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Snowflake

'It's pretty stressful': Snow threatens northwest Saskatchewan harvest

This isn't a picture from last winter —
© Devon WalkerThis isn't a picture from last winter — this is what Devon Walker's swather looks like on the last day of summer.
Farmers in region have less than 10% of crops combined after September snowfall

You can hear the frustration in Devon Walker's voice. He wants to be in the field harvesting his crop. The problem is it's under more than inch of snow.

"It's pretty stressful," Walker said from his farm near Lashburn, Sask., about 225 kilometres northwest of Saskatoon.

While producers in southern Saskatchewan have, on average, more than 80 per cent of their crop in the bin, the northwest is another story entirely.

According to the most recent crop report from the Ministry of Agriculture, only 17 per cent of the crop the northwest region has been combined.

Comment: A taste of the future: 'Disbelief' as snow hits and northern Alberta farmers scramble to save crops worth millions


Fire

Mysterious burning hole with flames shooting out of it in Midway, Arkansas baffles geologists

Flames shot out of this hole near Midway, Arkansas
© Jared ChismFlames shot out of this hole near Midway, Arkansas, early Monday morning. No one yet knows what caused it.
It was an unusual call for the Midway Volunteer Fire Department.

A volleyball-sized hole was burning, with flames shooting out of it off Highway 5 South in Midway.

Fire Chief Don Tucker said, "A fire was burning roughly two feet in diameter, eight feet tall. And it burned for approximately 40 minutes."

The homeowner who lives nearby said he came outside Monday morning to flames shooting from the hole up to the man's nose on this billboard.

Now county leaders are trying to figure out how the phenomenon started.

Baxter County Judge Mickey Pendergrass said, "We don't believe that the devil showed up, or the meteorites landed, or the big booms happened."

But the burning question is what caused the hole and the flames?

Pendergrass said, "We have contacted every utility company that is in the area. And we know for a fact now that they have lost no service they have nothing there. So there's nothing to do with utilities, which would be our first inclination to believe something was there."

No one knows where the hole ends.

Comment: Jim Sierzchula, Baxter County's emergency management coordinator and the fire chief for Grover township, said he thinks methane may have been the fuel, but he doesn't know what sparked the ignition.

"The thing is it was a clean burn," Siezchula said. "It was a very low-hydrocarbon fuel, let's put it that way. It really wasn't getting the right amount of oxygen because the burn was orange instead of blue."

Here's a small sample we've collected at sott.net of other recent natural outgassing related events: It is likely that outgassing of methane, hydrogen sulfide (and other natural gases) is coming up from deep below the earth's surface. See also:

SOTT Exclusive: The growing threat of underground fires and explosions


Microscope 2

Mysterious microbes turning the world's ice pink

polar pink ice
© Liane G. Benning, GFZHidden microbes turn the ice pink around the world.
Algae are currently turning parts of the Greenland ice sheet pinkish-red and contribute more than a little to the melting of one of the biggest frozen bodies of water in the world. The discolored snow isn't just an Arctic phenomenon. It's actually a global occurrence.

In order for them to form visible blooms and increase the melting of the snow and ice, they just need the right conditions, which at a minimum involve basic nutrients and melting. Right now, the availability of liquid water from snow and ice becomes higher, favoring the growth of snow and ice algae.

This is an increasing problem in the Arctic, Alpine, and Himalayan glaciers. Blooms of red snow and brown ice are turning up in Antarctica, too.

Comment: What is changing in our environment to cause this sudden increase in algae blooms? Also check out SOTTs monthly documentary: SOTT Earth Changes Summary - August 2018: Extreme Weather, Planetary Upheaval, Meteor Fireballs


Info

Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Robert Felix - Onset of crop losses, cosmic rays and cold climate (2 of 3)

NZ growing glaciers
© YouTube/Adapt 2030 (screen capture)
David DuByne from ADAPT 2030 and Robert Felix of Iceagenow.info and the author of Not by Fire but by Ice and Magnetic Reversals & Evolutionary leaps discuss:
  • Cosmic Rays increases
  • Cosmic rays triggering volcanoes
  • Magnetic reversals
  • Increased volcanism and underwater volcanoes effecting the climate
  • 3 million underwater volcanoes heating the oceans
  • Declining sea levels
  • Global crop yield declines
  • Which countries will lose crop production
  • Not by Fire but by Ice
  • Crater Glacier in Mt St Helens grows
  • Antarctic glaciers grow
  • The climate of Chicago moved to Atlanta during the last glaciation
  • You are on your own to grow food as governments are not acknowledging the problem

Comment: Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Robert Felix - Onset of crop losses, cosmic rays and cold climate (1 of 3)

For more information check out SOTT's latest monthly summary: SOTT Earth Changes Summary - August 2018: Extreme Weather, Planetary Upheaval, Meteor Fireballs

To understand how and why these extreme weather events are occurring read Earth Changes and the Human Cosmic Connection by Pierre Lescaudron and Laura Knight-Jadczyk.


Better Earth

Baltic Sea is up to 3-4 °C warmer than average right now

Baltic Sea warm   map September 2018
The unusually warm summer with several prolonged heat waves still reverbrates in the Baltic sea as it remains much warmer than average. Parts of the sea are up to 3-4 °C above average!

As is the case with the Mediterranean sea, the Baltic sea is unusually warm. Latest analysis indicates parts of the southern and northeastern Baltic, along the coasts of Poland and Finland, is 3-4 °C above the 1982-2010 average. Elsewhere the temperature is about 1.5-2.5 °C above average. This translates into temperatures of about 18-19 °C in the southern part and 15-16 °C in the northern part.

Comment: Much of Europe was struck by extended heatwave and drought this summer, but whether this is the sole cause for the warm water anomaly remains to be seen. What is clear is that the Baltic sea has harbored the growth of a mysterious, massive and deadly algae bloom 'whirlpool' since at least July.

See also:


Snowflake

Huge late snowfalls in New Zealand build at 10 cm (4 inches) per hour

Coronet Peak
The 2018 ski season is in to its final month in the southern hemisphere and a number of areas have already closed until next winter begins in June/July 2019, but New Zealand's South Island is currently enjoying some of the biggest snowfalls of their season.

Coronet Peak, pictured above earlier today, says it expects to have 60cm (two feet) of fresh snow waiting by tomorrow morning. Treble Cone (pictured below) reported it had had 50cm of snow and that the snow was still falling at a rate of 5-10cm per hour.

Most areas were forced to close today and will assess conditions in the morning top see if it is possible to re-open on Tuesday. This was Cardrona earlier today with 35cm of snow at that point and still dumping:

Comment: See also: North Island farmers in New Zealand lose 100,000 lambs after spring snow storm


Snowflake

North Island farmers in New Zealand lose 100,000 lambs after spring snow storm

A ewe and her lambs near Te Anau on Monday following an early spring snowfall. There have been few reports of losses in Otago-Southland.
© Barry HarcourtA ewe and her lambs near Te Anau on Monday following an early spring snowfall. There have been few reports of losses in Otago-Southland.
Farmers have suffered "devastating" lamb losses in eastern and central North Island over the last two weeks with an estimated toll of about 100,000.

At current prices of $144 per mature lamb, the economic hit could be $14.4 million.

By contrast Otago and Southland farmers are expected to escape lightly from the impact of snow that has fallen on Monday.

Federated Farmers high country chairman Simon Williamson said lambing would not begin in the areas where most snow had fallen until the beginning of October.

Comment: See also: Huge late snowfalls in New Zealand build at 10 cm (4 inches) per hour


Snowflake

Zojila Pass in India receives season's first snowfall

The flow of vehicular traffic on the Srinagar-Leh road was reported to be normal.
© Twitter/@TahirZamanShah2The flow of vehicular traffic on the Srinagar-Leh road was reported to be normal.
Zojila Pass on the Srinagar-Leh road received mild snowfall on Saturday. This is the first snowfall of this season.

Reports said one inch of fresh snow had accumulated around the 11,575 ft high pass.

However, flow of vehicular traffic was normal.

The forecast for the area predicts cold and unstable weather on Saturday, with possibility of thunderstorms and heavy snowfall.

Info

Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Robert Felix - Onset of crop losses, cosmic rays and cold climate (1 of 3)

ice age now
© YouTube/Adapt 2030 (screen capture)
David DuByne from ADAPT 2030 and Robert Felix of Iceagenow.info and the author of Not by Fire but by Ice and Magnetic Reversals & Evolutionary leaps discuss:
  • Cosmic Rays increases
  • Cosmic rays triggering volcanoes
  • Magnetic reversals
  • Increased volcanism and underwater volcanoes effecting the climate
  • 3 million underwater volcanoes heating the oceans
  • Declining sea levels
  • Global crop yield declines
  • Which countries will lose crop production
  • Not by Fire but by Ice
  • Crater Glacier in Mt St Helens grows
  • Antarctic glaciers grow
  • The climate of Chicago moved to Atlanta during the last glaciation
  • You are on your own to grow food as governments are not acknowledging the problem

Comment: For more information check out SOTT's latest monthly summary: SOTT Earth Changes Summary - August 2018: Extreme Weather, Planetary Upheaval, Meteor Fireballs

To understand how and why these extreme weather events are occurring read Earth Changes and the Human Cosmic Connection by Pierre Lescaudron and Laura Knight-Jadczyk.


Snowflake

A taste of the future: 'Disbelief' as snow hits and northern Alberta farmers scramble to save crops worth millions

Warren Sekulic's crops were flattened under the snow that fell on northern Alberta Wednesday, leaving him in disbelief and more than a little angry.
Warren Sekulic's crops were flattened under the snow that fell on northern Alberta Wednesday, leaving him in disbelief and more than a little angry.
Farmer Warren Sekulic experienced nearly the full spectrum of grief when snow blanketed his crops on Wednesday going from denial, anger, bargaining, to acceptance.

"You're a little bit in disbelief, a little bit angry," he said Thursday, adding, "A whole lot angry maybe. I'm a little younger so maybe I'm a little more hotheaded than my father."

A northern Alberta farmer situated about 70 kilometres north of Grande Prairie — an area which was forecasted to get 10 to 15 cm of snow Wednesday — Sekulic had only heard stories from his grandparents about snow showing up so early in September.

"You just have to accept it or you'll kind of go crazy," he said.

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