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Up to 60 mph gusts expected Tuesday in the valley
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This story was updated at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday.
Strong winds continued Tuesday morning as power outages were reported across the Eugene metro area.
The National Weather Service has issued a wind advisory from 2 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday, with sustained winds of 20 to 30 mph and gusts of 45 to 55 mph anticipated.
National Weather Service forecasters said they expect the strongest winds will be from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday. Some gusts may get up to 60 mph in higher terrain.
Eugene Water & Electric Board reported more than 1,040 customers were without power as of 9:30 a.m. Tuesday.
Lane Electric Cooperative reported at least 1,376 customers in Eugene were without power as of 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, with the largest outage centered near Veneta, with more than 950 customers without power.
Unsecured objects and tree limbs could be blown around, and the NWS urged extra caution while driving, especially high-profile vehicles.
The high winds will affect the central and south Willamette Valley, as well as lower Columbia, the greater Portland metro area and Vancouver, Washington.
Heavy rain expectedAs Oregon thaws, heavy rain to bring flood risk, high winds, closed ski areas
Electricity providers anticipated outages with the strong winds.
Pacific Power said wind will work it’s way north along the coast overnight with high winds likely in the Willamette Valley and the Portland area by Tuesday morning.
The utility urged residents to check on their emergency outage kits, keep mobile devices charged and revisit family storm preparation plans.
Residents should have the following handy in case of power outages:
- Flashlights
- Battery-operated radio and clocks
- Extra batteries
- Non-perishable foods
- Manual can opener
- Bottled water
- Blankets
Miranda Cyr reports on education for The Register-Guard. You can contact her at mcyr@registerguard.com or find her on Twitter @mirandabcyr.
Experimental Shock-Absorbing Material Can Stop Projectiles Traveling Over 3,000 MPH
A team of researchers from the University of Kent in Canterbury, England, have used a protein called talin, which functions as “the cell’s natural shock absorber,” to create a new shock-absorbing material capable of stopping projectiles traveling at supersonic speeds without destroying them in the process.
Developing materials to improve the efficacy of armor isn’t a pursuit exclusive to the militaries of the world. Shock-absorbing materials have benefits in other fields, too. In the aerospace industry, they’ll be essential as we continue to expand our presence in space, where even tiny particles moving at supersonic speeds can cause significant damage to spacecraft. Even other researchers can benefit from breakthroughs in this field, particularly those conducting experiments with high-speed projectiles that eventually need to be safely stopped.
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The current design of projectile-stopping armors and materials uses a mix of ceramics and fiber-based components layered together, which are effective at stopping a high-speed object from passing straight through them, but end up transferring a lot of the projectile’s kinetic energy onto the armored vehicle or person, often resulting in non-fatal injuries. These materials also tend to get destroyed in the process, requiring them to be replaced after every use. This new research brings us one step closer to solving the unique challenges of developing shock-absorbing materials.
At the molecular level, talin has a structure that unfolds under tension to dissipate energy and then fold back up again afterwards, leaving it ready to absorb shocks again and again, keeping cells resilient against outside forces. When the protein was combined with other ingredients and polymerised into a TSAM (or Talin Shock Absorbing Material), those unique shock-absorbing properties were maintained.
To test the effectiveness of TSAMs, the researchers subjected them to impacts from basalt particles (around 60 µM in size, or roughly the diameter of a human hair) and later, larger aluminum shrapnel, traveling at 1.5 kilometers/second. That’s over 3,300 miles per hour, and three times faster than the speed of a nine-millimeter bullet fired from a hand gun. Not only was the impact of the particles completely absorbed by the TSAM material, but the particles themselves weren’t destroyed in the process.
The size of these test materials means the particles weren’t imparting as much energy into the TSAMs as a projectile fired from something like a tank would, but it does help demonstrate their potential. Eventually, the researchers are confident the hydrogel could be incorporated into lighter wearable armors for soldiers that do a better job of absorbing the energy of an impact, while retaining their shock-absorbing capabilities, even after saving a life.
It would potentially be even more useful for the aerospace industry, both for protecting spacecraft and for research involving space debris, dust, and micrometeoroids, which could be captured without being destroyed in the process. Of course, the captured micrometeroids would be easier to study than a handful of decimated dust. But far more important to regular readers of Gizmodo is how this new material can be incorporated into smartphone cases, making our expensive investments as durable and resilient as the nearly indestructible Nokia handsets from years ago.
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Solar storm could launch 1.8 million mph solar winds at Earth TOMORROW
A ‘canyon-like’ cavity in the sun’s atmosphere known as a coronal hole will launch a solar storm towards our planet tomorrow.
According to experts, solar wind – a continual stream of charged particles – could be emitted from the hole and head towards Earth at staggering speeds of up to 1.8 million miles per hour.
Worryingly, the solar storm could cause power grid fluctuations and orientation irregularities for spacecraft in the form of ‘increased drag’ on low-Earth orbiters.
The aurora borealis – also known as the Northern Lights – may also be visible in the UK’s north.
Coronal holes appear as dark spots in ultraviolet pictures of the sun. Pictured, the sun today with the solar hole near the equator
According to Space Weather Live, the hole was detected on Monday, November 28 and the resulting storm could reach Earth on December 1.
It said the transequatorial coronal hole – one going across the sun’s equator – was ‘detected in an Earth-facing position’.
Spaceweather.com has rated the solar storm ‘G1’ (on a scale of one to five), so it’s considered to be fairly minor, although it can still cause power grid fluctuations and problems for satellites.
‘The gaseous material is flowing from a canyon-like hole in the sun’s atmosphere,’ it says.
A solar storm, also known as a geomagnetic storm, is a disturbance on the Sun.
When a solar storm comes toward us, some of the energy and small particles can travel down the magnetic field lines at the north and south poles into Earth’s atmosphere.
There, the particles interact with gases in our atmosphere, resulting in beautiful displays of light in the sky, known as auroras.
Oxygen gives off green and red light, while nitrogen glows blue and purple.
In the Earth’s north, auroras are officially known as the aurora borealis or the Northern Lights, while in the south, the event is called aurora australis.
The UK’s Met Office has said there have been aroura concentrated around the north pole all through this week.
‘There remains a slight chance for visible aurora over the far north of Scotland where skies are clear,’ it says.
A Met Office spokesperson also told MailOnline that aurora from the storm will be viewable in the north of Scotland, weather permitting.
Solar wind is constant, so auroras are frequently visible in parts of Northern Europe such as Norway and Iceland.
But at some points in the sun’s 11-year cycle, more intense solar storms emit solar winds that bombard our planet, making the aurora brighter and more frequent – meaning people in the UK have better chance of seeing it.
Coronal holes are a typical feature on the sun, though they appear at different places and with more frequency at different times of the sun’s activity cycle.
These holes are regions of the corona where the magnetic field reaches out into space rather than looping back down onto the surface.
Particles moving along those magnetic fields can leave the sun rather than being trapped near the surface. Those trapped particles can heat up and glow.
In the parts of the corona where the particles leave the sun, the glow is much dimmer and the coronal hole looks dark in ultraviolet images.
The aurora – a natural light display in Earth’s sky – may also be visible in the UK’s north. Pictured, the Northern Lights, also called aurora borealis, as seen in the sky over Tromso, Norway November 2, 2022
Solar storms can also result from a coronal mass ejection (CME) – a massive expulsion of plasma from the sun’s corona (its outermost layer).
As well as CMEs, such solar events include solar flares – explosions on the Sun that happens when energy stored in ‘twisted’ magnetic fields is released.
NASA explains: ‘There are many kinds of eruptions on the sun. Solar flares and coronal mass ejections both involve gigantic explosions of energy, but are otherwise quite different.
‘The two phenomena do sometimes occur at the same time – indeed the strongest flares are almost always correlated with coronal mass ejections – but they emit different things, they look and travel differently, and they have different effects near planets.’
Particles from solar events can travel millions of miles, and some may eventually collide with the Earth.
According to Royal Museums Greenwich, most of the particles are deflected, but some become captured in the Earth’s magnetic field.
They’re accelerated down towards the north and south poles into the atmosphere, which is why an aurora is best seen nearer the magnetic poles.
‘These particles then slam into atoms and molecules in the Earth’s atmosphere and essentially heat them up,’ said Royal Observatory astronomer Tom Kerss.
‘We call this physical process “excitation”, but it’s very much like heating a gas and making it glow.’
Solar storms aren’t dangerous to humans on Earth’s surface, but they can cause interference with power grids and GPS signals.
In 1859, a massive geomagnetic super-storm known as the Carrington event sent powerful CMEs toward Earth, disrupting communications on the ground.
Aurora over Ingolfsfjall mountain near Selfoss on the south coast of Iceland, November 28, 2022
If such an event were to happen in today’s world, the effects would be catastrophic on our communications systems.
A 2021 study by a University of California Irvine scientist found the internet could be crippled for weeks in the wake of a severe solar storm, due to vulnerabilities in world’s massive network of submarine communications cables.
The electromagnetic fluctuations caused by intense solar storms cannot directly harm the fibre optic cables that make up the backbone of the internet.
However, they do have the potential to take out the signal boosters dotted along undersea cables that are necessary to maintain connections over large distances.
According to astrophysicists, the likelihood of solar storm capable of causing catastrophic disruption occurring in the next 10 years is between 1.6–12 per cent.
Bodycam video shows wreckage of deadly crash in which teen allegedly topped 150 mph
Authorities released body camera video Tuesday that showed the aftermath of a deadly Oklahoma crash allegedly caused by a teen accused of topping 150 mph in a Ford Mustang.
Video obtained from the Stillwater Police Department by NBC affiliate KFOR of Oklahoma City showed the mangled Mustang on its side and a red Chevrolet Impala that appeared to have been demolished. The collision happened Oct. 15 in Stillwater, roughly 64 miles northeast of Oklahoma City.
A police officer can be seen in the video racing from car to car checking for survivors and talking with witnesses.
“I just heard a loud bang and saw a big old fireball flip over my car,” a man can be heard telling the officer.
The Mustang’s driver, Luke House, 18, was charged with two counts of second-degree murder — one count for the death of his passenger, identified by police as Ryan Begnaud, 18, and another for death of the passenger in the Impala, identified as Jeremi Smith, 40, police said in a statement Friday.
The Impala’s driver was hospitalized, the police department said. Her condition was not immediately clear.
The crash occurred shortly after 4 a.m. on State Highway 51 as House drove east in the road’s westbound lanes, police said.
He struck the Impala head-on before he hit a second occupied car in a convenience store parking lot and several more empty vehicles at a nearby car dealership, police said.
Vehicle data showed House’s Mustang was driving “in excess” of 150 mph, the department said.
House, who was briefly hospitalized, was arrested at home Thursday without incident, the police department said. A lawyer for House did not immediately respond to a request for comment Tuesday night.
A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Nov. 7, court records show.
This article was originally published on NBCNews.com
Nurse Nicole Linton was driving 130 mph when she allegedly killed six in fiery Los Angeles crash
The nurse facing murder charges for the fiery Los Angeles crash that killed five was going 130 mph – it was revealed on Sunday – 40 miles faster than previously thought.
Nicole Linton, 37, was initially thought to be driving her Mercedes at 90 mph, but court papers obtained by the Los Angles Times on Sunday said she floored the pedal for at least five seconds before deliberately speeding into La Brea and Slauson avenues on Aug. 4.
“Further analysis reveals that her speed at impact was in fact 130 mph and that she floored the gas pedal for at least the 5 seconds leading into the crash, going from 122 mph to 130 mph,” said the filing, which was released on Friday.
Prosecutors laid waste to the claims that she lost consciousness by citing surveillance video and data from her Mercedes. The documents said Linton had “complete control over steering, maintaining the tilt of the steering wheel to keep her car traveling directly toward the crowded intersection.”
“This NASCAR-worthy performance flies in the face of the notion that she was unconscious or incapacitated,” the filing said.
Linton was hit with six counts of murder and faces five counts of vehicular manslaughter.
Asherey Ryan, who was pregnant, died in the crash, as did her 11-month-old son Allonzo, and her boyfriend Reynold Lester. The family was reportedly heading to a prenatal checkup at the time of the collision.
Linton’s attorneys last month filed medical forms that detailed her struggle with bipolar disorder and included a determination by doctors that the nurse had an “apparent lapse of consciousness” at the time of the crash.
Marquise Brown arrested on speeding charge after reportedly driving 126 mph
County records showed Brown is accused of traveling at over 85 mph on a section of highway in north Phoenix where the posted speed limit is 65. He was arrested at 7:05 a.m. A criminal speeding charge can be brought if someone in Arizona is accused of exceeding the speed limit by more than 20 mph.
Multiple local media outlets reported Brown was traveling at 126 mph.
Criminal speeding is a Class 3 misdemeanor in Arizona punishable by up to 30 days in jail, a year of unsupervised probation and a $500 fine.
“We are aware of the situation regarding Hollywood Brown and have reported it to the NFL office as required,” the Cardinals said in a statement. “We will comment further as appropriate.”
The 25-year-old Brown is in his first season with the Cardinals, who sent a first-round pick to the Baltimore Ravens to acquire him during April’s NFL draft. Brown is expected to help Arizona’s pass-catching corps weather the early-season absence of star wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins, who was suspended six games for violating the league’s policy on banned performance-enhancing substances.
A first-round pick by the Ravens out of Oklahoma in 2019, Brown set career highs last season with 91 catches for 1,008 yards. Over three NFL seasons, he has accumulated 195 catches for 2,361 yards, 21 touchdowns and a 12.1 yards-per-reception average.
Brown was activated Tuesday off the non-football injury list following a hamstring injury he suffered before training camp. The Cardinals are conducting their camp at their stadium in Glendale, Ariz.
In comments to reporters at Cardinals camp Wednesday morning, Coach Kliff Kingsbury did not indicate whether he was aware of Brown’s arrest.
“When he’s back, I want him full speed and confident,” Kingsbury said then. “Playing in a new system, you don’t want him thinking too much about anything physically.”
In May, the Cardinals were shaken by the death of cornerback Jeff Gladney, whom they had signed two months earlier. The 25-year-old, who previously played for the Minnesota Vikings, and a female companion were killed in a car crash in Dallas. According to a crash report (via TMZ Sports), investigators listed “unsafe speed” as among the contributing factors.
Enormous Asteroid Traveling at 72,000 mph Only Just Spotted Nearing Earth
An asteroid that could measure more than 1,200 feet across—as tall as the Empire State Building—is set to fly safely past Earth later this week after being discovered just a few days ago.
The space rock, dubbed 2022 OE2, will make a close approach to our planet on Wednesday, figures from NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) database show.
At 8:23 p.m. ET on that day, the asteroid is predicted to come within around 3.2 million miles of Earth in its own orbit around the sun.
This is around 13 times the average distance between the Earth and the moon and, as such, there is no threat of a collision with our planet.
Asteroids are rocky objects that orbit the sun, much like planets, although they are significantly smaller.
Estimating the size of asteroids is tricky because astronomers often have to work out how big the object is based on how bright it appears in the sky.
“The bigger it is, the more light it will reflect and thus the brighter it will seem,” Greg Brown, an astronomer at Royal Observatory Greenwich in the United Kingdom, previously told Newsweek. “However, this requires an assumption of how reflective the material it is made from is, which can vary greatly. Add on a number of other complications and the actual size of an object can be very different from the calculated value.”
As a result of these uncertainties, astronomers usually provide a range for size estimates, which in the case of 2022 OE2 is 170-380 meters (558-1,247 feet).
At the upper end of this size range, the asteroid would stand as tall as the Empire State Building in New York City, which is around 1,250 feet in height.
According to the CNEOS figures, 2022 OE2 will be traveling at a staggering speed of nearly 72,000 miles per hour. This is about 40 times faster than a rifle bullet, and around one third as fast as a bolt of lightning.
The space rock is one of more than 29,000 near-Earth objects, or NEOs, that scientists have discovered to date—the vast majority of which are asteroids. The term is used to refer to any astronomical body that passes within around 30 million miles of our planet’s orbit.
The 2022 OE2 asteroid was only discovered on July 26, 2022, just a few days before its close approach. While astronomers have identified thousands of NEOs, these objects can actually be quite difficult to spot, partly because they are relatively small and dark in comparison to other objects in the sky.
Some NEOs are classified as “potentially hazardous,” meaning they have orbits that come within 4.6 million miles of Earth’s own path around the sun, while also measuring more than 140 meters (around 460 feet) in diameter.
The size of potentially hazardous objects means they could produce significant damage on at least a regional scale in the event that one of them collides with Earth. However, none of the potentially hazardous NEOs that we know about has any chance of colliding with the Earth over the next century or so, according to CNEOS manager Paul Chodas.
Cardinals prospect Masyn Winn has 100.5 mph throw
MLB Pipeline gave Masyn Winn’s arm an 80 grade, literally the top of the scale, in the offseason because Winn — a former two-way player in the St. Louis system — can throw some of the best darts in Minor League Baseball.
The 20-year-old shortstop collected a bouncing ball from Astros prospect Yainer Diaz in the second inning and unleashed a 100.5 mph throw for the easy out. For reference, the hardest Major League infield throw in the Statcast era came in at 97.8 mph, and that was set just this week by Pirates shortstop Oneil Cruz. Winn topped out at 99.8 mph on his arm strength last season at Single-A Palm Beach (where Statcast data is also available), so this marks the first time he cracked triple-digits in publicly available data.
Winn’s improving bat at High-A and Double-A helped make him a Top 100 prospect for the first time in 2022, and his defense at the six has always been special. But it’s the arm that will likely draw the biggest gasps in the Majors, just as it did Saturday.