Snowfall too light to ease drought in U.S. crop region - expert

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Reuters.com - 1/25/13, By Sam Nelson

* Wheat-killing drought deepens in Kansas

* Only minor relief in U.S. Plains and Midwest

CHICAGO, Jan 25 (Reuters) - Light snow expected next week in crop growing areas of the United States will provide only minor relief from the worst drought in more than 50 years, an agricultural meteorologist said on Friday.

Crop-killing drought deepened in Kansas over the last week, further jeopardizing this season's production of the important winter wheat crop. Kansas is generally the top U.S. wheat-growing state, but the new crop planted last fall has been struggling with a lack of soil moisture.

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Fireball across Skies in West was Flaming Comet

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Weather.com - 1/24/13, AP

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A comet, like this one, was the reason for a fireball-like object being spotted in the West, according to one researcher.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- A California researcher says a fireball seen streaking across Western skies last week was a flaming comet.

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Freezing Rain Halts Air, Road Travel in Utah

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Weather.com - 1/25/13, Brady McCombs

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A driver fills out a police report after rolling her vehicle on the on ramp to I-80 in Salt Lake County Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013. An unusual freezing rain blanketed the Salt Lake City metropolitan area making driving around the valley extremely hazardous. (AP Photo/Deseret News, Jeffrey D. Allred)

SALT LAKE CITY -- A rare freezing rain caused major havoc in Salt Lake City Thursday, creating sheets of ice on roads, sidewalks and airport runways.

The Salt Lake City International Airport was closed for about three hours, delaying hundreds of passengers. The closure came after a Frontier Airlines plane landing from Denver slid on a patch of ice while on the runway. Nobody was injured.

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Volcanic activity at Reventador peaks

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Source: The Watchers - 1/24/13, By Nix
Ecuadorian volcano Reventador is now erupting at full-scale, reports say. A westward 1.5 km high steam and ash plume is noticable above volcano. Summit is glowing and lava can be seen descending the flanks. Increased seismic activity since January 21 has now become stronger with strong tremors and explosions. Explosions were heard as far as in the Reventador sector, witnesses reported. IG reported that during January 16 – 21 seismicity at Reventador was moderate; cloud cover prevented visual observations. Incandescence in the crater was observed at night during January 21st and 22nd. On January 22 seismicity at Reventador increased and was...

Ecuadorian volcano Reventador is now erupting at full-scale, reports say. A westward 1.5 km high steam and ash plume is noticable above volcano. Summit is glowing and lava can be seen descending the flanks.

Increased seismic activity since January 21 has now become stronger with strong tremors and explosions. Explosions were heard as far as in the Reventador sector, witnesses reported.

Solar prominences on January 23, 2013

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Source: The Watchers - 1/24/13, By Chillymanjaro

Solar activity remained at low levels for the past 24 hours. However, there were two large prominence eruptions on January 23, 2013. First large prominence erupted from the southern limb in early hours, producing south-directed  CME cloud, away from Earth. It was followed by filament channel eruption in the northeast quadrant, producing another CME cloud, also, away from Earth.   The CME was first observed in the SOHO/LASCO C2 field of view at about 14:00 UTC, had angular width of about 240 degrees and projected speed around 500 km/s. It was associated with a prominence eruption and EIT wave, situated at...

Solar activity remained at low levels for the past 24 hours. However, there were two large prominence eruptions on January 23, 2013. First large prominence erupted from the southern limb in early hours, producing south-directed  CME cloud, away from Earth. It was followed by filament channel eruption in the northeast quadrant, producing another CME cloud, also, away from Earth.

Unprecedented glacier melting in the Andes blamed on climate change

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Source: The Extinction Protocol - 1/24/13



January 24, 2013 – CLIMATE – Glaciers in the tropical Andes have been retreating at increasing rate since the 1970s, scientists write in the most comprehensive review to date of Andean glacier observations. The researchers blame the melting on rising temperatures as the region has warmed about 0.7 C over the past 50 years (1950-1994). This unprecedented retreat could affect water supply to Andean populations in the near future. These conclusions are published in The Cryosphere, an Open Access journal of the European Geosciences Union (EGU). The international team of scientists – uniting researchers from Europe, South America and the US – shows in the new paper that, since the 1970s, glaciers in tropical Andes have been melting at a rate unprecedented in the past 300 years.

 

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