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Best of the Web: Signs of Change in February 2014

HawkkeyDavis Channel
YouTube
Sat, 01 Mar 2014 14:10 UTC
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Extreme flooding in Southwest England

Heavy snowfall in Europe causes misery - 6.0 earthquake in Greece, followed by a 6.1 a week later - More fireballs - Mt. Etna eruption - Deep freeze in America, heavy snowfall in south East, children stranded in schools - Bizarre tumbleweed invasion in Mexico - Massive floods in Italy, 2 meters of snow in the north - Indonesia volcano eruption kills 16 people - Heaviest snow in 50 years in Iran, 1.5 meters - 400 dead dolphins in Peru - Blizzards turn Slovenia to ice, and disrupt Serbia Croatia, Germany - 30 ft sinkhole in Buckinghamshire - Britain battered by a swath of storms, causing yet more extreme flooding, worst in 250 years - Blizzards blast north west US, while california suffers heavy flooding - Worst snowstorm in Japan in decades kills 13 people, heaviest in 78 years - Huge sinkhole swallows car museum - 130 year record broken for storms in Philadelphia - 49 out of 50 states covered in snow - Another eruption on Java island, Indonesia leaves 2 people dead - Carolina earthquakes - 103 earthquakes in Oklahoma. Mysterious boom in Philadelphia blows out windows - New jersey lake turns blood red - 22 Tornadoes strike states in Midwest...

Recent storms worldwide have been destroying records with an onslaught of precipitation leading to more 100 year events which devastated populated areas. This video includes rare, strange and extreme weather that had taken place over the last month or so and it's not getting any better since my last upload, it only worsen!


*This series does not mean the world is ending! These are documentaries of series of extreme weather events that are leading to bigger earth changes. If you are following the series, then you are seeing the signs.
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Sun

Warming felt to deepest reaches of ocean


PhysOrg
Sun, 02 Mar 2014 17:58 UTC
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In the mid-1970s, the first available satellite images of Antarctica during the polar winter revealed a huge ice-free region within the ice pack of the Weddell Sea. This ice-free region, or polynya, stayed open for three full winters before it closed.

Subsequent research showed that the opening was maintained as relatively warm waters churned upward from kilometres below the ocean's surface and released heat from the ocean's deepest reaches. But the polynya - which was the size of New Zealand - has not reappeared in the nearly 40 years since it closed, and scientists have since come to view it as a naturally rare event.

Now, however, a study led by researchers from McGill University suggests a new explanation: The 1970s polynya may have been the last gasp of what was previously a more common feature of the Southern Ocean, and which is now suppressed due to the effects of climate change on ocean salinity.

The McGill researchers, working with colleagues from the University of Pennsylvania, analyzed tens of thousands of measurements made by ships and robotic floats in the ocean around Antarctica over a 60-year period. Their study, published in Nature Climate Change, shows that the ocean's surface has been steadily getting less salty since the 1950s. This lid of fresh water on top of the ocean prevents mixing with the warm waters underneath. As a result, the deep ocean heat has been unable to get out and melt back the wintertime Antarctic ice pack.

Comment: The researchers are missing a vital factor in their speculations: undersea volcanoes. They can contribute to all the effects noted.

Underwater Antarctic Volcanoes Discovered in the Southern Ocean
Huge underwater volcanoes mapped near Antarctica
Underwater Volcanism - Antarctic ice melting from below
Thousand of new volcanoes revealed beneath the waves
Volcanoes may cause more rain than realized

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Umbrella

Washington state's Wanapum Dam has 65-foot crack

Gillian Mohney
ABC News
Sat, 01 Mar 2014 00:00 UTC
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© WikicommonsA crack discovered in Wanapum Dam leads to emergency procedures.
Engineers have started emergency procedures to stabilize a Washington dam after they found a 65-foot crack in the structure.

The Wanapum Dam, a hydroelectric project located on the Columbia River in Grant County, Wash., is still running after divers discovered a 65-foot crack that is 2-inches wide.

The problem was first identified after an engineer noticed a "bowing" in the roadway above the dam and later discovered that a concrete spillway was raised above the water by 2.5 inches, according to Grant County Public Utility District spokesman Thomas Stredwick.

"Since we've noticed the issue, there's no additional movement for that spillway section," said Stredwick.

Stredwick said there are more than a dozen concrete spillway sections, but only one has been affected by the crack.

The dam has not been evacuated and is still producing electricity for the central Washington region. Due to the severity of the problem, a crisis scenario plan has been implemented, meaning that the damage is significant enough that there is potential the dam could fail.
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Cloud Precipitation

1500 mile massive storm system takes aim at winter-weary U.S.Midwest, East packing cold air, snow and freezing rain

Victoria Cavaliere
Reuters
Sun, 02 Mar 2014 19:44 UTC
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A massive winter storm system packing cold air, snow and freezing rain was pummeling the central United States on Sunday and headed for the East Coast, sending temperatures plummeting and causing major delays for weekend travelers. Rainfall and snow associated with the system will stretch over 1,500 miles, from southeastern Colorado to southern Massachusetts, meteorologists said.

The storm "is going to be a real mess," said Bruce Sullivan, a senior meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Silver Spring, Maryland. "The main system is injecting a lot of moisture and cold air out over the Southern Plains," he said. "It's going to bring quite a bit of precipitation."

Heavy snow could fall on an area from eastern Kansas to Pennsylvania, with the Mid-Atlantic, including parts of Maryland and Washington D.C., getting up to 12 inches before the system dissipates on Monday. More than 1,500 flights were canceled and another 2,880 were delayed as of mid-afternoon on Sunday, according to the airline tracking site FlightAware.com.

"Ripple-effect flight delays and cancellations are likely to reach nationwide," said AccuWeather meteorologist Alex Sosnowski.
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Colosseum

Heavy rain causes ancient Pompeian wall to collapse


The Epoch Times
Sun, 02 Mar 2014 17:19 UTC
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© Associated Press/Salvatore LaportaCarabinieri police officers, right, review the damage of a collapsed wall in the 2000-year-old archeological site of Pompeii, near Naples, Italy, Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2010.
Two more walls have given way inside Pompeii's 2,000-year-old archaeological site, officials said Wednesday, reporting the second collapse in as many days. Officials sought to play down the latest collapses, saying they only concerned the upper parts of two walls of no artistic value. But the repeated damage at one of the world's most popular archaeological sites is proving an embarrassment for Italy, and giving credence to accusations that the area is in a state of decay. The two walls collapsed early Wednesday morning, likely as a result of heavy rains over the past several days, the office of Pompeii's archaeological superintendent said.

Top Italian culture officials are calling for swift action to save Pompeii, the ancient Roman city encased in volcanic ash, from further ruin after heavy rains reportedly caused part of a wall to collapse.

Giancarlo Galan, the head of a parliamentary culture commission, on Sunday lamented the latest collapse at the archaeological site near Naples.

Italian media reported that Saturday's rainstorm provoked the partial collapse of a wall around a necropolis and caused some stones to fall at The Temple of Venus.

Despite the damage, Pompeii remained open to tourists Sunday. But its offices were closed and further details were not immediately available.

Last year, the Italian government appointed a special official to ensure that European Union and Italian funds were properly spent to repair and protect Pompeii.

Via Associated Press
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Bizarro Earth

USGS: Earthquake Magnitude 6.7 - 110km NNW of Nago, Japan


US Geological Survey
Sun, 02 Mar 2014 14:48 UTC
Nago Earthquake_020314
© USGS
Event Time
2014-03-02 20:11:22 UTC
2014-03-03 04:11:22 UTC+08:00 at epicenter

Location
27.419°N 127.365°E depth=112.3km (69.8mi)

Nearby Cities
110km (68mi) NNW of Nago, Japan
119km (74mi) NNW of Ishikawa, Japan
127km (79mi) NNW of Okinawa, Japan
128km (80mi) NNW of Gushikawa, Japan
1126km (700mi) S of Seoul, South Korea

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Cloud Lightning

California reporter stuck in mud reporting on dangerous weather


youtube.com
Sat, 01 Mar 2014 13:06 UTC
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Thigh high: Miguel Almaguer filmed a live segment for NBC Nightly News in the area called Azusa near Los Angeles on Friday as the storms threatened houses in the area

A TV news employee trying to report from the scene of an unstable Azusa hillside Friday got stuck in waist-high mud and had to be rescued.

The man was reporting in the hillside above the home of Dennis Sanderson on Ridge View Drive when he got stuck in the mud. Sanderson aided authorities in the rescue.

According to Sanderson, the news employee had intentionally waded into a pool of mud Friday afternoon to demonstrate how thick it was. A rescuer could be seen using a shovel.

[Updated, 9:46 p.m.: Fire officials said they believe the reporter they helped rescue was Miguel Almaguer from "NBC Nightly News."Almaguer reported live from Azusa on Friday's broadcast with Brian Williams. Almaguer's live shot showed him wedged into a shelf of thick mud that had slid down from the hillside. The mud went up to this thighs.]

After the rescue, Azusa police ordered news media and residents of all 26 homes on Ridge View Drive to evacuate. According to Azusa police Sgt. Sam Fleming, thick mud had poured into the backyards of two homes, rising 2 to 3 feet high.

But some residents were reluctant to leave. Two people called out to firefighters to help divert rising water from their flooded backyards, but firefighters refused, saying the neighborhood was already under an evacuation order.

The residents were later able to divert the water on their own.

The hillside near Ridge View Drive burned in the Colby fire in January.
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Arrow Down

5 Metre deep sinkhole damages three houses in Kampung Pengkalan, Malaysia

Ivan Loh
The Star, (Malaysia)
Sun, 02 Mar 2014 09:00 UTC
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© Nor Azharul NasaruddinResident S. Kumaran showing the biggest sinkhole in Kampung Pengkalan Gate Tambahan 2 near Ipoh yesterday
Four families cheated death when a five-metre deep sinkhole damaged three houses in Kampung Pengkalan Gate Tambahan Dua near here.

The sinkhole, which appeared at about 3.30am yesterday, swallowed part of the floor of one of the houses and damaged the walls and floors of the two other homes.

Former Ipoh City Council worker G. Sandaran, 64, said his son's house was the worst hit.

"The walls are cracked and the right side of the house has sunken into the ground," he told reporters.

Sandaran said he heard sounds of wood being broken and thought that a thief was trying to break into the house.
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Arrow Down

Sinkhole opens up on Santa Cruz coast, California


ksbw.com
Sat, 01 Mar 2014 08:50 UTC
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© KSBWA sinkhole opened up in Santa Cruz on Saturday morning forcing the closure of part of West Cliff Drive.
A sinkhole opened up on Saturday morning in Santa Cruz, forcing the closure of part of West Cliff Drive.

Santa Cruz police said an ocean cave is below the sinkhole.

Authorities closed West Cliff Drive between Woodrow Avenue and Colombia for several hours while the hole was assessed.

The area near the sinkhole remains blocked off until crews can close it up.
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Phoenix

100 Acre wildfire in Shenandoah National Park, Virginia


wtop.com
Sat, 01 Mar 2014 08:28 UTC
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Firefighters were battling a blaze in the south district of Shenandoah National Park that had grown to over 100 acres as of Friday afternoon.

According to WHSV TV- 3 in Harrisonburg, Va., the fire was burning entirely within the park at Rocks Mountain. Firefighters were on the ground as of 4 p.m. still trying to prevent the fire from leaving the park.

The wildfire was first reported at approximately 3:10 p.m. on Friday Feb. 28. The cause is under investigation.

As a result the following trails are closed until further notice: Riprap, Wildcat Ridge and Rocks Mountain. The rest of the park including the Skyline remains open.

According to reports, there are currently 58 personnel are working to contain the blaze, including members of the National Park Service, USDA Forest Service, Virginia Department of Forestry, and Augusta County Fire and Rescue. Additional firefighters and equipment have been requested.
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