Welcome to Sott.net
Fri, 29 Oct 2021
The World for People who Think

Earth Changes
Map

Cloud Lightning

NASA Sees More Severe Weather Over Eastern Texas, Oklahoma


EurekAlert.org
Tue, 20 Mar 2012 16:30 UTC
A low pressure area is centered over eastern Oklahoma, and its associated cold front drapes south into eastern Texas. The front is stalled over eastern Texas and eastern Oklahoma and is generating severe weather today. NASA's Aqua satellite and NOAA's GOES-13 satellite have been providing infrared, visible and microwave images to forecasters of the stalled frontal system.

On March 20, a flood warning was in effect up and down the eastern sides of Texas and Oklahoma, including Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas. The National Weather Service posted a flood warning for the double cities because of heavy rainfall over the last 36 hours. More isolated thunderstorms are expected to develop late afternoon and evening, generating more heavy rainfall, lightning and small hail.
Image
© NASA/JPL, Ed Olsen
The AIRS instrument onboard NASA's Aqua satellite captured an infrared image that showed cloud top temperatures in the severe frontal system over Texas and Oklahoma on March 20 at 0753 UTC 34:53 am EST). The strongest thunderstorms, heaviest rainfall and coldest cloud top temperatures (around 220 Kelvin/ -63.6 F/-53.1 C) appear in purple.
      Read More...
Evil Rays

Strange noise: Unexplained booms continue through the night in Clintonville, authorities stumped


Star Tribune
Tue, 20 Mar 2012 14:11 UTC
Wisconsin, USA - Sleep is interrupted again for some residents in the eastern Wisconsin city of Clintonville where a series of mysterious booms continued for a second night in a row.

City Administrator Lisa Kuss (KOOS) says it was mostly quiet Monday after a series of rumbles the night before until they started again around 8 p.m. She says they continued throughout night until about 5 a.m. Tuesday.
      Read More...
Bizarro Earth

Earthquake Magnitude 7.6 - Oaxaca, Mexico


US Geological Survey
Tue, 20 Mar 2012 13:27 UTC
Image
© USGS
Date-Time:
Tuesday, March 20, 2012 at 18:02:48 UTC
Tuesday, March 20, 2012 at 12:02:48 PM at epicenter

Location:
16.662°N, 98.188°W

Depth:
17.5 km (10.9 miles)

Region:
OAXACA, MEXICO

Distances:
25 km (15 miles) E (95°) from Ometepec, Guerrero, Mexico

42 km (26 miles) NNW (335°) from Pinotepa Nacional, Oaxaca, Mexico

87 km (54 miles) SW (219°) from Tlaxiaco, Oaxaca, Mexico

162 km (101 miles) WSW (255°) from Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico

186 km (115 miles) E (96°) from Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico
      Read More...
Cloud Lightning

Tornado Hits San Antonio as Severe Weather Rattles South and Midwest

Kevin Dolak
ABC News
Tue, 20 Mar 2012 00:00 UTC

US - Severe weather hammered the Midwest and South from Minnesota to Texas including a tornado that touched down in San Antonio, where at least 50 homes were damaged or destroyed.

Residents across this broad region were bracing for flooding Tuesday after the severe weather brought heavy rain and hail that is anticipated to continue for the next few days. With the storm system slowing significantly, tornadoes are becoming less likely but flash flooding becomes a major concern, forecasters said.

The slow-moving weather pattern will bring thunderstorms with heavy rain as it moves over the same area, according to the National Weather Service, which said that some locations will receive a foot of rain by midweek.

The NWS reported that the tornado touched down 25 miles southwest of San Antonio on Monday evening, and that parts of the city and surrounding areas were under a tornado warning. Although some were trapped inside their homes, no fatalities were reported by early Tuesday morning.

Tornado warnings across the San Antonio area were canceled around 11 p.m. Monday, according to ABC News affiliate KSAT. Crews began assessing damage to the area late Monday night.
      Read More...
Umbrella

Flooding feared after storms sock south-central US

Katie Fretland
Associated Press
Tue, 20 Mar 2012 08:05 UTC
Image
© Associated Press/Weather
This NOAA satellite image taken Monday, March 19, 2012 at 10:45 AM EDT shows dense cloud cover over much of the Plains as active weather ramps up across the region.
Residents and businesses from southeast Texas north through western Missouri braced for flooding Tuesday after a violent band of storms brought heavy rain, hail and at least one tornado, with more of the same forecast for the next several days.

The National Weather Service said a tornado touched down Monday evening about 25 miles southwest of San Antonio. The twister damaged several homes, trapping some people inside their mobile homes, but no fatalities were reported, according to The San Antonio Express-News.

The fresh crop of storms comes after two tornadoes damaged homes and railcars in North Platte, Neb., on Sunday. The EF3 twister with winds up to 165 mph injured four people.

Flooding remains a serious concern across the affected areas.
      Read More...
Magnet

Australia: Shark attack on Gold Coast beach

Marissa Calligeros
Brisbane Times
Tue, 20 Mar 2012 06:23 UTC
Shark Attack 2
© fearbeneath.com
A man has been taken to hospital with a gash to his lower leg after being attacked by a shark at a Gold Coast beach this evening.

Lifeguards believe the 20-year-old engineering student who was surfing at Nobby Beach may have been attacked by a small bull shark about 5.05pm. *

He suffered a deep wound to his lower left leg.

Gold Coast chief lifeguard Warren Young told brisbanetimes.com.au lifesavers were on the scene within minutes and were able to stem the bleeding, before ambulance paramedics arrived to take the man to Gold Coast Hospital.
      Read More...
Ambulance

Mile-Wide Avalanche Sweeps Five to Their Deaths


scotsman.com
Tue, 20 Mar 2012 00:00 UTC
Image
© Agence France-Presse
The survivor is now being treated at Tromso's hospital
Five skiers have been killed after being engulfed in an avalanche nearly a mile wide in northern Norway.

One person was dug out alive from under 20ft of snow and taken to hospital after the snowslide yesterday near Tromsoe, on Norway's Arctic coast.

The six tourists, five Swiss and one French national, were part of a group of 12 people skiing in the area when the avalanche struck near Sorbmegaisa mountain, an area near the Lyngen fjord surrounded by high peaks and popular with off-piste skiers and snowboarders. The party had apparently reached the area by boat.

The avalanche was triggered about 1,100 metres up, according to police.

The victims were wearing avalanche transceivers which guided about 30 rescuers digging through the snow. Police and military helicopters were also sent to the site.

"It was a demanding search," said Tor Indrevold, of the local Red Cross team, adding rescuers were "digging down two storeys" of snow.
      Read More...
Igloo

Hail, rain, snow at 1,500 feet elevation keep California utility crews busy

Loretta Kalb
The Sacramento Bee
Sun, 18 Mar 2012 17:52 UTC
Sacramento Valley
© Tim Reese / Scaramento Bee
Storm clouds hover over the Sacramento Valley as seen from on top of Cantelow Hill in Yolo County looking east on Sunday.
Rain and hail pounded the chilly Sacramento region, snow shrouded the foothills at elevations as low as 1,500 feet, and thousands of customers were without power Sunday, capping one of the year's wettest weeks.

By mid-afternoon Sunday, pea-sized hail was reported throughout the area - from Curtis Park to midtown to Rancho Cordova.

"We got hail here for about 10 minutes," Rancho Cordova Councilwman Linda Budge emailed The Bee. "Also thunder once. Temps dropped noticeably between noon and three."

And if you thought it was colder than usual, you were right. Sunday's daytime high of 55 was well below the normal temperature on March 18 of 67 degrees, the National Weather Service said.
      Read More...
Sun

Over 1,500 Record Highs This Week in US!

Chris Dolce
The Weather Chanel
Sat, 17 Mar 2012 17:34 UTC
Video: Feeling the Heat...in March!

Image
© weather.com
Click here to watch the video
This has been a week of incredibly warm weather across much of the country. Over 1,500 record high temperatures have been broken or tied the past seven days, and we're not done breaking records yet! Here's a quick roundup of the action so far:

Monday - According to the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), 138 daily high temperature records were tied or broken primarily in the Northeast and Midwest. This includes records set in New York City (71), Boston, Mass. (71) and Albany, N.Y. (69) that were more than 100 years old!

Tuesday - 218 daily high temperature records tied or broken in the Central and Northeast U.S, according to NCDC. Included were Concord, N.H. (71), Omaha, Neb. (81), Minneapolis, Minn. (67) and Sioux Falls, S.D. (79).
      Read More...
Cloud Lightning

Baseball-Sized Hail in Forecast for Oklahoma and Texas

Katie Fretland
ABC News
Mon, 19 Mar 2012 17:18 UTC
Image
© Unknown
Illustration only
Storms are expected to sweep through the middle of the country over the next several days, bringing heavy rain and the threat of hail and tornadoes. Flood warnings stretch from southeast Texas north through western Missouri on Monday, but after a year of drought in much of the region and a largely snowless winter, fears of flooding aren't what they otherwise might be in several states, where the ground is expected to absorb inches of rain with ease.

The forecast for northern Texas and southeast Oklahoma also calls for baseball-sized hail, damaging winds and possibly tornadoes, according to the National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Okla. Two tornadoes damaged homes and rail cars in North Platte, Neb., on Sunday.

Eight inches of rain are expected in southeastern Kansas, which has been unusually dry for nearly a year. The area has had less than three-fourths of the precipitation it typically gets since last April, state climatologist Mary Knapp said.
      Read More...
Amazon Smile
Revolt! T-shirts