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Updated Tuesday 16 Aug 2:59AM
The weather at Glacier Bay National Park (Crystal Ice Chime) is:
August 16
55 °F / 13 °C
Overcast
Humidity:
88%
Dew Point:
52 °F / 11 °C
Wind:
Calm
Pressure:
30.06 in / 1018 hPa
Visibility:
8.0 miles / 12.9 kilometers
UV:
0 out of 16
Clouds (AGL):
Overcast 2200 ft / 670 m
August 15
57 °F / 14 °C
Overcast
Humidity:
82%
Dew Point:
52 °F / 11 °C
Wind:
Calm
Pressure:
30.00 in / 1016 hPa
Visibility:
10.0 miles / 16.1 kilometers
UV:
0 out of 16
Clouds (AGL):
Overcast 1700
Natural Disasters
Severe Storms Leave Damage Behind
POSTED: 3:52 pm EST August 10, 2005
UPDATED: 7:18 am EST August 11, 2005
Spotty strong to severe thunderstorms moved across central Indiana Wednesday afternoon, leaving some damage.
A severe thunderstorm warning was issued for Marion and Hendricks counties around lunch time. There were no damage reports in Marion County, but there was some wind damage in Hendricks County.
http://www.theindychannel.com/weather/4834865/detail.html
Tornado damage estimated at £25m
Some householders are not insured
The 130mph tornado which ravaged parts of Birmingham will leave insurers with a £25m bill, it has been estimated.
Association of British Insurers (ABI) spokesman Malcolm Tarling described the freak storm of 28 July as a devastating event for those affected.
He said he expected claims to total £25m, but said insurers were geared up to deal with just this kind of event.
However, the total repair bill seems sure to be higher than this estimate, as many householders have no insurance.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/west_midlands/4137456.stm
Residents try to fix damage from last year's tornado
8/10/2005 2:42 PM
By: Brandi Davis & Web Staff
It was one year ago this week when a small Harnett County community was devastated by a tornado.
The tornado was a result of Tropical Storm Bonnie and some people are still picking up the pieces.
Ray Pauley of Spout Springs said, “We were home and the wind got pretty bad and the rain. We got scared. We waited it out and then we went outside."
http://rdu.news14.com/content/headlines/?ArID=73197&SecID=2
Scientific Imaging
The Art Of Data
Leah Hoffmann, 08.10.05, 3:00 PM ET
LOS ANGELES - Thin orange and blue lines swirl above a surface of colored cones, outlining a hollow cylinder. Suddenly a cluster of red dots gathers in the middle of the cylinder, spinning around furiously and gathering force with each rotation.
The image is abstract, but striking: The red dots, we soon learn, represent a T3 tornado (tornadoes are rated between T1, or "Light Tornadoes," to T10 "Super Tornadoes"); the lines, airflow geometry in and around it. The cones represent wind speed and direction at the ground. The hour-long process of a storm's formation has been depicted in just over a minute. (Click here to see a video of the simulated storm.)
Aided by advances in computer graphics and animation, scientific visualization has grown increasingly sophisticated over the past five years. Forget about those tinker-toy-like atom models from high school chemistry. Nowadays, complex computer-generated images of cell structure and anatomy are used to teach medicine, and computer animations can model everything from melting polar icecaps to protein synthesis. What was once a very traditional field is in the throes of a digital revolution.
http://www.forbes.com/infoimaging/2005/08/10/computer-graphics-scientific-imaging_cx_lh_0810scienceimage.html
Severe storms cause flooding, fires, outages
South Shore sees brunt of damage
By Adam Jadhav, Globe Correspondent August 15, 2005
Sheets of rain -- more than 5 inches in about three hours -- fell on much of the area yesterday as streets turned to rivers and parking lots became lakes, floating cars and filling basements.
The National Weather Service reported flash floods in South Weymouth, Quincy, and Brockton, and trees down in communities from Springfield to Stow as ''a train of thunderstorms" started hitting the area before 3 p.m., said Weather Service meteorologist Mike Jackson.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/08/15/severe_storms_cause_flooding_fires_outages/
Wyoming Town Celebrating Despite Deadly Tornado
Twister Kills 2, Destroys Nearly 100 Homes
POSTED: 2:06 pm MDT August 15, 2005
WRIGHT, Wyo. -- Even though they're still cleaning up after a tornado that killed two people and destroyed nearly 100 homes, residents of this coal-mining community are proceeding with plans to celebrate the 20th anniversary as an incorporated town.
Events planned for the celebration set to start Friday and continue into Sunday include a basketball tournament, street dances, pancake feed, bed race, barbecue, wagon rides, kids games and a fishing derby.
"I think it'll help everybody just to talk," Mayor Ralph Kingan said Monday. "We just figure it's good for everything ... even though its half destroyed."
Wright was struck by a tornado Friday afternoon, destroying 91 homes and damaging about 30 more in around the town, which is about 100 northeast of Casper. Most of the destroyed homes were located in a mobile home park on the northwest side of Wright.
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/4854300/detail.html
A small tornado was part of the severe storm that swept through central Bradford County Friday, National Weather Service investigators said.
The county was drenched again Sunday and saw its third severe thunderstorm warning in as many days as a thunderstorm passed through the region.
On Friday, a small F0-rated tornado touched down in Towanda Township at about 5:15 p.m., according to Dave Nicosia of the National Weather Service in Binghamton, N.Y. Winds reached about 60 miles per hour, and the tornado created a path about one mile long and up to 200 yards wide in the southern Towanda area.
Tornados are rated on the Fujita Tornado Damage Scale. According to the NWS, an F0 on the scale (which ranges from F0 to F5) can result in some damage to chimneys, branches being broken off trees, shallow-rooted trees being pushed over and damage to sign boards. Winds range from 40 to 72 mph.
According to the NWS:
http://www.thedailyreview.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=15035644&BRD=2276&PAG=461&dept_id=465049&rfi=6
Homeless aided after tornado
Items compiled from Tribune news services
Published August 15, 2005
WRIGHT, WYOMING -- Aid workers and volunteers descended on this small coal mining town Sunday to offer help after a tornado killed two people and left about 85 families homeless.
Most were staying with friends or relatives. Officials said the town of 1,500 people doesn't have the apartment or motel capacity to house the displaced.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0508150197aug15,1,999088.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed
Wright tornado damage worse than first thought
8/15/2005 5:22:13 PM
KOTA Territory News
The process is slow and painful as neighbors and friends continue to sort through what's left of Cottonwood Mobile Home Park in Wright, Wyoming.
Tonight we learn the damage is even worse than first thought.
Early estimates were that as many as 50 mobile homes were obliterated in Friday night's tornado, but today, we learn the true number is almost double, with 90 homes rendered uninhabitable by the storm.
http://www.kotatv.com/localnews/story.asp?ID=21437
Tornado Transforms Quiet Glen Cove Into Virtual War Zone, Residents Say
BY Special to the Sun
August 15, 2005
Hundreds of Long Island households were without power last night after a tornado transformed the quiet suburb of Glen Cove into what residents described as a virtual war zone.
One Glen Cove resident, Mariangie Godoy, said that when the storm struck late Friday, she thought she was witnessing a terrorist attack. "I thought that they were bombing us," Ms. Godoy, 39, told The New York Sun. "I thought it was the end of the world."
http://www.nysun.com/article/18614
Thunderstorms wallop Houston area
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Just in time for area schools to send kids home from their first day of classes, the National Weather Service issued a severe thunderstorm warning for Harris and Montgomery counties, then cancelled it as the storm weakened.
Rainfall amounts varied greatly throughout the region, with stations north of Tomball reporting over 2 inches of rain; 1.22 inches falling near downtown; and no precipitation reported near the Friendswood area.
But don't count rough weather out yet. There remains a 30 percent chance of thunderstorms this evening, and counties to the north of the Houston area continue to be pounded.
Forecasters are predicting thunderstorms for the rest of the week.
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/3311177
Thousands Lose Power After Thunderstorms Rock Northeast
August 15, 2005 12:30 p.m. EST
Hector Duarte Jr. - All Headline News Staff Reporter
Boston, MA (AHN) - Thousands of people across the Northeast are without electricity Monday, following a series of violent thunderstorms.
Lighting started fires, rains flooded streets, and winds gusted to 80 mph in parts of eastern Pennsylvania, northern New Jersey, southeastern New York, Connecticut and eastern Massachusetts on Sunday.
Dannel Malloy, mayor of Stamford, Connecticut, says the damage is the worst since an ice storm that struck the area in 1973.
http://www.allheadlinenews.com/cgi-bin/news/newsbrief.plx?id=2248246842&fa=1
Lightning, thunderstorms cause damage across New England
August 15, 2005
BOSTON --Severe thunderstorms that rolled across Rhode Island and Massachusetts left a trail of toppled trees, flooded roads, fires sparked by lightning and false alarms at fire stations. More than 60,000 people were left without electricity.
Boston's South Shore was hit particularly hard, with severe flooding reported in Quincy, Braintree, Weymouth and Brockton.
"Half of the city is under water," Brockton police dispatcher Darrelyn Jordan said Sunday night. "We have reports of water going into basements all over the city. We've had people stuck in cars all over the city. We even had to tow a police cruiser out of there with water flowing over the hood."
http://www.boston.com/news/local/rhode_island/articles/2005/08/15/lightning_thunderstorms_cause_damage_across_new_england/
Severe Storms Make for Some Scary Moments
(New York-WABC, August 14, 2005) — Imagine sitting, eating dinner when a tree comes to a crash landing just above your head. It happened in one town as severe thunderstorms marched through our region Sunday evening. Fortunately, there are no reports of serious injury but the storms did do some damage.
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/weather/wabc_081405_11pmweather.html
Storms cause power outages across Massachusetts
BOSTON More than 40-thousand Massachusetts residents are without power tonight as a line of severe storms crosses the state.
Around 35-thousand Massachusetts Electric customers in the eastern and central part of the state have lost their power, including 28-thousand on the South Shore. Six thousand western Massachusetts residents also lost their power.
The storms are wreaking havoc across Massachusetts, with severe flooding in Quincy and Brockton and hail reported in western Massachusetts.
The National Weather Service predicts the storms will leave the area by midnight. Torrential downpours, thunder, lightening and wind gusts of up to 80 miles per hour are expected.
http://www.eyewitnessnewstv.com/Global/story.asp?S=3720687
Two killed as tornado strikes Wyoming town
By Becky Bohrer, Associated Press August 14, 2005
WRIGHT, Wyo. -- Residents had just five minutes' warning before a tornado tore into a mobile home park, killing two people and destroying dozens of homes.
About a dozen people were injured, but only one remained hospitalized yesterday.
Three people who had been listed as missing Friday night were found safe.
The twister touched down Friday afternoon in this coal-mining town of 1,500 people and was on the ground an estimated 10 to 15 minutes, ruining 40 to 50 mobile homes, scattering metal siding, insulation, home furnishings, and debris throughout the town.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/08/14/two_killed_as_tornado_strikes_wyoming_town/
Tornado touches down in Canisteo
By Rob Montana
The Spectator
Canisteo Severe weather conditions Saturday prompted a number of thunderstorm watches and warnings throughout the Southern Tier, but emergency officials reported less than a handful of downed trees and electrical lines.
Amidst the storms, regional weather officials confirmed reports from the previous day that a tornado touched down in Canisteo.
Jim Brewster, Binghamton-based meteorologist for the National Weather Service, said the twister touched down at about 2:30 p.m. Friday along State Route 36 in Canisteo.
"It basically ran right along State Route 36," he added. "It came over Bush Hill and dropped down behind a residence. It was pretty much confined in the area between Gravel Run Road and Rock Run Road."
http://www.the-leader.com/articles/2005/08/14/local_news/local01.txt
Moderate earthquake jolts Indonesia island
August 13, 2005
JAKARTA, Indonesia --A moderate earthquake shook parts of Indonesia's Sumbawa island on Saturday, but no damage or injuries were reported.
The 5.6-magnitude quake was centered about 150 miles beneath the Flores sea and 25 miles northwest of Sumbawa Besar, capital of Sumbawa island, according to Budi Waluyo of the Meteorology and Geophysics Agency.
The quake, which struck Saturday morning, also was felt in the neighboring tourist islands of Bali and Lombok, Waluyo said.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/asia/articles/2005/08/13/moderate_earthquake_jolts_indonesia_island/
Earthquake topples houses in southwest China
13 Aug 2005 14:27:05 GMT
Source: Reuters
BEIJING, Aug 13 (Reuters) - An earthquake hit southwest China on Saturday, bringing down several houses and causing injuries, Xinhua news agency said.
The quake, measuring 5.3 on the Richter scale, hit Wenshan county in Yunnan province just after midday.
"Injuries have been reported in seven townships... The earthquake has also toppled some houses. However, the exact number of injuries and economic losses are unavailable," Xinhua said.
Earthquakes are common in China. In December 2003, a tremor measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale struck the remote northwestern region of Xinjiang. At least 10 people, mostly herdsmen, were killed and 700 mud and brick houses destroyed.
Yunnan's Huize county was hit by a quake measuring 5.3 on the Richter scale last week. Nine people were injured.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/PEK201573.htm
Strong earthquake shakes southern Mexico
MEXICO CITY Southern Mexico has been jolted by a fairly strong five-point-four earthquake.
The quake Saturday night along the Pacific Coast of Oaxaca (whu-HAH'-kuh) state was felt hundreds of miles away in Mexico City. Buildings in the capital swayed a bit but there are no signs of damage and no reported injuries.
A few people in Mexico City left their buildings, but one man there says you could barely feel it
http://www.wboc.com/Global/story.asp?S=3719504
Directive to construct earthquake-proof buildings for educational institutions
8/14/2005
All engineers and builders have been directed to construct earthquake-proof buildings for educational institutions.
Education Minister M Osman Farruk made the direction while speaking at a briefing session on "Earthquake Management and Application of Building Code" in the city Sunday, reports BSS.
The Education Engineering Department (EED) and the Disaster Management Bureau (DMB) jointly organised the day-long programme for the architects, civil engineers, private builders and policymakers.
http://www.financialexpress-bd.com/index3.asp?cnd=8/14/2005§ion_id=3&newsid=10387&spcl=no
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