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Return of the Polar Vortex? Arctic Cold Setting Dozens of Daily Records in the Northeast and Midwest

Brian Donegan
The Weather Channel
Sat, 11 Nov 2017 14:41 UTC
pattern shift

The upper-level weather pattern late this week will bring arctic air to the Midwest and Northeast.
Old Man Winter is paying a strong visit to the Midwest and Northeast this weekend, bringing the coldest air of the season so far, smashing daily records from the Northern Plains to New England.

A pronounced southward dip in the jet stream has driven a cold front through the Midwest and Northeast.

This is bringing a blast of arctic air to portions of the northern tier, which will last into the weekend.

Coldest Air So Far This Season Arrives, Including Record Lows

As anticipated, Saturday morning is the coldest morning of the season, so far, in the Northeast, with record lows already being reported in two dozen locations, including:
  • Atlantic City, New Jersey (21 degrees)
  • Baltimore (21 degrees)
  • Boston (23 degrees)
  • Buffalo, New York (19 degrees)
  • Cleveland (20 degrees)
  • Erie, Pennsylvania (19 degrees)
  • New York City's Central Park (24 degrees)
  • Pittsburgh (17 degrees)
  • Syracuse, New York (16 degrees)
  • Washington D.C. (26 degrees)
  • Youngstown, Ohio (13 degrees)
According to the National Weather Service, Saturday morning's record low in Washington D.C. was their first in November since 1976.

Comment: So much for global warming. And no, global warming is not the cause for the extreme low temperatures we are seeing. If anything, one might expect to see long winters on the east coast and exceptionally cold temperatures into March. See:

Brace yourself, the polar vortex is shifting
Ice Age Cometh: Scientists concerned approaching solar minimum could plunge Earth into deep freeze
Russian scientist: 'The new Little Ice Age has started'
Polar vortex or impending ice age?

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Attention

'On life support': Research shows even low doses of common pesticides starve, disorient migrating songbirds

Bob Weber
City News
Thu, 09 Nov 2017 11:12 UTC
A white crested sparrow is seen in this undated handout photo. Research suggests that two of Canada's most commonly used pesticides cause migrating songbirds to lose both weight and their sense of direction.
© University of Saskatchewan
A white crested sparrow is seen in this undated handout photo. Research suggests that two of Canada's most commonly used pesticides cause migrating songbirds to lose both weight and their sense of direction.
Newly published research says two of Canada's most commonly used pesticides cause migrating songbirds to lose weight and their sense of direction.

"This is very good evidence that even a little dose — incidental, you might call it — in their feeding could be enough to have serious impacts," said University of Saskatchewan biologist Christy Morrissey, whose paper was published Thursday in the journal Scientific Reports.

Morrissey studied the effect of two widely used pesticide types — neonicotinoids and organophosphates. Both are used on more than 100 different crops, including wheat and canola, and are found in dozens of commercial products.

The so-called neonics are often applied to seeds before they're planted in the ground. Organophosphates are applied in tiny granules.

Both are known to be lethal to birds in large doses, but Morrissey wanted to study the impact of smaller amounts.

She and her colleagues took three groups of white-crowned sparrows, a common migratory songbird found throughout North America, and exposed them to a small dose, a somewhat larger dose, or no dose at all.
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9 dead as heavy rainfall causes floods and landslides in Indonesia (VIDEOS)

Richard Davies
Floodlist
Fri, 10 Nov 2017 10:27 UTC
Flood Hits Several Regions in Indonesia

Flood hit several regions in Indonesia
Heavy rainfall in areas of Indonesia since 03 November 2017 has caused flooding and landslides in several provinces, according to the country's Disaster Prevention Agency (BNPB). At least 9 deaths have been attributed to the heavy rain. Over 3,000 people have been affected by flooding.

On 09 November 5 people died in a landslide in South Ogan Komering Ulu Regency, South Sumatra. Around 20 others were injured.

In Central Java a building collapsed in Tegal Regency as a result of heavy rain, also on 09 November. At least 4 people were killed and 5 were injured.
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Attention

Shallow 3.2 magnitude earthquake hits Los Angeles, raises fears of bigger jolts

Chris Baynes
The Independent (UK)
Fri, 10 Nov 2017 09:29 UTC
West Athens, California earthquake
© Bing Maps
A map shows the approximate location of the epicenter of Friday morning's quake near West Athens, Calif.
Locals shaken awake by 'nasty' tremor, raising fears of bigger quake

Los Angeles has been rocked by a magnitude 3.2 earthquake.

The tremor occurred at 1.15am local time (9.45am GMT) at a depth of 7.5 miles (12km), according to the US Geological Survey. Its epicentre was in the West Athens area in the south of the city.

Locals reported feeling the ground shake, with some tweeting that they were woken up by the quake.

"That felt nasty," wrote one. "Especially because it was near my area."

Another said: "I jumped out of bed and woke everyone up just in case."

"Felt quite a strong shake in downtown LA," tweeted another.

Minor tremors are a regular reminder of the likelihood of another strong earthquake in Los Angeles, which was devastated by a deadly magnitude 6.7 earthquake in January 1994
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Shallow M6.3 earthquake hits Ascension Island region


eTurboNews
Sat, 11 Nov 2017 02:06 UTC
Ascension Island region earthquake
© USGS
A 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck in the Ascension Island region at a depth of 10 kilometers. The nearest location to an inhabited area was 423.4 kilometers south of Georgetown in Saint Helena.

Ascension Island is part of a British Overseas Territory together with St. Helena and Tristan da Cunha under the sovereignty of the British Crown.

There have been no reports of damages or injuries, and no tsunami threat has been issued.
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A long way from home: Rare Corncrake from Eurasia turns up on Long Island, New York


Surfbirds
Fri, 10 Nov 2017 19:22 UTC
Corncrake
© Colin Bradshaw
Corncrake
It is not a short hike to the Corn Crake. But when a bird is so rare it isn't even listed in some North American field guides, you go. You go 50 miles east of New York City and 15 more south. You speed across South Oyster Bay, then the full length of a barrier island, to reach a beach town so boarded-up even the public bathrooms are closed. You scramble across a two-lane highway to a brushy median, high-stepping the thorns, hoping you haven't missed it.

You fly in from Michigan, from North Carolina, from Minnesota. You ditch work and rent a car, rumble in from Manhattan against the crosstown traffic. You drive three hours to what feels like the edge of the world, November's first deep chill sweeping in off the sea, and say, "I would have driven six to see it."

"It only took me 58 years to see this bird," said Paul Desjardins, who came from Connecticut. "I never thought I'd see it."

Not since 1963 has a Corn Crake been documented in New York State, when one was shot in a remote rye field. Before that, the last record came from Grover Cleveland's first presidency, in 1888. That's two Corn Crakes in the past 129 years—until Ken and Sue Fuestal spotted one foraging on the side of a shoulder-less highway on Long Island, just east of New York City, on November 7.

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Snowflake

Antarctica is being rapidly melted from below says Nasa, and it thinks it knows why

Andrew Griffin
UK Independent
Thu, 09 Nov 2017 20:54 UTC
Fragmented ice floes near the coast of West Antarctica

Fragmented ice floes near the coast of West Antarctica
Space agency believes it has finally found the source of the mysterious heat warming the polar cap

Comment: A reader comments:

I have been doggedly explaining to them for a decade now, that non-dipole magnetic shifts at the core mantle boundary are the cause of this melting and climate change. We are heading towards a full reversal (always going towards or away from one, but now quite close. As a result of the last one, the icecap in Antarctica melted totally, seas rose 50 metres. Might be awkward, but cutting down smoking won't help)

The antique mantle plume yarn has some merit, but there is no effective material flow upwards in the mantle. That is about four orders of magnitude too slow. At least. The geomagnetic shift, gravity shift, eustatics and geodetics maps plus the seismic tomography, all match, while the lower troposphere CO2 maps don't, but show most CO2 is from the deep oceans, and also, oddly, from the deep sedimentary basins.

AGW is not a conspiracy, just the new world religion. It results from almost all climate scientists being geomagnetic illiterates, and also, they can't read multilayered time-series contour map shifts. It is an obscure set of skills.

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Attention

What is causing the mass die-off of Russian seals and other animals around the world

Beatrice Dupuy
Newsweek
Fri, 03 Nov 2017 12:18 UTC
Over a hundred dead seals wash up on Baikal shore

Over a hundred dead seals wash up on Baikal shore
Researchers are now adding the death of more than a hundred seals in Russia to their growing list of animal mass mortality events around the world.

Russian officials are investigating the deaths of 141 Baikal earless seals after experts say they starved to death.

Alexei Kalinin, an attorney, told the Interfax news agency that the seals' growing population could have attributed to their starvation.

"The dead animals were all hungry," she said. "There was no food in their stomachs."

The seals who belong to a population of about 13,000 washed up on a shoreline of Lake Baikal near the Mongolian border and the majority was pregnant.

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Arrow Down

The Dead Sea is dying: Thousands of sinkholes are shrinking water level at rate of 1.4 metres a year

Daniel Bardsley
The National
Fri, 10 Nov 2017 11:58 UTC
A view of the the Dead Sea's receding shoreline from the Hilton Dead Sea Resort & Spa in Jordan.
© Sophie Tremblay
A view of the the Dead Sea's receding shoreline from the Hilton Dead Sea Resort & Spa in Jordan.
On a bright November day in Jordan, the Dead Sea appears tranquil, with barely a ripple on its surface as it stretches out into a distant haze.

But there are indications that all is not well here at the lowest point on Earth: by the cluster of hotels that lines the seafront, mechanical diggers appear to be shoring up the land, and the walk down to the sun loungers beside the water is lengthening.

It all hints at a problem that has vexed multiple governments and sparked concerns among researchers, environmentalists and anyone else with an interest in this iconic salt lake, which is woven into the history of Islam, Christianity and Judaism.

In short, the Dead Sea is dying.
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Attention

Whale washes up on Dalmeny Beach, Australia

Eden Magnet
Gippsland Times
Fri, 10 Nov 2017 11:03 UTC
Dalmeny

Dalmeny beach
A morning walk delivered more than sunshine and surf for a Eurobodalla couple on Friday.

Jacinta Ryan and Mark Dudley, of Dalmeny, found the carcass of a whale they believe was mauled by a shark or sharks on November 10.

The couple found the remains on rocks at the north end of Dalmeny Beach.

"It is a walk we like doing when we can," Ms Ryan said.

The couple spotted something large on the rocks.

"I know the rocks pretty well, and I thought originally it was a dead seal, but when we got closer, we realised it was a lot bigger," Ms Ryan said.
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