Earth & Space Weather

Solar Eclipse Turns Sun Into 'Ring of Fire' This Week

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Weather.com - 5/07/13, Miriam Kramer, Space.com

Skywatcher Charles Medendorp took this photo of the annular eclipse at the Very Large Array outside Socorro, New Mexico, on May 20, 2012. Charles Medendorp

 

The moon will block the sun in a potentially spectacular solar eclipse this week — a celestial event that will transform the sun into a cosmic "ring of fire" in the daytime sky.

The ring-shaped solar eclipse , known as an annular eclipse, will occur Thursday and Friday (May 9 and 10). Weather permitting, the eclipse will be visible in certain parts of Australia and the Southern Pacific Ocean, where the local time will be Friday.

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Weather Wow! Canada Warmer than Miami, Phoenix

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Weather.com - 5/07/13, Chris Dolce

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Miami, Fla. and Edmonton, Canada are separated by a distance of more than 2,500 miles according to Google Maps, so you would never think their weather conditions would ever be the same. However, Monday was an oddity.

Thanks to a high-pressure system aloft and brisk southerly winds ahead of a cold front, the city of Edmonton in western Canada reached a record high temperature of 88 degrees on Monday. This was warmer than Miami (85 degrees) and Phoenix (87 degrees)!

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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

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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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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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