Just as a frame of reference to what is reported below.
Monday, April 02, 2007
April 2, 2007
12:00 PM
Antarctica
The Peninsula is always hot but the continent is looking far cooler in climate than it has for some time now. 3 PM and 6 PM are missing from the animated satellite, but, those absent there is mostly freezing temperatures. Of course, the speculation still exist with East Antarctica warm in the Enderby Land and American Highlands to the understanding there still might be higher than normal temperatures sustaining there at times visible on the missing images. The average temperatures don't bear that out, however. There are more temperate areas but all are freezing except for two. Those two areas are:
Base Orcadas, Antarctica
Elevation :: 20 ft / 6 m
Temperature :: 39 °F / 4 °C
Conditions :: Partly Cloudy
Humidity :: 70%
Dew Point :: 33 °F / 0 °C
Wind :: Calm
Wind Gust :: -
Pressure :: 29.78 in / 1008 hPa (Rising)
Visibility :: 6.0 miles / 10.0 kilometers
Clouds :: Scattered Clouds 1476 ft / 450 m
(Above Ground Level)
King Sejong, Antarctica
Elevation :: 33 ft / 10 m
Temperature :: 34 °F / 1 °C
Conditions :: Overcast
Humidity :: 72%
Dew Point :: 28 °F / -2 °C
Wind :: 65 mph / 104 km/h from the NE
Wind Gust :: -
Pressure :: 29.24 in / 990 hPa (Rising)
Visibility :: 6.0 miles / 10.0 kilometers
UV :: 0 out of 16
The coldest area was :
Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, Antarctica
Elevation :: 9285 ft / 2830 m
Temperature :: -86 °F / -65 °C
Conditions :: Scattered Clouds
Wind :: 10 mph / 17 km/h / from the East
Wind Gust :: -
Visibility :: 7.0 miles / 11.0 kilometers
Clouds :: Few 6890 ft / 2100 m
(Above Ground Level)
Conditions at Vostok:
Vostok, Antarctica
Elevation :: 11220 ft / 3420 m
Temperature :: -76 °F / -60 °C
Humidity :: 41%
Dew Point :: -82 °F / -64 °C
Wind :: 14 mph / 22 km/h from the SW
A word about "Tornado Season"
This is a represenation by NOAA of an average tornado season in the USA. The height of it occurs in April. What follows after May is Hurricane Season. Fun huh?
The thing is this, March 2007 was a record setting season. There were 197 tornadoes. That should be telling a lot to folks about what is to come in April.
This is an briefing article from The New York Times July 6, 2005
National Briefing Science And Health: A Record For Tornado Season
Published: July 6, 2005
For the first time since government record-keeping started in 1950, no one was killed by a tornado in the United States in April, May or June, the peak season for twisters. Normally there is an average of 52 deaths in those three months. Joe Schaefer, director of the Storm Prediction Center of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, said the record was the result of a combination of improved storm warnings and no tornadoes striking large cities in Tornado Alley.
Tornado Season doesn't have to be deadly with preparedness and awareness. I found this inquiry to the actual swath that should be considered "Tornado Ally" interesting considering Human Induced Global Warming is causing shifts in climate.
Is it time to widen `Tornado Alley'?
...According to the National Climatic Data Center, Texas averaged 139 tornadoes per year in 1953 through 2004, followed by Oklahoma (57), Kansas and Florida (55), and Nebraska (45).
Looking at strong to violent tornadoes - those that are F2 to F5 on the Fujita scale - Texas averaged 29 per year, followed by Oklahoma (11) and Kansas and Iowa (9).
Such figures support the traditional boundaries of Tornado Alley.
But there have been 13 killer tornadoes in the United States in 2007, according to the Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Okla.
Ranked in the order of fatalities, the states are Florida (21), Alabama (10), Georgia (9), Louisiana (3), Oklahoma (2), Texas (1), Colorado (1) and Missouri (1).
Going back to 2000, less than 8 percent of the killer tornadoes were in the traditional alley.
The number of deaths outside of the alley could merit the expansion - or elimination - of the name Tornado Alley, said Alan Moller, meteorologist-in-charge with the National Weather Service office in Fort Worth.
There will be a shift in 'weather' over the next week more than likely bringing cooler air south and causing higher possiblity of more tornadoes. Be careful.
Sunday, April 01, 2007
I hope there is some rain in store for Burkina Faso and not just clouds.
April 2, 2007
0028 gmt
African - Europe Satellite
There is the larger picture of the Spaniard's Vortex. It starts a half a globe away. Two separate hemispheres. Unreal !
ECOWAS Ministers Agree on Biotechnology Plan for Region
By voanews
Ministers from the Economic Community of West African States have agreed to use biotechnology to increase food production in their region. The agreement was reached at the third ECOWAS ministerial meeting on biotechnology and bio-safety, held in Accra, Ghana. Efam Dovi reports for VOA from Accra.
For four days, experts and ECOWAS ministers of agriculture, environment, science and technology discussed the issues surrounding the use of biotechnology in farming. Though it has been shown to increase agricultural production, some fear it could harm the environment. It is also costly, requiring expensive research.
There is another typhoon headed for Madagascar
Tbere is also a huge supercell forming over Spain. It's orgins begin in South Amrerica at the equator extending across the Atlantic and organizing into a rotation system over the Mediterrainian.
Rain to spoil record Easter exodus
But Met Office forecasters are predicting downpours in top resorts across the Mediterranean this week.
Ironically, some of the best weather will be in Britain with temperatures of up to 18°C (64°F).
Met Office forecaster Andrew Sibley said: 'It will be around 16C (61F) in Britain today and as high as 18°C in London.
'For most of the rest of the week, it will be about 14 or 15°C. There will be sunny spells and it will feel pleasant at times.'
He said the situation in the Mediterranean this week would be one of heavy showers with temperatures on the cool side – especially compared with what people would expect at this time of year.
He added: 'There will be long spells of rain in the South of France, the east coast of Italy, southern Spain, Portugal, Corsica and Sardinia. On Thursday the cool air will get down towards Turkey.'
THERE COULD BE A CHANCE IT MIGHT BE MORE THAN THIS AS WELL. POSSIBLY TORNADIC WEATHER NOT EXPECTED NORMALLY.
Cameroon might be getting some relief from their drought, however, flooding can be as bad if not worse sometimes.
Gloomy cocoa forecast as bad weather hits supply
Similarly pessimistic forecasts have been noted elsewhere with investment bank Fortis forced to increase its 2006/07 cocoa deficit figure from 131,000 tonnes to 215,000 last month due to unfavourable weather in West Africa.
Unseasonably dry weather in the area has raised fears that crops will be damaged and production from the major growing region will fall.
With supplies dipping and factors such as weather, disease and civil unrest having an increasing impact on the production chain, many companies and government bodies are becoming involved in helping cocoa farmers at grass roots levels.
This week, the Netherlands donated 655 million CFA francs to Cameroon cocoa farmers to improve the co-operative structures throughout the farming communities and improve their marketing position.
And members of the World Cocoa Foundation (WCF) teamed up recently to extend their five-year plan to help 150,000 cocoa farming families in Ghana through programmes related to education, health and labour conditions.
The ICCO bulletin examines factors affecting the industry and comments on crop and demand prospects for leading countries as well as giving a review of statistics on price, exports, imports and consumption
GET OUT THE RAIN BARRELS IN NIGERIA !
Nigeria: 'Water Scarcity Remains an Issue'
March 27, 2007
Posted to the web March 28, 2007
Achim Steiner
Lagos
Water scarcity is both a natural and a human-made phenomenon. There is enough freshwater on the planet for six billion people but it is shared unevenly and too much of it is wasted, polluted and unsustainably managed.
The reality of climate change compels the world to pay even greater attention to water scarcity given the predicted variability and more extreme weather events likely over the coming years and decades.
The text book planning of a dam on the basis of a one in 100 flow is becoming a hydrological lottery of receding certainty.
Glaciers, water stores and water sources for millions of people alongside wildlife and economically productive ecosystems, are melting three times faster than in the 1980s and could disappear in the decades to come.
A Brazilian study indicates that temperatures in the Amazon could rise as high as 8 degrees C dramatically altering the flows of one of the world's most important freshwater systems. So if we want to avoid "Water Scarcity" as the permanent theme for the 21st century, a big part of the solution is cuts in greenhouse gas emissions of 60 to 80 per cent.
Fortunately, World Water Day 2007 comes in a year of unprecedented momentum on climate change both scientifically and politically. Let us hope that the tide of political opinion is genuinely changing in favour of a meaningful, fair and equitable emissions-reduction regime for when the Kyoto Protocol treaty expires in five short-years time.
Tsunami Hits Soloman Islands After Powerful Quake
April 2, 2007
0011 gmt
Western Pacific Global Satellite
That is an incredible supercell. Holy smokes !
Three dead after Pacific Ocean earthquake
Reuters
April 01, 2007
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's NHK television said on Monday that at least three people were reported to have died in the Solomon Islands following a powerful earthquake.
NHK quoted a local official, who, speaking by telephone in Gizo, said the 8.1 magnitude quake in the Pacific Ocean caused tidal waves and many houses were destroyed on the coast of Gizo. Three people were found dead in different locations there, he said.
A tsunami warning had been issued for the region.
THESE FOLKS ARE GOING TO NEED HELP. THE UNITED NATIONS NEEDS TO TAKE NOTE !
Typhoon warning issued for Guam, Pacific islands
Stars and Stripes Pacific edition,
Tuesday, April 3, 2007
Guam and its neighboring islands began bracing for a wet, windy Monday and Tuesday as the first storm of the northwest Pacific’s tropical cyclone season, Kong-rey, began churning rapidly west-northwest toward the Marianas Islands.
National Weather Service officials said the island chain could expect winds of up to 70 mph and rainfall of up to eight inches starting Monday evening. Guam Gov. Felix Camacho issued Tropical Cyclone Condition of Readiness 3 for the island at 2 p.m. Sunday, and U.S. Naval Forces Marianas and Andersen Air Force Base followed suit at 3 p.m.
The National Weather Service issued a Typhoon Warning at 8 p.m. Sunday for Guam, Rota, Tinian and Saipan.
Department of Defense Education Activity schools were to be closed Monday and Tuesday, according to a Sunday press release from Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Marianas.
Kong-rey spawned over the weekend well to the east of Chu’uk and just south of Pohn’pei and began tracking west-northwest Sunday at 13 mph. At 7 p.m. Guam time on Sunday, Kong-rey was 550 miles east-southeast of Guam, packing sustained 52 mph winds and 63 mph gusts at its center.
If it remains on its Joint Typhoon Warning Center track, Kong-rey is forecast to make a direct hit on Rota around 4 a.m. Tuesday. It’s expected to graze Andersen Air Force Base 37 miles to its north, with sustained winds of 86 mph and gusts of up to 104 mph at its center.
Winds of between 40 and 50 mph were expected to begin lashing Guam on Monday evening, with possible maximum winds of between 60 and 70 mph early Tuesday morning, according to meteorologist Genny Miller of the National Weather Service on Guam.
Miller said islands directly in Kong-rey’s path could expect between 6 and 8 inches of rain, and anything on the storm’s periphery, outside of 100 miles, could get between 4 and 6 inches.
Kong-rey then is forecast to rumble northwest of Guam before curving northeast and slowly dying out just past the northernmost Marianas Islands and well to the southeast of Iwo Jima in Japan.
The northwest Pacific region’s tropical cyclone season generally runs from June to December, but storms in early spring or late fall are not uncommon for Guam and its neighbors.
JTWC archives show the most destructive storms in Guam’s history to be super typhoons Paka (December 1997) and Pongsona (December 2002) and Typhoon Karen (November 1962), each occurring late in the calendar year. Super Typhoon Pamela leveled the island early in the season, in mid-May 1976.
On average, the northwest Pacific receives about 28 tropical cyclones per season. The JTWC recorded 26 tropical storms last year, 25 in 2005 and 32 in 2004.
Kong-rey is a Cambodian word with two meanings: Pretty girl in Khmer legend, or the name of a mountain.
I'll close with this...
...there is one other letter that is not with this file whereby Ms. Granberry advises me to call Adult Protective Services of Guildford County.
Those folks have a case load to chock a horse. They defer any decisions about people with current Guardians to the Guardian. They don't want to hear from me.
Ms. Granberry and the State Attorney General of North Carolina play a very dangerous game of 'pass the buck' when they know full well what is waiting at the other end of such lackadaisical attitudes.
The people of North Carolina are on their own to survive. The law serves the purpose of the government and not the best interest of those it should serve. My sister is going to die a premature death because her parents don't care about her survival beyond what she herself determines in her incompetency. This is gross malpractice of the law and places the public in harms' way of such disinterest of the trust placed in elected authority.
I'll find the final letter and post it here.
Thank you for your kind interest.
Those folks have a case load to chock a horse. They defer any decisions about people with current Guardians to the Guardian. They don't want to hear from me.
Ms. Granberry and the State Attorney General of North Carolina play a very dangerous game of 'pass the buck' when they know full well what is waiting at the other end of such lackadaisical attitudes.
The people of North Carolina are on their own to survive. The law serves the purpose of the government and not the best interest of those it should serve. My sister is going to die a premature death because her parents don't care about her survival beyond what she herself determines in her incompetency. This is gross malpractice of the law and places the public in harms' way of such disinterest of the trust placed in elected authority.
I'll find the final letter and post it here.
Thank you for your kind interest.
I sent this because it indicated Patricia's continued ability and quality of life and self determination.
This is Patricia's signature. She filled this out by herself when she sent permission to share records between Janet Bay and her physician/surgeons at Wake Forest/Baptist Medical Center. The 'incompetency' is noted in the address to Dr. Janet Bay. I had given her the information for this form over the phone after finding Dr. Bay 'on the net' after twenty years. It wasn't Bayside it was Riverside and Dr. Wilson's secretary needed a more specific addresss. His secretary accepted the information from me and forwarded years of records to Dr. Bay.
Dr. Janet Bay was Patricia's most successful neurosurgeon in the early years when Dr. Bay was at The Cleveland Clinic. Patricia was looking for an opinion that would differ from that regarding Gamma Knife Treatment. Instead, Janet Bay confirmed the need for it. Patricia retreated into fear once again and refused to follow through on the advise of her most trusted friend in Ohio.
Patricia once named me as her Power of Attorney. I couldn't find the original documents because in her absent mindedness...
... am homeless man form the shelter stole her lockbox from her apartment when she returned to reclaim her belongs. Why I ever deferred to my father is a regretable moment. It was out of love and understanding that he wanted to care for his daughter in his waning years. Boy, was I ever conned.
I sent this to the State Attorney General to have an understanding of the level of trust Patricia had in my judgement. It never mattered.
Pat likes Billy Joel. In some ways it was like our credo.
Scenes From An Italian Restaurant
A bottle of white, a bottle of red
Perhaps a bottle of rose instead
We'll get a table near the street
In our old familiar place
You and I,face to face
A bottle of red, a bottle of white
It all depends upon your appetite
I'll meet you any time you want
In our Italian Restaurant.
Things are okay with me these days
Got a good job, got a good office
Got a new wife, got a new life
And the family's fine
We lost touch long ago
You lost weight I did not know
You could ever look so good after
So much time.
I remember those days hanging out
At the village green
Engineer boots, leather jackets
And tight blue jeans
Drop a dime in the box play the
Song about New Orleans
Cold beer, hot lights
My sweet romantic teenage nights
Brenda and Eddie were the
Popular steadys
And the king and the queen
Of the prom
Riding around with the car top
Down and the radio on.
Nobody looked any finer
Or was more of a hit at the
Parkway Diner
We never knew we could want more
Than that out of life
Surely Brenda and Eddie would
Always know how to survive.
Brenda and Eddy were still going
Steady in the summer of '75
when they decided the marriage would
Be at the end of July
Everyone said they were crazy"
Brenda you know you're much too lazy
Eddie could never afford to live that
Kind of life."
But there we were wavin'
Brenda andEddie goodbye.
They got an apartment with deep
Pile carpet
And a couple of paintings from Sears
A big waterbed that they bought
With the bread
They had saved for a couple
Of years
They started to fight when the
Money got tight
And they just didn't count on
The tears.
They lived for a while in a
Very nice style
But it's always the same in the end
They got a divorce as a matter
Of course
And they parted the closest
Of friends
Then the king and the queen went
Back to the green
But you can never go back
There again.
Brenda and Eddie had had it
Already by the summer of '75
Fromhe high to the low to
The end of the show
For the rest of their lives
They couldn't go back to
The greasers
The best they could do was
Pick up the pieces
We always knew they would both
Find a way to get by
That's all I heard about
Brenda and Eddie
Can't tell you more than I
Told you already
And here we are wavin' Brenda
And Eddie goodbye.
A bottle of red, aa bottle of white
Whatever kind of mood you're in tonight
I'll meet you anytime you want
In our Italian Restaurant.
A bottle of white, a bottle of red
Perhaps a bottle of rose instead
We'll get a table near the street
In our old familiar place
You and I,face to face
A bottle of red, a bottle of white
It all depends upon your appetite
I'll meet you any time you want
In our Italian Restaurant.
Things are okay with me these days
Got a good job, got a good office
Got a new wife, got a new life
And the family's fine
We lost touch long ago
You lost weight I did not know
You could ever look so good after
So much time.
I remember those days hanging out
At the village green
Engineer boots, leather jackets
And tight blue jeans
Drop a dime in the box play the
Song about New Orleans
Cold beer, hot lights
My sweet romantic teenage nights
Brenda and Eddie were the
Popular steadys
And the king and the queen
Of the prom
Riding around with the car top
Down and the radio on.
Nobody looked any finer
Or was more of a hit at the
Parkway Diner
We never knew we could want more
Than that out of life
Surely Brenda and Eddie would
Always know how to survive.
Brenda and Eddy were still going
Steady in the summer of '75
when they decided the marriage would
Be at the end of July
Everyone said they were crazy"
Brenda you know you're much too lazy
Eddie could never afford to live that
Kind of life."
But there we were wavin'
Brenda andEddie goodbye.
They got an apartment with deep
Pile carpet
And a couple of paintings from Sears
A big waterbed that they bought
With the bread
They had saved for a couple
Of years
They started to fight when the
Money got tight
And they just didn't count on
The tears.
They lived for a while in a
Very nice style
But it's always the same in the end
They got a divorce as a matter
Of course
And they parted the closest
Of friends
Then the king and the queen went
Back to the green
But you can never go back
There again.
Brenda and Eddie had had it
Already by the summer of '75
Fromhe high to the low to
The end of the show
For the rest of their lives
They couldn't go back to
The greasers
The best they could do was
Pick up the pieces
We always knew they would both
Find a way to get by
That's all I heard about
Brenda and Eddie
Can't tell you more than I
Told you already
And here we are wavin' Brenda
And Eddie goodbye.
A bottle of red, aa bottle of white
Whatever kind of mood you're in tonight
I'll meet you anytime you want
In our Italian Restaurant.
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