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Tornadoes Strike Florida and the South

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Weather.com - 12/11/12, AP

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A line of gas pumps at Fuel City on Finley Boulevard and Interstate 65 are blown over after severe weather in Birmingham, Ala., Monday, Dec. 10, 2012. The National Weather Service has confirmed that storm damage Monday morning in Birmingham was caused by a tornado with maximum winds estimated at 90 mph.

Severe storms swept across the South Monday, December 10 with at least six preliminary tornadoes being reported from Arkansas to Florida. 

The National Weather Service has confirmed that storm damage in Birmingham, Ala., was caused by a tornado with maximum winds estimated at 90 mph. Forecasters say the tornado hit at about 4:45 a.m. Monday near the Birmingham farmer's market.

Space Weather Update: ARCTIC LIGHTS:

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GEMINID METEOR SHOWER--THIS WEEK! The annual Geminid Meteor Shower is set to peak on Dec. 13 and 14, 2012. The display, which is caused by an unusual 'rock comet,' could produce more than 100 meteors per hour during the dark hours before dawn this Thursday and Friday. [video] [meteor radar]

ASTEROID FLYBY: Newly-discovered asteroid 2012 XE54 is flying through the Earth-Moon system today approximately 230 thousand km (0.6 LD) from Earth. The space rock is about 36 meters wide, a little smaller than the Tunguska impactor that leveled 800 square miles of Siberian forest in 1908. Using a remote-controlled telescope in New Mexico, astronomers Ernesto Guido and Nick Howes photographed 2012 XE54 streaking among the stars on Dec. 11th:


Guido and Howes dedicate this image to the memory of their longtime friend and colleague Giovanni Sostero.

This asteroid will not hit Earth, but it is close enough, and thus bright enough, for amateur astronomers to track using backyard telescopes. When Guido and Howes photographed it this morning, it was shining at magnitude +13.

Arctic conditions to persist across UK until Thursday

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The Guardian - Martin Wainwright, 12/11/12

Wednesday may prove to be coldest day of week as icy spell continues before giving way to milder weather from the west

Winter weather

A dog walker makes her way through Ashton Court Estate in Bristol, where temperatures dipped to -3 in the city amid bright winter sunshine. Photograph: Ben Birchall/PA
 

Clear skies have brought plunging temperatures to the UK with lows of –10.5C (13.1F) as a stubborn area of high pressure fends off weak assaults by warmer and wetter westerly fronts.

Behind 30 hours of fog: warm air moving over cold ground, “advection fog”

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The Washington Post - 12/10/12, Jason Samenow


D.C.’s historic monuments are barely visible from less than a mile away at 11 a.m. Monday (National Park Service)

Since Saturday night, widespread fog has covered large parts of the Washington, D.C. metro region. The explanation is pretty simple: the ground has been relatively cold compared to the air trying to sneak in from the south.

We’ve had a prolonged episode of what’s known as “advection fog”. It’s caused by “the horizontal movement of warm moist air over a cold surface” says the National Weather Service. Note: advection sounds like a fancy word, but it really just means moving air.

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Tornadoes Strike the South

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Weather.com - 12/11/12, Jon Erdman

Storm damage in Baker, Louisiana

A line of severe thunderstorms swept through the Deep South Monday morning, spawning damaging winds and several possible tornadoes from Louisiana to Alabama.  We break down some of the most notable damage reports by state below...

Louisiana

- UPDATE:  An NWS survey team confirmed an EF1 tornado touched down just before 7 a.m. CT in Baker, La.  A car wash was destroyed, according to the city's police department.  Widespread damage to trees and powerlines was also observed.

Tornado wreaks havoc in Indonesia: 519 houses damaged

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Source: The Extinction Protocol - 12/11/12

The National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) spokesman said on Saturday that the tornado — which had a radius of  two kilometers at a speed of 60 kilometers per hour — lasted for 10 minutes and hit 10 villages in Sleman, with the Bromonila village in the subdistrict of Purwomartani reporting the most damages.

December 11, 2012 – INDONESIA – More than a dozen people have been injured and hundreds of houses left damaged after a tornado swept through the Yogyakarta district of Sleman on Friday. The National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) spokesman said on Saturday that the tornado — which had a radius of two kilometers at a speed of 60 kilometers per hour — lasted for 10 minutes and hit 10 villages in Sleman, with the Bromonila village in the subdistrict of Purwomartani reporting the most damages.

 

6 deaths as heavy snow and strong winds hit the Balkans

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The Record - 12/09/12

Darko Vojinovic/The Associated Press A woman walks through the snow covered street in Belgrade, Serbia, Sunday. Freezing temperatures and heavy snowfall have killed at least 5 people and caused travel chaos across the Balkans.
 

Freezing temperatures and heavy snowfall have killed at least six people and caused travel chaos across the Balkans, with rescue teams struggling to reach passengers stranded in buses and cars in Serbia on Sunday.

Officials said four people have died in Croatia and two in Serbia as a result of blizzards in the region of southwestern Europe over the weekend, closing airports and roads and blocking public transportation in big cities.

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Deadly Typhoon Bopha makes U-turn back to Philippines

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Source: The Extinction Protocol - 12/09/12

December 9, 2012 – MANILA – Heavy rain brought flooding fears in the north of the storm-battered Philippines as Typhoon Bopha returned today, days after slamming into the south of the country and leaving almost 1,400 dead or missing. While the powerful typhoon had weakened to a tropical storm, it was still causing downpours in the north even as hundreds in the south struggled to recover from its fury, said civil defense chief Benito Ramos.

 

UK Weather: Siberian Front To Bring Snow, Ice And -10C Temperatures (PICTURES)

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The Huffington Post United Kingdom - 12/09/12

A bitterly cold weather front from Siberia is set to bring snow, ice and temperatures as low as -10C across the UK from Monday.

The "Beast from the East" has prompted bookmaker William Hill to slash odds on the lowest ever temperature recorded from 14/1 to 8/1, reports the Belfast Telegraph.

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