Dreadful heatwave in South America. Chile 🇨🇱 recording some of its hottest days on record with ferocious wildfires.
The vast smoke plumes from the fires are visible from space.
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So the balloon issue was handled very sensibly in the end it seems…lots of hot air expended beforehand
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NEW: The U.S. has downed the Chinese surveillance balloon off the Carolina coast on Saturday and will attempt to recover its debris, according to a U.S. official.
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Suspected Chinese spy balloon leaves Charlotte area. FAA grounds Carolinas coastal flights
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Longrunning Bruce Springsteen fanzine 'Backstreets' has announced that after 43 years it will cease publication, citing "concerts that we can hardly afford"
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JUST IN: Democrats make South Carolina first presidential primary voting state.
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Global container freight rates moved down to their lowest levels since September 2020 this week, 81% below peak 2021 prices.
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The exceptional cold snap is the Northeast will be very short-lived. Some places will go from normal, to record cold, and then back to normal in barely 48 hours. This has to be one of the quickest of the significant cold air outbreaks on record.
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Hot, roiling gases shake entire stars, offering clues to their surprising physics. Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard, recipient of the 2022 Kavli Prize in Astrophysics, shares what such studies reveal about Earth’s ultimate fate. [Sponsored by ]
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Warm thoughts… all next week and next weekend above avg temperatures
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Please read this entire thread and honor Pete Reed. A devastating loss for humanity.
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Absolutely devastating news today about US marine and volunteer medic Pete Reed being killed in #Bakhmut. His ambulance was apparently hit by #Russian shelling as he evacuated civilians. Pete was one of the most remarkable humans I have ever met in my years on the road. #petereed
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With “polar vortex” back in the headlines, it’s important to note tonight’s cold air outbreak is NOT a polar vortex!
Polar vortex (PV, left): wintertime large scale vortex in the stratosphere
Tropopause polar vortex (TPV, right): small-scale vortex along the tropopause
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Tonight's cold air outbreak over the Northeast US is associated with an intense Tropopause Polar Vortex (TPV) which has been adrift near the Hudson Bay for days & associated with a strengthening low-level cold pool, before being dislodged by a West Coast ridge into the NE US:
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INSANE conditions on Mt Washington, NH. 120mph+ winds and -95°F wind chill. It is above the tropopause, meaning that these are stratospheric winds.
Footage from the summit live stream 2:30-2:40pm. #nhwx
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Terrible heat wave in Central Chile with the 3rd hottest day in the country's history.
DCP Main Stations:
Chillan 41.6C all time record
Concepcion AP 34.4C all time record
Agromet Stations:
42.3C Las Vinas
41.8C Navidad
41.8C Bulnes
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"The huge balloon ignited domestic curiosities, political finger-pointing, and an international diplomatic crisis, leaving Americans across the middle swath of the country looking to the skies for the white floating apparatus"
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It took 10 years for the photographer Marcella Julia Pace to capture these 48 colours of the Moon 😍
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A stunning US jobs report highlighting the strength of the labor market and its complexities.
Job rose by 517,000 for Jan compared to the consensus forecast of 189,000; the unemployment rate fell to a 53-year low of 3.4% (3.8%).
The puzzle: Wage growth came in as expected (0.3%).
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Since "Chinese Spy Balloon" is trending: In 1945, the crew of USS New York spotted a sphere that they thought might be a Japanese balloon weapon. The captain ordered it shot down but none of the guns could score a hit. Finally, a navigator realized they were attacking Venus.
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#UPDATE: confirms these military exercises are occurring again tonight. A spokesperson tells me 100 US Army members have been conducting "coordinated, essential air & ground mobility operations and close-quarter combat training" around San Diego this week.
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#BREAKING Officials confirm the loud explosion sounds heard across central #SanDiego is "preplanned, authorized military training" that is taking place near the old Fry's Electronics building in #SerraMesa. #NBC7
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My second national exclusive from Memphis with Another man says he was beaten by Scorpion unit.
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Mount Washington could rival their coldest wind chill *ever* tomorrow night. -100°F, just let that sink in...
The record to beat is -102.7°F! You can follow along from home using this link: mountwashington.org/experience-the
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Suspected Chinese spy balloon found hovering over northern U.S.: NBC News Exclusive nbcnews.com/nightly-news/v via /
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Exclusive: Pentagon considered taking out a suspected Chinese spy balloon flying over Montana yesterday nbcnews.com/politics/natio via
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NJ city councilmember shot dead outside her home #nbc4ny
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Our story tonight:
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The theft of taxpayer funds by the Chengdu-based hackers APT41 is the first instance of pandemic fraud tied to foreign, state-sponsored cybercriminals that the U.S. government has acknowledged publicly, but may be the tip of the iceberg, experts say. nbcnews.to/3joZU7Y
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The last active professional athlete drafted by the Montreal Expos has officially retired
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ICYMI: #RHOBH husband Tom Girardi hit with grand jury indictments, accused of stealing from vulnerable clients. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/g via
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New month,new record heat in South America:
Next heat wave in Patagonia and Central Chile will be extreme and break records with temperatures up to 43C in Chile (Bio Bio,Maule,Ñuble and Araucania Regions) under fierce winds of "puelche" and high risks of wildfires. Stay tuned.
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🇺🇦#Ukraine says its 2023 grain harvest may total 49.5 million tonnes, down from 51 mmt in 2022 and a record 86 mmt in 2021. Some Ukrainian-based analysts believe it could fall below 40 mmt.
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Grand jury indicts 'Real Housewives of Beverly Hills' husband and prominent attorney, accusing him of stealing from clients nbcnews.com/news/us-news/g - w/
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Ukrainian decathlete Volodymyr Androshchuk will not be representing his country at the Paris Olympics because he was just killed by the Russian armed forces. In other news, the IOC announces that Russian athletes are welcome in Paris.
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🥶A severe arctic outbreak will start late Thursday night, peak late Friday night into Saturday morning, and end Sunday morning. Minimum wind chills may challenge all time records at some stations.
Blowing and drifting snow could also create difficult travel conditions. #MEwx
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The tamarin monkeys that were reported missing from the Dallas Zoo have been found in a closet of an abandoned home and are back in zoo custody.
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