Showing posts with label Southern Hemisphere. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Southern Hemisphere. Show all posts

Thursday, February 11, 2016

MONUMENTAL EARTH CHANGES: Weather Anomalies - 3 Tropical Cyclones Form At The Same Time In The Southern Hemisphere!

3 tropical storms. © Google Maps

February 11, 2016 - SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE - Three tropical cyclones formed almost simultaneously in the Southern Hemisphere.

Daya was born in the Indian Ocean, whereas Eleven and Tatiana formed in the Pacific Ocean.

The tropical cyclone Daya formed east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean and is moving in a south-easterly direction.

In the eye of the storm, wind speeds were measured at 72 km / h, with gusts reaching 97 km / h.


Tropical cyclone Daya.

Tropical Cyclone 11
is still nameless. It formed to the east of the islands of Vanuatu in the Pacific Ocean.

The wind speed at the epicenter is 72 km / h, with gusts up to 97 km / h.


Tropical cyclone 11.

The cyclone is moving in a southeasterly direction and could grow significantly worse in the near future.

The tropical cyclone Tatiana
formed east of Australia and to the west of the islands of Vanuatu in the Pacific Ocean.


Tropical cyclone Tatiana.

It is currently moving in a south-easterly direction.

The wind speed at the epicenter is 80 km / h, with gusts up to 105 km / h. Hopefully they will not sweep through residential areas. - Strange Sounds.






Tuesday, February 17, 2015

MONUMENTAL SOLAR SYSTEM CHANGES: "It Was Quite A Surprise,... Thought There Was A Problem With The Telescope,... It Raises More Questions Than Answers,..." - Massive And Mysterious Haze High Above Planet Mars Baffles Scientists; The Plume Stretch For Over 1,000km?! [PHOTOS]


February 17, 2015 - MARS - A mysterious haze high above Mars has left scientists scratching their heads.

The vast plume was initially spotted by amateur astronomers in 2012, and appeared twice before vanishing.

Scientists have now analysed the images and say that say the formation, stretching for more than 1,000km, is larger than any seen before.

Writing in the journal Nature, the researchers believe the plume could be a large cloud or an exceptionally bright aurora.

However, they are unsure how these could have formed in the thin upper reaches of the Martian atmosphere.

"It raises more questions than answers," said Antonio Garcia Munoz, a planetary scientist from the European Space Agency.

Around the world, a network of amateur astronomers keep their telescopes trained on the Red Planet.

They first spotted the strange plume in March 2012 above Mars' southern hemisphere.

Damian Peach was one of the first stargazers to capture images of the phenomenon.

He told BBC News: "I noticed this projection sticking out of the side of the planet. To begin with, I thought there was a problem with the telescope or camera.

"But as I checked more of the images, I realised it was a real feature - and it was quite a surprise."


Damian Peach was one of the first astronomers to image the plume

The vast, bright haze lasted for about 10 days. A month later, it reappeared for the same length of time. But it has not been seen since.

An international team of scientists has now confirmed the finding, but they are struggling to find an explanation.

One theory is that the plume is a cloud of carbon dioxide or water particles.

"We know there are clouds on Mars, but clouds, up to this point, have been observed up to an altitude of 100km," Dr Garcia Munoz said.

"And we are reporting a plume at 200km, so it is significantly different. At 200km, we shouldn't see any clouds, the atmosphere is too thin - so the fact we see it for 20 days in total is quite surprising."

Another explanation is that this is a Martian version of the northern or southern lights.

Dr Garcia Munoz explained: "We know in this region on Mars, there have been auroras reported before. But the intensities we are reporting are much much higher than any auroras seen before on Mars or on Earth.

"It would be 1,000 times stronger than the strongest aurora, and it is difficult to come to terms that Mars has such an intense aurora."

If either of these theories are right, he said, it would mean our understanding of Mars' upper atmosphere is wrong.

He hopes that by publishing the paper, other scientists might also come up with explanations.

If they cannot, astronomers will have to wait for the plumes to return.

Close-up observations from telescopes or the spacecraft that are currently in orbit around the Red Planet could help to solve this Martian mystery. - BBC.






Friday, May 3, 2013

FIRE IN THE SKY: Eta Aquarids Meteor Shower 2013 - When, How And Where To Watch Live!

May 03, 2013 - SPACE - The Eta Aquarid meteor shower is now peaking in the wee hours before dawn. Its maximum is expected to come in the predawn sky on Sunday morning – May 5, 2013 – in the dark hour before astronomical twilight. Don’t know when astronomical twilight begins in your sky? Find out with this handy custom sunrise-sunset calendar.


The radiant point for the Eta Aquarid meteor shower lies in front of the "Water Jar" asterism in the constellation Aquarius.

Under ideal conditions, the Eta Aquarid meteor shower produces up to 20 to 40 meteors per hour – possibly more in the Southern Hemisphere. Luckily, the thin waning crescent moon will not seriously intrude on this year’s Eta Aquarid display. Although the more southerly latitudes have the better view of this shower, tropical and subtropical latitudes in the Northern Hemisphere still enjoy a decent view of the Eta Aquarids. North of 40o north latitude the meteors tend to be few and far between. But no matter where you live worldwide, the greatest number of meteors usually fall in the dark hours just before dawn.

The point in the sky from which meteors in annual showers appear to radiate is called the meteor shower radiant. You don’t have to locate the radiant to watch the Eta Aquarid meteors, but people always ask about them. Although the Eta Aquarid meteors streak all over the sky, they appear to radiate from the Y-shaped group of stars called the Water Jar. The Water Jar is part of the constellation Aquarius.




To star-hop to the Water Jar, first of all find the four stars of the Great Square of Pegasus. (See sky chart at bottom right.) Looking eastward at about 4 a.m. (Daylight Saving Time), the Great Square of Pegasus glitters like a celestial baseball diamond. Imagine the bottom star as home base. Draw a line from the third base star through the first base star, then go twice that distance to locate the star Sadal Melik.

To the lower left of Sadal Melik is the small Y-shaped Water Jar, marking the approximate radiant of the Eta Aquarid meteor shower. Again, you don’t need to know the shower’s radiant point to watch the meteors! During the wee morning hours before dawn, the meteors in this annual shower will appear in all parts of the sky.


A meteor streaks past stars in the night sky.

How to Watch Eta Aqaurids Meteor Shower

  • Find an area away from city lights or other bright light sources and be patient. It can take up to 20 minutes for your eyes to adjust to the new environment
  • Wear appropriate clothing for overnight temperatures. Keep in mind that night time temperatures can be significantly colder than those in the day time, in some parts of the world
  • Have something comfortable to sit on - a good reclining chair, sleeping bag or ground pad (experts suggest you lie flat on your back and look straight up)
- EarthSky.

Thursday, January 12, 2012

ICE AGE NOW: Planet Earth is in a "Perfectly Natural Cooling Period" - A Trend That Dismantles the Hoax Created by the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)!

When you consider the millions of words published as "news" about global warming, a massive hoax based on the theory that an increase in the Earth's levels of carbon dioxide (CO2), a minor atmospheric gas (0.0380%), it boggles the mind that reporters for a respected newswire, Reuters, would still be writing utter rubbish about it.
Just as the "news" about global warming was demolished in 2009 and again in 2011 with the leaked emails of the conspirators behind the fictions of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the main agency behind the hoax, on January 9, Nina Chesney of Reuters London Bureau, reported about a paper in the journal, Nature Geoscience, that the "Next Ice Age not likely before 1,500 years: study." The paper claimed that "Concentrations of the main gases blamed for global warming reached record levels in 2010 and will linger in the atmosphere for decades even if the world stopped pumping out emissions today, according to the U.N.'s weather agency."


The U.N. does not have a "weather agency." It has a propaganda agency devoted in its own words to "climate." The two are not the same. Weather is what is occurring right now and climate is the measurement of trends over centuries. The authors of the paper based their ice age predictions on "variations in the earth's orbit and rock samples" and was "conducted by academics at Cambridge University, University College London, the University of Florida, and Norway's University of Bergen. These people have to justify their salaries and, just like all the other academics who jumped on board the global warming wagon, they are likely among the last holdouts making claims about CO2. Their conclusions are absurd. This isn't science. It's the dying gasp of those trying desperately to keep the global warming hoax alive.


The science - the known facts - aren't that difficult to understand. Climatologists have established that, over the 4.5 billion years of the Earth's existence, ice ages have had interglacial periods that averaged about 11,500 years. Then the Earth lapses into a period of extreme cold. The Earth is 11,500 years since the end of the last major ice age. We are due the onset of the next ice age any day now and when it begins, it will come on so fast that all the manmade CO2 will have no effect whatever. Moreover, CO2 shows up in the atmosphere in a greater quantity AFTER a major climatic event, not before.


There have been periods when there was much more CO2 in the atmosphere; the age of the dinosaurs comes to mind. Indeed, when the last big ice age struck, mammoths were literally frozen in place, waiting to be discovered and dug up centuries later, so intact scientists were able to determine what their last meal was! I count myself fortunate to have Robert W. Felix, perhaps the world's leading authority on ice ages, as my friend. I recommend you visit this website and benefit from the facts. You can also read Not by Fire, but by Ice, his book on the topic of ice ages.


In a post on his website regarding the latest nonsense about a distant ice age, Felix cites the fact that Argentina's Perito Moreno is growing and it is in the southern hemisphere. In addition, glaciers are growing in India, in the Rockies, in California and Washington State. Do you believe that CO2 will stop this growth or have the slightest affect on it? The assertion that "an increase in ice-sheet volume would not be possible" is a lie. Just like all the other lies published about global warming by the IPCC and all the others that sought to profit from the hoax. Do not believe these claims. The Earth has been in a perfectly natural cooling trend since 1998. We are at the end of the most recent interglacial period and could tip into a new ice age tomorrow. - FNF.

Monday, September 12, 2011

MINI-ICE AGE OR GLOBAL WARMING: Earth's Last Two Winters' Warm Extremes Are More Severe And Widespread Than Their Cold Snaps?!


During the last two winters, some regions of the northern hemisphere experienced extreme cold not seen in recent decades. But at the same time, the winters of 2009–10 and 2010–11 were also marked by more prominent, although less newsworthy, extreme warm spells.

New research examines daily wintertime temperature extremes since 1948 The study finds that the warm extremes were much more severe and widespread than the cold extremes during the northern hemisphere winters of 2009–10 (which featured an extreme snowfall episode on the East Coast dubbed "snowmaggedon") and 2010–11. Moreover, while the extreme cold was mostly attributable to a natural climate cycle, the extreme warmth was not, the study concludes. "We investigated the relationships between prominent natural climate modes and extreme temperatures, both warm and cold. Natural climate variability explained the cold extremes; the observed warmth was consistent with a long-term warming trend," says Kristen Guirguis, a postdoctoral researcher at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego and lead author of the study, which is set to be published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, a publication of the American Geophysical Union. The researchers created extreme temperature indices for the past 63 winters and placed the last two winters in this longer historical context. In terms of their cold extremes, the 2009–10 and 2010–11 winters ranked 21st and 34th, respectively, for the northern hemisphere as a whole.

For warm extremes, these two winters ranked much higher (12th and fourth), according to the record. Guirguis' team concludes that the extreme cold events by and large fell into norms that would be expected during the negative phase of the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), a prominent regional climate mode known to bring cold weather to northern Eurasia and Eastern North America. The team compared records of extreme warm outbreaks over the two winters with the NAO as well as indices of El Nino – Southern Oscillation and its longer-term companion cycle, the Pacific Decadal Oscillation. This comparison, however, revealed that most of the extreme warmth was left unexplained. Including a linear warming trend in the model's assumptions better accounted for the recent warm extremes, but still underestimated them. "Over the last couple of years, natural variability seemed to produce the cold extremes, while the warm extremes kept trending just as one would expect in a period of accelerating global warming," says Scripps climate researcher Alexander Gershunov, a report co-author. Gershunov notes, however, that the study shows that extreme cold events in the past two winters, though driven by a natural cycle, are still consistent with global warming trends. The oscillation would have made cold snaps even more severe if the global warming patterns superimposed upon it hadn't mitigated the cold.
- Environmental Research Web.