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Phoenix

US: Evacuations Continue as Arizona Fire Spreads

Tamara Audi
The Wall Street Journal
Mon, 06 Jun 2011 21:33 UTC
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© Eastern Arizona IMTBurning: The Wallow Fire rages through dry pines in Arizona, while firefighters battle to save homes
A massive wildfire continued to force evacuations Monday from towns in the eastern part of Arizona and threatened more communities as flames pushed toward New Mexico.

The so-called Wallow Fire, burning across Arizona wilderness and the Apache National Forest, has grown to 233,000 acres since it started more than a week ago. The fire, the third-largest in state history, has forced 2,100 people to flee their homes.

More than 2,000 firefighters fought to contain the blaze as hot winds whipped flames across tree tops and threw embers as far as three miles. The small mountain communities of Alpine and Nutrioso were evacuated, and hundreds of residents in other towns were told to prepare to leave. The fire destroyed several ranches, but no deaths or injuries were reported, fire officials said Monday.
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Nuke

Best of the Web: Japan Finally Admits TOTAL Meltdown at 3 Nuclear Reactors Within Hours of Earthquake


Washington's Blog
Mon, 06 Jun 2011 20:20 UTC
smoke billows from the No. 3 reactor
© APThick smoke billows from the No. 3 reactor of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
... And More Than DOUBLES Estimate of Radiation Released After Accident

For months, Tepco and Japanese officials refused to admit that there had been any meltdowns at Fukushima.

Then they said there were meltdowns at reactors 1, 2 and 3 ... but they might have only been partial meltdowns.

Finally, today, they admitted the obvious: there were total meltdowns at all 3 reactors. As CNN reports:
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Magic Wand

The 2011 season for noctilucent clouds is underway, and it is intensifying


Space Weather
Mon, 06 Jun 2011 17:22 UTC
The 2011 season for noctilucent clouds (NLCs) is underway, and it is intensifying. Observers are now reporting electric-blue waves and filaments in the sunset skies of both Europe and North America. Last night, Bob Conzemius photographed a vivid display over Trout Lake, Minnesota, and--bonus--he caught some Northern Lights, too. Click on the image to set the scene in motion:


NLCs are a summertime phenomenon. In the upper atmosphere, 80+ km high at the edge of space itself, tiny ice crystals nucleate around microscopic meteoroids and other aerosols; when the crystals catch the rays of the setting sun, they glow electric blue. Ironically, these highest and coldest of clouds form during the warmest months on the ground.

Comment: Let us suggest another reason, why instances of noctilucent clouds are intensifying.

What we suspect has really been happening, based on our research thus far, is that the upper atmosphere is cooling because it is being loaded with comet dust, which shows up in the form of noctilucent clouds and other upper atmospheric formations.

Magnificent and mesmerizing noctilucent clouds (also called polar mesospheric clouds), were once considered to be rare. But now they are puzzling scientists with their recent dramatic changes. Apparently, the clouds are growing brighter, are seen more frequently, are visible at ever lower latitudes and are now appearing even during the day. If scientists were allowed to conduct honest interdisciplinary research, such changes wouldn't be a mystery.

They would be able to figure out that comet dust is electrically-charged which is causing the earth's rotation to slow marginally. The slowing of the rotation is reducing the magnetic field, opening earth to more dangerous cosmic radiation and stimulating more volcanism. The volcanism under the sea is heating the sea water which is heating the lower atmosphere and loading it with moisture.

The moisture hits the cooler upper atmosphere and contributes to a deadly mix that inevitably leads to an Ice Age, preceded for a short period by a rapid increase of greenhouse gases and "hot pockets" in the lower atmosphere, heavy rains, hail, snow, and floods.

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Bug

Australia: A Web of Intrigue

Kelly Sammut
Macedon Ranges Leader
Mon, 06 Jun 2011 17:23 UTC
Spider Webs
© Macedon Ranges Leader

Thousands of tiny threads floating on the winds across Sunbury prompted at least one call to the Australian UFO Research Network last week.

And while the explanation may not be from another world it still has a creepy crawly factor.

According to Melbourne Museum, an explosion in golden and garden orb weaver spider populations has led to an increase in hatchlings taking to the wind on silken threads.

Last week Sunbury resident Peter Tyrrell noticed the phenomenon while gardening.

"I happened to be in the back garden when I noticed thousands of spider webs in the sky," he said. "I'd never seen anything like it before."

About noon on Wednesday the sky was littered with the near-invisible strands that clung to trees and light poles carrying baby spiders.
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Bizarro Earth

New Zealand: Earthquake Magnitude 5.0 - Christchurch


US Geological Survey
Mon, 06 Jun 2011 15:34 UTC
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© USGS
Date-Time:
Sunday, June 05, 2011 at 21:09:55 UTC

Monday, June 06, 2011 at 09:09:55 AM at epicenter

Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones

Location:
43.570°S, 172.391°E

Depth:
3.8 km (2.4 miles) (poorly constrained)

Region:
SOUTH ISLAND OF NEW ZEALAND

Distances:
22 km (13 miles) W of Christchurch, New Zealand

212 km (131 miles) SSE of Westport, New Zealand

296 km (183 miles) NNE of Dunedin, New Zealand

320 km (198 miles) SW of WELLINGTON, New Zealand
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Phoenix

Best of the Web: US: Arizona Burns!


The Daily Mail
Mon, 06 Jun 2011 14:29 UTC
High winds are propelling a devastating Arizona forest fire that has already grown into the third-largest in the state's history.

Smoke from the 225-square-mile covered a mountain vacation town in a blinding yellow fog yesterday and residents are now preparing to evacuate as the fire edges closer.

Strong winds have also blown smoke from the burning pine forest well into the nearby states of New Mexico and Colorado.

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© Eastern Arizona IMTBurning: The Wallow Fire rages through dry pines in Arizona, while firefighters battle to save homes
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© AP Photo - Aizona republic - Jack KurtzTerrifying: A farm in Luna, New Mexico, sits below the massive smoke column from the 144,000-acre Wallow Fire on Friday. Two of the biggest fires in Arizona history rage on
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Bizarro Earth

Volcano billows giant plume for 2nd day in Chile

Eva Vergara
MSNBC
Sun, 05 Jun 2011 15:59 UTC
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© Daniel Basualto/EPAAn electric storm lights up the sky on Sunday, June 5, after a volcano in the Caulle Cordon of southern Chile erupted violently, billowing smoke and ash high into the sky and prompting more than 3,500 people living nearby to evacuate.
Santiago - A volcano in the Caulle Cordon of southern Chile erupted for a second day Sunday, shooting out pumice stones and pluming a cloud of ash six miles (10 kilometers) high and three miles (five kilometers) wide.

Flights in the region were canceled and more than 3,500 people stayed away from their homes near the volcano, which produced an eerie show of lightning dancing through its clouds of ash overnight.

Most of the residents in 22 settlements near the Puyehue-Cordon Caulle volcanic complex evacuated when the eruption began Saturday afternoon and were staying in government shelters or friends' homes. One group of 122 people were being moved from a shelter for fear that the eruption could cause flooding on the Nilahue River.

There were no reports of injuries.

Comment: We invite you to have a look at some of our research and articles related to this topic: Planetary Alignments and the Solar Capacitor - Things are heatin' up!, From Where I Sit: Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head, Exploding Transformers - More than meets the eye? and Connecting the Dots: Earth Changes Are Upon Us. Which will get you familiar with what is happening on an astronomic scale.

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Bizarro Earth

Best of the Web: Something Strange With Volcano Eruption in Chile


Modern Survival Blog
Sat, 04 Jun 2011 23:37 UTC
Puyehue volcano erupts
© n/aPuyehue volcano erupts in southern Chile, June, 2011
What appears to be an enormous ash cloud rising from the eruption of a long dormant volcano named Puyehuein southern Chile on June 4, 2011, isn't quite matching up with the location of the recorded earthquakes today in the immediate area.

"The Cordon Caulle (volcanic range) has entered an eruptive process, with an explosion resulting in a 10-kilometer-high gas column," Chilean state emergency office said.

The thing is, for some unknown reason, as of this writing, eight earthquakes near magnitude 5 have shook the earth near the Puyehue volcano. The problem is, the earthquakes are located 20 to 40 miles away from the eruption! Very Strange Indeed.

There's something brewing quite a distance from the eruption, but is quite obviously directly related. We're talking about enormous energies here.
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Bizarro Earth

US: Arizona - Wallow Wildfire at 144,000 Acres and Still Zero Percent Contained

Ofelia Madrid and Nathan Gonzalez
The Arizona Republic
Sun, 05 Jun 2011 15:28 UTC
More than 2,000 firefighters are combating the Wallow Fire that has consumed 144,000 acres in eastern Arizona, forced residents to flee a handful of communities and put others on the verge of evacuation.

In mid-afternoon Sunday, the Apache County Sheriff's Office said it has ordered the evacuation of the several subdivisions along Arizona 180 near the New Mexico state line and Arizona 191. It was not immediately clear how many residents or structures were involved in the evacuation of Escudilla Mountain Estates, Bonita, Dog Patch, and the H-V Ranch.


As the community of Greer stands ready on a pre-evacuation alert, crews fighting the Wallow Fire continued to fret about warnings of high winds and dry lightning for Sunday afternoon. Fire officials re-calibrated the fire size at 144,000 acres after earlier reports of 184,000 acres proved premature; they said the erroneous numbers may have included areas that fire crews deliberately burned back toward the main fire to rob it of fuel.

Windy, lightning conditions would likely ground aircraft battling the week-old blaze, which is now thought to have been sparked by an abandoned campfire, said Eric Nietzel, a spokesman with the Show Low Fire Department.

Comment: This wildfire is a week old. Here is a report of a possible meteor sighting in Northern Arizona around the same time as the start of the wildfire. Of course, it could be a coincidence, but how often do you hear a spokesman with the Fire Department reference meteors starting wildfires?

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Bizarro Earth

US: Drought Worsens - Worst Since 1956

Kevin Welch
Amarillo Globe - News
Sun, 05 Jun 2011 12:13 UTC
Texas Drought
© Stephen Spillman / Amarillo Globe-NewsTroy Skarke talks about the moisture content of his soil at his field in Armstrong County east of Claude. Texas Panhandle residents are experiencing the region's worst drought since 1956, according to a state climatologist.

Mother Nature has sucked the Panhandle dry.

"We lost an inch of water Monday purely from evaporation," said Kent Satterwhite, general manager of the Canadian River Municipal Water Authority, referring to the water level of ever-shrinking Lake Meredith.

Out on the farm, it's the same tale.

Troy Skarke stood by a planter on his farm north of Claude ready to get sorghum seed in the ground Tuesday but was thwarted by dry earth.

"This needs to be running this week, but it won't be," he said.

Around the region, there is little green as though winter is still waiting to become spring, contrasting sharply with temperatures in the 90s and fierce south winds. Those are some of the obvious signs of not just a dry period but the "exceptional" drought the area is experiencing.
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