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Wild Temperature Swings This Week

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Weather.com - 1/30/13, Nick Wiltgen

On Monday, Topeka, Kan. broke its all-time January record high of 74 set Jan. 2, 1939, and Jan. 8, 2003, reaching 77 degrees by mid-afternoon. Columbia, Mo., also reached 77 to tie its all-time January record last set Jan. 24, 1950. 

Several other cities in Kansas and Missouri, including Kansas City, came within one degree of tying their all-time January highs as well.
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Smog Thick Enough to Cancel Flights Hits Beijing

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Weather.com - 1/29/13, Louise Watt

Fuyang City, China. Retirees practice Taichi during their morning exercise on a hazy day in Fuyang city, in central China's Anhui province, Monday Jan. 14, 2013. (AP Photo)

BEIJING -- Thick, off-the-scale smog shrouded eastern China for the second time in about two weeks Tuesday, forcing airlines to cancel flights because of poor visibility and prompting Beijing to temporarily shut factories and curtail fleets of government cars.

The capital was a colorless scene. Street lamps and the outlines of buildings receded into a white haze as pedestrians donned face masks to guard against the caustic air. The flight cancellations stranded passengers during the first week of the country's peak, six-week period for travel surrounding the Chinese New Year on Feb. 10.

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Damaging Storms Roar East

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Weather.com - 1/30/13, AP

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Storm clouds roll over North Dallas Tuesday.

A vast storm system with thunderstorms, damaging winds and possible tornadoes raked a wide area of the central U.S. and South early Wednesday, and threatened to become more powerful as it roared East.

The squall line packed a punch as it moved through the Nashville metro area Wednesday morning. There were hundreds of damage reports from possible rain-wrapped tornadoes in Gallatin and Mount Juliet, said Jon Erdman, meteorologist with The Weather Channel.

Massive sinkhole swallows buildings in Guangzhou, China

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Source: The Extinction Protocol - 1/30/13

January 30, 2013 – CHINA - A massive sinkhole in Guangzhou, China, swallowed up buildings and knocked out power to thousands of residents. According to Shanghaiist, the sinkhole is about 3,230 square feet and plenty deep. A video shows a crowd milling about the sinkhole before it expanded, causing a building to crumble as if it were detonated. Neighboring buildings were evacuated and streets were blocked by police. “Gas could be smelt from over 30 metres away, and deafening noises could be heard as the land continued to crack and sink,” the Shanghaiist reports.

 

Mozambique flooding disaster worsens- number of displaced expected to rise

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Source: The Extinction Protocol - 1/30/13

January 29, 2013 – AFRICA – At least 150,000 people have been displaced in Mozambique due to intense flooding, according to the United Nations. The UN said on Tuesday that the number displaced is expected to rise as fresh rains spread flooding northward. At least 40 people have been killed so far by heavy rains and overflowing rivers in the southeastern African country, which is experiencing its worst floods in more than a decade. “People in high-risk areas are still being rescued,” Rita Almeida, a spokeswoman for Mozambique’s National Disaster Management Institute, said.

 

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