HAPPY NEW YEARS
WELCOME 2006

 
 
Hope everyone has had a Happy New Years!  I am sure it will be an interesting year
ahead!


Keri, Joey, and myself all went down to Nashville.  Had a great time at Club Play.  

A few pictures from the past few days...



Keri with her favorite President of the U.S.A.


Keri and President Bush
Nashville, Tennessee



Keri and Joey in Nashville, Tennessee



Joey in Nashville




Waffle House :)  This was the first time Keri has ever been :) heh




Keri - on the way to Nashville




Joey and Keri getting ready to go out...



Keri - New Years Eve 2005!  :)




Keri and Beau in Nashville, Tennessee





Joey and Beau - Nashville, Tennessee  



Keri and Beau 
New Years 2005 :)


Nasa team sees explosion on Moon
Artist's impression of explosion, Nasa
The impact may have looked something like this

Nasa scientists have witnessed a rare explosion on the Moon, caused by a "meteoroid" slamming into it.

The blast was equal in energy to about 70kg of TNT and was seen near the edge of Mare Imbrium (the Sea of Rains).

The object that hit the Moon was probably part of a shower of "taurids" which peppered Earth in late October and early November.

Understanding lunar impacts could help protect astronauts when Nasa sends humans back to the Moon.

Meteoroids are small rocky or metallic objects in orbit around the Sun, or another star. One of the astronomers who observed the impact estimates that it gouged a crater 3m wide and 0.4m deep.

Rob Suggs of Nasa's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, US, was testing a new 10-in telescope and video camera they assembled to monitor the moon for space strikes.

On 7 November, his first night using the telescope, he observed one.









January 3, 2005
JANUARY TORNADOES SMACKED KENTUCKY YESTERDAY - AS FORECASTED.
My forecast did pretty well.  I figured areas east of here would be hit the hardest.  I went with the 
extreme eastern portion of Western Kentucky and then all the way to the West Virginia Border.  My second 
target area was the Atlanta area.  Numerous tornadoes hit Central Kentucky and tornadoes were 
reported near Atlanta...some with injuries.  Considerable damage in both areas.  I figure we would have
isolated severe weather in this area and that seems to pan out according the Paducah, NWS.

I still think we MIGHT see flurries later this week.  Winter will remain missing though.  I am concerned
that 2006 might be a drought year.  Not good news for this area because of all the farmers.
 
KENTUCKY STORM DAMAGE

Emergency personnel look through the 
debris of the Keystop Jr. Food Store near 
the intersection of W.A. Jenkins Road and 
U.S. 31W after a tornado struck the building 
Monday afternoon. Several people were inside 
the store when the twister hit, but no 
injuries were reported.  Elizabeth town.
The News-Enterprise Photo




Elizabeth Town KY



Tornado Damage in KY



Tornadoes hit Kentucky



Elizabethtown Tornado - WBKO Photo




Elizabethtown Kentucky Tornado - WBKO Photo




Large hail also fell near Elizabethtown - WBKO Photo




Wall Cloud - Hardin County, KY  WBKO Photo




Wall Cloud - Hardin County, KY  WBKO Photo





Tornado Damage in Hardin County, Kentucky - WBKO



Tornado Damage in Hardin County, Kentucky - WBKO






Light at the end of the storm....WBKO Photo


Brett Adair took these photos near Atlanta - tornadoes were forming out of this storm


Storms forming in Georgia and Alabama



Growing thunderstorms as the cap breaks on Monday Afternoon...


PIKE COUNTY GEORGIA TORNADO


Pike County, Georgia Tornado - Richard York photographer



Tornadoes hit Georgia



Dangerous storms over Georgia on Monday



Large hail hits Georgia...Debra Hamilton - photographer



Georgia Tornado Damage - AJC Photo



Storms near Atlanta, Georgia - Tower Cam


Attached Image
Atlanta HOOK - Tornadic Cell



TOWER CAM - TORNADOES MOVING SOUTH OF THE ATLANTA METRO AREA



GEORGIA THUNDERSTORMS - TORNADOES NEAR ATLANTA AT THIS TIME




TROPICAL STORM ZETA CONTINUES TO SPIN IN THE ATLANTIC!
BELIEVE IT OR NOT!
BULLETIN
TROPICAL STORM ZETA ADVISORY NUMBER  17
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL
11 AM AST TUE JAN 03 2006

..ZETA MAINTAINING STRENGTH...

AT 11 AM AST...1500Z...THE CENTER OF TROPICAL STORM ZETA WAS LOCATED
NEAR LATITUDE 23.0 NORTH... LONGITUDE 42.1 WEST OR ABOUT 1395
MILES...2250 KM... EAST-NORTHEAST OF THE NORTHERN LEEWARD ISLANDS.

ZETA IS MOVING TOWARD THE WEST-SOUTHWEST NEAR  5 MPH
... 7 KM/HR...AND A GENERALLY WESTWARD MOTION IS EXPECTED DURING THE
NEXT 24 HOURS.

MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS ARE NEAR  65 MPH...100 KM/HR...WITH HIGHER
GUSTS.  NO SIGNIFICANT CHANGE IN STRENGTH IS FORECAST DURING THE
NEXT 24 HOURS.

TROPICAL STORM FORCE WINDS EXTEND OUTWARD UP TO 115 MILES
...185 KM TO THE NORTH OF THE CENTER.

ESTIMATED MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE IS  994 MB...29.35 INCHES.

REPEATING THE 11 AM AST POSITION...23.0 N... 42.1 W.  MOVEMENT
TOWARD...WEST-SOUTHWEST NEAR  5 MPH.  MAXIMUM SUSTAINED
WINDS... 65 MPH.  MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE... 994 MB.

THE NEXT ADVISORY WILL BE ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL
HURRICANE CENTER AT 5 PM AST.

FORECASTER PASCH

ZETA!!!!



EARTHQUAKE SHAKES SOUTHERN ILLINOIS  ON MONDAY EVENING


Small earthquake shakes southern Illinois
 

Recent Earthquakes in Central US

== PRELIMINARY EARTHQUAKE REPORT ==
Cooperative New Madrid Seismic Network
 

Version #7: This report supersedes any earlier reports of this event.
This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.

A minor earthquake occurred at 3:48:57 PM (CST) on Monday, January 2, 2006 .
The magnitude 3.6 event occurred 3 km (2 miles) WSW of 71 Ridgway, IL.
The hypocentral depth is 40 km (25 miles).

 


The Associated Press
Published January 2, 2006, 5:57 PM CST

 

EQUALITY, Ill. -- No major damage was reported after a minor earthquake shook areas around this
small town in southern Illinois on Monday.

The quake struck at 3:48 p.m. and registered magnitude 3.6, according to Rafael Abreu, a geologist
at the National Earthquake Information Center in Denver. It was centered near Equality, which is
about 120 miles southeast of St. Louis.

Abreu said calls from people who felt tremors came from Illinois, Indiana and Kentucky,
but the quake was unlikely to have caused any damage.

"There might have been some rattling of objects, but not much more," Abreu said.

Small earthquakes hit southern Illinois several times a year, said Jim Packett, a
meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Paducah, Ky.


 

2005 was one of the ten warmest and driest years on record at Paducah.


 

 

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