For animated view click on here.

June 19, 2006. 12:00 PM. Antarctica

Morning Papers - concluded

The weather in Antarctica is (Crystal Wind Chime) is:

Scott Base
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Updated Tuesday 20 Jun 1:00AM

Earlier today the temperature was - 23 C at 2:00 AM EST. I just happened to be looking it at earlier.

As the winter reaches the solstice on June 21, 2006 in Antarctica it is very cold across the continent (click on). When the temperature satellite is animated there can be conflicting data according to the 'on the ground' data. The warmer temperatures noted around Scott Base in the animated temperature satellite is, however, validated to some extent when humidity and dew point are examined. Add to that the 'wind chill' and 'visibility' satellite, then, the 'on the ground' temperatures make more sense. When satellites record extremes of a very dynamic Earth it takes a more 'composite' view of the dynamics than a single overt bearing out of the facts.

Science is being a seeker. A seeker of the facts. The facts are the truth. There are times when seeking is more intricate than others and certainly a point to note as exploitive of the public when ONLY one view of Earth is depicted as the THE ONLY point of view to validate Human Induced Global Warming.

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

46 °F / 8 °C
Overcast

Humidity:
87%

Dew Point:
43 °F / 6 °C

Wind:
4 mph / 6 km/h from the NNW

Pressure:
30.20 in / 1023 hPa

Windchill:
45 °F / 7 °C

Visibility:
10.0 miles / 16.1 kilometers

UV:
0 out of 16

Clouds:
Overcast 4800 ft / 1463 m
(Above Ground Level)

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June 17, 2006.
Chester, Nebrraska

Multiple tornado tails.
Noted, much larger downblast in the far side of this tornadic cloud. There is an open ring of clouds producing this phenomina. An intense low pressure system.

Photographer states :: These used to be garages and storage.

June 18, 2006.

Hartford Wisconsin.

Family escapes Florida storm, lands in Wisconsin tornado

HARTFORD, Wis. (AP) _ Tia Grandinetti and her family escaped stormy Florida by ending their vacation early and driving straight home to Hartford _ just in time for the tornado that hit Sunday and ripped apart roofs, smashed trees and toppled power lines.

"We got home at 9:30 a.m.," she said. By afternoon, "we were laying on the couch, watching the videotape from Florida. I told my husband, "It sounds like the tornado sirens are going off.'
"We ran upstairs and looked out the window. You could see the tornado just coming right at us."
Grandinetti stayed on the patio and videotaped some of the storm, while her husband, Tony, and their three children, ages 3, 5 and 7, stayed down the basement.

When the storm had passed, a deck box full of toys was gone but their house escaped damage, except for the wooden playhouse outside that was ripped apart, Grandinetti said.
Others weren't so lucky. Houses on both sides of theirs had damage.

The twister tore apart the roof of Lincoln Elementary School and damaged other buildings after hitting at 2:44 p.m. and leaving debris strewn around in this city of 8,200 people located 25 miles northwest of Milwaukee.

UNYSIS Water Vapor GOES West Satellite (click on for 12 hour loop)

June 19. 2006. 0130z.

Where is most of the water vapor over the Western USA?
Above 36 North Latitude.

Where is most of the trubulence caused by 'hot' terra firma?
Below 36 North Latitude.

Large incident fires. (click on)

June 18, 2006.
Large Incident Fires.

Where is the majority of fires?
Below 36 North Latitude.

June 18, 2006.

Sedona, Arizona Wildfire.

Photographer states :: Wildfire blazing a few miles west of Sedona this afternoon with triple-digit temperatures and gusty winds.

The stratification of the butte is rather dramatic. It was all due to the fact this area of land was once underwater. Each layer of rock settled to the bottom of a great ocean over time. The ocean would advance and recede. Each time there was an advancement of the ocean it would bring a different type of sediment due to the different atmospheric conditions.

June 18, 2006.

Deerfield Beach, Florida.

Waterspout.

Vote at IWC Meeting Shows Support for Return to Whaling but Not Enough to Overturn Ban

By ADAM RANEY

FRIGATE BAY, St. Kitts Jun 18, 2006 (AP)— A slim majority of nations on the International Whaling Commission voted Sunday in support of a resumption of commercial whaling, but pro-whaling nations still lack the numbers needed to overturn a 20-year-old ban.

The resolution, approved 33-32 with one abstention, declares that the moratorium on commercial whaling was meant to be temporary and is no longer needed.

But to reverse the ban imposed in 1986, another vote supported by 75 percent of the 70 IWC members would be required.

The IWC meeting on the Caribbean island of St. Kitts erupted in shouting and finger-pointing after the vote on the resolution authored by six Caribbean nations and backed by the major pro-whaling nations Norway, Iceland, Japan and Russia.

The Japanese applauded which was met by head-shaking from whaling opponents. The winners shouted "sore losers" at opponents when they tried to continue debating the resolution after the vote. The Irish delegate looked despaired, holding his head in his hands.

Representatives of anti-whaling countries were booed and shouted down after they yelled into the microphone that they did not recognize Iceland as an IWC member because it had previously dropped out. Delegates from both sides traded barbs, talking over each other to try to get their reactions heard for the record.

Still it was not immediately clear what impact the vote would have....