Cape Town
57/77 F

Dakar
68/84 F

Dar es Salaam
77/90 F

Johannesburg
60/82 F

Lagos
76/92 F

Marrakesh
46/71 F

Nairobi
49/78 F

Tripoli
48/64 F

Tunis
49/71 F

These are seasonally mild temperatures with a wide range of temperatures between night time lows and daytime highs. Healthy. The wider the variation the less water vapor to temper the 'shift' of temperatures from sunlight to it's absence. Very nice. The way it should be. LIVEABLE. The water vapor from Antarctica or the Arctic Ocean is not over Africa at all ! Not enough carbon dioxide. Africa is a huge landmass but is not experiencing the residual effects as the land mass of North America does. The drought however can be significant and has to be addressed by the global community. This is NOT their problem !

January 16, 2007

1228 gmt

This is amazing. The troposphere over Africa is actually cooler than anywhere else on Earth. Africa doesn't have a large water distribution as a consequence and will be experiencing severe drought due to every other INDUSTRIALIZED nation's pollution. The African people plant trees to facilitate a carbon sink for Earth. It shows. People with a conscious and consequently some of the most abused societies that reflect the nature of the people there. 

January 16, 2007

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West Pacific Satellite

This shows the heat source from the Pacific finding Antarctica a very nice target. You know Bush wants to point a finger at China as a problem to Human Induced Global Warming. He could fix that, but, having his State Department impose requirements to facilitate clear air and water including carbon dioxide emissions IF he was willing to make that a part of the relationship with the USA in treaties with China. He won't do that because the Bush Family Fortune IS China and Asia. To impose standards on them would be like shooting himself in the foot. This administration has huge conflicts of interest, from Halliburton to China to telecommunications. These circumstances directly reflect the personal goals of power brokers in office in the USA. 

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