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Decembrrrr! Arctic Blast Bringing Subzero Chill to Rockies, Plains; Hard Freeze for California

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By: Nick Wiltgen and Chris Dolce, 12/07/2013

Current Temperatures

A bitter cold air mass has spread across the western states and into the Plains and Midwest the last couple of days. On Saturday morning, temperatures dropped as low as -39 degrees in Havre, Mont. and Jordan, Mont. In some cities, the frigid air mass has been the coldest seen in years or has broken daily record lows.

 

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Catastrophic Fire Danger for the Eucla

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Weatherzone, By: Drew Casper-Richardson, 12/07/2013

Very hot, dry and windy conditions have caused the issue of a Catastrophic Fire Danger for the Eucla in Western Australia. A trough has been lingering over Western Australia in recent days, triggering widespread heavy rain and storms over northern and central parts. On Saturday, the trough will filter a very hot airmass over states southeast and bring fresh to strong northwest winds over the region.

 

The combination of these conditions are ripe for fires to spread rapidly and be difficult to bring under the control. This has lead to the Catastrophic Fire Danger being issued for the Eucla, the highest Fire Danger rating. In the Eucla, temperatures will reach the mid-to-high thirties with northwest winds gusting to 60-70km/h.

 

For more information visit www.weatherzone.com.au

~ Space Weather Update~MAXIMUM VENUS TONIGHT

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CONTINUED QUIET: The sun's southern hemisphere is peppered with sunspots, but none of them is strongly flaring. Solar activity remains low. NOAA forecasters estimate a 15% chance of M-class solar flares and a scant 1% chance of X-flares on Dec. 6th. Solar flare alerts: text, voice

MAXIMUM VENUS: Have you noticed an extremely luminous star in the southwest after sunset? That's no star. It's Venus, and tonight it is at its brightest for all of 2013. Only the Moon itself outshines the 2nd planet from the sun:

Alan Dyer took the picture from a spot near Rodeo, New Mexico, on Dec. 5th. "The clouds cleared just in time for us to catch a glimpse of the crescent Moon above Venus, now at its most brilliant for the year."

Venus registers -4.7 on the scale of astronomical magnitudes. That means it is almost 200 times brighter than a 1st-magnitude star. If you have binoculars or a small telescope, take a closer look. Like the Moon, Venus has phases and tonight it is 27% illuminated. The bright Venusian crescent is easy to see through backyard optics.

Earthquake Report for 12/06/2013

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By: USGS

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27 earthquakes

 

    5.0 84km SW of Yonakuni, Japan 2013-12-06 14:22:59 UTC-05:00 21.0 km

    4.9 Southwest of Sumatra, Indonesia 2013-12-06 13:49:36 UTC-05:00 29.9 km

    4.7 12km SW of Agrihan, Northern Mariana Islands 2013-12-06 13:28:18 UTC-05:00 203.7 km

    2.5 15km SE of Volcano, Hawaii 2013-12-06 13:25:59 UTC-05:00 6.4 km

    4.6 289km SSE of Tabiauan, Philippines 2013-12-06 13:06:33 UTC-05:00 533.6 km

    4.5 36km ENE of Itbayat, Philippines 2013-12-06 11:39:36 UTC-05:00 180.2 km

    4.2 131km SSE of Beykonak, Turkey 2013-12-06 11:37:29 UTC-05:00 49.9 km

    2.5 10km NNE of Kobuk, Alaska 2013-12-06 08:10:56 UTC-05:00 18.0 km

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Hurricane Xaver brings floods and heavy snow

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Thelocal.de - 6 December 2013

Traffic struggling through the snow in North Rhine-Westphalia on Friday morning and a flooded train station in Emden. Photo: DPA

Hurricane Xaver left its mark on northern Germany on Thursday night and Friday morning with blizzards, violent winds and the highest sea levels in decades. Travel was disrupted while schools and Christmas markets were shut.

 

With blasts of 180 km/h along the North and Baltic coast, Xaver hit Germany with force on Thursday night and the bad weather continued into Friday.

In northern Germany, the Elbe River harbour of Hamburg was under six metres of water, the highest in about a decade, leaving only the tops of lamp posts sticking out of the freezing waters.

Also in Hamburg, a fallen tree derailed a suburban commuter train which hit a bridge. The fire brigade had to free six passengers from the train, one with minor injuries.

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Britain battered by worst tidal surge in 60 years: Sea walls breached as 20ft waves smash string of east coast towns

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A man stands in water washed onto the promenade of the north bay in Scarborough, which was described as looking like a 'scene from the Titanic'

A man stands in water washed onto the promenade of the north bay in Scarborough, which was described as looking like a 'scene from the Titanic'

More than 295 Environment Agency flood alerts in place in England and Wales, with most in East Anglia

Don’t miss the moon and Venus on December 5 or 6!

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EarthSky.org - 5 December 2013

Waxing moon and Venus closer after sunset on December 5. Read more

Depending on where you live on the globe, the moon and the planet Venus will pair up most closely for the month on the evening of December 5 or December 6. But no matter. Both evenings will be beautiful, with Venus now at its brightest for this 2013 evening apparition.

You’ll be looking in the southwestern or western sky after sunset, and you simply can’t miss nearby Venus. It’s always the third-brightest object to grace the heavens, after the sun and moon.

Two supermassive black holes in dance spiral

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Earthsky.org - 4 December 2013

Astronomers have spotted what appear to be two supermassive black holes 3.8 billion light-years from Earth, circling each other like dance partners.

Image credit: NASA

Two black holes are entwined in a gravitational tango in this artist’s conception. Supermassive black holes at the hearts of galaxies are thought to form through the merging of smaller, yet still massive black holes, such as the ones depicted here. Image credit: NASA

The incredibly rare sighting of what appear to be two supermassive black holes at the heart of a remote galaxy was made with the help of NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE.

Follow-up observations with the Australian Telescope Compact Array near Narrabri, Australia, and the Gemini South telescope in Chile, revealed unusual features in the galaxy, including a lumpy jet thought to be the result of one black hole causing the jet of the other to sway.

Astronomers discover planet that shouldn't be there

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Astronomers discover planet that shouldn't be there

Artist’s conception of a young planet in a distant orbit around its host star. The star still harbors a debris disk, remnant material from star and planet formation, interior to the planet’s orbit (similar to the HD106906 system). Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

The discovery of a giant planet orbiting its star at 650 times the average Earth-sun distance has astronomers puzzled over how such a strange system came to be.

An international team of astronomers, led by a University of Arizona graduate student, has discovered the most distantly orbiting planet found to date around a single, sun-like star. It is the first exoplanet – a planet outside of our solar system – discovered at the UA.

Weighing in at 11 times Jupiter’s mass and orbiting its star at 650 times the average Earth-Sun distance, planet HD 106906 b is unlike anything in our own Solar System and throws a wrench in planet formation theories.

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