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Photos: Louisiana 'Swamped' by Severe Storms, Flooding

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Accuweather.com - Meghan Evans, 5/11/13

Flooding occurred in Baton Rouge, La., early Friday morning as severe storms unleashed heavy rain over a short amount of time.

 

A line of violent thunderstorms hammered southern Louisiana early Friday morning, unleashing several inches of rain over the course of a couple of hours, damaging wind gusts and large hail.

More than half a foot of rain deluged some communities in southern Louisiana. Sulphur, La., was inundated by 7.83 inches of rain over the 24-hour period ending at 1:30 p.m. CDT Friday.

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Officials confirm Stoughton tornado

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The Boston Globe - Lauren Dezenski, 5/10/13

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The National Weather Service confirmed that a tornado briefly touched down in Stoughton during a fast-moving storm Thursday afternoon.

The Category 0 tornado moved a quarter of a mile up Washington Street at 4:31 p.m., with winds reaching 85 miles per hour, meteorologists said. Category 0 tornadoes register wind speeds between 65 and 85 miles per hour, the Weather Service said.

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Severe Storms Hammer Houston Area - Rain, High Winds, Hail, and Flooding

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Weather.com: Flooding Rain Hammers Houston
"A line of severe thunderstorms swept through the Houston metro area just before midday, bringing high winds, hail and street flooding."

 

YouTube.com: Drivers stranded in Houston floods YouTube
"Up to 7 inches of rain across parts of Texas"

 

 

CBS Houston: Rain Pounds Houston Area; Causes Flooding, Power Outages
"Many in the Houston area also woke up to no power as well as flooded streets."

 

~ Space Weather Update~ M Class Aflares~ Active Sun

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M-CLASS SOLAR FLARE: A sunspot located just behind the sun's northeastern limb erupted during the early hours of May 10th, producing an M3-class solar flare. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded the explosion's extreme ultraviolet flash: movie. The farside active region will turn toward Earth in the days ahead, so stay tuned. Solar flare alerts: text, voice.

 

"RING OF FIRE" SOLAR ECLIPSE: As the sun rose over Australia on Friday morning, May 10th, the solar disk turned into a ring of fire. The day began with an annular solar eclipse:

 

Nicole Hollenbeck took the picture from inside the narrow path of annularity about 70km south of Newman, Australia. At the time, more than 95% of the sun's diameter was covered by the Moon.

Live: Severe Storms Rage Over Southern Plains

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Accuweather.com - Jillian MacMath, 5/09/13

This photograph of a severe storm taken in Saskatchewan, Canada, July 3, 2011 is courtesy of CND Storm Chaser.
 

Severe thunderstorms will continue to diminish over the southern Plains during the early morning hours of Friday, but there will still be a few storms that can produce large hail and damaging winds. In general, heavy rain will be the biggest threat from remaining showers and thunderstorms.

The storms began Wednesday, unleashing baseball-sized hail and torrential rain, and resulting in three confirmed tornados.

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Snow Clobbers Parts of Colorado Again

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Accuweather.com - 5/10/13, Alex Sosnowski

Image of Route 50 at Monarch Pass, Colo., was taken at 2:00 p.m. MDT, Thurs., May 9, 2013 and appears courtesy of the Colorado Department of Transportation.
 

While areas from Denver to Pueblo along I-25 were spared heavy snow this time, the high country to the west was hit with up to a couple of feet of snow Thursday.

A push of cooler, but moist air from the east was just enough to bring a heavy snowfall to the Colorado Rockies from late Wednesday into the afternoon hours Thursday.

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