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Waterspout makes rare landfall in Florida Keys

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WTSP.com - 4/-7/13, AP

New and old (l-r) Seven Mile Bridges, connecting Marathon with Lower Keys and Key West through Pidgeon Key (r)
 

BIG PINE KEY, Fla. (AP) - The National Weather Service says a waterspout made a rare landfall and became a tornado in the Florida Keys.

No injuries were reported when the tornado came ashore early Friday on Big Pine Key.

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News Winter Storm Yogi Brings Late-Season Snow

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Weather.com - 4/16/13, Becky Kellogg

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Twin siblings Zeke, left, and Zoe Burton, ages 4, build a giant snow martian at a park on a day they talked their father into playing hooky from their public pre-school to enjoy the fresh snow which fell overnight in Denver, Tuesday April 16, 2013. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

Colorado residents on the Front Range are digging out as Winter Storm Yogi brings more spring snow to their state. More than a foot of snow was reported in Estes Park and Nederland by Tuesday morning. About 10 inches of snow fell in the Denver area.

There are several road closures in Wyoming due to the snow:

~ Space Weather Update~ FAST-GROWING SUNSPOT

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DARK MATTER ON THE ISS: A particle detector on board the International Space Station has recorded intriguing signs of Dark Matter that could reveal what the mysterious substance is made of. If the finding holds up, it could lead to significant advances in cosmology. [full story] [video]

 

FAST-GROWING SUNSPOT: Two days ago, sunspot AR1723 did not exist. Now it sprawls nearly 100,000 km (8 Earth-diameters) across the sun's southern hemisphere. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory is monitoring the sunspot's rapid expansion:

AR1723 has a 'beta-gamma' magnetic field that harbors energy for M-class solar flares. If the magnetic field is changing as quickly as the underlying sunspot, it could become unstable and explode. Stay tuned for updates, as Earth would be in the line of fire. Solar flare alerts: text, voice.

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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