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Lower Manhattan Still Slowed by Sandy

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Weather.com - Tom Hays/AP, 11/26/12Manhattan, N.Y.

Chief engineer Mike Lahm walks through the pump room as he shows journalists the basement of 120 Wall Street in New York. The basement was totally submerged during Superstorm Sandy. (AP Photo/Tina Fineberg)

 

NEW YORK — The hum of massive mobile generators, boilers and pumps emerges blocks from Manhattan's Financial District and turns into a steady din south of Wall Street — the now-familiar sound of an area laboring to recover from Superstorm Sandy.

Other parts of the city have gotten mayoral visits and media attention after the Oct. 29 storm killed dozens of residents and tore apart homes in coastal neighborhoods. Less obvious were the millions upon million gallons of sea water that wreaked havoc on subterranean electrical panels and other internal infrastructure throughout lower Manhattan, making them unusable even after power was restored to the area.

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Violent Tornado Strikes Italy

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Weather.com - 11/29/12, Tim Ballisty

A large, multi-vortex tornado struck the coastal city of Taranto in southeast Italy on Wednesday morning. It occurred at roughly 5:30 am EST or 11:30 am CET local time. Early reports indicate that at least 20 people were injured. Video shows property damage including flipped cars.

Below is a collection of photos, video and other information from Taranto.

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Sunspot 1620 generated M2.2 solar flare

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Source: The Watchers - 11/29/12, By Chillymanjaro

Sunspot 1620 produced M2.2 solar flare with peak at 21:36 UTC on November 28, 2012. Fast growing sunspot AR1620 has a beta-gamma-delta magnetic field that harbors energy for X-class solar flares. M-class activity is also possible from region AR 1618 which has now rotated off the visible solar disk.   Sunspots 1618 and 1620 have beta-gamma-delta configuration of their photospheric magnetic field and produced two M-class flares in the past 24 hours (M1.6 and M1.0 peaking at 15:57 UTC and 21:26 UTC yesterday). More M-class flares will probably occur in the coming 48 hours in one or both of these active regions. NOAA/SWPC...

Sunspot 1620 produced M2.2 solar flare with peak at 21:36 UTC on November 28, 2012. Fast growing sunspot AR1620 has a beta-gamma-delta magnetic field that harbors energy for X-class solar flares. M-class activity is also possible from region AR 1618 which has now rotated off the visible solar disk.

Floods claim fourth life and leave worst insurance bills for five years

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The Guardian - 11/27/12

  • Water emergency teams in St Asaph, north Wales

    Emergency workers recovered the body of an elderly woman from her flooded house, one of 500 local properties damaged or evacuated. Photograph: Geoff Abbott/Corbis

Flooding in Britain has claimed a fourth life and brought misery to hundreds more homes, as torrential rain moves away into the North Sea leaving the worst insurance bills for five years in its wake.

Fast growing sunspot AR 1620 harbors energy for strong flares

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Source: The Watchers - 11/26/12, By Chillymanjaro

Five sunspot groups were reported today by Catania. Sunspots AR 1618 and AR 1620 have beta-gamma-delta and beta-gamma configurations of their photospheric magnetic field, respectively, and are being closely monitored for further flaring activity. NOAA/SWPC forecasters estimate 30% chances of M-class and 5% chances for X-class activity.   Strong magnetic flux emergence that takes place in the  AR 1620 since yesterday afternoon will probably lead to an M-class flare. A proton event is possible in case of a strong flare either from AR 1618 or 1620 due to their position in the western solar hemisphere. If any strong flare with CME...

Five sunspot groups were reported today by Catania. Sunspots AR 1618 and AR 1620 have beta-gamma-delta and beta-gamma configurations of their photospheric magnetic field, respectively, and are being closely monitored for further flaring activity. NOAA/SWPC forecasters estimate 30% chances of M-class and 5% chances for X-class activity.

Tropical Storm BOPHA formed in Western North Pacific Ocean

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Source: The Watchers, 11/27/12, by Chillymanjaro

The twenty-sixth tropical cyclone of the Pacific Tropical Storm season formed in western north Pacific Ocean and it is named as TS BOPHA (TS 26W). Warnings and watches are currently in effect for islands within Micronesia archipelago, thousands islands between Philippines on the west and Indonesia on the southwest. According to NOAA’s National Weather Service in Tiyan, Guam, a tropical storm warning remains in effect for Nukuoro in Pohnpei State and Lukunor in Chuuk State. A tropical storm watch remains in effect for Losap and for Chuuk Lagoon Islands in Chuuk State.   NASA’s Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite passed...

The twenty-sixth tropical cyclone of the Pacific Tropical Storm season formed in western north Pacific Ocean and it is named as TS BOPHA (TS 26W). Warnings and watches are currently in effect for islands within Micronesia archipelago, thousands of islands between Philippines on the west and Indonesia on the southwest. According to NOAA’s National Weather Service in Tiyan, Guam, a tropical storm warning remains in effect for Nukuoro in Pohnpei State and Lukunor in Chuuk State. A tropical storm watch remains in effect for Losap and for Chuuk Lagoon Islands in Chuuk State.

UK Floods: River Thames Bursts Banks In Surrey, Oxfordshire And Berkshire (PICTURES)

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Huffington Post UK - 11/27/12

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The River Thames has burst its banks next to the village of Clifton Hampden in Oxfordshire

The River Thames has burst its banks at points throughout Surrey, Berkshire, Oxfordshire amid warnings that even more towns along the river's waterfront could be flooded.

As rain continues to deluge parts of the UK, pictures of the swollen river surging through the counties show an alarming rise in water levels.

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