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Mars approaches! | NASA’s Mars Home | Mars Watch | More from SpaceWeather.com
Mike Wendland’s E-Journal weblog has a great first-hand account of a powerless Metro Detroit in its second day since the blackout of 2003.
Erika Arrives!
More on Erika, which made landfall around 5 a.m. CT in Mexico, about 40 miles south of Brownsville, with winds of around 70 mph is in the entry below:
Erika to hit Brownsville, TX area early Saturday morning
Latest text advisories from NOAA, Data & Images and story plus hurricane tracker at the bottom of the page. Much more in the Brownsville and National pages.
S. Padre Island webcams have been taken offline until Erika passes, but two webcams are up and running (at the moment) in a suburb of McAllen in extreme South Texas (inland but in the path of Erika): the InstaCam AWS Valley View North ES Pharr Live Webcam and Oratory Academy of St. Philip Nari Cam
Man stays on lightning lookout
Massive power outages in the northwest from New York City to Detroit and Cleveland, Toronto, Columbus and much of New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Michigan, Ontario, Connecticut, and New Hampshire. It’s a grid shutdown from a fire at a NYC plant, not terrorism… Many of the sites that have webcams in those cities are obviously down… More on this story from MSNBC and Google
Here are some of the *very few* webcams still up and running:
Michigan Tech (Central MI) Stream
Also, try the links in this (one for the Iraqi war) video page for possible live newscasts from MSNBC in NYC/NJ and Cable Pulse 24 in Toronto, Canada
Other news: Tropical storm forms in Gulf of Mexico, may be headed to Texas
Tropical system threatens South Florida More from NBC 6
More on storms that tore through the Fort Worth area, setting fires and killing a 19-year-old from the Star-Telegram and NBC 5
Weather Service confirms tornado hit Texas airport
Tonight I make an exception in the weblog. For the first time in its nearly 6 months online, there will be no links in an entry. Very strong thunderstorms rolled across much of Fort Worth and Dallas around 9 p.m. I was noticing what seemed to be the largest downpour, wind and lightning show I’d ever seen. It subsided, and as I looked around from my top-story bedroom window, I noticed a fairly small fire on the top of a roof in the subdivision next to us — just two blocks away. I called the TV station I work for and asked if they knew about it and they said, “The one on Kimbell?” An elderly couple’s new two-story home was struck by lightning and reportedly burned to the ground about 10 homes away. Thankfully, no one was injured as far as we know… Another home caught fire (only minor damage) just 5 homes away and fire crews are still at the scene of both. The smell of smoke is in the air, and dozens of us neighbors gathered outside our newly built homes, some of us meeting one another for the first time. All of this was happening during a power outage and amid surrounding storms. The power is back, but another storm is approaching. Very surreal.
UK Hits 100 Degrees F for the first time ever. More on the heat wave in Europe via Google News
It was also a record day Saturday in El Paso, which reached 106
An article from a newspaper I used to skim back in the days I lived in Port Huron, MI (my parents still live up there): Radio system to help boats beat storms
Some great pics (as always) have made it into the SpaceWeather.com aurora gallery
Romanian minister says sexy weather girls ‘should be banned’
Rainy East, says the USAToday.com forecast story
110 second-hottest day on record roasts Austin
DFW narrowly escapes purple level ozone day
A record in Dallas-Fort Worth. DFW Airport is up to 109 degrees by 4:30 p.m. CT. All the details are here. The WXnation Temp Cam is showing a cooler reading (it reached 103.5, but it’s in the shade and away from concrete/brick). It is hot here too.
Mars is getting close! Spaceweather.com has more. Check out this pic taken at Niagara Falls. More details here.
Record heat so far this year in Dallas/Fort Worth: 104 degrees today at DFW Int’l Airport. See yesterday’s entry for links…
Weather band radio way to go, experts say
Wednesday’s weather forecast story
Today was the 11th day over 100 degrees at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, and here is a near-100 degree reading from WXnation headquarters in Fort Worth taken this afternoon:
It was the hottest day of the year so far, topping out at 103-degrees at DFW Airport. Follow the heat at DFW Airport here
No rain here lately though …
Meanwhile, it was the rainiest May/June/July in parts of Ala., Miss., Ga.
More rain in the East. Details and forecast story here
Nebraska roads officials place weather and traffic monitoring cams along Interstate 80
Introducing “Tom”: Weather radio adds drama
Crews in Mont., W. Canada Fight Wildfires
Thunderstorms kill 2 in Oklahoma
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