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Rat-Sized Snails Invade Florida

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Weather.com - 4/15/13, April Liston, Reuters

A giant African land snail is seen in this handout picture from the Florida Department of Agriculture.

ORLANDO, Fla. -- South Florida is fighting a growing infestation of one of the world's most destructive invasive species: the giant African land snail, which can grow as big as a rat and gnaw through stucco and plaster.

More than 1,000 of the mollusks are being caught each week in Miami-Dade and 117,000 in total since the first snail was spotted by a homeowner in September 2011, said Denise Feiber, a spokeswoman for the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.

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Report: March Among Driest, Coldest in Recent Years

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Weather.com - 4/15/13, Andy Cox, Nick Wiltgen

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In March 2013, below-normal temperatures dominated in a swath from the Northern Plains to the Southeast. Temperatures were generally at or above normal across the Southwest as well as in New England.
 
March 2013 was the driest March in 47 years and the coldest since 2002, according to a report released Monday by the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), an arm of the federal government's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).


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Severe Weather Strikes the Sunshine State

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Weather.com - 4/14/13

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Severe thunderstorms rumbled through the Orlando area Sunday, producing hail and wind damage throughout the Sunshine State.

Quarter-sized hail was reported in Franklin and Seminole counties, near Eastpoint and Altamonte Springs on Sunday afternoon. One inch size hail was reported in Marion county, near Ocklawaha.

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Strong Quake in Japan Leaves 23 Injured

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Weather.com - 4/14/13, AP

Fallen gravestones at a stone shop are pictured following an earthquake in Awaji, Hyogo prefecture, western Japan, Saturday, April 13, 2013. AP Photo/Kyodo News

TOKYO -- A strong earthquake shook Japan on Saturday near the southwestern city of Kobe, leaving 23 people injured, seven of them seriously - mostly elderly tripping while trying to flee, police said. No one was killed.

The magnitude-6.3 quake left some homes with rooftop tiles broken and cracked walls, while goods fell off store shelves, according to the Meteorological Agency and Japanese TV news footage.

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Winter Storm Xerxes Delivers More Snow to N. Plains

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Several inches of snow cover a street in Dickinson, N.D. as reports of more than a half-foot of snow were observed by early Sunday afternoon, April 14, 2013. (Klark Byrd/The Dickinson Press)

Winter Storm Xerxes became the latest nuisance storm to pound the Northern Plains, dealing yet another snowy blow to the Dakotas and Minnesota on Sunday.

"I'm not sure which is more cruel -- the blizzard in Bismarck, which has had a few tastes of 60-degree weather this spring, or the snowstorm ahead for Grand Forks, which hasn't gotten above 40 degrees even once so far in 2013," said weather.com meteorologist Nick Wiltgen.

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1 Missing in Avalanches East of Seattle

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Weather.com - 4/13/13, AP

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Located to the southeast of Seattle, Snoqualmie Pass is located near a pair of avalanches that occurred on Saturday.

SNOQUALMIE PASS, Wash. -- Authorities say a snowshoer is missing after a pair of avalanches in the mountains near Snoqualmie Pass east of Seattle.

Initial reports said as many as three people were missing, but officials now say only one is unaccounted for after the avalanches hit two separate groups.

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Tornadoes Confirmed in At Least 7 States

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Residents survey the damage near Madisonville, Tenn. on Friday, April 12, 2013 after a possible tornado. (AP Photo/J. Miles Cary, Knoxville News Sentinel)

Families from the Midwest to the Southeast will spend the weekend cleaning up after the first potent severe weather system of the season dropped at least 12 tornadoes in seven states.

The dangerous weather began Wednesday afternoon. The National Weather Service confirms at least two tornadoes hit north central Arkansas Wednesday. At least 30 homes and businesses were damaged in Van Buren county. Five people were hurt.

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Sun Unleashes Most Powerful Solar Flare of Year

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Weather.com - 4/12/13, Tariq Malik, Space.com

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A look at a powerful M6.5 class flare, the strongest of 2013 at the time, at 3:16 EDT on April 11, 2013. This image shows a combination of light in wavelengths of 131 and 171 Angstroms.

The most powerful solar flare of the year erupted from the sun Thursday, sparking a temporary radio blackout on Earth, NASA officials say.

The solar flare occurred at 3:16 a.m. EDT and registered as a M6.5-class sun storm, a relatively mid-level flare on the scale of solar tempests. It coincided with an eruption of super-hot solar plasma known as a coronal mass ejection.

Tornadoes Confirmed in At Least Six States

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Residents survey the damage near Madisonville, Tenn. on Friday, April 12, 2013 after a possible tornado. (AP Photo/J. Miles Cary, Knoxville News Sentinel)

Families from the Midwest to the Southeast will spend the weekend cleaning up after the first potent severe weather system of the season dropped tornadoes in at least six states.

The dangerous weather began Wednesday afternoon. The National Weather Service confirms at least two tornadoes hit north central Arkansas Wednesday. At least 30 homes and businesses were damaged in Van Buren county. Five people were hurt.

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Mysterious Stone Structure Discovered Beneath Sea of Galilee

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Weather.com - Owen Jarus, LiveScience.com, Apr 11, 2013

The circular structure was first detected in a sonar survey of part of the sea in the summer of 2003. Shmuel Marco

A giant "monumental" stone structure discovered beneath the waters of the Sea of Galilee in Israel has archaeologists puzzled as to its purpose and even how long ago it was built.

The mysterious structure is cone shaped, made of "unhewn basalt cobbles and boulders," and weighs an estimated 60,000 tons the researchers said. That makes it heavier than most modern-day warships.

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