More than 100,000 homes across at least seven Texas counties lose power after transmission failure; Storms cut power to Penn., W. Va. residents; Report: NOAA’s weather and hazard alert radio failed during tsunami warning; Study: Increasing dust storms in Asia affecting Canadians’ health; NASA returns Discovery to launch pad for first mission since Columbia; Happy 10th Birthday to APoD!; Aurora watch today
What Happened? More than 100,000 homes across at least seven Texas counties lost power Wednesday night after a transmission failure at a Montgomery County power plant. Officials are looking for a cause. Story
Storms Tuesday night cut power to 20,000 western Pennsylvania and West Virginia
Report from Washington State: NOAA’s weather and hazard alert radio failed during Tuesday night’s tsunami warning on the West Coast. Details
Study: Increasing dust storms in Asia affecting Canadians’ health
Space News: NASA returns the space shuttle Discovery to the launch pad for the first mission since the Columbia disaster. Full story
Happy Birthday to APoD! Astronomy Picture of the Day turns 10
SpaceWeather.com issues aurora watch for today
Top 5 WXnation.com city weather and webcam pages visited on Wednesday: 1. Toronto 2. Orlando 3. Houston 4. Vancouver 5. Indianapolis … See the top 20 so far this month in the center column of our home page.
Tsunami Warning Fails
After a 7.0 earthquake off the coast of California this week, the tsunami warning system failed to clear beaches….