Antarctica Ice Chime

Click here for 24 hour loop for 6 views. There are two 3 PM views. One has to be 3 AM.

This is Indonesia and Australia. It is easy to see the equator above. The satellite below easily notes the intensified heat at the lower latitudes (by lower I mean lower numbers 0 to 20) of the northern hemisphere and virtually none in the southern hemisphere. This will change quickly as the sun equates more of it's direct rays to the lower southern latitudes. This is a really unique view of Earth and it's relationship with Sol and I am happy I caught it today. Nice.


August 13, 2007
2107 gmt
Western Pacific Satellite



August 13, 2007
1917 gmt
South Pole and majority of Southern Hemisphere

The southern hemisphere is freezing. WOW. Haven't seen this before. I'll try to explain. Autumn/the equatorial equinox is September 21st, I believe. I'll get the exact reference in a minute, but, as the equinox gets closer, the rays of the sun are less and less at an angle to Earth. Once the sun gets to approximately latitude 30 north the angle to the south of 'direct' light is far less than when the sun is at 45 north. To take this a little further, when the sun reaches equinox the direct sunlight is exactly at the equator and the 'hottest' rays are not directed at much of the north or south, but, at the sun travels at an angle to earth on it's axis there is more 'direct' rays that actually travel to both hemispheres the greater the angle. I don't know if there an internet visual. I'll check, but, at any rate New Zealand is frozen.

Kaitaia is the northern most city at about 36 south latitude (click here, play with the temperature map and realize how cold southern New Zealand is to the northern island realizing the latitude is not THAT much different.) If I am not mistaken New Zealand falls in entirety between 36 south and 46 south yet the weather is so drastically different today, especially the temperatures. It's a good example of what I am trying to say. 36 south is receiving more sun than 46 south today and the south polar vortex is simply making things extremely cold because of it.


Today
Cloudy periods, evening showers.
South easterlies.
High: 16° (60 F)
Low: 12° (53 F)
Wednesday 15/08
Mostly cloudy, with showers.

Australia across the nation today has an average high of 10 C (50 F), realizing there is nearly no percipitation (click here, this is a fun aussie weather site - run the curser over the map and one can get accurate longitude and latitude measurements). There is also a lot of air turbulence over Australia and New Zealand causing rapid changes to weather. However, today, the southern hemisphere is under the domination of the South Pole Vortex which nearly reaches to the equator due to the lower angle of the sun. That reach can also wane from day to day depending on the increased heat at the lower latitudes of 10 north and 10 south. I'll but a satellite above the one of the southern hemisphere which clearly illustrates the high heat above the equator and the lack of below the equator as the sun equates it's direct light.



August 13, 2008
0600 gmt
Antarctica Jet Stream (animated in reduced size click here)


The higher elevations are still under a primarily consistent jet stream. The air at the higher latitudes are heavier/colder than warmer/lower latitude/lighter/less dense areas and the movement of the Antarctica air mass is from the coldest area moving outward to the shoreline and lower altitudes. There is an intrusion of air from the southwest to the west over WAIS. East Antarctica is nearly undisturbed by incoming warmer ocean air.

August 13, 2007

One of two 3 PM views.

Antarctica. It is cold across the continent in all reporting stations.

Coldest areas:

Clean Air

Temperature :: -96 °F / -71 °C

Humidity :: N/A%

Pressure :: 28.00 in / 948 hPa

Conditions :: Ice Crystals

Wind :: East at 9 mph / 15 km/h / 4.1 m/s

5:50 AM NZST


Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, Antarctica

6:00 AM NZST

Elevation :: 9285 ft / 2830 m

Temperature :: -95 °F / -71 °C

Conditions :: Snow

Wind :: 8 mph / 13 km/h / from the East

Wind Gust :: -

Pressure :: in / hPa (Rising)

Visibility :: 7.0 miles / 11.0 kilometers

Aviation
Flight Rule :: VFR ()

Wind Speed :: 8 mph / 13 km/h /

Wind Dir :: 100° (East)

Ceiling :: 100000 ft / 100000 m



Vostok, Antarctica

12:00 AM VOST

Elevation :: 11220 ft / 3420 m

Temperature :: -91 °F / -68 °C

Humidity :: 40%

Dew Point :: -97 °F / -71 °C

Wind :: 5 mph / 7 km/h / from the WSW

Wind Gust :: -

Pressure :: in / hPa (Steady)

Visibility :: 12.0 miles / 20.0 kilometers

Aviation
Flight Rule :: VFR ()

Wind Speed :: 5 mph / 7 km/h /

Wind Dir :: 240° (WSW)

Ceiling :: 100000 ft / 100000 m

Warmest areas:

Base Orcadas, Antarctica

7:00 PM GST

Elevation :: 20 ft / 6 m

Temperature :: 30 °F / -1 °C

Conditions :: Mist

Humidity :: 97%

Dew Point :: 29 °F / -1 °C

Wind :: 9 mph / 15 km/h / from the South

Wind Gust :: -

Pressure :: 29.00 in / 982 hPa (Rising)

Visibility :: 2.0 miles / 3.0 kilometers

UV :: 0 out of 16

Clouds:
Mostly Cloudy 295 ft / 90 m
Scattered Clouds 2953 ft / 900 m
(Above Ground Level)


Great Wall, Antarctica

6:00 PM GMT

Elevation :: 33 ft / 10 m

Temperature :: 22 °F / -6 °C

Conditions :: Partly Cloudy

Humidity :: 69%

Dew Point :: 16 °F / -9 °C

Wind :: 2 mph / 4 km/h / from the SW

Wind Gust :: -

Pressure :: 29.04 in / 983 hPa (Rising)

Visibility :: 19.0 miles / 30.0 kilometers

Aviation
Flight Rule :: VFR ()

Wind Speed :: 2 mph / 4 km/h /

Wind Dir :: 230° (SW)

Ceiling :: 100000 ft / 100000 m

continued...

The weather in Antarctica (Crystal Ice Chime) is:

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

August 12, 2007
Oxford, Michigan
Photographer states :: Coming Storm !

This is a similar storm as the one from New York, which is about the same latitude, only in this photo the down pour is to the left of the picture. The above picture is closer to the storm field than the one below, the one above also is in a different percipitation process, so they each have a different dimension of the same type of phenomena.


August 10, 2007
Hague, New York
Photographer states :: Excuse the rain on the lens...the cloud formation is spectacular! Believe it or not, the day turned out to be hot and sunny!

That is a center of a tropospheric vortex. I've seen them before at altitudes that low. Heat transfer system. That is where these 'rain/hail' downblasts come from.

Glacier Bay Weather

Elevation :: 33 ft / 10 m

Temperature :: 63 °F / 17 °C

Conditions :: Clear

Humidity :: 48%

Dew Point :: 43 °F / 6 °C

Wind :: 5 mph / 7 km/h / 2.1 m/s from the SE

Pressure :: 30.29 in / 1026 hPa (Steady)

Visibility :: 10.0 miles / 16.1 kilometers

UV :: 4 out of 16

Clouds :: Clear -
(Above Ground Level)

Aviation
Flight Rule :: VFR (PAGS)
Wind Speed :: 5 mph / 7 km/h / 2.1 m/s
Wind Dir :: 140° (SE)
Ceiling :: Unlimited

Just as a side note. In case you don't 'get it.' The Surge is a PR 'lead in' to serve as the basis for a draft.

August 13, 2007

0916 gmt

Tropical Atlantic Satellite

The heat concentrations in the Carribean Sea could easily be carried by the vortex in the Gulf to form a hurricane where the waters are as warm if not more so than the Carribean Sea. The tropical low pressure noted near Africa is coming in multiples due to the 'found' humidity near the equator.

The UNISYS North and West Hemisphere Water Vapor Satellite (click for 12 hour loop)

August 13, 2007

1030z

Water Vapor NW Hemisphere

There are three questionably dangerous areas. The obvious is the current Cat 4 Hurricane Flossie that will assuredly pass near Hawaii, if not over it and cause considerable damage (click here).

There is a forming vortex over the Gulf of Mexico and considering the poor state of any protections of Gulf Coast communities of any country that cannot be ignored. It is a little better noted in the GOES East Water Vapor Satellite (click here).

The third concern is that 'white spot' in the lower right corner of the satellite picture. It is a tropical depression off Africa and has the potential to be a signifant hurricane as the equatorial regions have some humidity to support it no different than Flossie. These storms that will form in the tropics could lose their higher ratings when they move to higher latitudes where the humidity is more sparse.

The media doesn't get it. Bush doesn't get it. And I refuse to sign on to war for the sake of Westernizing Baghdad.

The New York Times today has signed on to an unlimited engagement in Iraq until the Iraqis 'shape up.' Unless Iraq and Baghdad behave as they are supposed to, in the ideology as perscribed by the illegal invasion by Bush, then the Western American troops aren't going anywhere.


Really? I guess every American troop will huff and puff and blow every house down until every Iraqi falls in line with Western ideology? Is that right? The New York Times is willing to reign hell fire on the burgeoning genocide in Iraq to make sure in the end Iraq behaves as it's supposed to and Bush's contracts for oil are honored?


I don't think so.


That's been tried before. The Shah didn't last either. And as a result Iran is still ridiculed and threatened when they have every right to feel as though militarization of their nation is the right thing to do. When does this Western domination idiocy end?

I remind, Iraq never was a national security issue, is not a national security, the National Intelligence Estimate addresses Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda. Osama was abandoned by the Bush White House and evidently The New York Times for an oil war in Iraq. Guess what? Osama is still in his mountain domaine somewhere between Afghanistan and Pakistan no different than on September 10, 2001. I guess Osama and his al Qaeda network doesn't exist anymore either. Osama needs to be seen on a regular 'terrifying' basis in order to keep those facts straight evidently.


The New York Times front page is so pretty today (click here). It has the successes of water current turbines in it's video section and it has the murals of Baghdad as if that is all supposed to 'sooth' over the outrage of war and somehow calm the nerves of Americans that are 'sick and tied' of an illegal war that has lasted longer than WWII, while the rest of the world prepares to confront the American war machine anywhere on Earth including the Polar North Cap. By the way, those murals don't do anything for me. It's not like the 'street art' of American cities. The Iraqi artists are perscribed a scene to paint for $15 per day. Hardly 'the free will' of the artists. And the NY Times even has as front and center the resignation of Rove, that must make every reader feel victorious.

Nowhere on the front e-page of the New York Times will readers see this. I mean nowhere. It must not have happened then and all is right in Baghdad with the Bush Surge still working. Deceiving the public will save the day for the propagandists, I suppose. I have yet to understand why truly understanding the Middle East evades Westerners. I guess it's the demand for oil and neoteny that supercedes reason.


Five US Soldiers Killed By Explosion Near Baghdad (click here)
Five U.S. soldiers were killed, including four in a single explosion, during combat operations south of Baghdad on Saturday, the U.S. military said on Sunday.
Four other soldiers were wounded in the explosion but no other details of the incident were immediately available.
In a separate statement, the U.S. military said a fifth soldier had been killed by small arms fire while on foot patrol southeast of Baghdad on Saturday.
The U.S. military said the soldiers were part of Task Force Marne, which has deployed in areas south of Baghdad to stop the flow of weapons, explosives and Shi'ite and Sunni Arab militants into the capital....

I am being too generous. The Genocide of the Iraqi people has already begun with refugees impoverished in neighboring countries to the tune of over 2 million and with deaths estimated at over 665,000 now well over a six month old journaled article and let's not forget the 8 million (well over one third of the populous) are living in profound poverty or otherwise described 'near death' conditons. The Iraqi Genocide by Bush is underway and the only country that seems to give a hoot is Iran. Can't imagine why, must be because they are primarily Shi'ites.

I really think most candidates for president still have it wrong and in a Rasmussen poll I read a week or so ago, Dennis Kucinich was ONLY 15 points down from Guiliani. The same poll put Edwards 15 points ahead, so no Democrat is out of the running at all for the nomination. Dennis will have to run a little harder, but, money could be the issue here.

But, back to Iraq.

Iraqi PM Visits Iran For Security Talks (click here)
(AP) TEHRAN, Iran
Iranian officials told Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on Thursday that only a U.S. pullout would bring peace to his nation and claimed the Tehran government was doing its best to help stabilize neighboring Iraq.
Al-Maliki said decisions about an American pullout were between Baghdad and Washington. This issue "belongs to the Iraqis only and it is related to the readiness of the Iraqi armed forces and their ability to take over security responsibilities," he told The Associated Press during the visit....

And one might ask, what exactly do these leaders of Iran and Iraq think will secure them both? Hm? I guess Shi'ites will be Shi'ites after all, and Maliki seems not to read between the Iranian lines very well. I suppose that is why the good Prime Minister doesn't have a political solution for his country yet while his provincial governors and police are being blown up on a regular basis.

Iraq, Iran Sign Oil-Pipeline Deal (click here)
August 11, 2007 -- Iran's state-controlled media report that Iran and Iraq have signed an agreement on building an oil pipeline between the two countries.
The Iran news network reported that the pipeline would carry oil from Iraqi oil fields to refineries in Iran.
It said the deal was signed in Tehran on August 10 by Iraqi Oil Minister Husayn al-Shahristani and his Iranian counterpart, Kazem Vaziri-Hamaneh.
It was unclear who would finance the project or when it would be constructed.


While on the 'Contingency Plan Front' (click here)


US General Says Pullout Plan "Ready To Go" NBC Nightly News says that while military planners "say it could take two years for a complete withdrawal from Iraq," a "top US commander here in Kuwait says, from a logistics standpoint, he's already got the plan and he's ready to go. All he needs is the President's order." The Washington Post reports Lt. Gen. R. Steven Whitcomb said facilities in Kuwait "have handled as many as 240,000 troops moving into and out of Iraq in as little as a three-month period during the war's major rotations."


So all in all, the USA needs to put their war machine away and bring the troops home which seems to be a reality in less than three months.

We don't belong in Iraq.

We never did.

Oppose the draft, which no candidate at the top of the pack to date has excluded in their campaign platforms.

Troops out now.

Stop Western Domination of the World. The world has other ideas.


Stop the Iraq Genocide.


Have a better day. I mean what it comes down to is either you 'buy in' to the idea of a global war confronting every sovereign country on Earth to provide for 'politics' in the USA or you disarm from Iraq and reestablish the countries priorities, which the global financial markets rely on remembering the BEST way to fight terrorist networks is through economic development leaving behind any reason for people to turn to extremist ideologies in the first place.


The reasons to stop confronting Islam hasn't changed since decades ago and will not change in the future. We are fighting the "W"rong war in Iraq and we are spawning greater danger to the USA. Iraq's problems need to be solved by the region and that doesn't include warring. It means stability and balance of power without the threat of mutual nuclear annhilation between every country in the Middle East. What is going on right now is insane, because of the war machine monies of the USA and the politiking of the Repuglicans.

We need to leave Iraq in a very big way. We can do it now with guaranteed safety to our troops in three months. It's over. Iran wants to make Iraq it's best friend and it should happen that way, it will eventually anyway.