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Fire

Sweden now battling over 50 wildfires, authorities say some 'impossible to extinguish'


DW
Fri, 20 Jul 2018 00:00 UTC
Sweden wildfires Jul 2018
Large numbers of evacuations have taken place over the past two days, and thousands more residents have been ordered to keep their windows shut to avoid breathing the smoky air.

More than 50 wildfires - 10 more than the previous day - are now alight across central and western Sweden, but also above the Arctic Circle, authorities confirmed on Friday.

Sweden's head of civil defense Dan Eliasson said fire crews were struggling to bring the most ferocious forest fires in years under control.

He said four of the fires had become too large for firefighters to extinguish. And with no rain in sight, the situation was unlikely to improve over the weekend, he said.

"We will not be able to extinguish the largest fires," Eliasson said. "In these cases, rescue services are working to minimize the spread of the flames and wait until the weather changes."

Comment: Euronews reports Poland has joined other EU countries helping to battle the wildfires which are being attributed to hot weather and low rainfall:
Data from the European Commission's Joint Research Centre showed that there had been 53 wildfires this year, as of Thursday.

Normally by this time of year, there would have been three such fires, its data showed.

Many parts of Sweden have seen their driest weather in the May to mid-July period since records began in the 19th century, the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI) said.


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Fire

US and Mexico offer assistance as Canada battles 63 forest fires in northern Ontario


CBC News
Sun, 22 Jul 2018 17:13 UTC
wildfires ontario July 2018
© Dr. Crayfish/TwitterAn environmental scientist who calls himself 'Dr. Crayfish' tweeted this photo of the scene from a boat in northern Ontario on Saturday. He wrote: 'Scary forest fires burning near Key River Ontario yesterday turned the sky orange!'

Crews fighting forest fires in northern Ontario are receiving help from other provinces, the U.S. and Mexico as they try to contain a cluster of blazes after days of hot and humid weather.

Ontario's Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry said in a release that, as of Sunday afternoon, 63 forest fires were burning in the northern and northeastern parts of the province, with 28 of them out of control. The ministry said 35 fires are either being held or being observed.

Isabelle Chenard, a fire information officer for the ministry, says 775 fires have consumed 181,000 hectares of the province this year. That number has grown more than 75 per cent since this time last year, she explained.

Since Canada Day, Chenard says, a swath of fires have been started by lightning strikes.

"Several waves of lightning that have passed through the northeast side of the province with very little precipitation," she added.
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Ice Cube

Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Grand Solar Minimum resources, July snow Greenland and 1930's hurricanes


Adapt 2030
Mon, 23 Jul 2018 19:20 UTC
hurricane
New interactive Grand Solar Minimum Resource, Abundant Harvest, hyperlinks to resources/ videos, websites and topics covered in the PDF by section. Also Joe Bastardi talking about a repeat of 1930's intensity of hurricane patterns over these next few years because of Atlantic water temperature set up similar to 1903's. Greenland expecting 2+ feet of snow over the next few days, covering the entire island and Arctic sea ice is still incredibly thick with the onset of freeze season in just five weeks.


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Snowflake

"Is this global warming?" Italy's Dolomite peak buried in "Exceptional" July snow

Robert Felix
Ice Age Now
Mon, 23 Jul 2018 09:08 UTC
snow italy July 22 2018
"EXCEPTIONAL SNOW in action on the Marmolada in full SUMMER"

Surprising dense snowfall in the middle of Summer on the Marmolada between the provinces of Trento and Belluno, in the Dolomites, on the border between Veneto and Trentino Alto Adige.

"A rare and fascinating phenomenon."

See "extraordinary images" by Carlo Budel, who lives in Punta Penia refuge at 3300 meters of the Dolomite peak.

Comment: Check out the videos and links below to see just some of extreme weather happening right now all across the globe: major hail in France, Bosnia and Russia, wildfires in Sweden, Ireland and UK, and Australia's record breaking winter:






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Snowflake

Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Record cold in Australia with huge snowfall and Japan mega-flood update


Adapt 2030
Sat, 21 Jul 2018 16:42 UTC
Mt Hotham ski resort in Australia has posted a 102cm snowbase as the snowfall of the past few days moves up a notch ahead of what looks certain to be an epic powder weekend down under.
Mt Hotham ski resort in Australia has posted a 102cm snowbase as the snowfall of the past few days moves up a notch ahead of what looks certain to be an epic powder weekend down under.
Australia smashing all time cold records throughout the east coast. While not the coldest winter across the entire country, extreme cold and coldest in 60 years with huge snowfalls that have officially opened all ski resorts in Australia. Forecasters called above temperatures in May, but now this Australian super-freeze 2.0 has left them silent. Japan still in chaos as once in 1000 year floods decimated the lower half of the entire country and now summer temperatures are getting into the normally warmest part of the year Late July / August in the Pacific.


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Ice Cube

Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Starving shorebirds and unknown stone spheres in the Arctic


Adapt 2030
Fri, 20 Jul 2018 16:22 UTC
A turnstone on a patch on snow in Zackenberg, Greenland.
© Erik ThomsenA turnstone on a patch on snow in Zackenberg, Greenland.
The saga of starving migratory Arctic shorebirds nesting in Greenland continues as 100% snow cover remains on what should be barren ground. Newest reports tell of one meter / three feet of snow at Zackenberg Station where these birds nest.

Also explainable stone spheres similar to those in Costa Rica are in one of the remotest areas of our world that range from twelve to three feet in height / diameter. Perhaps a lost civilization?


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Comment: Global cooling: Excessive spring snowfall results in non-breeding year for shorebirds in north-east Greenland - 1 meter deep snow

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Cloud Grey

Saharan dust coupled with extreme heat making for miserable outdoor activities in Texas

Ken Molestina
CBS DFW
Tue, 17 Jul 2018 23:56 UTC
African dust moving towards Texas Jul 2018
The Saharan dust traveled more than 5,000 miles from the coast of Africa all the way to Texas.
The Saharan dust that has blanketed most of the DFW Metroplex with a brown haze in the air is expected to stick around for a few more days.

CBS11 Meteorologist Jeff Ray has been tracking the dust and said, "Things will get a little bit better, but probably not until Thursday or Friday will we get back to where we actually have some blue skies."

In the meantime Ray's forecast for the haze means people with air quality sensitivities will have to endure the conditions for several more days.

Dr. James Haden of Haden Allergy pointed out the haze isn't an allergen but rather an irritant.
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Ice Cube

Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Antarctica's thickening ice mystery


Adapt 2030
Thu, 19 Jul 2018 16:03 UTC
Scientists tracking a massive iceberg that broke free from Antarctica’s Larsen C Ice Shelf last year say dense sea-ice cover has so far prevented it from drifting far out to sea.
Scientists tracking a massive iceberg that broke free from Antarctica’s Larsen C Ice Shelf last year say dense sea-ice cover has so far prevented it from drifting far out to sea. It is shown above in July, 2018
Antarctica holds many mysteries, from lost civilizations burried in ice to military bases and everything in between. The ice is a focal point on the continent, both land and sea. New studies are unequivocally showing gains in sea ice and land continental ice thickness and overall coverage. I present to the findings which run contrary to the main stream narrative.


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Windsock

UK's "wind drought" has turbine generation down 40% - And the high pressure system is sticking around

Ciaran McGrath
Express
Wed, 18 Jul 2018 11:08 UTC
uk wind turbine
New figures compiled by Imperial College London's Rod Gross revealed July's wind output was down by 40 percent so far compared with the same period last year.

He said: "We've been typically doing between two to three gigawatts of wind [generation].

"At a windier time of the year we might be doing nine or 10."

The unusual stillness in the air is the result of a sustained period of high, dense pressure over the UK, according to the Met Office.

A Met Office spokesman said: "It's like a lid, it keeps everything still.

"From the forecast looking out over the next couple of weeks, there doesn't seem to be any significant change on the way."

A National Grid spokesman said: "Between June 4 and July 15 wind generation was around 30 per cent lower compared to the same period last year.

"Electricity demand is low and we're comfortable with the level of spare generation we have available.


Comment: Electricity demand was 'low' and yet demand for natural gas increased! And one of the cheapest and most reliable suppliers is Russia, whom the UK has spent the last couple of years smearing with nonsensical lies.


Comment: In light of a recent study showing global wind speeds have been decreasing since 1960, meanwhile extreme winter storms and wave heights have been increasing over the last 70 years, one wonders whether this will become a repeating pattern and what other changes may accompany it. And if it does become a repeating pattern those supporting unreliable renewables, as evidenced elsewhere, will sorely regret their ignorance.

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Ice Cube

Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: 50 days in a row Arctic temperatures below normal


Adapt 2030
Wed, 18 Jul 2018 19:33 UTC
NE Greenland: in mid-June 2018 the tundra surface was close to 100% covered in snow.
© Jeroen ReneerkensNE Greenland: in mid-June 2018 the tundra surface was close to 100% covered in snow.
From the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI) it is now more than 50 Days in a Row Arctic Temperatures Below Normal. This is the entire 80N latitude to the North Pole 90N across the entire top of our planet. Hard to believe its the hottest year ever with these numbers, additionally sea surface temperatures are not showing signs of extreme heat. Difficult to have a hot planet without hot oceans.


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