Hot weather the last weeks !!!!

[Yozilla]

That storm definitely woke me up, and I was like I wonder what kinda crazy stuff is going on in 4D. ;) :D The light show was awesome though.

Well I guess things are going wild there too seeing how climate is going crazy.

There is more activity where I live than ever before. We now regularly have violent storms and quite indeed very impressive 'light shows'...

Well I envy you guys cause I LOVE thunders and strikin' (from a safe distance of course) - that chilling electricity and ozone has a rejuvenating effect to me... Here in Dalmatia it is now continuous 4th week heatwave which is good for tourists but I hope that it could be finished with something special....

 

[Muxel]

Brown crunchy grass (Drought):
- NW Ohio
- Buffalo, NY
- North Alabama
- ?

Supposedly, it was a "Derecho", a storm rather like a small, fast hurricane, which is moved along by a meandering Jet Stream. Supposed to be rare, but I expect they'll be a lot less rare now.

I went to check, and yeah. Apparently the jet stream touched the SE heat dome circumference ("Ring of Fire"). Dangerous mix of cold and hot. All it took was for a storm to spawn in the Midwest, and ride it. Wiki says that squall lines have high pressure pushing behind them (giving them the derecho shape). So that explains the heat: super low pressure followed by super high pressure.

Question is, why did the jet stream dip low? News reports call it a "ripple." I thought maybe the weakening geomagnetic field amplifies meandering of the Arctic Oscillation (AO).

Above shows highly warped "Oscillation" for Jan 28 - Feb 3 this year. Shows US getting a warm winter. Why is the Arctic warm? Undersea volcano activity? I could even describe it as Rossby wave breaking right over the Arctic:

June 15 this year, SOTT reported phytoplankton boom below Arctic ice. Like "finding a rainforest in the middle of a desert," goes the article. A 2008 eruption of a volcano in the Aleutian Islands spewed iron-rich ash into the Pacific, causing the largest phytoplankton boom ever recorded in the region. Could be undersea volcanoes warming up the Arctic, making the AO meander.

I think what happened in Maryland was a big nor'easter followed by rapid "rebound" of an X-treme high-pressure ridge.

Sorta like 4D nuking a hole in the weather, then everything rushes back to fill in the void.

That storm definitely woke me up, and I was like I wonder what kinda crazy stuff is going on in 4D. ;) :D The light show was awesome though.

Lol, glad to know someone was having fun. :D I haven't been treated to a light show for quite a while... (Wait, no, I did. That darned Fourth of July.)

 

[QuantumLogic]

Looking at the CONUS jetstream forecast, the WeatherBank upper level wind map, and several of the satellite feeds for radar, infrared, etc., it would seem the heat is here to stay in the US for quite awhile. Take a look at these-

Below a wide angle visible satellite view. Pay attention to the rotation right in the center of the US, and the incredibly large counter-rotation off the Pacific coast. Depending on the temperature differential by the time that makes landfall, the storms near the East coast were only the beginning-

There was also a massive spike today in protons and electrons, which will more than likely cause even more weather pattern disruption. Here are the images-

The next couple of weeks should be very interesting, if not downright dangerous. Keep your eyes open- Mother Nature looks to have much more in store for us. The C's said it best- "Knowledge protects, Ignorance endangers"

 

[Al Today]

The electricity came back online last night. An amazing lesson of appreciation.!.!.!

edit:
That was seven(7) days of heat exhaustion.

 

[Deleted member 8431]

That storm definitely woke me up, and I was like I wonder what kinda crazy stuff is going on in 4D. ;) :D The light show was awesome though.

Well I guess things are going wild there too seeing how climate is going crazy.

There is more activity where I live than ever before. We now regularly have violent storms and quite indeed very impressive 'light shows'...

Well I envy you guys cause I LOVE thunders and strikin' (from a safe distance of course) - that chilling electricity and ozone has a rejuvenating effect to me... Here in Dalmatia it is now continuous 4th week heatwave which is good for tourists but I hope that it could be finished with something special....

Oh I hear ya! That's kind of how I feel myself. I just love thunderstorms.

But I perhaps don't like ozone as much. I was working on a huge ozone generator in the water treatment facility I was working at and a co-worker forgot to close a pressurised air conduct that brought the oxygen in it. So after taking out perhaps 20 nuts, all the pressurized air/ozone blew right into my face. Boy that wasen't very pleasent. Had to go outside for half an hour to get it all together. No damage done though.

Similar thing happened to me with chlorine gas, chloroform, glacial acetic acid, various solvents, common hydrocarbons and human waste (yes). Also burned myself with sulphuric acid, sodium hydroxyde and 50% hydrogen peroxyde as well.

50% peroxyde is actually quite funny. A drop on the skin and it will instantly turn white and you can just peel it off right away. But yeah, if you spill the whole bottle on your hand, it's another story.

Actually, I just realised that I am quite lucky to still be alive and well...

Ahh, the joys of chemistry! I love it!

 

[Yozilla]

Yikes JayMark that's quite impressive chemical record of yours :O ... If remember correctly my greatest bio hazard was from some gases of human origin ...

 

[Foxx]

Yikes JayMark that's quite impressive chemical record of yours :O ... If remember correctly my greatest bio hazard was from some gases of human origin ...

I agree with Yozilla--is this from your job, JayMark? Are you still at this job? It's a pretty serious matter to be exposed to large quantities of toxins even if it's not on a regular basis (and it sounds like a relatively regular basis from your description)--you might want to consider a different line of employment if that's your current job, if possible.

 

[Deleted member 8431]

Yikes JayMark that's quite impressive chemical record of yours :O ... If remember correctly my greatest bio hazard was from some gases of human origin ...

I agree with Yozilla--is this from your job, JayMark? Are you still at this job? It's a pretty serious matter to be exposed to large quantities of toxins even if it's not on a regular basis (and it sounds like a relatively regular basis from your description)--you might want to consider a different line of employment if that's your current job, if possible.

Don't worry. It has happened over the course of many years.

Most of the time out of stupidity on my behalf during school years. Keep in mind that I didn't always had "all of my mind" back then. When, for instance, the technician got the chloroform out (for the first time) for extracting phenol, first thing I thought was "damn, they use this to put people to sleep, I need to know what it smells like". So you get the idea here. I was really like a kit and his toys. Only that the said toys were deadly chemicals.

Only the chlorine and ozone episodes were really accidents but the situations didn't go literally out-of-control and were quickly handled with proper security measures. Nobody (including myself) were ever injured.

EDIT: I have learned from all of this.

 

[bngenoh]

I just want to say that this heat wave in Maryland, is something quite different. I have lived in Maryland for over 11 years and I don't ever remember sensing and feeling that the air was on fire. This is what I got when I was outside today, the air is on fire. I was born and raised under the tropical sun, but the sun burns my skin now, I can't even sit in the sun like I used to anymore, the sensation approaches pain.

I hear thunder and see storm clouds approaching, maybe they will bring rain.

 

[cassandra]

I just want to say that this heat wave in Maryland, is something quite different. I have lived in Maryland for over 11 years and I don't ever remember sensing and feeling that the air was on fire. This is what I got when I was outside today, the air is on fire. I was born and raised under the tropical sun, but the sun burns my skin now, I can't even sit in the sun like I used to anymore, the sensation approaches pain.

I hear thunder and see storm clouds approaching, maybe they will bring rain.

Yep, the air is on fire. After sunning myself for just five minutes I got sunburn on my shoulders, and a fair amount of colour on my face.
The weather here in Munich has always been crazy, but it has reached a new level.

 

[Deleted member 8431]

And I also fear that the ozonosphere is not at it's best. The issue of the holes at the poles may have partly resoved themselves (as far as I know) but it's overall 'health' (thickness) is still getting bad nontheless.

I remeber 10 years ago, going out all day, no problem and now, the sun is literally cooking myself. It has become very agressive. And I fear it's not the end of it.

Note that sunburn are mostly the result of an exposition to UV radiation. The 'warm sensation' of it heating up your skin is mostly the result of IR radiation.

The C's have warned us about it. Ozone layer, halocarbons, hummm...

*Looks at sun and sneezes*

Uh?

 

[Deleted member 8431]

Yep. It has been a burning summer in Québec so far.

Our apples were ripe and ready to eat by the 1st of August. That is quite unusual to say the least.

 

[loreta]

Wave after wave of hot weather here in Spain. I was listening today that this year we had 11 thousand fires! This is incredible.

But I prefer the sun and hot days then the minus 35 of Quebec, thats for sure.... ;)

 

[Deleted member 8431]

Wave after wave of hot weather here in Spain. I was listening today that this year we had 11 thousand fires! This is incredible.

But I prefer the sun and hot days then the minus 35 of Quebec, thats for sure.... ;)

Ahhh the joys of winter in Québec! Blasting cold which freezes your nostrils up to your lungs! Even the T1000 (terminator 2) wouldn't have had the slightest chance!

In March 1971, we've had "la tempête du siècle" (the storm of the century). We have received an average of 80 cm of snow through the province. Also had winds of over 100 km/h. I wasen't there (me father was 11 yo) but that was apparently something.

Now, winters are shorter and warmer. We've had very few -30°C and less days as opposed to before.

But I don't think it's going to be a trend for very long. We might very well end up being a gigantic ice cube during the course of the century.

Peace.

 

[Sirius]

It's extremely hot, 38°C here. While the temperature is so high, one can simply do nothing. I hope it will rain soon. :(