January 16, 2007

Pacific Global Satellite

Slightly improved from 12 hours ago, but, this is hugely bad. Where does anyone get the almighty nerve not to reconcile government policy to reflect reverence for Earth and it's precious climate. This is unconscionable.  

January 16, 2007

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Pacific Global Satellite

January 16, 2007

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Antarctica is experiencing a lot of cloud mass which of course we all know acts as an insulator. The largest heat transfers are coming in across the Pacific at 10 o'clock and off South America at 2 o'clock. Just left of 6 o'clock appears to be a tornado like air mass coming from Australia.  

January 16, 2007

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Antarctica 12 hours ago. Very little change. There is a lot of condensation of water vapor over East Antarctica where the lowest homogenous temperatures are currently. Water vapor holds heat in the form of clouds.

Click on for animation

The temperatures across the ice continent are high. This is grossly abnormal for Antarctica.

The heat surrounding Antarctica is becoming a greater force than any of it's ability to be cold. The temperature is becoming equitable throughout the ice continent. The coldest temperature is -17 C (click on) at Vostok and Dome C. The next highest is -13 C at Amundsen-Scott and Casey. The next highest is -7 C at Henry and Nico. The remaining reporting stations show temperatures above freezing with the highest 42 C at Maitri. These are homogenous temperature.

The winds are very calm (click on) and the jet stream/vortex (click on) is bring the heat in and equally distributing the heat around the ice continent. Antarctica is subliming in a very big way.

The weather in Antarctica (Crystal Ice Chime) is temperate.

 

Morning Papers - concluding

The weather at Glacier Bay National Park (Crystal Ice Chime) is temperate:

Elevation : 33 feet / 10 meters

Temperature : 32 degrees Fahrenheit / Zero Centigrade

Conditions : Mostly cloudy and that is what has the area warm. Clouds are insulators.

Humidity : 80%

Dew Point : 27 degrees Fahrenheit / -3 Centigrade

Wind : 9 mph / 15 km./h / 4.1 meters per second from the Southeast

Pressure : 30.03 inches / 1017 hPa

Windchill : 24 Fahrenheit / -4 Centigrade

Visibility : 7.0 miles / 11.3 kilometers

UV : 0 out of 16

Clouds : These clouds are in layers at the designated altitude above ground level.
Few 200 feet / 60 meters
Scattered Clouds 1000 feet / 304 meters
Mostly Cloudy 1500 feet / 457 meters

Click on for 12 hour loop

January 16, 2007

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Enhanced Infrared Satellite from UNISYS.

The pattern has little to no change and will exponentially maintain this status for awhile as there is an inertia component to the vortices. Note in both satellite pictures that the equatorial 'heat transfer system' cross North America, a warmer, higher energy 'system area' under a thick blanket of carbon dioxide. What drives Human Induced Global Warming? Carbon dioxide. Where it is the thickest will be the areas most warm with higher energy for air movement. The nearest ice mass is Greenland and that is exactly where the hottest air will find resolve, hence a low pressure system and a vortex.

Where the severe weather is manifesting is along the area of cold air front. It's solidly arctic air. The inertia of the system off the equator will delay any change in the arctic front behind it.

January 16, 2007

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Enhanced Infrared Satellite from UNISYS. A very hot and destructive tropospheric system is moving hot air from the equator to the Arctic Circle. These are huge distributions. The hot air is forcing the arctic air down to the lower latitudes because it is heavier and sinks while the ligher, hotter air rises to displace it. The hotter air has more mass but less density than the arctic air and that is why the displacement is possible.

Janury 15, 2007

Fordland, MO

Photographer states :: Ice storm damage

Photographer doesn't have much to say. Sounds like shock.

Huge amount of biotic damage. Not only that but the longer the ice remains on that house the more difficult it will be to heat for the occupants. The ice will literally suck the heat out of the house while it sustains it's form from the cold weather. The cold air will maintain the ice at the cost of the heat in the house.

This is very dangerous stuff.

I really like wool. A lot. Wool coats, mittens and especially wool blankets. I have this awesome Icelandic Wool blanket about a quarter inch thick and that is literally all I have to put over me even when the heat is off. It holds my body heat just like I was the sheep itself. It has a pretty design of brown and beige horses running wild on it. Love that blanket. It's not a bit bulky that kids wouldn't want it on them or create a danger to a small person/child hiding under it.

January 15, 2007

East Bloomfield, New York

Photographer states :: Pretty scene, trees await the warm air to finally come in.

So long as the branches and trunks are not cracked or split from the weight of the ice; the evergreens will probably be okay.

January 15, 2007

East Bloomfield, New York

Photographer states :: The obligatory bird feeder shot.

Very strange to have EXACTLY the same weather at opposite ends of the country.

January 15, 2007

Tolar, Texas

Photographer states :: Grass!!!!!!!!!!!

Some fill light was added to see the grass within the ice. It depends on the species but any grass native to Texas I know of won't weather this storm. I hope there aren't animals waiting to graze anytime soon.

January 15, 2007

Tolar, Texas

Photographer states :: The ice was very thick on the tree limbs!

There is some significant damage regardless of how pretty and breathtaking it might be.

Elevation above sea level - 778 feet

Current conditons ::

Temperature - 27 °F / -3 °C

Conditions - Clear

January 15, 2007

Tolar, Texas

Photographer states :: Ice storm...My camera couidn't capture the sparkling ice crystals shimmering in the sun!!! -it was breathtaking!!!!!!!!!!!

January 16, 2007

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Africa - Europe Satellite

The air over Africa cannot support the humidity needed currently to for storms. Even the jungles of the Congo are dry.

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Be back on Tuesday. Enjoy the Martin Luther King Holiday.

 

All Africa

Somalia: Six People Killed At the Presidential Palace in Mogadishu
Shabelle Media Network (Mogadishu)
January 12, 2007Posted to the web January 12, 2007
Aweys Osman YusufMogadishu
Heavy gunfire exchange took place at the presidential palace, Villa Somalia, in the Somali capital, Mogadishu on Friday morning.
Witnesses told Shabelle that they could see bullets hitting the concrete wall of the palace.
Somali president Abdulahi Yusuf has been staying in Villa Somalia for the four days since he arrived the capital for the first time after he was elected as president in late 2004.
Reliable sources have confirmed to Shabelle that six militias were killed, while three others were wounded in the fight.
The sources said armed militias guarding one of the Somali warlords meeting with the president at the Villa, and the government soldiers on guard of the area clashed after they argued over moving the militias' battlewagon parked before the main entrance of the presidential palace.

http://allafrica.com/stories/200701120238.html


Somalia: Warlords Concur to Surrender Their Arms to the Government
Shabelle Media Network (Mogadishu)
January 12, 2007Posted to the web January 12, 2007
Aweys Osman YusufMogadishu
Senior Somali government leaders, including President Yusuf, have had a meeting with number of Somalia's warlords at presidential palace, Villa Somalia, in the capital Mogadishu.
Among the warlords were Mohammed Qanyare Afrah, Muse Sudi Yalahow, Abdi Qeybded, Omar Finish and Abdi Nor Siad.
During the meeting, militias loyal to Mohammed Qanyare and the government soldiers guarding the Villa skirmished after they quarreled over where to park a pick-up truck mounted with anti-aircraft gun that belonged to the militias.
At least six of the militias were reportedly killed in the fight, but the government spokesperson Abdirahman Dinari said two persons were killed.

http://allafrica.com/stories/200701120254.html


Somalia: Gun Battle in the Capital Wounds a Government Soldier
Shabelle Media Network (Mogadishu)
January 12, 2007Posted to the web January 12, 2007
Aweys Osman YusufMogadishu
Gunmen in the Somali capital Mogadishu attacked a hotel dubbed Ambassador where number of government officials was lodging. The attack happened on Thursday evening as the gunmen riding in a car threw grenades at the hotel.
The government forces guarding the hotel were quick to respond brush firing the attackers. The exchange of fire lasted at least 15 minutes, witnesses reported. One government soldier was wounded in the skirmishes.
Government soldiers launched weapons search operations on 10 January around KM4 Street in the center of the capital city after their military compound in the area was attacked with rocket-propelled grenades several times in the past. They seized more AK 47 rifles and explosives from the houses around KM4 St.

http://allafrica.com/stories/200701120239.html


Somalia: Children, Women Most Affected By Fighting
UN Integrated Regional Information Networks
January 12, 2007Posted to the web January 12, 2007
Nairobi
Scores of women and children have been separated from their families or wounded in fighting between Somali government forces and remnants of the Union of Islamic Courts (UIC), sources said.
A source in southern Somalia, close to the area where air strikes have hit suspected UIC bases, told IRIN on Friday that some civilians, including women and children, "have been killed and others wounded".
There are reports of many children between the ages of five and 15 from the village of Hayo (10 km from the area where the air strikes have been taking place), he added. "We have no way of knowing how many dead or wounded are out there in the bush," another source said. "We cannot get to them and neither can the nomadic communities, for fear of being killed themselves."

http://allafrica.com/stories/200701120313.html


Africa: More Nations Use DDT to Cut Malaria Death Toll
SciDev.Net (London)
January 12, 2007Posted to the web January 12, 2007
Charles MkokaLilongwe
The once-banned insecticide DDT is being reconsidered by many countries in Africa as a means to combat malaria.
But concerns remain that use of the chemical will damage agricultural trade with Europe.
Scientists, researchers and environmentalists meet in Malawi today (12 January) to discuss the risks and benefits of DDT, according to Storn Kabuluzi, manager of the National Malaria Control Programme in Malawi. DDT is one of the most affordable ways to fight malaria.
In September, the World Health Organisation issued guidelines stating that DDT -- implicated in extensive long-term environmental damage -- could be used under restricted conditions, such as indoor spraying.

http://allafrica.com/stories/200701120713.html


Nigeria: Bird Flu Re-Emerges, Culling Underway
UN Integrated Regional Information Networks
January 12, 2007Posted to the web January 12, 2007
Abuja
Nigerian veterinary teams were killing thousands of birds in two northern Nigerian states on Friday to halt the spread of fresh cases of the deadly H5N1 virus.
Nigeria was the first West African country to register bird flu when the disease jumped from Asia to Africa last year. Government veterinary teams slaughtered more than 900,000 birds in 2005, according to Nigeria's Agriculture Ministry. But sporadic outbreaks continued, with the last case reported in September in a suburb of Nigeria's largest city Lagos.
Junaid Maina, Nigeria's national director of livestock, said new cases of the virus were confirmed this week in northwestern Sokoto and nearby in Katsina state, 800 kilometres northeast of Abuja. "Our teams are out there now culling birds," Maina said.

http://allafrica.com/stories/200701120674.html


Uganda: Rebel Delegation Quits Talks, Seeks 'Neutral' Venue
January 12, 2007Posted to the web January 12, 2007
Nairobi
The Lord's Resistance Army has 'disengaged' from peace negotiations with the Ugandan government and will not continue the process until a neutral host country is found, a spokesman for the rebel group said on Friday.
"In the circumstances and due to security considerations, [the] LRA delegation are not going back to Juba but would prefer that the talks resume in a neutral venue, preferably Kenya, South Africa or other neutral country," Obonyo Olweny, the LRA spokesman, told a news conference in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi.
The talks have been going on in the southern Sudan capital of Juba since July 2006. Olweny said the rebels' decision followed recent comments by Sudanese President Omar El Bashir and South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit that the LRA was no longer welcome in southern Sudan.

http://allafrica.com/stories/200701120602.html

Guinea: Civil Society Crystallising Around Unions
UN Integrated Regional Information Networks
January 11, 2007Posted to the web January 12, 2007
Conakry
Guineans in the capital Conakry have already shuttered their shops and stayed home twice in the past year for citywide strikes, but a third, more ambitious indefinite national strike underway this week is proving a strength and unity among Guinea's civil society not seen since independence.
"There's really a growing solidarity among the movement now, it's becoming more like a social movement and the strength of civil society is really showing itself," Elisabeth Cote, Guinea representative of the International Foundation for Election Systems (IFES) said on Thursday, the second day of the strike.

http://allafrica.com/stories/200701120303.html

Côte d'Ivoire: UN's Côte d'Ivoire Mission Extended With New Mandate to Cooperate On Liberian Border
UN News Service (New York)
January 10, 2007Posted to the web January 11, 2007
New York
The Security Council today extended through June the mandate of the United Nations Operation in Côte d'Ivoire (UNOCI) and French forces supporting it while authorizing them to cooperate with blue helmets in Liberia in preventing arms from crossing the border.
By a unanimously adopted resolution, the Council adjusted the tasks carried out by the mission, which has been deployed in Côte d'Ivoire since April 2004 helping the parties to implement a peace agreement signed in January 2003 ending their north-south civil war. The country has been divided between the rebel-held north and government-controlled south since 2002.
Under today's resolution, UNOCI will coordinate closely with the UN Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) in carrying out a voluntary repatriation and resettlement programme for foreign ex-combatants. This is part of UNOCI's efforts to bolster the Ivorian Government in its bid to disarm former fighters, which the Council said should be carried out "with special attention to the specific needs of women and children."

http://allafrica.com/stories/200701110003.html

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