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Wildfire Nearly Triples Overnight

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Weather.com - 5/04/13, AP

A firefighter battles the wildfire near the farmland along a hillside in Point Mugu, Calif. AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu

 

CAMARILLO, Calif. -- A wildfire tearing through a coastal region in Southern California nearly tripled in size as high temperatures fueled the flames, but a fire official said early Saturday that a favorable shift in the weather will likely help crews make progress against the flames.

The fire 50 miles northwest of Los Angeles mushroomed to 43 square miles Friday as 900 firefighters used engines, aircraft, bulldozers and other equipment to battle the flames.

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Arctic Sea Ice Update

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Accuweather.com - 5/3/13

 

 

 

The Arctic sea ice extent declined at a fairly normal seasonal rate during the month of April, but the actual extent is still running slightly lower than what it was last year, which eventually ended up as the lowest extent in the satellite record, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC).

Sea ice extent for the month of April was 630,000 sq. miles below the 1979-2000 average and ended up as the seventh-lowest April extent in the satellite record.

 

 

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NOAA: Water Temps Highest in 150 Years in Northeast

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The four subregions of the Northeast Shelf Large Marine Ecosystem, which extends from Cape Hatteras, N.C. to the Gulf of Maine. MAB is the Mid-Atlantic Bight, SNE is Southern New England, GB is Georges Bank, and GOM is the Gulf of Maine. NOAA


Sea surface temperatures in the Northeast Shelf Large Marine Ecosystem during 2012 were the highest recorded in 150 years, according to the latest Ecosystem Advisory issued by NOAA’s Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NEFSC). 

These high sea surface temperatures are the latest in a trend of above average temperature seen during the spring and summer seasons, and part of a pattern of elevated temperatures occurring in the Northwest Atlantic, but not seen elsewhere in the ocean basin over the past century.

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Exotic Lizards On the Loose in Panama City

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Weather.com - 5/01/13

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Trappers in Panama City, Fla. are trying to keep a horde of abandoned exotic lizards from taking over.

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission has captured about three dozen Argentine tegus in the past week, according to the South Florida Sun Sentinel.

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Wildfire Burns 10-Mile Path to the Ocean

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Weather.com - Shaya Tayefe Mohafer and Christopher Weber, 5/03/13

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Firefighters from Glendale, Calif., and Pasadena, Calif., stand watch as bulldozers clear a firebreak near a wildfire burning along a hillside near homes in Thousand Oaks, Calif. (Image: AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

 

LOS ANGELES  -- A wildfire raged around a coastal region in Southern California early Friday morning, after flaring up in strong winds a day earlier and cutting a 10-mile path to the Pacific.

By the time it reached Pacific Coast Highway late Thursday night, the blaze had burned about 8,000 acres - or 12 1/2 square miles - and had forced the evacuation of a university and thousands of people from hundreds of homes, officials said.

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Winds Stir Growing Wildfire in Southern California

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A wind driven fire eats up timber at the Yellow Jacket Ranch in Knights Valley, Calif., on the Napa and Sonoma County line. (AP Photo/The Press Democrat, Kent Porter)

 

BANNING, Calif. -- Southern California fire officials say a fast-moving wildfire has whipped through about 200 acres of Riverside County near Banning, where winds are blowing at 29 mph.

County fire spokeswoman Jody Hagemann says at least 425 firefighters are working to gain control of the fire that broke out at about 12:30 p.m. Wednesday.

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Disturbance Under the Ocean - The South Bali Buoy

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Disturbance Under the Ocean - The South Bali Buoy

 

Published on Apr 30, 2013 by Suspicious0bservers

 

 

Buoy Data: http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov
April.30.2013 News: http://youtu.be/Pa4rGqYDSPg
Note: Dates on some graphs extending longer timeframes are unreadable due to the program condensing characters to fit the space - you can use the link provided to verify the dates and depths of everything shown here.

 

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