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Photos: Winds Force Destructive Ice From Lake Into Homes

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Accuweather.com - Meghan Evans, 5/10/13

Photo of the ice's destruction in Alberta Beach, Canada, taken by Farah Dhalla.

 

High winds howling in Alberta, Canada, on Monday night forced ice from Lac Ste. Anne into homes in Alberta Beach.

A powerful cold front pushed across the area, stirring winds as high as 50-60 mph (80-90 km/h), on Monday night.

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Alaska Endures Record Cold While Still Buried Under Snow

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Accuweather.com -5/10/13, Alex Sosnowski

While winter is finally breaking over much of Alaska this week, it has be a slow start to spring in much of the Last Frontier. (Photos.com image)

 

The central and eastern United States are not the only areas experiencing a colder-than-average spring. Alaska is also hanging on to winter's chill and snow.

The five-week period from April 3 to May 7 was the coldest in 109 years of record keeping at Fairbanks, Alaska, according to the National Weather Service (NWS).

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Rainfall Deficits in Feet!

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Weather.com - Jon Erdman, 5/09/13

Contrast in water levels at Falcon Reservoir near Zapata, Texas in 2012 (top) and early 2013 (bottom). (Photo credit: iWitnessWeather/Mel Wishman)

 

If you're alarmed by the size of our national debt, there's another massive deficit that may boggle your mind.

In meteorology, we often discuss precipitation deficits and surpluses in terms of inches.

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First Solar Eclipse of 2013 Visible for Most of Australia

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accuweather.com By Vickie Frantz, AccuWeather.com Staff Writer

May 09, 2013; 6:58 AM

The first solar eclipse of the year will be visible in parts of Australia, eastern Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, the Gilbert Islands, the Hawaiian Islands, eastern Indonesia and the southern Philippines, weather permitting.

In the towns of Sydney and Canberra, the eclipse viewing conditions should be good. "Scattered clouds will cause poor viewing conditions for the towns of Perth, Adelaide and possibly Melbourne," said AccuWeather Meteorologist Erik Pindrock.

"The eclipse begins at sunrise Friday morning local time over the wilderness of western Australia. It then sweeps over the unpopulated Northern Territory and continues across northern Queensland, far to the north of Cairns," said AccuWeather Meteorologist Mark Paquette.

 

Don’t miss this year’s annular solar eclipse on May 9/10

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The Watchers - May 9, 2013 - by Chillimanjaro  

On May 9-10, the Moon will pass directly in front of the sun over the South Pacific, producing the first (annular) solar eclipse this year. At greatest eclipse, 95-98% of the sun’s surface will be covered. An annular eclipse occurs when the Moon eclipses the Sun while near apogee. The Moon’s apparent disk is just smaller than the Sun’s disk and the Sun appears as a brilliant ring, so it’s often called a “ring of fire”. An annular eclipse will be visible from a 171 to 225 kilometre-wide track that traverses Australia, eastern Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, and the...

 

On May 9-10, the Moon will pass directly in front of the sun over the South Pacific, producing the first (annular) solar eclipse this year. At greatest eclipse, 95-98% of the sun’s surface will be covered. An annular eclipse occurs when the Moon eclipses the Sun while near apogee. The Moon’s apparent disk is just smaller than the Sun’s disk and the Sun appears as a brilliant ring, so it’s often called a “ring of fire”.

Flooding in New York (PHOTOS)

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wunderground.com By: Tim Ballisty Published: May 8, 2013

 

Heavy rain hit the New York City metro area early Wednesday morning and caused street flooding. More than two inches of rain fell in just a few hours. This was more rain than New Yorkers saw from March 20 to May 7. It was also the single wettest day since Sept. 28, 2012. The worst of the storm was expected to be over by mid-morning.

Rain Boosts Bacteria Levels in Southern River

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Weather.com - 5/07/13, AP

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Days of rain in the Southeast have left roads underwater and one person dead, while a major river in Georgia is observing dangerously-high bacteria levels.

"(On Tuesday), the heaviest rain band targets a swath from Delaware west across the D.C. area into eastern West Virginia with 1 to 2 inches of rain," said weather.com meteorologist Nick Wiltgen. "Wednesday and Thursday will bring showers into the Northeast, but the nozzle-like focus of heavy rain will weaken into scattered nuisance showers."

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