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US Map shows the path of every tornado to hit the U.S. in the last 60 years

Eddie Wrenn
Daily Mail UK
Tue, 03 Jul 2012 08:53 UTC
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© John Nelson
61 years of tornado tracks: The map, by John Nelson of IDV Solutions, shows the path of the violent storms, with the brightness of the lines indicating the intensity
If you are in America and want to avoid the path of a tornado, the West side of the nation might be the place to go.

For this map shows the course of every single tornado that has hit the U.S. over the last six decades, and as you can see, few places on the East side of the continent have escaped the path of the deadly winds.

The neon-coloured map was created as a side-project by mapping manager John Nelson, in a case of taking his work home with him, as he works for data-visualisation software maker IDV Solutions.
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Air Force C-130 crashes fighting Black Hills wildfire: US military grounds all 7 air tankers


The Missoullian
Tue, 03 Jul 2012 08:30 UTC
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A C-130 tanker plane dispersing flame retardant
Colorado Springs, Colorado - The deadly crash of a military cargo plane fighting a South Dakota wildfire forced officials to ground seven other Air Force air tankers, removing critical firefighting aircraft from the skies during one of the busiest and most destructive wildfire seasons ever to hit the West.

The C-130 from an Air National Guard wing based in Charlotte, N.C., was carrying a crew of six and fighting a 6.5-square-mile blaze in the Black Hills of South Dakota when it crashed Sunday, killing at least one crew member and injuring others.

President Barack Obama offered thoughts and prayers to the crew and their families. "The men and women battling these terrible fires across the West put their lives on the line every day for their fellow Americans," he said in a statement.

The crash cut the number of large air tankers fighting this summer's outbreak of wildfires by one-third.

The military put the remaining seven C-130s on an "operational hold," keeping them on the ground indefinitely. That left 14 federally contracted heavy tankers in use until investigators gain a better understanding of what caused the crash.

Comment: So there you have it America, there are few resources to put out the fires burning your homes but trillions are available to line the pockets of international corporate interests in imperial plunder abroad.

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Fish

Great White Shark sighting closes beach in La Jolla, California

Kristina Davis
U-T San Diego
Tue, 03 Jul 2012 12:01 UTC
A great white shark was spotted off La Jolla Shores Monday afternoon, prompting the closure of the beach for the remainder of the day.

The 14-foot great white was seen by a lifeguard who was on a paddleboard at 3:15 p.m., authorities said.

The sighting was made about 50 feet off the coast, in front of the lifeguard tower.

The beach was closed to swimmers from the Marine Room to Scripps Pier, San Diego lifeguard Lt. Greg Buchanan said. Lifeguards issued frequent warnings to beachgoers over a loudspeaker.

Crews searched the water for the shark from personal watercraft, a boat and a helicopter.
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Bizarro Earth

Worst Monsoon Floods in Northeast India in a Decade Force 2 Million to Flee Homes, Kill 81


Associated Press
Mon, 02 Jul 2012 23:25 UTC
Gauhati - The worst monsoon floods in a decade to hit a remote northeastern Indian state have killed more than 80 people and forced around 2 million to leave their homes.

Nearly half a million people are living in relief camps that have been set up across Assam state, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh told journalists Monday in Gauhati, Assam's capital. The rest of the 2 million displaced are living with relatives or sheltering under tarpaulin sheets.
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© Reuters
A view of the flood-affected area of Sonitpur district in the northeastern Indian state of Assam, July 1, 2012.
Assam officials say 81 people have been killed over the past four days. Most were swept away when the mighty Brahmaputra River overflowed and flooded villages. Sixteen people were buried in landslides triggered by the rains.

At least 11 people were missing in six districts, the state disaster management agency said.

Air force helicopters were dropping food packets and drinking water to marooned people, Singh said after surveying the flood-hit districts.

Army soldiers used boats to rescue villagers from rooftops of flooded homes.

Teams of doctors have opened health clinics in the 770 relief camps that had been set up across Assam, one of India's main tea-growing states. The hilly tea growing areas have not been affected, but lower rice fields have been washed away.
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Bizarro Earth

Great White Shark 16-foot long, 2000 pounds Spotted Off Cape Cod Coast

James Nye
Daily Mail
Sun, 01 Jul 2012 09:31 UTC
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The 16-foot long, 2000 pound great white shark was spotted of the coast of Chatham, Cape Cod
The first great white shark of the Cape Cod summer season has been photographed just 50 yards from the coast off Chatham.

The 16-foot shark, estimated to weigh more than 2,000 pounds, was seen hunting seals near the shore by the Cape Cod Shark Hunters.

'I spotted a couple yesterday,' said pilot George Breen. 'One was about a quarter mile offshore and the bigger of the two was about 50 yards off.'
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Bizarro Earth

DC Derecho Disaster Explained

Christina Reed
Discovery News
Mon, 02 Jul 2012 07:50 UTC
Derecho
© Jim Reed, Corbis
A deadly derecho strikes central Kansas in 2005.
As the millions of people still without power today will attest, that was no ordinary wind storm on Friday.

An event that reportedly happens about once every four years, a fast and furious thunderstorm formed west of Chicago at about 11 a.m. and then raced at speeds upwards of 60 mph in a straight line across Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C. and out over the Atlantic Ocean by midnight, according to news reports.

Meteorologists call this kind of straight-lined fast moving thunderstorm a derecho. And this Friday's derecho already has its own wiki page.

Like other thunderstoms, derechos generate power from convective wind gusts formed between pressure systems. But unlike other storms, derechos maintain a forward motion, basically feeding off the interface between the systems in a race that moves the storm at upwards of 50 mph for distances of hundreds of miles.
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Attention

U.S. electrical grid system suffers 'catastrophic damage' from storms

Ian Simpson
Rueters
Mon, 02 Jul 2012 15:23 UTC
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© Unknown
Relentless heat was forecast for much of the eastern United States for a fourth straight day on Monday, with about 2.2 million customers without power after violent storms and soaring temperatures killed at least 15 people.

Power companies warned it could take several days to restore electricity completely in some areas as much of the United States sweltered in a record-breaking heat wave.

"Hot and hotter will continue to be the story from the plains to the Atlantic Coast for the next few days," the National Weather Service said.

Emergencies were declared in Maryland, Ohio, Virginia, West Virginia and Washington because of damage from a rare "super derecho" storm packing hurricane-force winds across a 700-mile (1,100 kilometre) stretch from the Midwest to the Atlantic Ocean.

About 2.2 million homes and businesses from Illinois to New Jersey were still without power Monday morning, with the biggest concentration of outages in the Washington area.
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11 families flee 50-foot sinkhole in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn

Paula Katinas
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Fri, 29 Jun 2012 10:10 UTC
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© Richie Buttacavoli
After a massive sink hole opened up on 92nd St. in Bay Ridge, crews set to work repaving the collapsed pavement.
New York - Eleven families were evacuated from a Bay Ridge apartment building after a sinkhole opened up on the sidewalk in front of a 92nd St. building on Thursday, according to authorities.

The residents were evacuated as a precaution, authorities said. The sinkhole developed in the afternoon on the west side of the sidewalk on 92nd Street near Third Avenue.

"It's deep. It goes down about 50 feet," said Capt. Richard DiBlasio, commanding officer of the 68th Precinct.

Adding to the concern was the fact that the sinkhole was located next to a sewer underground, according to DiBlasio.

"It's hitting a sewer," he said.

The block of 92nd Street between Third Avenue and Ridge Boulevard was closed to vehicular traffic as emergency crews from the city's Department of Environmental Protection inspected the sinkhole. The area around the sinkhole was roped off with yellow tape to prevent pedestrians from getting too close.
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Cloud Lightning

Wettest April to June in UK Since Records Began, More Unsettled Weather to Come

Richard Alleyne
The Telegraph
Fri, 29 Jun 2012 11:42 UTC
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© PA

England and Wales have already received more than double the long-term average rainfall for the month
Late spring and early summer have been the wettest on record with much of the country receiving more than a foot of rain.

The Environment Agency said that the recent deluges had meant that the last three months have seen more rainfall than at any time since 1910 when the first readings were made.

The highest rainfall was in Wales, parts of which saw 17 inches fall during the time.

The "driest" area was the Anglian region with 11 inches.

The Environment Agencies, which monitors rainfall levels as part of its brief to avoid droughts, made the announcement as the clean-up after being battered by the latest torrential downpours battered homes and the transport network.
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Cloud Lightning

Eastern U.S. Hit by Heat Wave, Power Outages


Reuters
Sun, 01 Jul 2012 16:42 UTC

Blistering heat blanketed much of the eastern United States for the third straight day on Sunday, after violent storms killed at least 13 people and knocked out power to more than 3 million customers.

Emergencies were declared in Maryland, Ohio, Virginia, West Virginia and Washington D.C., on Saturday because of damage from the storms that unleashed hurricane-force winds across and a 500-mile (800-km) stretch of the mid-Atlantic region.

The storms' rampage came as sweltering temperatures topped 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 Celsius) in several southern cities, including Atlanta, where the mercury hit an all-time record of 106 degrees F (41 C), according to Accuweather.com.

Over two dozen cities across 10 states set or tied all-time record high temperatures on Friday and Saturday, including Columbia, South Carolina; Knoxville, Tennessee; and Raleigh, North Carolina.

The heat wave continued Sunday for millions of people from the Plains to the mid-Atlantic.
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