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'We see a cooling trend' says NASA scientist


Sputnik News
Tue, 13 Nov 2018 21:51 UTC
Abnormally cold weather in Moscow
© Sputnik/Maksim Blinov
Abnormally cold weather in Moscow.
The sun is headed towards its solar minimum, a time of far less energy output. That could mean cold winters are on their way, according to officials from NASA, the US space agency.

"We see a cooling trend," Martin Mlynczak of NASA's Langley Research Center said in late September. "High above Earth's surface, near the edge of space, our atmosphere is losing heat energy. If current trends continue, it could soon set a Space Age record for cold."

NASA's SABER [Sounding of the Atmosphere using Broadband Emission Radiometry] instrument aboard the TIMED [Thermosphere Ionosphere Mesosphere Energetics and Dynamics] satellite has been tracking the upper parts of the Earth's atmosphere - those most affected by the sun's rays - since 2001 and is detecting signs that solar output is nearing a low-point.

"The thermosphere always cools off during Solar Minimum. It's one of the most important ways the solar cycle affects our planet," Mlynczak, who is the associate principal investigator for SABER, told Space Weather.
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Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Solar researchers try to warn about global food shortages


Adapt 2030
Tue, 13 Nov 2018 19:58 UTC
snow crop
Professor Valentina Zharkova presented at the Global Warming Policy Forum, and this is what happens when someone familiar with Grand Solar Minimums and the effects on society tries to warn about global food insecurity within a decade. Giraffes in snow, atmospheric compression events and uber extremes are a wisp of what is in store through the next decade........


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Comment: Professor Valentina Zharkova explains and confirms why a "Super" Grand Solar Minimum is upon us

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SOTT Earth Changes Summary - October 2018: Extreme Weather, Planetary Upheaval, Meteor Fireballs


Sott.net
Tue, 13 Nov 2018 12:01 UTC
At the risk of sounding repetitive, October this year was, yet again, a month of major and destructive amounts of precipitation across the globe. At this point, the intensity and frequency of rainfall (often including hail) in so many places is getting a little worrying. From Asia to the Americas to Africa, Europe and the Middle East, towns, cities and villages in all these areas experienced massive downpours in just a few hours that destroyed property and took lives.
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Winter also arrived early this month in many places, with the European Alps, the Canadian and US Rockies (including further south in Arizona), China, South Korea, Pakistan and India all receiving unusually large amounts of the white stuff. As usual, there were meteorites/fireballs aplenty and, of course, the increasingly common sinkholes made their appearance, in one instance killing two people. For residents of Florida, October was marked by the arrival of Hurricane Michael with 155mph (250kmph) winds while Cyclone Titli hit the Indian coast leaving 17 people dead and 300,000 evacuated. All in all, it was yet another month of 'climate' madness on the big blue marble - matched only, you might say, by the political madness that appears to have taken hold of the minds of many people.

Watch our summary below:


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Newborn baby is killed by MONKEY after being snatched from his mother's arms indoors in India

Khaleda Rahman
Daily Mail
Tue, 13 Nov 2018 14:25 UTC
Newborn baby Arush (pictured) was killed by a monkey after it snatched the infant from his mother's arms in India

Newborn baby Arush (pictured) was killed by a monkey after it snatched the infant from his mother's arms in India
A newborn baby was killed by a monkey after it snatched the infant from his mother's arms in India.

The woman, called Neha, had been breastfeeding her 12-day-old son Arush when the animal came into her home on the outskirts of Agra on Monday, the Times of India reports.

The victim's father Yogesh, an auto-rickshaw driver, told the newspaper that they chased the monkey.

The animal eventually left the baby on a neighbour's roof - but by then, it was too late.

'The main door of the house was open, and my wife was breastfeeding our son, suddenly a monkey barged inside our house and grabbed the child by his neck,' Yogesh told the Times of India.
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Siberian temperatures plunge to -40°C (-40°F)

Robert W. Felix
Ice Age Now
Mon, 12 Nov 2018 12:35 UTC
The minimum temperature is November 12, 2018
© Gismeteo
The minimum temperatures on November 12, 2018.
This is considered very cold for this time of year, deviating from the norm by 13 - 16 degrees.

At the end of last week in southern Siberia, daytime temperature dropped from 0 to −20°C.

An interesting phenomenon was observed - the reverse daily temperature variation, when it is warmer at night than during the day.

During the weekend the cold intensified.

On Monday morning in the suburbs of Krasnoyarsk, the thermometer dropped to - 36°C. In Evenkia, the first 40°C of the season was recorded.

Thanks to Martin Siebert for these links.

Comment: See in addition:

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Up to 130cm (51 inches) of snow has fallen in Labrador and winter hasn't even begun

Andrea Bagley
The Weather Network
Mon, 12 Nov 2018 21:29 UTC
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Bundle up, sit by the fire and warm your hot chocolate before reading this. It's only November 12 and one spot in the country has already picked up four and a half feet of snow!

That lucky (or maybe unlucky) winner is...Happy Valley-Goose Bay, Labrador at a whopping 130+ cm of snow since the start of September.

While Labrador is by no means a stranger to some hefty fall snow, these amounts may even feel excessive by the East Coast standard. This actually marks the most snow on record for this short time frame after a huge bump in totals thanks to a punishing month of October. Happy Valley-Goose Bay picked up nearly 85 cm in October alone with a total of 139.6 cm measured by November 11. That smashed previous October records, which all sat around 60 cm, in the years of 1999, 1996, 1962 and 1944.
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Bubbling pool of mud is on the move in California, and no one knows why

Robin George Andrews
National Geographic
Fri, 09 Nov 2018 13:52 UTC
Moving mud pot in CA
© Gregory Bull/AP
Steam rises from geothermal mud pots near the banks of the Salton Sea in California in 2015.
When it comes to matters of geology and rumbling earth in California, the San Andreas Fault is usually the star of the show. But this time around, the area near the infamous fault has caught people's attention due to a mysterious pot of bubbling mud.

Refusing to stay in place, a roiling mass of carbon dioxide and slurry-like soil is migrating across the state at a pace of 20 feet a year. So far, it's carved a 24,000-square-foot basin out of the earth, and it's set to continue its crusade until whatever's driving it dies out. Scientists currently have no real idea why it's moving or if it can be stopped.

So, what do we know about it?

This curiosity appeared in the Salton Trough, an area of California that's being stretched apart by a tectonic battle between the forces of the San Andreas Fault and the East Pacific Rise, a mid-ocean ridge. This unique environment is where the Colorado River dumps plenty of its sediment, which gets packed up so that the lower layers a few miles down get heated up and squashed a little.

Comment: See also: 'Slow-moving disaster': Mud geyser threatens California infrastructure

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Arrow Down

Sinkhole swallows car in Zamora, Spain

Tom Thirkell
Euro Weekly News
Mon, 12 Nov 2018 12:47 UTC
The car toppled over and into the gaping hole.
© @Sergio_Hdez_94 via Twitter
The car toppled over and into the gaping hole.
A car has been 'swallowed' by a street in Spain after a sinkhole opened up and the car almost disappeared completely.

The Renault Megane was parked on the Avenue Cardinal Cisneros, Zamora outside the Leon Felipe Park when at around 11.18pm on Friday night, the ground gave way and the car sank into the asphalt toppling sideways, according to local firefighters.

Firefighters report the roadway collapsed due to a damaged sewage pipe which ran beneath the area the car had parked.


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Sinkhole swallows woman in Lanzhou, China


pickle.nine.com.au
Mon, 12 Nov 2018 12:22 UTC
The woman suffered injuries to her ribs.
© CGTN
The woman suffered injuries to her ribs.
Talk about being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

A woman in China has been given quite the surprise when the footpath she was walking on ceased to exist.

The sidewalk near the 114 bus stop at Reed Avenue in Lanzhou, China usually provides a safe route for those travelling on foot.

However, footage circulating online shows an unsuspecting pedestrian being swallowed by a sinkhole, descending into the depths below.

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Cloud Precipitation

Qatar again hit by heavy rainfall - 6 months rain in just a few hours


France24
Sun, 11 Nov 2018 11:55 UTC
A motorist drives through the flooded streets,
© Xinhua/Nikku
A motorist drives through the flooded streets, due to the heavy rainfall in Doha, capital of Qatar, Nov. 11, 2018.
Thunderstorms brought heavy rains, strong winds and fresh flooding to the desert state of Qatar on Sunday for the second time in less than a month, as bad weather battered the region claiming lives.

Some areas of Qatar received almost half-a-year's worth of rainfall in just a few hours as thunderstorms struck, said the Qatar Meteorology Department (QMD).

It said a northwestern part of the country received almost 31 mm (more than an inch) of rainfall, compared to the emirate's annual rainfall of 77 mm.


Comment: For details of the first event in October, see: Desert state Qatar drenched by floods as almost a year's rain falls in ONE day.

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