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Archive for October 31st, 2012

Updated Meteor Info

Updated Meteor Info

| October 31, 2012 @ 8:07 pm

From Bill Cooke of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville…. Update on our visitor from the asteroid belt: 1) Eyewitness reports put the meteor in the same area as the doppler echo – good confirmation. Check out the clump of lines in the map NW of Cullman (along with the eyewitness accounts) at this […]

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You Can’t Make This Stuff Up…

You Can’t Make This Stuff Up…

| October 31, 2012 @ 5:12 pm

In October 1997, emergency management officials in Westchester County, New York ran a hurricane simulation for their area. The fictional storm was loosely based on the 1938 Long Island Express Hurricane, which caused extreme devastation on Long Island and in Westchester County. The practice hurricane was set to come inland on Saturday evening, October 4th […]

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Yesterday’s Fireball… More Data

Yesterday’s Fireball… More Data

| October 31, 2012 @ 4:03 pm

Good work by Chip Faust as we work to solve the mystery of the fireball seen by thousands across the Alabama sky around 5:30 p.m. yesterday. Last night, Bill Cooke of the Meteoroid Environments Office at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville wrote… “This was NOT a Taurid meteor; probably a random interloper from […]

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Freeze Potential Tonight

Freeze Potential Tonight

| October 31, 2012 @ 3:44 pm

An all new edition of the ABC 33/40 Weather Xtreme video is available in the player on the right sidebar of the blog. You can subscribe to the Weather Xtreme video on iTunes by clicking here. COLD HALLOWEEN NIGHT: The NWS has issued a freeze warning for all of their counties up in the Tennessee […]

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Warmer Days Ahead

Warmer Days Ahead

| October 31, 2012 @ 6:00 am

An all new edition of the ABC 33/40 Weather Xtreme video is available in the player on the right sidebar of the blog. You can subscribe to the Weather Xtreme video on iTunes by clicking here. FIREBALL: Scroll down for the update on last night’s blazing streak across the sky at 5:30 p.m. NASA’s Bill […]

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