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Pictures of the year 2009: weather
Telegraph.co.uk ^
| Tuesday 29 December 2009
| Telegraph
Posted on 12/29/2009 12:11:36 PM PST by mware
An arc, known as a fire rainbow taken in the Austrian Alps. The fire rainbow gets its name as it looks like a bow set on fire, but it is caused by ice
Picture: NATIONAL PICTURES
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A smile in the sky, or upside down rainbow, over Copthorne, near Crawley, Sussex
Picture: NATIONAL PICTURES/NIGEL BLACKWELL
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An early morning sunrise gives a pinkish glow to a rainbow as rain clouds glide by on the western horizon in Tigard, Oregon
Picture: AP
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A bolt of lightning strikes a yacht's mast. Amateur photographer Francis Evans from Truro, Cornwall, decided to take a photograph from his window on the off-chance that he could capture the lightning. He did - hitting his neighbour's 18ft yacht
Picture: APEX NEWS
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A photograph of the Golden Gate Bridge taken during a thunderstom by Frank Fennema
Picture: FRANK FENNEMA
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A tornado photographed in Colorado, USA
Picture: CHRIS HARLAN / NATIONAL
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A lenticular cloud formation near Mt Ranier in Washington State
Picture: TIM THOMPSON / NASA APOD
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A resident holds huge hailstones following a thunderstorm in Lofer, in the Austrian province of Salzburg...
Picture: AP
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A rare rotating ice disc, normally only found in polar regions, that was spotted by ramblers who saw the 10ft frozen circle as they took a stroll along the banks of the River Otter near Honiton in Devon
Picture: SWNS
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A cardinal sits on a fence near Maysville, Kentucky, as the ice begins to melt
Picture: AP
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TOPICS: Weather
KEYWORDS: weatherphotos2009
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12/29/2009 12:11:36 PM PST
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mware
To: mware
Best Photos of Space.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/picture-galleries/6867366/Pictures-of-the-year-2009-space.html
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12/29/2009 12:13:42 PM PST
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mware
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12/29/2009 12:14:08 PM PST
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mware
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In the first of our Pictures of Year galleries, we look at the best space images we received this year. This image provided by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows brilliant blue stars wreathed by warm, glowing clouds. The festive portrait is the most detailed view of a young stellar grouping, called R136 in the 30 Doradus Nebula Picture: AP / NASA
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12/29/2009 12:16:06 PM PST
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mware
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The Cartwheel galaxy as seen by the Galaxy Evolution Explorer's Far Ultraviolet detector, the Hubble Space Telescope, the Spitzer Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory Picture: AP / NASA
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12/29/2009 12:18:56 PM PST
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mware
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I wonder if a person could have survived being in that yacht when the lighting struck. I am assuming the boat had some sort of arrestor, but all the same that bolt looks pretty massive. Any meteorological types on FR who may have an answer? Thanks.
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12/29/2009 12:20:56 PM PST
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spetznaz
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An image taken by the refurbished Hubble Space Telescope shows a celestial object that looks like a delicate butterfly Picture: AP / NASA
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12/29/2009 12:21:09 PM PST
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mware
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These days, unless I took the picture myself, I dont trust them to be real.
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12/29/2009 12:21:52 PM PST
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Long Island Pete
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To: mware
Great tornado and lennie pics, thanks!
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12/29/2009 12:21:57 PM PST
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HerrBlucher
(Jail Al Gore and the Climate Frauds!)
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This image, taken by the refurbished Hubble Space Telescope, shows stars bursting to life in the chaotic Carina Nebula Picture: NASA
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12/29/2009 12:24:57 PM PST
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mware
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It looks like a soap bubble, but this is a planetary nebula caused when stars die and blast out a glowing shell of gas and plasma. Known as the "Soap Bubble Nebula", this rare planetary nebula PN G75.5 1.7 was discovered by an amateur astronomer Picture: REX FEATURES
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12/29/2009 12:28:34 PM PST
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mware
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