Recent earth craziness posted on urbansurvival

[Mike]

A reader of UrbanSurvival sent this list to the site and it was posted. I didn't see some of them in 'The Living Planet'. The links are from me searching around, except the one about Mexico (it's in Spanish and from the link below). We're in big trouble I think this coming winter. The weather and earth are going crazy. After searching around on the net looks like this site is recording a lot of what is below http://www.iceagenow.com/ if not the source of the list.

August 9: Katla Volcano, Iceland - Twelve earthquakes in the past 48 hours.

August 9: Deadly Russian Heat Wave Gravest Over Millennium

August 6: Sacramento running 10 degrees below average (see second comment)
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.politics/browse_thread/thread/3725cd36568e1da3/11005aef35797d94?lnk=raot

August 5: Snow in Brazil, below zero in the River Plate, tropical fish frozen. For a second day running it snowed in Southern Brazil and in twelve of Argentina’s 24 provinces including parts of Buenos Aires.
http://en.mercopress.com/2010/08/05/snow-in-brazil-below-zero-celsius-in-the-river-plate-and-tropical-fish-frozen

August 3: Coolest July in San Francisco since 1971
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/08/02/july-in-san-francisco-coolest-since-197/

August 3: More than six million fish and thousands of alligators, turtles, dolphins and other river wildlife are floating dead in Bolivian rivers, the cruel aftermath of the extreme cold in South America.
http://www.boliviabella.com/millions-of-fish.html

August 3: Argentina colder than Antarctica
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/03/AR2010080302541.html

August 1: Peru declares state of emergency

August 1: Worst flooding in Pakistan history

July 31: July rainiest month in Mexico history
http://www.vanguardia.com.mx/julioelmesmaslluviosodelahistoria-525974.html

July 29: Record cold in San Diego

July 10: Record cold at LAX

 

[Hildegarda]

Regarding Russia, it is said to have a heat wave like this present one every few decades. The last one was in 1972. This one is much worse because of unprecedented fires. Those are due to blatant mismanagement of forestry and fire departments, and also arson to cover up illegal tree cutting and behind-the-scenes redistribution of public lands into private hands.

As I understand it, this has to do with North Atlantic cyclones and the Jet Stream winds. The first North Atlantic cyclones usually begin to form early in June. At this time, the weather on the territory of Russia is modulated by the cold air masses that are seeping down from the Arctic. They keep the temperature highs at about 60 F. Usually afterwards, the Atlantic air masses just roll through Russia and local air gets a chance to cool down in between, never getting too hot. But if the Jet Stream winds are weak, they get sort of loopy. That means that the Arctic air doesn't get enough into European part of Russia, and in June the air there heats up too much. The Atlantic air then goes around it from North and down into western Siberia, which effectively locks the high pressure system in this place for the whole summer. So the early June weather in Moscow is a good predictor of what the summer will be like there.

The weakening of Jet Stream has already been noted over the last few years, and it is linked to climate change all over the globe. Here are some threads in which it has been discussed here on the forum:

http://www.cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php?topic=810.0
http://www.cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php?topic=19171.0

 

[Mark7]

So many crazy, weird weather posts today on the SOTT forum.
[Edit: got on Earth changes thread - disregard]