Cold Snap Hits California with Freezing Temps, Snow

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Weather.com - 1/13/13, AP

California Cold Snap

Esteban Gasca of Chula Vista, Calif., takes a picture after forming the Spanish word amo, or love, with rocks on a beach as clouds from a nearby cold front make their way inland Jan. 11 in San Diego. Few people frequented the city's famous beaches Friday. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

SAN DIEGO — Oddly enough, even polar bears at the San Diego Zoo are getting a helping hand with the unseasonable freezing temperatures sweeping across California.

Zookeepers turned up the heat for some animals and offered shelter to polar bears as a cold snap continues through the weekend, promising to bring the coldest overnight temperatures.
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Phoenix area in throes of 4-day freezing-temps stretch

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AZCentral.com - 1/12/13, D.S. Woodfill, The Arizona Republic-12 News Breaking News Team

Valley nighttime temperatures have dropped below freezing, pushing the region into a four-day cold snap, the first of its kind in more than 24 years, experts say.

The unusually cold weather froze pipes at Valley homes, strained homeless charities and likely knocked out power, among other problems.

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Air pollution in China reaches hazardous levels

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

Air pollution readings in Beijing, China were at dangerously high levels for the second straight day on January 12, 2013 with hazy skies blocking visibility and authorities urging people to stay indoors. Severe pollution in Beijing is the worst since the local government began collecting data a year ago. Several other cities, including Tianjin on the coast east of Beijing and southern China’s Wuhan city, also reported severe pollution over the last several days. The Beijing Municipal Environmental Monitoring Center said on its website that the density of PM2.5 particulates had reached 700 micrograms per cubic meter in many parts of...

Air pollution readings in Beijing, China were at dangerously high levels for the second straight day on January 12, 2013 with hazy skies blocking visibility and authorities urging people to stay indoors. Severe pollution in Beijing is the worst since the local government began collecting data a year ago. Several other cities, including Tianjin on the coast east of Beijing and southern China’s Wuhan city, also reported severe pollution over the last several days.

Heavenletter #4434 - You are the Light Bringer

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Heaven Letters Published on: January 14, 2013

God said:
 

How engaged Our hearts are with each other. How We embrace. How steeped in love are We as We sit on the balance wheel of life. How much love do Our eyes tell. How much love spins in the orbit of the moon. How much is granted on Earth, and how much do you, My lovelies, take for granted?

 

We have quite a relationship. We have quite a relationship with everyone and everything. We have a love relationship with the stars, for instance. This is a given. Everyone knows that the stars are something and that Our relationship with the stars is quite an event. Long live the stars!

 

Moderate to high solar activity with possible geomagnetic disturbances

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Source: The Watchers - 1/14/13, By Chillymanjaro

Solar activity has been at moderate to high levels for the past 24 hours. AR1652 produced two M-class and 8 C-class solar flares  in the past 24 hours, and it has rapidly evolved to a compact beta-gamma-delta configuration. This active region erupted M1.0 flare at 00:50 UTC, followed by M1.7 solar flare at 08:38 UTC on January 13, 2013.   The second (M1.7) eruption was associated with a metric Type II and IV radio emissions. Type II emissions occur in association with eruptions on the Sun and typically indicate a coronal mass ejection (CME) is associated with a flare event. Type IV emissions occur in association with major...

Solar activity has been at moderate to high levels for the past 24 hours. AR1652 produced two M-class and 8 C-class solar flares  in the past 24 hours, and it has rapidly evolved to a compact beta-gamma-delta configuration. This active region erupted M1.0 flare at 00:50 UTC, followed by M1.7 solar flare at 08:38 UTC on January 13, 2013.

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