Earth Changes
You can "compare this (phenomenon) to a prism," says Stefanie Sullivan, a forecaster at the National Weather Service. "Sunlight passes through the clouds at different wave lengths, bending the light at different angles so you can see the whole spectrum of colors instead of just white."
Today's iridescene appeared in cirrus clouds that were moving east at about 35 mph at an altitiude of 20,000 to 25,000 feet. "This happens fairly frequently," Sullivan says. "But you don't always see if because the sun has to be at just the right angle and the cirrus has to have the right ice crystals."
"The photo(s) (there are two) were taken on Villa Park Road/Katella near Hewes heading east toward Saddleback Mtn. Within seconds, it disappeared. I don't think I'll ever see anything like this again."
Noel Isla, a forecaster with the National Weather Service, says the photo shows "mountain wave turbulence. Strong winds formed stratrocumulus clouds into the shape of a pyramid. You can see the wave of the cloud on the right side. The lower part of the cloud is 4,000 to 6,000 feet high, and was hiding the mountains. This is rare for the Orange County area, but not in the mountains further inland, where there is more turbulence."
Winds were very strong this morning, gusting to almost 40 mph in parts of Orange County and above 40 in the upper San Bernardino Mountains.
"I'm not sure what this is," said Miguel Miller, a veteran weather service forecaster. "It might be some kind of evaporation. But this isn't the sort of thing you'd see on a warm day over a cold lake."
Areas of southern Manitoba were to be hit with as much as 25 centimetres of snow on Christmas Day, according Environment Canada.
The federal agency also issued freezing-rain warnings for parts of Quebec and Ontario, including Ottawa.
In the U.S., meanwhile, as much as 61 cm of snow was expected by late Christmas Day in some northern states, with blizzard warnings issued from Texas up to North Dakota on the border with Canada.
Capt. Kip Judice, patrol commander of the Lafayette Parish Sheriff's Office, says a man in Scott, outside Lafayette in south Louisiana, died and his wife was injured when high winds toppled a tree onto their home Thursday morning.
Maxine Trahan, a spokeswoman for the Acadia Parish Sheriff's Office, said that near Crowley, which is about 30 miles west of Lafayette, several homes in a subdivision were damaged -- and some destroyed -- by a possible tornado.
The storms came just over a week after drenching rains caused flooding in parts of southeastern Louisiana and produced one of the wettest months on record for the New Orleans area.
At least 23 deaths have been attributed to the storm system that blanketed the central United States beginning on Wednesday, closing several interstate highways, stranding thousands of motorists in whiteout conditions and coating roads in a glaze of ice during one of the busiest travel periods of the year.
The system, the second brutal winter blast to hit much of the United States in the past week, is not expected to clear before Saturday.
"This is a holiday mess" spanning two thirds of the country, bringing severe thunderstorms to the Gulf Coast to ice along the eastern seaboard and a raging blizzard in the Midwest and plains states, Chris Vaccaro, a spokesman for the National Weather Service (NWS) said on Friday.
The Oklahoma Highway Patrol said roads remain slick and hazardous, and they discourage travel Friday.
All interstates in the Oklahoma City Metro were closed due to weather Thursday but were reopened Friday. Numerous accidents and stranded vehicles are blocking all roadways.
Travel in western and southwestern parts of the state is strongly discouraged. Blizzard conditions in far western and southern counties have reduced visibility. Highways remain slick in the western two thirds of the state, and conditions continue to deteriorate.
The National Weather Service said blizzards would hit parts of North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming, Minnesota, Iowa and Wisconsin through Saturday. The storm had already dumped significant snow across the region, including a record 14 inches in Oklahoma City and 11 inches in Duluth, Minn., on Thursday.
Slippery roads have been blamed for at least 21 deaths this week as the storm lumbered across the country from the Southwest. Ice storm warnings and winter weather advisories were issued for parts of the East Coast on Friday, but the region was largely spared.
Paul Mews, who drove from Faribault, Minn., to a relative's home in Plum City, Wis., on Friday morning, said the first 15 minutes of the 80-mile trip were clear, but a surge of heavy snowfall produced a stretch of near-whiteout conditions.
As the sentiment of people around the world is concentrated in the atmosphere of the Copenhagen Climate Conference, it is imperative that you all become informed about this technology. By leaving it out of the overall picture of weather and climate and considering it a non-factor, we are closing our eyes to a MASSIVE contributing factor to the alteration of our weather and to the devastating and unforeseen effects it has on climate.
The military-industrial complex has the power to secure patents that enable them to literally cook our atmosphere. Furthermore, they have free reign to use this technology as if earth is "their" lab. It is practically beyond my comprehension that not one person has raised these issues in the context of climate justice, debate, law, industry, science and the Copenhagen Climate Conference.

The upscaling of agriculture might have caused Colony Collapse Disorder in this species.
According to Blacquiere, CCD might be largely due to the upscaling of agriculture. Instead of the smaller, more diverse fruit and vegetable plots that were planted a few decades ago, there are now fields of crops like corn, grain, and rapeseed, which are less nutritious for bees. Bees are weakened from not having enough easy-to-get, high-quality food.
Bees of different ages perform different tasks for the colony. Older bees fly out for honey, while younger bees take care of the brood. Since young bees get more nutritious food, if they are not well fed, they will be considered old bees and will start behaving like old bees.












Comment: The author conducted a brilliant interview with real experts on the mechanisms that drive our climate who tore apart the man-made global warming theory, but in the above article has not backed up her strong assertions that HAARP is a big factor in "cooking the atmosphere". The fact is, the earth's upper atmosphere is actually cooling.
Saying that HAARP is a "MASSIVE contributing factor to the alteration of our weather and to the devastating and unforeseen effects it has on climate" ironically returns climate change to the fault of man (well, the PTB) and neglects the substantial extraterrestrial factors involved (cosmic radiation, the sunspot cycle and the solar system entering a region of increased density of cosmic dust from cometary debris).
From what we understand of HAARP, its likely primary function is for social control:
Mind Control and HAARP