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 since Feb. 2003
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Weather News: Dallas-Fort Worth received between 1 and 3.5 inches of rain Wednesday, but High Winds, Heavy Rains, Tornado Pounded Houston Area: Rain is expected to linger around Southeast Texas until Thursday [Houston Weather & Webcams], and … Woman Dies In Raging Flood Waters In San Antonio

Dashing Through The Snow After Dashing To The Phone: Technology To Call About Snow Emergencies

From The World Of Webcams: Logitech VideoCall for Broadband Integrates Voice and Video for Friends and Families: A free 30-day trial is available

Strange News: Pink Locusts From North Africa Swarm Through Cairo Evoking Biblical Depiction Of Plagues

Top 5 WXnation.com city weather and webcam pages visited on Wednesday (A rainy Lone Star State nearly sweeps the Top 5): 1. Dallas-Fort Worth 2. Houston 3. Austin 4. San Antonio 5. Knoxville … See the top 20 so far this month in the left column of our home page.

Weather News: Forecasters Command Market’s Attention

Flooding Rains In Texas:

• Snow Falls On Rockies, Texas Drenched By Storms
• Storms Drench Texas As Tornado Warning Issued
• Rain Causes Flooding In Lubbock … Weather and webcam images are in our Lubbock page
• Heavy Rain, Possible Flooding & Storms Headed For Dallas-Fort Worth Area: Current National Weather Service Radar and Watches & Warnings. Much more, including webcam images in our Dallas-Fort Worth page

A Second Season Of Severe Weather In Ohio?

November Tornadoes: Anniversary Marks Deadly Tornadoes In Alabama

Meteorologists Comment On Rare November Tornadoes In Oklahoma: Expert: Tornadoes possible in any part of state — at any time

Webcam News: 2,000 Cameras To Watch Chicago

Space News: NASA ‘Scramjet’ Soars at Almost 7,000 Mph

Auroras Over U.S.: On Nov. 7th and 8th, an intense band of auroras (which appear in white in image below) descended over the United States after a coronal mass ejection hit Earth’s magnetic field.

Image (below) courtesy Meteorological Satellite Applications Branch, Air Force Weather Agency. SpaceWeather.com Nov. 2004 Aurora Gallery

Top 5 WXnation.com city weather and webcam pages visited on Tuesday: 1. San Antonio 2. Dallas-Fort Worth 3. Austin 4. New York City 5. Los Angeles … See the top 20 so far this month in the left column of our home page.

Winter Storm In Central Mountains Of New Mexico … New Mexico Webcam & Weather Images

NBC Launches Weather Plus Digital Channel … Stations to carry the channel in the next 90 days include KXAS-DT Dallas/Ft. Worth, TX; WNCN-DT Raleigh, NC; WMAQ-DT Chicago, IL; WTVJ, Miami/Ft. Lauderdale, FL; as well as other NBC affiliate stations in Orlando, Sacramento, Winston-Salem, Seattle, Portland, Charlotte, Detroit, Houston, Oklahoma City, and Washington, DC.

Storm Blows CBS To Sunday Win: CBS averaged an 11.6 rating/18 share … An entertaining “forecast review” for “Category 6″ can be found at CapitalWeather.com Part 2 airs Wednesday night.

Storm Heroes: Air Force, NOAA Help ‘From The Air’: Air Force, NOAA braved treacherous storms to research, report during hurricane season.

Scientists Test Materials With Fake Quakes

And Lost City Of Atlantis Found?: Researcher claims ruins are in the Mediterranean

Top 5 WXnation.com city weather and webcam pages visited on Monday: 1. Dallas-Fort Worth 2. Lubbock 3. Boston 4. San Antonio 5. Phoenix … See the top 20 so far this month in the left column of our home page.

U.S. Pump Project May Be Linked To Quake Along Colorado-Utah Border

Reviews For CBS Disaster Miniseries: ‘Category 6′ Reflects Our Fascination With Bad Weather | ‘Category 6′ Cranks Up Destruction; Special Effects Steal Show — But Acting’s Good, Too

Meanwhile: N.S. Snow Storm Leaves 100,000 Without Power

Huge Tornado Reported In Central Mediterranean

Weather Eye: Global Weather Extremes Are Amazing

The Leonid Meteor Shower 2004: Modest Peak Expected Nov. 16-19 (Includes how-to-watch info) | APOD: Leonids Above Torre De La Guaita

Nice Northern Lights Photo from SpaceWeather.com’s Nov. 2004 Aurora Gallery

Top 5 WXnation.com city weather and webcam pages visited on Sunday: 1. Dallas-Fort Worth 2. Boston 3. Burlington 4. Orlando 5. Los Angeles … See the top 20 so far this month in the left column of our home page.

Quake: Report: Indonesian Earthquake Death Toll Rises To 19: Antara report says 93 houses were destroyed and another 791 were heavily damaged … Earthquake list at bottom right of this page, other resources in right column of our National/Int’l page

Magnitude-4.2 Quake Shakes Big Bear Area: No damage, injuries reported in California quake

Snow: Nearly 8 Inches Of Snow Falls In Parts Of Massachusetts: It was “the third-largest snowfall early in the season in recorded weather history,” according to the National Weather Service. Weather & webcam images from the area here

Snow, Sleet Hit El Paso Area: Weather & webcam images from the area here

First Snow Catches Maine Drivers By Surprise: Weather & webcam images from the area here

Promo No-Go: Weather Channel Bans CBS Ad For ‘Category 6′ Natural Disaster Miniseries: CBS responds with promos stating it’s “the movie the Weather Channel does not want you to see.” The miniseries begins tonight and, who knows, maybe we will see CBS put a new twist on something from the Weather Channel and present the miniseries with “Commercials on the 8′s”…

Top 5 WXnation.com city weather and webcam pages visited on Saturday: 1. Boston 2. Amarillo 3. Dallas-Fort Worth 4. Lubbock 5. New York City … See the top 20 so far this month in the left column of our home page.

Snow Returns: Winter Weather Stops By Boston: Up to 3 inches of snow had fallen northwest of the city by evening, and about an inch had settled throughout the metropolitan area, as the snow line moved south toward the Cape. Boston-Area Weather & Webcam Images

Rain-Snow Mix Moves Into Southern New England: The higher elevations of Providence and Worcester counties could get 2 to 3 inches of snow by the time the storm winds down Saturday afternoon. Providence-Area Weather & Webcam Images

Snow forecast and snow cover maps are available in the left column of our National/International page

USA Today: Catastrophic ‘Category 6′ Is A Ratings 1.5: The fictitious series, about the result of two weather fronts headed toward Chicago, begins Sunday night at 9 p.m. EST on CBS

Hurricane Updates: Thousands Of Hurricane Victims Still Homeless: Numbers growing by 100 a day, FEMA official says

Florida Gets $43 Million From Washington For Hurricane Recovery

Science News: Mars Rover To Backtrack Out Of Crater

Top 5 WXnation.com city weather and webcam pages visited on Friday: 1. Boston 2. Hartford 3. Albany 4. New York City 5. Los Angeles … See the top 20 so far this month in the left column of our home page.

Quakes: Magnitude 6 Earthquake Rocks Parts Of Eastern Indonesia, 6 Killed | Earthquake Shakes Mount Rainier | Earthquake Resources: Auto-updating list (bottom right column of this page) | Maps, Lists & More In National/Int’l Page (right column)

World Of Webcams: Logitech Unveils Auto-Tracking WebCam

Out Of This World: Stormy Uranus Takes Astronomers By Surprise

Astronomy Picture Of The Day: Missouri’s Green Ribbon Sky | More Northern Lights Images: Aurora Gallery

Weather Business News: CustomWeather, Inc. Partners With Weather Decision Technologies, Inc. To Offer Real-Time Lightning Strike Data CustomWeather provides this Web site with its live satellite/radar image on our home page.

Strange News: Fort Wayne’s Mysterious “Boom” Has Returned … Previous Story: Mystery Boom Shakes City’s Northeast. Resources: Fort Wayne Weather & Webcam Images

Top 5 WXnation.com city weather and webcam pages visited on Thursday: 1. Vancouver 2. Los Angeles 3. San Francisco 4. Dallas-Fort Worth 5. Boston … See the top 20 so far this month in the left column of our home page.

Vast Storm Develops Over Caribbean: Storm dumping 10 inches of rain an hour, could become Otto by Thursday … Atlantic Satellite Loop | Tropical Prediction Center

Snow Over Great Lakes, New England

U.S. Adds $100 Million To Hurricane Aid

Decision On Charging Florida Homeowners A Storm Fee A Month Away

And finally, the WXnation Fort Worth Webcam October 2004 archive is now online. Here are two of the images (images link to double-sized versions in new windows):

Top 5 WXnation.com city weather and webcam pages visited on Wednesday (all from the same basic region with OKC’s tornadoes leading the way): 1. Oklahoma City 2. Kansas City 3. Dallas-Fort Worth 4. Denver 5. Tulsa … See the top 20 so far this month in the left column of our home page.

Tornado Sightings In OKC Area: Several Rare November Twisters Tear Through Parts Of Central Oklahoma … OKC Weather Radar & Webcam Images | NWS Radar | NWS Watches & Warnings

Wal-Mart specialists track tropical storms, landfall of which historically increases the demand for Pop Tarts. Full story

More Aurora Stories: Northern Lights Put On Show (With image slideshow from Minneapolis) | ‘Northern Lights’ Possible On Long Island (With images)

Love this image from Arizona posted at SpaceWeather.com

Colorado Snow Storms: Two storms are set to move through Colorado’s mountains and into the Denver area tonight and Wednesday. Details

K9 Meets WX: It’s A Dog-Eat-Dog World On The TV Weather Front

Other Weather News:

• Weather Blamed For Large Drop In Six Flags Income
• Fish Tales Point To Mild Winter In Northwest
• Homeless Deal With Frigid Weather In Different Ways
• NAB Drops Bid to Stop XM Traffic, Weather Channels

Quake Updates: Two Earthquakes Confuse Weather Bureau Computer

Another Strong Earthquake Strikes Northern Japan

And, off-topic, Firefox 1.0 Fans Clog Mozilla Site. I downloaded the pre-1.0 release Monday (apparently one day too soon) and I’m impressed. I may go back to get the post-pre version in the coming days…

Top 5 WXnation.com city weather and webcam pages visited on Tuesday: 1. Syracuse 2. Los Angeles 3. Orlando 4. San Francisco 5. Vancouver … See the top 20 so far this month in the left column of our home page.

Image (left) courtesy NASA/European Space Agency: View of the sun taken at 3:19 p.m. EST on Nov. 6, 2004, by the SOHO—Solar & Heliospheric Observatory—spacecraft.

Eruptions from a large and complex sunspot group are sending a series of solar storms to Earth. The NOAA Space Environment Center in Boulder, Colo., is monitoring these storms, which have the potential to affect spacecraft operations, electric power systems, high frequency communications and electronic navigation systems. Details here

The Result: Northern Lights … Auroras Illuminate Black Hills | Northern Lights Dazzle Colorado Watchers; More To Come | Northern Lights Make Rare Central Ohio Appearance (With nice image slideshow) | Northern Lights Seen In Chicago Area | Aurora Borealis Clearly Visible Throughout Quad Cities Sky | Solar Light Show May Continue In Minnesota | Many Images: SpaceWeather.com November Aurora Gallery

Just One Of Many Areas Moving Toward Winter: Season’s First Hard Freeze Expected In Indiana

Snow Blankets Marquette, Michigan

Top 5 WXnation.com city weather and webcam pages visited on Monday: 1. Los Angeles 2. Syracuse 3. Toronto 4. Las Vegas 5. Vancouver … See the top 20 so far this month in the left column of our home page.

Scientists: Arctic Warming Quickly, Ice Melt Increasing

Strong Earthquake Shakes Northern Taiwan; Buildings Sway In Capital

Another Quake Hits Northern Japan: This one magnitude 5.8

Weekend auroras and early Leonids follow first day in 6 years where there were no sunspots at all

Astronomy Picture Of The Day: Jupiter & Venus Together

For those keeping an eye on Iraq, weather resources can be found in the left column of our National/International page

Flood Watches Posted In The Desert: Rain in the desert places Phoenix and Las Vegas among the most-visited sites Sunday:

Top 5 WXnation.com city weather and webcam pages visited on Sunday: 1. Phoenix 2. San Diego 3. Los Angeles 4. Vancouver 5. Las Vegas … See the top 20 so far this month in the left column of our home page.

Rain-Free America! Look very closely in this satellite/radar image from Saturday and you just might see a speck of precipitation. It’s been a good while since the county was basically rain-free…

WXnation.com Satellite/Radar at 1 p.m. EST Saturday shows very little precipitation. Live image

New Lava Dome Grows Inside Mount St. Helens: Growth extends upward nearly 330 feet, U.S. Geological Survey officials said Saturday.

Private Spaceship Designers Receive $10M Check Saturday

Storm Over Global Warming: Some Link Temperature To ’04 Hurricanes

Warm In The South … South Dakota, That Is: Sioux Falls, Sioux City Set Record High Temperatures

Speaking of the South, I am reminded of a very funny moment on “Late Night With Conan O’Brien” last week. Dan Rather (mouthed by Robert Smigel) broke in with carefully-fact-checked election coverage to call South Carolina for George W. Bush 24 hours after everyone else. He then broke in a couple of minutes later to announce: “CBS News can now confirm that South Carolina is located somewhere south of North Carolina. Put a check next to South Carolina! Dan Rather, CBS News!”

Top 5 WXnation.com city weather and webcam pages visited on Saturday: 1. Los Angeles 2. Vancouver 3. Miami 4. San Diego 5. New York City … See the top 20 so far this month in the left column of our home page.

High Wind Knocks Out Power To 8,300 In Western New York

Windy Weather Causes Scattered Power Outages In D.C. Area

Maine Getting Mixed Bag Of Weather: Features what I would consider a rather spooky image, but I can’t stand extremely cold weather…

Mount St. Helens Sprouts Magma Extension

For Entertainment Purposes Only?: While listening to Coast To Coast AM with George Noory early this morning, guest Stuart Wilde made a prediction that a catastrophic tidal wave/earthquake may hit the Seattle area today, possibly at about 7:15 a.m. or 7:15 p.m. Hopefully no major quake is on the horizon. For an auto-updating list of current earthquakes, check the bottom of the right column on this page. Also, visit the Live Seismo Cam From KING-TV 5, Seattle and USGS recent earthquake map…

Top 5 WXnation.com city weather and webcam pages visited on Friday: 1. Los Angeles 2. Syracuse 3. Honolulu 4. New York City 5. San Diego … See the top 20 so far this month in the left column of our home page.

Science News:

• Awesome Power Of Iceland Volcano
• Volcanic Eruption In Iceland Disrupts Flights
• Space Telescope Spots Triple Eclipse On Jupiter
• Mars Rovers Get Mystery Power Boost

Weather News:

• Research: Wind Farms Can Affect Weather
• Local Weather Channel Storms NYC Nov. 15: NBC Weather Plus will be available in some other markets via HDTV and cable
• Judge Deems Former Weatherman Danger To Community
• Storm Chasing Down Under
• Sierra Storm Brings Out Road Controls, Affects Airport
• L.A. Air Quality Improves, But Still Nation’s Worst

Finally, I’ll wrap this collection up with another volcano story: Mount St. Helens Spouts While Scientists Work During Nice Weather … Mount St. Helens Live Webcam

Top 5 WXnation.com city weather and webcam pages visited on Thursday: 1. Reno 2. Anchorage 3. Los Angeles 4. San Francisco 5. Lubbock … See the top 20 so far this month in the left column of our home page.