Lightning strikes spark grass fires

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Firefighters are battling several blazes sparked by lightning strikes across southern parts of the state overnight.
A fire at Uleybury near Gawler burnt 100 hectares of farmland near Kentish Road after it started about 4:00am.

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Where's spring? 2nd most extreme March jet stream pattern on record extends winter

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Wunderground.com - 3/20/13, Dr. Jeff Masters

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Extreme severe winterconditions in the northeast of Germany, Kap Arkona. Source: wetterzentrale

Punxatawney Phil got it way wrong. Pennsylvania's famous prognosticating rodent predicted just three more weeks of winter back on February 2. It's the first day of spring, but winter remains firmly entrenched over the eastern half of the U.S., where temperatures of 5 - 25°F below average have been the rule all week. The culprit is the jet stream, which has taken on an unusually contorted shape that is allowing cold air to spill down over the Eastern U.S. and Western Europe, but bringing near-record warmth to portions of Greenland. One measure of how contorted the jet stream has become is by measuring the difference in pressure between the Icelandic Low and the Azores High. There are two indices used to do this--one called the Arctic Oscillation (AO), which treats the flow over the entire Northern Hemisphere, and another called the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), which is more focused on the North Atlantic. The two are closely related about 90% of the time.

 

Flood of Dead Pigs, Trickle of Answers in China

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Sanitation workers collect dead pigs from Shanghai's main waterway on March 11, 2013. Nearly 3,000 dead pigs have been found floating in the water. (Peter Parks/AFP/Getty Images)

BEIJING -- The pig carcasses - now nearly 14,000 of them - have been floating down rivers that feed into Shanghai for nearly two weeks. The city's residents have been told not to worry, and not much else.

Where the pigs came from, how they died and why they suddenly showed up in the river system that supplies drinking water to a city of 23 million has not been explained. Officials have told residents their drinking water is safe, while authorities have censored microblog posts suggesting that the public organize peaceful protests.

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Fascinating Spring Rituals Around the World

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Arthur Uther Pendragon, a druid, waits for the sun to rise as he celebrates the spring equinox at Stonehenge near Amesbury, Wiltshire, England. Several hundred druids and pagans were granted access to the ancient monument to mark when the length of the day and the night are equal. (Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

Though it didn't feel like it to many, spring arrived Wednesday morning in the Northern Hemisphere. The spring equinox is the first day of the solar new year and one of two days each year when day and night are equally long — at least in theory. Here are some fascinating ways the arrival of the season of renewal is observed around the world.

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Heavenletter #4500 - God’s Greatest Miracle

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Heaven Letters Published on: March 21, 2013

God said:

Will you remember that you are a Holy Being? This one thought will embolden your life on Earth. By dint of will or by chance, you are here, and it matters that you are here on Earth at this time. You are a Holy Being who happens to be in a physical body. Your physical body has its restrictions, and it has its fallacies. Yet you are not your body. You are not your physical presence.

Your physical presence exists, yet you are beyond physical. You are realms beyond. You are eons beyond. You are a miracle worker.

Spring Into... January? March 2013 Nothing Like 2012

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wunderground.com By: Nick Wiltgen Published: March 20, 2013

 

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Not only are below-average temperatures gripping much of the Midwest and Northeast, but the chill is a stunning contrast to the extraordinary heat wave that was underway at this time a year ago. On the next few pages we provide some comparisons between the current cold snap and last year's warmth.

Planck satellite: Maps detail Universe's ancient light

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BBC News-21 March 2013-Jonathan Amos

 

A map tracing the "oldest light" in the sky has been produced by Europe's Planck Surveyor satellite. Its pattern confirms the Big Bang theory for the origin of the Universe but subtle, unexpected details will require scientists to adjust some of their ideas.

 

Map of the oldest light in the Universe.

 

 

A spectacular new map of the "oldest light" in the sky has just been released by the European Space Agency.

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