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Cold Snap Hits California with Freezing Temps, Snow

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Weather.com - 1/13/13, AP

California Cold Snap

Esteban Gasca of Chula Vista, Calif., takes a picture after forming the Spanish word amo, or love, with rocks on a beach as clouds from a nearby cold front make their way inland Jan. 11 in San Diego. Few people frequented the city's famous beaches Friday. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

SAN DIEGO — Oddly enough, even polar bears at the San Diego Zoo are getting a helping hand with the unseasonable freezing temperatures sweeping across California.

Zookeepers turned up the heat for some animals and offered shelter to polar bears as a cold snap continues through the weekend, promising to bring the coldest overnight temperatures.
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Phoenix area in throes of 4-day freezing-temps stretch

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AZCentral.com - 1/12/13, D.S. Woodfill, The Arizona Republic-12 News Breaking News Team

Valley nighttime temperatures have dropped below freezing, pushing the region into a four-day cold snap, the first of its kind in more than 24 years, experts say.

The unusually cold weather froze pipes at Valley homes, strained homeless charities and likely knocked out power, among other problems.

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Air pollution in China reaches hazardous levels

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Source: The Watchers - 1/13/13, By Chillymanjaro

Air pollution readings in Beijing, China were at dangerously high levels for the second straight day on January 12, 2013 with hazy skies blocking visibility and authorities urging people to stay indoors. Severe pollution in Beijing is the worst since the local government began collecting data a year ago. Several other cities, including Tianjin on the coast east of Beijing and southern China’s Wuhan city, also reported severe pollution over the last several days. The Beijing Municipal Environmental Monitoring Center said on its website that the density of PM2.5 particulates had reached 700 micrograms per cubic meter in many parts of...

Air pollution readings in Beijing, China were at dangerously high levels for the second straight day on January 12, 2013 with hazy skies blocking visibility and authorities urging people to stay indoors. Severe pollution in Beijing is the worst since the local government began collecting data a year ago. Several other cities, including Tianjin on the coast east of Beijing and southern China’s Wuhan city, also reported severe pollution over the last several days.

Moderate to high solar activity with possible geomagnetic disturbances

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Source: The Watchers - 1/14/13, By Chillymanjaro

Solar activity has been at moderate to high levels for the past 24 hours. AR1652 produced two M-class and 8 C-class solar flares  in the past 24 hours, and it has rapidly evolved to a compact beta-gamma-delta configuration. This active region erupted M1.0 flare at 00:50 UTC, followed by M1.7 solar flare at 08:38 UTC on January 13, 2013.   The second (M1.7) eruption was associated with a metric Type II and IV radio emissions. Type II emissions occur in association with eruptions on the Sun and typically indicate a coronal mass ejection (CME) is associated with a flare event. Type IV emissions occur in association with major...

Solar activity has been at moderate to high levels for the past 24 hours. AR1652 produced two M-class and 8 C-class solar flares  in the past 24 hours, and it has rapidly evolved to a compact beta-gamma-delta configuration. This active region erupted M1.0 flare at 00:50 UTC, followed by M1.7 solar flare at 08:38 UTC on January 13, 2013.

Winds damage churches in western Kentucky

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Courier-Journal.com - 1/13/13

Grain bin collapse cuts off road, power in Clinton

A church sanctuary was flattened and the steeple of a nearby church was blown off Saturday afternoon when high winds raced through tiny Hampton in Livingston County, Ky.

No injuries were reported, according to Brent Stringer, Livingston County’s emergency management director.

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As Australia heatwave hits new high, warning that bushfires will continue

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The Guardian - 1/12/13, Alison Rourke

As crews battle 'atrocious conditions' fire chiefs say that lives have been saved by better ways of predicting outbreaks

Smoke over queensland coast

A pall of smoke over the coast of Queensland: 'Until we get some substantial rain, we will have a landscape susceptible to fire,' says one fire chief. Photograph: Glenys Simpson/AFP
 

Australia's heatwave set a new high of almost 50C as authorities warned that large uncontrolled bushfires would continue to threaten areas in the south-east of the country.

Meanwhile, in remote Moomba, a gas exploration and processing town in the outback of South Australia, the temperature hit 49.6C by mid-afternoon, making it the hottest of the two-week spell, and 48.6C in the town of Bourke, 500 miles north-west of Sydney.

Winter Storm Gandolf Recap

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Weather.com - 1/12/13

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Steve and Linda Peterson walk through the snow.

Salt Lake City, Utah. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Winter Storm Gandolf brought heavy snow and localized blizzard conditions from the northern/central Rockies starting on January 9 and then shifted slowly east into the Northern Plains by early January 12. Below are some of the storm reports and snow totals from Gandolf. You can also click on the snowflake icons in the interactive map above to view more snow reports from Gandolf.

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Severe Storms, Possible Tornadoes Hit Ohio Valley

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Weather.com - 1/12/13

Damage from a possible tornado that hit North Livingston Baptist in Hampton, Ky., sent to The Weather Channel from Chad Darnall, WPSD-TV.

On Saturday afternoon and evening, severe storms and possibly a few tornadoes were reported in Kentucky and the surrounding states. Here's how social media is painting the picture.

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