The Guardian - 1/12/13, Alison Rourke

As crews battle 'atrocious conditions' fire chiefs say that lives have been saved by better ways of predicting outbreaks

Australia's heatwave set a new high of almost 50C as authorities warned that large uncontrolled bushfires would continue to threaten areas in the south-east of the country.

Meanwhile, in remote Moomba, a gas exploration and processing town in the outback of South Australia, the temperature hit 49.6C by mid-afternoon, making it the hottest of the two-week spell, and 48.6C in the town of Bourke, 500 miles north-west of Sydney.

Weather.com - 1/12/13

Damage from a possible tornado that hit North Livingston Baptist in Hampton, Ky., sent to The Weather Channel from Chad Darnall, WPSD-TV.

On Saturday afternoon and evening, severe storms and possibly a few tornadoes were reported in Kentucky and the surrounding states. Here's how social media is painting the picture.

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Blossom Goodchild

Hello my friends.

We welcome you into this conversation with much Love. We have been monitoring energies upon different sections of your planet and we have concluded that there appear to be extreme differences throughout. Naturally we take into account the war zone factors and those places that reside in Peace. Yet this is not of the energy we speak.

We support ALL life and we consider that which is of both High energy and that which is of a lower level to BE that which we desire to continue to uplift.
We appreciate too that many of you have fallen by the way side … as perhaps one would say?

Heaven Letters Published on: January 13, 2013

When you think about it, what could be more delicious than life itself, that which human life endows you with? When you think about it, you have a whole range of delights before you. We can begin with the yellow of the sun and the blue of the sky and the white of clouds sketched on the sky. We can begin with the warmth of the sun and such a thing as a breeze. We can begin with your eyes and your ears and all your senses, and what they bring you to experience. Just think of it! There is such a thing as taste and touch and the wonders they do perform. Just think of silence, and of noise, of leaves rustling, birds singing and lions roaring and the bark of a dog and the mew of a cat.