Earth Changes

According to Texas A&M expert the rainfall from Harvey shattered every record

Keith Randall,
Watts Up With That
Thu, 07 Sep 2017 15:20 UTC

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Chris Ginter wades through deep floodwaters on September 6, 2017 in Houston, Texas. Ginter, a Houston resident, has been taking local residents to their flooded homes in his monster truck which can drive through waters up to 4 feet deep.

Hurricane Harvey was billed as a once-in-every-500-year event, and it more than lived up to its billing. It produced rainfall amounts that will re-write the weather books in Texas and the United States, says a Texas A&M University expert.

John Nielsen-Gammon, who is a Regents Professor of Atmospheric Sciences at Texas A&M and also serves as Texas State Climatologist, says Harvey set new standards for historic rainfall and flooding.

"Harvey is head and shoulders above all previous multi-day storms ever recorded in the continental United States," says Nielsen-Gammon.

"I examined 18 different combinations of storm lengths and area sizes, from two days long to five days long, and standard areas from 1,000 square miles to 50,000 square miles. According to the preliminary data, Harvey was the worst in all but one."

Nielsen-Gammon said that the most amazing record is for the five-day total over an area of 10,000 square miles.

"For Harvey to average 34.72 inches over five days across that large an area is ridiculous," Nielsen-Gammon says. "The previous all-time United States record, set in Texas back in 1899, was estimated at 21.39 inches. Harvey exceeded that record by 62 percent."

Infectious mosquitoes are increasingly moving into regions where they have never been seen before

Donald G. McNeil Jr.
The New York Times
Thu, 07 Sep 2017 00:00 UTC

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The Aedes aegypti mosquito, which spreads Zika, dengue and chikungunya, has been turning up places where it had rarely or never been seen.

A mounting number of citations on a popular disease-tracking website suggests that mosquitoes may be moving into new ecological niches with greater frequency.

The website, ProMED mail, has carried more than a dozen such reports since June, all involving mosquito species known to transmit human diseases.

Most reports have concerned the United States, where, for example, Aedes aegypti - the yellow fever mosquito, which also spreads Zika, dengue and chikungunya - has been turning up in counties in California and Nevada where it had never, or only rarely, been seen.

Other reports have noted mosquito species found for the first time on certain South Pacific islands, or in parts of Europe where harsh winters previously kept them at bay.

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Second X-flare in two months signals the Grand Solar Minimum is intensifying

Adapt 2030
YouTube
Fri, 08 Sep 2017 12:56 UTC

As our Sun begins its phase change into the Grand Solar Minimum, it will equalize its charge by releasing excess energy through X-Class flares. The X9.2 is the second X-Class flare in two months and with Earths magnetosphere reduced smaller flares have more of an effect electrically in our atmosphere. Now there are bending tails coming off of Red Sprites, Blue remnant plasma flashes above geomagnetic storms and a full intensification of electrification on our skies. This second X-Flare signals an intensity increase entering the grand solar minimum.

Comment: The Electric Universe model is clearly explained, with a lot more relevant information, in the book Earth Changes and the Human Cosmic Connection by Pierre Lescaudron and Laura Knight-Jadczyk.

As hurricanes slam the Southern US, the West is literally on fire

Carey Wedler
The AntiMedia
Tue, 05 Sep 2017 21:19 UTC

Amid the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey and the impending destruction of Hurricane Irma, many Americans may not be aware that the western region of the country is suffering the opposite wrath of mother nature. From southern California to Washington, wildfires are engulfing thousands of acres of land and prompting thousands of evacuations. Many of the states battling the wildfires have been doing so all summer.

On Saturday, Washington Governor Jay Inslee declared a state of emergency across the state due to the risk of wildfires, and the National Weather Service warned that 26 of the state's 39 counties were at very high or extreme risk. According to the Washington Department of Ecology, "[a]lmost all of WA [was] awash in wildfire smoke" on Sunday. The department noted air quality in many areas had suffered as a result. According to NASA satellite imagery, smoke is also being pushed eastward across the U.S

Fresh spring snowfall closes roads and schools across Tasmania, Australia

Harriet Aird
abc.net.au
Fri, 08 Sep 2017 13:25 UTC

The snow has taken its toll on sheep farmers, coming during lambing season.

Continued snowfall in Tasmania has forced the closure of a number of schools and roads across the state.

The weather bureau said the snow came after a front crossing the state brought very cold south-westerly air behind it.

On Friday morning, snow was falling as low as 200 metres, adding to already significant levels of settled snow in parts of the west, Central Plateau and far south.

The Education Department closed government schools in Collinsvale, Franklin, Geeveston and Huonville.

Forecaster Debbie Tabor told ABC Radio Hobart the snow was expected to continue throughout the day.

"We've got snow to around 200 metres, it's only very slowly retreating to around 500 metres this evening," she said.

Turks and Caicos Islands struck by Hurricane Irma

The Guardian
Fri, 08 Sep 2017 12:23 UTC

The powerful category 4 storm made landfall in the British Overseas on Thursday evening and isn't expected to slow down through Friday morning. Pictured is the island of Providenciales

Extent of damage unclear after communications cut as category 5 storm continues on path towards Florida

Hurricane Irma has hit the Turks and Caicos Islands as the category 5 storm, which has killed at least 11 people, continues to move across the Caribbean towards Florida.

Waves as high as 6 metres (20ft) were expected on Friday in the Turks and Caicos, where communications went down as the storm hit the islands, leaving the extent of the devastation unclear.

The first hurricane warnings were issued for parts of southern Florida as the US state braced for Irma, while some of those islands hit hardest by the storm prepared for Hurricane Jose, a category 3 storm following in Irma's wake with 120mph (195km/h) winds.

French, British and Dutch military authorities sent aid to devastated Caribbean islands where at least 11 people were dead and thousands left homeless. Warships and planes were sent with food, water and troops after the hurricane smashed homes, schools and roads, laying waste to some of the world's most beautiful tourist destinations.

The French prime minister, Édouard Philippe, said on Thursday that four people were confirmed dead and about 50 injured on the French side of Saint Martin, an island split between Dutch and French control. Homes there were splintered and road signs scattered by the strong winds, while cafes and shops in the seaside town of Marigot were submerged in flood water. Rescue teams had yet to cover the entire area of damage, meaning the death toll could rise.

6.1 magnitude earthquake hits off the Bonin Islands, Japan

Firstpost
Fri, 08 Sep 2017 11:59 UTC

A 6.1-magnitude earthquake hit off Japan's Bonin Islands on Thursday but there was no tsunami risk, seismologists said.

The quake hit at a depth of 450 kilometres (280 miles) at 02:27 am (17.27 GMT) 770 kilometres south of Shimoda, according to the United States Geological Survey.

Japan Meteorological Agency said the quake poses no tsunami risk.

A 9.0-magnitude earthquake in March 2011 triggered a massive and deadly tsunami, which smashed into a power station and sparked the world's worst atomic accident since Chernobyl in 1986.

Tokyo Electric is working to clean up and dismantle the reactors in a process that is expected to take at least four decades.

Source: AFP

Huge jelly blobs spotted off Norway's coast baffles scientist

Stephanie Pappas
Live Science
Thu, 07 Sep 2017 11:22 UTC

Giant, jelly-like blobs have been sighted off the western coast of Norway, but the identities of these mysterious objects have scientists stumped.

The blobs are about 3.3 feet (1 meter) in diameter and are translucent, except for a strange dark streak running through their center, Science Nordic reported. No one knows what they are, or what made them.

"This is a mystery, actually," said Michael Vecchione, an invertebrate zoologist at the Smithsonian Institution who has been corresponding with Norwegian researchers about the blobs. "It could be an egg mass, or something completely different, but we just don't know at this point until we get some more detailed observations."

Florida Keys Emergency Manager: 'You must evacuate; you cannot afford to stay'

CBSMiami
Tue, 05 Sep 2017 05:22 UTC

Evacuation orders are being given in the Florida Keys as Monroe County emergency managers prepare for Hurricane Irma.

Key West International Airport will close Wednesday night, cancelling all commercial flights until further notice.

A State of Local Emergency was declared for Monroe County on Tuesday afternoon. Traffic is building on the overseas highway as locals and tourists get out of the keys ahead of an evacuation order.

"We're just evacuating, getting out-of-town before everybody else does," said Key West resident Luann Huff.Huff lives in Key West. She's heading to Central Florida and she's not alone on the road.

Burns lives in Marathon. His house is ready and he's gassing up his truck and is ready to leave. "For the Florida Keys, if you were to create the worst case scenario that is what we are looking at," said Monroe Co. Emergency Operations Center Director Martin Senterfitt.

The grim outlook prompted Senterfitt to order mandatory evacuations. "We're emphatically telling people you must evacuate, you can not afford to stay on an island with a Category 5 hurricane coming at you. Most of this island chain is only three to five feet above sea level. With the surges we're expecting this is not the place to be," said Senterfitt.

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Signs and Portents: Mutant two-headed pig with two noses and three eyes born in Shaanxi, China

Jamie Bullen
Mirror
Thu, 07 Sep 2017 18:53 UTC

A man holds the two-headed piglet

This piglet has left farmers baffled after it was born with two heads, two noses and three eyes.

Fears have emerged for the deformed animal's survival following the strange birth on Tuesday at a pig farm in Wangcha, a village in China's Shaanxi province.

Puzzled farmers shared a recording of the mutant piglet, which was born among a litter that is not believed to have suffered the same fate.

Currently, farmers say the piglet is alive - but because of its deformities, it is not known how long it will survive.

Another "mutant piglet" with two bodies and eight legs died minutes after being born on a Chinese farm earlier this month.

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Earth Changes

According to Texas A&M expert the rainfall from Harvey shattered every record

Infectious mosquitoes are increasingly moving into regions where they have never been seen before

Second X-flare in two months signals the Grand Solar Minimum is intensifying

As hurricanes slam the Southern US, the West is literally on fire

Fresh spring snowfall closes roads and schools across Tasmania, Australia

Turks and Caicos Islands struck by Hurricane Irma

6.1 magnitude earthquake hits off the Bonin Islands, Japan

Huge jelly blobs spotted off Norway's coast baffles scientist

Florida Keys Emergency Manager: 'You must evacuate; you cannot afford to stay'

Signs and Portents: Mutant two-headed pig with two noses and three eyes born in Shaanxi, China

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