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[Konstantin]

Interesting things happen not just on Earth. The sky is also active.

NWS Says Loud Boom That Shook Cleveland Could Have Been Caused By Meteor

https://twitter.com/x/status/2033894680241242489

 

[Gaby]

Very interesting, good catch. A prelude of inversion of the magnetic axis of earth?

I'm not sure what to make of it. A European Space Agency satellite first studied the phenomenon in 2001, hence all the detailed graphics. It speaks of an influx of powerful energy, albeit temporarily, which then "disappears" in a few minutes. Hole in the ionosphere sounds like "opening up" to me. So yeah, might be related to an incursion of the magnetic axis and changes in the magnetic field. We'll just have to wait and see.

Interesting things happen not just on Earth. The sky is also active.

Good catch! When we heard a couple of such loud booms locally on separate days, I thought... Surely this is not a localized phenomenon. There's got to be people in the rest of the world hearing booms as well.

Locally, a third loud boom was heard last weekend, and they quickly published a story in the mainstream newspaper. 'It was the police doing "air" experiments against terrorism, and to expect more of such loud booms and we're sorry for the inconvenience.'

Not reassuring.

 

[unkl brws]

Interesting things happen not just on Earth. The sky is also active.

I just saw this post from the EarthSky FB page about this overhead explosion today.

KABOOM! Did you hear it? Around 9 a.m. EDT this morning, residents of Ohio and Pennsylvania began flooding the 911 line with reports of an “earthquake like” explosion.
The National Weather Service out of Pittsburgh was quick to say: “We’re receiving reports across western Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio of a loud boom and a fireball in the sky. Our satellite data suggest it was possibly a meteor entering the atmosphere.”
And the National Weather Service out of Cleveland followed up with data confirming the #meteor. Looking at satellite imagery from the Geostationary Lightning Mapper, you can see a bright streak over the Cleveland area that would be consistent with a meteor entering the atmosphere. And many people caught the fireball on video.

More: https://earthsky.org/.../sonic-boom-from-a-meteor.../

 

[XPan]

100 years of physics challenged by observation.

https://www.tiktok.com/video/7609173112898309407

I'm 73 and have never seen a crescent moon illuminated on the bottom like the one seen from diverse locations on February 20, 2026. (The one featured in this video was taken at 8:45 in Florida after the sun had set 2 hours earlier.) Traditional astronomy says the illuminated crescent must be on the side facing the sun (i.e. East or West due to Earth's rotational axis orientation). But this recent crescent moon was 135 degrees out of place, and followed a solar coronal hole aimed directly at Earth, with a electromagnetic field fired at 101 (100 times normal) and an historic peak Schumann resonance.

This guy has an interesting theory to explain such an event.

Two comments were especially interesting:
"To humanity you will see things that you never saw before you never were taught any of these phenomenons in science class things have changed drastically you will see things that will be unbelievable do not be fearful don't believe everything you see you are watching The greatest show on Earth"

"Two timeliness have merged and are reporting on this. Some say its normal and some say they never seen it."

Certainly no physics have been challenged
by that Tic-Toc drama queen guy's "observation"

I tried to simulate the location somewhere in Florida with a star map, with 20 Feb 2026 as the date (at sunset which the star below charts shows), and find, that the moon he claims was wrongly tilted by a whopping "135 degrees" - was not wrongly tilted in any way. I really don't understand where the guy got his claims from ?! (The moon set around 3 hours and 20 minutes after the sun did).

So, the moon was around 9° above the horizon at 20.45 local Florida time and would have looked like a "boat"; illuminated from below in the direction of the already set sun. Exactly like in the claimed photo

Nothing wrong. Nothing off. Nothing unusual what so ever.

 

[Gaby]

"We are now faced with a 30-million-tonne question: we need to determine if this is just a small, natural leakage of ancient carbon, or the onset of broadscale destabilization," study lead author Travis Drake, a carbon biogeochemist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), told Live Science in an email.

My very good guess is for the "onset of broadscale destabilization".

Drake might already know the answer, though. He couldn't possibly ignore the fact that the Congo Basin and all the places that he studied lay on top of the big African blob:

They're forecasting possible weather extremes and heat. No rocket science there, however, the public is forewarned that these phenomena have nothing to do with inner core dynamics.

'Super El Niño' could push global temperatures to unprecedented highs, forecasters say

Forecasters predict that a potentially supercharged El Niño is coming this summer, and it could push temperatures across the globe to unprecedented extremes.

Last week, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Climate Prediction Center announced that there is a 62% chance of El Niño emerging between June and August. In other words, El Niño is more likely than not this year.

El Niño is the warm phase of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), a natural climate pattern of atmospheric and sea temperature changes in the tropical Pacific Ocean. During El Niño, warmer waters gather east of the equatorial Pacific, forcing the jet stream south. This brings warmer and drier conditions to the northern U.S., while the Gulf Coast and southeastern U.S. have an increased risk of flooding.

The tropical Pacific Ocean is currently in the midst of La Niña, the cold phase of ENSO, when sea surface temperatures fall at least 0.9 degrees Fahrenheit (0.5 degrees Celsius) below the long-term average. La Niña is expected to end in the coming weeks as the sea warms, according to the latest Climate Prediction Center announcement. El Niño will then occur if sea surface temperatures reach and remain at least 0.9 F above the long-term average.

If El Niño does emerge as anticipated, it could intensify into a "super El Niño," AccuWeather reported. A super El Niño occurs when sea surface temperatures reach at least 3.6 F (2 C) above the long-term average.

"Intensity is uncertain but there is potential for a moderate to possibly strong El Niño this fall into winter," Paul Pastelok, a meteorologist and lead U.S. long-range forecaster at AccuWeather, said, per the weather website.

Accuweather's forecasters estimate that there's a 15% chance of a super El Niño developing by the end of the hurricane season in November. Meanwhile, NOAA's Climate Prediction Center gives a 1-in-3 chance of a strong El Niño emerging between October and December but describes the potential strength as "very uncertain."

El Niño tends to strengthen hurricane activity over the central and eastern Pacific while suppressing hurricanes in the Atlantic, which typically leads to a less-active hurricane season overall.

The ENSO cycle triggers a warm El Niño and then a cold La Niña every two to seven years, on average. However, they aren't always on time. Equally, while each phase tends to last around nine to 12 months, their duration varies.

Earth was last in El Niño between May 2023 and March 2024. On that occasion, El Niño was close to being a super El Niño, but while sea surface temperatures breached the 3.6 F threshold, they didn't remain above the threshold for long enough to qualify. The last super El Niño occurred in 2015-2016.

The last El Niño contributed to record-breaking heat in 2023 and 2024, with 2024 currently the hottest year on record. If El Niño emerges in 2026, then the year will get warmer, but is unlikely to be as hot as 2024 — we started the year in La Niña, after all. Global temperatures in 2027, however, could be pushed to record-breaking heights, according to a post on the social media platform X by Zeke Hausfather, a climate scientist and energy systems analyst.

"The El Nino cometh," Hausfather wrote. "This would push up our estimate for 2026 global temperatures (though its still unlikely to surpass 2024 as the warmest year), and make 2027 very likely to be the warmest year on record given the historical lag b/w ENSO and surface temp."

It's important to remember that a variety of factors influence the weather and climate. The planet is already warming due to climate change and will continue to do so, regardless of what ENSO is doing.

 

[Voyageur]

They're forecasting possible weather extremes and heat. No rocket science there, however, the public is forewarned that these phenomena have nothing to do with inner core dynamics.

'Super El Niño' could push global temperatures to unprecedented highs, forecasters say

The Old Farmers Almanac echo's those statements of heat (in North America) this summer. One can pick their state or province and have a gander:

The Old Farmer’s Almanac Long-Range Weather Forecast 2026

Find your long-range weather forecasts from The Old Farmer’s Almanac for 2026. Add your zip code to get the 60-day forecast for your region.

www.almanac.com

Had also read that the Farmers Almanac (not the Old) is shutting down - 2026 is it, the end of the Almanac from its humble beginnings of 1818. That's sad, although it is not the Old Farmers Almanac of 1792.

https://www.grainews.ca/weather/farmers-almanac-shutting-down/

The Old Almanac points out the spring (with exceptions):

Spring 2026 Temperatures​

The spring outlook predicts warmer-than-normal temperatures across much of the United States, with a few exceptions. Parts of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and areas of Montana and Colorado are expected to see temperatures closer to or below seasonal averages.