May 18, 2006. Horse racing.I love horses. From the time I was a young child. I told my father, as a two year old, the morning of December 25, 1957; that having an American Flyer Model Train under the tree was interesting, but, where was my horse? Later that day, my father and grandfather emerged from the basement with a newly carpetered rocking horse. I felt love. I don't know what it is, but, horses have been a source of fascination for me all my life. When a precious champion race horse has a serious injury and will become a 'sire' to many offspring; it is time to reflect not only on the horse but the industry and the genetics of the modern day thoroughbred. Genetic Medicine may very well have a place in today's breeding program. I guess I miss the 'era' of Man O' War. Sturdy and profoundly sound of heart, lung and legs. That 'line' of thoroughbreds along with Bold Ruler, Princequillo has never let their owners down.And 'large animal' medicine doesn't get any better than the University of Pennsylvania's New Bolton Horse Center. I've transported many a fine animal to that veterinary haven. The operating rooms are managed by huge lifts that carry disabled horses into a surgical suite where the best of the best have 'know how' from long studied research. Tilt tables where anesthetized steeds lie helpless and a sleep while their skilled surgeons perform miracles. It's a fascinating place for people that love these great animals which once carried human beings into war. Derby Winner Barbaro's Surgery Successful (Click on)KENNETT SQUARE, Pa. (AP) -- One day, Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro was on the road to a Triple Crown. A day later, he was on a long and perilous road to recovery.The doctor who performed five hours of intricate surgery on the colt was satisfied with the result, but blunt about the future for a horse who had put together an unbeaten record until he broke down in the Preakness Stakes.''To be brutally honest, there's enough chance for things going bad that he's still a coin toss, even after everything went well,'' Dr. Dean Richardson said Sunday after the surgery at the University of Pennsylvania's New Bolton Center for Large Animals.
Why would Scott Base have such low tempertures this year compared to other winters of recent history?
The weather in Antarctica (Crystal Ice Chime) is:
Scott Base
Clear
-36.0°
Updated Tuesday 23 May 1:00AM
The weather at Glacier Bay National Park (Crystal Wind Chime) is :
45 °F / 7 °C
Overcast
Humidity:
81%
Dew Point:
39 °F / 4 °C
Wind:
Calm
Pressure:
29.67 in / 1005 hPa
Visibility:
10.0 miles / 16.1 kilometers
UV:
0 out of 16
Clouds:
Mostly Cloudy 7500 ft / 2286 m
Overcast 11000 ft / 3352 m
(Above Ground Level)
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May 22, 2006. 0702 gmt. North Pole Satellite.What is going on with the polar satellites? Hm. I am not going to get into discussion of the Northern Hemisphere right now, except, to say 'it's a mess.' There are multiple vortices and this is just for anyone who cares to, to get 'used to' looking at the Northern Polar Satellite. "Buoy, oh, buoy, what a mess."How could human beings be so stupid to allow this to happen to their 'Homeland Planet, Earth?" It's amazing to me. Jerks. HUMAN INDUCED Global Warming. HUMAN. Human INDUCED. Got it yet ?
May 22, 2006. 0702 gmt. South Pole Satellite.Not a great satellite picture. It doesn't matter, there is enough resolution to provide 'minor' intermingling of equatorial heat with the Antarctica vortex. However. There is not 'significant' heat transfer to say this winter will be warmer than past winters. The Peninsula for it's warming this week, still is cooler than anything in recent history.
May 22, 2006. 1126 gmt. Western Hemisphere Global Satellite.Noted in North Hemisphere, the equatorial heat moving north along the western land border of the North American continent near offshore Panama. That 'type' of heat concentration in the Pacific was noted with the acceleration of every major storm of the Gulf of Mexico last year. With 'storm season' approaching due to the northern migration of solar radiation it will more than likely prove to be an early storm season. The storms of the Atlantic don't ususally occur until the surface waters start to get the 'return' trip south of the sun's rays, but, with lingering heat from last year's events, especially in the Carribean Sea, it is reasonable spectulation there will be storms earlier this year manifesting there and not the shores of Africa.
May 22, 2006. 0921 gmt. South America Satellite.Noted consolidated vortex west of that continent. With heat accumulation over the west tributary of the Amazon River connecting to the Antarctica vortex to the east.
May 22, 2006. 0932 gmt. Pacific Global Satellite.The consolidation of heat west of the South American continent is noted. Also, the vortices of the Northern Hemisphere are still chronically 'in play' above 36 North Latitude.
May 22, 2006. 1211 gmt. Western Pacific SatelliteThe oscillating vortex of the South Pacific came to critical mass offshore South America, after the resolution of Typhoon Chanchu.Energy is constant. Here again there was a large landfall storm that gave the surface ocean relief from absorbing all the 'heat energy/calories' of the troposphere. The reflection of the higher temperatures noted on the Peninsula of Antarctica (which is just south in latitude to the southern tip of South America and is at the highest latitude of the ice continent, remembering these maps are 'flat' and Earth is not) reflects the 'dip' in the equatorial aire masse while some resolution to normal is noted. The land masses often act as a 'conduit' to 'manage' heat movement to the ice continent as well as the Arctic Circle and Arctic Ocean of the northern hemisphere. Land, as noted last week, holds heat far longer than ocean/sea/rivers/ice fields/ice caps. I would expect the first signs of Global Warming reversal to appear in the Southern Hemisphere where 'heated' land masses are far less in surface area than water surface area.
May 21, 2006. 1246 gmt. Indian Ocean SatelliteNearly 300 Vietnamese fishermen missing in Typhoon Chanchu (click on)
Eighteen Vietnamese fishing ships with a total of 287 people on board have gone missing in Typhoon Chanchu, local newspaper Saigon Liberation reported Monday. The 18 ships from the four central provinces of Da Nang, Quang Nam, Quang Ngai and Binh Dinh had been defined by May 21 either sinking or going missing, the newspaper quoted Vietnamese deputy fisheries minister Nguyen Viet Thang as saying. According to information released at a meeting between the People's Committee of Da Nang and the deputy minister on Sunday morning, Da Nang had seven fishing ships sunk and gone missing in the typhoon. Local authorities estimated that 163 fishermen on the seven ships could have died, and 53 others could have gone missing. Vietnam has yet to have full statistics of the number of ships and fishermen hit by the typhoon. Local media have recently reported dozens of ships with hundreds of people on board have either sunk or gone missing, causing dozens of deaths. By 21:30 of May 20, Chinese forces had rescued a total of 21 Vietnamese fishing ships sailing in the Chinese waters hit by the typhoon, the Chinese Embassy in Hanoi said, noting that they had supplied fuel, drinking water and foodstuffs to 15 Vietnamese ships with 330 fishermen on board. Of the people, 21 have died and six have been injured, the embassy noted. Chanchu, which means "pearl," formed in the Pacific, about 550 km east of Mindanao island in the Philippines on May 9. It hit the central Philippines, then headed to central Vietnam, but suddenly changed its direction to southern China, killing dozens of people and affecting thousands of others from the three countries.
May 22, 2006. AntarcticaThere is some heat movement toward Antarctica. The highest temperature reported is:Current Conditions :3 hr 181 min 50 sec agoObserved at:Base Marambio Centro Met. Antartico, AntarcticaElevation:
650 ft / 198 m 32 °F / 0 °C
OvercastHumidity:
84%Dew Point:
29 °F / -2 °C Wind:
16 mph / 26 km/h from the West
Wind Gust:
- Pressure:
29.26 in / 991 hPa (Falling) Visibility:
19.0 miles / 30.0 kilometers UV:
0 out of 16Clouds:
Scattered Clouds 295 ft / 90 m Mostly Cloudy 7874 ft / 2400 m
(Above Ground Level)Oscillaion (Click on) - As the number of degrees of freedom becomes indefinitely large, a system approaches continuity, for example, a string or the surface of a body of water. Such systems have an infinite number of normal modes and their oscillations occur in the form of waves that have the characteristic that they can propagate.
May 21, 2006. Los Alamos, New Mexico Photographer states :: Slurry bomber dropping a load on the Cauplin fire in Bandelier National Monument near Los Alamos, New Mexico. Image taken this evening from the Frijoles Canyon overlook inside the park.
May 18, 2006. Dayton, Ohio Photographer states :: Another storm rolling in from the North! I love the view from my office window, looking North into the Miami Valley.
May 18, 2006. Dayton, Ohio. Photographer states :: A friend of mine sent me this picture to me that a friend of his shot at the Honda plant in Anna, Ohio (60 miles north of Dayton) on May 18th at 5:00pm. The TV Weatherman says it was a cold air funnel that rarely end up touching down. Scary though...
May 18, 2006. Dayton, Ohio
May 18, 2006. Dayton, OhioThe sidewalk was a bit slippery I am sure leading to the parking lot to check on the car for insurance claims.
May 18, 2006. Dayton, Ohio. Most notable is the substantial hail that accumulated around the tires of the cars where the hail deflected off the bodies of the cars on to the ground. The empty space where the hail does not present itself was the place where a car was parked.Recently, while in town and crossing at a traffic light I noted a car waiting for the light to change green. It has pellet marks all over the body. It was completely obvious this car was caught in a hail storm as each 'ding' was completely round with radiating impression around it from impact. The only other explanaiton could be a gang of mischievous eight year olds after a marble tournament.
