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Disastrous Pile-Ups Snarl Major Interstates

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Weather.com - 2.01.13, Weather.com and Associated Press

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Detroit, Mich. Semi trucks collided as part of a massive crash along I-75 Thursday morning. (Image: Associated Press)

 

Blinding snow squalls passing through the Great Lakes Thursday created nightmarish chain reaction crashes near not one, but two major cities.

The first massive crash happened Thursday morning on Interstate 75 south of Detroit, Michigan. The second played out on Interstate 70 about 10 miles west of Indianapolis, Indiana early Thursday afternoon.


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Ring-shaped prominence and Earth directed CME erupts from Sun – January 31, 2013

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Source: The Watchers - 1/31/13, By Adonai
An Earth-directed Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) on January 31, 2013 (07:09 UTC) was accompanied by a large prominence eruption best visible in light with a wavelength of 304 angstroms. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this footage from 10 p.m. EST (03:00 UTC) on January. 30, 2013, to 4 a.m. (09:00 UTC) the next morning. In this video, the imaging cadence is one frame every 36 seconds. Experimental NASA research models, based on observations from the Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) and ESA/NASA’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, show that the CME left the sun at speeds of around 575 miles per...

An Earth-directed Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) on January 31, 2013 (07:09 UTC) was accompanied by a large prominence eruption best visible in light with a wavelength of 304 angstroms. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this footage from 10 p.m. EST (03:00 UTC) on January. 30, 2013, to 4 a.m. (09:00 UTC) the next morning. In this video, the imaging cadence is one frame every 36 seconds.

Nine people killed, as freak hailstorm rains ice boulders on Indian villages

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Source: Extinction Protocol - 2/01/13

February 1, 2013 – INDIA - Hailstones the size of boulders have rained down on villages in southern India. At least nine people were killed when the violent weather hit several villages in the state of Andhra Pradesh. The hailstorm which lasted for almost 20 minutes, destroyed crops, houses and live stock, causing devastating financial implications for residents. It was once-in-lifetime experience for people living in seven villages in Chevella, Moinabad and Shankarpally. The hailstones started falling from the sky on Tuesday night and covered the entire villages under the snow-like blanket.

 

Australia's climate extremes: Two 1,000-year floods, droughts and wildfires

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AlllVoices.com - 1/30/13, PrarieDogPress

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Bushfires out of control in Tasmania, Australia.  AP

In Australia, 2013 is lining up to be a record-breaking year for simultaneous weather extremes involving historic heat waves, decades-long drought across parts of the Australian terrain, the sum of 100 or more wildfires and the second unprecedented flood in two years.

This week, according to CNN coverage, flood waters from torrential rain in the aftermath of Tropical Cyclone Oswald rapidly swamped areas near the east coast of Queensland with 2 ½ feet of rushing water, catching residents of communities like Bundaberg and Brisbane by surprise.

More than 150 flood alerts issued as Britain brace for another blast of blustery showers today

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Mail Online - 1/31/13, Mark Duell

  • Environmental Agency has 36 flood warnings and 153 flood alerts
  • Today: Blustery showers and sunny spells with heaviest rain in West
  • Tonight: Clear spells and blustery showers but heavy rain in South
  • Tomorrow: Morning rain in South will clear to sunny spells and rain

  • A man braves the elements along the coastline of Aberystwyth this morning

    A man braves the elements along the coastline of Aberystwyth this morning

Britain is set to be blasted by more blustery showers with a chance of hail and thunder, after London woke up to heavy rain this morning.

Is there a planetary influence on solar activity?

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Astronomy and Astrophysics - December, 2012

J. A. Abreu1,2, J. Beer2, A. Ferriz-Mas3,4, K. G. McCracken5 and F. Steinhilber2

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Internal structure of the Sun, planetary torque, and the solar tachocline. a) Internal structure of the Sun: the core, radiative zone, and convection zone. The overshoot layer (black dashed line) represents the transition between the radiative and the convective zone. b) Two-dimensional representation of the tachocline (gray) modeled as an ellipsoid and the overshoot layer (black dashed line). c) The tachocline (modeled as an ellipsoid), overshoot layer. Note the inclination of the solar rotation axis with respect to the ecliptic. The non-spherical symmetry of the tachocline and the tilt of the solar rotation axis lead to torques. d) Model of the tachocline used for the calculations assuming uniform density between two ellipsoidal shells with semi-major axes a, b, c and d, e, f. The z direction is parallel to the solar rotation axis.

 

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Violent tornado cluster rip through Georgia and Tennessee, leaving 2 dead

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Source: The Extinction Protocol - 1/31/13

January 31, 2013 – GEORGIA - Powerful winds and a tornado spawned by a 1,000-mile-long storm system pounded communities in northwest Georgia on Wednesday, overturning dozens of vehicles and trapping residents. The tornado caused significant damage in Adairsville, Georgia. One person died in that town and another died in Tennessee, authorities reported. At least 17 people were injured in Georgia, two critically. The Adairsville death marks the first person killed by a U.S. tornado in 220 days, a record for most consecutive days without such a fatality, said CNN meteorologist Dave Hennen. The storm churned eastward, prompting severe thunderstorm and flash-flood warnings in eastern Tennessee and western portions of the Carolinas.

 

Clean-up launched after deadly Australia floods

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Channel News Asia - 1/30/13

The twin masted yacht "Patricia Mary" is shown washed up January 28, 2013 on Baraga Beach in Bundaberg after the passing of tropical cyclone Oswald. A mammoth clean-up operation began in Australia's flood-hit northeast Wednesday after waters began to recede, as the death toll from storms reached five and thousands of homes were left swamped. (AFP - Cameron Robinson)

SYDNEY: A mammoth clean-up was underway in Australia's flood-hit northeast Wednesday after waters began to recede, as the death toll from the storms reached six and thousands of homes were left swamped.

While the worst of the deluge appeared over, many homes remained without power and there were fears of drinking water shortages after rivers swollen by torrential rain from ex-tropical cyclone Oswald breached their banks this week.

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