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Shortly after a severe thunderstorm warning was posted in Southeastern Palm Beach County there were reports of hail and strong winds in suburban Lake Worth. Doppler radar indicated the storm sweeping through the county was capable of producing golf ball size hail as well as damaging winds in excess of 60 miles per hour. The Stimelys in Western Lake Worth said a "crazy hail storm" struck about 10:30 a.m. They said a fast-moving storm created tremendous bowing rain and dime-sized hail beating on the windows. They said it only lasted 5-to-10 minutes. Marie Graves e-mailed to say there was also...

http://www.unknowncountry.com/news/?id=6950 Will Earth's Future Be a FROZEN One? 27-Jun-2008 ...rather than a hot one? - The future? The disappearance of sun spots was the hot topic at a recent international solar conference held at Montana State University. For the past two years, the sun has undergone a phase of relative inactivity, meaning usual solar phenomena such as sun flares, sun spots, and solar eruptions have all but disappeared. "It's a dead face," researcher Saku Tsuneta says of the solar surface. Tsuneta is with the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan and was one of the participants at the MSU conference The...