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Costa Rica's 'extinct' Chata volcano being re-examined for activity


The Costa Rica News
Sat, 12 Jul 2014 15:12 UTC
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Volcanologists of the National Seismological Network (RSN) have begun early research on the Chato volcano, located southeast of Poas volcano, to find out information such as its last eruption. RSN volcanologist, Gino Gonzalez, said that measurements of the temperature of the lagoon taken by sonar instrumentation, determining that the surface of the lake is about 19°C and approximately 6 meters deeper the temperature of the lagoon varies drastically.

"It's a volcano which very little is known about its historical activity, so we have seismic stations for periodic sampling and we are starting a campaign to closely monitor it every six months," Gonzalez said. Chato is considered an extinct volcano according to the authorities who made the first sampling to verify the behavior and activity.

According to volcanologist at greater depths there is an increase in the amount of dissolved oxygen in the lake, which could be due to a strong photosynthetic activity, consistent with high turbidity or gas accumulation at deeper levels. The maximum depth of the lake is around 18 meters, averaging 15 meters.
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Cloud Lightning

Severe storms, flooding, high winds to threaten mid-Atlantic, Northeast U.S.

Kristina Pydynowski
Accuweather.com
Sat, 12 Jul 2014 11:29 UTC
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Starting on Sunday, the Northeast and mid-Atlantic will be faced with severe thunderstorms and flooding downpours on multiple days before the new week ends on a more refreshing note.

A quiet start to the weekend will give way to the adverse weather threat that will span Sunday through at least Tuesday.

That is the last thing those still cleaning up after last Tuesday's deadly severe weather wants to hear.

Severe weather will return to upstate New York, northern and western Pennsylvania and back through the lower Midwest states as soon as Sunday, mainly in the afternoon and evening, as a cold front slices into the steamy air.
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Cloud Precipitation

Heavy hailstorm pelts beachgoers in Novosibirsk

Severe Weather RU
Youtube
Sat, 12 Jul 2014 00:00 UTC

Large hail on the city beach in Novosibirsk.
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Snowflake Cold

But it's summer? Return of polar vortex to trigger midwest storms, chill

Alex Sosnowsk
AccuWeather
Sat, 12 Jul 2014 08:54 UTC
Rounds of thunderstorms, including severe weather, will affect the Midwest this weekend into Monday, ahead of a push of unseasonably cool air.See video here

While the effect of the July sun and warm landscape will cancel some of the cool air, it will become surprisingly cool during what is typically the hottest time of the year.

According to AccuWeather Meteorologist Carl Erickson, "The pattern is reminiscent of a major polar plunge that occurred this past winter, which was referred to as the Polar Vortex."
summer polar vortex
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A piece of the Polar Vortex, and a summertime version at that will break off from the Arctic and drop southward this coming week.

The pattern will not bring snow or sub-zero cold but it will bring angry clouds, cool air and the risk of waterspouts over the warmer portions of Great Lakes.

Comment: Can we now finally put the whole global warming nonsense to rest? This is going to be a summer without summer. Look for even higher food prices as crops fail all over the midwest.

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Snowflake

French Alps hit by some very unseasonal July snowfalls


thelocal.fr
Fri, 11 Jul 2014 09:48 UTC
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© WebcamThe French Alps looked more like a winter wonderland this week as the rotten summer weather continued in France.
Holidaymakers in the Alps in recent days would have been forgiven for thinking they had come in the wrong season after the region was hit by some very unseasonal snowfalls. There was bad news for sunseekers too with the sun set to stay away for much of July.

Parts of the Alps looked like a winter wonderland on Thursday as summer snow continued to fall, disrupting the usual holiday activities.

The regional newspaper Dauphiné Libere reported that tourists in the town of La Rosière were asking shopkeepers for toboggans so they could go sledging on the slopes.

At the resorts of Tignes and Val d'Isere, the snowfall ruined the chances of activities such as flyboarding and mountain biking.

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The resort of La Rosiere
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Ice Cube

Ice still present on Lake Superior in July!

Robert Felix
iceagenow.info
Fri, 11 Jul 2014 08:43 UTC
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The mainstream media tries to pretend that ice remained on Lake Superior "only" into June.

"How about July?"asks reader E Stephens.

"We should name icebergs still floating in Lake Superior in July after infamous AGW scientists. This one is Gavin," says Tilly LaCampagne via Twitter.

See photo dated 11 July 2014:

Thanks to E Stephens for this link
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Cloud Lightning

One killed and seven injured by lightning in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado

Matt Farley
Fox31 Denver
Fri, 11 Jul 2014 05:55 UTC
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A lightning strike killed one woman and injured seven other people inside Rocky Mountain National Park on Friday, park officials said.

The strike occurred shortly after 1 p.m. on the Ute Crossing Trail, officials said. Eight people suffered a variety of injuries, including one woman who died at the scene.

The people were all Colorado residents hiking together.

Of the remaining seven, two were transported by ambulance and five transported themselves to the Estes Park Medical Center, park officials said.

Four of the victims were treated and released. The other three remained hospitalized, but were expected to survive.

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Snowflake Cold

Coldest June ever recorded in Antarctica

Eric Worrall
wattsupwiththat.com
Sat, 12 Jul 2014 04:00 UTC
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Antarctica continues to defy the global warming script, with a report from Meteo France, that June this year was the coldest Antarctic June ever recorded, at the French Antarctic Dumont d'Urville Station.

According to the press release, during June this year, the average temperature was -22.4c (-8.3F), 6.6c (11.9F) lower than normal. This is the coldest June ever recorded at the station, and almost the coldest monthly average ever - only September 1953 was colder, with a recorded average temperature of -23.5c (-10.3F).

June this year also broke the June daily minimum temperature record, with a new record low of -34.9c (-30.8F).

Other unusual features of the June temperature record are an unusual excess of sunlight hours (11.8 hours rather than the normal 7.4 hours), and unusually light wind conditions.
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Nuke

Timebomb! Watch as 6.8 Magnitude quake shakes the Fukushima nuclear power plant

Tyler Durden
Zerohedge.com
Fri, 11 Jul 2014 15:26 UTC
Fukushima map
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Fast forward to 1 minutes 6 seconds into the clip (equivalent to 4:22am local time, and where every second is equvalent to 6 seconds in real-time) to see what the 6.8 magnitude earthquake, which we reported earlier, was all about. Luckily, this time, it was nothing to write home about. Let's hope it stays that way for all future earthquakes as well, or otherwise Abe will have much bigger problems on his hands than just a flaccid "third arrow."


Comment: USGS: Earthquake Magnitude 6.8 - 129km ESE of Namie, Japan

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Alarm Clock

Earthquake Magnitude 4.3 in central Greece rattles Athens

Ioanna Zikakou -
Greek Reporter
Fri, 11 Jul 2014 15:06 UTC
Earthquake 4.3 hits central Greece
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An earthquake of 4.3 magnitude on the Richter scale rattled Central Greece, today, July 11 at 12:46 pm. The areas where the earthquake was mostly felt were Chalkida and Eretria, while Athenians also felt its impact.

According to the Institute of Geodynamics the epicenter of the earthquake was in the city of Chalkida, Euboea, 54 kilometers north of Athens. The focal depth of the quake was detected at five kilometers.

Historically, earthquakes have caused widespread damage across central and southern Greece, the islands of the Ionian Sea, Crete, Cyprus, Sicily and other neighboring regions.

In January, a series of strong earthquakes on the western island of Kefalonia damaged hundreds of homes and injured more than a dozen people.
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