February 25, 2015 - EARTH -
The following constitutes several of the latest reports on record
snowfall, record low temperatures and the effects on our infrastructure.
With no remarkable evidence of global warming over the last decade, it
seems that planet Earth has cross the climate change threshold and is
now heading towards a period of extreme global cooling.
Winter's grasp doesn't seem to be letting up, as there are wind chill and freeze warnings throughout the state, says this video.
Freezing temperatures in Florida are threatening orange crops while apples from Washington state are left to rot as dock workers are on strike.
WATCH: Rotting apples and oranges threaten U.S. fruit industry.
- Ice Age Now.
More than 175 million people from the Upper Midwest to the interior South and the Northeast will have to endure more extreme cold conditions this week.
Temperatures on one to several nights will dip below zero F from the Dakotas, Minnesota and Michigan to Virginia, New York and Maine.
While the air masses moving through this week are not quite as extreme as that of last week, daily record low temperatures will continue to be challenged. Once again, record lows dating as far back as the late 1800s will be on the table.
As if the air wasn't cold enough, AccuWeather RealFeel® Temperatures will spend a considerable time below zero F from the northern Plains to the Northeast. The conditions will raise a new round of threats from frostbite and hypothermia for those spending time outdoors and not properly dressed.
The weather pattern into the weekend will mean more dead car batteries, frozen water lines and water main breaks. Deliveries of coal, fuel oil and propane will keep up a brisk pace as costs from heating homes and businesses take a bigger and bigger bite out of the budget.
With the ongoing or renewed cold for the last week of February, the month may land among the coldest on record from around the Great Lakes to the Northeast.
Multiple locations including Boston, New York City, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Cleveland and Chicago are likely to finish the month within the top three coldest Februaries on record. In some cases, such as Buffalo, New York, temperatures for the remainder of the month may deliver the coldest February on record and could rank as the one of the coldest months ever.
With the exception of nuisance episodes of spotty light snow and flurries, much of the northern states will generally be free of major storms through the week.
However, in the South, multiple rounds of snow and ice will affect travel and daily activities over interior locations.
There is a chance that moisture moves close enough to part of the mid-Atlantic to bring a period of snow Thursday or Thursday night.
Extreme Cold to Ease in March
There is finally some good news for the millions of people who have had enough of the cold.
According to AccuWeather.com Senior Meteorologist Brett Anderson, "Indications are the pattern will change next week so that the cold is much less severe from the Midwest to the Northeast."
"Temperatures from the Midwest to the Northeast will still average below normal, but they will be much less extreme," Anderson said.
Rather than temperatures averaging 20-30 degrees F below normal, temperatures may average 10 F or less below normal. During March, normal temperatures rise by a degree every few days.
Parts of the South, including Atlanta, Birmingham, Alabama, and Charlotte, North Carolina, may break out into some warm early spring weather next week. Highs may in the 60s on a few occasions.
"The pattern shift will allow frigid air to take aim more at the northern Rockies," Anderson said. As a byproduct of the weather pattern change, a series of storms may track from the Southwest states to the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence Valley. The stormy pattern may translate to wintry mix events that transition to rain for the Ohio Valley and Northeast. - AccuWeather.
In Louisville, Kentucky, temperatures dropped to -6F, breaking the old record low of 0F. Meanwhile, Richmond Kentucky bottomed out at a frigid -32F.
In North Carolina, a record low temperature was set at Charlotte where the overnight temperature bottomed out at 7F breaking the old record of 13F in 1896. In Asheville, temperatures dropped to just 4F breaking the old record of 10F in 1979. Temperature records for Asheville extend back to 1876.
Several records were also broken in Georgia, Macon set a new record low when the temperature dropped to 18F, beating the previous record of 21F set in 1958. Athens broke a new record low, too dropping to 14F and beating the old record of 18F set in 1958/1928.
On Friday, the city tied a 116-year-old record with a temperature of -28.9 C. The frigid temperature matched a record set back on Feb. 13, 1899.
Yesterday, Feb 20, Buffalo set a new record low maximum of 1°F, breaking the old record low max of 6°F, set in 1950.
So yet again, the sun has fallen absolutely silent, and has been so for three days. This comes at the presumed height of the current solar maximum in April ’14. We can see that the F10.7cm flux – a measure of UV radiation – is down approximately 30% from 3 months ago.
NASA’s own website (http://solarscience.msfc.nasa.gov/pre...) states that the F10.7 flux is “an important indicator of solar activity because it tends to follow the changes in the solar ultraviolet that influence the Earth’s upper atmosphere and ionosphere.” Decreasing UV radiation, lower solar winds, allow for more cosmic radiation from interstellar space to interact with the upper atmosphere and leads to greater cloud formation. More clouds means more sunlight refracted before hitting the surface of the planet, which leads to more cooling effects.
So isn’t it interesting that the coldest month on record across a large portion of the eastern CONUS comes at the same time and we may be setting up for a cooler-than-normal spring?
WATCH: Record cold temperatures.
F10.7cm flux (NASA) ftp://ftpgeolab.nrcan.gc.ca/data/solar_f
Frozen spring at Letchworth state park NY http://www.unmotivating.com/winter-20...
Weather chart http://weather.unisys.com/surface/sst...
Arctic ice 2007-2015 http://home.comcast.net/~ewerme/wuwt/...
satellite view of cold http://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/02/21...
Record Lows USA https://twitter.com/hashtag/ColdSnap?...
Canada http://weather.gc.ca/warnings/weather...
Current sun 25th http://spaceweather.com/images2015/24...
- Adapt 2030.
By about 2 p.m., New Mexico authorities began allowing eastbound I-40 traffic into Texas because crews had nearly cleared the wreck near Arnot Road.
The wreck was reported shortly before noon Monday.
According to the Office of Emergency Management, the DPS and the Potter County Sheriff’s Office worked a major accident at I-40 and Arnot Road in the eastbound lanes of I-40. At least 25 vehicles, including multiple tractor-trailers, were involved, and eastbound I-40 traffic was closed for more than an hour at the New Mexico state line, authorities said.
Trooper Chris Ray said the chain-reaction accident occurred when a few vehicles lost control amid snowy, low-visibility conditions.
“Originally a couple vehicles collided, then it ended up being four vehicles, then it ended up being eight vehicles. And the final tally we ended up with 29 units involved in this, a kind of chain reaction,” Ray said. “Driving too fast and low visibility. That’s what happened.”
Two people were taken to a hospital with what were thought to be minor injuries.
Multiple wrecks were also reported on U.S. Highway 60 in Randall County, though none were considered major, Ray said.
Between midnight Sunday to 4 p.m. Monday, Amarillo police responded to 50 wrecks, but no major serious injuries were reported, Cpl. Jerry Neufeld said.Texas Department of of Transportation spokesman Paul Braun said how highway crews will prepare for another storm expected Thursday depends on the nature of the snow, but he said TxDOT will be ready and will pre-treat potentially hazardous areas if possible. - Amarillo.
WATCH: Drone Footage Of Frozen Niagara Falls.
- NBC News.
The icy weather doesn't just cause trouble for the roads but for the waterways as well.
Every day when ice starts forming, the crew of the Coast Guard icebreaker Capstan casts off the lines and head out into the Delaware River - never knowing what they'll find out there.
"We look forward to the winter every year. This is what the boat is built for, this is what we are out here to do," said US Coast Guard BM1 Matt Bailey.
The Capstan is one of two ice breakers working 140 miles of the Delaware River.
The ice breaker was built in 1961 and can still handle ice up to 18 inches thick.
WATCH: Ice-breaking boats ply the Delaware River.
"Usually once it gets above two feet we usually call in a bigger boat, such as a 175 footer, but we can handle everything up to about two feet," said SCBM Christopher Stover, US Coast Guard.
On Wednesday, the ice ranged from paper thin to eight inches thick.
If the river freezes over, it can bring shipping commerce to a standstill.
The big tankers and freighters can handle the ice but smaller vessels like flat fronted barges can easily get stuck.
However more important than commerce is safety.
"What we focus on, first and foremost, is search and rescue and coastal security of all the vessels out on the water, then we look into vessels that are in urgent situations that may need our assistance breaking out of the ice,: said SCBM Stover.
A buoy, discovered 165 yards out of position, is an example of a safety issue.
That's because the ice grabbed ahold of it and dragged it with the tide.
A large ship could have gone aground if Capstan hadn't sent out notice of the wayward buoy.
On Wednesday, the Capstan cleared the shipping channel from Philadelphia to Trenton and they'll do it all again on Thursday. - 6ABC.
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Friday, 23 January 2015 Blue Algae Eerie fluorescent blue patches of water glimmering off Hong Kong's seashore are magnificent, but disturbing and potentially toxic, marine biologists say. The glow is an indicator of a harmful algal bloom created by something called Noctiluca scintillans, nicknamed Sea Sparkle. http://www.thebigwobble.org/2015_01_0...
Chandigarh: Wheat crop in various parts of Punjab have been affected because of rains accompanied by hailstorm in the last few days, though the state agriculture department is expecting bumper output this Rabi marketing season. However, the quantum of damage to the winter crop was still to be ascertained, as per latest report prepared by Punjab Agriculture department. http://www.indiatvnews.com/news/india...
Great Lakes Ship Rescue from Ice http://blogs.windsorstar.com/news/coa...
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Algae Egg balls 20 September 2014 Green spheres being something from another planet, scientists explained they were a type of sponge-like seaweed that forms egg shapes possibly to protect.themselves from predators. It's the second unusual natural spectacle to hit Sydney's Beaches in a matter of weeks. Last month, the waves at Manly Beach were lit up a fluorescent blue for three nights by 'agitated' phytoplankton, apparently signalling the start of Spring.
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WATCH: Quito Hail Deluge & Ship Rescued from Antarctic Summer Ice.
- Adapt 2030.
While much of the Deep South will expect rain into Thursday, a corridor of snow will set up along the northern periphery of the precipitation, reaching from northern Louisiana and southern Arkansas to the Carolinas and Virginia.
As much as 6 inches of snow fell on parts of northeastern Texas during Wednesday.
Travel delays and slippery roads will spread eastward near and north of Interstate-20 affecting Columbus and Greenville, Mississippi; Huntsville and Birmingham, Alabama; Chattanooga, Tennessee, and Atlanta into Wednesday night.
The biggest impacts will be felt by travelers taking to the roads as snow, sleet and freezing rain are forecast to cause paved surfaces to become slick.
Colder conditions at night can cause wet surfaces to freeze, especially on the back roads, said AccuWeather.com Senior Meteorologist Frank Strait.
Significant flight delays and cancellations are possible through Thursday morning at the Atlanta International Airport, which is one of the busiest airports in the nation.
In part of the South, the snow will be heavy, wet and clinging.
According to AccuWeather.com Meteorologist Mark Mancuso, "The wet snow has the potential to bring down tree limbs and cause power outages as a result."
The greatest amount of snow from the storm will be felt in the southern Appalachian Mountains, across much of North Carolina and southern Virginia through Thursday morning.
The highest accumulations are expected over the mountains, but some spots in North Carolina and southern Virginia could pick up over 6 inches.
According to AccuWeather.com Senior Meteorologist Alex Sosnowski, "The snow will come down at the rate of an inch an hour in parts of the south Wednesday night, which can quickly cover roads and catch motorists off guard."
The Thursday commute could be slow and difficult in the wake of the storm across eastern Tennessee, northern Georgia, southern Virginia and the Carolinas due to snow-covered roads.
People from the northern Atlanta suburbs, northward to near Nashville, eastward to Greenville and Anderson, South Carolina; Charlotte, Winston-Salem, Raleigh and Fayetteville, North Carolina; and Richmond and Norfolk, Virginia; will be facing a significant winter storm.
Anyone that has to drive in this area Wednesday night into Thursday morning should allow ample time to reach their destination to account for lower travel speeds, accidents and lane closures.
Intermittent snow will extend into northern Virginia to the Delmarva Peninsula by Thursday morning. A small accumulation of snow is possible from Washington, D.C., to Dover, Delaware, and Atlantic City, New Jersey.
Some natural melting of the snow on the roads will occur during Thursday midday and afternoon, which may allow highway travel to improve somewhat, once roads are plowed.
Surfaces that remain wet and slushy into Thursday evening will become icy as temperatures rapidly fall below freezing.
Dry weather will be the theme across the Southeast on Friday with chilly air lingering around in the wake of the storm to close out the week. - AccuWeather.
Frozen waters in Maine have left lobstermen stuck on the mainland again this week.
The boats are sitting frozen and stuck and ice is preventing many lobstermen from leaving the harbor.
Some say it's been at least three weeks since they have been able to get out on the water and that the deep freeze is really starting to hurt their very livelihoods. - MYFOXDC.
The pileups in Etna, near Bangor, happened at about 7:30 a.m. and involved several cars, a school bus and a tractor-trailer, state police spokesman Steve McCausland said. He said some of the injuries were serious.
Emergency personnel climbed on top of cars to reach motorists stuck in the middle of the jumble of vehicles. McCausland said one veteran trooper described the site as a "giant pile of metal."
State police said the crash was the biggest in Maine in more than 15 years.
Rhonda Kent, an occupational therapist from Saint Albans, said her car was sideswiped amid the pileup, which sent cars and trucks spinning. Kent, who was not injured, said a logging truck came dangerously close to hitting her and spun off into a ditch.
"It was almost surreal, something you see in the movies," Kent said.
Both northbound lanes on a 30-mile stretch of highway were closed for five hours, and drivers were told to take other exits to avoid the area. One northbound lane reopened around 12:30 p.m.; the other opened several hours later.
Two hospitals reported taking in 17 patients, some in serious condition. One person at the scene of the crash had a heart attack and some people suffered broken bones, police said. Two students and two adults on the bus were shaken up but not injured.
Police said the main crash involved more than 25 vehicles, and there were a series of other wrecks leading up to the crash site. Some of the crashes involved two or three vehicles, and then other vehicles went off the road to avoid hitting them.
State Police Lt. Sean Hashey said he was "absolutely shocked that we don't have any fatalities."
He said the crashes were likely the result of poor visibility, slippery roads and speed but cautioned that reconstructing exactly how the events unfolded could be impossible.
"We'll never know exactly who hit who," Hashey said. "It was just such a mess of vehicles."
At a travel stop in nearby Newburgh, people involved in the crash gathered to give statements to police and wait to see their wrecked vehicles. Some were keeping warm in a parked school bus. Workers at the truck stop reported seeing more than a dozen ambulances try to access the highway from a nearby ramp.
Rose Butts, a hotel housekeeper from Plymouth, said she swerved to miss part of the accident and hit a snow bank. She and a friend were not injured but waited in her car for five hours for help.
"We're thankful that we're both alive and both OK," she said.
Dylan Carroll, a Plymouth auto mechanic, said he swerved and hit a snow bank before a garbage truck spun out, tapped his car and blocked him. He was not injured.
"I thought it was going to be much worse than it was," Carroll said.There was at least an inch of snow on the ground at the time of the crash, according to the National Weather Service. Snow was forecast to fall throughout the day with total accumulations of 5 to 9 inches. - ABC News.
An intersection on Youngstown' west side was blocked Monday morning until water department crews could fill in a hole caused by water department excavation.
A city plow truck fell into the hole Sunday afternoon while clearing the intersection of N. Glenellen Ave. and Burbank Ave. in Youngstown.
A tow truck had to pull out the snow plow, which had gone straight through the pavement. The hole has since been patched with dry material.
The accident happened at the same place where a water main broke the week of Feb. 15.
- WKBN.
Health and security officials in Tabuk have been on full alert because of snowstorms in the northwestern part of the Kingdom over the past two days. The affected areas are AlDhaher Alakan Abu AlHanshan Attabaq Tinenar Wadi AlAsmar AlLawz Mountain and AlAniq.
The Saudi Red Crescent has reinforced its teams with extra officials to take care of the large numbers of people who are enjoying the snow. The Civil Defense has issued early warnings to alert people to take care and follow safety measures in such extreme weather conditions.
Khaled AlEnaizi spokesman of the Saudi Red Crescent in Tabuk said 11 teams had been assigned to parks and locations of heavy snowfalls where citizens and residents are out around the clock.
Auda AlAtawi spokesman for the health affairs in Tabuk said they were ready with rescue teams to deal with current weather conditions according to directions from the Civil Defense. He said four mobile units were ready to offer field support at any location.
He said the authorities are coordinating with the Civil Defense and the Red Crescent through the crisis and emergency center which is affiliated with the Health Ministry. Medical support is readily available if needed.
The General Traffic Directorate in Tabuk prepared field teams under the leadership of a number of officers in Alakan AlZaita and the AlLawz Mountain according to Gen. Mohammad AlBugami the traffic director. He said his directorate had implemented a traffic plan to deal with the rain and snowfall and the resulting traffic congestion.
He said the plan included assigning a number of officers and individuals and dividing them into groups to carry out traffic security tasks around the clock. He said that all necessary procedures to guarantee traffic safety for people in these areas are being taken. - Menafn.
Avalanches caused by a heavy winter snow have killed at least 124 people in north-eastern Afghanistan, an emergency official said on Wednesday, as rescuers clawed through debris with their hands to save those buried beneath.
The avalanches buried homes across four north-east provinces, killing those beneath, said Mohammad Aslam Syas, the deputy director of the Afghanistan natural disaster management authority. The province worst hit appeared to be Panjshir province, about 100km (60 miles) north-east of the capital, Kabul, where the avalanches destroyed or damaged around 100 homes, Syas said.
The acting governor of Panjshir, Abdul Rahman Kabiri, said rescuers used their bare hands and shovels in an effort to reach survivors. Rescue teams had been dispatched to the affected areas and casualties were expected to rise, Syas said.
The heavy snowstorms, which began early Tuesday, hampered rescue efforts. Snowfall from the storm was nearly one meter (3ft) deep in places and fallen trees blocked roads in the Panjshir Valley.
General Abdul Aziz Ghirat, the provincial police chief of Panjshir, said the death toll from the avalanches was expected to rise when rescue attempts resumed at sunrise Thursday.
Avalanches in the valley's Dara district affected up to 600 families, according to people trying to reach the area to assist in rescue efforts.
"People there have told me that two of my relatives have been killed and eight others are still under the snow," said an Afghan who goes by the single name Sharafudin. "My son and I are trying to get through to see if we can help find their bodies. But it will take us at least three or four hours to get there because of the snow and the road is very narrow, so we have to walk, the car can't get through."
He spoke at the mouth of the valley, where traffic moved at a crawl.
"We've had no help yet from the authorities, no medicines, no machinery to open the roads so we can get to the buried houses," Sharafudin said.
Another man stuck on the highway trying to reach Dara told the Associated Press that many bodies remained in houses buried beneath feet of snow.
"We are so concerned about our relatives who are just stuck there," said the man named Abu Muslim.
Large parts of Afghanistan have been covered in snow as a major storm interrupted an otherwise mild and dry winter.
Authorities in Parwan province closed the strategic Salang Tunnel, which links the north and south of the country, over avalanche fears. Power cables traversing the tunnel have been damaged, cutting power to much of Kabul since earlier this week.
In a statement, President Ashraf Ghani said he was "saddened by news of the avalanches and flooding across the country". He said he had ordered urgent assessments of the extent of damage and offered his condolences to the families of the dead.
Temperatures have plummeted across the country, though the snow was expected to start melting in the Panjshir Valley and much of the mountainous north-west of the Hindu Kush range in coming days, according to forecasts.
Afghanistan has suffered through some three decades of war since the Soviet invasion in 1979. But natural disasters such as landslides, floods and avalanches have taken a toll on a country with little infrastructure or development outside of its major cities.
In May, a massive landslide killed anywhere from 250 to 2,700 people, authorities said at the time. Another landslide in 2012 killed 71 people. Authorities were not able to recover the vast majority of bodies and ended up declaring the site a massive grave. - The Guardian.
I am pointing out that ancient societies knew our solar system goes through waxing and waning of energy, which effects life on this planet. The information was encoded as symbols that depict physical energy connections through space. The mental and spiritual planes of existence are not mentioned as this is not the information that correlates to the Grand Solar Minimum which has already begun.
Lastly, there are many levels within symbols, I only reference the visual, not the intertwined deeper meanings. Physical representations only that relate to energy and pertain to the irradiance to and from our sun.
WATCH: Ancient's Knowledge of Birkeland Currents & Cooling Patterns on Earth.
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- Adapt 2030.
Record-breaking cold temperatures threaten harvests in US
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| Ice and oranges. |
Winter's grasp doesn't seem to be letting up, as there are wind chill and freeze warnings throughout the state, says this video.
Freezing temperatures in Florida are threatening orange crops while apples from Washington state are left to rot as dock workers are on strike.
WATCH: Rotting apples and oranges threaten U.S. fruit industry.
- Ice Age Now.
Dangerous Cold Gripping Eastern US This Week to Ease in March
Additional waves of frigid air will continue to flow southward out of Canada and into the central and eastern United States this week, but there are indications the worst of the cold will ease up next week in the East.More than 175 million people from the Upper Midwest to the interior South and the Northeast will have to endure more extreme cold conditions this week.
Temperatures on one to several nights will dip below zero F from the Dakotas, Minnesota and Michigan to Virginia, New York and Maine.
While the air masses moving through this week are not quite as extreme as that of last week, daily record low temperatures will continue to be challenged. Once again, record lows dating as far back as the late 1800s will be on the table.
As if the air wasn't cold enough, AccuWeather RealFeel® Temperatures will spend a considerable time below zero F from the northern Plains to the Northeast. The conditions will raise a new round of threats from frostbite and hypothermia for those spending time outdoors and not properly dressed.
The weather pattern into the weekend will mean more dead car batteries, frozen water lines and water main breaks. Deliveries of coal, fuel oil and propane will keep up a brisk pace as costs from heating homes and businesses take a bigger and bigger bite out of the budget.
With the ongoing or renewed cold for the last week of February, the month may land among the coldest on record from around the Great Lakes to the Northeast.
Multiple locations including Boston, New York City, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Cleveland and Chicago are likely to finish the month within the top three coldest Februaries on record. In some cases, such as Buffalo, New York, temperatures for the remainder of the month may deliver the coldest February on record and could rank as the one of the coldest months ever.
With the exception of nuisance episodes of spotty light snow and flurries, much of the northern states will generally be free of major storms through the week.
However, in the South, multiple rounds of snow and ice will affect travel and daily activities over interior locations.
There is a chance that moisture moves close enough to part of the mid-Atlantic to bring a period of snow Thursday or Thursday night.
Extreme Cold to Ease in March
There is finally some good news for the millions of people who have had enough of the cold.
According to AccuWeather.com Senior Meteorologist Brett Anderson, "Indications are the pattern will change next week so that the cold is much less severe from the Midwest to the Northeast."
"Temperatures from the Midwest to the Northeast will still average below normal, but they will be much less extreme," Anderson said.
Rather than temperatures averaging 20-30 degrees F below normal, temperatures may average 10 F or less below normal. During March, normal temperatures rise by a degree every few days.
Parts of the South, including Atlanta, Birmingham, Alabama, and Charlotte, North Carolina, may break out into some warm early spring weather next week. Highs may in the 60s on a few occasions.
"The pattern shift will allow frigid air to take aim more at the northern Rockies," Anderson said. As a byproduct of the weather pattern change, a series of storms may track from the Southwest states to the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence Valley. The stormy pattern may translate to wintry mix events that transition to rain for the Ohio Valley and Northeast. - AccuWeather.
100+ Year Temperature Records Dropping Like Flies & 10.7cm Flux Down 30%
In Baltimore, Maryland, a low temperature of 1F broke the record low for coldest morning recorded at the Thurgood Marshall Baltimore Washington-International Airport.In Louisville, Kentucky, temperatures dropped to -6F, breaking the old record low of 0F. Meanwhile, Richmond Kentucky bottomed out at a frigid -32F.
In North Carolina, a record low temperature was set at Charlotte where the overnight temperature bottomed out at 7F breaking the old record of 13F in 1896. In Asheville, temperatures dropped to just 4F breaking the old record of 10F in 1979. Temperature records for Asheville extend back to 1876.
Several records were also broken in Georgia, Macon set a new record low when the temperature dropped to 18F, beating the previous record of 21F set in 1958. Athens broke a new record low, too dropping to 14F and beating the old record of 18F set in 1958/1928.
On Friday, the city tied a 116-year-old record with a temperature of -28.9 C. The frigid temperature matched a record set back on Feb. 13, 1899.
Yesterday, Feb 20, Buffalo set a new record low maximum of 1°F, breaking the old record low max of 6°F, set in 1950.
So yet again, the sun has fallen absolutely silent, and has been so for three days. This comes at the presumed height of the current solar maximum in April ’14. We can see that the F10.7cm flux – a measure of UV radiation – is down approximately 30% from 3 months ago.
NASA’s own website (http://solarscience.msfc.nasa.gov/pre...) states that the F10.7 flux is “an important indicator of solar activity because it tends to follow the changes in the solar ultraviolet that influence the Earth’s upper atmosphere and ionosphere.” Decreasing UV radiation, lower solar winds, allow for more cosmic radiation from interstellar space to interact with the upper atmosphere and leads to greater cloud formation. More clouds means more sunlight refracted before hitting the surface of the planet, which leads to more cooling effects.
So isn’t it interesting that the coldest month on record across a large portion of the eastern CONUS comes at the same time and we may be setting up for a cooler-than-normal spring?
WATCH: Record cold temperatures.
F10.7cm flux (NASA) ftp://ftpgeolab.nrcan.gc.ca/data/solar_f
Frozen spring at Letchworth state park NY http://www.unmotivating.com/winter-20...
Weather chart http://weather.unisys.com/surface/sst...
Arctic ice 2007-2015 http://home.comcast.net/~ewerme/wuwt/...
satellite view of cold http://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/02/21...
Record Lows USA https://twitter.com/hashtag/ColdSnap?...
Canada http://weather.gc.ca/warnings/weather...
Current sun 25th http://spaceweather.com/images2015/24...
- Adapt 2030.
29-car pileup stalls I-40 traffic
A major pileup involving more than two dozen vehicles about 10 miles west of Amarillo on eastbound Interstate 40 snarled traffic for hours Monday, but crews finally cleared the massive wreck Monday afternoon, the Texas Department of Public Safety reported.By about 2 p.m., New Mexico authorities began allowing eastbound I-40 traffic into Texas because crews had nearly cleared the wreck near Arnot Road.
The wreck was reported shortly before noon Monday.
According to the Office of Emergency Management, the DPS and the Potter County Sheriff’s Office worked a major accident at I-40 and Arnot Road in the eastbound lanes of I-40. At least 25 vehicles, including multiple tractor-trailers, were involved, and eastbound I-40 traffic was closed for more than an hour at the New Mexico state line, authorities said.
Trooper Chris Ray said the chain-reaction accident occurred when a few vehicles lost control amid snowy, low-visibility conditions.
“Originally a couple vehicles collided, then it ended up being four vehicles, then it ended up being eight vehicles. And the final tally we ended up with 29 units involved in this, a kind of chain reaction,” Ray said. “Driving too fast and low visibility. That’s what happened.”
Two people were taken to a hospital with what were thought to be minor injuries.
Multiple wrecks were also reported on U.S. Highway 60 in Randall County, though none were considered major, Ray said.
Between midnight Sunday to 4 p.m. Monday, Amarillo police responded to 50 wrecks, but no major serious injuries were reported, Cpl. Jerry Neufeld said.Texas Department of of Transportation spokesman Paul Braun said how highway crews will prepare for another storm expected Thursday depends on the nature of the snow, but he said TxDOT will be ready and will pre-treat potentially hazardous areas if possible. - Amarillo.
Drone film of Niagara Falls frozen over
The ice encasing the Niagara Falls, which has drawn in visitors from all over, isn't expected to melt entirely until May. Drone footage captures this rare and beautiful occurrence.WATCH: Drone Footage Of Frozen Niagara Falls.
- NBC News.
Ice-breaking tug boats operating on the Delaware River
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| Ice-breaker on the Delaware river |
The icy weather doesn't just cause trouble for the roads but for the waterways as well.
Every day when ice starts forming, the crew of the Coast Guard icebreaker Capstan casts off the lines and head out into the Delaware River - never knowing what they'll find out there.
"We look forward to the winter every year. This is what the boat is built for, this is what we are out here to do," said US Coast Guard BM1 Matt Bailey.
The Capstan is one of two ice breakers working 140 miles of the Delaware River.
The ice breaker was built in 1961 and can still handle ice up to 18 inches thick.
WATCH: Ice-breaking boats ply the Delaware River.
"Usually once it gets above two feet we usually call in a bigger boat, such as a 175 footer, but we can handle everything up to about two feet," said SCBM Christopher Stover, US Coast Guard.
On Wednesday, the ice ranged from paper thin to eight inches thick.
If the river freezes over, it can bring shipping commerce to a standstill.
The big tankers and freighters can handle the ice but smaller vessels like flat fronted barges can easily get stuck.
However more important than commerce is safety.
"What we focus on, first and foremost, is search and rescue and coastal security of all the vessels out on the water, then we look into vessels that are in urgent situations that may need our assistance breaking out of the ice,: said SCBM Stover.
A buoy, discovered 165 yards out of position, is an example of a safety issue.
That's because the ice grabbed ahold of it and dragged it with the tide.
A large ship could have gone aground if Capstan hadn't sent out notice of the wayward buoy.
On Wednesday, the Capstan cleared the shipping channel from Philadelphia to Trenton and they'll do it all again on Thursday. - 6ABC.
Quito Hail Deluge & Ship Rescued from Antarctic Summer Ice
Rescue of vessel stuck ice during summer in Antarcia http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/0...http://www.king5.com/story/news/local...
Friday, 23 January 2015 Blue Algae Eerie fluorescent blue patches of water glimmering off Hong Kong's seashore are magnificent, but disturbing and potentially toxic, marine biologists say. The glow is an indicator of a harmful algal bloom created by something called Noctiluca scintillans, nicknamed Sea Sparkle. http://www.thebigwobble.org/2015_01_0...
Chandigarh: Wheat crop in various parts of Punjab have been affected because of rains accompanied by hailstorm in the last few days, though the state agriculture department is expecting bumper output this Rabi marketing season. However, the quantum of damage to the winter crop was still to be ascertained, as per latest report prepared by Punjab Agriculture department. http://www.indiatvnews.com/news/india...
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Algae Egg balls 20 September 2014 Green spheres being something from another planet, scientists explained they were a type of sponge-like seaweed that forms egg shapes possibly to protect.themselves from predators. It's the second unusual natural spectacle to hit Sydney's Beaches in a matter of weeks. Last month, the waves at Manly Beach were lit up a fluorescent blue for three nights by 'agitated' phytoplankton, apparently signalling the start of Spring.
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WATCH: Quito Hail Deluge & Ship Rescued from Antarctic Summer Ice.
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Disruptive Snow to Slow Travel From Mississippi to Virginia
Cold air from Canada and moisture from the Gulf of Mexico will clash to bring a significant winter storm with accumulating snow and an icy mix in a large part of the South.While much of the Deep South will expect rain into Thursday, a corridor of snow will set up along the northern periphery of the precipitation, reaching from northern Louisiana and southern Arkansas to the Carolinas and Virginia.
As much as 6 inches of snow fell on parts of northeastern Texas during Wednesday.
Travel delays and slippery roads will spread eastward near and north of Interstate-20 affecting Columbus and Greenville, Mississippi; Huntsville and Birmingham, Alabama; Chattanooga, Tennessee, and Atlanta into Wednesday night.
The biggest impacts will be felt by travelers taking to the roads as snow, sleet and freezing rain are forecast to cause paved surfaces to become slick.
Colder conditions at night can cause wet surfaces to freeze, especially on the back roads, said AccuWeather.com Senior Meteorologist Frank Strait.
Significant flight delays and cancellations are possible through Thursday morning at the Atlanta International Airport, which is one of the busiest airports in the nation.
In part of the South, the snow will be heavy, wet and clinging.
According to AccuWeather.com Meteorologist Mark Mancuso, "The wet snow has the potential to bring down tree limbs and cause power outages as a result."
The greatest amount of snow from the storm will be felt in the southern Appalachian Mountains, across much of North Carolina and southern Virginia through Thursday morning.
The highest accumulations are expected over the mountains, but some spots in North Carolina and southern Virginia could pick up over 6 inches.
According to AccuWeather.com Senior Meteorologist Alex Sosnowski, "The snow will come down at the rate of an inch an hour in parts of the south Wednesday night, which can quickly cover roads and catch motorists off guard."
The Thursday commute could be slow and difficult in the wake of the storm across eastern Tennessee, northern Georgia, southern Virginia and the Carolinas due to snow-covered roads.
People from the northern Atlanta suburbs, northward to near Nashville, eastward to Greenville and Anderson, South Carolina; Charlotte, Winston-Salem, Raleigh and Fayetteville, North Carolina; and Richmond and Norfolk, Virginia; will be facing a significant winter storm.
Anyone that has to drive in this area Wednesday night into Thursday morning should allow ample time to reach their destination to account for lower travel speeds, accidents and lane closures.
Intermittent snow will extend into northern Virginia to the Delmarva Peninsula by Thursday morning. A small accumulation of snow is possible from Washington, D.C., to Dover, Delaware, and Atlantic City, New Jersey.
Some natural melting of the snow on the roads will occur during Thursday midday and afternoon, which may allow highway travel to improve somewhat, once roads are plowed.
Surfaces that remain wet and slushy into Thursday evening will become icy as temperatures rapidly fall below freezing.
Dry weather will be the theme across the Southeast on Friday with chilly air lingering around in the wake of the storm to close out the week. - AccuWeather.
Lobster boats trapped by ice in New England harbors
The bitter cold weather is taking a toll on New England's lobster industry which is losing a significant amount of money this winter.Frozen waters in Maine have left lobstermen stuck on the mainland again this week.
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The boats are sitting frozen and stuck and ice is preventing many lobstermen from leaving the harbor.
Some say it's been at least three weeks since they have been able to get out on the water and that the deep freeze is really starting to hurt their very livelihoods. - MYFOXDC.
70-Vehicle Pileup in Snowy Maine Leaves at Least 17 Injured
More than 70 vehicles got tangled up in a series of chain-reaction pileups Wednesday along a snowy stretch of Interstate 95 in Maine, injuring at least 17 people, state police said.The pileups in Etna, near Bangor, happened at about 7:30 a.m. and involved several cars, a school bus and a tractor-trailer, state police spokesman Steve McCausland said. He said some of the injuries were serious.
Emergency personnel climbed on top of cars to reach motorists stuck in the middle of the jumble of vehicles. McCausland said one veteran trooper described the site as a "giant pile of metal."
State police said the crash was the biggest in Maine in more than 15 years.
Rhonda Kent, an occupational therapist from Saint Albans, said her car was sideswiped amid the pileup, which sent cars and trucks spinning. Kent, who was not injured, said a logging truck came dangerously close to hitting her and spun off into a ditch.
"It was almost surreal, something you see in the movies," Kent said.
Both northbound lanes on a 30-mile stretch of highway were closed for five hours, and drivers were told to take other exits to avoid the area. One northbound lane reopened around 12:30 p.m.; the other opened several hours later.
Two hospitals reported taking in 17 patients, some in serious condition. One person at the scene of the crash had a heart attack and some people suffered broken bones, police said. Two students and two adults on the bus were shaken up but not injured.
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Police said the main crash involved more than 25 vehicles, and there were a series of other wrecks leading up to the crash site. Some of the crashes involved two or three vehicles, and then other vehicles went off the road to avoid hitting them.
State Police Lt. Sean Hashey said he was "absolutely shocked that we don't have any fatalities."
He said the crashes were likely the result of poor visibility, slippery roads and speed but cautioned that reconstructing exactly how the events unfolded could be impossible.
"We'll never know exactly who hit who," Hashey said. "It was just such a mess of vehicles."
At a travel stop in nearby Newburgh, people involved in the crash gathered to give statements to police and wait to see their wrecked vehicles. Some were keeping warm in a parked school bus. Workers at the truck stop reported seeing more than a dozen ambulances try to access the highway from a nearby ramp.
Rose Butts, a hotel housekeeper from Plymouth, said she swerved to miss part of the accident and hit a snow bank. She and a friend were not injured but waited in her car for five hours for help.
"We're thankful that we're both alive and both OK," she said.
Dylan Carroll, a Plymouth auto mechanic, said he swerved and hit a snow bank before a garbage truck spun out, tapped his car and blocked him. He was not injured.
"I thought it was going to be much worse than it was," Carroll said.There was at least an inch of snow on the ground at the time of the crash, according to the National Weather Service. Snow was forecast to fall throughout the day with total accumulations of 5 to 9 inches. - ABC News.
Snow plow truck gets stuck in sinkhole in Youngstown, Ohio
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An intersection on Youngstown' west side was blocked Monday morning until water department crews could fill in a hole caused by water department excavation.
A city plow truck fell into the hole Sunday afternoon while clearing the intersection of N. Glenellen Ave. and Burbank Ave. in Youngstown.
A tow truck had to pull out the snow plow, which had gone straight through the pavement. The hole has since been patched with dry material.
The accident happened at the same place where a water main broke the week of Feb. 15.
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Meanwhile in the Desert Kingdom: Saudi Arabia on high alert following snowstorms
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Health and security officials in Tabuk have been on full alert because of snowstorms in the northwestern part of the Kingdom over the past two days. The affected areas are AlDhaher Alakan Abu AlHanshan Attabaq Tinenar Wadi AlAsmar AlLawz Mountain and AlAniq.
The Saudi Red Crescent has reinforced its teams with extra officials to take care of the large numbers of people who are enjoying the snow. The Civil Defense has issued early warnings to alert people to take care and follow safety measures in such extreme weather conditions.
Khaled AlEnaizi spokesman of the Saudi Red Crescent in Tabuk said 11 teams had been assigned to parks and locations of heavy snowfalls where citizens and residents are out around the clock.
Auda AlAtawi spokesman for the health affairs in Tabuk said they were ready with rescue teams to deal with current weather conditions according to directions from the Civil Defense. He said four mobile units were ready to offer field support at any location.
He said the authorities are coordinating with the Civil Defense and the Red Crescent through the crisis and emergency center which is affiliated with the Health Ministry. Medical support is readily available if needed.
The General Traffic Directorate in Tabuk prepared field teams under the leadership of a number of officers in Alakan AlZaita and the AlLawz Mountain according to Gen. Mohammad AlBugami the traffic director. He said his directorate had implemented a traffic plan to deal with the rain and snowfall and the resulting traffic congestion.
He said the plan included assigning a number of officers and individuals and dividing them into groups to carry out traffic security tasks around the clock. He said that all necessary procedures to guarantee traffic safety for people in these areas are being taken. - Menafn.
Avalanches kill at least 124 people in Afghanistan
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The avalanches buried homes across four north-east provinces, killing those beneath, said Mohammad Aslam Syas, the deputy director of the Afghanistan natural disaster management authority. The province worst hit appeared to be Panjshir province, about 100km (60 miles) north-east of the capital, Kabul, where the avalanches destroyed or damaged around 100 homes, Syas said.
The acting governor of Panjshir, Abdul Rahman Kabiri, said rescuers used their bare hands and shovels in an effort to reach survivors. Rescue teams had been dispatched to the affected areas and casualties were expected to rise, Syas said.
The heavy snowstorms, which began early Tuesday, hampered rescue efforts. Snowfall from the storm was nearly one meter (3ft) deep in places and fallen trees blocked roads in the Panjshir Valley.
General Abdul Aziz Ghirat, the provincial police chief of Panjshir, said the death toll from the avalanches was expected to rise when rescue attempts resumed at sunrise Thursday.
Avalanches in the valley's Dara district affected up to 600 families, according to people trying to reach the area to assist in rescue efforts.
"People there have told me that two of my relatives have been killed and eight others are still under the snow," said an Afghan who goes by the single name Sharafudin. "My son and I are trying to get through to see if we can help find their bodies. But it will take us at least three or four hours to get there because of the snow and the road is very narrow, so we have to walk, the car can't get through."
He spoke at the mouth of the valley, where traffic moved at a crawl.
"We've had no help yet from the authorities, no medicines, no machinery to open the roads so we can get to the buried houses," Sharafudin said.
Another man stuck on the highway trying to reach Dara told the Associated Press that many bodies remained in houses buried beneath feet of snow.
"We are so concerned about our relatives who are just stuck there," said the man named Abu Muslim.
Large parts of Afghanistan have been covered in snow as a major storm interrupted an otherwise mild and dry winter.
Authorities in Parwan province closed the strategic Salang Tunnel, which links the north and south of the country, over avalanche fears. Power cables traversing the tunnel have been damaged, cutting power to much of Kabul since earlier this week.
In a statement, President Ashraf Ghani said he was "saddened by news of the avalanches and flooding across the country". He said he had ordered urgent assessments of the extent of damage and offered his condolences to the families of the dead.
Temperatures have plummeted across the country, though the snow was expected to start melting in the Panjshir Valley and much of the mountainous north-west of the Hindu Kush range in coming days, according to forecasts.
Afghanistan has suffered through some three decades of war since the Soviet invasion in 1979. But natural disasters such as landslides, floods and avalanches have taken a toll on a country with little infrastructure or development outside of its major cities.
In May, a massive landslide killed anywhere from 250 to 2,700 people, authorities said at the time. Another landslide in 2012 killed 71 people. Authorities were not able to recover the vast majority of bodies and ended up declaring the site a massive grave. - The Guardian.
Ancient's Knowledge of Birkeland Currents & Cooling Patterns on Earth
This video explains on the physical level how our star/sun is powered from an external source originating in Orion. There is no attempt to decode esoteric knowledge of the symbols, other than the physical representation of how these symbols have been saved and revered through antiquity. As our sun is now beginning to decrease its power output we are beginning to enter a new Grand Solar Minimum, the symbols are what on the physical level are repeating cycles of time which were recorded.I am pointing out that ancient societies knew our solar system goes through waxing and waning of energy, which effects life on this planet. The information was encoded as symbols that depict physical energy connections through space. The mental and spiritual planes of existence are not mentioned as this is not the information that correlates to the Grand Solar Minimum which has already begun.
Lastly, there are many levels within symbols, I only reference the visual, not the intertwined deeper meanings. Physical representations only that relate to energy and pertain to the irradiance to and from our sun.
WATCH: Ancient's Knowledge of Birkeland Currents & Cooling Patterns on Earth.
Danny Wilten's Work
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Birkeland Currents
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Electrical charges through substrate
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Star Observer Electric Sun
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Thunderbolts Project Electric Universe Bulge and Pinch in plasma currents
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