Earth Changes
Hysteric? Please cool down!
We hear that global warming is highly dependent on the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, this gas that is required to sustain life on Earth and that is also emitted when burning flammable stuff, such as wood, coal, mineral and organic oils, or methane.
If you are told "this depends on that", you are invited to examine available data observed over time to draw a representation of this on the y-axis vs. that on the x-axis.
Downbursts are created by an area of significantly rain-cooled air that, after reaching ground level, spreads out in all directions producing strong winds. Dry downbursts are associated with thunderstorms with very little rain, while wet downbursts are created by thunderstorms with high amounts of rainfall.
Twenty-six-year old Bhulibai Lodha, a resident of Prathvipura village was killed on the spot after lightning struck her on Tuesday noon while she was working in the field, said SHO Ghatoli police station, Sardar Khan. The woman was rushed to nearby government hospital where the doctors declared her brought dead, the SHO said.
In a similar incident, a 25-year-old woman identified as Prembai, a resident of Devkadar village under the same Ghatoli police station area was killed on the spot after lightning struck her while she was working in the field, said the SHO.
The bodies were handed over to the family members after post-mortem in the evening, he said.
Farzana Bibi, 28, and her eight-year-old son Shoaib died when they were struck by lightning, police claimed. An official said two boys were also injured in the incident and were shifted to a nearby hospital.
In another incident, a youth was hit by lightning when he was returning from fields. He was identified as Muhammad Khan of Basti Khushal Singh.
Another person was injured in the incident, and shifted to hospital for treatment.
The bodies were shifted to Minchinabad THQ Hospital for medico-legal formalities.
Meanwhile, Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has expressed deep sense of grief over the loss of lives due to lightning in Bahawalnagar district and announced a financial aid of Rs500,000 each for their heirs.
Sources
In the first incident five including three class 8 students were killed after lighting hit them in Dindori district. The incident took place at Bhartoli village under Shahpura police station of the district.
Police said that Maheshwari Paraste, 26, her daughter Sharda Paraste, 11, another girls, Poonam Barmaiya, 13, Sushma Uladi, 13 and Nanki Marko, 14, were struck by lightning while they were returning after taking bath from nearby Sakul river in the morning.
All the five died on the spot a case has been registered on the information of the local village panchayat secretary, added police. Apart from Dindori district, five people were killed in two separate incidents in Tikamgarh district.
Of the five, three were killed in Midaoli village of the district. Police said that the incident took place when the villagers had gathered to participate in a 'kanya bhoj' organised at the village.
Taken during the night of May 28, the remarkably clear, unobstructed view looks toward a multicell storm system raging over the English Channel about 600 kilometers away.
Lasting only a few milliseconds, the red sprite association with thunderstorms is known. Still, much remains a mystery about the fleeting apparitions including the nature of their relation to other upper atmospheric lightning phenomena such as blue jets or satellite detected terrestrial gamma flashes.
A sinkhole opened up on the edge of Wickiup Reservoir over the weekend — possibly due to a collapsed lava tube — but officials say water levels at the reservoir just west of La Pine are expected to remain stable.
Photos shared by the Deschutes National Forest earlier in the week showed water draining into the sinkhole. During a visit to the area on Tuesday, the hole was just above the water line. Crews with the North Unit Irrigation District, which operates the Wickiup Dam, placed sandbags to keep water from spilling in to the hole on Tuesday.
Dave Walsh, spokesman with the Bureau of Reclamation, said the hole is roughly 10 to 12 feet across and about 4 feet deep. He said a geologist who examined it on behalf of the bureau on Monday estimated water was flowing down the hole to parts unknown at around 900 gallons a minute.
Last Thursday, a group of photographers were out on a trek to capture shots of the Milky Way, when they were surprised by these light pillars.
The multicoloured light pillars are a natural phenomenon that occurs when light reflects off the mirror-like surfaces of ice crystals. They are usually found in the polar regions, but have appeared at lower latitudes before.
Photographer Andrew Tan, was with a group of 11 at the northernmost tip of Sabah, Borneo. He told Mashable he only realised the light pillars were in the picture when he checked his camera later.
He used a 30-second long exposure to capture the phenomenon, and it picked up the colours of the light pillars. "It was magnificent," Tan told Malaysian paper The Star. "It is definitely a moment to treasure in our lives."













Comment: Some other transient luminous events (TLEs) so far this year include:
June 2017: Red jellyfish sprites with halo of light captured over Austria
April 2017: Rare ELVE and red sprites captured in Czech Republic and 6 'gigantic jets' (ionospheric lightning) were photographed in Western Australia.
March 2017: A huge blue jet was observed over Brazil.
See also: Electric universe: Lightning strength and frequency increasing
The Electric Universe model is clearly explained, with a lot more relevant information, in the book Earth Changes and the Human Cosmic Connection by Pierre Lescaudron and Laura Knight-Jadczyk.