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Midwest Floods Turn Deadly

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Weather.com - 4/20/13

Utica, Ill.

London Mills Assistant Fire Chief Scott Butler, left, and volunteer Shawn Taylor go house to house checking on flooded residents Friday, April 19, 2013, in London Mills, Ill., after the Spoon River overflowed the levee.(AP Photo/Journal Star, Fred Zwicky)
 

Flooding in the Midwest has turned fatal, with at least two deaths blamed on flash flooding and a third suspected. States of emergency were declared in half a dozen states, residents were evacuated and roads were closed in the affected areas.

On Saturday, more than 50 river/stream gauges were in major flood in parts of Missouri, Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana and Michigan.

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Earth could enter into dusty meteor shower from Comet ISON’s tail

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The Watchers - 20 April 2013 - by ChiffreAs comet ISON is approaching for its close encounter with the sun in November, 2013, excitement and anticipation are rising. Already being named the potential “Comet of the century” by some, because of the show it might put on for stargazers all over our planet, ISON might have yet one more surprise for us. An observation of the comet in January 2013 by NASA’s Swift spacecraft, when ISON was still near the orbit of Jupiter, showed that it was already very active. The comet was ejecting more than 112,000 pounds of dust from its nucleus every minute. It looks like some of...

 

As comet ISON is approaching for its close encounter with the sun in November, 2013, excitement and anticipation are rising. Already being named the potential “Comet of the century” by some, because of the show it might put on for stargazers all over our planet, ISON might have yet one more surprise for us.

An observation of the comet in January 2013 by NASA’s Swift spacecraft, when ISON was still near the orbit of Jupiter, showed that it was already very active. The comet was ejecting more than 112,000 pounds of dust from its nucleus every minute. It looks like some of that dust might end up on Earth.

~ Space Weather Update~ Surpirse TWO NEW SUNSPOTS Appear

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LYRID METEOR SHOWER: Earth is entering a stream of debris from ancient Comet Thatcher, source of the annual Lyrid Meteor Shower. Usually the shower is mild (10-20 meteors per hour) but unmapped filaments of dust in the comet's tail sometimes trigger outbursts ten times stronger. Forecasters expect the peak to occur on April 21-22. [photo gallery]

 

TWO NEW SUNSPOTS: On Friday they didn't exist. On Saturday they are big sunspots. Today, sunspots AR1726 and AR1727 are rapidly emerging in the sun's northern hemisphere. The larger of the two, AR1726, contains nearly a dozen dark cores and spans 125,000 km from end to end. Click to view a 24-hour movie recorded by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory:

Mansfield Tornado Damages Buildings, Injures One

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Accuweather.com - Vickie Frantz, 4/20/13

A tornado touched down in the town of Mansfield, Ga., at about 1 p.m. EDT Friday.

"The storms moved through at the time of the tornado, there was one half to an inch of rain with some areas locally seeing higher amounts," AccuWeather Meteorologist Erik Pindrock said. "At the nearest observation site 45-50 miles away, a 54 mph wind gust was recorded."

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Flooded Roads, Evacuations Reported in Midwest

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Weather.com - 4/19/13

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Joe Stoffey, left, and his partner, Chrissy Wild, look at the flooded Hickory Creek Thursday April 18, 2013, as it passes near the home they were going to buy in New Lenox, Ill., after torrential rains swept through the area. (AP Photo/SouthtownStar, Matt Marton)
 

Heavy rain in the Midwest Wednesday into Thursday has created critical flooding problems in at least a half-dozen states. States of emergency were declared, residents were evacuated and roads were closed in the affected areas.

Illinois Governor Pat Quinn declared a state of emergency to help with widespread flooding issues. Hundreds of flights were canceled from Chicago's airports, and tens of thousands of people were left without power.

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Powerful Earthquake Jolts China

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Weather.com - 4/19/13, AP

BEIJING – A powerful earthquake jolted China's Sichuan province on Saturday, killing at least two people in the same area where a devastating quake struck five years ago.

The Chinese government's seismological bureau and state-run television said the quake hit shortly after 8 a.m. in Lushan county in the city of Ya'an, home to China's famous pandas.

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