Record-Challenging Warmth Across the Northwest

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Accuweather.com - 5/07/13

Warmth will continue across the Northwest on Tuesday following a day where high temperatures challenged records that were decades old.

Above-normal temperatures are here to stay for the Northwest as the upper-level ridge responsible for these record-challenging temperatures remains over the region.

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13 Students Hurt in School Bus Crash; Fog Blamed

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Wunderground.com - 5/06/13, Nick Wiltgen

Battle Creek, Neb.

Police and fire officials survey the aftermath of a crash involving a school bus and a semi-truck in thick fog near Battle Creek, Neb., on May 6, 2013. (Photo credit: Norfolk Daily News)

 

Dense fog is being blamed for a school bus crash that injured 13 students in northeast Nebraska early Monday morning.

According to the Norfolk Daily News, a school bus from Battle Creek, Neb., collided with a semi-truck at a fog-shrouded rural intersection along U.S. Highway 275 four miles west of Norfolk. Fourteen students were aboard the bus at the time. Officials said the drivers did not see each other because of the fog.

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Arctic Ocean 'Rapidly Accumulating Carbon Dioxide': Report

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Weather.com - 5/06/13

A handout picture provided by Greenpeace in April 2013 at the North Pole on the Arctic ocean shows the 'Save The Arctic' movement taking part in the world's largest participatory art project - the acclaimed 'Inside Out' project - by creating a unique art piece at the North Pole. Christian Aslund/AFP/Getty Images

 

The Arctic Ocean is rapidly becoming more acidic thanks to changes in the global carbon cycle and carbon dioxide pumped into the atmosphere by humans, according to a report released in early May.

Solar Flare Launches 120,000 Miles into Space

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Weather.com - Tariq Malik, SPACE.com, May 6, 2013

A burst of solar material leaps off the left side of the sun in what’s known as a prominence eruption. This image combines three images from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured on May 3, 2013, at 1:45 p.m. NASA/SDO/AIA

 

An intense solar storm erupted from the sun on Friday in a dazzling space weather display captured by a NASA spacecraft.

The solar flare erupted from the edge the sun, with NASA's powerful Solar Dynamics Observatory snapping photos of the sun storm. The flare peaked at 1:32 p.m. EDT, registering as a relatively medium-strength M5.7-class event.

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Rain Downs Trees, Power Lines in Southeast; 1 Dead

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Weather.com - 5/06/13, AP

Days of rain in the Southeast U.S. have left roads underwater and rivers and creeks at high levels.  The flooding threat will continue for several more days. 

Heavy rain caused flooding from northern Alabama and northern Georgia to western North Carolina over the weekend, said weather.com meteorologist Chris Dolce.

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East About to Be Overrun by Billions of Cicadas

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Weather.com - 5/06/13

5 year old Chase Harrison holds up a cicada he caught near his home in Alexandria, Virginia in May 2004. (Image: Stephen Jaffe/AFP/Getty Images)

 

WASHINGTON -- Any day now, billions of cicadas with bulging red eyes will crawl out of the earth after 17 years underground and overrun the East Coast. They will arrive in such numbers that people from North Carolina to Connecticut will be outnumbered roughly 600-to-1. Maybe more.

But ominous as that sounds - along with scientists' horror-movie name for the infestation, Brood II - they're harmless. These insects won't hurt you or other animals. At worst, they might damage a few saplings or young shrubs. Mostly they will blanket certain pockets of the region, though lots of people won't ever see them.

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Truth Is Out There? Really? Ex-Lawmakers Piqued, but Skeptical on ETs

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ABC News - 5/02/13, Chris Good

PHOTO: UFO near Capitol building

UFOs aren't often discussed in Washington, D.C., and former members of Congress don't often hold hearings.

But that's what's happening this week at the National Press Club, where the UFO advocacy group Paradigm Research has paid $20,000 each to former Sen. Mike Gravel and former Reps. Roscoe Bartlett, Merrill Cook, Lynn Woolsey, Carolyn Kilpatrick, and Darlene Hooley to stage a five-day "hearing" modeled after congressional proceedings to examine evidence of UFO sightings and the possibility of advanced extraterrestrial life. The program has an eye toward government disclosure of whatever the military and intelligence communities may know about the subject.

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