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The art of green deception . . .about those record temperatures in Antarctica

Warren Blair
Watts Up With That?
Fri, 07 Apr 2017 21:39 UTC
antarctica
Warren Blair writes:

On the same day (24 March 2015) in the real Antarctic (not Esperanza on the Trinity Peninsula) Australia's Casey research station had its coldest 24 March day in 18 years (minus 12.7 °C). That wasn't mentioned and neither was any other interesting data like Casey's 2015 March mean maximum temperature was the same as 1990 and lower than 1991, 1992, 2001, 2002, 2006, 2007 and 2009.

Highest Antarctic region temperature was 35 years ago when CO2 was 340ppm (15% less than 2015 levels).

19.8°C was recorded on 30 January 1982 at Signy Research Station located at Borge Bay (near Esperanza Base) .

Highest Antarctic temperature for a Plateau station [>2500 meters] was 28 years ago.

-7.0°C was recorded on 28 December 1989 at an Automatic Weather Station (D-80) located inland from the Adélie Coast.

Highest Antarctic temperature for a continental station (outside the Antarctic Circle) was recorded in 2015.

17.5°C was recorded on 24 March 2015 at the Esperanza Base located on the Trinity Peninsula at Hope Bay (near Signy Research Station).
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Scientists link California droughts and floods to distinctive atmospheric waves

Anthony Watts
Watt's Up With That?
Thu, 06 Apr 2017 21:33 UTC
wavenumber-5
© Haiyan Teng and Grant BranstatorThe high- and low-pressure regions of wavenumber-5 set up in different locations during January 2014, when California was enduring a drought, and January 2017, when it was facing floods. The location of the high and low pressure regions (characterized by anticylonic vs. cyclonic upper-level air flow) can act to either suppress or enhance precipitation and storms. The black curves illustrate the jet streams that trap and focus wavenumber-5.
From NCAR/UCAR:

Boulder, Colo. — The crippling wintertime droughts that struck California from 2013 to 2015, as well as this year's unusually wet California winter, appear to be associated with the same phenomenon: a distinctive wave pattern that emerges in the upper atmosphere and circles the globe.

Scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) found in a recent study that the persistent high-pressure ridge off the west coast of North America that blocked storms from coming onshore during the winters of 2013-14 and 2014-15 was associated with the wave pattern, which they call wavenumber-5. Follow-up work showed that wavenumber-5 emerged again this winter but with its high- and low-pressure features in a different position, allowing drenching storms from the Pacific to make landfall.

"This wave pattern is a global dynamic system that sometimes makes droughts or floods in California more likely to occur," said NCAR scientist Haiyan Teng, lead author of the California paper. "As we learn more, this may eventually open a new window to long-term predictability." The finding is part of an emerging body of research into the wave pattern that holds the promise of better understanding seasonal weather patterns in California and elsewhere.
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Ice Cube

Unusually large swarm of over 400 icebergs blocking shipping lanes in the North Atlantic

Jennifer McDermott
ctvnews.ca
Fri, 07 Apr 2017 19:49 UTC
Iceberg
More than 400 icebergs have drifted into the North Atlantic shipping lanes over the past week in an unusually large swarm for this early in the season, forcing vessels to slow to a crawl or take detours of hundreds of kilometres.

Experts are attributing it to uncommonly strong counter-clockwise winds that are drawing the icebergs south, and perhaps also global warming, which is accelerating the process by which chunks of the Greenland ice sheet break off and float away.

As of Monday, there were about 450 icebergs near the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, up from 37 a week earlier, according to the U.S. Coast Guard's International Ice Patrol in New London, Connecticut. Those kinds of numbers are usually not seen until late May or early June. The average for this time of year is about 80.
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Cloud Precipitation

Severe hailstorm hits Springville, Alabama

Joe Songer
al.com
Wed, 05 Apr 2017 18:43 UTC
Hail
© Representative image
Weather can change in an instant in Alabama and today was no exception. This morning a loud, rumbling clap of thunder jolted me awake just after 6 a.m. followed by huge downpour of over an inch of rain.

By lunchtime the sun was out and temperatures warmed into the upper 70's.

At 6:09 p.m. the skies darkened once more and within minutes my wife Karen and I were witnessing one of the most violent hail storms either of us has ever seen.

It lasted just over four minutes. In that time, the hail shredded leaves from the trees and ripped off tree branches. The nickel to quarter size hail stones covered the ground like snow. The hail battered our metal roof and bounced on the driveway like marbles.

When it was over, fog descended over the entire area and dropped the temperature by at least 10 degrees. It was one of the most amazing things I've even witnessed and won't soon forget.

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Fireball

SOTT Focus: SOTT Earth Changes Summary - March 2017: Extreme Weather, Planetary Upheaval, Meteor Fireballs


Sott.net
Fri, 07 Apr 2017 17:30 UTC
Wildfires USA March 2017
Planetary environmental chaos continued unabated this month. Several spectacular fireballs were seen from one end of the world to the other. Wildfires ravaged several mid-West states while unusually strong winds hit Illinois and New York. Madagascar got slammed by a ferocious storm as did Brazil, New Zealand and France.

Severe flooding hit several parts of the globe, but the worst affected was Peru where dozens of people died and hundreds of thousands have been left with no homes. With freak tidal waves from Iran to South Africa, strange 'gas' explosions in the UK and methane gas leaks in Russia, not to mention snow off the coast of Africa and lightning scoring direct strikes on cars, March was a pretty intense month for the planet and its inhabitants.
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Wolf

City of Khabarovsk in Russia under siege from packs of aggressive stray dogs as boy, 12, mauled on way to school


The Siberian Times
Thu, 06 Apr 2017 18:27 UTC
Mass stray dog attacks on people.
© The Siberian TimesMass stray dog attacks on people.
'Scared' residents complain of 'epidemic' in Khabarovsk, arguing animal rights campaigners and 'kind-hearted' are endangering people by blocking preventative measures.

The attack on Ivan 'Vanya' Tsybenko, 12, on his way to school is an increasingly common occurrence in this city of 589,000, say locals.

His mother Tatiana fears he would have been killed if neighbours had not seen the attack and dragged the child into their car.

I walked my son to school 7.30 am on 4 April, and then went to take my younger boy to kindergarten,' she said.

'I walked several hundred meters away from school with a pushchair, when suddenly there was a call from Vanya, who screamed: 'Mama, dogs are attacking me!'

'I was too far away by then to see what was happening, but I heard my son screaming, and dogs howling and growling.

'I ran back, but with a small child on my hands I couldn't even help him.

'Thank God two women who were driving past saw the attack and pulled my boy inside their car.

'It was my neighbours , I don't know what would have happened if it wasn't for them.
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Wolf

Woman killed by 2 dogs in Oklahoma City

Jordann Lucero
okcfox.com
Thu, 06 Apr 2017 18:08 UTC
Dog attack
Police say a woman was killed in a dog attack Thursday in northwest Oklahoma city.

The Oklahoma City Police Department reports that just before 2 p.m. April 6 officers were called to a dog attack in the 8500 block of Willow Creek Road. Police say a woman was walking her dog on Windmill Road when they were both attacked by two other dogs. The woman and her dog were both killed.

Police said one was a pit bull. Officers could not immediately identify the breed of the other do, but said it was also large.

Officer said they tried to save the woman, but could not.

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Attention

Elephant kills 2 and injures 5 in Nepal


Online Khabar
Tue, 04 Apr 2017 16:59 UTC
Charging elephant
© GettyCharging elephant
Two people were killed and five others were injured on Tuesday when a wild elephant entered a village in Saptari.

The elephant, which entered Hanumannagar Bazaar from Koshi Tappu Wildlife Reserve, killed Roshan Jha and Sanjay Saafi iat Yoginimai Municipality.

Thirty-three-year-old Jha breathed his last while being rushed to BP Koirala Institute of Health Sciences in Dharan. Saafi also died while receiving treatment in Dharan.

One of the five people injured in the incident is in critical condition, local authorities say.

Local police say the bazaar has been shut following the elephant attack. Authorities are trying to get the elephant out of the settlement.
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Snowflake Cold

New Euro-studies support 'global cooling'; record snow hits Canada & ferry trapped in sea ice

Adapt 2030
YouTube
Thu, 06 Apr 2017 07:27 UTC
record snow in Canada
© YouTube/Adapt 2030 (screen capture)
New Euro-studies Confirm Sun Dominates Earth's Climate a solar sunspot minimum will soon lower earth's temperatures by half a degree C. The long cold minimum is expected to hit about 2040. This comes from The Physical Meteorological Observatory Davos (PMOD), the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (EAWAG), ETH Zurich and the University of Bern. It is now clear that all three temperature surges were caused by the 60-year Pacific Decadal Oscillation, recognized by fisheries experts only in 1996. Now record snowfall in Newfoundland Canada at 120cm with ferry stuck in sea ice plus record ice growth on Greenland.


Comment: The Solar Minimum, Earthquakes and Mini Ice Age - and What to Expect: Interview with John Casey, Author of UPHEAVAL and Dark Winter (VIDEO)

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Rare ELVE and red sprites captured over thunderstorm in Czech Republic

Deborah Byrd
EarthSky
Thu, 06 Apr 2017 10:02 UTC
ELVE over Czech Republic
© Martin PopekThe ring of light was approximately 60 miles (100 km) wide. It’s a lightning phenomenon, known as an ELVE.
The enormous ring of light that appeared in the night sky on April 2 - above a thunderstorm in the Czech Republic - was a rare and fleeting lightning phenomenon.

Amateur astronomer Martin Popek of the city of Nýdek in the Czech Republic caught this rare red ring of light in the sky on April 2, 2017, using a low-light video camera. It's an example of an ELVE (Emissions of Light and Very Low Frequency Perturbations due to Electromagnetic Pulse Sources). Spaceweather.com explained:
ELVEs appear when a pulse of electromagnetic radiation from lightning propagates up toward space and hits the base of Earth's ionosphere ... A faint ring of light marks the broad 'spot' where the EMP hits.

ELVEs are elusive - and that's an understatement. Blinking in and out of existence in only 1/1000th of a second, they are completely invisible to the human eye.
ELVEs are often accompanied by red sprites, often called lightning sprites, and that was the case here. The image below - also captured by Popek on April 2 - shows them.

These lightning phenomena are extremely elusive. For one thing, they flash on a millisecond timescale. They're also above thunderstorms, so they're usually blocked from view on the ground. Astronauts in space have the perfect vantage point for seeing ELVEs and lightning sprites, and indeed ELVEs were first seen by cameras on the space shuttle in the 1990s.

Comment: Another ELVE was photographed above a thunderstorm in Colorado last year. A few days ago 6 'gigantic jets' (ionospheric lightning) were captured above storm clouds in Western Australia. Another blue jet was observed over Brazil last month. These transient luminous events (TLEs) are not so 'rare' these days.

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.

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