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Tropical Cyclone Sandra Roiling Australia Beaches

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Accuweather.com - 3/13/13

Tropical Cyclone Sandra was centered at sea, west of New Caledonia, at the time of this satellite image. The southern Queensland coast is seen at the lower left. (NRLMRY image)

Tropical Cyclone Sandra weakened significantly on Tuesday, markedly lowering the threat of damaging weather to nearby New Caledonia.

At the same time, high swells radiating outward from the storm were bringing rough surf and rip currents, a phenomenon that was expected to persist through at least Thursday, to some beaches on faraway Australia's east coast.

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Weather: Cold snap to last most of week

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Scotsman.com - 3/13/13

A man looks at the icicles at the Bow Lee Beck waterfall at Gibsons Cave in Teesdale. Picture: PA

A man looks at the icicles at the Bow Lee Beck waterfall at Gibsons Cave in Teesdale. Picture: PA

HUNDREDS of drivers were left stranded in freezing conditions while flights and rail services were cancelled as wintry weather caused further chaos across the UK yesterday.

Many roads remained impassable as police dealt with numerous calls from motorists trapped overnight in heavy snow and ice, reporting breakdowns, crashes and abandoned vehicles.

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Lightning, Hail and Waterspout for Pope Conclave

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Accuweather.com - 3/12/13, Jesse Ferrell

When in Rome... I blogged one month ago today that lightning likely struck The Vatican the same day that Pope Benedict resigned. Today, on the same day that the Papal Concave convened to start the selection process, a thunderstorm has once again hit Rome with lightning and hail, per Alexandre Aguiar (from MetSul) on Twitter (thanks for the tip):
(GFP Note: visit link below to see image).

Indeed, lightning tracking site Blitzortung.Org reports many lightning strikes in the area at 2 p.m. ET (and the Worldwide Lightning Network agrees).

Red tide kills record number of Florida manatees

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The Miami Herald-10 March 2013-Curtis Morgan

Manatees deaths

Toxic red tide has killed a record number of endangered manatees along the Southwest Florida coast.

With no sign of when the deadly algae bloom might abate, the preliminary death toll of 174 is likely to continue rising, state and federal wildlife managers said Monday. The number already has topped a previous red tide high of 151 in 1996.

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Amplified Greenhouse Effect Shifts North's Growing Seasons

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NASA-March 10, 2013

Of the 10 million square miles (26 million square kilometers) of northern vegetated lands, 34 to 41 percent showed increases in plant growth (green and blue), 3 to 5 percent showed decreases in plant growth (orange and red), and 51 to 62 percent showed no changes (yellow) over the past 30 years. Satellite data in this visualization are from the AVHRR and MODIS instruments, which contribute to a vegetation index that allows researchers to track changes in plant growth over large areas.
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

 

Vegetation growth at Earth's northern latitudes increasingly resembles lusher latitudes to the south, according to a NASA-funded study based on a 30-year record of land surface and newly improved satellite data sets.

An international team of university and NASA scientists examined the relationship between changes in surface temperature and vegetation growth from 45 degrees north latitude to the Arctic Ocean. Results show temperature and vegetation growth at northern latitudes now resemble those found 4 degrees to 6 degrees of latitude farther south as recently as 1982.

 

Another record broken in Melbourne's heatwave

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Weatherzone Tuesday March 12, 2013 - 19:51 EDT

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Records tumble as Melburnians endure a long hot spell - ABC

 

The record for the longest stretch of hot weather in Melbourne has been broken.

The temperature has been above 30 degrees Celsius for nine days in a row.

The weather bureau's James Taylor says it breaks the previous record set in February 1961.

 

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