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Strong storm pounds New England coast

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Published on Mar 9, 2013
By CBS News Online

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A two-day long storm that dumped over a foot of snow in the Northeast brought high winds, rain, and a storm surge that flooded homes and even swept some into the ocean. Many residents never saw it coming. CBS News' Terrell Brown reports.

 

 

Tropical Cyclone Sandra strengthens

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ABC.net.au - 3/10/13

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Severe Tropical Cyclone Sandra has been upgraded to a Category 4 system.

The cyclone is continuing to move east-southeast at about 11 kilometres per hour and is situated over the eastern Coral Sea, approximately 490 kilometres south-southeast of Rennell Island.

To read the rest of this story, visit ABC.net.au.

 

Winter's final blast: Snow hits large parts of UK with more on the way as temperatures plunge to -7C

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  • Dailymail UK- By JAMES RUSH-10 March 2013
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  • - Light sleet and snow falling from East Anglia to Lancashire
  • - Wintry conditions come after Britain was hotter than Ibiza this past week
  • - Snow due to turn heavier tonight in time for rush hour tomorrow morning
  • - Temperatures expected to drop to -7C in some areas tonight

 

~ Space Weather Update~ New Sunspot!

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SOLAR WIND ENERGY SOURCE DISCOVERED: Using data from an aging NASA spacecraft, researchers have found signs of an energy source in the solar wind that has caught the attention of fusion researchers. NASA will be able to test the theory later this decade when it sends a new probe into the sun for a closer look. Get the full story from Science@NASA

COMET PAN-STARRS MOVES NORTH: On March 10th, Comet Pan-STARRS (C/2011 L4) makes its closest approach to the sun inside the orbit of Mercury. As the comet swings by the sun it is also crossing the celestial equator, moving from southern to northern skies. First sightings of the comet are now coming in from the northern hemisphere. Halda Mohammed sends this picture from Kulim, Kedah, Malaysia (latitude +5o N):

"After several days of comet hunting at dusk, on March 8th I finally caught a glimpse of my first comet ever - Comet PanSTARRS," says Mohammed. "Wonderful! I plan to try again tonight."

Jennifer Welsh ~ These Are The Places You Are Most Likely To Be Swallowed By A Sinkhole

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screen shot 2013-03-05 at 6.37.25 pmLast week a 30-foot-wide sinkhole opened in the ground in Florida and swallowed a man and his house.

Things didn’t end up well for the man — the search for him was called off on Sunday night. Clearing of the debris gave us a better look at the hole and the damage it caused.

This got us wondering, what other places are prone to sinkholes? Luckily for New Yorkers, it’s not very likely that a sinkhole would open up in Manhattan’s Flatiron district, but some places are more susceptible than others.

Sinkholes are caused when underground water washes away soft rocks like limestone, carbonate rock and salt beds. As the rock or salt are worn away, it leaves behind a cavern under the Earth. When the cavern gets too big, the ground above it collapses, pulling a (usually) circular section of the Earth’s “crust” with it.

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