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Tropical Cyclone Felleng Hits Madagascar and Nearby Islands

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Accuweather.com - 2/01/13, Eric Leister

Tropical Cyclone Felleng continues to produce gusty winds and locally heavy rainfall across parts of Madagascar and the neighboring islands of Reunion and Mauritius.

Felleng is currently packing sustained winds near 70 mph, just below hurricane force. The storm is expected to slowly weaken over the next day or two and remain over the open waters of the Indian Ocean as flooding continues to be the primary threat for areas affected by the storm.

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Snow warning as winter bites again: Temperatures will plummet to -4C tonight

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Mail Online - 2/01/13, Ben Spencer

  • Snow set to hit North East, East Anglia and Scotland today
  • Temperatures plunge as low as -4C as freezing weather returns

  • Extreme: Walkers in Cambridgeshire found their way blocked today after the River Ouse burst its banks

    Extreme: Walkers in Cambridgeshire found their way blocked today after the River Ouse burst its banks

    If thought winter was petering out this week, you may be in for a chilly shock.

Parts of Britain enjoyed temperatures of up to 14C (57F) this week – a welcome reprieve after January’s heavy snowfall brought the country to a halt.

Report shows UN admitting solar activity may play significant role in global warming

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Fox News - 2/01/13, Maxim Lott and Charles Couger

  • Planet Earth for Earth Day
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The Earth has been getting warmer -- but how much of that heat is due to greenhouse gas emissions and how much is due to natural causes?

A leaked report by a United Nations’ group dedicated to climate studies says that heat from the sun may play a larger role than previously thought.

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Scientists mystified by India phenomena

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Source: The Extinction Protocol - 2/01/13

Two days after a severe hailstorm lashed parts of Chevella mandal in Rangareddy district, a two-member team of meteorologists from the Indian Meteorology Department ( IMD) visited the affected areas, but were clueless as to what caused the unusual phenomena and were only able to give textbook answers. Sudhakar Rao, director of the meteorological department, said humidity incursion in the lower layers of atmosphere and colder air incursion in the upper air led to a severe thunderstorm associated with hail in parts of Chevella mandal on Wednesday. Rao, who visited the area, said that the hailstorm was confined to a small area.

 

Big Story Weather – February 1, 2013

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RedOrbit.com - 2/01/13, Joshua Kelly

Big Story Weather from January 31: The big stories from yesterday included the heavy rainfall that fell along the Northeast and on the Eastern Lakes it was the heavy snowfall. The second major news from yesterday was the Arctic air mass that moved through the Northern Plains. There were some places that saw wind chill values as low as -50F along with high temps only getting to -10F.

Weather Outlook for February 1: A few lingering lake effect snow showers over the Eastern Lakes, otherwise high pressure will dominate the weather from the Plains to the East Coast with some very cold air in place as frost and freeze warnings are issued for Florida. A few light snow showers will move through North Dakota with the next Clipper system. High pressure over the Northern Rockies will also keep the West Coast dry and cool for the most part. A few snow showers will be found in the Northern Rockies. Below is the weather for a few select cities this afternoon.

U.S. spring crop season jeopardized as drought persists

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Reuters - 1/31/13, Carey Gillam

The last of the 2012 drought-stricken corn is seen at Mayne's Tree Farm in Buckeystown, Maryland October 27, 2012. REUTERS/Gary Cameron

The last of the 2012 drought-stricken corn is seen at Mayne's Tree Farm in Buckeystown, Maryland October 27, 2012.

Credit: Reuters/Gary Cameron

 

(Reuters) - The unrelenting drought gripping key farming states in the U.S. Plains shows no signs of abating, and it will take a deluge of snow or rain to restore critical moisture to farmland before spring planting of new crops, a climate expert said on Thursday.

"It's not a pretty picture," said climatologist Mark Svoboda of the University of Nebraska's Drought Mitigation Center.

Madagascar cyclone kills five

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Global Post - 1/31/13, Agence France-Presse

Five people were killed as pounding rain and high winds from tropical cyclone Felleng battered Madagascar on Thursday, officials said.

"Four people died after a house collapsed in Antananarivo and one person drowned in Maroantsetra," in the north, Raymond Randriatahina, an official with the national disaster management agency, told AFP.

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Severe Weather Outbreak Recap: Jan. 29-30, 2013

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Weather.com - 2/01/13, Chris Dolce and Jon Erdman

Adairsville, Ga.

iWitness weather user fshelton25 says he was driving home on Interstate 75 in Adairsville, Ga. Wed., Jan 30 when he saw a wedge tornado right in front of his car.

 

An unusual, widespread January severe thunderstorm outbreak began on Tuesday morning, Jan. 29, 2013 and has delivered a swath of damaging winds and some tornadoes from the Southern Plains to the lower/middle-Mississippi Valleys, Ohio Valley, Tennessee Valley and Mid-Atlantic, a distance of roughly 1700 miles over a little less than 48 hours. The storm system also produced strong non-thunderstorm wind gusts in parts of the Northeast and New England into early January 31.

 

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