Monday, May 12, 2008

With in days after a Cyclone Nargis hit Myanmar, Yangon; there is a major earthquake in China. Hm.

Magnitude 7.9 - EASTERN SICHUAN, CHINA (click here)
2008 May 12 06:28:00 UTC
Monday, May 12, 2008 at 02:28:00 PM at epicenter

The earthquake broke underground pipes, causing water and mud to flow across the streets in the city of Chengdu

China earthquake: 'Tens of thousands' dead (click here)
By Richard Spencer in Chengdu and Malcolm Moore
Last Updated: 9:38PM BST 12/05/2008

Tens of thousands of people are feared dead after the biggest earthquake in three decades struck China.
The official death toll has been put at more than 8,500, but rescue workers and the Chinese army have not yet reached the worst affected areas.
The 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck Sichuan province this afternoon. The epicentre was 50 miles north of Chengdu, a city of 11 million people, but tremors were felt more than 1,000 miles away in Bangkok and Hanoi.
At least six primary and middle schools were destroyed in the disaster, and 900 pupils were buried under rubble when the three-storey Jiangyan Middle School in Dujiangyan collapsed....

Photo that Junta could not hide

Russia has the better rapport with the Myanmar government, everyone get of the way of the Russian Relief Effort. I strongly recommend the United Nations channel its efforts through Russia !

Russia to deliver more humanitarian aid to Myanmar May 12 (click here)

MOSCOW, May 11 (RIA Novosti) - A second plane from Russia's Emergencies Ministry's fleet is expected to deliver humanitarian aid to cyclone-hit Myanmar on Monday, Russia's embassy in the southeast Asian country said on Sunday.
Myanmar is attempting to recover from Cyclone Nargis that, according to official data, has left over 20,000 people dead and dozens of thousands homeless.
Russia's first plane with humanitarian aid landed in the capital of Myanmar, Yangon, early on Saturday.
Cyclone Nargis hit Myanmar on May 3, devastating large parts of the country. Health official fear that the death toll is likely to rise to at least 100,000 people as rescue workers struggle to reach remote settlements, while the nationwide number of displaced people could reach millions.
Both planes from Russia's Emergencies Ministry are expected to deliver a total of 60 metric tons of humanitarian supplies, including tents, blankets, generators, medical supplies, including disinfectants and bandages, and food.
A state of emergency has been introduced in the five worst-hit areas - the Irrawaddy delta, the cities of Yangon and Pegu, and the states of Karen and Mon. Most of the deaths came in the low-lying Irrawaddy delta region.




May 12, 2008
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Global Pacific Satellite


May 12, 2008
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Western Pacific Satellite

Besides the obvious tragedy that accompanies life due to severe storms, there is a heat transfer into Antarctica noted.


May 12, 2008
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Indian Ocean Satellite

The reason the heat is concentrated over the Indonesian Islands is because that is where there is available water vapor. The jungles and tropical forests help concentrate the heat and spawn huge storms to drive the heat into the oceans. Otherwise, the entire planet would be suffering the consequences of drought as Africa is today. The jungles of Africa are still producing heat accumulations that will result in hurricanes, but, where there is savannah there is profound, regional drought.

May 12, 2008
This is one of the photos released by the Burmese dissident group.

Bodies Flow Into Hard-Hit Area of Myanmar (click here)

THANAP PIN SATE, Myanmar — The bodies come and go with the tides. They wash up onto the riverbanks or float grotesquely downstream, almost always face down. They are all but ignored by the living....

NC gets high winds, power outages after reported tornadoes


May 12, 2008
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Africa-Europe Satellite


May 12, 2008
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Western Hemisphere Satellite

The heat is significant everywhere. The southern hemisphere is exceptionally hot, but, the tropical northern hemisphere is starting to spawn storms across the Atlantic from Africa. Hurricane propagation.


May 12, 2008
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UNISYS Water Vapor Satellite Western and Northern Hemisphere

And that brings us back to the Artic Oscillation. It will be delivering all kinds of bad news beginning with the West Coast.


May 12, 2008
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UNISYS Enhanced Infrared Western and Northern Hemispheric Satellite.


May 12, 2008
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UNISYS GOES East Enhanced Infrared Satellite

NC - Vast Devastation on coastal plain (click here)


May 12, 2008
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UNISYS USA Enhanced Infrared Satellite




May 12, 2008


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UNISYS Mid-Atlantic Enhanced Infrared Satellite Image



Posted: Today at 11:02 a.m.
Updated: 16 minutes ago
ASHEVILLE, N.C. — Strong winds raked western North Carolina on Monday and knocked out power to thousands following a severe weather system that spawned seven tornados a day earlier.
"We've got a lot of trees down in the mountains," said Doug Outlaw, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service office. "It really got going late yesterday and just increased overnight."
Duke Energy and Progress Energy reported more than 21,000 customers were affected by power outages Monday morning.
Outlaw said wind speeds reached an estimated 60 mph in the mountains and higher in mountain gaps where the wind was funneled. He said a roof was lifted off a house at Lake Lure as wind charged through a gorge at the end of the lake southeast of Asheville....


May 11, 2008
Maryville, Tennessee
Photographer states :: WIND FOR FIVE DAYS - Wind hit on Friday afternoon and is still here in the East TN Valley.
Returning home from Asheville (North Carolina) yesterday (Sunday) the wind in the mountains was moving trucks and cars around on the high roads.
Returning home at 6 PM Sunday night the phone was ringing with reports of a tree down in a home we own in Maryville, TN (less than 7 miles from where we live) and numerious trees down in that neighborhood.
Driving over we found a 100 year old oak in our yard down. It fell across our drive, power and phone lines and on top of a neighbor's Volvo parked at the top of our driveway. The tree blocked a side street and the top branches cut into the same neighbor's flowers in there front yard.
Police and utility crews told us they had been clearning trees since 1 AM Sunday morning and the wind had never stopped.
Today it is sunny but more of the same still in the area.

It is called Sea Level Rise

MOUNT HOLLY (click title to entry)— The National Weather Service in Mount Holly has issued both a coastal flood warning and a wind advisory for both Monmouth and Ocean counties.
A coastal flood warning remains in effect until 8 a.m.
A strong onshore flow is expected to cause widespread minor tidal flooding on the ocean front and the adjacent back bays around the time of high tide today and again tonight.
Areas of moderate tidal flooding could occur with the higher of the two tides along the southern new jersey and delaware coasts tonight.
For Sandy Hook, the next high tide will occur at 3 p.m. today and is forecast to be 7.5 to 8.0 feet above mean lower low water levels. High tide is again at 3:12 a.m. Tuesday and is forecast to be 7.0 to 7.5 feet above mean lower low water levels and 3:57 p.m. Tuesday with a height of 7.0 to 7.5 ft above mean lower low water levles.
A wind advistory has also been issued for the Shore area....

Wild Weather, Heavy Wind Gusts Threaten NYC (click here for VIDEO)

NEW YORK (CBS) ― New York City felt more like Chicago on Monday morning, with chilly, wild weather turning the Big Apple into the Windy City and local airports into crowded waiting rooms.

"It is going to be a raw day today," said CBS 2 Meteorologist John Elliott.

Rain pushed into the tri-state overnight and tapered off to sprinkles in the morning, but the real concern is heavy bands of storms pushing in from the south. Periods of heavy rain are possible with extremely windy conditions.

The National Weather Service issued a Wind Advisory for the city until 5 p.m., and New Yorkers can expect to see winds between 20 and 30 mph, with strong gusts out of the east-northeast up to 50 mph.

The winds were causing headaches for travelers at area airports. Flights arriving at La Guardia Airport and Newark Liberty International Airport were experiencing delays of more than two hours, while flights arriving at John F. Kennedy Airport were seeing delays of up to an hour.

A Coastal Flood Advisory has also been issued until Tuesday due to tides averaging about two to three feet above normal.

In Cape May County, West Wildwood declared a state of emergency due to flooding, but did not insist that residents evacuate. The situation was the same in much of New Jersey's southernmost county, according to emergency management director Francis McCall.

"There's flooding on all the barrier islands," he said. "People have left on their own, but it wasn't mandatory."...

I tell you what, life in the USA is so bizarre that we just need to put our feet up and watch Britney Spears on "How I met your mother." Right? What a great distraction to reality while the weather conditions across the nation become lethal. Sounds like a plan.

The Greenland Melt in current decade (click here).

The ocean view below was once a mass of sea ice, icebergs and glaciers.


Greenland's History of Melting (click here)
May 8, 2008 -- The idea that Greenland's ice melts sluggishly in response to global warming has long been one hedge against rapid global sea level rise -- but the idea may be wrong, say researchers.
New geologic evidence from the seafloor off the southern tip of Greenland shows that during the two past periods of global warming, the
melting of Greenland glaciers was right in synch with rising global temperatures -- rather than lagging behind as models have predicted.
In other words, the ice is very sensitive to
global warming and recent losses of ice there could be the beginning of a much larger melt than expected.
"People had thought that there was this thermal lag," said Anders Carlson of the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
But offshore sediments that record the debris that is washed out from valleys when glaciers recede tell another story. As Carlson said, "As soon as it starts warming, it starts to melt."...

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


May 12, 2008
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North Pole/Artic Ocean Satellite

The Artic Oscillation/Vortex extends to Asia. It is continous from Alaska, at 9 o'clock to the Asian continent at 10 o'clock. The entire planet is extremely hot and the Australian/New Zealand drought continues.

This is the lastest out of Japan. You know the folks. The ones that brought the world Kyoto Protocol which was supposed to be ratified by all world powers that had the resources to reverse and stop Human Induced Global Warming by the year 2012. The USA is criminally liable.

Arctic ice seen shrinking to smallest size recorded (click at title to entry)
The Yomiuri Shimbun
Ice sheets in the Arctic Ocean could shrink this summer to the smallest area on record since satellite observation of the sheets began in 1978, according to researchers.
Researchers at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency made the prediction based on their analysis of satellite images. JAXA's satellite observations from September last year showed that the area covered by ice sheets in the Arctic Ocean had withered to the smallest on record.
Arctic ice is gradually shrinking year by year due to global warming. It expands in winter and shrinks in summer.
Their observations this winter also showed that the total area of ice in the Arctic had recovered to levels seen in previous years, according to the researchers.
Through observations conducted with the help of a Japanese device installed in a U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration earth observation satellite, JAXA confirmed a decline in the amount of thick perennial ice, or long-lasting sea ice.
A comparison of images taken on April 20 over the last six years also indicated that areas covered with perennial ice, which is light green in color, have been gradually shrinking since 2005. This year, areas with perennial ice further withered to nearly half the size seen in 2005, according to the researchers.
The researchers are particularly worried about the disappearance of perennial ice from around the North Pole.
It is understood that the thinner the ice is, the more easily it melts due to higher air and water temperatures.
(May. 12, 2008)



May 12, 2008
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Infrared Satellite Image of the Arctic Oscillation. (click here for 12 hour loop) It is enormous. This is a new maximum since October 4, 2002.

Local Time: 9:23 AM AKDT

Lat/Lon: 58.8° N 137.0° W


Temperature :: 46 °F / 8 °C

Conditions :: Overcast

Windchill :: 43 °F / 6 °C

Humidity :: 71%

Dew Point :: 37 °F / 3 °C

Wind :: 7 mph / 11 km/h / 3.1 m/s from the East

Pressure :: 29.71 in / 1006 hPa (Rising)

Visibility :: 10.0 miles / 16.1 kilometers

UV :: 1 out of 16

Clouds:
Scattered Clouds 3200 ft / 975 m
Overcast 4100 ft / 1249 m
(Above Ground Level)
Elevation:
33 ft / 10 m