say no problem, but let us see. These things, no matter how non-hurricane, cause damage, and delays for us (UPS). They also cause loss of life.


In the second of a three part pictorial on the ice storm of 2013 that hit Ontario, we take a close-up look at the beauty of the ice storm and the nearly 30mm of freezing rain that fell over the course of twenty four hours, coating everything with a thick layer of sparkling ice.
What is one to do when there’s freezing rain and school’s are cancelled. Go out and take some pictures, of course! The sidewalks, roads, cars, trees, and anything else was were bathed in a glistening coat of ice. What a sparkling treat.


well, it looks like more storms today... followed by Ike making landfall on the Texas coast sometime Friday or Saturday, and then more storms coming through the DFW area after that. We're definitely getting our share of the weather this year.
I don't think it's going to be much fun this week-end.
really, just checking in, nothing really to post.
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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured the first clear evidence of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of an exoplanet. The exoplanet is a gas giant orbiting a sun-like star about 700 light-years away. This discovery will provide important information about the composition and formation of the planet. The discovery will soon be published in the journal Nature and provides evidence that in the future, James Webb will be able to detect and measure carbon dioxide in the thin atmospheres of smaller, rocky planets.
WASP-39 b is a hot gas giant planet and has about one-quarter the mass of Jupiter (almost the same mass as Saturn), but is 1.3 times larger in diameter than Jupiter. Its swelling is partly due to its high temperature — about 900 degrees Celsius. Unlike the cooler, compact gas giants in the Solar System, WASP-39 b orbits its parent star at a fairly close distance—about one-eighth the distance between Mercury and the Sun; It takes just four days to go around. This planet was discovered in 2011 by ground-based telescopes, using the transit method. As the planet passes between the star and us as it orbits its star, it causes periodic dimming of its light. Astronomers call this event a transit.
Previous observations, including those by NASA’s Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes, have confirmed the presence of water vapor, sodium and potassium in the planet’s atmosphere. Webb’s unique infrared sensitivity has now confirmed the presence of carbon dioxide there.
Transiting planets like WASP-39 b, whose orbits are viewed from the side rather than from above, offer researchers an ideal opportunity to study a planet’s atmosphere.
During the transit, part of the star’s light will be completely obscured by the planet, and part will pass through its atmosphere.
Because different gases absorb different combinations of colors, researchers can study small differences in brightness across wavelengths of the emitted spectrum, and as a result, determine exactly what the atmosphere is made of. Because of its inflated atmosphere and frequent transits, WASP-39 is an ideal target for emission spectroscopy.
First clear detection of carbon dioxide
To observe WASP-39, the researchers used the Webb Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec). In the resulting spectrum of an exoplanet’s atmosphere, a small bump between 4.1 and 4.6 microns represents the first clear, detailed evidence of carbon dioxide ever observed on a planet outside the Solar System.
“As soon as the data appeared on my screen, I was greeted by a huge feature of carbon dioxide. It was a special moment that crossed an important boundary in exoplanetary science,” says Zafar Rustamkulov, a member of the research group.
No other observatory has ever measured such small differences in the brightness of so many individual colors in the 3-5.5 micron range of an exoplanet’s emission spectrum. Access to this part of the spectrum is crucial for measuring gases such as water vapor, methane, and carbon dioxide—which are thought to exist on many different types of exoplanets.
According to team leader Natalie Bathala, a researcher at the University of California, Santa Cruz, the detection of such a clear signal of carbon dioxide on WASP-39 b is a sign that we will also detect the atmospheres of small, Earth-sized rocky exoplanets.
Studying the composition of the planet’s atmosphere is important from the point of view that it provides information about the origin and formation of the planet.
According to researchers, carbon dioxide molecules are highly sensitive witnesses of planet formation. By measuring the properties of carbon dioxide, in the future, we will be able to determine how much solid and how much gaseous matter was used in the formation of this gas giant planet. Over the next decade, the James Webb Space Telescope will make such measurements on many different planets and provide detailed information on planet formation; This in turn will tell us how unique our solar system is or isn’t.
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The first really strong cold front is heading for East Texas this afternoon. As the front moves through the northern portions of the state of Texas this afternoon, temperatures are dropping a good 10-15 degrees in just a few minutes. The drop in temperatures at the DFW Airport this afternoon: from 80° to 68° in just a few minutes. As this front moves through your area, you will notice it almost immediately as the temperatures drop and the winds shift.
Timing...This front will likely be in the Sulphur Springs, Canton, and Athens area by 5 p.m. this evening. It will be heading east and southeast into the Mt. Pleasant, Tyler, and Palestine areas by 7PM, then through the Jefferson, Longview, and Rusk areas by 9 p.m. tonight...IF NOT SOONER on all of these locations.
High temperatures tomorrow will likely occur at MIDNIGHT tonight, then we will stay in the 50s pretty much all day long. Rain chances will remain fair as the front moves through and even behind the boundary through midday tomorrow. Rain totals will be generally from .20" to .75", if that.
So, are you ready for a major change in the weather? I hope so. We have been talking about this for the last seven days.
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Chinese Lunar New Year Celebrations Drive Beijing's Pollution Levels Up
While the Chinese celebrated their Lunar New Year in style, their Capital Beijing on Saturday woke up with dense, choking smog which left the pollution levels of the city skyrocketing. The Beijing Municipal Environment Protection Bureau (BMEPB) said that post the Lunar New Year’s celebrations, the harmful particulate matter in the air had hit the second-highest level in five years by Saturday morning, the state-owned China News Service reported.
Beijing had initiated a "war against pollution" in 2014 as part of the government’s promise to reverse the damage done by decades of breakneck growth which had some price to pay.Public health concerns over air pollution have grown and the government has found no source of pollution too small to ignore.
"In setting off fireworks, be conscious of 'setting off the (pollution) index'," read an editorial on Saturday in the People's Daily newspaper, the Communist Party mouthpiece. Millions of people move to China to visit family and friends during the Lunar New Year which the government predicts up to 3 billion trips.
Though the government had made attempt to make people light lesser firecrackers with the help of fewer approvals for firework stalls and officials being warned to lead by example and abstain from the pyrotechnics.
But the efforts didn’t bear many fruits. Although state-owned Xinhua reported that purchases of fireworks fell 4.9 percent in Beijing this year, the measures weren't enough to avoid a spike in pollution from healthy to hazardous levels in a matter of hours.
Beijing's level of PM2.5, a measure of small particulate matter particularly damaging to health, peaked at 647 micrograms per cubic metre early on Saturday, the national Ministry of Environmental Protection said in a statement on its website.
That was well beyond the upper limit of 500 on China's air quality index and double the threshold considered hazardous.
Dispersal of the pollution largely depends on weather conditions, with two cold air fronts likely to help reduce pollution in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region through to Wednesday, the environmental ministry said, before conditions deteriorate again and potentially lead to another heavy bout of pollution.


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Monsoon covers India 12 days in advance, fastest since 2013
PUNE/NEW DELHI: In a swift and smooth advance through the country, the monsoon on Friday covered the whole of India, 12 days before the normal date of July 8, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said.
Along with 2015, when the monsoon had raced through the country on the same date, this was the fastest progression of the rain-bearing sy em since 2013.
In the past 13 years, the monsoon has covered the entire country before June 26 only once — in 2013, when a freak convergence of several weather sy ems had caused the catastrophic Kedarnath deluge while advancing the monsoon by an all-time record date of June 16.
IMD said the monsoon marched into the remaining parts of Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan on Friday to cover the entire country, 26 days after hitting the Ker coast. This sets the stage fr timely sowing of kharif crops across the country.
“This was one of the smoothest advances of the monsoon in recent years. Usually the monsoon progresses in fits and starts, but this year it did not stall for long at any stage,” said D Sivananda Pai, IMD’s lead monsoon forecaster.
印度气象局首席季风预报员D Sivananda Pai称：“这是近年来季风最平稳推进的一次。通常季风是时断时续的，但今年在任何阶段都没有停滞太久。”
Rain in June so far has been quite good: IMD director
However, with the monsoon trough moving towards the Himyan foothills, the pns of northwest India, including Delhi-NCR, are not likely to get good rainfall over the next few days.
The monsoon’s smooth advance has led to a rain-surplus over the country in June, with nearly 22% higher than normal rainfall so far.
The monsoon got favourable conditions for its advance from the onset stage. First, Cyclone Amphun helped the monsoon reach the Andn & Nicobar Islands in mid-May. Then, Cyclone Nisarga, which formed in the Arabian Sea towards the end of May, helped monsoon’s onset over Ker on June 1 and other parts of south India and the western coast.
Finally, the formation of a low pressure area over Bay of Bengal which moved west-northwestwards and another cyclonic circulation over central India helped in its quick advance through central and north India. Mrutyunjay Mohapatra, director general of meteorology, IMD, said the formation of a low pressure area over Bay of Bengal which moved west-northwestwards and another cyclonic circulation over central India helped in advance of monsoon.
“The rain so far has been quite good with 31 out of 36 meteorological subdivisions getting normal to excess rainfall during June. This would benefit kharif sowing,” he added.
A good timely monsoon is the best thing to happen for India. Its agri-based economy will flourish with a good monsoon.
The ONLY silver lining in 2020 so far and hope the rural economy boosts the sunken GDP...and the farmers get more income.
This year the monsoon is likely to be good. It is important to focus on rain water harvesting.
Good that monsoons are normal. Though it will make things easier for Covid 19 to spread, the future of India lies in focussing on Agriculture. Instead of investing huge sums of money in educating our children, better invest the money to buy agricultural land.
K Mohan Hyderabad city
Rain harvesting pits must be created whereever shortage of water was expereinced in the past
No rains in AP. ONLY SCORCHING HEAT.
Haji Al Harami
Sure this is Corona effect , Wild animals Animals moving freely around the country and city side roads and now monsoon is freely flowing through India because of less pollution and less human movements and blessing in disguise for the farmers to boost our staggering economy , lets pray for good to our wonderful motherland
Madan Mohan Siddhanthi
We have not felt in Mumbai yet !
Nno rain in Hyderabad... Only a few droplets in laat few days
WHERE is monsoon in Maharashtra many place still no rain & report saying 12 in advance what to believe
By the way no rains in Hyderabad for few days. Very hot!!
Good Human Being
The writer of this article is lier in Mumbai still no rain.
K Mohan Hyderabad city
Last year the monsoon has hit on July 19
Mansoon will help farmers
Good that monsoon has arrived. This was very much needed. This is going to help the farmers in a very big way. Hope this will improve the economy.
Another fake news. We don’t see monsoon arrival in Mumbai or Maharashtra. Some scattered rain here and there
It will be bebifitial for agriculture.
Mumbai without rains for last 12 days with heat taking overs seems like draught situation.
It is only good thing that happened to th country this year
Strange.No rain in Gurdaspur, Punjab Still they say whole of India including Pb.
Ray of hope for India's sagging economy. Majority of India's population is dependent on monsoon


- Is it safe to swim with heat lightning?
- Has anyone ever died from lightning in a pool?
- What should you do after being struck by lightning?
- What happens when a person is struck by lightning?
- Is lightning hotter than the sun?
- What are the 3 types of lightning?
- What color Lightning is the strongest?
- What is red lightning?
- What are the chances of getting struck by lightning in a pool?
- Is heat lightning the same as regular lightning?
- How hot is a lightning bolt?
- What happens if a pool gets struck by lightning?
- Which lightning is more dangerous?
- Do you die when you get struck by lightning?
- What does being struck by lightning feel like?
Is it safe to swim with heat lightning?
A: Swimming during a thunderstorm is one of the most dangerous things you can do.
Lightning regularly strikes water, and since water conducts electricity, a nearby lightning strike could kill or injure you.
To be really safe, you should not swim in an indoor pool when lightning is around..
Has anyone ever died from lightning in a pool?
In comparison, 48 people were killed by lightning in 2006, according to NOAA data. … Of the 52 Florida lightning fatalities since 2007, 20 involved people who were killed on or near the beach or a lake, in a swimming pool or on a boat.
What should you do after being struck by lightning?
Call 911 immediately if someone has been struck by lightning. Next, see if it is safe to touch the person. Move him or her to a safer area if there is a continued danger from lightning strikes. If the person is not breathing or has no pulse, start cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and continue until help arrives.
What happens when a person is struck by lightning?
Dr. Griggs says if a person is struck by lightning, it can cause cardiac arrest, which stops a person’s body from circulating blood and cause direct injury to the brain and nervous system, preventing the brain from being able to send the appropriate signals to tell the body to continue breathing.
Is lightning hotter than the sun?
Lightning is four times hotter than the sun. … A return stroke of lightning, that is, a bolt shooting up from the ground to a cloud (after a stream of electricity came downward from a cloud) can peak at 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit (F). The surface of the sun is around 11,000 degrees F.
What are the 3 types of lightning?
There are three primary types of lightning which include: cloud-to-ground (the most commonly known type), cloud-to-air, and cloud-to-cloud. With cloud-to-ground lightning, the rapid discharge of lightning is a channel of negative charge that is attracted to the positively charged ground.
What color Lightning is the strongest?
What Color Lightning is the Strongest?Blue – this color of lightning is an indication that a high precipitation storm is occurring with chances of hail. … Purple – this color of lightning occurs when there is high humidity in the atmosphere and is typically accompanied by high precipitation.More items…•
What is red lightning?
Sprites, also known as red lightning, are electrical discharges that appear as bursts of red light above clouds during thunderstorms. … The researchers hope to learn more about the physical and chemical processes that give rise to sprites and other forms of upper atmospheric lightning.
What are the chances of getting struck by lightning in a pool?
And I get it when it comes to outdoor swimming pools; although the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say the odds of being struck by lightning in a given year are only around 1 in 500,000, engaging in outdoor recreational activities certainly can increase your risk.
Is heat lightning the same as regular lightning?
There is no difference; heat lightning is nothing more than lightning generated from a thunderstorm so distant its thunder can’t be heard. With the tops of summer thunderstorm often building in excess of 50,000 feet, the lightning can often be seen more than 125 miles away.
How hot is a lightning bolt?
In fact, lightning can heat the air it passes through to 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit (5 times hotter than the surface of the sun).
What happens if a pool gets struck by lightning?
Lightning tends to strike the highest point, but height isn’t the only factor in where it hits. … If you’re in electrified water, you may suffer electric shock and burns, even if lightning doesn’t hit you directly. You can die from indirect lightning strikes in pools, so you should avoid swimming during thunderstorms.
Which lightning is more dangerous?
Cloud to ground lightning is the most dangerous. The ground is mainly consisted of positively charged particles while the bottom of violent storm clouds have negative charged particles. Opposites attract in this situation, and lightning goes after positively charged particles.
Do you die when you get struck by lightning?
Direct hits are usually lethal, but only about 10 percent of people struck by lightning die, thanks to phenomena like side flash and surge voltage. If you’re not instantly killed, you can still die from cardiac arrest as the lightning short-circuits your heart’s electrical rhythms.
What does being struck by lightning feel like?
A jolting, excruciating pain. “My whole body was just stopped—I couldn’t move any more,” Justin recalls. “The pain was … I can’t explain the pain except to say if you’ve ever put your finger in a light socket as a kid, multiply that feeling by a gazillion throughout your entire body.


Heavy snow — close to a foot in some cities — blanketed much of the Eastern Seaboard on Monday and spelled a nightmare for morning commuters battling strong winds and freezing rain.
The heaviest snow, up to 15 inches, was forecast for the heavily populated Interstate 95 corridor between Boston, Massachusetts, and Providence, Rhode Island, northeast Connecticut and north into the Merrimack Valley in northeast Massachusetts, the National Weather Service said. In Boston, two women, one of them pregnant, died after their car smashed into a city plow truck, CNN affiliate WCVB reported. The pregnant woman was 25 years old and the other woman was 65 years old, police told WCVB. Boston public schools are canceled Monday. Boston Mayor Thomas Menino declared a snow emergency Sunday night. Delta Air Lines has canceled 300 flights, most of them to or from Atlanta, Georgia, because of snowy weather, airline spokesman Brian Kruse said Sunday. Traffic along northbound Interstate 85 near Highway 9 in Spartanburg County in South Carolina was at a standstill. iReporter Brian Ragon was visiting friends in Atlanta when he decided to head home to South Carolina on Sunday evening just as the weather seemed to be clearing up. But an hour from home, he had to slow his pickup truck to 5 mph because the snow was coming down harder. He thought he was making a wise move when he pulled over to the side on I-85, hoping to wait it out. It quickly became clear that he wasn’t going to get home, he said. He spent the night in the truck with his German shepherd. They both ate beef jerky and stayed warm by keeping the heat going, thanks to his full tank of gas. An IT worker, he had an air card and passed the time on his laptop. iReport.com: Stranded motorist slept in car Travelers across the rest of the country were having much more stressful experiences. Delta’s Web site listed options for travelers who might be affected by the storm in Georgia, Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Virginia and Washington. Watch report on the storm system » In Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Duke Energy reported more than 100,000 customers without electric service early Monday. The worst problems were in Gaston and Mecklenburg counties, according to CNN affiliate WXII. A winter storm warning was in effect for Monday from the Carolinas to Maine. Widespread highway closures were expected as snow accumulated.
iReport.com: Snow in the South
A winter storm warning is issued when an average of 6 or more inches of snow is expected in a 12-hour period, or 8 or more inches in a 24-hour period. In Washington, Mayor Adrian Fenty declared a snow emergency Sunday afternoon, meaning any street designated as “snow emergency route” by signs would be cleared of any parked vehicles, towed if necessary, so snowplows could work unimpeded. iReport.com: Share photos of icy, snowy weather in your town “It is important that our crews have access to the roads from curb-to-curb in order to plow the snow,” said Fenty, whose city was expected to get up to 8 inches of accumulation during the night hours Sunday, with accumulations up to 10 inches by Monday night. Lesser amounts of snow were reported as far south as Alabama, although Charlotte, North Carolina, could see up to 8 inches. Watch winter storm cause accidents » The snow was more than 5 inches deep in Germantown, Tennessee, by Sunday afternoon, forecasters said. Watch the situation in Tennessee »
Julie Oaks from the Tennessee Department of Transportation told CNN she had never seen snow before in the western part of the state. Watch the snow come down in Memphis » Tennessee called in 260 employees to work through the night salting and plowing roadways, she said.


Frigid temperatures and chilling winds continue to wreak havoc across the city, paralyzing streetcars, delaying flights and leaving Torontonians in the cold.
Environment Canada issued wind chill warnings on Tuesday for the city of Toronto, with wind chills reaching between -30 and -40 degrees. Winds are expected to reach 40 kilometres by hour in the evening.
TTC streetcar service was hit during the morning peak, with 40 or 50 of 200 streetcars not able to roll out, according to Chief Service Officer Chris Upfold.
Some passengers were left waiting out in the cold for at least half an hour, although the TTC sent out buses to replace service on the affected routes.
All TTC streetcars were delayed Tuesday afternoon “due to extreme cold,” according to a tweet from the transit agency. Buses were being sent out.
Upfold said aging equipment can lead to problems in the cold, including braking issues. “As much as you maintain 30-year-old equipment, it does start to have problems,” he said.
He said many of these issues will be resolved once the new streetcar fleet is rolled out in the next few years.
School buses were also cancelled for Toronto Catholic and Toronto District School Boards on Tuesday due to the weather, although schools remained open. The TDSB warned that school bus delays and cancellations are also possible on Wednesday and are advising parents to check their website or Twitter page for updates.
Relief in sight
The extreme cold also led to long delays at Pearson International Airport where a “ground stop” halted nearly all North American arrivals for several hours in the morning. About 200 flights were cancelled and many departing flights were delayed.
A spokeswoman from the Greater Toronto Airport Authority said that the extreme weather conditions affected equipment and employee safety.
Although the ground stop was lifted at around 10 a.m. this morning, it led to massive backlogs, with passengers having to reschedule flights or wait hours to collect luggage.
People heading outside are being told to bundle up as exposed skin may freeze in less than five minutes, Environment Canada warned.
People are also being advised to keep taps running in order to prevent pipes from freezing over.
Relief is in sight Wednesday, with Environment Canada reporting that wind chills will improve as temperatures slowly rise and winds finally begin to ease.
A mix of sun and cloud is forecast for Wednesday, with a high of -8 degrees.


We sometimes come in Winter
but not this year.
On a bright and sunny Tuesday
we decided it was time.
It was 25 degrees celsius at home.
About a kilometre from the beach
the fog came in and dropped the temperature to 16c.
At low tide it was quite a walk
to actually get to see the sea.
And we had the beach to ourselves.
Driving home we noticed
that band of fog had crept up St. Mary's Bay
nearly obliterating the Digby Neck.


6.22: A thunderstorm dropped less than a tenth of an inch of rain over West LA Wednesday. A light dusting of rain fell on Santa Monica just after 7 pm. Moisture was measurable but barely.
Clouds obscured the sun intermittently on the day after the summer solstice. It was alternately hot and cool by the Santa Monica bay.
Tragically, lightning struck and killed a young woman walking two dogs in El Monte near a dry river bed. The dogs were also killed by the lightning.
A brush fire in Kern County was said to have been caused by lightning as well. Fire fighters had the 40 acre fire 10% contained at 7 pm.


Parking restrictions go into effect at 11 p.m. for snow-removal operations
Because of snow-removal operations, all residents who park overnight Monday night on city of Milwaukee streets must park their vehicles on the odd-numbered side of the street from 11 p.m. until 6 a.m. Tuesday, unless a posted sign on that side of the street prohibits it, according to the city's Department of Public Works.
Posted street signs take precedence in all areas of the city and residents should read street signs before parking, the DPW said.
If winter parking rules are not posted, residents should check for parking restrictions at milwaukee.gov/winterregs or call (414) 286-CITY (2489).
Much of the Milwaukee County freeway system was reported to be snow-covered or slippery Monday evening as a band of snow moved across southeastern Wisconsin, according to the Wisconsin Department of Transportation.
A snowfall of 1 to 4 inches, mostly along the I-43 corridor, was expected before dissipating Monday night, according to the National Weather Service in Sullivan.
The Milwaukee metro area got 4 to 8 inches of snow Sunday.
Wind chills as low as 10 below zero are expected Monday night, the weather service said.
For the rest of the week, expect high temperatures under 25 degrees and lows in the single digits and low teens overnight.


The storm has maximum sustained winds of 75 kph near the center and gustiness of up to 90 kph and is expected to make landfall
over Northern Samar and Eastern Samar on Saturday morning and afternoon.
Wind damage near the landfall
area was significant, causing ripped off roofs, knocked down electricity poles, downed trees, and widespread power outages.
Cable news networks take advantage of the surge in viewership by sending correspondents to report live from the suspected location of landfall
, dropping regular scheduled programing for non-stop coverage while blasting the words "breaking news" in big, bold letters across the lower third of the screen.
Before the deadly storm made landfall
, Skerrit had held a press conference where he warned the residents of his island to "(http://nypost.
Governor Rick Scott said, As Hurricane Irma makes landfall
in Florida, we are fully committed to providing every resource to Floridians for response and recovery.
Nine people were killed in south China's Guangdong Province, where the typhoon made landfall
on Wednesday, according to the provincial civil affairs department.
Here, we review two historical examples of such events and use scaling arguments and models to show that rapid intensification just before landfall
is likely to become increasingly frequent and severe as the globe warms.
The current "drought" of major hurricanes (Category 3 or higher) making landfall
in the United States has been remarkable.
AFP reports that "super cyclonic storm" named Chapala is causing widespread destruction in war-torn Yemen after making landfall
MEXICO CITY (CyHAN)- Hurricane Patricia, predicted to be one of the most dangerous storms on record, has begun making landfall
in Mexico's western state of Jalisco, according to the country's National Meteorological Service, and could level towns and villages across the region.
, the last remaining tank landing craft (LCT) which carried British tanks and troops to the Normandy beaches for the Allied invasion of Europe, will be restored for display in the D-Day Museum, at Southsea, Hampshire.
The fast-moving tropical cyclone called "Basyang" (international name "Kajiki") has made landfall
over Siargao Island in Surigao del Norte last Friday evening and may leave the country's vicinity Sunday (February 2).
Participants found the tweets least funny 15 days after Sandy's landfall
Hanoi, Muharram 7, 1435, Nov 10, 2013, SPA -- Super typhoon Haiyan was expected to make landfall
in Vietnam Sunday after causing thousands of deaths in the Philippines, dpa reported.
Navy's Joint Typhoon Warning Center shortly before Typhoon Haiyan's landfall
said its maximum sustained winds were 195 mph, with gusts up to 235 mph.


GRAND RAPIDS - It's shaping up to be a nice night for New Year's Eve celebrations from which there are almost too many to chose in Grand Rapids including the annual Hot-FM New Year's Eve Party.
Temperatures for Saturday are expected to be in the 30's to 40's according to WOOD TV Meteorologist Laura Velasquez.
She expects a high of 42 degrees during the day with temperatures in the upper 30's for the evening festivities.
But then hours later prepare for a frigid entrance into the new year.
A New Year's Day cold front brings with it the possibility of snow, and a "cold, bone-chilling wind, " she said.
WZZM TV meteorologist Aaron Ofseyer said although we've experienced more mild weather than is typical this month, brace yourself for big changes. The new year brings a snowier and colder than usual forecast. The good news: the days are getting longer, by about a minute a day, he said.


WESTCHESTER COUNTY, N.Y. -- A huge wintry storm will only graze Westchester County on Tuesday night into Wednesday, staying mostly out to sea, according to Accuweather.com.
Westchester County towns will likely only see a dusting of snow with an outside chance of up to 3 inches. Coastal towns are more likely to see higher accumulations than inland locations.
As the storm moves northeast to pummel Cape Cod, however, gale-force winds are likely to move in overnight and into Wednesday.
Winds will be around 25 mph on Wednesday with gusts of up to almost 50 mph.
Schools are not likely to be affected by the storm.
After this storm, more springlike conditions are on the horizon.
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Our ability to understand multi-decadal to centennial-scale trends in tropical cyclone activity is limited by the short duration of, and limitations in, historical records. In order to extend these records for tropical Western Australia, we have analyzed mud layers in stalagmite KNI-51-11 from the Kimberley region of north-central Australia that appear to be formed by cyclone-induced flooding. KNI-51-11 grew over the last 250 years and contains 39 mud layers. High uranium and low detrital Th abundances in this aragonite stalagmite allow extremely precise dating (±1 year over the past century) via U/Th mass spectrometry. Linear interpolation between 13 U/Th dates was used to establish an age model for the mud layers. When these mud layers are compared to historical storm records since 1906, the KNI-51-11 mud layers correlate 78% of the time with tropical cyclones that passed within 200 km of the cave.
Nicholas Campbell, ’11
West Liberty, IA
Majors: Environmental Studies, Geology
Sponsor: Rhawn Denniston


Incessant rain lashing Andhra Pradesh for the last five days has claimed 42 lives so far in various rain-related incidents like wall collapse and inundated crops in about eight lakh hectares, official sources said on Sunday.
Five persons were also missing in the wake of heavy rains, triggered by a low pressure area and north east monsoon, and floods, the sources said.
They said 84,769 people have been evacuated to safer places and 225 relief camps set up so far to provide shelter and offer help.
Nineteen teams of National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) have been deployed in various districts for rescue operations.
The state government has deployed 580 medical teams to provide aid to the victims of heavy rain.
The downpour caused inundation of standing cotton, paddy, maize, groundnut, sugarcane, redgram, tobacco and also horticulture crops in as many as 7.99 lakh hectares, they said.
The heavy rain led to breaches to 1,020 minor irrigation tanks and damaged roads in 4047.50km.
The massive rainfall left normal life paralyzed in several parts of the state with water inundating low-lying and vulnerable residential areas, disrupting public transport and causing massive damage to agriculture fields.
Several rivers like Vamsadhara, Bahuda in Srikakulam and a number of rivulets were in spate following heavy rains.
According to a report from Visakhapatnam, the heavy rain have brought transportation, power supply and communication services to a grinding halt in many areas of the north coastal districts of Srikakulam, Vizianagaram and Visakhapatnam.
Rain caused waterlogging on the railway tracks at various places between Visakhapatnam and Vijayawada resulting in cancellation, diversion of various trains, it said.
According to official sources, heavy rainfall continued to be reported at several places in the coastal districts of Visakhapanam, Vizianagaram and West Godavari today.
They include Kannuripalem - 276 mm, Pasupatirega- 213 mm, Kasimkota- 190 mm, Anakapalle- 183 mm, Peddatadepalli - 180 mm and S Kota - 155 mm.


West Bengal and Bangladesh on Cyclone alert
Nov 15: It’s nearly a decade since the super cyclone hit the Orissa coast, but the fear of amount of disaster is still hanging as yet another severe cyclonic storm may hit Orissa or West Bengal coasts soon destructing nature. Though Met Deptt. has indicated the northward movement of the storm, it will have its impact in many coastal regions of both the states and Bangladesh either by heavy rain or flood as sea level rises.
Both Orissa and West Bengal government has tighten their hands with all necessary arrangements in terms of disaster management actions. Army, Air Force and National Disaster Rapid Action Force have been called up to take the emergency stand. The central government has also asked Orissa to take a close watch at the movement of the storm.
According to the Met official report the cyclone that moves 920 km south of Kolkata has shown movement towards north, but if it doesn’t proceed in the northern direction then may cause severe dent with heavy rains and wind mostly in West Bengal coast as it has subsequently headed away from Orissa coastline.
Meanwhile, Bangladesh administration has started a massive evacuation from the coastline villages. It is expected that the cyclonic storm is likely to cross West Bengal-Bangladesh coast near the Sagar Islands by Friday.
According to West Bengal State Home Secretary P. R .Roy, the cyclone which lay centred north of Andaman Islands changed direction towards coastal areas of west Bengal and Bangladesh.
As of now the high-intensity cyclone may cause severe damages to the Bangladesh coast. In Orissa and West Bengal, disaster and rapid action force has already been moved to the coastal regions.
This is being expected to be the severe most storms after the 1999 Orissa cyclone that killed at least 10,000 people and caused extreme damages by displacing thousands of families in both Eastern India and Myanmar coast.
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Saturday Partly cloudy. Light winds.
Sunday Mostly sunny. Light winds becoming W/NW 15 to 20 km/h in the morning.
Monday Sunny. Patchy fog about the Upper Hunter in the early morning. Winds W/NW 15 to 25 km/h.
Tuesday Partly cloudy. Areas of morning fog about the Upper Hunter. Patches of morning frost about the Upper Hunter. High (70%) chance of showers along the coastal fringe, medium (40%) chance elsewhere. Winds W/NW 15 to 20 km/h becoming light during the morning.
Wednesday Cloudy. Slight (30%) chance of a shower, most likely in the morning. Light winds.
Hunter Weather Forecasts
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||6||18||70%||1-5mm||Nil||WNW 3||86||E 9||56|
||7||17||80%||1-5mm||Nil||WNW 4||85||ENE 8||62|
||4||18||70%||-||Slight||SSW 4||75||ESE 7||55|
||5||17||70%||1-5mm||Slight||WSW 3||75||SE 7||61|
||6||18||70%||1-5mm||Nil||NW 2||86||ENE 8||57|
||6||16||80%||1-5mm||Nil||SW 4||84||S 7||66|
||5||13||80%||1-5mm||Slight||ESE 18||84||SE 20||65|
||10||18||80%||1-5mm||Nil||NNW 9||72||ENE 13||57|
||10||17||80%||1-5mm||Nil||NNW 10||81||ENE 13||64|
||12||17||90%||5-10mm||Nil||NW 2||76||ENE 13||71|
||6||16||80%||1-5mm||Nil||SW 5||86||S 7||66|
||1||16||80%||< 1mm||High||E 2||100||SE 11||61|
||3||18||70%||1-5mm||Moderate||SW 3||76||SE 7||56|
||6||17||70%||1-5mm||Nil||WSW 3||80||S 7||61|
Labor, Greens slam Agriculture White Paper for lack of strategic vision or climate change consideration
Prime Minister Tony Abbott says his government "wants to back people who are prepared to back themselves", and that a newly released vision for Australian agriculture will do just that.
The Federal Government has released the long awaited , which it had promised to deliver within 12 months of the 2013 election.
Farm groups have welcomed the Federal Government's plan for Australia's agricultural future, particularly tax reforms and changes to Farm Management Deposits (FMD).


CAPE TOWN — Another tropical cyclone made landfall in Mozambique and other countries in East Africa on Thursday, just over a month since Cyclone Idai killed more than 1,000 people and displaced millions in the region.
The new storm, Cyclone Kenneth, was expected to bring heavy rainfall, flooding and winds of more than 120 miles per hour to Mozambique and Tanzania. Forecasters predicted it could be among the most powerful storms to strike East Africa in modern history, and as the cyclone moved toward shore, it killed three people in the island nation of Comoros, just off the coast, uprooting trees and ripping off roofs.
The storm was expected to dump as much as 13 inches of rain within 24 hours of making landfall, forecasters said. More than 700,000 people live in the cyclone’s path, according to the United Nations.
“This is another potential tragedy for Mozambique,” said Dorothy Sang, a manager for the aid group Oxfam who is based in Beira, the port city hit hard by Cyclone Idai last month. “We’re still struggling to scale up and meet the needs of everyone after the last cyclone. This will make it much harder.”
Meteorologists expected that the new cyclone would strike the Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado, about 600 miles northeast of Beira. It made landfall north of Pemba, a city in the province, around 4:15 p.m., according to the Joint Typhoon Warning Center.
Forecasters on Thursday upgraded the storm to Category 4, the second-highest hurricane classification. The United States’ National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said it was the first hurricane-strength storm in modern history to make landfall in Cabo Delgado Province.
Déborah Nguyen, a communications officer for the World Food Program, said from Johannesburg that strong winds had already hit Cabo Delgado by Thursday afternoon.
“Some buildings are already damaged,” Ms. Nguyen said, adding that trees had blown over and power outages were expected.
Cabo Delgado lies north of regions accustomed to cyclones, so local communities are less prepared to deal with flooding, said Ms. Sang, of Oxfam.
Rescue workers stockpiled more than 300 tons of emergency rations but are concerned about being able to reach people if roads are damaged, Ms. Nguyen said.
[How you can help people in the regions devastated by Cyclone Idai.]
The presence of armed militias in the region — where more than 100 people have been killed in the last year — pose an additional security threat, she added.
Augusta Maita, the director of Mozambique’s national disaster management agency, told reporters that evacuation plans were in place, “even if it means forced evacuation.”
In Tanzania, the authorities closed schools and ordered civil servants to stay home.
Aid workers in Mozambique have scrambled to contain diseases like cholera and malaria since Cyclone Idai receded, with the World Health Organization requesting million to deal with the crisis. Further damage would be likely to set back these efforts, aid officials said.
Early photos sent by Ms. Nguyen out of Cabo Delgado showed homes damaged by the storm and giant trees torn from the ground as rain set in for the night.B:
【惨】【叫】【声】【在】【黑】【夜】【中】【响】【起】，【明】【明】【是】【个】【手】【无】【缚】【鸡】【之】【力】【的】【女】【人】，【却】【将】【几】【名】【特】【权】【组】【成】【员】【全】【部】【击】【杀】，【残】【尸】【遍】【地】，【死】【相】【极】【其】【凄】【惨】。 【另】【外】【一】【边】，【在】【没】【有】【人】【追】【捕】【之】【后】，【陈】【曦】【便】【回】【到】【了】【出】【租】【屋】【内】，【刚】【打】【开】【门】【就】【闻】【到】【了】【一】【股】【浓】【郁】【的】【血】【腥】【味】。 【原】【本】【就】【比】【较】【狭】【隘】【的】【客】【厅】，【此】【时】【变】【得】【尤】【为】【拥】【挤】。 【因】【为】【徐】【腾】【和】【张】【倩】【的】【身】【体】【全】【都】【膨】【胀】【了】【起】【来】，【宛】
【然】【冥】【斯】【耀】【的】【幽】【冥】【系】【不】【像】【冥】【思】【夜】【的】【那】【么】【顺】【缓】，【它】【暴】【虐】，【狠】【厉】，【随】【着】【男】【人】【的】【动】【作】，【别】【墅】【都】【被】【整】【个】【一】【切】【为】【二】！ 【好】【强】！ 【云】【酥】【瞪】【圆】【了】【眼】【睛】，【这】、【这】【是】【暴】【走】【了】【吗】？ 【才】【激】【发】【异】【能】【就】【暴】【走】！ 【她】【咬】【牙】【冲】【进】【去】，【将】【崩】【溃】【的】【男】【人】【紧】【紧】【搂】【住】：“【阿】【耀】，【阿】【耀】【你】【看】【着】【我】，【你】【看】【着】【我】！” 【不】【能】【暴】【走】，【不】【能】【暴】【走】，【不】【能】【被】【异】【能】【所】【吞】【噬】
【又】【是】【接】【连】【两】【尾】【断】【去】，【化】【为】【两】【具】【狐】【身】。 【如】【此】【一】【来】，【那】【具】【真】【身】【上】【的】【尾】【巴】【就】【仅】【仅】【剩】【下】【六】【条】。【点】【点】【殷】【红】【渗】【出】，【最】【后】【被】【浑】【厚】【妖】【气】【撑】【为】【一】【抹】【浅】【浅】【红】【色】，【在】【一】【身】【金】【色】【毛】【皮】【上】【灵】【动】【游】【走】，【而】【一】【身】【气】【机】【却】【是】【直】【接】【越】【过】【脱】【劫】，【攀】【升】【到】【了】【元】【神】【之】【下】【所】【能】【容】【纳】【的】【极】【限】，【虽】【然】【注】【定】【大】【战】【过】【后】【会】【跌】【落】【下】【去】，【但】【此】【时】【气】【势】【之】【强】【却】【是】【仅】【在】【道】【明】【老】【僧】【之】【下】，天下彩栗天下彩同步报码【木】【叶】【忍】【者】【村】，【忍】【备】【部】【特】【殊】【监】【控】【室】【之】【外】【的】【走】【廊】【里】。 【面】【具】【男】【宇】【智】【波】【斑】【淡】【然】【的】【站】【在】【那】，【看】【着】【走】【廊】【尽】【头】【的】【那】【个】【忍】【者】。【对】【方】【穿】【着】【的】【就】【是】【最】【普】【通】【的】【暗】【部】【忍】【者】【作】【战】【服】，【带】【着】【的】【也】【是】【一】【张】【很】【平】【常】【的】【猫】【面】【具】，【不】【过】【面】【具】【男】【却】【很】【清】【楚】【对】【方】【的】【身】【份】。 “【鼬】，【你】【知】【道】【吗】？【本】【来】【我】【们】【可】【以】【分】【享】【这】【个】【世】【界】【的】。” 【猫】【形】【面】【具】【之】【下】，【是】【鼬】【那】【独】【特】
“【狂】【妄】！” 【听】【到】【沙】【鲁】【的】【话】，【羽】【夜】【目】【光】【一】【冷】，【他】【也】【知】【道】【自】【己】【遇】【到】【了】【一】【个】【难】【缠】【的】【对】【手】。 【被】【沙】【鲁】【抓】【住】【的】【腿】【元】【素】【化】，【从】【沙】【鲁】【双】【手】【中】【脱】【出】，【随】【即】【化】【作】【尖】【锐】【的】【龙】【爪】。 【百】【裂】【爪】！ “【嗤】！！！” 【空】【间】【被】【切】【割】【的】【声】【音】【无】【比】【刺】【耳】，【羽】【夜】【尖】【锐】【的】【龙】【爪】【横】【扫】【破】【空】，【哪】【怕】【龙】【珠】【世】【界】【的】【空】【间】【异】【常】【稳】【固】，【也】【隐】【隐】【被】【裂】【开】【一】【条】【直】【线】。
【顾】【雪】【回】【家】【的】【时】【候】【已】【经】【是】【十】【二】【点】【过】【了】，【她】【悄】【悄】【地】【打】【开】【门】，【客】【厅】【是】【黑】【的】。 【顾】【雪】【松】【了】【一】【口】【气】，【轻】【手】【轻】【脚】【地】【提】【起】【箱】【子】【准】【备】【回】【自】【己】【的】【房】【间】。 “【回】【来】【了】。” 【正】【在】【顾】【雪】【已】【经】【握】【住】【门】【把】【手】【准】【备】【推】【门】【进】【屋】【的】【时】【候】【客】【厅】【的】【灯】【啪】【的】【一】【下】【开】【了】。 【顾】【妈】【倚】【在】【她】【卧】【室】【的】【门】【框】【那】【里】，【旁】【边】【就】【是】【客】【厅】【灯】【的】【开】【关】，【她】【的】【手】【还】【放】【在】【那】【里】。 【顾】


By: KDKA-TV News Staff
BEAVER COUNTY (KDKA) – The National Weather Service has confirmed two tornadoes in Beaver County on Saturday morning.READ MORE: 18-Year-Old Accused Of Sending Inappropriate Photos On Snapchat To Teenage Girl In Custody
According to the NWS, the two tornadoes were in Shippingport and the other in the Monaca-Freedom area.READ MORE: Know The Score: November 26, 2021
The early morning storms in Beaver County resulted in downed trees, downed power lines, damage to homes, as well as power outages.MORE NEWS: Jarry, Pens Keep Isles Winless In New Arena, 1-0
The NWS says these tornadoes are the 19th and 20th to be observed in Beaver County since 1950.