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Winter Storm Athena Forecast Impacts

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Weather.com - Jon Erdman, 11/08/12

Ten days after Superstorm Sandy took 112 lives in the U.S., destroyed countless homes and left 8.6 million customers without power in the Northeast, Winter Storm Athena has swooped in to pile on the misery with a combination of wind and a gloppy and locally heavy wet snowfall.

As of Thursday morning, some 700,000 people were still in the dark across the region -- a combination of lingering outages from Sandy and additional outages caused by Athena.

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STEREO satellites recorded 8 CME’s over two-day period

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Source: The Watchers - By Adonai, 11/08/12

The Watchers Tweet Tweet The Sun produced a series of at least eight coronal mass ejections (CMEs) over a two-day period (November, 2-4, 2012). Some of them overlapped each other as the Sun burst some of them into space in a rapid-fire style. The series was taken by the STEREO Ahead spacecraft with its COR2 coronagraph, in which the Sun is blocked out by the black disk (Sun represented by the white circle) so that...

The Sun produced a series of at least eight coronal mass ejections (CMEs) over a two-day period (November, 2-4, 2012). Some of them overlapped each other as the Sun burst some of them into space in a rapid-fire style. The series was taken by the STEREO Ahead spacecraft with its COR2 coronagraph, in which the Sun is blocked out by the black disk (Sun represented by the white circle) so that we can observe activity in the corona. These expanding clouds of charged particles also carry magnetic field into space. The bright object moving from left to right below the Sun is the planet Mercury.

 

JUST IN: Cascadia Subduction Zone Hit with 6.3 Quake

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by Mitch Battros - Earth Changes Media

This is deadly serious. The Cascadia Suduction Zone is susceptible to mega-quake measuring 9.0+ - and it is over due in its 300 year cycle. This is not a "warning" but an "alert". A Warning means it is inevitable - an Alert means it is between likely and probable.

 

 

 

No tsunami warning has been issued. The magnitude 6.3 quake hit just off the coast of Vancouver, British Columbia which sits at the northern end of the Cascadia Subduction Zone. There are no reports of damage or injuries at this time.

Nor'easter Forecast Impacts

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Weather.com- Jon Erdman, 11/07/12

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As of early Wednesday morning, roughly 676,000 were still without power in the Northeast.  This is a remarkable drop from the peak of roughly 8.6 million one week ago.  Sadly, 112 have been confirmed dead from Sandy in the U.S., including Puerto Rico.  

Now, a coastal storm, known as a nor'easter, is poised to bring yet more high winds, rain, coastal flooding, even snow to parts of the Northeast.

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25 dead, thousands displaced by flooding in southern India

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Source: The Extinction Protocol, 11/07/12

November 7, 2012 – INDIA – Torrential rains in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh have killed at least 25 people and displaced tens of thousands of villagers over the past week, an official said Monday. Downpours triggered by a cyclone that hit the coast last Wednesday near Chennai left hundreds of villages inundated and 60,000 people in relief camps, Karikal Valaven, a government officer overseeing emergency operations, said.

 

“At least 25 people have died and thousands have lost their houses. The rains have damaged all the standing crops in the coastal region,” he told AFP. Disaster response teams helped move people to higher ground in rubber boats and nearly 100 shelters were opened across the state to accommodate people fleeing the flood zone. “The unseasonal rainfall has destroyed our crops and our entire field is submerged in water,” Arku Rajaipa, a farmer in Guntur district, one of the worst-affected regions, told a local TV news channel.

 

Nor'easter: City-by-City Impact Forecasts

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Weather.com - 11/05/12

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Just one week after Superstorm Sandy, a Nor'easter is poised to produce high winds, some coastal flooding, rain, and even some wet snow in parts of the Northeast.

What follows is a city-by-city look at forecast impacts.


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Two Japan tourists die in Great Wall storm: Beijing

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Radio Netherlands Worlwide - 11/5/12

Two elderly Japanese tourists died and another was missing after being trapped in sudden heavy snowstorms during a visit to the Great Wall of China, Beijing said Monday.

Pedestrians make their way along stairs on a overpass after a heavy snow-fall in Beijing. AFP PHOTO/WANG ZHAO

Two women, aged 62 and 68, were confirmed dead, and a 76-year-old Japanese man remained missing on a snow-covered mountain near the wall in China's northern Hebei province.

Another Japanese tourist and a Chinese man who works for a Japanese tour agency were receiving medical treatment at a local clinic.

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Taurid meteor shower – Earth is entering a debris from comet Encke

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Source: The Watchers - Chillymanjaro, 11/5/12

The Watchers Tweet Tweet Every year in late October or early November, Earth passes through comet Encke’s wake, resulting in the well-known Taurid meteor shower. Because of their occurrence in late October and early November, they are also called Halloween fireballs. They are named after their radiant point in the constellation Taurus, where they are seen to come from in the sky. It is considered that this stream of matter, made up of pebbles instead of dust grains, is the largest in the inner solar system. Due to the...

Every year in late October or early November, Earth passes through comet Encke’s wake, resulting in the well-known Taurid meteor shower. Because of their occurrence in late October and early November, they are also called Halloween fireballs. They are named after their radiant point in the constellation Taurus, where they are seen to come from in the sky.

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