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Cyclone Madi to intensify into severe storm


NDTV
Sat, 07 Dec 2013 17:33 UTC
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© The Hindu
This image from the IMD website shows Cyclone Madi, which lay centred about 500 km southeast of Chennai at 8.30 a.m. IST on Saturday
A cyclonic storm named 'Madi' would intensify into a severe cyclonic storm, bringing rain or thundershowers over some parts of Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh during the next 48 hours, the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) said today.

"The depression over southwest Bay of Bengal intensified into a cyclonic storm 'MADI' early this morning and will intensify into a severe cyclonic storm and move nearly northwards very slowly in the next 48 hours," an IMD bulletin said.

It was "practically stationary" and lay centred about 500 km southeast of Chennai and 370 km northeast of Triconamalee in Sri Lanka, it added.

"Under the influence of this system, rainfall at a few places would occur over coastal Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, south coastal Andhra Pradesh and Andaman and Nicobar Islands during the next 48 hours," it added.
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Cloud Lightning

Extreme weather could become norm 'around Indian Ocean', say scientists

Michael Slezak
New Scientist
Fri, 29 Nov 2013 07:16 UTC
extreme weather
© Image: John Crux Photography/Getty
Commonplace by mid-century?
What do the torrential rains that swept across a swathe of East Africa in 1997 have in common with the record-breaking drought that Australia has just emerged from? Both can be blamed on El Niño's Indian Ocean sibling.

A study looking at how climate change will affect this ocean oscillation pattern has predicted that if the world is allowed to warm uncontrollably, these kinds of extreme events will become the norm by 2050.


Comment: Except that the planet isn't 'warming':

From 'Hiding the Decline' to 'Burying the Pause': Man-made Global Warming is still a lie


The Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) is an oscillation of warm water across the equator. In the oscillation's positive phase, sea surface temperatures in the Arabian Sea rise whereas temperatures around Sumatra, Indonesia, fall. In the negative phase, it's the other way around.

As well as being blamed for Australia's recent dry spell and the 1997 East African storms, the IOD's positive phase has been linked to droughts in Australia and dry weather in Indonesia over the last 6500 years, according to a 2007 study of fossilised coral. The study also concluded that positive events are becoming more frequent, with an unprecedented 11 occurrences over the past 30 years.


Comment: No mention of the overwhelming evidence that there is far more to these "oscillations" than ocean currents.

Ocean oscillations are not "masking" global warming: the cooling is real
US Army: Sun, Not Man, Is Causing Climate Change
The missing sunspots: Is this the big chill?

And no mention of undersea volcanoes:

Volcanic eruptions, rising CO2, boiling oceans, and why man-made global warming is not even wrong
Undersea Volcanic Activity Contributing To Cooling
Thousand of new volcanoes revealed beneath the waves


Comment: In the meantime, extreme weather has already become the norm EVERYWHERE!

Real science done by honorable scientists who actually pay attention to the real world are coming down on the side of global cooling.

Global Cooling - Methods and testable decadal predictions
Ice Ages start and end so suddenly, "it's like a button was pressed," say scientists
The 'Old' Consensus? (NASA predicted human caused ice age in 1971)
Croat scientist warns ice age is overdue, could start in five years

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Bug

Cold-loving Asian cockroach invades New York

Megan Gannon
LiveScience
Mon, 09 Dec 2013 09:47 UTC
Cockroaches
© Lyle Buss, Univ. of Florida
This male (left) and female (right) of the cockroach species Periplaneta japonica were found on New York City's High Line in 2012.
A new species of cockroach that can withstand freezing temperatures has taken up residence in New York, scientists confirmed.

The resilient critter, Periplaneta japonica, had never been seen in the United States until an exterminator spotted some strange-looking roach carcasses last year on the High Line, a mile-long park built on an old elevated railway in Manhattan. Researchers confirmed the identity of the species, which is native to Asia and notable for its ability to thrive in cold climates, unlike the American cockroaches that populate New York and take shelter indoors when winter comes.

"About 20 years ago colleagues of ours in Japan reared nymphs of this species and measured their tolerance to being able to survive in snow," Rutgers insect biologist Jessica Ware said in a statement.

"As the species has invaded Korea and China, there has been some confirmation that it does very well in cold climates, so it is very conceivable that it could live outdoors during winter in New York. That is in addition to its being well suited to live indoors alongside the species that already are here."

Ware and colleagues say it will be difficult to trace the source of the species, but they suspect Periplaneta japonica arrived in New York in the soil of one of the plants along the High Line, which first opened in 2009 and is still partially under construction. Though the High Line's gardens have a focus on native plants, Ware noted that many nurseries in the United States have native plants alongside imported ones.
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Cloud Lightning

Climate change warning: Killer winter storms for next THIRTY years

Matthew Young
Daily Star, UK
Sun, 08 Dec 2013 14:06 UTC
storm surge
© Alamy
Sea storms and colossal waves will batter towns and villages
Killer freezes, floods and heatwaves will devastate Britain during the next 30 years, climate ­experts have warned.

Many people could die as extreme weather becomes common.

There will be more freak winds like the October storm, which killed four people.

Heatwaves will be lethal and the sea level will rise, leaving coastal towns at risk of being swamped by storm surges.

Sir Brian Heap, president of the European Academies Science Advisory Council, said he felt "obliged" to issue the warning after a new study by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

It comes on the back of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines, which has killed more than 5,000 people.

Comment: They never give up, do they? Like the extreme weather has anything to do with their 'sea-levels-rising-by-2100-due-to-man-made-global-warming' nonsense.

The very IPCC report this 'Sir' cites acknowledges that there has been no 'warming' since 1998!

No, something else is causing all these powerful storms, coastal surges and volcanic eruptions... and no amount of recycling cartons is going to do anything to stop it.

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Snowflake Cold

Sleet, ice, deep freeze hit large swathe of U.S.

Steve Szkotak
Associated Press
Sun, 08 Dec 2013 12:27 UTC
snow plow
© AP Photo/The Jonesboro Sun, Rob Holt
Ronnie Moody of Nabholz Construction Services plows ice from the parking lot of the St. Bernards Outpatient Dialysis Center on Washington Avenue in Downtown Jonesboro, Ark., Saturday, Dec. 7, 2013. Moody said he and others had been working off and on since about 3 a.m. Saturday clearing key areas around the hospital.
Rain, snow, sleet and freezing rain began to glaze most of the Mid-Atlantic on Sunday, with officials urging people to stay off the roads, as North Texas and other states shook off the early remnants of the powerful storm.

Virginia, parts of West Virginia and the metropolitan Washington, D.C., area braced for a winter's smorgasbord as utility crews were at the ready. The treacherous conditions were to continue most of Sunday.

"We're actually getting something of everything," said meteorologist Anita Silverman in the Blacksburg, Va., office of the National Weather Service.

Parts of northwest and southwest Virginia and southern West Virginia were getting snow, while sleet and freezing rain prevailed west and north of Richmond. A handful of cancelations were reported at Richmond International Airport. In Baltimore, officials canceled the mayor's annual Christmas parade because of snowy weather as road conditions deteriorated.
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Cloud Precipitation

Sky-rocketing food prices in India: Who's to blame?

Niranjan Kaggere
Bangalore Mirror
Mon, 09 Dec 2013 09:28 UTC
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The rocketing prices of agricultural produce have not only burned a hole in budgets, but have kept many foods off dining tables in households. Politicians blame it on traders hoarding stocks. Traders in turn blame farmers for lack of supply, while farmers blame the changing weather. While all these factors do play a part, the primary cause, scientists, is poor yield.

Scientists say the reason for poor yields is that farmers still stick to age-old methods of farming. Most are unaware of new developments in agricultural practices, farming equipment and high yielding varieties of seeds and the few that are aware are unwilling to change.

In a recent survey, scientists and researchers from the extension department of the University of Agricultural Sciences (UAS) found that nearly 70 per cent of the varsity's R & D does not percolate down to farmers. This in turn is pushing prices of produce up.

Comment: It's always safe to blame the system, but hasn't the system always been to blame? Something new must have come in to play here, like changing weather patterns. We suspect the farmers know best...

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Ice Cube

U.S. East Coast braces for Monday morning commute from hell: Winter storm threatens to bring freezing rain and has already caused 50 car pile-up in Pennsylvania


Daily Mail UK
Mon, 09 Dec 2013 08:46 UTC
A powerful storm that crept across the country dropped snow, freezing rain and sleet on the Mid-Atlantic region and headed northeast Sunday, turning NFL playing fields in Pennsylvania into winter wonderlands, dumping a foot of snow in Delaware and threatening a messy Monday commute in the northeast corridor.

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Freezing raining days and Mondays: The above map shows how the weather will impact East Coast roads Monday morning
The storm forced the cancellation of thousands of flights across the U.S. and slowed traffic on roads, leading to a number of accidents, including a fatal crash on the Pennsylvania Turnpike near Morgantown that led to a series of fender-benders involving 50 cars that stranded some motorists for up to seven hours. More than two dozen vehicles were involved in another series of crashes on nearby Interstate 78.

What was forecast in the Philadelphia area to be a tame storm system with about an inch of snow gradually changing over to rain mushroomed into a full-blown snowstorm that snarled mid-afternoon traffic along Interstate 95 in Pennsylvania from the Delaware to New Jersey state lines.

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Snowflake

Yet another winter storm moves eastward in U.S.

Eyder Peralta
National Public
Sat, 07 Dec 2013 21:57 UTC
ice storm tree damage
© Stewart F. House/Getty Images
Six-year-old Enari Hernandez (left) and her cousin Maritza Jimenez, 6, play in front of a damaged tree in their neighbors yard on Saturday in Plano, Texas.
After a significant winter storm dumped a mixture of snow and ice across the country's midsection, another gruesome storm is moving east and meteorologist say the Eastern Seaboard should prepare for the kind of conditions that paralyzed cities in Texas, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Arkansas and Missouri.

The Associated Press reports that in California, four people were killed because of the cold and the NBC affiliate in Dallas reports that .

NPR member station KERA says "North Texas is practically a skating rink."

The weather caused cancellations of flights and the Dallas Marathon. Temperatures, reports KERA, are expected to dip into the teens.

The Associated Press adds:
"Meanwhile, around 7 inches of snow fell in northeast Arkansas and the Missouri boot heel, according to the National Weather Service in Memphis. Ice accumulated on trees and power lines in Memphis and the rest of West Tennessee after layers of sleet fell throughout the region Friday.

"The storm dumped a foot of snow and more in some areas of Illinois, with police scrambling to respond to dozens of accidents and forced scores of schools to remain closed."
As for what's to come, the National Weather Service has issued winter storm warnings and watches for parts of Ohio, North Carolina, Virginia and Maryland.
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Arrow Down

Sinkhole swallows car in Bakersfield, California


KomoNews
Fri, 06 Dec 2013 12:56 UTC

David Williams said he got a phone call about 5:30 a.m. Friday. His car was partially underground.

Stuart Patteson, Bakersfield Public Works operations manager, said Williams' parked car was swallowed by a sinkhole at 1st and L streets, created by a deteriorated 36-inch sewer trunk line.


Comment: More sinkhole activity in California:
California couple wakes to find sinkhole in yard (March 2013)
US, California: Giant Sinkhole Opens up Near UCSD (Oct 2011)


Patteson said they pulled the car out of the sinkhole and started examining the extent of damage to the sewer line. Repairs will come next.
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Snowflake Cold

More of U.S. expected to see snow, sleet, ice - National Weather Service

Adrian Sainz
Yahoo News
Sat, 07 Dec 2013 21:24 UTC
snow storm Texas
© Associated Press/Tony Gutierrez
Vehicle traffic in IH-35 North and South bound is shown at a dead stop due to ice road conditions, Saturday, Dec. 7, 2013, in Sanger, Texas. Officials with the Texas Department of Transportation said "several miles" of the interstate had been backed up for 24 hours.
After cold rain and winds lashed the Southwest and other parts of the country Friday, millions of residents hunkered down for icy conditions expected to last through the weekend as the cold snap was forecast to continue causing problems and trekking northeast.

Face-stinging sleet, thick snow and blustery winds led to slick road conditions, school closures, power outages and event cancellations as the wintry blast dropped temperatures to freezing and below from Texas to Ohio to Tennessee on Friday.

In California, four people died of hypothermia in the San Francisco Bay Area while the region was gripped by freezing temperatures.

The weather created a strangely blank landscape out of normally sun-drenched North Texas: Mostly empty highways were covered in a sometimes impassable frost.

It forced the cancellation of Sunday's Dallas Marathon, which was expected to draw 25,000 runners, some of whom had trained for months. A quarter of a million customers in North Texas were left without power, and many businesses told employees to stay home to avoid the hazardous roads.

Meanwhile, around 7 inches of snow fell in northeast Arkansas and the Missouri boot heel, according to the National Weather Service in Memphis. Ice accumulated on trees and power lines in Memphis and the rest of West Tennessee after layers of sleet fell throughout the region Friday.

The storm dumped a foot of snow and more in some areas of Illinois, with police scrambling to respond to dozens of accidents and forced scores of schools to remain closed.
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