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The Out Islands of the Bahamas are taking a beating from Hurricane Sandy with heavy winds, rain and flooding.
All airports from Abaco to San Salvador will remain closed until the storm passes.
While the storm has moved beyond Nassau and Freeport, airports and cruise ports on those islands remained closed on Friday as well. Major air carriers serving the Bahamas have waived cancellation and change fees through Oct. 28.
In addition, cruise ships shifted course to get away from or ahead of Hurricane Sandy as it moves northward toward the U.S. East Coast this weekend.
The storm has claimed 21 lives thus far, including 11 in Santiago, Cuba and several in Haiti, the Dominican Republic and one in Jamaica.
For Caribbean and Mexico news, follow Gay Nagle Myers on Twitter @gnmtravelweekly.


Heavy rain brought much of Cairo to a standstill on Tuesday, and causing EgyptAir to delay flights after passengers were unable to reach the airport.
Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly also announced on Tuesday night that schools and universities in the Greater Cairo area have been given the day off on Wednesday, as more rain is expected.
EgyptAir flights from Cairo airport were delayed after heavy rain prevented many passengers from arriving on time.
"The airline has decided to delay the departure of some flights due to the heavy rains, until the arrival of the maximum amount of passengers booked for these flights, to preserve the rights of our customers," the company said in a statement.
The heavy rain in Tuesday afternoon caused widespread traffic jams in the city, particularly in the Heliopolis district where the airport is located.
Some passengers were stuck for several hours due to flooded streets.
Cairo governorate authorities deployed several vacuum trucks to clear the roads.
The Cairo Traffic Authority said it was coordinating with Egypt's Meteorological Authority to provide road alternatives and organizing the closure of some roads to prevent accidents due to heavy fog.
On Sunday the Egyptian Meteorological Authority had warned that there would be a spell of unstable weather across the country from Monday to Friday.


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With two months left on the calendar, 2014 is shaping up to be the hottest year on record, according to new data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Through October, the average global temperature has been 1.22 degrees Fahrenheit higher than the 20th century global average of 57.4 F. October was the hottest October on record globally.
2014 is shaping up to be the warmest year on record, scientists say. Here's a look at climate change by the numbers.
A University of Central Florida student was arrested Friday, accused of beating his 17-week-old dog to death, deputies said.
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Kate Hardiman — University of Notre Dame — February 27, 2017
Recent stories from a variety of sources, including NASA, the Financial Times, and the New York Times report that Earth’s temperature reached a record high in 2016. The high frequency of these claims cast the matter as fact, and paint a grave picture of the problem.
Yet, professors who are experts in climate science say they believe that this headline may inspire hastily drawn conclusions. Moreover, the doom and gloom with which it is presented fails to put Earth’s temperature changes in context, say these climate scientists — considered by scholars who tout extreme global warming scenarios as climate skeptics.
“‘2016 was the warmest year on record’ implies that the earth has never been this warm…ever,” David Legates, associate professor of geography at the University of Delaware, told The College Fix via email.
“The ‘record’ happens to start in the mid-1800s — right about the time that we were emerging from the Little Ice Age…probably the coldest period since the demise of the last ice age some 22,000 years ago. So we start the phrase ‘on record’ at a point where global temperatures were at their coldest in many millennia. It is not surprising that warming would follow,” Legates said. Continue reading here….


A great weather app on your phone gives you every detail from the latest weather condition to warnings on severe weather conditions. So it is useful to have such apps on your phone when you venture outdoors.
Until Apple acquired it, Dark Sky was at the top of the Android weather app list. It is a great weather forecast app that consists of great features and clean design. It was developed for both iOS and Android. But after Apple’s acquisition, it has been killed for Android. Now you are wondering which is the best alternative Android app for Dark Sky, aren’t you? Don’t worry. Here we are presenting the best of the collection for you.
Best Weather Apps for Android in 2022
Though you can find a lot of weather apps in Google Play Store, most of them do not have all the features that Dark Sky has. Moreover, they are poorly designed as well as full of ads. So replacing Dark Sky is somewhat difficult. Anyway, here are some of the best alternative apps for you to try.
According to our recommendation, Today Weather will be the best alternative for Dark Sky. It has a clean and dark user interface. You can see the current weather condition at the top of the screen. Below that, there is an hourly weather forecast for the next 24 hours. Moreover, you can see the details on “feels like” temperature, humidity, UV index, visibility, dew point, and pressure. You have to scroll down to the page to see the weekly weather forecast. Apart from these details, you can view below current weather details also.
- Chance of precipitation
- Air quality index
- Pollen count
- Sunrise and sunset times
- Moon phase
If you do not want any of the above widgets, you can easily turn them off by going to the Settings menu of the app.
Today Weather uses multiple sources to provide weather information such as Dark Sky, Yr.no, and AccuWeather. But the speciality here is that you can select your preferred source for information. Moreover, it allows you to change units also. Before that, Today Weather will not forget to greet you by your own name. So user-friendliness is also admirable. Further, it will notify you daily about incoming weather conditions by sending notifications and alerts.
There are several subscription plans for Today Weather. You can pay $2.99 for one year or $1.59 for six months. If not, you can also have the “forever” option only for $6.49. The free version is also available for you if you are ok with popup ads.
If you are addicted to the up-to-the-minute precipitation forecast feature of Dark Sky, then the best alternative weather app for you will be Accuweather. Because AccuWeather offers you a very similar forecasting service with its feature called MinuteCast for the next 2 hours. It will tell you the time when precipitation might happen based on your location precisely. Further, it will divide precipitation into types and show the intensity of each of them separately.
Moreover, you can find multiple other tabs for viewing hourly and daily weather forecasts, radar, and even news. Apart from hourly and daily forecasts, it also provides a 15-day forecast, which allows you to integrate it with your calendar. You can find a pollen count also in AccuWeather. But the overall design of AccuWeather is not satisfying.
AccuWeather’s location coverage is admirable. It is more than 3 million in number. It also consists of an alert system that notifies incoming severe weather conditions.
The free version of AccuWeather is available. But it is full of ads. You can remove ads by buying it for $4.
Overdrop is one of the great apps that has been successful in copying the simple design philosophy of Dark Sky.
This is a single-page app. At the top of the page, current weather conditions are displayed with attractive animation. Below that, you can see the temperature “feels like” temperature, precipitation, wind speed, and hourly weather forecast for the next 24 hours, including temperature, wind, and rain. The weekly weather forecast is at the bottom of the page. Unfortunately, you can not find radar in Overdrop. But it has an excellent user interface design.
You can enjoy Overdrop freely with ads. To get rid of these ads, you have to pay $2.19 per year or have a lifetime license for $7.49.
Hello Weather’s clean interface helps to keep all the stuff very simple. You can see the current weather condition in front and center of the screen. An hourly weather forecast will be directly underneath the current condition. At the bottom of the screen, there will be a weekly weather forecast. Further, you can view more information for each section by swiping back and forth.
There are separate tabs for radar, locations, and settings. Currently, Hello Weather is using Dark Sky as the default data source. But they have already announced that they will move to another data source before the Dark Sky API stops its support.
But when any of the weather conditions change, you will not be notified. This is the biggest drawback of this app.
You can use Hello Weather freely with popup ads or use it without ads for $4.99 per year.
If you are looking for a free alternative app with a great design and without any popup ads, then Geometric Weather will be the perfect choice for you. From top to bottom, you will see the current weather condition, daily forecast, hourly forecast, allergen details, sunrise and sunset times, and much more respectively on one page. It uses Accuweather as its data source.
The app will notify you about incoming weather conditions by sending notifications. If you do not like its light mode, then you can turn on its dark mode.
Though this app does not contain the radar feature, its overall performance is good. If you are not willing to pay, then this app will be the best choice to try because it is totally free as well as open-source.
If you do not care about the app’s interface, but only the data it provides, then Weather Underground will be a solid option for you. App’s design is not pleasant. But you can view the information about the current weather condition, radar, daily weather forecast, hourly weather forecast, air quality as well as sunrise and sunset times on a single page. It collects data from personal as well as amateur weather stations to provide you with accurate forecasts. This network consists of more than 30,000 weather stations.
With the Crowd reporting feature, you can verify reported forecasts. Other features you can have with Weather Underground are detailed weather maps, severe weather alerts, the hourly weather forecast for the next 10 days, and more.
The free version contains a lot of ads. But you can buy this app for $4/month or $20/year without ads.
Do you love jokes? Then this app is for you. Carrot Weather is one of the fun weather apps in Google Play Store due to its weather-related jokes. There are four options for “personality” settings. They are “Friendly”, “Snarky”, “Homicidal” and “Overkill“. You can change the setting as you want anytime. But its UI is pretty basic. You can see the current temperature and hourly as well as a weekly weather forecast on the homepage. You can find a separate weather alert tab. If you want to play a game, then there will be a built-in game based on geography for you to enjoy.
Carrot Weather is freely available in the Play Store. But to get rid of the ads, you have to pay $3.99 yearly or $1 monthly.
Shadow Weather’s UI is most similar to the Dark Sky. It shows the current weather condition, the weather forecast for the next hour, hourly weather forecast as well as a weekly weather forecast on the main app page. Apart from these features, “Interactive Radar” and “Lightning Tracker” features are also available with Shadow Weather.
This app is freely available with ads. If you watch a video, then the premium license that costs $5 per year will be unlocked for 24 hours. Moreover, to have the radar feature, you should have a premium license.
The Weather Channel (TWC) shows you meteorological data on an hourly, daily, and weekly basis. Ten-day weather forecast also available with the app. Further, it shows radar data using an interactive map. The social sharing feature allows you to upload images, videos, and tweets. Other features that TWC offers are “feels like” temperature, rain alerts in real-time, and a feature to track flu risks as well as seasonal allergies. Now, it can even track COVID-19 cases.
TWC free app contains ads. Upgrade it to premium for $10/year or $1/month to get rid of ads.
1Weather consists of a large number of customization options and twelve weather widgets. It shows you current weather conditions and forecasts on an hourly, 10 days, and 12 weeks basis. Apart from forecasts, it provides you radar maps, notifications as well as severe weather alerts.
Sometimes the app will not be updated immediately when you reopen it. But the overall performance of the app is good. If you want a weather app with wonderful widgets at no cost, then 1Weather is the ideal solution for you.
Yahoo Weather is for those who are looking for a pretty and practical weather app. Its user interface enables you to quickly check weather information of several locations by scrolling side to side. Further, it shows images of your current location based on the day, time, and weather conditions. You can view 5-day weather forecasts and heat, radar, and satellite maps. Its clean and concise UI enhances its user-friendliness, making it an everyday app.
This app also can be freely downloaded from Google Play Store.
Though most weather apps have built-in radar features with them, RadarScope’s radar feature is more advanced than the rest of the competitors. So if you want to use a radar app that professional meteorologists, as well as storm chasers, use and want to track weather patterns, then install RadarScope on your Android device. But this app is not free. You have to pay $9.99.
RadarScope uses Nexrad Level 3 data that collects from radar stations. You can find settings and options for fine-tuning the view and displaying velocity, reflectivity, and much more. Apart from that, you can find a severe weather alert system in this app.
This app also consists of built-in widgets. Moreover, it allows you to customize the appearance of the app. So if you are looking for a free weather app with customizable layouts, then this is the ideal solution for you.
The admirable feature of Weather Live is that it shows you a matching image with a weather report to give you a better idea about the weather that you can expect. It provides you a lot of details like current weather conditions including “feels like” temperature, hourly as well as weekly weather forecasts, precipitation, sunrise/sunset times, and much more.
If a weather condition is gradually increasing to a severe level and you want to track it, then WeatherBug is the ideal app for you.
You can have many features with the free download. Some of them are listed below.
- Doppler radar for locations in North America
- Hurricane forecasts
- Spark lightning alerts
- Air quality info
- Pollen count
- Current weather forecast
- Hourly weather forecast
- 10-day weather forecast
When forecasting weather conditions, WeatherBug gives you hyperlocal conditions in real-time because it collects data from satellites, tracking stations, and weather services.
Google has its own weather app and you can access it by searching “weather” in Google Assistant or Google Chrome app. It is totally free and ad-free. You will see accurate weather information on a nice user interface and you can even create a shortcut on your phone’s home screen.
What Kind of Security Issues Weather Apps Can Cause?
Though weather apps help you to plan your day as well as your whole week, keep in mind they are third-party apps. So they can pose privacy risks because they collect your location data to function. They may even ask for permissions that they do not really need. Some popular weather apps, including Weather Channel, Weatherbug, Weather Forecast, and AccuWeather have been accused of selling your location data to third-party advertisers.
So it is always better to use built-in weather apps rather than trusting third-parties.
We have given you 15 alternative apps for Dark Sky. You can select the best one according to your need. If we have missed any other great app, then comment them below. Do not forget to let us know your choice among them too.


Climate Change Action Cannot Ignore Social Issues
Despite a series of troubling new reports and studies, the world has yet to respond adequately to the threat posed by global warming. One reason is that policymakers have not made the connection between climate action and the social and political challenges their countries face.
PRINCETON/VIENNA – Climate scientists are sounding the alarm about global warming, but the world is not responding. In October, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned of catastrophic risks to health, livelihoods, water supplies, and human security if global warming is not limited to 1.5° Celsius relative to the pre-industrial level, a target set by the 2015 Paris climate agreement. At the moment, however, we are on track for a 3°C increase.
Then, in November, the Fourth National Climate Assessment in the United States predicted that without swift action to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, the US economy would suffer “substantial damages.” But President Donald Trump’s administration appears utterly unconcerned.
How is it possible that the slow-motion threat of climate devastation has not yet been halted?


PATERSON, NJ - With Governor Phil Murphy declaring a state of emergency and asking New Jersey residents to prepare for a winter storm that will affect the area throughout the weekend, Mayor Andre Sayegh assured residents that Paterson is also “taking the necessary measures to be prepared.”
Snow, sleet, freezing rain, and frigid temperatures are expected in the Paterson area for Saturday and Sunday amd while the storm is expected to have moved out of the area by Monday the thermometer is only expected to reach 13 degrees.
In short video posted on Facebook Sayegh urged residents to do their best to stay off the roads, to clear sidewalks and fire hydrants of snow, and to refrain from throwing snow into roadways.
Sayegh continued that he would continue to receive updates from OEM Coordinator Rhonda Thompson throughout the storm and make them available to residents online and on social media.
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Pre-dawn windstorm leaves one dead, thousands without power in Alabama
Published: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 at 11:46 a.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 at 11:46 a.m.
A falling tree hit a mobile home and killed an elderly woman as pre-dawn winds gusting to more than 40 mph blew through central Alabama early Tuesday, leaving thousands without electricity.
The Jefferson County coronerís office identified the victim as Juanita Greene, 71, of Leeds.
Police reported the death about 3:45 a.m. CDT, according to the National Weather Service, but no further details were immediately available.
The storms left about 42,000 homes and businesses without power. Several school systems canceled classes or opened late because of the blackouts.
Trees crisscrossed some roads, slowing travel, and numerous wrecks brought morning rush hour traffic to a standstill in metro Birmingham. The weather service issued a tornado warning for an area near Montgomery, but no touchdowns were reported.
Forecasters said the storms were ahead of a cold front that would bring a chance of snow flurries by early Wednesday.
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Brian Barnes didn’t let his near-death experience with a tornado scare him away from chasing storms — it turned him into a brave photographer.
The 39-year-old grew up in “Tornado Alley” — living through multiple tornadoes and even getting struck by lightning in the country’s storm belt — and now dedicates his life to snapping stunning shots of all sorts of storms.
Barnes leads tours of storm chasers throughout the country — getting close enough to witness some of Mother Nature’s most terrifying natural disasters.
“We don’t get into positions that puts our group in danger,” he told Barcroft Media. “Most of these photos were taken at a distance of three to 10 miles from the tornadoes.”
His photos capture everything from thunderstorms to tornadoes — with one shot showing a blue evening sky with a burst of lightning shooting out from a massive cloud cluster.
While he has a personal passion for chasing storms, he also loves the opportunity to inform people about powerful storm systems.
“We love the adventure, but we’re really out there to teach people about severe storms, one group at a time,” he said.


|Discovery date||October 1839|
|Constellation||Orion (near Betelgeuse)|
|Right ascension||06h 24m|
|Occurs during||October 16 – October 27|
|Date of peak||October 21|
|Zenithal hourly rate||typically 20–25|
The Orionid meteor shower, usually shortened to the Orionids, is the most prolific meteor shower associated with Halley's Comet. The Orionids are so-called because the point they appear to come from, called the radiant, lies in the constellation Orion, but they can be seen over a large area of the sky. Orionids are an annual meteor shower which last approximately one week in late October. In some years, meteors may occur at rates of 50–70 per hour.
Meteor showers first designated "shooting stars" were connected to comets in the 1800s. E.C. Herrick made an observation in 1839 and 1840 about the activity present in the October night skies. A. S. Herschel produced the first documented record that gave accurate forecasts for the next meteor shower. The Orionid meteor shower is produced by the well known Halley's Comet, which was named after the astronomer Edmund Halley and last passed through the inner solar system in 1986 on its 75- to 76-year orbit. When the comet passes through the solar system, the sun sublimates some of the ice, allowing rock particles to break away from the comet. These particles continue on the comet's trajectory and appear as meteors ("falling stars") when they pass through Earth's upper atmosphere. Halley's comet is also responsible for creating the Eta Aquariids, which occur each May.
|Year||Activity Date Range||Peak Date||ZHRmax|
|1981||October 18–21||October 23||20|
|1984||October 21–24||October 21–24||(flat maximum)|
|2006||October 2 — November 7||October 21–24||23 with peaks at 67|
|2007||October 20–24||October 21 (predicted)||70|
|2008||October 15–29||October 20–22 (predicted)||39|
|2009||October 18–25 ||October 22||45|
|2012||October 2 — November 7||October 20 and October 23||43|
|2014||October 2 — November 7||October 21||20?|
|2015||October 2 — November 7||October 20-21||N/A|
* This meteor shower may give double peaks as well as plateaus, and time periods of flat maxima lasting several days.
Meteor shower and location
The radiant of the Orionids is located between the constellations Orion and Gemini (in the south-eastern sky before dawn, as viewed from mid-northern latitudes. The most active time of the meteor shower was stated by Telegraph.uk.co to be in the early morning of October 21, 2009 6 a.m. Eastern Standard Time in the United States or 11 a.m. in the United Kingdom. Tweets and user news articles were shared on Social networking and micro-blogging services such as Twitter and Yahoo! Buzz. Photos and videos of the event were posted on photo and video sharing websites such as YouTube and Flickr. Universe Today reported that the meteor shower arrived at 140,000 miles (230,000 km) per hour on the morning of the 21 when showing was predicted to be at its height, however compared to previous showers in years past, the trail of 2009 appeared narrower without branching out. Cooke, found that the originating points of 30 meteors were from within a very small area of the Orion constellation even though observers observing the small meteor "Halleyids" at Alabama's Space Flight Center saw streaks radiating in all directions with the naked eye.
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Unlike the first system, there will be a flood threat, particularly across Southern California and along the Mogollon Rim in Arizona. Winds will be stronger with this system, which will only serve to increase the potential for power outages. Wind gusts up to 60 mph will be likely along the Southern California coast while the mountains could see gusts as high as 80 mph.
As another storm takes aim at the South Bay, some Saratoga residents are still recovering from last weeks intense wind and rain that caused trees to topple and knock out power for days.
High winds, heavy rain and a tornado have caused power outages, flooding and damage in the south.
The western U.S. and California are forecast to be slammed with more rain and snow this week before parts of the South and Southeast face severe weather.
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On Thursday, North Texas experienced severe thunderstorms, hail and tornado warnings around the region.
A national brawl is brewing over how to fix the eastern states lack of gas supply for the energy grid.
White Settlement residents are looking at the damage from Thursdays storms. Heavy wind and rain struck yesterday, taking down tree limbs and damaging roofs. downing power lines
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Clouds, rain and sunny intervals: East London weather forecast this week
- Credit: Sarah Lucy Brown/Archant
After a wet weekend and a drizzly Monday, the weather in east London is due to improve this week.
This afternoon (Monday, June 21), London will feel murky and cool with outbreaks of light rain, according to the Met Office.
Tomorrow is forecast to be dry, but breezy and cloudy with highs of 18C.
On Wednesday, skies in east London are expected to be much sunnier, with highs of 19C and a low chance of rain.
The sun is expected to shine on Thursday morning, with highs of around 22C, but clouds are set to replace the sun by early afternoon.
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Friday morning is predicted to see sunny intervals, however by mid-afternoon there is a 40 per cent chance of rain.
Saturday is predicted to be a dry but cloudy day, with highs of 19C, but on Sunday the sun is set to finally come out for good, with highs of 22C.
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According to the BBC, next week should be far sunnier, with highs of 25C - possibly a return to summer weather.


Cheyenne Wells, Co, Usa Climate Graphs
The first graph shows the climate in Cheyenne Wells, Co, Usa in metric units and the second in English units.
The climate graphs depict monthly average temperatures, precipitation, wet days, sunlight hours, relative humidity and wind speed.
Cheyenne Wells, Co Climate Graph in Metric Units
Cheyenne Wells, Co Climograph in English Units
Cheyenne Wells, Co Climate Graphs Discussion
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- Hayss, Ks, Usa - 259.2 kms (161.1 miles) E
- Scott City, Ks, Usa - 141.2 kms (87.7 miles) SE
- Dodge City, Ks, Usa - 224.3 kms (139.4 miles) SE


A powerful typhoon that weakened into a tropical storm blew toward southern Japan on Tuesday, leaving at least 17 people dead in the Philippines, officials said.
Twenty-one other people remain missing from Tropical Storm Mitag, as another weather disturbance — Tropical Depression Hagibis — crossed Mindoro island, south of the Philippine capital of Manila, disaster relief officials and forecasters said.
Mitag weakened further as it hovered over the northern Babuyan islands with sustained winds of 40 mph and gusts of up to 50 mph. It was forecast to be 130 miles south of Okinawa, Japan by Wednesday morning.
Hagibis, which weakened from a tropical storm, blew across the southern half of Mindoro, about 100 miles south of Manila around 4 p.m. Tuesday, packing winds of up to 34 miles, the weather bureau said.
Hagibis killed 13 people in the country last week before heading for Vietnam. It reversed its position and turned back to the Philippines, complicating emergency preparations.
Fatalities from Mitag rose from 12 to 17 Tuesday, after three people were reportedly killed in western Palawan province and two men drowned in northern Cagayan province, the Office of Civil Defense reported.
Eighteen other people remain missing in Kalinga and nearby Apayao province, including two families with eight members each whose houses were washed out by landslides, said Elvira Calina, a civil defense official.
A Philippine air force jet carrying two pilots disappeared in foul weather Monday while searching for 26 Filipino crewmen whose fishing boat sank last week near the disputed Spratly islands in the South China Sea, the air force said.
Disaster relief officials said nearly 450,000 people were affected by Mitag, with more than 200,000 people moved to evacuation centers.
The typhoon flooded at least 50 villages in Isabela, a province of more than a million people. A swollen river in the provincial capital, Ilagan, engulfed at least 10 houses, officials said. Most of Isabela had no power.
In nearby Cagayan province, strong winds toppled trees and knocked down power posts, cutting off electricity in the province of nearly a million, Gov. Alvaro Antonio said. The province’s rice industry suffered losses.
“We were just one or two weeks away from harvest time. I’m afraid we’ve lost everything to the flood and strong winds,” Antonio said by telephone.
The Agriculture Department estimated losses at $2.5 million, still a fraction of the $246 million incurred during last year’s typhoons.
Mitag was the most erratic of the 13 typhoons and major storms that have hit the Philippines this year. It first headed for the populous Bicol region, where more than 250,000 people were evacuated, but shifted Saturday to the north.


At least 11 people have been killed in Dallas, Texas after multiple tornadoes ripped through the city on the day after Christmas.
The unseasonable storms come just shortly after similar events in Georgia and Mississippi, building a substantial death toll for the December storms. Tornadoes also swept through Oklahoma, Kansas, Arkansas, and Missouri Saturday evening.
“METEOROLOGIST STEVE FANO SAID roughly eight tornadoes may have touched down across seven counties, though preliminary reports could not be confirmed until the morning.”
According to police, over 400 homes were damaged by the storm which ripped through Dallas.
The south, like much of the U.S. is experiencing record high temperatures this December which has no doubt helped to create the ideal environment for these deadly storms.
Read more at the Huffington Post.


Gambia's Department of Water Resources reports torrential rain started on Saturday morning and continued for more than 20 hours in parts of the West African country.
The highest rainfall measured over that period was 276 mm (10.87 inches) at Banjul International Airport, compared with a previous record of 175.4 mm in July 1998, it said.
"It is the worst flooding I have ever seen in the Gambia," said Sanna Dahaba, executive director of the National Disaster Management Agency. "This is attributed to climate change, there's no doubt about that."
Two children died and an estimated 13,000 households were affected by the floods, he said, as heavy rain continued on and off throughout the country.
Gambia is highly vulnerable to the effects of climate change, including floods, drought, sea level rise and heatwaves, according to the World Bank. Its capital Banjul is situated on a peninsula where the Gambia River flows into the Atlantic Ocean.
Aerial photos and videos shared on social media showed vast areas of flooding with roads submerged and water nearly up to roof-level of some buildings.
The Gambia Red Cross said its volunteers were working around the clock to distribute supplies and help families relocate to emergency shelters.


Redding fire keeps Reno in a haze; raises air quality to unhealthy level
The massive fire burning in Northern California has left Reno in a haze, and it likely won’t change any time soon, according to the National Weather Service.
On Saturday, the air quality reached an unhealthy level, meaning the smoky air will affect sensitive groups. That includes people with lung disease, older adults and children, who all face a greater risk of health issues arising prolonged or heavy exertion outdoors, according to the Washoe County Health District’s Air Quality Management Division.
Several other fires in the area are also contributing to the hazy conditions in Reno, said meteorologist Mark Deutschendorf, of the National Weather Service.
A 3,500-acre fire burning in Lassen County was also blowing haze into the Reno area, Deutschendorf said.
The Whaleback Fire was reported at about 1:32 p.m. on Friday near Whaleback Mountain and Antelope Valley Road, just west of Spaulding and Eagle Lake and northwest of Susanville. The fire was only 5 percent contained as of Saturday, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE).
Evacuations were made in Spalding and in both Christie and Merrill campgrounds. An evacuation center was set up at Assembly of God Church in Susanville, according to CAL FIRE.
Deutschendorf said the Ferguson Fire burning near Yosemite National Park was also pumping smoke into the Mammoth Mountain area and in other places south of Reno.
The Ferguson Fire has burned 49,619 acres and is 29 percent contained as of Saturday. More than 3,800 firefighters were battling the blaze, including 282 engines, 46 water tenders and 16 helicopters. That also includes 92 crews, 81 dozers and five masticators.
One person was killed and seven others have been injured as a result of the fire. The blaze also destroyed one structure, according to officials with the Sierra National Forest.
“The smoke will ease up early this afternoon and evening, but it’s not really going away,” Deutschendorf said Saturday.
He said most of the smoke from the daytime burning of the Carr Fire will continue to cover Reno in a haze.
The fire has grown to more than 75 square miles and has claimed the lives of two people and injured three others. It was also threatening another 5,000 structures in and around Redding, Calif.
“I can see a little bit of blue sky from where we’re at,” Deutschendorf said from the National Weather Service office in north Reno. “Until the next round of smoke arrives early in the morning tomorrow. We’re kind of in a repeating pattern for a while.”
Afternoon winds could help ease the haze, but it’s not a very strong wind, he said.
“It’ll be a 20 to 25 mph afternoon breeze or gust,” Deutschendorf said. “We’re not expecting any thunderstorms, and we’re not expecting any strong winds.”
Forecasters were expecting some isolated thunderstorms in Mono and Mineral counties Saturday afternoon, but none in Washoe County.
Deutschendorf said he also expects high temperatures, with some days experiencing slightly cooler


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I live in southeastern Europe, in Bulgaria that's right above Greece and bellow Romania. For the last 3-4 days we have har record high temperatures, sometimes in the mid 30s. This is happening in late October when it is supposed to be much cooler.
So yes, global warming IS real, I am personally experiencing it every single day.
The Sun is supposedly experiencing a solar minimum but yet again today a big brand new sun spot has appeared. Here is a link I borrowed directly from spaceweather.com
. This will be the biggest sunspot for 2009. Gee The Sun ain't quiet no more, yet again


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Storm Tracker Morning Forecast for 10/23/13
By Jessica Schaer
Wednesday will start out chilly in the mid-to-upper 30s, with a Frost Advisory expiring at 9am for Southeast Kansas and Southwestern Missouri. Temperatures will struggle to reach 60° this afternoon with a few mid-level clouds, thanks to a system tracking it's way through northern and eastern Missouri. Temperatures will stay above the freezing-mark this evening in the before temperatures drop again tomorrow, reaching only the mid-50s by mid-afternoon. Then, tomorrow night, below-freezing temperatures will be the main story as a Freeze Watch is in effect. Protecting plants, pets, and pipes will be important Thursday evening into the early morning hours. Click for details.


Record breaking rainfall produced by the remnants of former Hurricane "Norbert" drenched much of the U.S. Southwest on September 8, 2014. Flash flooding in southern Arizona resulted in deaths of two people. Massive rainfall and flash flooding was also seen in parts of Nevada and southern California.
Phoenix, Arizona saw 84 mm (3.3 inches) of rainfall in 24 hours, breaking the previous high of 74 mm (2.91 inches), set in 1933. According to WMO, this amount of rainfall in Arizona is more than the combined total normally seen in the 3 months of July, August, and September.
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The flash floods caused havoc on the state’s road network, in particular around the Phoenix area, where dozens of cars were trapped on Interstates 10 and 17, FloodList reports.
Later on Monday, Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton declared a state of emergency in the city. Interstate 15 in north west Arizona was also affected by the flooding.
In Nevada, the brunt of the storm hit Moapa, a town of about 1 000 people in a sparsely populated rural area some 70 km (50 miles) northeast of Las Vegas.
Their weather stations measured 118 mm (4.67 inches) of rain within two hours, pushing the Muddy and Virgin rivers to near-flood stage.
— Rlan Levi (@RlanLevi) September 9, 2014
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In Southern California, some people were trapped in vehicles and had to be rescued by emergency teams.
Interstate 215, Highway 74 and 243 were worst affected and at one point as many as 70 vehicles were trapped by flash floods.
NOAA's GOES-West imagery from September 6 through September 9 shows former Tropical Storm "Norbert" spinning down in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. Credit: NASA/NOAA GOES Project
Featured image credit: AZCentral
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Hope you've enjoyed this stretch of hot and humid weather. Cause starting next week, nature cranks up the air conditioner and cools us down from the 80s into the upper 60s.
If you don't like the humidity, Wednesday's your perfect day. Blue skies, light breeze with afternoon temperatures in the upper 70s.
You'll sweat a little more Thursday, with cloudier skies and on and off showers/thunderstorms.
Feel like hitting up the beach? Friday and Saturday offers up the last chance to do so.
Nature cranks up the thermostat Saturday. There is the opportunity of a shower or thunderstorm during the afternoon. Other than that, it's a beach day!
Have the umbrellas handy Sunday. Wet, warm and breezy. A cold front ushers us some summertime relief Monday.
By Tuesday, some of us will be trading away the t-shirts for hoodies...ok, maybe a little exaggerated. But you get the idea. Look for the cool trend to last through much of next week.


SEVERE WEATHER EMERGENCY PROTOCOL (SWEP)
OPERATIONAL when temperatures are seriously low.
Northampton’s SWEP was activated for the weekend 8th – 9th February in response to the Met Office’s warning of heavy rain and very high winds on Sunday. It will be activated again as necessary. CTN will endeavour to keep you informed when this is to happen via this website.
Northampton’s Winter Shelter (run by Northampton Borough Council in partnership with the Hope Centre, Midland Heart Housing Association and NAASH) provides somewhere safe, warm and dry for rough sleepers to go during severe weather.
The Winter Shelter operates from the Hope Centre in Oasis House overnight (from 9.00pm until 7.00am the next morning)


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Summertime sees the greatest number of "shooting stars," with July being the peak. And every summer, skywatchers all over the world look forward to observing the Perseid meteors — the "Old Faithful" of the annual meteor displays. In the process, however, most viewers will overlook six relatively minor meteor showers that peak between July 26 and Aug. 21 (three in July and three in August).
The radiants for most of these meteor showers will be concentrated in the southern part of the sky between roughly 1 a.m. and 4 a.m. local time. A radiant is the place in the sky where the paths of meteors, if extended backward, would intersect from a particular constellation. Many people are misled into thinking that this is the best place to look for these meteors, but in reality, the radiant is an optical illusion: The meteors are traveling on parallel paths, but due to our perspective, the meteors appear to be darting from this particular spot in the sky.
So, in essence, if you concentrate your viewing here, you'll be looking basically at the vanishing point or a void in the sky. Only the very occasional stationary meteor — one that is coming nearly straight at you — can be seen here. In contrast, the greatest number of meteors will be seen perhaps 30 degrees away from the radiant, in the general direction of the zenith, the point in the sky directly overhead. (Your fist held at arm's length corresponds to roughly 10 degrees of the sky.)
But the majority of southern showers do make it more likely that any "shooting star" seen in late July or early August will appear to be coming from the south.
In addition to the shower meteors, there are always sporadic ones. Before midnight, these average two or three per hour, and just before dawn, there are perhaps as many as six or seven. The duration in days of the meteor showers provided here is somewhat arbitrary, since the beginning and end are gradual and indefinite.
Our information was compiled from several sources — most notably, the book "Meteor Showers — A Descriptive Catalog" (Enslow, 1988), by Gary Kronk, and the International Meteor Organization's 2022 Meteor Shower Calendar.
This meteor shower peaks on July 26, though it extends from July 10 to Aug. 15. With the July new moon only two days away and the radiant reaching its highest point — about 30 degrees up — in the south at 1:40 a.m. local daylight time, conditions are nearly ideal to look for these bright meteors. The stars of Capricornus (the Sea Goat) form a roughly triangular figure, which may suggest an inverted cocked hat, or perhaps a stingray swimming directly toward you. Only a few Capricornids will appear per hour, so most of the visible meteors will be either sporadic or members of another shower. A good way to separate the two is to imagine the meteor's path as being extended backward on the sky. Does it pass near Capricornus? If so, it is almost certainly a shower member.
This meteor shower extends from July 15 to Aug. 10, peaking on July 28. During the height of the Piscis Austrinids, the moon will be in new phase, so you won't have to worry about moonlight ruining the view. The radiant is not far from the first-magnitude star Fomalhaut, which appears quite low — about 20 degrees, or two fists, above the southern horizon — at 3:15 a.m. Because of its low altitude, this meteor stream is best viewed from the Southern Hemisphere, where the radiant climbs high into the sky and produces up to eight members per hour.
July 30 marks the peak of the Delta Aquarids, the most prolific of the six minor showers, which runs from July 12 to Aug. 23. Aquarius (the Water Carrier) is pictured as carelessly carrying a water jar so that water is spilling out. The water jar is marked by a little triangle of faint stars, with a fourth star at its center. Interestingly, this shower has two radiants, suggesting that we're seeing two distinct streams of celestial debris burning up in Earth's atmosphere. One is located near the star Delta Aquarii, and the other is near the water jar configuration. As many as two dozen meteors per hour are provided by this shower. Expect chiefly faint, medium-speed meteors with occasional significantly brighter events. The moon is still well out of the picture, and both radiants reach their highest point in the south at around 3:40 a.m. at an altitude of roughly 40 degrees, meaning viewing circumstances will be favorable throughout the morning.
Another weak shower from Capricornus, which began about July 3, peaks the same night as the Delta Aquarids (July 30) and ends on Aug. 15. The radiant is 40 degrees above the horizon at 1 a.m. Though few in number, the Alpha Capricornids frequently produce slow and bright (sometimes fireball-class) yellow meteors that can be quite spectacular.
This is the last minor shower before the Perseids and is another two-radiant shower having detectable members from July 15 to Aug. 25. At peak activity on Aug. 6, a bright waxing gibbous moon will set shortly after midnight, leaving the rest of the night dark for meteor watching. At best, perhaps six members per hour are seen under good conditions. The radiants are at their highest — 40 degrees high in the south — at 2:15 a.m.
A waning gibbous moon, one and a half days past full, will dominate the overnight skies of Aug. 12 to 13 to spoil this year's annual performance of the Perseid meteor shower. The radiant, which is not far from the famous Double Star Cluster in northern Perseus, rises in the evening and is nearly 70 degrees above the northern horizon at the break of dawn. If not for the hampering effect of moonlight, observers would notice a crescendo in hourly rates averaging more than 60 meteors per hour, though double this rate has been seen on occasion. Many flaring meteors with trains are seen under dark skies, but unfortunately, only the brightest of them will be visible in 2022. This shower normally extends from July 25 through Aug. 18.
This is the last of the summer meteor showers, with the next significant display (the Orionids) not coming until the latter half of October. The host constellation Cygnus (the Swan) is formed by a large figure of six stars popularly called the Northern Cross, the long axis of which lies lengthwise along the Milky Way. The limits for this shower run from Aug. 3 to 25, with the peak occurring Aug. 17. But although the maximum rate is only three or four meteors per hour, this stream does provide slow-moving, sometimes brilliant flaring fireballs, and a careful skywatcher may be nicely rewarded for the time spent. On peak night, the moon is a waning gibbous and does not rise until around 10:30 p.m., but the hours before midnight are still the best time to view this shower. At its highest, the star Kappa Cygni — from where these meteors appear to radiate — stands more than 75 degrees above the northern horizon at 10:15 p.m.
Joe Rao serves as an instructor and guest lecturer at New York's Hayden Planetarium. He writes about astronomy for Natural History magazine, the Farmers' Almanac and other publications. Follow us on Twitter @Spacedotcom and on Facebook.
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Sally strengthens to hurricane, threatens US Gulf coast
Houston: Louisiana and Mississippi residents were under evacuation orders on Monday, local time, as Hurricane Sally churned across the Gulf of Mexico, ahead of expected landfall on Tuesday (Wednesday AEST), the US National Hurricane Centre said.
The second storm in less than a month to threaten the region, Sally was headed toward a slow-motion landfall that could dump damaging rains on the US Gulf Coast. Residents from Louisiana to Florida were told to also expect storm surge and high winds.
Tropical Storm Sally in the Gulf of Mexico before it strengthened to a hurricane.Credit:AP
Sally is the 18th named storm in the Atlantic this year and will be the eighth of tropical storm or hurricane strength to hit the United States – something "very rare if not a record" said Dan Kottlowski, senior meteorologist at AccuWeather. Accurate data on historic tropical storms can be elusive.
Mississippi and Louisiana issued mandatory evacuation orders to residents of low-lying areas while Mississippi ordered its coastal casinos to close by late Monday afternoon.
“We are going to bear the brunt of this storm,” Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves told residents on Monday, warning that rainfall along the coast could exceed 50.8 cm.
Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards appealed for a federal disaster declaration and advised people living in Sally's path to flee.
A truck drives through seawater as Beach Boulevard floods in Waveland, Mississippi.Credit:AP
"We have to make sure that everything is tied down and out of the way so it doesn't float away or become airborne," said Steve Forstall, a Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, port employee.
In the coastal town, located roughly 80 km northeast of New Orleans, water from the bay was spilling onto the beach roadway early on Monday, local time. Workers were seen boarding up homes and securing items like trash cans that can become projectiles in high winds. Residents helped each other fill sandbags at a do-it-yourself station, and some people parked cars and boats on higher ground, anticipating flooded roads.
The US Coast Guard was limiting traffic from the Port of New Orleans, while energy companies slowed or cut refinery output and scrambled to pull workers from offshore oil and gas production platforms.
At 1pm local time, Sally was 210 km east-southeast of the mouth of the Mississippi River, packing sustained winds of 145 km/h, according to the NHC.
The storm will approach southeastern Louisiana on Monday night but not make landfall until sometime on Tuesday, local time, the NHC said. Its slow movement is expected to dump 20 to 40 cm on the coast and cause widespread river flooding.
An expected turn to the north is "going to be critical for the New Orleans area," said Jim Foerster, chief meteorologist at DTN, an energy, agriculture and weather data provider. Mississippi appears more likely for landfall, but Sally's biggest threat is that it will be a "rainmaker" across a wide swath of the Gulf Coast and drop much as 7.62 to 10.2 cm in areas as far inland as Atlanta, Foerster said.
Residents of southwestern Louisiana are still clearing debris and tens of thousands of homes are without power after Hurricane Laura left a trail of destruction. Sally's path remains east of that hard-hit area.
Damage from Sally is expected to reach $US2 billion to $US3 billion, but could exceed that if the storm's heaviest rainfall happens over land instead of in the Gulf, said Chuck Watson of Enki Research, which models and tracks tropical storms.
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From The Durango Telegraph (Tracy Chamberlin):
In 2002, La Plata County was suffering from exceptional drought. This year the county is under moderate drought. Ten years ago, 78 percent of the state was under extreme drought. Currently, less than 10 percent of Coloradoans are feeling those kinds of conditions.
Also, the Animas River is running around 1,200 cubic feet per second. That’s less than half the average, around 3,000 cfs, but still a far cry from the record lows in 2002 of 500 cfs.
“There’s still some moisture out there,” said Durango Fire and Rescue Chief Dan Noonan. “But with each passing day, the situation is changing.”
The snowmelt came four to six weeks earlier than normal this year, rushing the rapids and depleting the water sources a little early. And the state is trending toward drier and drier conditions.
Three months ago, 40 percent of Colorado was suffering from moderate drought. Last week, it was 68 percent. Now that number has jumped to more than 75 percent.
The northeast part of the state, covering about 10 percent, is under extreme drought conditions. Last week that number was just more than 7 percent. The entire state is considered abnormally dry or worse, and with each passing week it continues to spread.


22 April 2019
By Lauren Lipuma
A new study explains the mechanism behind Hurricane Harvey’s unusual intensification off the Texas coast and how the finding could improve future hurricane forecasting.
Hurricanes are fueled by heat they extract from the upper ocean. But hurricane growth often stalls as the storms approach land, partly because as the ocean gets shallower, there is less water and therefore less heat available to the storm. As a result, most hurricanes weaken or stay the same strength as they get close to making landfall.
But Hurricane Harvey intensified from a Category 3 storm to a Category 4 as it neared the Texas shore in late August 2017, and scientists have been puzzled as to why it was different. In a new study, researchers at Texas A&M University compared ocean temperatures in the Texas Bight, the shallow waters that line the Gulf Coast, before and after Harvey passed through it.
They found the Bight was warm all the way to the seabed before Harvey arrived. Strong hurricane winds mix the ocean waters below the storm, so if there is any cold water below the warm water at the surface, the storm’s growth will slow. But there wasn’t any cold water for Harvey to churn up as it neared the coast, so the storm continued to strengthen right before it made landfall, according to the study’s authors.
“When you have hurricanes that come ashore at the right time of year, when the temperature is particularly warm and the ocean is particularly well-mixed, they can absolutely continue to intensify over the shallow water,” said Henry Potter, an oceanographer at Texas A&M and lead author of the new study in AGU’s Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans.
The researchers don’t yet have enough temperature data to say if the Texas Bight was unusually warm in 2017. But the findings suggest hurricane forecasters may need to adjust the criteria they use to predict storm intensity, according to Potter. Forecasters typically use satellite measurements and historical data to make intensity predictions, but Harvey’s case shows they need data collected from the ocean itself to know exactly how much heat is there, where that heat is located in the water column and if it’s easily accessible to the storm, Potter said.
Lauren Lipuma is a senior public information specialist at AGU. Follow her on twitter at @Tenacious_She.


Snow depths ranged from 1 foot on southerly aspects at 6300’ to 3 feet on north aspects at 7300’. Supportive rain crust mid pack from 11/17 warm up with 2-12 inches of new snow that was beginning to weaken with the clear cold evenings. This weakening snow and how well it bonds to the rain crust will be the layer of concern in the future once we get more significant snow.
Early season conditions existed with buried logs, stumps, rocks, and shrubs poking through the surface. Cautious skiing but good travel conditions. Sunny aspects had formed a solar crust, north aspects are surface hoar in protected areas.


In this paper, a Markov-switching linked autoregressive model is proposed to describe and forecast non-continuous wind direction data. Due to the influence factors of geography and atmosphere, the distribution of wind direction is disjunct and multi-modal. Moreover, for a number of practical situations, wind direction is a time series and its dependence on time provides very important information for modeling. Our model takes these two points into account to give an accurate prediction of this kind of wind direction. A simulation study shows that our model has a significantly higher prediction accuracy and a smaller mean circular prediction error than three existing models and it is illustrated to be effective by analyzing real data. Supplementary materials accompanying this paper appear online.
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|Journal||Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics|
|Publication status||Published - 1 Sept 2018|


The North Pacific continues its relentless run of storm activity that we have seen this winter…battering both Hawaii and the West Coast with both weather and new swell.
Currently we have a fairly strong storm holding just off the California Coast…pushing a new rainy cold-front down the state. It looks like funky weather and slowly building W-NW storm-swell will be on tap for Northern/Central California on Friday…and then a much bigger jump in stormy swell by Saturday and Sunday. SoCal, like usual, lags about day behind…seeing the storm move in later Friday and the swell arriving more on Saturday and peaking on Sunday, before fading on Monday.
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Here is the same storm on the Visible GOES satellite…
This mix of W-NW storm swell, will actually be a blend of short-period W swell from the storm's winds and it broke through the outer-waters just off the coast, and some longer-period energy from the same system as it was further over by Hawaii and just developing. It looks like exposed areas will see overhead to well overhead+ surf along the North and Central Coasts, while SoCal sees a smaller version. All areas will likely see S winds around 15-25+ knots on Friday…and then SW-W winds on Saturday (and plenty of junk conditions).
Further out in the charts we have continued storm activity taking place over in the Western North Pacific…this is setting up another round of WNW-NW swell for Hawaii that hits on Friday and fades slowly through the weekend. This same swell comes in more NW'erly for the West Coast showing some energy late on Sunday for Nor/Cen-Cal and late Monday down in SoCal. This one doesn't look all that great for the West Coast but it will have a little bit longer-periods and some time to groom out as it makes its way over…so while it won't be as big as some of the swells we have seen it might be a little more organized.
Further out there is another strong low-pressure setting up in the next 4-5 days…likely becoming yet another complex low-pressure up around the Aleutians.
If this can live up to forecasts and right now it seems likely…Hawaii would be looking at a sizeable WNW-NW swell (300-340) that would arrive on Feb 10-11. The West Coast would also see a pretty good-sized dose of WNW-NW energy (280-300) that would begin arriving as early as the 12th in Northern and Central California and the 13th in SoCal. This will peak over Valentines Day weekend…with more overhead+ surf on tap for exposed areas and sets going well-overhead to double-overhead+ along the Northern/Central coasts. SoCal will be smaller with mostly shoulder-overhead surf and sets going a few feet overhead as the swell peaks.
Chances are that there will be some weather coming along with that Valentine's swell but we are still several days from seeing how funky it might actually get…but it is something that you should keep in mind as you plan out where to surf that weekend.
Extreme long-range charts for the North Pacific show that complex low-pressure hold in place through the end of the forecast run with some storms starting to push over the west coast…reminiscent of the bigger rains we had in January…if this ends up happening not only will we see some weather, but there will be a good chance of WNW-NW swell holding some decent size all the way through the middle of the month…and probably out to the 18-20th. (ah good times).
Down in the South Pacific we have finally have a bit more activity humming along…nothing like what we would see over the NPAC summer, but enough that it is going to kick out some SW swell for the exposed spots. It won't generate a huge SW swell for the Northern Hemisphere…but it should be good for some chest-head high sets at the standout SW facing breaks in SoCal. Check out how these winds are showing on WINDSAT satellite…
One thing to keep in mind is that this one does look like it will hit Tahiti pretty good…possibly in the 10-foot deepwater range (which is double-overhead+ at spots that can focus the swell) around the 7-8th…which is plenty large considering that it is the middle of their summer. Not sure how the winds will hold up since there is a lot of weather moving around the tropic/sub-tropical regions, so it might not be worth pulling the trigger on a ticket…but if you were heading to the region anyways (say to catch some WNW-NW swell) you might want to keep in mind that the S-swell spots will be working as well.
Here are the details for Hawaii and the West Coast…
WNW-NW swell peaked on Wednesday along with some funky N winds…here on Thursday the winds have shifted more easterly and will hold into Friday…just in time for another round of WNW-NW swell, again around the 10-12' feet of deepwater energy but with longer swell-periods (closer to 15-17 seconds) as the swell peaks. This seems like the cleanest and most organized swell of the week/weekend so it might be worth planning on surfing around then. Further out it looks like another 10-12' WNW swell arrives and peaks on the 8th…and then possibly a much bigger shot of 15-17' of WNW swell energy lining up for Feb 10-12th. There will probably be some weather coming along with this one so plan for winds to be shifting around as a couple of cold fronts pass through as the swell peaks.
A shorter-period, W-WNW swell (260-290) from a storm just off the California Coast will arrive on Saturday coming up fast and bringing more wind and rain along with it. We can expect more surf in the well-overhead range with more double-overhead sets. This swell looks a lot less organized than the swell earlier in the week but there should still be some rideable waves at spots protected from the S winds. Further out it looks like a longer-period WNW-NW swell (285-320) arrives on Sunday, Feb 7, and peaks on Monday the 8th before dropping off. This one looks about head high for most areas and some sets going a few feet overhead at the top breaks. Long-range charts are calling for more storm action and more short-period/medium period WNW swell showing through the middle and end of next week…with the potential for a bigger WNW-NW swell showing as early as Feb 12…and then peaking over Valentine's Day weekend.
After seeing mostly leftovers on Friday, a stormy mix of short period W-WNW swell and some longer period NW swell will arrive on Saturday, peaking on Sunday with surf running overhead to a few feet overhead at the top breaks. Unfortunately it looks like more S winds and rain on tap for most of SoCal as well…it doesn't mean every spot will be blown out, but expect most areas to see sort of sloppy hacked up shape with a few more rideable nuggets showing at breaks protected by the winds. Next week looks a little cleaner and we will have more shoulder-head high WNW-NW swell moving in around the 8-9th. The second half of next week looks a bit stormy again (at least on the weather charts) and so we can expect more short-period storm swell through Thursday and Friday…and potentially a bigger, longer-period WNW swell that would peak over the weekend of Feb 13-14.


Weather warning in place as Storm Ciara set to affect South West
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Storm Ciara is set to bring gale force winds to Devon on Sunday (February 9).
The Met Office has issued a yellow warning for wind for the whole day.
Gusts of up to 70mph are expected in coastal areas, and wind speeds of 50-to-60mph are forecast inland.
The Met Office has warned Storm Ciara could lead to some disruption to travel throughout the day.
It said there is the potential for damage to buildings, and the possibility of injury from flying debris or large waves and beach material being thrown onto sea fronts, coastal roads and properties.
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There is potential for short term power cuts and travel delays.
An update from the Met Office said: "Strong winds will be widespread and last throughout much of Sunday. Gusts of 50 to 60 mph are likely across many inland areas and around 70 mph in coastal areas."
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POLONNARUWA, Sri Lanka (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Rice farmer Weerasinghearchchilage Darmarathana is used to periodic flooding in his low-lying village of Galella in central Sri Lanka.
The 60-year-old has lived all his life on the flood plains of the country’s longest river, the Mahaweli, in Polonnaruwa District, some 250 km (155.34 miles) northeast of the capital Colombo.
“It used to be maybe twice, three times a year the road would go under, but the last year has been insane,” said the paddy farmer. In his recollection, Galella has never been flooded with the same frequency as in the last two months of 2015.
The village was hit six times in less than two months, Darmarathana said, after unusually heavy rains battered the region in November and December.
Over a million people were marooned in Sri Lanka’s Northern, North Central and Eastern Provinces, and over 400 homes and other buildings were destroyed.
An advisory issued by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) in early December attributed the rains to the current El Niño weather phenomenon, likely to be the strongest since 1997-1998.
Extreme rainfall also caused havoc in India late last year, including extensive flooding in the city of Chennai.
“The consensus that strong El Niño conditions has led to abnormal rainfall during the northeast monsoon season in South Asia indicates that El Niño had a part to play in the sequence of extreme weather events in India,” the ESCAP advisory said.
Excessive El Niño-linked rainfall across southern India and northern Sri Lanka was expected to continue into early 2016, it added.
Sri Lankan authorities said they were prepared. “Historically El Niño has meant more rains in this region, so we have been making our predictions on those lines,” said Lalith Chandrapala, head of the island’s Department of Meteorology.
Chandrapala said the country could be in a position to benefit from the El Niño-induced rains, which began in mid-November on the back of a weak monsoon he assessed to be 75 percent below average.
“We have been telling agencies like the Department of Agriculture to advise farmers to prepare for rains,” he said.
The ESCAP report also noted that the waters from the current bout of rains could be used for the upcoming planting season.
As the heavy rains struck when there was no harvest, agricultural losses have been negligible.
Pradeep Koddiplili, deputy director at the Disaster Management Centre, said no warnings had yet been issued for potential El Niño-related crop damage, mainly because the rains had coincided with the preparation of fields for planting.
But disaster risk experts working in rural areas say awareness of changing weather patterns remains low and could prevent farmers making the most of the unseasonal rains.
Sarath Wickramasinghe, a disaster risk reduction specialist with the Sri Lanka Red Cross who works in North Central Province, said people in the country’s dry zone lacked sufficient infrastructure and knowledge to adapt to shifting rains.
“They are traditionally geared for the monsoon, which comes twice a year - even some officials are,” he said. “That mindset needs to be changed.”
Farmers must adjust to long dry spells, like that experienced in parts of Sri Lanka between June and October 2015, broken by heavy rains. “Right now the cultivation cycles follow the traditional monsoon,” he added.
Farmer Darmarathana from Galella has worked according to the monsoon since he started farming in the 1970s.
“I don’t know any other timetable,” he said. “Someone needs to teach me the new methods, if there are any.”
Wickramasinghe said the approach of traditional farmers needed to evolve “if we are to gain any kind of advantage from the changing rain patterns”.
The Red Cross and the U.N. Development Programme have launched a pilot project in Polonnaruwa District to help farmers adapt to uncertain weather and climate conditions.
Targeting 100 families in Nagastenne village, it provides them with assistance including seeds and technical knowledge to develop sustainable agriculture methods, such as water harvesting, and to restore degraded land.


Flash Flood Watch In Effect For All Parishes
Yesterday afternoon, the Meteorological (Met) Service issued a Flash Flood Watch for low-lying and flood-prone areas of all parishes, effective until 5:00 pm on Saturday.
According to the Met Service, unstable atmospheric conditions associated with a trough over the central Caribbean is expected to influence weather conditions across Jamaica until Sunday.
Projections are for moderate to heavy, and at times very heavy showers, to affect sections of most parishes, especially northern parishes through Sunday.
A Flash Flood Watch means that flash flooding is possible and residents are advised to take precautionary measures and be ready for quick action if flooding is observed or if a Warning is issued by the Met Service.
The Meteorological Service will continue to monitor the situation.
Last month, heavy rains hammered several parts of the island reportedly resulting in losses and damage to the tune of close to half a billion dollars.
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When a thunderous boom was heard across the Salt Lake City area over the weekend, it confused residents. Was the seemingly inexplicable noise an earthquake or construction noise? Perhaps it was military testing or something from space?
After hearing the explosion while out on a Saturday morning run, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox (R) tweeted that all signs pointed to a meteor.
Multiple doorbell cameras captured audio of the boom, which was heard in northern Utah and southern Idaho. Then there was a mystery to solve: Cox had said the cause of the boom was not an earthquake, something which the University of Utah independently confirmed, or related to any military testing, as had been the case in a similar incident in April.
The National Weather Service’s Salt Lake City office found itself playing detective, using satellite data from the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) system to scan the skies above Salt Lake City. They looked for lightning flashes, though lightning wasn’t really what they were looking for.
Bolstering the meteor theory for this morning’s #boom in #Utah, the two reddish pixels shown over Davis and Morgan counties are from the GOES-17 Lightning Mapper, but not associated with evidence of thunderstorm activity in satellite or radar. Likely the meteor trail/flash #utwxpic.twitter.com/qRO2Rsfca7
As it turns out, the powerful GOESsatellite can also pick up bright flashes emitted by exploding meteors.
Sure enough, the satellite picked up two instances of bright flashes on Saturday morning. The flashes did not appear to be consistent with any thunderstorm activity in the area, meaning it was more than likely that the satellite had picked up on a passing meteor.
Ultimately, video evidence from Utah’s Snowbasin ski resort provided all but absolute proof that Saturday’s boom was caused by a meteor. A few cameras managedto capture a fireball, which is a larger than normal meteor, flying over Utah’s scenic skies that same morning.
Saturday’s meteor passed over Utah just past the peak of the Perseid meteor shower, though it is unclear whether the meteor was a part of that event — which is caused by visible debris from the Swift-Tuttle comet — or whether the two events just happened to align.
The Saturday boom is hardly the first time a mysterious explosion has caused widespread confusion.
Last September, NBCWashington reported that dozens of people called 911 after a mysterious loud boom was heard in the Shenandoah Valley. It was initially unclear would could have caused a loud boom on the ground.
According to local reports, area meteorologists used lightning-tracking satellite technology to confirm that the boom was most likely caused by a meteor. A handful of sightings, including from a pilot who spotted the meteor tracking relatively low in the atmosphere, also helped astronomers from NASA confirm that the incident was an exploding meteor.
Some Reddit users digging into Saturday’s noise suggested the meteor’s passage may have been predicted decades ago.
On Aug. 10, 1972, a meteor that came to be known as the “Great Daylight Fireball” entered the atmosphere over Utah and traveled hundreds of miles into Canada before reentering space. Stunning photos of the fireball show it streaking over the Grand Tetons.
The #GreatDaylightFireball☄entered Earth’s atmosphere at a very shallow angle and didn’t lose sufficient energy to be captured by Earth’s gravity and fall to the ground. It is thought the #asteroid had a diameter of ~10m. It hasn’t been seen since.
Some astronomers theorized that the asteroid that caused the fireball was on a roughly 25-year resonance, meaning that it would pass through the area in 1997 and again in 2022, according to a prediction from Austrian astronomer Zdenek Ceplecha.
Scientists have expressed skepticism about such a 2022 appearance, and nothing notable was observed in 1997.
“I think it’s very unlikely that this was the same object but it’s fun to entertain the possibility,” said Mark Boslough, a physicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, in an email.
Boslough wrote that scientists should be able map out a trajectory for Saturday’s fireball to determine if the events are linked.
“I do not expect it to match The Post-1972 orbit of the Great Daylight Fireball, but it would be a fantastic event if it did,” he said. “Even in that case, there would not have been any reason to expect it to have entered the atmosphere over Utah again, since the Earth’s spin is not synchronized with its orbit or the orbit of any asteroid. Coincidences do happen.”


Storm Riley has caused carnage across the US East Coast
Storm Riley smashed into Boston, flooding streets with sea water and battering the region with snow and rain.
Powerful winds forced trees down claiming the lives of five people so far last night.
Up to 2.4 million homes and business were left without power in the northeast and midwest this morning, with utility companies warning customers it may not be restored until Sunday.
Maryland Governor Larry Hogan declared a state of emergency.
He said: “Please use common sense, heed all warnings and stay inside and off the roads if possible.”
But despite the skies now clearing as the weatherbomb shifts away from northeast America, winds of up to 50 miles an hour will persist through the day, the National Weather Service said.
The storm left thousands stranded after more than a quarter of flights in and out of New York were cancelled.
One flight into Washington’s Dulles International Airport landed in turbulence so rough it made passengers and pilots sick, local news reported.
More than a dozen trains were also cancelled, with operator Amtrak working to restore services today.
Heavy rain has sparked flooding across the region
Private forecasting service AccuWeather said the storm dumped as much as 18 inches (46 cm) of snow on parts of New York state and Pennsylvania.
It also snarled transportation from the Middle Atlantic into New England, with more than a quarter of flights into and out of New York's three major airports and Boston's airport canceled, tracking service FlightAware.com reported.
Passenger railroad Amtrak worked to restore service across the region as it removed down tress on tracks. Amtrak said it cancelled more than a dozen trains and modified its schedule in the Northeast on Saturday.


Severe weather believed to be the result of tornadoes has left localized damage in England as a wet month of April unfolds across the U.K.
There have been no reports of injury or widespread major damage following Wednesday's stormy weather.
Residents of Rugby said it was a tornado that had "ripped a path" through their Warwickshire property, where a chimney and some fencing were damaged, the BBC News website said on Thursday.
Warwickshire police said that a number of homes in the area had been damaged.
Upon hearing a roaring, Rugby resident Beryl Clarke recalled having rushed to her leaving room, seeing the wind hit her greenhouse. "The shed came over the fence from next door, it was like something out of a film," she said, adding, "next door's got a trampoline outside their dining room and I don't know where it's come from. Everybody's got everyone else's stuff."
In another, separate, instance of severe local weather, farm building were blown down near Halstead, Essex, leaving 20 chickens dead, the BBC said. Farmer Alan Barrow said that he was lifted and thrown to the ground by the storm, which was reported to have been a tornado.
Essex resident Tony Blackwell described the storm thus: "We had hailstones first of all and we came outside and we saw all the debris flailing and spinning around in a big circle in the sky. Then we could see all the trees bending over and we realized it was a tornado."
The U.K. Met Office have confirmed hearing of three tornado reports, the Daily Mail website said. 'We get reports of about 30 tornadoes a year," a spokesman was quoted as saying.
The latest storm is one in a string of wet weather systems that as put the U.K. on a path to one of its wettest Aprils in memory, according to multiple sources. It has even been speculated that the month will end up ranking first in the record books.
Although heavy rains unleashed by Wednesday's storm have triggered some minor flooding, they have been welcomed. Much of England has suffered from months of low rainfall, and water restrictions have been put in place.
Water company authorities indicated that more rain will be needed to erase shortfalls accumulated over months of deficit rainfall, according to the Daily Mail.
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Third round of storms brings snow; more school closures in FlagstaffPosted: Updated:
It's another day off for students in Flagstaff, as the district announced Flagstaff schools will remain closed Wednesday, Jan. 25.
The snow days are really piling up for students in the area!
This will mark the fourth day in a row weather has prevented schools from opening.
The Flagstaff Unified School District closed schools on Tuesday because of the severe weather and hazardous driving conditions. Classes were already canceled on Monday and last Friday.
BASIS Flagstaff announced that the charter school will be closed on Tuesday.
The Blue Ridge School District originally planned to be on a two-hour delayed schedule but then canceled classes in the morning for Monday. District officials also said the schools will be on a two-hour delayed schedule for Tuesday, but due to the weather conditions, they decided to cancel school on Tuesday.
The Grand Canyon Unified District also canceled classes on Tuesday following its Monday closure.
[Slideshow: Winter weather moves through Arizona]
Winter Storm Warnings continue until 5 a.m. On Tuesday with those above 6,000 feet could get up to 14 inches of snow. The Arizona Department of Transportation has advised delaying driving on the roads due to heavy snow and breezy conditions. Winds could have gusts of up to 45 miles per hour.
For the Valley, a flash flood watch was issued from 11 a.m. Monday through 12 a.m. Tuesday for the greater Phoenix area, southern Gila County and the Tonto National Forest. Scattered showers hit the area and up to a quarter of an inch of rain is expected.
Video from the news helicopter showed the washes aren't flooding and low clouds are lingering. Roads were wet but street flooding has been minimal.
The storm is expected to move out by Tuesday and the state can start to dry out.
***TRAVEL ALERT***— Navajo County (@NavajoCountyAZ) January 23, 2017
SR 260 west of Heber has iced over!
Four wheel drive or snow chains recommended.
USE EXTREME CAUTION AND TAKE IT SLOW! pic.twitter.com/HZQAvYyyTZ
How's the weather in your area? Send your weather videos my way! pic.twitter.com/2EDopDkFh3— Derek Staahl (@DerekStaahl) January 23, 2017
If you're traveling in the higher elevations of AZ, expect heavy snow and strongly consider delaying travel until the weather improves. pic.twitter.com/BpRWe56AFb— Arizona DOT (@ArizonaDOT) January 23, 2017
8:30 am: Snowing + poor visibility. S.Rim roads snowpacked & icy. Hermit Rd & Desert View Dr (Hwy 64) closed. Wait until Tuesday to travel. pic.twitter.com/tvJe75gLcp— Grand Canyon NPS (@GrandCanyonNPS) January 23, 2017
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Bossaso (SD) – Heavy rain and storms hit several areas of Puntland state, especially along the coast regions, according to local residents who spoke with the media.
The heavy rains fell in most parts of Puntland’s Karkar region, resulting in deaths, injuries and massive property damage.
Nine people, including Yemeni fishermen, were killed in the rains, while four other Hafun residents were injured, lots of houses destroyed by the storm.
Photographs of houses, mostly of stone, were seen, with the roofs blown off, the towers of telecommunications companies destroyed, and Hafun Telecommunications is completely cut off.
All of these areas have been evacuated and some have been submerged in rising sea levels following torrential rains that hit the coast.
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