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Quoting Patrap:

Quoting Ameister12:

Violent tornadoes in January/February and now tropical systems predicted to develop in February!? Oh man, it's going to be one of those years.

Quoting biloxibob:
Hi Pat. Has there ever been a tropical system in the gulf in february?

Quoting hurricanehunter27:

Iran is no threat to the US. The problem is if Russia and China go against us. WW3 would soon follow, not sure if it would go thermo or not.

Quoting sunlinepr:


They are using the puppet to scare and to take advantage of the effect it has on the global economic crisis....

Quoting sunlinepr:


They are using the puppet to scare and to take advantage of the effect it has on the global economic crisis....

Quoting KoritheMan:
I'm not really sold on genesis just yet, but it's interesting to note that it's at least possible. It's not as if the incipient system doesn't exist.

*points to western Caribbean*

Quoting BaltimoreBrian:
Lots of southerly shear too.

Quoting TropicalAnalystwx13:

It's not polite to point at things.

You don't want to lose that finger...do you?
*Scolding glance*

Quoting ShenValleyFlyFish:
Hey BB. What's the weather like in 'stan?

Quoting Ameister12:
It's quite amazing the amount of moisture there is in the GoM and Western Caribbean right now, especially in February! It's going to be a busy year.

Quoting KoritheMan:


Are you threatening me?

Quoting TropicalAnalystwx13:

Yes. :P

Quoting KoritheMan:


Are you threatening me?

Quoting sunlinepr:
Published: February 3rd, 2012 at 11:59 AM EDT By Enenews

Title: SAN ONOFRE: Worker at nuclear plant fell into reactor pool last week Source: North County Times
Date: Feb 3, 2012

A worker at San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station fell inside the plant’s Unit 2 reactor pool last week, but officials determined he did not suffer significant radiation exposure. [...]

The pool is more than 20 feet deep and holds water that continually circulates through the reactor core. [...]

Without the fuel present, the most likely source of deadly radiation would be stray fuel particles that could have been floating in the water, said Nuclear Regulatory Commission spokesman Victor Dricks. [...]

Southern California Edison spokesman Gil Alexander

“He was wearing all of the appropriate safety equipment, including a life preserver vest”
Edison decontaminated the worker
[Edison] conducted tests to determine whether he had swallowed any dangerous particles
Alexander said initial tests showed no significant radiation exposure
[Worker had] no history of security problems

Quoting BaltimoreBrian:


Snowing hard and in upper 20s.

Quoting sunlinepr:
“the effect on abundance is worse in the Japanese disaster zone.”
Posted by Mochizuki on February 3rd, 2012 · No Comments

Bird numbers plummet around stricken Fukushima plant

Researchers working around Japan’s disabled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant say bird populations there have begun to dwindle, in what may be a chilling harbinger of the impact of radioactive fallout on local life.
In the first major study of the impact of the world’s worst nuclear crisis in 25 years, the researchers, from Japan, the US and Denmark, said their analysis of 14 species of bird common to Fukushima and Chernobyl, the Ukrainian city which suffered a similar nuclear meltdown, showed the effect on abundance is worse in the Japanese disaster zone.
The study, published next week in the journal Environmental Pollution, suggests that its findings demonstrate “an immediate negative consequence of radiation for birds during the main breeding season [of] March [to] July”.

Two of the study’s authors have spent years working in the irradiated 2,850 sq metre zone around the Chernobyl single-reactor plant, which exploded in 1986 and showered much of Europe with caesium, strontium, plutonium and other radioactive toxins. A quarter of a century later, the region is almost devoid of people.
Timothy Mousseau and Anders Pape Moller say their research uncovered major negative effects among the bird population, including reductions in longevity and in male fertility, and birds with smaller brains.
Many species show “dramatically” elevated DNA mutation rates, developmental abnormalities and extinctions, they add, while insect life has been significantly reduced.
Iori Mochizuki


Published: February 3rd, 2012 at 03:49 PM EDT
Breeder: Two-headed salmon born out of 50 eggs — Usually around 1 in 10,000 says Kyoto professor (PHOTO)

Title: Conjoint fish Source: Fukushima Diary Date: February 2nd, 2012


Conjoint larval fish of salmon is found in Fukuchi shi Kyoto

Mr. Miyamoto Tadao (67) received 50 eggs from environmental symposium of Yura river on 1/7/2012. [...]

On 1/29/2012, they found one with 2 heads.

The deformed larval fish is 1.5cm long where other ones are 2 cm. When one of the heads try to go to left, the other one sometimes tries to go to right. It can’t move fast.

Assistant professor Ueno Masahiro from Kyoto university field research center talks, the kind of deformation happens once in thousands or tens of thousand. [...]

Title: Birth family reared in larval survival of salmon wish tough and double-headed “Good luck”
Source: Youtan Shinbun
Date: Jan 31, 2012 SOURCE:Youtan Shinbun

Two head, the tail portion larvae of the salmon one is found.

Are surprised by larvae are breeding in the home (67) Mr. Tadao Miyamoto Oikezaka Fukuchiyama town, “but the salmon are breeding from two years ago, but this is the first time”

Miyamoto-san from the year 2010, participate in the business environment conservation salmon stocking salmon Executive Committee to make a citizen Fukuchiyama Yura, Ayabe hosted by the two cities. [...]

50 receives the eggs on January 7 this year, raising the water tank on top of the shoe box put the front door at home.

I have found the larvae except when the water tank 29, there are two head. [...]

If you try to go head to the left is more of the other hand, such as the right to go to the other direction, there is a swim when you separate, appear to be slow motion compared with other larvae.

It is also possible that genetic, or did this happen at the time of the (cleavage), been made ​​in stimulating some cell division “(61) is Assistant Professor Masahiro Ueno experimental field Fisheries Maizuru Center Field Science Education and Research, Kyoto University.

that are described as “born in probability is a fraction of tens of thousands. 　Say about the growth of the future “because As soon as start eating the food on their own, become difficult to eat the food as I also think both sides, there is a possibility they starve to death, long is not likely to live” [...]

Quoting sunlinepr:

Blue sphere The blue spheres are jelly-like but have no smell and are not sticky

27 January 2012 Last updated at 11:15 ET
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Bournemouth resident mystified by 'blue sphere shower'

A man in Dorset has been left mystified after tiny blue spheres fell from the sky into his garden.
Steve Hornsby from Bournemouth said the 3cm diameter balls came raining down late on Thursday afternoon during a hail storm.
He found about a dozen of the balls in his garden. He said: "[They're] difficult to pick up, I had to get a spoon and flick them into a jam jar."

The Met Office said the jelly-like substance was "not meteorological".

Mr Hornsby, a former aircraft engineer, said: "The sky went a really dark yellow colour.

"As I walked outside to go to the garage there was an instant hail storm for a few seconds and I thought, 'what's that in the grass'?"
'No smell'
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Mr Hornsby said he was keeping the balls in his fridge while he tried to find out what they were

Walking around his garden he found many more blue spheres were scattered across the grass.

He said: "The have an exterior shell with a softer inner but have no smell, aren't sticky and do not melt."

Mr Hornsby said he was keeping the balls in his fridge while he tried to find out what they were.

Josie Pegg, an applied science research assistant at Bournemouth University, speculated that the apparently strange phenomena might be "marine invertebrate eggs".

"These have been implicated in previous 'strange goo' incidents," she said. "I'd have thought it's a little early for spawning but I suppose we've had a very mild winter.

"The transmission of eggs on birds' feet is well documented and I guess if a bird was caught out in a storm this could be the cause."

Quoting WxGeekVA:



No problems until he turns into this:

Quoting hurricanehunter27:

Iran is no threat to the US. The problem is if Russia and China go against us. WW3 would soon follow, not sure if it would go thermo or not.

Quoting Grothar:
We've got outflow and banding.

Quoting WoodyFL:


Wow, blue balls. What next??

Quoting Grothar:
We've got outflow and banding.