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Video of Powerful Typhoon Roke in Japan

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Incredible Video: Fly Over the Earth

This is a time-lapse video of 600 publicly available images from the International Space Station. The images start in the Pacific Ocean and continue through North and South America before reaching daylight over Antarctica. The thin yellow line in this video is the Earth’s ionosphere and the stars of our galaxy, according to the The Washington Post.

Also visible in this video are lightning strikes as the station flies over thunderstorms.

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As of Tuesday morning, EDT, Typhoon Roke was centered near 29.4 north and 132.4 east, or about 615 miles southwest of Tokyo, Japan. Maximum-sustained winds were at 110 mph with gusts to 135 mph. Roke was moving to the northeast at 10 mph.

Typhoon Roke is expected to produce 2-4 inches of rain across central and southern Japan through Wednesday afternoon, EDT. Heavier downpours will result in localized rainfall totals of up to 8 inches, which can result in more widespread flooding problems.

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Strange lights over Phoenix have once again captured the imagination of conspiracy theorists and alien enthusiasts in the Southwest.

Dozens of people said they saw a bright light or lights streaking across the sky on Wednesday night of last week over Arizona and Southern California in what authorities said were likely meteor sightings, according to Fox News.

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“Across the nation, different states have set up State Animal Response Teams,” explained Erin Ackerman, a member of the Pennsylvania State Animal Response Team. “After Hurricane Katrina… statistics showed people wouldn’t evacuate because they couldn’t take their pets with them.”

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As the weather turns cooler, the trees will once again put on their show of brightly colored leaves. Many weather factors play into how intense the colors will be and how long the vivid leaves will be around.

As the tree grows throughout the spring and summer months, chlorophyll is constantly replaced in the leaves. The chlorophyll gives the leaves their green color. As the nights get longer in the early fall, the cells near the juncture of the leaf and stem divide rapidly but do not expand. This action of the cells form a layer called the abscission layer. The abscission layer then blocks the the transportation of materials from the leaf to the branch and from the roots to the leaves. As the chlorophyll is blocked from the leaves, it disappears completely from them. The lack of chlorophyll allows the yellow (xanthophylls) and orange (carotenoids) pigments to be visible. The red and purple pigments (anthocyanins) are manufactured from the sugars that are trapped in the leaf. These pigments in leaves are responsible for the vivid color changes in the fall.

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Pick your pumpkins now. That’s the conventional wisdom according to farmers in the Northeast…

Pam Harner of Harner Farm in State College, Pa. was concerned about the pumpkin crop this year.

“We will not know for sure of the extent of damage until we begin the pumpkin harvest over the next couple of weeks,” Harner said.

“The next couple of weeks are crucial because if we see a bad storm, the ground will become saturated, which means a high chance of mold,” she said.

The wet weather preceding Irene caused outbreaks of phytophthora, a water mold, which has been another culprit in the pumpkin shortage, according to the AP.

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Keep your eyes, and cameras, on the horizon if you’re on the Great Lakes this week. Weather conditions should be perfect for waterspouts to form.

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Rick Albertson has lived in Bloomsburg, Pa., his entire life. Of the six floods he has been through, including Agnes in 1972, he said last week’s was the worst.

He remained in his home as raging flood waters closed in and rose more than half a foot deep through the first floor.

“We were soaking our feet while we were eating supper in 7 inches of water,” Albertson said, laughing in spite of the situation.

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