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East About to Be Overrun by Billions of Cicadas

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Weather.com - 5/06/13

5 year old Chase Harrison holds up a cicada he caught near his home in Alexandria, Virginia in May 2004. (Image: Stephen Jaffe/AFP/Getty Images)

 

WASHINGTON -- Any day now, billions of cicadas with bulging red eyes will crawl out of the earth after 17 years underground and overrun the East Coast. They will arrive in such numbers that people from North Carolina to Connecticut will be outnumbered roughly 600-to-1. Maybe more.

But ominous as that sounds - along with scientists' horror-movie name for the infestation, Brood II - they're harmless. These insects won't hurt you or other animals. At worst, they might damage a few saplings or young shrubs. Mostly they will blanket certain pockets of the region, though lots of people won't ever see them.

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In Parts of Plains, Drought Fears Nag in 3rd Year

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Weather.com - 5/05/13, AP

Still Dry at Year 3

Still Dry at Year 3

Kent Walker, who farms and ranches, walks through a drought-stricken pond in one of his pastures in Frederick, Okla. on Tuesday, April 23, 2013. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
 

FREDERICK, Okla. — When Kent Walker walked through his dusty fields one morning this spring, the ominous signs were right there at his feet. 

His wheat crop that should have been thick, dark green and thigh-high was thin, brown and barely covered the top of his shoes. It looked like the start of an ugly rerun.

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Flooding Worries Become Reality in Southeast

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Weather.com - 5/04/13

Saturday was just the beginning of the rainy weather for parts of the Southeast, but for some areas, one day of rain was all it took to flood roads, creeks and ditches. Northeastern Florida reported flooding in several towns, and in Georgia, Atlanta recorded a new daily record for rainfall. It's expected to continue through the weekend, so these issues may become worse.

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Wildfire Nearly Triples Overnight

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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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Large Tornado Hits Northern Italy (Video)

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Weather.com - Jon Erdman, 5/04/13

Tornado, Huge Hail Pelts northern Italy

A supercell thunderstorm spawned at least one tornado in the Italian province of Modena, southeast of Milan on May 3, 2013. According to ModenaOnline, twelve buildings were damaged by a tornado near Castelfranco Emilia. We have the photos, video, and weather imagery from this event below.

 

Video: http://www.weather.com/video/giant-tornado-caught-on-cam-36539?collid=/news/top-stories

 

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NOAA: Water Temps Highest in 150 Years in Northeast

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Weather.com - 5/01/13, NOAA

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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Heavy Rain Brings Floods, Evacuations in Deep South

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Weather.com - 5/02/13

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Parts of southeast Mississippi and southwest Alabama were pounded with thunderstorms Wednesday night into early Thursday, and numerous showers and thunderstorms could result in excessive rainfall and possible flash flooding again today.

The Jackson County Emergency Management operations office in Pascagoula, Miss., has opened and officials have evacuated residents from rising floodwaters in Moss Point, Pascagoula and Gautier, according to Jackson County EMA Director Earl Etheridge.

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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

Newbury Park, Calif.

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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