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QUIET BEGINNING HERALDED NATION's WORST FLOOD IN 1993 By the time flood waters subsided in October, the Great Flood of 1993 had inundated 20 million acres in nine states, taking 50 lives and costing about $20 billion. Approximately 54,000 people were evacuated from flooded areas, approximately 50,000 homes were destroyed or damaged and 75 towns had been completely inundated. Some riverside communities were abandoned or relocated to higher ground.

THE WORLD's FIRST OPERATIONAL SOLAR IMAGER GOES ON LINE GOES-12, the nation's latest and most advanced environmental satellite, was activated Tuesday from an on-orbit storage mode, replacing the older GOES-8, which has hovered above the East Coast and Atlantic Ocean for nearly 10 years. Full Story Inside

NOAA RESEARCHERS UNVEIL CLIMATE TIME LINE WEB SITE NOAA researchers developed a new online tool to help explain how small-scale climate dynamics impact global climate change. The Climate TimeLine site captures the history of climate exploration and its impact on human development. Full Story Inside

ICEBERG C-21 BREAKS OFF SHACKLETON ICE SHELF The National Ice Center in Suitland, Md., confirms an iceberg broke off from the Shackleton Ice Shelf, a large sheet of glacial ice and snow extending from the Antarctic mainland into the western Wilkesland Sea. Full Story Inside

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NOAA Says El Niño's Departure Leaves Some Western Drought this Spring, and Flooding in the South and East Possible