The Antarctica Ice Chime

It hasn't improved in Antarctica. 6 PM and 12 AM is missing from loop. (click for 24 hour loop)

September 19, 2007
1200 PM
Antarctica (click here for current 24 hour loop)

...and the high altitude vortices are transmitted in to surface winds as noted between these two satellites. That means the heat transfer sublimes the top ice and migrates down to do the same at lower latitudes and by the time it reaches sea level the air is hot and the Peninsula reflects much higher temperatures.


September 21, 2007
1200 AM
Antarctica




September 18, 2997
0600 gmt
Antarctica Jet Stream

The heat transfer vortexes are frequent. Their reach is to the top of the Blue Ice over Vostok. The patterns of Antarctica's air mass provide quick relief to any abatement of the vortexes due to it's inertia as noted below. Noted a five degree increase (from - 60C to -65C) during the time difference of these two satellite images. Inertia.


September 20, 2007
1800 gmt
Antarctica Jet Stream


September 20, 2007
1921
The South Pole Satellite

There are frequent heat transfer vortices landing on Antarctica on a regular basis and the sun is only at the Equator. It's nearly the first day of Spring in Antarctica. The vortices are no longer at high latitudes.




The majority of Antarctica is well above average temperatures:

The warmest reporting station :

Palmer Station

Elevation :: 26 ft / 8 meters

Temperature :: 34 F / 1 C

Humidity :: 67 %

Dew Point :: 27 F / -3 C

Wind :: 25 mph / 40 km/h from the NE

Wind Gust :: -

Pressure :: 29.52 in / 1000 hPa (Falling)

Visibility :: 3.0 miles / 4.8 kilometers


THE AVERAGE MEDIAN TEMPERATURE ACROSS THE CURRENT 55 REPORTING STATIONS IS - 16.5 C.

The coldest temperature of reporting stations ::

Vostok, Antarctica

Elevation :: 11220 ft / 3429 m

Temperature :: - 84 F / -64 C

Conditions :: Mist

Humidity :: 43%

Dew Point :: -90 F / -68 C

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

Wind Gust :: -

Pressure :: in / hPa (Falling)

Visibility :: 2.0 miles / 4.0 kilometers


Amundsen – Scott South Pole Station, Antarctica

Elevation :: 9285 ft / 2830 m

Temperature :: -57 F / -49 C

Conditions :: Snow Grains

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

Wind Gust :: -

Pressure :: in / hPa (Falling)

Visibility :: 4.0 miles / 6.0 kilometers

UV :: 0 out of 16

Clouds :: Overcast 4035 ft / 1230 m

(Above the ground)

continued...

The weather in Antarctica, Ross Base (Crystal Ice Chime) is temperate:

September 21, 2007
1320
Scott Base, New Zealand, Antarctica

September 22, 2007 is the autumnal equinox (click on - choose time zone)

The evilest of all evil men would see the health of children compromised

President Bush during a news conference at the White House briefing room today.

..."Instead of posturing by sending him a bill they know he will reject, Mr. Bush said, the Democrats should embrace fiscal and social responsibility and pass a bill that provides for reasonable increases in spending on health insurance for uninsured children without veering toward the “federalization of health care.”...

Greed is at the basis of any and all Bush Tax Cuts to the point of endangering the wellness of our youngest citizens.

When is the nation going to impeach Bush and Cheney? They are grossly incompetent and in that incompetence lies danger to human life.

Not a named storm yet? Click here for 12 hour loop.

September 20, 2007

0915z

Enhanced Infrared Satellite GOES East

When the sun comes up the storm will probably have enough velocity to be named. There are currently two active named storms in the Pacific of which one has hurricane strength vorticity.

This article reflects the fact weather patterns due to Human Induced Global Warming have become so intricate to predict, the control for preventing adverse realities for USA populations is falling to local measures.

Station's storm spotting gets specific (click here)
No more entire county warnings for storms, flash floods, tornadoes
By Aldrich M. Tan of The Northwestern
A new warning system will help people better know if they are in the path of a severe storm.

Jeff Last, warning coordination meteorologist, said the National Weather Services station in Green Bay traditionally issues severe weather warnings for entire counties. Starting Thursday, the new system will focus more precisely on the area that faces the biggest threat from a storm.

It is not unusual for a severe storm to only hit certain parts of the county when a warning is issued for the entire county, Last said. If a storm is brewing very close to Oshkosh, the new warnings will indicate that the warning is for central Winnebago County....

At every turn Bush's war is being pushed out of Iraq if only for the Dead Republican Wood in the Senate and House

Sen. Jim Webb (D-VA), right, and Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) hold a news conference to reintroduce their amendment to the Defense Authorization Bill.

The faces of those backing the Iraq War are doing so for political purposes in attempting to keep the chance they will win a Republican victory in 2008 and/or keep their Senate seats. Among those that back the continued occupation of Iraq are the likes of Lindsay Graham (click here).


Lindsay Graham has been in the Senate forever and caters to a constituency mired in flag waving (click here) at the enormous cost of national security to the USA and deaths to the Iraqi people.


Graham's argument for voting against the Webb Amendment was because it would be ill advised based on the history of powers of the Commander and Chief. The reality of an illegal war didn't matter to Graham. The fact war fatigue replaces any good judgement in soldiers on the battlefield didn't matter to Graham. The fact that decency alone in maintaining family relationships dictates a change in the length of deployment didn't matter to Graham. THE ONLY aspect of the vote regarding this amendment which mattered to Lindsay Graham is the 'Southern Republican Flag Waving' politics of honoring the tradition of extending the war powers of the Commander and Chief.


Mr. Graham's statement reads:


...“The Webb amendment intended to take care of the troops. I don’t question anyone’s intent, but if you really want to take care of the troops let them win.

“The Webb amendment was one of the more ill-advised approaches to fighting the War on Terror. It was a historic constitutional infringement on the power of the Commander in Chief allowing Congress to micromanage troop rotations and deployments. The amendment would have hurt the brave young men and women fighting the War on Terror and set a terrible precedent for fighting future conflicts....


MICROMANAGE.


The Congress, according to Lindsay, attempted to micromanage the war. Amazing. Is Congress taking control of the battlefield out of the hands of the commanders? No. What the Webb-Hagel Amendment states is that soldiers have to be given sufficient time off the battlefield to recuperate from it's demands. The Webb-Hagle Amendment was to insure the soliders on the battlefield were in a sound state of readiness to serve with intact health and family relationships. The likes of Lindsay Graham would see any soldier deployed for any length of time simply because a Commander and Chief demanded it of OUR military.


The people whom voted against the Webb-Hagle Amendment are Anti-American, don't care about our soldiers, care only about winning a hopeless war and seek only to play politics with the lives of our troops and the lives of the people of Iraq. Lindsay and those like him need to be replaced in their Senate and House seats to allow a legislature that benefits this country's security rather than defeats it. The current war in Iraq is served by a vast minority of people both in military deployments and those that support it in the electorate of the USA. The politics of killing while compromising the security of this country has to stop and it has to stop by ridding the legislature of people voting based upon 'historical' principles rather than sound reasoning.


The fact of the matter is, without Bush's private contractors in Iraq, the USA military's burden will increase enormously, the deployments will be more lengthy and deployments will become toxic to the well being of our military and national security.