Tornado just south of Pine Apple, AL on around 5:40pm. This storm was a part of the Alabama tornado outbreak on April 15, 2011.
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My husband and I were visiting my parents in Birmingham, Alabama. We decided to take a day trip to Tuscaloosa to see the damage from the April 27 tornado. It was a sight that I will never forget. Blocks and blocks of flattened houses and stores. This area has not been touched in 2 months. It was so moving that I started to cry thinking of all these poor people.
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Man the Euro has one heck of a cold snap for the east. The OZ Euro below.
ScienceDaily (Dec. 28, 2011) — NASA successfully conducted a drop test of the Orion crew vehicle's parachutes high above the Arizona desert Tuesday, Dec. 20, in preparation for its orbital flight test in 2014. Orion will carry astronauts deeper into space than ever before, provide emergency abort capability, sustain the crew during space travel and ensure a safe re-entry and landing.
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Roadway in Leogane, Haiti. (Credit: Estelle Chaussard)
ScienceDaily (Dec. 8, 2011) - A groundbreaking study led by University of Miami (UM) scientist Shimon Wdowinski shows that earthquakes, including the recent 2010 temblors in Haiti and Taiwan, may be triggered by tropical cyclones (hurricanes and typhoons), according to a presentation of the findings at the 2011 AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco.
"Very wet rain events are the trigger," said Wdowinski, associate research professor of marine geology and geophysics at the UM Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science. "The heavy rain induces thousands of landslides and severe erosion, which removes ground material from the Earth's surface, releasing the stress load and encouraging movement along faults."
Wdowinski and a colleague from Florida International University analyzed data from quakes magnitude-6 and above in Taiwan and Haiti and found a strong temporal relationship between the two natural hazards, where large earthquakes occurred within four years after a very wet tropical cyclone season.
During the last 50 years three very wet tropical cyclone events -- Typhoons Morakot, Herb and Flossie -- were followed within four years by major earthquakes in Taiwan's mountainous regions. The 2009 Morakot typhoon was followed by a M-6.2 in 2009 and M-6.4 in 2010. The 1996 Typhoon Herb was followed by M-6.2 in 1998 and M-7.6 in 1999 and the 1969 Typhoon Flossie was followed by a M-6.2 in 1972.
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"there are so many varibles when it comes to global warming, we can't be that smart." - First off, you do not have to be a genius to know that CO2 is a greenhouse gas. This is basic science.
"Here are some of my issues with the global warming theories."
1. Grant monies to colleges to promote a political scheme to further socialism." - What evidence do you have to support this claim? The AGWT is not based on how much or how little money is spent on the research. The theory is based on the science. One could just as easily state that grant monies, subsidies, tax breaks and tax refunds given to the carbon based energy sectors are used to show that the AGWT is real because these sectors spend an enormous amount of monies lobbying our representatives and putting forth their own economic agenda to the public to further their own economic gains. You may very well say that at least they are not spending our tax dollars to do this. Yes, in a very real sense, they are. Remember the grants, subsidies, tax breaks and tax refunds they get? We are also probably paying higher prices at the pump for their continued efforts to finance their efforts to disavow the AGWT. Even so, are they really disavowing the AGWT when they say they are becoming "greener" and making financial commitments towards renewable energy sources? New Energy What about their efforts to start making claims on drilling rights once the Arctic has become ice free? Do their actions, in this direction, really show that they do not believe in the AGWT? Drilling for oil in Arctic Ocean ... and then this ... Arctic Melting May Lead To Expanded Oil Drilling. .. I would think the carbon based energy sector is quite certain that AGWT is real and its effects are being seen today. They tell us one thing, while they plan for the opposite. .. Who do you trust now? The scientists or the ones that have the most to profit from discrediting the scientists? Once again, it should not take a genius to figure this one out.
2. Polairity shifts. Really? When was the last time you saw such a shift in polarity? Yesterday? Last week? Last month? Last year? Last decade? Last century? Last millennium? When was the last shift in polarity? ... Pole shift hypothesis.
3. the number of active volcano's were at 122 now, the largest in many years, goes with the polairity issues. - As far as the polarity issue goes, see the the comment in #2. As far as the volcanic activity goes, we have not seen any volcanic activity out of the "norm". An eruption of the scale of Krakatoa will have a short lived effect on the climate. ... 1883 eruption of Krakatoa. A more lasting climate effect would come from the eruption of a super caldera. Super volcano ... Have you seen any such events lately?
4. Political fodder. - Could you be more specific on this? Political fodder seems to be very common and on so many levels. Does political fodder have any effect on what is actually observed concerning AGW? AGW does not have any concerns as to what your politics, emotions or beliefs are. They make absolutely no difference at all.
5. Solar storms. - Space Weather – Solar Storm Heads Toward Earth.
6. The demise of the Amazon forest and the effects it has created. - This does have an impact when we start removing nature's natural sinks. Most of this deforestation is done by man. So, once again, we are showing that man is having an impact on climate. This tends to further support the AGWT, does it not? Is this the only impact man is making on climate? ... Look, before you leap.
7. Just plain old weather cycles. - How can this be when you have already agreed that deforestation of the Amazon has an impact? Weather cycles are driven by climate. When you change the climate you also the weather patterns. We will see new "norms" in what we view as weather cycles.
I admit there is global warming, just like we had global cooling when I was in college in the 70's.
But all of this being man made, and the majority of the global warming coming from the United States of America, I just don't buy it." - You may not "buy it" but, we will all be paying for it. The "global cooling" was a theory presented by a few scientist and not widely supported by the vast majority of the scientist. Perhaps this theory of global cooling did serve a purpose when it brought more scientist into the field of the study of climate only showed that it is the opposite of this theory that is true. When it comes to the point of the U.S. creating the most CO2, well ... List of countries by carbon dioxide emissions. ... Remember, China just very recently surpassed the U.S. in CO2 emissions. Until then, the U.S. was the supreme ruler of all things CO2.
"I never hear anything about the enviormental conditions china is doing, nor Russia, nor India, or South America, it's all about the United States." - May I suggest that you just have not been paying attention?
"I work with issues concerning enviormental spills and enforcement of cleanup of such tragadies,So I'm enviormentally friendly, I believe in government controls to protect us, but I'm against the lining the pockets of college professors, Schools, and others at the expense of my hard earned money." - That is a fair enough statement. Tell me, if you will, how your statement negates the AGWT?
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Are you using the wrong nails again? ;-)
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ESO optician Guillaume Blanchard captured this marvellous wide-angle photo of Comet Lovejoy just two days ago on Dec. 22, 2011. Comet Lovejoy has been the talk of the astronomy community over the past few weeks. It was first discovered Nov. 27 by the Australian amateur astronomer Terry Lovejoy and was classified as a Kreutz sungrazer, with its orbit taking it very close to the Sun, passing a mere 140,000 kilometres from the Sun’s surface. (Credit: G. Blanchard (eso.org/~gblancha) / ESO)
NASA's Cassini Delivers Holiday Treats from Saturn
ScienceDaily (Dec. 23, 2011)- No team of reindeer, but radio signals flying clear across the solar system from NASA's Cassini spacecraft have delivered a holiday package of glorious images. The pictures, from Cassini's imaging team, show Saturn's largest, most colorful ornament, Titan, and other icy baubles in orbit around this splendid planet.
There are a (luckily decreasing) number of people convinced against all logic that caring for our environment makes one a socialist ala Stalin. You know: imposing fuel consumption standards, say, or asking Big Energy to divert just a tiny portion of its hundreds of billions of dollars in annual highly destructive profit toward researching alternate forms of energy generation = door-smashing, jack-booted fascism. Or something like that.
Some folks would do themselves a favor by switching from the (un)fair and (anything but) balanced network. At least once in a while...
GFS forecasting 33 where im at in central NC...and that, is cold for me! a high of 33!
the thing for me is, i dont want anything below 40 unless there is some of that powdery white stuff on the ground. LOL
I see. I'm highly concerned for humanity. :|
Meanwhile, I find it very disturbing that humans likely have altered the Earth enough to begin to have consequential effects (eg. climate change).
What does an 850 MB temp of -8 translate to the surface for highs and lows(according to the 00z Euro, that line is expected to reach around Disney by Tuesday/Wednesday)?
It was definitely something else. I don't recall seeing such an isolated and perfect looking supercell like that too often up here. The very few tornadoes we do get usually occur embedded in severe lines of thunderstorms.
The tornado that struck Worcester, MA back in 1953 was an EF-4, and i've heard some crazy stories about that one. Of course, back then Meteorological Radar was in it's primitive stages.
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This time last year we already had 3 cold snaps of below freezing already. Will be nice to have my new plants for a few more weeks at least
00z ECMWF 2mAG shows conditions 2 meters above the surface. This is the 180hr forecast. The Color fill portrays Temperature.
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Though La Niña can't stay in place forever I don't think we've seen the peak yet. ESPI has plummeted to -1.61. I'm somewhere between the NASA GMAO outlier & the rest of the pack. Maybe neutral by height of season next year, hard to say with much confidence til La Niña peaks.
wasn't that your plan for hurricanes too?
well....ah....well...
2 meters=6'6" above the surface!
If the euro continues this trend, we could see lows dipping between 18-25 degrees fairenhight come Wednesday and Thursday morning in ECF(probably a few degrees warmer in urbans centers)!
That is a great plan for Hurricanes and Blizzards. I rarely see measurable snow down here in SE Texas but we do get Hurricanes and when the come, it's party time!
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