California is currently in the throes of a powerful winter storm system, dubbed the "Pineapple Express" due to its moisture originating near Hawaii. This atmospheric river event has unleashed heavy rain, strong winds, and the threat of widespread flooding across the state, leaving millions bracing for what could be several days of dangerous weather.
Record Rainfall and Swollen Rivers:
Areas across the state have already seen significant rainfall, with totals exceeding 10 inches in some locations. The Sierra Nevada mountains are experiencing blizzard conditions with heavy snowfall, potentially exceeding 5 feet in some areas. This rapid snowmelt combined with the relentless rain is causing rivers to swell, raising concerns about major flooding, particularly in areas previously ravaged by wildfires.
Evacuations and Power Outages:
Authorities have issued mandatory evacuations in several fire-scarred regions, fearing mudslides and debris flows. Thousands of residents have been forced to leave their homes, seeking shelter in evacuation centers or with friends and family. Strong winds have also caused widespread power outages, leaving over 850,000 Californians without electricity.
Hurricane-Force Winds and Coastal Risks:
The National Weather Service (NWS) issued a rare "hurricane-force wind warning" for the Central Coast, with gusts exceeding 90 mph possible. These winds, coupled with high surf and coastal erosion, pose a significant threat to beach communities and infrastructure.
State of Emergency Declared:
Governor Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency for 41 counties, mobilizing state resources and the National Guard to assist with response and recovery efforts. Search and rescue teams are on standby, and sandbags are being distributed to mitigate potential flooding.
Lingering Concerns and Long-Term Impacts:
While the storm's peak intensity is expected to pass by Tuesday, significant rainfall and gusty winds are still anticipated throughout the week. The saturated ground raises concerns about further mudslides and flooding, making the recovery process potentially lengthy and arduous.
Beyond the immediate danger, the storm could have long-term impacts. The additional precipitation will significantly improve the state's drought conditions, replenishing reservoirs and providing much-needed water resources. However, the damage caused by flooding and landslides could be extensive, requiring significant time and resources to rebuild.


104-mph gusts recorded as Santa Ana winds wreak havoc across Southern California, forcing power shut-off
The National Weather Service in Oxnard was predicting a high-pressure system would block much of the area Thursday evening through Friday morning
A huge gust of wind toppled several large trees in the same area, with winds measuring up to 50 mph Thursday evening
It is hard to pinpoint the exact cause of the storm that knocked out power for more than 1 million people. But there was no shortage of theories and theories-makers.
‘This is the biggest storm we’ve had in a decade,’ said Brian Nelson, senior meteorologist at AccuWeather.
‘We’ve had a couple of big storms in the past that had winds of more than 90 miles an hour. This one was just as windy as the others. It was probably more gusting at that speed, blowing branches off trees.’
At least 25 people died in California, Puerto Rico, the Philippines and Vietnam in the recent past due to storms that took down power and killed more than a dozen people.
Power lines that broke or snapped in the storm are believed to be responsible for at least a dozen deaths and damage costing millions of dollars.
‘This is definitely one of the worst storms for us here and I’m glad it happened to us,’ David Reeder, spokesman for the Federal Emergency Management Agency said in a statement.
‘We’ve had our share of power interruptions in the past, but this is probably one of the worst on this scale.’
A huge gust of wind toppled several large trees in the same area, with winds measuring up to 50 mph Thursday evening. AccuWeather
California Gov. Gavin Newsom said there were no deaths or serious injuries reported across the state. The National Weather Service reported no fatalities outside of Oxnard, an unincorporated seaside city located in Ventura County.
The winds started around 1pm as the storm moved across the state, bringing rain and strong winds.
AccuWeather’s Brian Nelson said there are plenty of theories about what happened.
‘There are people who think it was a lot of wind or the storm had strong winds with high humidity,’ he said. ‘There are others who think it was really cold or really cold and a lot of rain.’
The National Weather Service predicted winds would reach up to 50 mph in a few spots as the storm barreled through Southern California.


The interesting thing here is not that snow reflects infrared light so well, but that clouds reflect exactly the same amount.
In visible light, when shooting from the air, clouds make shadows on the ground, but there’s enough light that makes it through the clouds and, presumably, bounces between the earth, off the clouds, and back down, that you can still see the ground in the shadow. This does not occur in infrared. I do not know if that is due to the narrow band I was shooting in or if there’s something else going on.
Still, quite interesting.


What are all these pledges to go “net zero” about?
Swiftly getting its investments in line with cutting global emissions in half by 2030 and reaching credible net zero emissions by 2050 is just the beginning of what Vanguard needs to be doing to deal with its climate problem.
Net zero means reducing greenhouse gas emissions enough that any leftover emissions can be removed from the atmosphere by planting trees or using carbon capture and storage technologies.
It was a positive development when Vanguard joined the Net Zero Asset Manager initiative in 2021 and disappointing when it quit the initiative the following year.
Vanguard should be taking ambitious, meaningful climate action that recognizes the need for an immediate end of fossil fuel expansion and real reductions in the burning of fossil fuels now. We cannot gamble with any net zero plans that dangerously allow for heating the planet up past 1.5 ℃ and rely on unproven methods for removing carbon from the atmosphere to correct our overshoot.
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Costa Rica has a climate as diverse as its nature, a small country between the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea that bring their magic to have a varied climate with several microclimates and two seasons. The dry season or summer and the rainy season or winter as it is popularly known.
An important factor is the closeness to Equator line, making Costa Rica a tropical country where we can enjoy the sun throughout the year. The days of sunlight range from 5:45 in the morning when the sun rises until 5:45 pm when the sun goes down, with some variation of minutes before or minutes later depending on the time of year.
The climate of Costa Rica can be defined as a tropical one with abundant rain that allows to enjoy a green country with large tracts of forests, rivers, a varied flora and fauna fed by the rains and accompanied by pleasant temperatures.
During the rainy season that goes from May to November we have sunny mornings with downpours in the afternoon. The dry season that goes from December to April offers very sunny days with beautiful sunsets mainly in the Central and North Pacific.
Costa Rica maintains very pleasant temperatures throughout the year, with an annual average between 20 to 30 degrees. The coldest months are November, December, and January. In these months the cold winds of North America affect the climate. Sometimes in the Central Valley the temperatures drop even to 13 degrees and in the mountains, it can go down a lot mainly at night and early morning. The hottest months are March and April.
By having microclimates, you can have rain in some areas of the country such as the Caribbean, with dry months in February, March, September and October, the remaining months may have variable conditions, rainy days some days or dry conditions with beautiful days sunny and golden beaches surrounded by green forests.
Costa Rica, like the rest of the world, has been affected by climate change, as well as the phenomenon of El Niño and La Niña that occur every so often in the world. These cause more drought or an increase in rainfall with tropical storms respectively.
Traveling to Costa Rica in the rainy season allows you to appreciate emerald green forests, rainy afternoons that fall like symphonies of different sounds. And after the rain, it is common to see the birds fluttering and lurking for some insect that has been discovered there.
In the dry season, the trip will surprise you with golden days by the sun and multicolored sunsets, a drier vegetation where its fauna prefers to rest in the interior of the forest to protect itself from the heat.
Come to Costa Rica and let us guide you to the charm of its climate and its natural beauty.
Costa Rica, place of encounter with whales. These large mammals visit the warm waters of the South Pacific to reproduce. They travel from their feeding areas in North and South America.
If you are waiting the next Costa Rica’s summer season, you may be missing out the more intense Pura Vida experience happening now, in the green and rainy season. Forest comes alive in rainy season.
One of the reasons that people travel to Costa Rica is of pristine landscapes. Hiking in Costa Rica means to enjoy the wildlife along the mountains, jungle or the forest discovering new adventures.


Economists have been studying climate change for at least two decades, starting probably with Nordhaus’s 1992 paper. The main aim of economists is not to predict temperature increases per se but to make the connection between climate change and economic activity clear.
Specifically, economists assume that there is a trade-off between economic activity and climate change. Building models based on this assumption can help us answer more practical questions about global warming, the most important of which is what policies to combat global warming are optimal.
The trade-off between climate change and economic activity is simply that climate change is detrimental to economic activity, but economic activity is the main cause of climate change. Thus we need to strike a balance between the two. I.e. too strict emissions controls can depress economic activity, but too little control can do the same indirectly via climate change.
The model I’d like to introduce here is called the DICE model (Dynamic Integrated model of Climate and the Economy; based on Nordhaus’s 2011 paper). The model is a simple neoclassical growth model with the addition of climate-emissions contraints that make the trade-off described above part of the model. Therefore, we are talking about an optimization problem where the policy-maker can choose the emissions control rate (i.e. to what extent greenhouse gases (GHGs) should be regulated).
Therefore agents maximize their discounted sum of utilities
subject to the usual economic constraints (for instance that output is divided into consumption and investment, or the law of motion of capital) and a set of climate-emissions constraints that connect economic activity and climate change.
Output is given by
where the lambda and omega functions represent the effect of climate change on output. They obviously scale output down. We’ll return to their exact functional form later.
Now let us look at the climate-emissions constraints. First, emissions are a function of output but they are scaled down by the emissions control rate (mu),
where sigma is the uncontrolled emissions rate, that is the amount we emit if there are no regulations. Mu is a control variable of policy-makers. It represents policies that decrease emissions.
After GHGs are emitted they accumulate in different layers of the “ecosystem” (not sure if this is the right word). The model divides the ecosystem into the atmosphere (AT), the upper oceans and the biosphere (UP), and the deep oceans (LO). We emit GHGs into the atmosphere, thus the amount of GHGs in the atmosphere are
where the phi’s are the transfer rates of GHGs from one layer to another. Phi_11 in particular is the atmospheric retention rate, or the amount of GHGs that the atmosphere retains. Similar equations (without E(t) of course) exist for the other two layers:
The next equation is one for radiative forcing. This is a climate science term. The point is accumulation of GHGs increases radiative forcing, which in the end is responsible for temperature changes. Based on empirical evidence from the climate science literature, radiative forcing takes the form
where F_EX is exogenous forcing, while the first term is forcing due to CO2. Forcing due to CO2 is considerably larger, so the exogeneity of other GHGs is not problematic.
High radiative forcing increases the temperature of the atmosphere, and then just like in case of GHG accumulation (M), these effects propagate down through the upper ocean/biosphere to the deep ocean. We have thus the following equations for temperature changes
So in both cases we have the temperature from the previous period appearing, and then the atmosphere is warmed by radiative forcing but it loses temperature to the lower layers too. The deep ocean on the other hand only receives temperature from the upper layers.
We’ve gone from economic activity-induced emissions to temperature changes. Now let us link the temperature back to economic activity. Recall that the production function is
then let us define
Omega can then be interpreted as the damage that temperature rise causes to economic activity. And lambda can be interpreted as the cost of fighting climate change (as it is increasing in the emissions control rate, mu). Note that both omega and lambda are inversely related to output.
Our primary control variable is then the emissions control rate, mu. Mu decreases emissions (see the equation for E(t)), but it also has a cost (see lambda above). The policy-maker therefore must find an optimal level of mu that maximizes welfare (i.e. the sum of discounted utilites).
After calibrating the model, all kinds of scenarios can be simulated to check the effects of various policies. The optimal policy, that is the solution to the optimization problem above, is therefore one that maximizes welfare, and not one that maximizes economic activity or minimizes climate change.
To get an idea of what results we can get. Assume we have the following policy scenarios:
- Baseline: no climate change policies.
- Optimal: the solution to the optimization problem above; maximizes economic welfare.
- Temperature-limited: solution to the optimization problem above with the constraint that temperatures cannot rise 2°C above the 20th century average.
- Copenhagen Accord: High-income countries implement deep emissions cuts, developing countries follow suit in 20-50 years. Implemented using national emissions caps and emissions trading within countries.
- Copenhagen Accord (only rich): same as (4) but developing countries start participatng only in 2100.
Some of the results of the model for these scenarios are:
In case of policy (4), the total costs (including carbon taxes and permit purchases) by region over time are as follows:
From the point of view of economic welfare, we have the following results:
This shows the present value of utility (i.e. economic welfare) under each scenario. Clearly, the policy closest to the optimal one would be the Copenhagen Accord with developing countries participating in 20-50 years (4). The worst policies are inaction (1) and blindly liming temperature change to less than 2 degrees (3). The former would let emissions soar, the latter would limit economic activity too much.
Just to show how sensitive these results are to calibration though, take a look at the ranking from Nordhaus’s original paper from 1992:
Here the policy alternatives are slightly different, but one can clearly see that (ignoring geoengineering because it’s a special case) the policy closest to the optimal one is the no controls policy, i.e. (1) from above. One of the main differences is that in the 1992 paper temperature in the no controls policy only rises by around 3.5 degrees C by 2105, while in the 2011 paper the increase reaches 6 degrees C.
Of course ideally, the calibration has gotten better since 1992 and the new figures are more accurate.
So what does this tell us? Well, if we are to trust the model, then in order to maximize our welfare, we should implement some policies resembling the Copenhagen Accord and we should get developing countries to participate in the next 2-5 decades while also setting up a worldwide emissions permit market. Dream on.


The Greenhouse Gas Protocol Standard
About The Greenhouse Gas Protocol Standard
Created in 2001, as an initiative partnership between the WRI (World Resources Institute) and the WBCSD (World Business Council for Sustainable Development), the Greenhouse Gas Protocol (GHG Protocol) is an accounting tool used by organisations and governments to understand, quantify and manage their greenhouse gas emissions.
The GHG Protocol is the world’s most widely used greenhouse gas accounting standards. The protocol includes all six greenhouse gases as specified under the Kyoto Protocol, i.e carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), perfluorocarbons (PFCs) and sulfur hexafluoride (SF6). It was amended in May 2013 to include nitrogen trifluoride (NF3), as required by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
The Greenhouse Gas Protocol categorises emissions into three scopes, namely:
- Scope 1: Direct emissions that result from activities within your organisation’s control.
- Scope 2: Indirect emissions from any electricity, heating you purchase and use. Though, these emissions are not directly in your control, using the energy you are indirectly responsible for the release of CO2.
- Scope 3: Any other indirect emissions from sources outside your direct control. These could include purchase and use of goods and services, waste disposal and water consumption employee commuting and business travel, outsourced transportation.
Why it matters
International, regional, national and local public and private agencies are driving the demand for an effective and progressive response from businesses to address the impact of climate change.
Adopting the GHG protocol allows organisations to demonstrate its commitment to address the impact of climate change by their firm actions to manage their GHG risks and identify reduction opportunities.
Organisations will benefit from cost reductions if their GHG inventory is capable of meeting different internal and external information requirements. In addition, a maintained GHG inventory helps to:
- Improves the consistency, transparency, and understandability of reported information.
- Identify risks associated with future GHG constraints
- Identify cost effective reduction opportunities
- Provides timely stakeholders’ reporting of GHG emissions and progress towards GHG targets
- Participates in mandatory reporting programs, at the national, regional, or local level
- Participates in GHG markets, cap and trade allowance trading programs
- Gain recognition of early voluntary actions on climate change responses.


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Colorado residents have been enjoying unusually warm weather so far this fall, but that means drought conditions throughout the state.
The latest U.S. Drought Monitor shows most of Colorado in some state of dry or drought conditions. That's compared to about 20% last year at this time.
Mark Wankowski is a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Pueblo. He says we're likely to have snow in the northern mountains this winter, but it will probably stay dry in the southern part of the state.


There are few things which illustrate so clearly the illusion of appearances as a study of the clouds. The commonest of sights, they still contain the greatest mysteries.
We all know how dew condenses on the ground. In the case of fog, when the temperature falls below dew-point, the surplus of water vapor which the cool air can no longer hold condenses about innumerable specks of dust floating in the air, to form a cloud or fog. These minute particles are all similarly electrified and so repel each other, which is one reason why a fog never rains; although the moisture will often collect in abundance on the leaves and trees and blades of grass. Indeed, under some trees condensations and dripping is often so rapid it may appear at times to be raining.
Science calls these land fogs "radiation fogs," and explains that they occur when the night is clear, with sufficient water vapor in the air, a high dew-point, and a gentle breeze. As the lower air is chilled below the dew-point, it condenses into a mass of visible cloud, which seems to move and spread as more and more air is cooled.
Once the process of fog formation has begun, it continues through the hours of darkness, and as more and more air is cooled, fog lakes and fog seas are formed, often hundreds of feet in depth.
With the coming of morning, the sun's rays warm the ground, and the lower air, which can again reabsorb the surplus water vapor, now clears, thus giving the appearance of the fog lifting. Then, as the warm air begins to rise, more and more space is cleared of fog, until finally the remainder is broken into fragments and carried upwards on the rising air currents.
If one climbs a hill through hundreds of feet of cloud to the sun-drenched summit, and notes the temperature as he climbs, he will find a continual cooling of the air as he rises, until at the top of the sea of fog the air becomes increasingly warmer as he continues to ascend. This elevation at which the air ceases to become cooler, and instead becomes warmer, is known as a temperature inversion, and determines the upper limit to which the fog rises.
Those who have studied the upper atmosphere tell us that the troposphere, or region of storms and clouds in which we live, extends to about seven miles above the surface of the earth. The air steadily decreases in temperature throughout this belt, as one ascends, to some eighty degrees below zero Fahrenheit. Above the troposphere lies the stratosphere, in which clouds do not appear and in which the temperature not only ceases to become colder but, as we ascend, actually becomes warmer, reaching at a certain high level 750 degrees.
The belt or line of division between the troposphere and the stratosphere is called the tropopause, and corresponds on the large scale to the temperature inversion on top of the fog sea in the small. We may, if we wish, think of our fog-swept hillside as a small division repeating many of the characteristics of the troposphere, and as we look at far distant clouds high in the sky we may know that they, too, are located on similar invisible temperature inversions, and understand why so many are at the same height. Often we may see several levels of clouds in the sky at the same time.
One hot dry summer day I climbed a 5,000-foot peak in the Oregon Coast Range, camping on the summit over night. The next morning a gentle rain was falling, and I found the peak covered with a cloud. Glimpses of the sunlit valley were seen, while far away other peaks, each with its own moisture-giving cloud-cap, appeared, marking the Cascade Range for a distance of 150 miles.
The wind was blowing hard, and the cloud was not composed of the same particles for any two successive minutes. Moreover, the air over the mountains as well as that over the plain must have contained the same amount of moisture. At times, the cloud even moved for a short distance against the wind.
Out of the visible into the invisible for a brief instant; then, 75 miles away, into the visible again it moved for another brief instant of time. Then once again into the All.
Look beneath each cloud-cap and you will find pointed alpine firs, mountain- and moisture-loving pines, ferns, and mosses. "Arboreal islands" some have called the mountaintops, these areas of northern life, within a warmer, dryer climate -- life which could not exist without these messengers from the sea, these "angels of the sea," as John Ruskin called the clouds.
Is it any wonder that the ancients personified the winds and clouds and looked upon them as agents of divine beings? Nay, as divine beings themselves. Vayu, the Vedic god of the air -- the Indra of a later day -- with his "children" the Maruts, who bring rain and hail, the tornado and the summer breeze, the life-giving fog or mist -- angels indeed these are, making "the solitary place glad" and the desert to "blossom like a rose."
Let those who wish speak of temperature, rising air-currents, etc. But these do not explain all, for nature is a wonderland of mystery in which the simplest event is often the least understood.
All trees, flowers, clouds, and the droplets of rain that compose them, have their analogies in the invisible world, and if we will observe, reflect, and compare, we shall know the Reality behind the Appearance that we call nature.
(From Sunrise magazine, April/May 2003; copyright © 2003 Theosophical University Press)


Environmentalists have come to the Crimea decision to appeal to international organizations for help in overcoming the consequences of ecological catastrophe. Also, the holiday season can not start this year and in the region due to large-scale environmental disasters (oil spills detected in early March), whose consequences are still not completely eliminated. The European Union discussed the problem of climate change, and Australia joined the Kyoto Protocol, scientists from different countries, including usa, Canada and Germany, came to the conclusion that to stop the dangerous process of global climate change requires a much more drastic measures than anticipated earlier. At the summit in Brussels, leaders of 27 European Union states agreed on how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. According to the European politicians of the eu should make the fight against climate change special important because this phenomenon has caused huge problems in many countries around the world. Europe would like to become a leader in the global fight against climate change. It is expected that a new global climate agreement, which will replace the Kyoto Protocol will be discussed in 2009.
By 2020, 27 European states are planning to make to reduce the emission of gases causing the greenhouse effect by 20% compared to c 1990 godom.A time, another significant event last week was the signing by Australia of the Kyoto Protocol. The Kyoto Protocol entered into force in Australia March 11, 2008. Connecticut Senator by clicking through. Henceforth, the emission of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere will reduced and closely monitored in Australia.


The US Envornmental Protection Agency is proposing pollution controls at six facilities in Arizona to improve visibility at national parks and wilderness areas.
The EPA is proposing a plan to limit emissions such as nitrogen oxides and sulfur dioxide at facilities including Freeport McMoRan’s Miami smelter and ASARCO’s Hayden smelter.
The EPA estimates this would reduce sulfur dioxide by almost 30,000 tons a year and nitrogen oxides by 3,100 tons a year.
The EPA will hold public hearings on February 25 in Phoenix and on February 26 in Tucson. The agency will accept comments for 45 days after publication in the Federal Register.


The quick (but resounding) answer is YES!
Indoor air pollution is among the top 5 environmental health risks. Pollutants include particulate matter, such as; dust, smoke, pollen, animal dander, tobacco smoke and particles associated with tiny organisms such as dust mites, molds, bacteria, and viruses.
That’s a fairly long list isn’t it?
Well indoor air pollution also includes those of a gaseous nature from combustion processes. Sources include everything from gas cooking stoves, exhaust from cars to people smoking inside the home. Household products and even furnishings, also contribute to to the quality of air inside your home, from items like adhesives, cleaning products, painting materials and pesticides.
Bryant indoor Air Purifiers are proven to make a positive impact on the quality of air inside your home, making for a safer environment for you and your loved ones.
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The strong winds will begin on Wednesday morning in the southwest region and expand eastward throughout the day and continue into Thursday.
Widespread winds of 60 gusting to 80 km/h are likely, with localized severe gusts of 100 km/h possible.
However, Environment Canada said the exact timing and location of the strongest gusts are still unclear as the system continues to develop, but said is most likely to occur Wednesday afternoon or evening.
The clipper will also bring a mix of wintery precipitation and blowing snow.
Environment Canada said there will be a mix of scattered showers, the potential for freezing rain and snow.
Accumulations are expected to be low, but some regions could receive five to 10 centimetres.
The winds and snow will taper off late Thursday as the system moves out of the Prairies.
Download the SkyTracker weather app for the latest conditions and warnings.
Yet another winter storm batters Vancouver Island and coastal B.C.
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| < May >
|Normal Max/ High Temperature
|Min/ Low Temperature
|Average Daylight per day
|Sun altitude at solar noon on the 21st day.
- The average temperature in Caparao in May is very mild at 17.5 °C (63.5 °F).
- Afternoons can be fairly hot with average high temperatures reaching 25 °C (77 °F).
- Overnight temperatures are generally quite mild with an average low of 10.4 °C (50.7 °F).
- The average daily temperature range/ variation in May is 14.6 °C (26.3 °F).
- The weather in May is a little parched. A mere 49.7mm (2in) of liquid is deposited.
- The shortest day is 10:58 long and the longest day is 11:22 long with an average length of 11:09.
Check the distance to and compare the Caparao May averages with somewhere beginning with:
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Weather Trend Graph for May in Caparao, Brazil
Navigate to May Weather in Locations Surrounding Caparao:
- Gov. Valadares, Brazil - 185.5 kms (115.2 miles) N
- C. Mato Dentro, Brazil - 232.5 kms (144.5 miles) NW
- Caratinga, Brazil - 85 kms (52.8 miles) NNW
- Belo Horizonte, Brazil - 225.2 kms (139.9 miles) WNW
- Ibirite, Brazil - 234.4 kms (145.7 miles) WNW
- Vicosa, Brazil - 105.6 kms (65.6 miles) WSW
- Itaperuna, Brazil - 76 kms (47.2 miles) S
- Barbacena, Brazil - 213.6 kms (132.7 miles) WSW
- Cataguases, Brazil - 129.8 kms (80.6 miles) SW
- Cel. Pacheco, Brazil - 185 kms (115 miles) SW
- Juiz De Fora, Brazil - 207.3 kms (128.8 miles) SW
- Cordeiro, Brazil - 176.4 kms (109.6 miles) SSW
- Nova Friburgo, Brazil - 208.2 kms (129.4 miles) SSW


The European Commission issued the UK its final warning over its continued breaches of air pollution limits yesterday.
All major UK cities are constantly breaking these limits, with London, Birmingham, Glasgow and Leeds being singled out as the worst offenders.
The Commission has given the UK two months to take immediate action or it will send the case to the European Court of Justice.
The UK has been in breach of EU nitrogen dioxide (NO2) limits since 2010 with London exceeding air pollution limits for the entire year in January.
The NO2 type of pollution is typically generated from factories and vehicles, with diesel engines being the worst polluters, particular in urban areas.
Many have called for the Mayor of London to take action and some have suggested the government introduce the diesel scrappage scheme, where they offer up to £3500 to motorists to switch to a unleaded or electric vehicles.
In response the Mayor has promised to double the funding available to tackle air pollution in London over the next five years and is likely to introduce a £5 charge for all pre-2005 diesel cars entering the city in a bid to clean up the air.
Air pollution has been linked with close to 40,000 deaths across the UK each year and in December the Mayor was forced to issue an air quality alert across London, warning those with existing health problems to take extra care.
If you are exposed to emissions over the long-term then diseases like asthma and heart and lung diseases can be more common.
It should be noted that Germany, France, Italy and Spain have also been served with their own final warnings.
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Hurricane Ian landed in Florida as a dangerous Category 4 hurricane on Thursday. Governor Ron DeSantis and federal authorities have urged residents in the storm’s paths to seek safety by evacuating the area. Some brave souls, however, have decided to weather the storm. Some of them are even getting paid to stand outside and cover the storm’s chaos for the rest of us sitting in our living rooms.
That includes Jim Cantore, a legendary reporter for the Weather Channel who has made a career out of reporting from the middle of dangerous storms such as Hurricane Ian. However, the latest hurricane to strike Florida’s coast was almost Cantore’s last.
— Anthony Dominic (@alloveranthony) September 28, 2022
“Jim Cantore almost got struck by lightning,” said Anthony Dominic, adding a Hurricane Ian hashtag.
Attempting to throw the broadcast to coverage of the Hurricane’s storm wall in Punta Gana, Florida, Cantor visibly reacted when a thunderous lightning strike hit the immediate area where he was standing.
The strike was so close to Cantore’s proximity that the seasoned professional could only shake his head while ending the shot. Thankfully, Cantore appears to avoid any severe injury in the video.
Hurricane Ian is expected to batter Florida’s coast into the weekend. Several athletic events have already been moved from the area.


WINTER STORM WATCH
WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 5 AM TO 7 PM EST SUNDAY... ...WINTER STORM WATCH IN EFFECT FROM SUNDAY EVENING THROUGH MONDAY EVENING... * WHAT...For the Winter Weather Advisory, mixed precipitation expected. Total snow and sleet accumulations of up to two inches and ice accumulations of up to one tenth of an inch. For the Winter Storm Watch, heavy lake effect snow possible, with snowfall accumulations of greater than 7 inches possible. * WHERE...Northern Herkimer County.
Local news last night said we would see heavy wet snow from this. Cross your fingers we do, because that would build the base up fast.


Eureka California Weather
The clear part of the year in Eureka starts on June 2 and lasts 4-5 months and ends on October 17, but rarely starts until March 18. The growing season in Eureska lasts 3-4 months (from November 15th to November 16th) and it is often the best time to ski in and around Eureka until November 26th, when fresh powder is deep. It lasts 2-3 months from June to October, rarely beginning on March 19 and ending on December 1, except for a few weeks in mid-November and December, usually on the East Coast.
The annual snow is deep in December, especially in late November, and weather stations report that there is a good chance of rain in mid-December and rain until mid-December. The rainy season lasts 6.1 months, with the highest probability of rain in one day.
If you are looking for a very warm time to visit Eureka, the hottest months are August, July and then September, but these are the driest months. The warmest time of the year is usually late August and early September, where the peak is regularly 67. Although temperatures typically vary considerably from night to day, dew points tend to change more slowly, so temperatures rarely drop below 9.7 degrees at night. While temperatures can drop at night, sweltering days are usually followed by sweltering nights.
Eureka gets temperatures from the cold ocean currents and comes with quite a lot of wind, which often makes the temperatures appear colder than they are.
The windiest day of the year was June 22, and the wind came from the north, that is, from the north. This year's windy day will be June 23, with wind gusts of 30 to 40 miles per hour and an average wind speed of 20 miles per hour.
Due to the increasing degree days alone, the first spring blooms will appear in Eureka at the end of April or the beginning of May, the first blooms in spring from 14 March. Based on these values, a visit to Eureska in the summer months (August, September and October) in early September and early October is good. Daylight saving time (Daylight saving time) is observed from spring (March 13) and lasts 7-8 months and ends in autumn (November 7).
Based on these values, a visit to Eureka in the summer months (August, September and October) is best in early September or early October. According to tourism statistics, the best time to visit Eureska is in the winter months of June, July, August and September, from the beginning of July to the beginning of August. June and August are the busiest seasons for tourism in Euredka, so overnight stays and other accommodations can cost more than usual. According to this figure, the worst time to visit Euringka is from June to August at the end of August to mid-September and the worst time of the year for visiting in October and early November is the end of September to the end of October. Based on these figures, the worst time to visit EUREKA is from May to July from mid-July to June or from late November to December.
Daytime highs range between 67 and 2ºF, but it will feel cool due to the humidity and wind. Daily highs range from 68 to 1ºF, with a maximum temperature of 67.2ºC and a low of -1.5ºB.
I like mild temperatures, but Eureka has a serious shortage of warm, hot temperatures, and I think this will lower my rating from "B" to "C." If you like warmer, hotter temperatures, then you probably don't like the mild temperatures as much as I do, and it's probably not the best choice for you. I like mild temperatures - Eureska Has an extreme lack of warm and hot temperatures, with a maximum temperature of 67.2 oC and a low value of -1.5 oB. If you like it warm or hot, then it is probably not the ideal place to live in, especially in winter.
This is caused by a phenomenon called buoyancy, where surface water is transported away from the coast and cool underground water reaches the surface. I bet the temperatures in the 50s and 60s feel colder in Eureka than anywhere else, because there's a lot of cold water on the seabed instead of warm, hot water.
While waves with trainers will be possible on Sunday, the swell will mitigate the moderate threat of dangerous surf. The gusty northerly winds will continue through Monday, with light northerly winds expected north of the cape. On Tuesday and Wednesday there will be plenty of sunshine, on Thursday a few showers and thunderstorms are possible.
I have asked a lot at windmapper.com and Eureka and Arcata seem to be in a kind of wind-free area. Summer is cool, dry and mostly clear in Eureska, and winter warm and dry, with a few showers and thunderstorms in the evening, but mostly sunny and clear. Winter is cold, wet and wetter than in recent years, with plenty of rain and snow. Summers are cool and dry, mostly clearer in New York, and winters are cold and colder than in recent years in California.


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Factors affecting the Be-7 surface concentration and its extremely high occurrences over the Scandinavian Peninsula during autumn and winter
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Relationships between the beryllium-7 activity concentrations in surface air and meteorological parameters (temperature, atmospheric pressure, and precipitation), teleconnection indices (Arctic Oscillation, North Atlantic Oscillation, and Scandinavian pattern) and number of sunspots are investigated using two multivariate statistical techniques: hierarchical cluster and factor analysis. The beryllium-7 surface measurements over 1995-2011, at four sampling sites located in the Scandinavian Peninsula, are obtained from the Radioactivity Environmental Monitoring Database. In all sites, the statistical analyses show that the beryllium-7 concentrations are strongly linked to temperature. Although the beryllium-7 surface concentration exhibits the well-characterised spring/summer maximum, our study shows that extremely high beryllium-7 concentrations, defined as the values exceeding the 90th percentile in the data records for each site, also occur over the October-March period. Two types of ...autumn/winter extremes are distinguished: type-1 when the number of extremes in a given month is less than three, and type-2 when at least three extremes occur in a month. Factor analysis performed for these autumn/winter events shows a weaker effect of temperature and a stronger impact of the transport and production signal on the beryllium-7 concentrations. Further, the majority of the type-2 extremes are associated with a very high monthly Scandinavian teleconnection index. The type-2 extremes that occurred in January, February and March are also linked to sudden stratospheric warmings of the Arctic vortex. Our results indicate that the Scandinavian teleconnection index might be a good indicator of the meteorological conditions facilitating extremely high beryllium-7 surface concentrations over Scandinavia during autumn and winter.
Keywords:Beryllium-7 / Surface air / Meteorological parameters / Teleconnection indices / Multivariate analysis / Sudden stratospheric warming
Source:Chemosphere, 2018, 199, 278-285
- Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, Oxford


How the meaning of words affects the climate debate
Scrolling through his smartphone outside the University of Miami’s School of Engineering, Kevin Boutsen made a confession.
“I don’t know what global warming means and what it entails,” the mechanical engineering student said. “So I’d rather say climate change if I’m talking about that topic.”
According to a study done at Yale University in 2010, 63 percent of Americans know what global warming is but many don’t understand why it occurs.
And 90 percent of Americans said they were not well-informed about the term “climate change.”
“Global Warming is the word I use the most because that’s the word most people around me use,” said Christopher Reddick, a junior at UM majoring in computer science. “I know there is a difference, but I don’t know exactly what is the difference between the two.”
Climate change results from an increase of gases in the atmosphere, which can cause extreme weather events. Global warming, a feature of climate change, is the recent increase in temperature caused by those gases.
People prefer one of the two terms for different reasons, said Kevin E. Trenberth, a scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research.
“Clearly the deniers of climate change prefer a more neutral term,” Trenberth said. “Scientists in general probably prefer the term climate change as they are involved in all aspects of the variability and changes going on.”
Trenberth said global warming can also be effective for public use because of the urgency associated with it.
One reason global warming and climate change cause confusion is that global warming is seen as unnatural and man-made, while climate change is seen as a regular occurrence because weather is always changing.
However, Trenberth said that scientific studies have proven that not only is global warming man-made, but climate change is, too.
In fact, most Americans are four times more likely to hear global warming in everyday conversation, while climate change is used more often in the scientific community, according to a Yale Project on Climate Change Communication’s article, “What’s in a Name? Global Warming vs. Climate Change.”
Confusion of environmental terms also plays a role in politics. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairman Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., even misrepresented the terms.
In a speech before the Senate in February 2015, he produced a snowball as evidence to prove that temperatures were not increasing. Inhofe, author of “The Greatest Hoax: How the Global Warming Conspiracy Threatens Your Future,” said that Washington’s unusual cold spell disproved global warming, despite scientists’ proof that this type of weather was actually an effect of climate change.
“It would be hard to find an influential political figure in other countries, even a minor one, who could produce anything like the statements of James Inhofe,” said MIT linguist Noam Chomsky.
While confusion exists about environmental terms, Chomsky warned of bigger problems, namely that the term climate change is undermining the severity of global warming.
“The real issues are not terminological: rather, substantive, and of crucial importance,” Chomsky said.
“Energy corporations and right-wing organizations are pouring huge resources into denying the facts, and it is having some effect in the United States, rarely elsewhere.”


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Weather fascinates me.
For someone who has been a watcher of it most of my life, I am continually reminded how little I know.
When first married, I lived in Chicago and although I knew the lake was part of the reason the cold wind blew frigid cold around downtown Chicago, I never heard tell of lake effect snow until I moved south. It was like the weather word for the middle 2000’s.
And then a stupid, massive high pressure system sat over central Texas the summer of 2011, like it’s doing over California now, causing history making drought conditions for hot, depressing months that dried up wells, tanks, and crops like they were in a convection oven with a broken timer. Like it’s doing now in California.
That was La Niña strutting her stuff in 2011.
La Niña, El Niño, are climactic phenomenon driven by temperatures in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
It’s way more complicated than that.
It has to do with the way the water temperature affects the atmosphere.
I poured over the NOAA website, first trying to understand the whole La Nina/ El Nino Southern Isolation Climate pattern thingy and upon realizing I couldn’t figure out why the ocean temperature changed up and down, gave up and just started obsessing over NOAA’s forecasts for when it was all going to end. La Niña that is. The Southern Isolation Climate pattern never ends. It’s part of the earth’s climate engine.
And then a week ago, I heard “polar vortex”.
I’ve never heard of a polar vortex.
I called my brother.
“Neil, what’s a polar vortex?”
“I never heard of it before,” replied the brother who watches weather from his cockpit and lives, or flies, by it’s whim and physics.
It turns out a polar vortex is a persistent, huge cyclone that can sit over either one of our geographical poles.
A PERSISTENT HUGE CYCLONE THAT SITS OVER OUR POLES.
You’d think we’d have heard of this before. They’ve known about them since the 1850’s for heaven’s sake. They can last for a month at a time.
I goggled them. I read the Wikipedia page.
And it’s all about temperature, again.
This time, those cold core low pressure vortices grow stronger in the winter and weaker in the summer because of the differences in temperature between the equator and the poles.
And its not like these vortices only affect the poles. As obvious last week, they affect the jet stream, which in turn can send cold, frigid arctic air all the way down the Texas Gulf Coast.
Enough to freeze the leaves off of my cold hardy avocados.
Even so, I am enamored of my planet’s climate.
I love weather.
I don’t understand it.
With the exception that we live in on an amazing planet where the atmosphere, in very complicated layers, oscillates and moves around our globe, affected by continents, water, snow, and the angle of the sun as well the activity of our volcanoes.
Amongst the backdrop of seasonal change, the blanket of air that cocoons us responds in specific places, for bad and good, in excessive heat or cold and too much rain or none.
On scales measured in fractions of change in temperature of our oceans to ever accumulating carbon molecules, our dynamic planet’s atmosphere attends to rule we barely understand.
We are unlike any other planet in our solar system. Oh sure, a few of them have polar vortices. (That would be Venus who has a double one and then Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and Saturn’s moon, Titan).
One, the only one we know of, Saturn, has a hot polar vortex.
It’s a hot mess.
That is a gratuitous reference to the popular vernacular, because I like the descriptive, sexiness of the term.
And I think it’s kind of a cool reference to the climate of Saturn.
As opposed to our earth. Which in relative terms, we are cool and blue, and altogether flat out amazing.


The basics of climate change temperatures can be reconstructed using climate-sensitive indicators (‘proxies’) in materials such as tree rings, ice cores, and marine sediments rigorous analysis of all data and lines of evidence shows that most of the observed global warming over the past 50 years or so cannot be explained by natural. The full state of the climate in 2011 report is available as a pdf from the national climatic data center rating: select rating give global climate indicators 1/5 give global climate indicators 2/5 give global climate indicators 3/5 give global climate indicators 4/5 give global climate indicators 5/5. Climate change indicators: arctic sea ice this indicator tracks the extent, age, and melt season of sea ice in the arctic ocean the extent of area covered by arctic sea ice is an important indicator of changes in global climate because warmer air and water temperatures are reducing the amount of sea ice present and this may initiate. 10 signs climate change is already happening the following list provides a sampling of some of the key pieces of evidence that climate change is not just a prediction, it is already underway.
Vital signs of the planet: global climate change and global warming current news and data streams about global warming and climate change from nasa graphs and an animated time series showing atmospheric carbon dioxide levels from the last three glacial cycles to present day. Important indicator of global climate change at regional to local scales this summary report provides information on indicators of climate change in idaho, with a focus on describing trends in physical and biological systems • warming has been particularly noted during the spring and summer. Introduction many lines of scientific evidence show the earth's climate is changing this page presents the latest information from several independent measures of observed climate change that illustrate an overwhelmingly compelling story of a planet that is undergoing global warming.
Melting glaciers, more humid air and eight other key indicators show that global warming is undeniable, scientists said on wednesday, citing a new comprehensive review of the last decade of. About the data the 2009 state of the climate report served as a basis for the poster and this website this report draws on data for 10 key climate indicators that all point to the same finding: the scientific evidence that our world is warming is unmistakable. Explore the signs of global warming on this map or google earth the evidence of climate change includes heat waves, sea-level rise, flooding, melting glaciers, earlier spring arrival, coral reef bleaching, and the spread of disease. 10 key climate indicators all point to the same finding: global warming is unmistakable posted on 29 july 2010 by john cook a common theme expressed at skeptical science is that to understand climate, you need to look at the full body of evidence.
In recent years climate change has became the greatest threat on human life scientists believe that earth’s temperature is gradually increasing with an average rate of 085 ℃ and it will continue to increases to reach 087℃ by 2020 (ipcc, 2014. Scientific opinion on climate change is a judgment of scientists regarding the degree to which global warming is occurring, its likely causes, and its probable consequences a related—but not identical—term, scientific consensus on climate change, is the prevailing view on climate change within the scientific community the consensus is that. Figure ts1 - multiple complementary indicators of a changing global climate each line represents an independently derived estimate of change in the climate element the times series presented are assessed in chapters 2, 3 and 4. And life as a result of climate change concerted global well as seek to balance trade-offs, among the multiple objectives of sustainable development, disaster risk reduction uncertainties about climate change warming of the climate system is now unequivocal it is now clear that.
Nearly all environmental scientists agree that earth's atmosphere and climate are changing most environmental scientists have concluded that human activity, particularly the emission of greenhouse gases, is the primary reason for this change. The us global change research program has published a series of scientific reports documenting the causes and impacts of global climate change noaa , nasa , the national science foundation , the national research council , and the environmental protection agency have all published reports and fact sheets stating that earth is warming mainly. We can reduce global warming emissions and ensure communities have the resources they need to withstand the effects of climate change—but not without you your generous support helps develop science-based solutions for a healthy, safe, and sustainable future. The indicators featured on this site, though not representative of all potential indicators of climate change, communicate some key aspects, such as temperatures over land and at sea, greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere, the extent of arctic sea ice, and related effects in sectors like public health and agriculture.
Confidence in our understanding grows if multiple in the case of climate change, scientists have understood for more than a century that emissions from the burning of fossil fuels could lead to increases in the earth’s average surface indicators of global warming have also been observed (see pp15-17) for example, heat waves. Global warming and climate change refer to an increase in average global temperatures natural events and human activities are believed to be contributing to an increase in average global temperatures.
Though the two are related, global warming is the cause of climate change global warming is precisely what the name implies, it is the steady increase in the earth’s temperature studies show that since the year 1880, the average temperature of the earth has risen over 085˚ celsius. Ipcc climate report 2018 limiting global warming to 15ºc would require rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society, the intergovernmental panel on climate change. Climate change is often treated as a political issue, but it shouldn't be the facts are these: the climate of our planet is changing at a pace unlike anything seen in the natural fluctuations. Global warming and climate change there is clear evidence of changes in the composition of the greenhouse gases in the lower atmosphere, with co 2 in particular steadily increasing to its present level of about 400 ppm.


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California statewide January-April precipitation by year since 1895. At the end of April, Denver was down about half of an inch from the average precipitation to date. Temperature Data: Current Temperature: 54.4 F: Rate of Change: . 70 F. Manhattan, NY warning63 F Sunny. 4 90-degree days so far. Hazardous Weather. Data Availability Data for the entire country are usually available by . 55.14 inches of precipitation doused Seattle in 1950the wettest year on record for the city. . SNOTEL Water Year to Date (WYTD) Precipitation % of Normal Prepared by: USDA/NRCS National Water and Climate Center . 3.19. YEAR; 2022: 2021: 2020: 2019: 2018: 2017: 2016: 2015: 2014: . Year Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Total % of 30yr Avg; 30yr Avg (1981-2010) View in Rain Harvest . Total Rainfall 2022 10.9in; Daily Average 2022 0.1in; Wettest Day 25 April, 2022 1.5in; Wet Days 2022 39/183 (21%) Total Rainfall June 0.3in; Daily Average June 0.01in; Explore past weather data with the Old Farmer's Almanac Weather History tool. The following detail shows the rainfall that has fallen by the selected time span. Houston's warmest June ever is going to end much cooler than it started. The current year's data has a green background. Long-Range Weather Forecast for Houston, TX. 2022 Rainfall. 25. Current Area Observations. View over 750 USGS real-time stream, lake, reservoir, precipitation, and groundwater stations in context with current weather and hazard conditions on both desktop and mobile devices. Home Weather History for Houston, TX Historical Weather Data for a Location and Date Data is available up to February 14, 2022. Included are summary overview charts followed by 148 year-to-yea Atlanta Rainfall This Month and Year-to-Date. 2.55. In the chart below, each rectangle is a month and each column is a year. * Rain Season runs July 1 - June 30 annually. It may be helpful to understand the yearly precipitation by imagining 8 straight days of . Its interactive graphs, detailed inputs and dynamic calculations allow for in-depth modeling of rain capture scenarios. May 29, 2022 By northwell mather psychiatry used baseball gloves craigslist. Stalled cold front over will continue to produce scattered to numerous showers and t-storms Friday. Home; Location; FAQ; Contacts; Sheffield Wednesday Chairman List, Little Rural Riding Hood Wiki, Don't Rush Instrumental, Diamond Lake Michigan Fishing, Springtree Apartments Middleton, Wi, . whisker seeker rods for sale Likes. Chance of rainfall chart with likely precipitation and statistics in live rain gauge WillyWeather 68,052 . High: 96.8f @2:55 PM Low: 77f @6:05 AM Approx. Memphis rides a wave of momentum into post-season play after a season of highs and lows. The third chart lists Seattle's top ten wettest days, with the record-setting rains of Oct. 20, 2003 ranking number one. 9.40". Go to the Climate Data Online Search page (opens in a new tab) Under Select Weather Observation Type/Dataset, select Daily Summaries. Partly sunny. 7-hour rain and snow forecast for Nashville, TN with 24-hour rain accumulation, radar and satellite maps of precipitation by Weather Underground. Past Weather in Houston, Texas, USA Yesterday and Last 2 Weeks. Note: Data . 50.99. The American GFS model simulates rainfall in Houston through Sunday. Adams 97810. Reference Jay Lawrimore. These records go back to 1921. Temperature Precipitation: March 2022 Temperature Precipitation: April 2022 Temperature Precipitation: May 2022 Temperature Precipitation: June 2022 Temperature . May 2021 is a long way from making any records regarding rainfall, at least in Houston. St James's, England, United Kingdom 58 F Rain Shower. The default selection matches the Rainfall totals in the graph above. Moderate to heavy rainfall is possible through Friday for Houston. It features all historical weather data series we have available, including the Houston temperature history for 2022. 2020 - Sep 30, 2021: 5.71 inches (WY21) Normal 7.20 Last Year (WY20) 6.80 . March. Yearly Average. D 33. Note: Refresh your browser if the data values fail to load within a few seconds. Toggle Main Menu. State. During that time the heaviest downpour measured for a single day was 12.07 inches (306.6 millimetres) on August 26, 2017. Explore past weather data with the Old Farmer's Almanac Weather History tool. Houston, TX past weather data including previous temperature, barometric pressure, humidity, dew point, rain total, and wind conditions. Trey Lasley Mar 11, 12:11 PM. Posted at 22:07h in moral philosophy professor salary by garden house mad architects. The products are provided "as is" and are intended for research purposes only ().Drought status is often represented by maps of how much precipitation has fallen in the water year to date (starting October 1), or how that amount differs from normal amounts of precipitation to date.
Before then, the weather station was in downtown Houston. Year To Date Precipitation: Last year (2019) was the wettest year in history for Minnesota with a statewide average precipitation of 35.66 inches, about 28 percent higher than the long-term annual mean for the state of 27.92 inches. Friends of 16-year-old who drowned in Lake Houston pay respects Missing 26-year-old woman was last seen in Bay City, authorities say Carjacker dumps baby on the road in New Orleans, police say Select a one of the following Oregon locations to view its historical rainfall data. Data Subject to Revision Current WYTD Precipitation % of 1991-2020 Median #* > 160% #* 140-160% #* 120-139% #* 100-119% # * 80-99% # * 60-79% # * 40-59% # * 1-39% E 0%! Precipitation / Rain Total: in. Just two years later, however, only a meager 23.78 inches fellmaking 1952 the driest year in Seattle's history. . Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec. GID RSS Feed. Boston, MA 73 F Sunny. Chance of rainfall chart with likely precipitation and statistics in live rain gauge WillyWeather 68,055 . 2022 Monthly Precipitation Maps. 2022 Heat Tracker. 2021-2022 Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services Florida Capitol Tallahassee, Florida 32399-0800 Questions? Ashwood 97711.
Temperatures heat up for the rest of this 4th of July weekend. Passing clouds. Weather reports from February 2022 in Houston, Texas, USA with highs and lows Astoria 97103. 15.86. Precipitation will be below normal in the north and above normal . Rainfall as reported to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration by monitoring stations throughout Central Texas, including from the Lower Colorado River Authority's Hydromet system. Location Bookmark this page If you would like to bookmark or share your current view, you must first click the "Permalink" button. 7-hour rain and snow forecast for Nashville, TN with 24-hour rain accumulation, radar and satellite maps of precipitation by Weather Underground. Aumsville 97325. Note: Refresh your browser if the data values fail to load within a few seconds. the houston/hobby airport climate normals for today normal record year maximum temperature (f) 92 100 1933 minimum temperature (f) 76 69 1962 sunrise and sunset july 4 2022sunrise 6:26 am cdt sunset 8:25 pm cdt july 5 2022sunrise 6:26 am cdt sunset 8:25 pm cdt - indicates negative numbers. May thru Dec and Year columns for 2021 are based on the 1991-2020 normals) Chance of rainfall chart with likely precipitation and statistics in live rain gauge WillyWeather 68,029 . Unavailable* Jul 01, 2022 * Data unavailable at time of . 9.96". Total Rainfall 2022 8.8in; Daily Average 2022 0.1in; Wettest Day 6 January, 2022 0.7in; Wet Days 2022 57/182 (31%) Temperature difference from 20th century average for every month between 1900 and 2022. Average Year-To-Date: 6: Yearly Average: 40: Schiller Park, IL (60176) warning84 F Fair. Temperature Rain This table gives the total precipitation that fell on Houston during each year from 2010. Monday, May 23, 2022 A Look Ahead Next week: Above-normal temperatures favored. whisker seeker rods for sale Likes. Adrian 97901. 21 C. RSTIS Rio Services in Texas Uncategorized nashville rainfall year to date 2022. Text Products. The Recent Rainfall table shows the total rainfall (in inches) for each Mesonet site. Climate records for Nas Enter Your Location. I thought for perspective we could look at statistics for the first nine months (Jan-Sep) of 2020 and examine the . 2022 Houston/Galveston Hurricane Guide . 0.01. Houston, TX 83 F Rain Shower. Posted at 22:07h in moral philosophy professor salary by garden house mad architects. Some of the . The URL in your browser window can then be bookmarked or shared. Houston County: 312922095080701: Rain Gage . Weather Forecast Office. Dec 4.38. Showing rainfall totals from 6/30/2022 4:00 AM to 7/2/2022 4:00 AM CDT: Data not verified. Climate records for Nas
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October starts out mild and very damp
With Bevan Choat
The second month of spring in Taupo¯ has so far proved reasonably mild and continued to be very cloudy and damp, similar to September. Rain fell on six consecutive days from Sunday, October 3 making the opening days of October very damp. Until Saturday, October 9, the area had already received half the expected rainfall for the month and looks to be heading above the average expected for October in Taupo¯ which stands at 94.0mm. October is not usually a very wet month and more often than not, wind is a real feature. The wettest October in 2005 produced 211mm on 19 wet days and the driest on record was just 20.0mm over five days in 2015. Frosts start to become less of a threat during October, but then again a sudden very cold snap can never be ruled out as snow has been reported as late as Labour weekend as it did when the Fiji Gujerati cricket team visited Taupo¯ in 1969/70. With nine days gone, the only ground frost so far recorded occurred in the early hours of Sunday, October 3. There has been surprisingly little wind so far this month and night time temperatures generally have been mild.


Madurai has the typical climate of the Deccan plateau. It remains hot and humid most of the year. Read on to get the complete information on the climate in this amazing city of India.
The sun is at its glory and shines very brightly during the summers. During the summer months, i.e. from May to June, the temperature varies between 27 deg C and 40 deg C. Therefore, the climate is quite hot. May is the hottest month. Cottons are recommended during this time.
In winters, which starts from December and lasts till February, the temperature ranges between 20 deg C and 30 deg C. The climate remains pleasant during this time, as the temperature rarely falls below 20oC.
Though the rainfall is very frequent and uniform throughout the year, just like the flow of pilgrims and tourists, the city receives the major share of rainfall between the months of July and October. The average rainfall is 85 cm.
Madurai has a typical weather of South India. Get more information on the climate of Madurai, India.


A dust devil is a strong, well-formed, and relatively long-lived whirlwind, ranging from small (half a meter wide and a few meters tall) to large (over 10 meters wide and over 1000 meters tall). The primary vertical motion is upward. Dust devils are usually harmless, but rare ones can grow large enough to threaten both people and property.
They are comparable to tornadoes in that both are a weather phenomenon of a vertically oriented rotating column of air. Most tornadoes are associated with a larger parent circulation, the mesocyclone on the back of a supercell thunderstorm. Dust devils form as a swirling updraft under sunny conditions during fair weather, rarely coming close to the intensity of a tornado.
In the southwestern United States, a dust devil is sometimes called a "dancing devil" or a "sun devil". In Death Valley, California, it may be called a "sand auger" or a "dust whirl".
The Navajo refer to them as chiindii, ghosts or spirits of dead Navajos. If a chindi spins clockwise, it is said to be a good spirit; if it spins counterclockwise, it is said to be a bad spirit.
Dust devils form when hot air near the surface rises quickly through a small pocket of cooler, low- pressure air above it. If conditions are just right, the air may begin to rotate. As the air rises suddenly, the column of hot air is stretched vertically, causing intensification of the spinning effect by the scientific principle conservation of angular momentum. The secondary flow in the dust devil causes other hot air to speed horizontally inward to the bottom of the newly forming vortex. As more hot air rushes in toward the developing vortex to replace the air that is rising, the spinning effect becomes further intensified and self-sustaining. A dust devil, fully formed, is a funnel-like chimney through which hot air moves, both upwards and in a circle. As the hot air rises, it cools, loses its buoyancy and eventually ceases to rise. As it rises, it displaces air which descends outside the core of the vortex. This cool air returning acts as a balance against the spinning hot-air outer wall and keeps the system stable.
Dust devils also occur on Mars and were first photographed by the Viking orbiters in the 1970s. In 1997, the Mars Pathfinder lander detected a dust devil passing over it. Martian dust devils can be up to fifty times as wide and ten times as high as terrestrial dust devils, and large ones may pose a threat to terrestrial technology sent to Mars.


Stumbled across this article today.
Sounds kinda interesting.
It offers a good food for thought.
Even though you won't think of food when reading this.
[Health News] Washington, Dandruff which causes much irritation by making the scalp flaky and itchy may also account for a much larger proportion of air pollution, than earlier believed, according to a new study.
The study suggests that particles of skin, pollen, fur fibers, and other cell fragments may account for up to 25 percent of the particles in the atmosphere.
Particles suspended in the atmosphere, known as aerosols, play an important role in climate change. But researchers say they need a better understanding of what those aerosols are made of so they can build more accurate climate change models.
Aerosols produced by burning fuel and other human activities have been the primary focus of attention for their contributions to air pollution and climate change. But aerosols from natural sources such as plants and animals, known as "bioaerosols," have been considered a minor source of air pollution until now.
[Health News] In the study, which appears in the current issue of the journal Science, researchers analyzed aerosols collected from different environments and in different seasons.
They identified a broad array of bioaerosols in the samples, including fur fibers, dandruff, and skin as well as fragments of plants, pollen, spores, bacteria, algae, fungi, viruses, and protein crystals.
In some cases these natural air pollutants accounted for up to 25% of the total particles in the atmosphere.
In spring, the results showed that pollen is more abundant, and in winter, dead skin and other cells are the predominant sources of bioaerosols. (ANI)
News source: http://www.keralanext.com/news/readnext,1.asp?id=171604&pg=2


Heritage Stewardship – Religious Observance/Climate Change
Muslims must take action on climate crisis to preserve holy pilgrimage
Islamic Relief Worldwide
Published: 22 August, 2019
Following scientific research released today calculating that rising temperatures will make it too dangerous for Muslims to perform hajj, Islamic Relief is calling for urgent action on climate change before it is too late.
In a new article published by the AGU journal Geophysical Research Letters by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US, scientists show that rising temperatures mean holy pilgrimage to Mecca is likely to become hazardous to human health. Islamic Relief has now come together with the scientists to draw attention to the severity of the crisis.
Every year, millions of Muslims travel to Mecca to perform hajj, one of the major pillars of Islam. Two million pilgrims pray outdoors and walk great distances to perform religious rites in already high temperatures.
Through the analysis of historical climate models and past data, scientists project that should the world’s emissions continue in a business-as-usual scenario, temperatures in Mecca will rise to a level that the human body cannot cope with from as early as next year. But crucially, mitigating climate change through reducing emissions could limit the severity of these temperatures.
Conditions will be particularly severe when hajj falls within the summer months. Because Islam follows a lunar calendar, the dates for hajj change each year, and for five to seven years at a time, the trip falls over summer, when temperatures soar.
Hajj temperatures could rise to dangerous levels from 2020
According to the research, as soon as next year, summer days in Saudi Arabia could surpass the “extreme danger heat-stress threshold.” When skin temperature reaches this level – and combined with a certain level of humidity in the air – sweat no longer evaporates efficiently, so the body can no longer cool itself and overheats.
Pilgrims who travel to hajj are already at risk of heat exhaustion and heatstroke which can be fatal, with the elderly and vulnerable most at risk.
Through calculating how climate change is likely to impact conditions in Saudi Arabia in the future, the researchers estimate that heat and humidity levels during hajj will exceed the extreme danger threshold:
:: 6% of the time by 2020;
:: 20% of the time from 2045 and 2053;
:: 42% of the time between 2079 and 2086.
These years are when hajj falls within the summer months making conditions more severe…
It’s now or never to tackle climate crisis
Islamic Relief is urging the Muslim community to step up and take action on this climate emergency by raising the issue with governments and policy makers. In the UK for example, we are calling on Muslims to highlight this devastating finding to their Member of Parliament and call on them to urge immediate action by the government in enacting policies that can reduce climate change…


Today was very rainy, with wind whipping tree branches around, dark, rolling clouds, and torrents of rain so hard you couldn’t see as you drove down the quickly flooding streets. Luckily, it quickly calmed down, but it was after I remembered the days of reading The Magic School Bus stories about precipitation. Most people know the water cycle and all that jazz, but I wanted to go more in-depth about rain and rain clouds!
First off, I just want to clarify something that I used to say all the time. “It smells like its going to rain!” You have probably said it yourself a couple of times. Well, rain smells like water. What does water smell like? Not much! The smell is actually from plants. This quote from another site summarizes it quite well: “Plants release oils that enter the soil and blend with the other earthy odors. These odors are released into the air when the relative humidity at ground level exceeds 75 percent. Moist humid air will transmit odors far better than dry air. In these moist humid conditions we notice these odors more readily. And since rain is so often connected with moist humid air, we tend to associate one with the other.” This actually makes much more sense than smelling rain. One small myth busted for rain, one giant step for chemistry!
Another thing you should know is that all raindrops do not look like this: In fact, this is not even one of the more common shapes! The chart below might help.
I didn’t know that before, but I definitely know I won’t forget it now!
Now that we have established correct raindrop shapes, we need to know cloud shapes!
- Cirrus – thin and wispy clouds that are very high up, made of tiny pieces of ice, occur the day before rain or snow, cirrus means “tuft or curl of hair.”
- Cumulus – large, fluffy clouds, cumulus meaning “pile” or “heap.” Cumulus clouds can turn into clouds that bring thunderstorms, called Cumulonimbus clouds.
- Stratus – dark layers that hang low, stratus means “to spread out.” Stratus clouds can bring rain, snow, or fog.
Clouds are formed when water warms up and changes into water vapor. As it rises higher in the sky, the vapor cools down and turns back into tiny drops of liquid. Tiny pieces of dust floating in the air help make the clouds more visible and the water droplets form around the dust. As more water is changed into water vapor, and then back into tiny water droplets, the cloud grows. When enough water droplets have gathered together in a cloud, their weight drags them out of the cloud, and they drop to the ground, making rain!
Here are two weather related jokes I found:
- What kind of precipitation does a king like best? (Answer: Hail!)
- What is it called when it rains chickens and ducks? (Answer: Fowl weather.)
So Ta Ta for now and hope to see your chemical reaction soon!


As listed on our customer support page, Dronethusiast’s headquarters is located in the heart of the United States – Lincoln, Nebraska. Many of our writing staff is also from this part of the country, or near there – I myself grew up in the Kansas City area. This means we all have a lot of familiarity with the destructive, awe-inspiring power of tornados.
As storms rage across the Midwestern United States this rainy spring, tornados are inevitable, and sure enough a major cyclone traveled across the state of Oklahoma just last week. The cyclone touched down around 12:30 PM CST approximately 10 miles east of Interstate 35. It is unusual to see such a funnel in the early afternoon, but record moisture levels are causing storms to arrive earlier in the day by fueling the creation of volatile atmospheric conditions. Fortunately, as the weak tornado lazily drifted northeast for a few miles, it did no major damage to people or property.
Even more fortunately, a storm chaser named Brandon Clement – who operates under the banner of “WXChasing” – was following the supercell and already had his drone (make and model not reported) on hand. The lack of rain and hail meant that the drone could capture some of the clearest up-close footage ever taken of such a weather event, and the winds of the storm were so tightly coiled around the tornado that the aircraft itself experienced very little turbulence as it flew.
The result is an absolutely gorgeous video which you can see below:
The four-minute video footage shows a prominent condensation funnel around the tornado’s low-pressure column, which is what makes the cyclone visible even though it wasn’t strong enough to pick up much dust or debris. As it crosses the roadway between a pair of utility poles, you can see that the cyclone itself is probably only twenty feet wide or so at the base. You can also see flashes of the white “subvortices” – smaller funnels within the main whirl that can do significant additional damage if the tornado is much larger at this one.
At the end of the video, the funnel begins to visibly decay – watch for when it starts to lean to the right. This shows that the parent cloud at the top of the tornado is moving faster than the vortex at the ground. As the funnel stretches, the winds will briefly boost (which might be why Clement chose to end the video and fly away at this point) but will soon settle down as the cyclone itself withers away.
This is truly one of the most impressive videos ever taken of such an event, the result of a skilled and incredibly lucky photographer just happening to be in the right place at the right time. A number of prominent meteorologists have commented on the footage, with The Weather Channel’s Stephanie Abrams calling it “a tornado like you’ve never seen before” and Oklahoma’s own Rick Smith (warning coordination meteorologist for the OK branch of the National Weather Service calling it the most “amazing” footage “I’ve ever seen!”
As for Clement himself, he told the Washington Post that he had “been working on getting that shot for about three years now. I’ve probably done a half-million miles chasing across the country by now. But this one is pretty special.”
Normally we like to end our news articles by commenting on the potential of a given story to affect the future of drone technology. And it’s certainly possible that drones could be used to improve the tracking and monitoring abilities of storm chasers and meteorologists in the near future.
But mostly, this is just an incredibly cool video that we’re all lucky to get the chance to witness. And that’s more than enough for us.
Kennedy Martinez is a resident writer who joined Dronethusiast at the beginning of 2019. She has years of experience reviewing drones and other tech products. When it comes to flying drones, Kennedy loves the ability to create artistic videos from a unique point of view. Kennedy enjoys researching new drones and other exciting products that are available to consumers which is why she is committed to creating the best buyer’s guides for our readers.