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Powerful winter storm to bring heavy snow, ice, tornado risk

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Winter storm warning map from the National Weather Service, February 12, 2025.

The National Weather Service said this morning: “A winter storm will continue to impact the Mid-Atlantic through tonight with areas of heavy snow, sleet and freezing rain. A winter storm will begin to impact the Central Plains Wednesday, bringing heavy snow from central Kansas through much of Lower Michigan. This system will also produce a … Read more

Huge solar storm in May 2024 spawned 2 new radiation belts around Earth

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A dark Earth in space is central to many lines connected at the poles that loop out in large arcs from top to bottom. The inner most loops a shades of blue, green, red and yellow.

The great solar storm of May 2024, which sparked beautiful auroral displays over much of the world, also created two new radiation belts that were observed with a satellite that came back from the dead. “This is really stunning,” Xinlin Li, a professor at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of … Read more