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Typhoon loses strength after hitting China


Reuters
Wed, 19 Sep 2007 01:23 UTC
Typhoon Wipha made landfall in eastern China on Wednesday, knocking out power and water supplies to tens of thousands of residents, but promptly lost strength as it traveled inland.

Forecaster Tropical Storm Risk downgraded Wipha to a category one typhoon that would weaken further into a tropical storm as it headed north towards Nanjing.
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Red Flag

Experts: Sea Lice Deadly to Wild Salmon


Associated Press
Tue, 18 Sep 2007 22:45 UTC
VANCOUVER, British Columbia - Eighteen prominent scientists and researchers say there is no question that sea lice from fish farms are lethal to wild salmon, no evidence to the contrary and a need for greater protection.
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Cloud Lightning

North Eastern Florida Plagued By Deluge Of Wind And Rain

Ayinde O. Chase
AHN
Tue, 18 Sep 2007 22:04 UTC
Heavy wind and rain deluged much of Jacksonville and north eastern Florida overnight on Monday. Up to 7 inches of rain came down over a portion of Duval County in less than 12 hours Monday.

The sudden downpour caused street flooding in downtown Jacksonville, Riverside, San Marco, and on Jacksonville's beaches and at Ponte Vedra.
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Info

Ozone hole reappears over Antarctic


AFP
Wed, 12 Sep 2007 16:36 UTC
The hole in the protective ozone layer over the Antarctic is forming again but should remain just below the record size it reached last year, a scientist at the UN's weather agency said Wednesday.

The gap in the ozone in the upper atmosphere, at altitudes of up to 25 kilometres (15 miles), has reached a size of about 23 million square kilometres (8.9 million square miles), said World Meteorological Organisation ozone expert Geir Braathen.

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Cloud Lightning

Flood kills one in Slovenia


DPA
Tue, 18 Sep 2007 16:23 UTC
At least one person died Tuesday in Slovenia as storms and heavy rain caused floods, the national television TVS reported.

The victim, a 60-year-old woman, was killed when water carried her away in her vehicle. The accident occurred in Zeleznik, 40 kilometres northwest of Ljubljana.

A state of emergency was declared in the village, in which the 3,000 inhabitants were still without electricity in the evening hours.
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Cloud Lightning

Environment Canada now says Manitoba tornado was strongest ever in country


CP
Tue, 18 Sep 2007 16:20 UTC
Environment Canada has confirmed a tornado that blew apart homes in Elie, Manitoba this summer was an F-5 - the strongest in Canadian history.

Spokesman Dave Carlson says after reviewing videotape of the twister, Environment Canada has determined the tornado packed winds upwards of 400 klometres an hour - strong enough to toss around cars and houses and standblast the bark off trees.
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Bulb

Surprise strategy: Bees smother enemies


AFP
Tue, 18 Sep 2007 14:07 UTC
Cyprian honey bees under attack by predator hornets have evolved a grisly and lethal way of fighting back which scientists have called "asphyxia-balling," according to a study published Monday.

An intruding hornet looking for a snack in a beehive may suddenly find itself enveloped inside a buzzing ball of black-and-yellow worker drones. The bees squeeze in tightly around the abdomen -- where hornets breath -- until the would be aggressor dies of suffocation.
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Cloud Lightning

Typhoon heads for China, targets Shanghai


Reuters
Tue, 18 Sep 2007 13:21 UTC
China was evacuating tens of thousands of people from its financial hub Shanghai on Tuesday in the face of a powerful typhoon churning towards the east coast.

About 200,000 people living in exposed areas in the city of over 14 million would be moved to temporary shelters before evening when Typhoon Wipha is expected to make landfall after swiping the island of Taiwan.

Schools, offices and markets were closed on the northern part of Taiwan near the capital, Taipei, where it has been raining steadily since late Monday.
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Snowman

Snow Falls Early in South Iceland


Iceland Review
Mon, 17 Sep 2007 20:26 UTC
Unseasonably early snowfall restricted traffic in south Iceland on Saturday, since motorists had not yet prepared their vehicles for the winter with studded tires, designed to drive on slippery roads.

According to information from the Iceland Meteorological Office, the blanket of snow measured five centimeters in Kirkjubaejarklaustur on Saturday morning, Morgunbladid reports.
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Cloud Lightning

Warning Raised as Wipha surges from Tropical Storm to Category 4

Preciosa Dumlao
AHN
Mon, 17 Sep 2007 20:13 UTC
Taiwan announced a sea warning alert for all the ships traveling through its northern and eastern waters as tropical storm "Wipha" approached the island and packing winds of 67 miles per hour Monday.

The Central Weather Bureau said, as of 11 a.m. local time Monday, the center of Wipha was located about 367 miles southeast of coastal Yilan county in northern Taiwan.

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Typhoon Wipha

Comment: This story doesn't mention that the storm is now a Category 4 and intensified to this level from a Tropical Storm in one day.

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