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Dazzling Northern Lights Anticipated Saturday Night

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Accuweather.com - 4/12/13, By Samantha-Rae Tuthill

A view of the northern lights in Elmira, N.Y., from 2011. Photo by David St. Louis

A solar flare that occurred around 2 a.m. Thursday morning may create a spectacular display of northern lights Saturday evening. The midlevel flare had a long duration and was directed at Earth. According to AccuWeather.com Astronomer Hunter Outten, who stated that this flare was "impressive", these are the best conditions for seeing a direct effect on our planet. On the Kp index scale, the flare has been categorized at 6 to 8.

The radiation from such a flare may cause radio wave disturbances to electronics such as cell phones, GPS and radios, causing services to occasionally cut in and out. While traveling slower than was originally anticipated, the flare effects are moving towards Earth at 1000 km per second.

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Month's Worth of Rain for Tokyo Already This April

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Accuweather.com - 4/06/13, Evan Duffy

A Tokyo subway system, flooded by heavy rains. (Photo Courtesy Twitter user @ubergenki)

April has started on an extremely wet note across Japan, with Tokyo already recording more than a month's worth of rain.

A storm on the 2nd and 3rd brought torrential rains to major cities in Japan. In the Kanto Plain, cities were inundated with rain.

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Chicago, Duluth: Coldest April Fools' Day Since 1993

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The arctic air plunging into the Midwest is leading to the coldest April Fools' Day in years, even decades for some.

Easter Sunday went down in history books as a chilly one for the Upper Midwest due to the arctic air's arrival, while temperatures remain mild across the eastern Great Lakes and Ohio Valley.

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Moscow Records Highest March Snow Depth in 20 Years

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Accuweather.com - 3/31/13, Vickie Frantz

Russians cover themselves from a blizzard as they walk outside Moscow's Kremlin, Russia, on Sunday, March 24, 2013. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)
 

As of March 26, 2013, the snow depth in Moscow, Russia, was 30 inches, their highest March snow depth in more than 20 years.

"A previous record snow depth of 29 inches was recorded March 19, 1994," said Senior Expert Meteorologist Jim Andrews.

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Tropical Cyclone Sandra Roiling Australia Beaches

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Accuweather.com - 3/13/13

Tropical Cyclone Sandra was centered at sea, west of New Caledonia, at the time of this satellite image. The southern Queensland coast is seen at the lower left. (NRLMRY image)

Tropical Cyclone Sandra weakened significantly on Tuesday, markedly lowering the threat of damaging weather to nearby New Caledonia.

At the same time, high swells radiating outward from the storm were bringing rough surf and rip currents, a phenomenon that was expected to persist through at least Thursday, to some beaches on faraway Australia's east coast.

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Lightning, Hail and Waterspout for Pope Conclave

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Accuweather.com - 3/12/13, Jesse Ferrell

When in Rome... I blogged one month ago today that lightning likely struck The Vatican the same day that Pope Benedict resigned. Today, on the same day that the Papal Concave convened to start the selection process, a thunderstorm has once again hit Rome with lightning and hail, per Alexandre Aguiar (from MetSul) on Twitter (thanks for the tip):
(GFP Note: visit link below to see image).

Indeed, lightning tracking site Blitzortung.Org reports many lightning strikes in the area at 2 p.m. ET (and the Worldwide Lightning Network agrees).

Video: Twin Waterspouts Near Shore of Spanish Town

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Accuweather.com - 3/01/13, Meghan Evans

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Twin waterspouts were captured on video nearing the coast of Benidorm, a town along the east coast of Alicante, Spain, on Thursday afternoon, Feb. 28, 2013.

"There's a lot of cold aloft over relatively warm water, making the atmosphere unstable," AccuWeather Expert Senior Meteorologist Jim Andrews said. This type of unstable pattern can set the stage for the development of waterspouts.

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Video: Thundersnow Clobbers Kansas

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Accuweather.com - 2/22/13, Samantha-Rae Tuthill
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A massive winter storm system gave Kansas some of the highest snowfall amounts it's ever seen. The Wichita Mid-Continent Airport recorded 14.2 inches of snow on Feb. 21, an amount only topped by a storm in 1962 that left them covered in 15 inches of snow. This storm also brought reports of thundersnow.

 

 

"Wichita didn't miss the record amount by much," said AccuWeather.com Meteorologist Dan Pydynowski. "This storm brought around a foot of snow to the Plains, with areas in Kansas being the hardest hit."

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Tsunami Debris Litters Alaska Coast; Clean Up Funds Insufficient

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Accuweather.com - 2/18/13, Jillian MacMath

The beaches of Alaska are piled with debris from the tsunami that struck Japan on March 11, 2011, but restoration to their once pristine condition has slowed, as funding remains scarce.

"The amount of debris washing ashore has vastly exceeded most people's expectation...," said Chris Pallister, Vice President of the Gulf of Alaska Keeper, a non-profit organization dedicated to cleaning marine debris from the coastline of Alaska.

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