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Red tide alert system on Boca Grande

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NBC-2.com - 2/07/13, Steve Campion

BOCA GRANDE, FL - It's a first for Boca Grande; a red tide alert system is now in place on the popular island. The monitoring effort went online as large fish kills washed in from the Gulf of Mexico last month.

In the Boca Bayou, dead fish last washed in weeks ago; and some remain even still.

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NASA Scientists Build First-Ever Wide-Field X-ray Imager

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NASA.gov - 2/07/13, Lori Keesey

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This Black Brant IX rocket carried two instruments designed to study charge exchange, a physical phenomenon that occurs when the solar wind collides with Earth's exosphere and neutral gas in interplanetary space. Credit: NASA

Three NASA scientists teamed up to develop and demonstrate NASA's first wide-field-of-view soft X-ray camera for studying "charge exchange," a poorly understood phenomenon that occurs when the solar wind collides with Earth's exosphere and neutral gas in interplanetary space.

The unique collaboration involved heliophysics, astrophysics and planetary science divisions at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., and resulted in the first successful demonstration of the Sheath Transport Observer for the Redistribution of Mass (STORM) instrument and a never-before-flown X-ray focusing technology called lobster-eye optics.

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Blizzard alert: Northeast snowstorm could be among the worst of all time

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Source: The Extinction Protocol - 2/08/13

February 8, 2013 – BOSTON, MA – A crippling and potentially historic winter storm barreled toward the Northeast on Thursday, threatening tens of millions of people with 2 feet of snow. Boston canceled school and braced for one of its worst blizzards of all time. Airlines encouraged fliers to change their plans and get out of the way. There were already delays of more than two hours at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago, where tangles can snarl air traffic across the country, and hundreds of flights were canceled. The culprits were a so-called clipper system moving through the Upper Midwest and a low-pressure system headed for the waters off New England. When they converge, probably late Friday, they are expected to sock the region with its heaviest snow in at least two years, and perhaps much longer. “When this hits, it’s going to come down very hard,” said Tom Niziol, a meteorologist for The Weather Channel. “This is something we haven’t seen in a while, particularly in New England.”

Arctic blast may batter Scotland for up to a week

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Scottish Express - 2/06/13, Rod Mills

SCOTLAND faces more snow misery with no let-up in the Arctic snap for at least a week, forecasters said last night.

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Much of the country is braced for more snow over the next few days, as forecasters warned there could be a “significant snow event” this weekend with more than eight inches falling in some areas.

The prediction came as parts of Scotland battled heavy snow, fierce Arctic gales and blizzards yesterday, which caused chaos on roads and transport systems.

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Northern and western India hit by persistent cold spell

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ChannelNewsAsia.com - 2/07/13, By Anjali Mathai

NEW DELHI: Northern and western India have been hit by a stubbornly resurgent cold spell.

New Delhi was pelted with heavy rain while other parts of the country shivered under thick blankets of snow.

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Fog Causes Another Massive Pile-up Involving 27 Vehicles

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Weather.com - 2/07/13Deadly Pileup

Emergency workers and firemen are at the scene of a pileup on Interstate 16 near Jeffersonville, Ga., Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2013. Associated Press.

MONTROSE, Ga. -- More than two dozen cars, pickup trucks and tractor-trailers collided Wednesday morning in a fiery pileup on a foggy Georgia interstate, killing at least four people and sending nine others to a hospital, officials said.

Work crews on Interstate 16 were still clearing charred and twisted wreckage from the crash scene, which covered nearly a quarter-mile of the roadway, hours after the chain of crashes occurred at about 8:10 a.m. Crews initially reported three deaths before finding another person dead in the wreckage later Wednesday.

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Tsunami Death Toll Grows; Solomon Villages Destroyed

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Weather.com - 2/07/13, AP

Houses are washed off of their foundations in the area of Lata, Temotu province, Solomon Islands after a powerful earthquake off the Solomon Islands on Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2013 generated a tsunami. (AP Photo/World Vision)

SYDNEY — Aid workers struggled to reach remote, tsunami-ravaged villages in the Solomon Islands on Thursday, as the death toll rose with more bodies found in wrecked homes and debris in the South Pacific island chain.

At least nine people, including a child, were killed when a powerful earthquake set off a small tsunami that sent 1.5-meter (4 foot, 11-inch) waves roaring inland on Santa Cruz Island, in the eastern Solomons, on Wednesday. Around 100 homes across five villages were damaged or destroyed.

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Big Story Weather – February 7, 2013

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RedOrbit.com -2/07/13, Joshua Kelly

Big Story Weather from February 6: A low pressure moved through the Eastern Lakes yesterday dropping accumulating snow in the region. Low pressure moved through Texas yesterday bringing with it moderate to heavy rain across most of state. During the overnight hours the system pushed eastward into the Gulf Coast.

Weather Outlook for February 7: Low pressure moving towards Chicago will bring heavy snow across the majority of the Great Lakes today. A secondary low pressure will form over the Northern Gulf of Mexico creating showers and thunderstorms along the front. High pressure over the West will keep the weather nice over the majority of the region for another day. The two low pressures are going to begin to pull together later tonight setting the stage for a huge snow storm and blizzard over the Northeast by Friday. Below is the weather for a few select cities.

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