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Links to Live Solar Eclipse Coverage
Last Updated: 5:55 PM 05/20/12 - The Ring of Fire solar eclipse will only be visible in Asia and parts of North America.
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Tropical Storm Alberto Public Advisory
Last Updated: 10:56 PM 05/20/12 - Alberto is the first named storm of the season.
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With rockets, so many things can and do go wrong
Last Updated: 9:16 AM 04/15/12 - It really is rocket science and it really is hard. North Korea proved that again.
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Summary of Storm Reports - Tuesday Evening 4/3/12
Last Updated: 10:59 PM 04/03/12 - Here's a summary of the Tuesday (4/3/12) afternoon storm reports, courtesy of the Tallahassee National Weather Service.
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Family Remembers Man Killed in Storm
Last Updated: 9:06 PM 04/06/12 - The storms that swept across our region on April 3rd are now being blamed for a Tallahassee man's death.
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Record High Temperatures Set Monday
Last Updated: 10:53 PM 04/02/12 - Temperatures soared to summery values Monday with a new record high being set in Tallahassee and tied in Apalachicola.
Summary of Storm Reports - Wednesday Evening 3/14/12
Last Updated: 4:04 PM 03/15/12 - Very warm temps met up with a few developing late afternoon thunderstorms, leading to several "hailers" in the area. Here's a summary of storm reports from the Tallahassee NWS.
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Earth Still Awaits Large Solar Storm's Effects
Last Updated: 1:29 PM 03/08/12 - The largest solar storm in five years was due to arrive on Earth early Thursday, promising to shake the globe's magnetic field while expanding the Northern Lights.
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Solar storm headed toward Earth may disrupt power
Last Updated: 6:38 PM 03/07/12 - The largest solar storm in five years is racing toward Earth, threatening to unleash a torrent of charged particles that could disrupt power grids, GPS and airplane flights.
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Here's the LONG Storm Report Summary from the 3/1-3/3 Storms and Rainfall
Last Updated: 6:58 PM 03/05/12 - The Tallahassee National Weather Service has compiled the long list of heavy rain and severe weather reports from Friday though early Sunday.
[SLIDE SHOW] Images from Storm Damage Survey in Lowndes County
Last Updated: 2:33 PM 03/04/12 - Images from the storm destruction on March 03, 2012.
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Recap of Deadly Tornadoes and Storms of Friday 3/2/2012
Last Updated: 12:49 AM 03/04/12 - A look back at the deadly severe weather outbreak that hit the U.S. from parts of the southeast into the Ohio valley on Friday, March 2,2012, with at least 38 fatalities reported and several towns with widespread devastation.
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Storm Damage Reports [SLIDESHOW]
Last Updated: 9:32 AM 03/04/12 - A list of the most recent storm damage in the WCTV viewing area.
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California walloped as snow falls across northern US
Last Updated: 7:11 PM 02/29/12 - Late winter storms forced school and road closures from Seattle to upstate New York, but the snow was welcomed in California as it suffers through one of the driest winters in history.
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Midwest twisters flatten 2 small towns, killing 9
Last Updated: 7:08 PM 02/29/12 - Twisters roared through the nation's heartland in the early morning darkness Wednesday, flattening entire blocks of homes in small-town Illinois and Kansas and killing at least nine people.
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Summary of Storm Reports from Sat Night - Sun Morning
Last Updated: 4:35 PM 02/20/12 - Here's the Tallahassee National Weather Service's compilation of storm and heavy rainfall reports from Saturday night into Sunday morning (quite the lengthy list).
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Area Storm Reports for Saturday 2/18
Last Updated: 12:31 AM 02/19/12 - We had some severe weather come through the area Saturday into Sunday. Check out the storm reports:
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Glenn fever returns 50 years after historic flight
Last Updated: 7:45 PM 02/17/12 - John Glenn fever gripped Cape Canaveral on Friday, just as it did half a century ago when America was on the verge of launching its first man into orbit.
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Ancient Weather Researchers Set Up in Untouched Florida Cave
Last Updated: 6:44 PM 02/15/12 - The Dragon's Tooth cave in Florida Caverns State Park is the site of Darrel Tremaine's newest research into ancient weather patterns.
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Monday Afternoon Hazardous Weather Outlook
Last Updated: 4:00 PM 02/13/12 - The hazardous weather outlook issued by the Tallahassee National Weather Service Monday afternoon.
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Hard Freeze Warning Saturday night, Hard Freeze Sunday night Too
Last Updated: 3:55 PM 02/13/12 - A Hard Freeze will impact our entire viewing area Saturday night and Sunday night.
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FSU Grad Student Studies Ancient Weather Patterns
Last Updated: 7:22 PM 02/09/12 - Darrel Tremaine is studying weather patterns from thousands of years ago, in the most unlikely of places.
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Statewide Campaign Helps Protect Against Tornadoes
Last Updated: 6:54 PM 02/08/12 - Tornado drills occurred throughout the state as part of Ready Georgia's safety campaign. The campaign is designed to educate families about natural disasters.
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Snow falls in Rome as Italy is hit by cold snap
Last Updated: 7:34 PM 02/03/12 - A rare snowfall blanketed Rome on Friday, forcing the closure of the Colosseum over fears tourists would slip on the icy ruins, and leaving buses struggling to climb the city's slushy hills. Other parts of the country experienced frigid temperatures unseen in years.
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Europe tries to shield homeless from deep freeze
Last Updated: 7:23 PM 02/03/12 - Russia and Ukraine both took extra precautions on Friday to protect homeless people, ordering new facilities and medical care after scores of people have frozen to death on the streets of Europe during a brutal cold snap.
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Where's the snow? Not in Lower 48, but elsewhere
Last Updated: 7:26 PM 02/01/12 - Snow has been missing in action for much of the U.S. the last couple months. But it's not just snow. It's practically the season that's gone AWOL.
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Alaska volcano lava dome forms, alert level raised
Last Updated: 11:29 PM 01/31/12 - The warning level for a remote Alaska volcano has been raised after a new lava dome began forming, indicating the mountain could explode and send up an ash cloud that could threaten aircraft.
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Homeless hard hit in Eastern Europe cold spell
Last Updated: 11:12 PM 01/31/12 - Dozens of homeless people have died in an Eastern Europe cold snap.
Experts say Gingrich moon base dreams not lunacy
Last Updated: 10:42 PM 01/31/12 - Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich wants to create a lunar colony that he says could become a U.S. state. Several science policy experts say the former House speaker's ideas are based in mainstream science.
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Talk of 'tornado tourism' stirs anger in Joplin
Last Updated: 10:39 PM 01/31/12 - Eight months after a tornado laid waste to much of this city, Joplin is wrestling with an emotional question: Should the community market its devastated neighborhoods to tourists?
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Russia blames radiation for space probe failure
Last Updated: 10:21 PM 01/31/12 - The head of Russia's space agency said Tuesday that cosmic radiation was the most likely cause of the failure of a Mars moon probe that crashed to Earth this month, and suggested that a low-quality imported component may have been vulnerable to the radiation.
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Beijing air pollution soars with fireworks smoke
Last Updated: 8:39 AM 01/29/12 - Clouds of smoke from Lunar New Year fireworks sent air pollution readings soaring in the more sensitive measurement system Beijing started using a little more than a week ago, reports said Sunday.
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Scientists: Haiti, DR may facing big quake period
Last Updated: 9:20 AM 01/28/12 - Haiti and the neighboring Dominican Republic could be in for a period of periodic powerful earthquakes, according to a scientific study released Thursday.
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Britain ranks top risks posed by climate change
Last Updated: 8:54 AM 01/28/12 - Coastlines, working patterns, and even the country's most famous meal are under threat from climate change, Britain said Thursday in its first-ever national assessment of the likely risks.
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Gingrich vows to establish a colony on the moon
Last Updated: 7:57 PM 01/27/12 - Newt Gingrich is promising to establish a permanent base on the moon by 2020 if he's elected president.
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Scientists: Haiti, DR may facing big quake period
Last Updated: 7:55 PM 01/27/12 - Haiti and the neighboring Dominican Republic could be in for a period of periodic powerful earthquakes, according to a scientific study released Thursday.
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BLOG: Strong Storms Possible Thursday Evening
Last Updated: 7:51 AM 01/27/12 - An area of rain and thunderstorms is expected to move into the area late Thursday and exit Friday morning.
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Alabama hit again by tornadoes; 2 dead, 100 hurt
Last Updated: 6:59 PM 01/23/12 - At least two tornadoes roared across the heart of Alabama on Monday, killing two people and injuring more than 100 others during the middle of the night.
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Strongest solar storm since 2005 hitting Earth
Last Updated: 6:56 PM 01/23/12 - The sun is bombarding Earth with radiation from the biggest solar storm in more than six years with more to come from the fast-moving eruption.
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Urging American Meteorological Society to Get Tougher on Climate Change
Last Updated: 10:50 AM 01/20/12 - In the wake of record-breaking extreme weather in 2011, campaign says it’s essential that T.V. meteorologists “Forecast The Facts“
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Widespread snowstorm wallops Pacific Northwest
Last Updated: 7:36 PM 01/18/12 - A winter storm that packed winds of 100 mph and dumped more than a foot of snow in the Pacific Northwest could soon give way to another threat: warmer weather and the potential for flooding.
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NASA spaceport breaks ground for shuttle display
Last Updated: 7:33 PM 01/18/12 - NASA's retired space shuttle Atlantis is a step closer to completing its final journey.
Russia asks if US radar ruined space probe
Last Updated: 7:30 PM 01/18/12 - Russia will look into the possibility that a U.S. radar station could have inadvertently interfered with the failed Mars moon probe that plummeted to Earth.
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Georgia Fog
Last Updated: 6:15 AM 01/09/12 - Thick fog blocks view for most of Georgia
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Tanker Encounters Ice Near Bering Sea Island
Last Updated: 9:39 AM 01/07/12 - The tanker carries supplies for an iced-in Alaska city.
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Weather Headlines from 2011
Last Updated: 10:28 AM 01/06/12 - We had it all in the weather department last year. Here are some of the highlights.
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Frosty Florida
Last Updated: 6:32 AM 01/04/12 - Farmers and manatees brace for cold weather in Florida.
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Georgia Freezing Weather
Last Updated: 6:24 AM 01/03/12 - Freezing temperatures blast Georgia.
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Freeze Warning Tonight, Hard Freeze Likely Wednesday Morning
Last Updated: 7:41 PM 01/02/12 - A freeze warning is in effect tonight, and a hard freeze watch is in effect for tomorrow night/Wednesday morning.
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Wind Chill Advisory in Effect for Tuesday Morning
Last Updated: 7:38 PM 01/02/12 - Cold temperatures and brisk winds will combine to create wind chill values in the upper teens to low 20s Tuesday morning.
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