Rutgers University Climate Lab : Global Snow Lab.
http://climate.rutgers.edu/snowcover/table_area.php?ui_set=0&ui_sort=1
Climate experts tell us that declining snow and ice cover is an essential ingredient of global warming.
Earth Changes
Week 44 northern hemisphere snow extent has increased by 25% since the start of the satellite era in 1979, and this year has the second highest snow extent during that period. Russia and Canada are almost completely covered with snow.
Rutgers University Climate Lab : Global Snow Lab.
http://climate.rutgers.edu/snowcover/table_area.php?ui_set=0&ui_sort=1 2012 also set the record for the greatest Antarctic sea ice cover ever measured.
Climate experts tell us that declining snow and ice cover is an essential ingredient of global warming.
Rutgers University Climate Lab : Global Snow Lab.
http://climate.rutgers.edu/snowcover/table_area.php?ui_set=0&ui_sort=1
Climate experts tell us that declining snow and ice cover is an essential ingredient of global warming.
Flooding in Malaga city, Spain on November 17, 2012.
The alert affects the Costa del Sol, the Guadalhorce Valley and the Axarquia.
Malaga city centre was hit particularly hard on Saturday with many flooded streets around the El Corte Ingles department store. Many traffic lights were out of order causing major delays on some roads.
The 112 emergency service reported that they attended over three hundred incidents in Malaga in a five-hour period, mainly in the capital, due to the downpour.
Comment: Interesting video, bringing together many anomalies that fly in the face of man-made global warming.
Sott.net's research leads us to believe that all this and more (namely the increase in fireball sightings, comet-dust loading of the atmosphere and strange sky noises) could be explained by a Twin Sun approaching, having kicked a swarm of comets our way.
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An offshore earthquake of magnitude 4.5 or above could cause submarine avalanches and create dangerous tsunamis with waves higher than 26 feet.
An offshore earthquake of magnitude 4.5 or above could cause submarine avalanches and create dangerous tsunamis with waves higher than 26 feet.
Although the risk is small, tsunamis are possible on the East Coast of the United States from a variety of sources, according to new research.
And as Hurricane Sandy showed, the region is completely unprepared for a major influx of water, said U.S. Geological Survey researcher Uri ten Brink.
The most likely source for an East Coast tsunami would be an underwater avalanche along the continental slope, according to research presented by ten Brink and others earlier this month at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America in Charlotte, N.C. Ten Brink also outlined several other possible sources of tsunamis, including earthquakes and even collapsing volcanoes.
Red rain in Sewanagala and Manampitiya left red frost on the ground. This is the first time red rain was witnessed in Sri Lanka. The Health Ministry Secretary informed Medical Research Institute (MRI) Director Dr Anil Samaranayake to conduct a study to ascertain the reasons for red rain by taking water samples from Monaragala and Polonnaruwa.
Increase in the acidity of the air and sand storms are the usual reasons for red rain. However, there are no sand storms in Sri Lanka. India had red rain last year and Indian scientists discovered a variety of micro organisms as a reason for the rains. Since the micro organisms had no DNA, they guessed it had to be a strange phenomenon.
Comment: Red Rain fell earlier this year in the Kerala area of India and in the same area in 2001.
Initially it was suggested that the red color came from sand from the Sahara desert, but in 2006 Godfrey Louis, a physicist at Mahatma Gandhi University in Kottayam, gathered samples and concluded this was nonsens:
'If you look at these particles under a microscope, you can see they are not dust, they have a clear biological appearance.'Instead Louis decided that the rain was made up of bacteria-like material that had been swept to Earth from a passing comet. In short, it rained aliens over India during the summer of 2001.
A severe bout of cold weather looks to be heading Britain's way
Temperatures will fall as low as minus 20C in rural areas, forecasters warned last night, while heavy snow and "potentially dangerous" blizzards will close roads and cripple rail networks.
James Madden, forecaster for Exacta Weather, said: "We are looking at some of the coldest and snowiest conditions in at least 100 years. This is most likely to occur in the December to January period with the potential for widespread major snowfall across the country.
"Parts of the North, Scotland and eastern England are likely to experience a run of well below average temperatures, which will include some potentially dangerous blizzard conditions at times."
He warned the South faces a bout of "unusually heavy snowfall" in December.
Leon Brown, meteorologist for The Weather Channel, said snow could arrive as early as next weekend, with temperatures falling to minus 5C in the North.
"There is a 30 per cent risk of some snow over lower levels in Scotland on Friday."
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2012-11-17 05:12:56 UTC
2012-11-16 18:12:56 UTC-11:00 at epicenter
Location
18.311°S 172.374°W depth=9.8km (6.1mi)
Nearby Cities
174km (108mi) ENE of Neiafu, Tonga
430km (267mi) NE of Nuku'alofa, Tonga
474km (295mi) SSW of Tafuna, American Samoa
480km (298mi) SSW of Pago Pago, American Samoa
499km (310mi) S of Apia, Samoa
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Hundred of people have been left homeless by the freak incident in which the entire neighbourhood has been reduced to tatters, and many have been injured. Panicking parents rushed to a nearby-by school to collect their children who were in class when the tornado hit, and billboards on a nearby roundabout were mangled.
The exact extent of the damage and seriousness of the injuries are still being calculated. Abel Silva, born and raised in Lagoa, saw his ground-floor apartment destroyed in a terrifying incident which last minutes.
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2012-11-16 18:12:37 UTC
2012-11-17 04:12:37 UTC+10:00 at epicenter
Location
49.291°N 155.445°E depth=4.9km (3.0mi)
Nearby Cities
161km (100mi) SSW of Severo-Kuril'sk, Russia
454km (282mi) SSW of Vilyuchinsk, Russia
473km (294mi) SSW of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, Russia
479km (298mi) SSW of Yelizovo, Russia
1981km (1231mi) NE of Tokyo, Japan
Technical Details
Auroras are usually green, and sometimes purple, but seldom do sky watchers see much red. The geomagnetic storm of Nov. 13/14 was different. It produced auroras with a distinctly rosy hue. David E. Cartier, Sr. photographed the phenomenon near Marsh Lake, about 40 km east of Whitehorse in Canada's Yukon Territory:
"I was amazed by the deep scarlet color, which was immediately recognizable to the unaided eye," says Cartier. Similar splashes of candy-cane red were spotted over Wisconsin and Michigan.
The apparition might be related to rare all-red auroras sometimes seen during intense geomagnetic storms. They occur some 300 to 500 km above Earth's surface and are not yet fully understood. Some researchers believe the red lights are linked to a large influx of low-energy electrons. When such electrons recombine with oxygen ions in the upper atmosphere, red photons are emitted. At present, space weather forecasters cannot predict when this will occur.
Could more reds be in the offing? NOAA estimates a 30% to 35% chance of polar geoagnetic storms on Nov. 16th and 17th. Sky watchers seeing red should submit their images here.
© David E. Cartier, Sr
The apparition might be related to rare all-red auroras sometimes seen during intense geomagnetic storms. They occur some 300 to 500 km above Earth's surface and are not yet fully understood. Some researchers believe the red lights are linked to a large influx of low-energy electrons. When such electrons recombine with oxygen ions in the upper atmosphere, red photons are emitted. At present, space weather forecasters cannot predict when this will occur.
Could more reds be in the offing? NOAA estimates a 30% to 35% chance of polar geoagnetic storms on Nov. 16th and 17th. Sky watchers seeing red should submit their images here.
Comment: Spain floods: Eight die in Malaga, Almeria and Murcia