4-Minute Earth and Space Weather News January 8, 2013

Posted by clnews _Featured_, Earth, Space, Videos, Weather Tuesday, January 8th, 2013

4-minute Earth and space weather news for January 8, 2013:

• Could static electricity hold the key to predicting earthquakes?  Scientists believe that static electricity below the ground could be a reliable indicator that an earthquake is imminent.
• The east coast of U.S. faces faster sea level rise than the rest of the world.
• While glaciers are thinning over most of the world, Europe is getting more ice.
• The Tolbachnik volcano in Russia erupted
• Extreme weather (rain, high winds, and flooding) in Israel and Lebanon.
• Cosmic ray density is still falling.
• Sunspot number is 196, the highest of this cycle.  But, we still don’t have any large flares.
• CME impact and coronal hole stream is set to hit today.  There is an aurora watch at high latitudes.

TODAY’S LINKS:
Arctic: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=80102
Glaciers: http://www.global-greenhouse-warming.com/glacial-retreat.html
Neutron Star: http://www.universetoday.com/99319/new-movie-of-a-neutron-star-looks-eerily-l…
Russian Volcano: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/photo/2013-01/08/c_132087614.htm
ElectroQuakes: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2258007/Scientists-close-earthquake-f…
US Mag: http://tin.er.usgs.gov/catalog/cite-view.php?cite=761
World Mag: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/geomag/EMM/icons/NGDC-720_data.jpg
East Coast Sea Level: http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/341723/description/East_Coast_face…
Sea Level Map: http://geology.com/sea-level-rise/
UN Climate: http://www.unep.org/compendium2009/
Sea Level 2003-2008: http://ibis.grdl.noaa.gov/SAT/SeaLevelRise/slr/mssh_2011-1993_300.png
Coming Weather: http://www.weather.com/news/weather-forecast/next-storm-wet-20130105 [Weather Channel]

REPEAT LINKS:

WORLD WEATHER:
NDBC Buoys: http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/
Tropical Storms: http://www.wunderground.com/tropical/
HurricaneZone Satellite Images: http://www.hurricanezone.net/westpacific/animations.html
Weather Channel: http://www.weather.com/
NOAA Environmental Visualization Laboratory: http://www.nnvl.noaa.gov/Default.php
Pressure Maps: http://www.woweather.com/cgi-bin/expertcharts?LANG=us&MENU=0000000000&…
Satellite Maps: http://www.woweather.com/cgi-app/satellite?LANG=us&CONT=namk
Forecast Maps: http://www.woweather.com/weather/maps/forecastmaps?LANG=us&CONT=usus
EL DORADO WORLD WEATHER MAP: http://www.eldoradocountyweather.com/satellite/ssec/world/world-composite-ir-…
TORCON: http://www.weather.com/news/tornado-torcon-index [Tornado Forecast for the day]
HURRICANE TRACKER: http://www.weather.com/weather/hurricanecentral/tracker

US WEATHER:
Precipitation Totals: http://www.cocorahs.org/ViewData/ListIntensePrecipReports.aspx
GOES Satellites: http://rsd.gsfc.nasa.gov/goes/
THE WINDMAP: http://hint.fm/wind/
Severe Weather Threats: http://www.weather.com/news/weather-severe/severe-weather-tracker
Canada Weather Office Satellite Composites: http://www.weatheroffice.gc.ca/satellite/index_e.html
Temperature Delta: http://www.intellicast.com/National/Temperature/Delta.aspx
Records/Extremes: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/extremes/records/

SPACEWEATHER:
Spaceweather: http://spaceweather.com
SOHO Solar Wind: http://umtof.umd.edu/pm/
HAARP Data Meters: http://www.haarp.alaska.edu/haarp/data.html
Planetary Orbital Diagram – Ceres1 JPL: http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=ceres;orb=1;cov=0;log=0;cad=0#orb
SDO: http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/
Helioviewer: http://www.helioviewer.org/
SOHO: http://sohodata.nascom.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/soho_movie_theater
Stereo: http://stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/images
SOLARIMG: http://solarimg.org/artis/
iSWA: http://iswa.gsfc.nasa.gov/iswa/iSWA.html
NASA ENLIL SPIRAL: http://iswa.gsfc.nasa.gov:8080/IswaSystemWebApp/iSWACygnetStreamer?timestamp=…
NOAA ENLIL SPIRAL: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/wsa-enlil/
GOES Xray: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/sxi/goes15/index.html
Gamma Ray Bursts: http://grb.sonoma.edu/
BARTOL Cosmic Rays: http://neutronm.bartol.udel.edu//spaceweather/welcome.html
ISWA: http://iswa.ccmc.gsfc.nasa.gov:8080/IswaSystemWebApp/
NOAA Sunspot Classifications: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/ftpdir/latest/SRS.txt
GONG: http://gong2.nso.edu/dailyimages/

MISC Links:
JAPAN Radiation Map: http://jciv.iidj.net/map/
RADIATION Network: http://radiationnetwork.com/
LISS: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/monitoring/operations/heliplots_gsn.php
QUAKES LIST FULL: http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/seismologist.php
RSOE: http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php [That cool alert map I use]
Moon: http://www.fourmilab.ch/earthview/pacalc.html