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Snowflake Cold

Arctic blast sent subzero chill to Rockies, Plains; Hard freeze for California

Nick Wiltgen and Chris Dolce
The Weather Channel
Mon, 09 Dec 2013 12:43 UTC
staying cold
A bitterly cold air mass spread across the western states and into the Plains and Midwest during the first week of December. One of the coldest temperatures recorded happened the morning of Saturday, Dec. 7, when the temperature in Jordan, Montana dropped as low as -42!

In some cities, the frigid air mass has been the coldest seen in years or has broken daily record lows. Here's a few examples:
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Radar

Mysterious Green Surf Appears Off Cocoa Beach, Florida, U.S.


Brevard Times
Mon, 09 Dec 2013 12:03 UTC

It may be Green Monday today, but it was "Green Sunday" yesterday for beachgoers off Florida's Space Coast. The surf turned to a bright fluorescent green Sunday afternoon as waves broke off Cocoa Beach, Florida. When surfers paddled out through the breaking waves, the water agitation appeared to make the surf even greener.

In recent weeks, Brevard County beaches have accumulated heaps of seaweed due to prevailing easterly winds. Florida Fish and Wildlife officials stated that they will conduct sampling of the waters off Cocoa Beach and Cape Canaveral to determine whether an algal bloom is the cause of the water discoloration.

Brevard County Environmental Health Director Melissa Brock said in an email that after FWC's test results are in, "a Florida Department of Health response will be based upon if a bloom exists and if the responsible organism produces a toxin that is harmful to health."
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Bizarro Earth

Sumatra's Sinabung volcano sees large eruption this morning, ash plume at 38,000 ft (12 km) altitude


VolcanoDiscovery.com
Tue, 10 Dec 2013 09:32 UTC
After a relatively calm period, a large vulcanian explosion occurred at the volcano this morning (04:30 GMT). VAAC Darwin reports an ash plume to 38,000 ft (12 km) altitude drifting 50 nautical miles to the NW. The eruption was preceded by a smaller one at midnight (GMT) with an ash plume altitude of estimated 18,000 ft (5.5 km). The volcano has been on red alert for 2 weeks and more than 17,000 people remain evacuated (for good reason!).
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Snowflake Cold

Global warming? Antarctica hit a new all-time coldest temperature record of -135 degrees Fahrenheit TWICE in last three years

Seth Borenstein
Associated Press
Tue, 10 Dec 2013 06:31 UTC
Feeling chilly? Here's cold comfort: You could be in East Antarctica which new data says set a record for "soul-crushing" cold.

Try 135.8 degrees Fahrenheit below zero; that's 93.2 degrees below zero Celsius, which sounds only slightly toastier. Better yet, don't try it. That's so cold scientists say it hurts to breathe.

A new look at NASA satellite data revealed that Earth set a new record for coldest temperature recorded. It happened in August 2010 when it hit -135.8 degrees. Then on July 31 of this year, it came close again: -135.3 degrees. The old record had been -128.6 degrees, which is -89.2 degrees Celsius.
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© Ted Scambos, National Snow and Ice Data CenterNASA Spots Coldest Place on Earth in Antarctica at a Record -94.7 Celsius
Ice scientist Ted Scambos at the National Snow and Ice Data Center said the new record is "50 degrees colder than anything that has ever been seen in Alaska or Siberia or certainly North Dakota."

"It's more like you'd see on Mars on a nice summer day in the poles," Scambos said, from the American Geophysical Union scientific meeting in San Francisco Monday, where he announced the data. "I'm confident that these pockets are the coldest places on Earth."

Comment: They sure took their sweet time publishing this information... is that because it conflicts with their 'climate models' and supports the imminent ice age theory?

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Ice Cube

The sun in November 2013: You're going to have to add more antifreeze

Frank Bosse and Fritz Vahrenholt
No Tricks Zone
Tue, 10 Dec 2013 05:42 UTC
In November 2013 the sun showed signs of more activity as sunspot number (SSN) was 77.6. This solar cycle month (the 60th of the current cycle) was therefore "only" 32% below the level of a normally active sun. Just as a reminder: February 2013 was 66% below the mean value of all the previous observed cycles 1-23! Compared to the mean (blue) the current cycle (red) appears as follows:
Solar cycle 24
© Frank Bosse and Fritz VahrenholtFigure 1: Current cycle 24 (red) versus mean solar cycle (blue) and solar cycle 5 (gray).
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Bizarro Earth

11 dead whales discovered on remote island believed to be among the pod stranded last week

Jaleesa Baulkman
University Herald
Mon, 09 Dec 2013 14:00 UTC
Whales
© Wikimedia Commons
Eleven dead whales were discovered Sunday afternoon on a remote island in the Florida Keys, CBS News 12 reported.

The sea creatures that were discovered on Snipe Point, about six miles north of Sugarloaf Key, are likely from the pod of stranded whales "that had been the focus of an intense rescue effort" last week, Blair Mase, stranding coordinator for National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries, the main federal marine conservation agency, told reporters in a conference call.

NOAA said it's suspected that the whales came from a pod of 51 pilot whales that were stranded on the Gulf Coast of Florida's Everglades National Park.

"We think these are from the same group," Mase said. "We expected this would happen."
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Attention

Tornado hits New Plymouth, New Zealand

Michele Ong
Daily News Online
Sat, 07 Dec 2013 16:23 UTC
Roof repair
© Taranki Daily NewsStation Officer Jason Crowe, right, and Senior firefighter Nick Hackling mend a section of roof taken off by a small tornado.
''It just got really windy''

A Taranaki woman had her roof lifted off her house when a mini tornado swept through her street yesterday afternoon.

Heavy rain pounded the region earlier this morning before the skies cleared.

The New Plymouth fire service was called to the Egmont Road property around 2.50pm today. Owner Kelly Andrews said she was watching TV when things got a ''bit breezy''.

''It was totally unexpected,'' she said. ''I heard a major bang on the roof and the kitchen window was blown out.'' ''The glass got right through the cupboards and all.''
Ms Andrews said she did not realise part of her roof was missing until she informed by a neighbour.
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Ice Cube

Icy winter storm shuts down North Texas

Nomaan Merchant
Yahoo News!
Fri, 06 Dec 2013 15:34 UTC

Freezing rain and stinging winds slammed the Southwest Friday and made a strangely blank landscape out of normally sun-drenched North Texas: mostly empty highways covered in a sometimes impassable frost, closed schools and businesses, and millions of residents hunkered down for icy conditions expected to last through the weekend.
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Cloud Precipitation

Cyclone Madi to intensify into severe storm


NDTV
Sat, 07 Dec 2013 17:33 UTC
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© The HinduThis image from the IMD website shows Cyclone Madi, which lay centred about 500 km southeast of Chennai at 8.30 a.m. IST on Saturday
A cyclonic storm named 'Madi' would intensify into a severe cyclonic storm, bringing rain or thundershowers over some parts of Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh during the next 48 hours, the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) said today.

"The depression over southwest Bay of Bengal intensified into a cyclonic storm 'MADI' early this morning and will intensify into a severe cyclonic storm and move nearly northwards very slowly in the next 48 hours," an IMD bulletin said.

It was "practically stationary" and lay centred about 500 km southeast of Chennai and 370 km northeast of Triconamalee in Sri Lanka, it added.

"Under the influence of this system, rainfall at a few places would occur over coastal Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, south coastal Andhra Pradesh and Andaman and Nicobar Islands during the next 48 hours," it added.
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Cloud Lightning

Extreme weather could become norm 'around Indian Ocean', say scientists

Michael Slezak
New Scientist
Fri, 29 Nov 2013 07:16 UTC
extreme weather
© Image: John Crux Photography/GettyCommonplace by mid-century?
What do the torrential rains that swept across a swathe of East Africa in 1997 have in common with the record-breaking drought that Australia has just emerged from? Both can be blamed on El Niño's Indian Ocean sibling.

A study looking at how climate change will affect this ocean oscillation pattern has predicted that if the world is allowed to warm uncontrollably, these kinds of extreme events will become the norm by 2050.


Comment: Except that the planet isn't 'warming':

From 'Hiding the Decline' to 'Burying the Pause': Man-made Global Warming is still a lie


The Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) is an oscillation of warm water across the equator. In the oscillation's positive phase, sea surface temperatures in the Arabian Sea rise whereas temperatures around Sumatra, Indonesia, fall. In the negative phase, it's the other way around.

As well as being blamed for Australia's recent dry spell and the 1997 East African storms, the IOD's positive phase has been linked to droughts in Australia and dry weather in Indonesia over the last 6500 years, according to a 2007 study of fossilised coral. The study also concluded that positive events are becoming more frequent, with an unprecedented 11 occurrences over the past 30 years.


Comment: No mention of the overwhelming evidence that there is far more to these "oscillations" than ocean currents.

Ocean oscillations are not "masking" global warming: the cooling is real
US Army: Sun, Not Man, Is Causing Climate Change
The missing sunspots: Is this the big chill?

And no mention of undersea volcanoes:

Volcanic eruptions, rising CO2, boiling oceans, and why man-made global warming is not even wrong
Undersea Volcanic Activity Contributing To Cooling
Thousand of new volcanoes revealed beneath the waves


Comment: In the meantime, extreme weather has already become the norm EVERYWHERE!

Real science done by honorable scientists who actually pay attention to the real world are coming down on the side of global cooling.

Global Cooling - Methods and testable decadal predictions
Ice Ages start and end so suddenly, "it's like a button was pressed," say scientists
The 'Old' Consensus? (NASA predicted human caused ice age in 1971)
Croat scientist warns ice age is overdue, could start in five years

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