As for bugs; I have a flat full of small flies, like fruit flies; I believe I´ve "got" them from the dirt/compost from the plants.
I don´t know how to get rid of them but they are really annoying and everywhere. I don´t know if everybody have this issues, I suspect it´s because the dirt in plants.
Flies are also often around, but flesh flies are rare.
And this normal flies, look smaller than normally.
A lots of wasps too...
Green stinkbugs are all over the place and quite annoying! They enter the apartment and zoom around and stick to towels, clothes and so on... I have to be very careful to shake my clothes when they are dried before putting it in the closet.
As for mosquitoes - there isn´t much of them here. Here and there...
But, the ones I saw this year are like 3x bigger than normal ones! I was really surprised by the size of them! Haven´t seen mosquitoes that big before this year - ever!
As for mosquitoes - there isn't much of them here. Here and there...
But, the ones I saw this year are like 3x bigger than normal ones! I was really surprised by the size of them! Haven´t seen mosquitoes that big before this year - ever!
In the western part of our country, where most of the Chernobyl radiation made a landfall, I noticed super large corn, potatoes and XXL-sized mosquitoes: if they got someone, their bite was ugly and left a dark purple mark, big as the small one dollar coin. The bite looked worrisome, like a festering zombie bite.
The #tempeteAurore will have been more violent than expected with the bar of 100 km / h crossed in about forty departments of the northern half, with gusts reaching 175 km / h on the Normandy coast! In the land,#vents blew up to 120 or even 130 km / h ...@LCI
In St. Petersburg (and its suburbs), a combination of strong wind and rain led to flooding, more than 400 trees were felled. The water level rose by 134 centimeters and began to subside
In my city, the wind blew off roofs from buildings, I don't remember that.
Сильный шторм в Санкт-Петербурге привел к выходу из берегов реки Смоленки. Об этом сообщает «Комсомольская правда» со ссылкой на очевидцев.
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PS Another piece of news about bears in Russia. At least in the St. Petersburg region, they do not sleep! The she-bear and cubs were seen walking near the village houses today (10/22/2021)
Quanta Magazine has an article, where the writer, Howard Lee, tries to argue for human generated global warming being the main problem. But he does it in a subtle way, or is it the editor, by listing all the factors he can think of and adds to most points, how CO2 is important in that particular context and with the overall idea that since humans emitting CO2 everything is now different. In this thread, we suspect that the end result will be the return of an Ice Age, and Pierre makes the point of Global Cooling in chapter 24 of the Earth Changes and the Human-Cosmic Connection, but there are other chapters of relevance too.
Since one can encounter the points the Quanta article brings up in discussions in the public, I decided to go through the list and make a few comments based on what I knew, and what I learned in Pierre's books, including the latest Cometary Encounters.
Perhaps one could begin by mentioning a few factors that the author does not mention. The Thermohaline Circulation
Gyre can refer to any type of vortex in an atmosphere or a sea,[2] even one that is human-created, but it is most commonly used in terrestrial oceanography to refer to the major ocean systems.
The circulation of the ocean currents, and the Gulf Stream is described in Earth Changes and the Human-Cosmic Connection in chapter 27 and 28. The North Atlantic Current
The North Atlantic Current (NAC), also known as North Atlantic Drift and North Atlantic Sea Movement, is a powerful warm western boundary current within the Atlantic Ocean that extends the Gulf Stream northeastward.[1]
The North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) is a weather phenomenon over the North Atlantic Ocean of fluctuations in the difference of atmospheric pressure at sea level (SLP) between the Icelandic Low and the Azores High. Through fluctuations in the strength of the Icelandic Low and the Azores High, it controls the strength and direction of westerly winds and location of storm tracks across the North Atlantic.[1] The NAO was discovered through several studies in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.[2] Unlike the El Niño–Southern Oscillation phenomenon in the Pacific Ocean, the NAO is a largely atmospheric mode. It is one of the most important manifestations of climate fluctuations in the North Atlantic and surrounding humid climates.[3]
There are of course a number of other currents in the air and in the oceans, but the above gives an idea.
The article does also not mention comets, though he does mention asteroids. However, one important difference between an asteroid and a comet is that the former have low-eccentric orbits mostly within the orbits of Jupiter, and near the ecliptic plane, while comets have highly eccentric orbits that go beyond, even far beyond the orbit of Jupiter. The comets then can be much more of a surprise than the asteroids, which could be detected if we just zoomed in on the space near us, or not much beyond Jupiter. The comets include the periodic comets, with orbits less than approximately 200 years, long-periodic comets with orbits from 200 to 1000 years. These two groups are still more or less in the ecliptic, the disc like space where the planets also orbit the Sun. After long-period comets come near-parabolic comets, which have periods above 1000 years followed by hyperbolic comets which however move differently making it even more complicated to keep track of them all:
Many of these comets may come from the Oort cloud, or perhaps even have interstellar origin. The Oort Cloud is not gravitationally attracted enough to the Sun to form into a fairly thin disk, like the inner Solar System. Thus, comets originating from the Oort Cloud can come from roughly any orientation (inclination to the ecliptic), and many even have a retrograde orbit.
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Typically comets in the Oort Cloud are thought to have roughly circular orbits around the Sun, but their orbital velocity is so slow that they may easily be perturbed by passing stars and the galactic tide. Astronomers have been discovering weakly hyperbolic comets that were perturbed out of the Oort Cloud since the mid-1800s.
I'll list them and add comments. The attention of the article lists many factors that affects the climate but weighs them in favor of CO2 emission being the main issue whenever possible. Even asteroid impacts are discussed with regard to CO2, but comets are not mentioned.
One could also say that the focus is kept on climate change, over which it is assumed we have control, rather than to enter into a discussion of Earth changes, over which we have no control.
Solar Cycles
Magnitude: 0.1 to 0.3 degrees Celsius of cooling
Time frame: 30- to 160-year downturns in solar activity separated by centuries
Every 11 years, the sun’s magnetic field flips, driving an 11-year cycle of solar brightening and dimming. But the variation is small and has a negligible impact on Earth’s climate.
More significant are “grand solar minima,” decades-long periods of reduced solar activity that have occurred 25 times in the last 11,000 years. A recent example, the Maunder minimum, which occurred between 1645 and 1715, saw solar energy drop by 0.04% to 0.08% below the modern average. Scientists long thought the Maunder minimum might have caused the “Little Ice Age,” a cool period from the 15th to the 19th century; they’ve since shown it was too small and occurred at the wrong time to explain the cooling, which probably had more to do with volcanic activity.
Pierre explains in his new book, Cometary Encounters, in the chapter Correlation between Cometary Activity and Volcanic Activity. page 170 how weak solar activity reduces the Earth's binding force, which loosens the tectonic plates, which then are more free to move. It is this movement that leads to earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. With more movement one will have the possibility of more eruptions. See also Earth Changes and the Human-Cosmic Connection chapter 20 and some of the subsequent chapters.
Volcanic Sulfur
Magnitude: Approximately 0.6 to 2 degrees Celsius of cooling
Time frame: 1 to 20 years
In the year 539 or 540 A.D., the Ilopango volcano in El Salvador exploded so violently that its eruption plume reached high into the stratosphere. Cold summers, drought, famine and plague devastated societies around the world.
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We know the above event, but there are other options than the Volcano, though there is more than one candidate, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_weather_events_of_535–536 In particular the volcano can't explain:
A comet impact or even more, does not exclude volcanic activity. See also chapter 34 in Earth Changes and the Human-Cosmic Connection as well as chapters 20, 22 and 23. If we address the sulfur in general, there is a chapter on the subject in Cometary Encounters, it may not only have volcanic origin or originate with a comet, see p. 152-159. Venus is one example, see p. 193.
Short-Term Climate Fluctuations
Magnitude: Up to 0.15 degrees Celsius
Time frame: 2 to 7 years
On top of seasonal weather patterns, there are other short-term cycles that affect rainfall and temperature. The most significant, the El Niño–Southern Oscillation, involves circulation changes in the tropical Pacific Ocean on a time frame of two to seven years that strongly influence rainfall in North America. The North Atlantic Oscillation and the Indian Ocean Dipole also produce strong regional effects. Both of these interact with the El Niño–Southern Oscillation.
Orbital Wobbles
Magnitude: Approximately 6 degrees Celsius in the last 100,000-year cycle; varies through geological time
Time frame: Regular, overlapping cycles of 23,000, 41,000, 100,000, 405,000 and 2,400,000 years
Earth’s orbit wobbles as the sun, the moon and other planets change their relative positions. These cyclical wobbles, called Milankovitch cycles, cause the amount of sunlight to vary at middle latitudes by up to 25% and cause the climate to oscillate. These cycles have operated throughout time, yielding the alternating layers of sediment you see in cliffs and road cuts.
During the Pleistocene epoch, which ended about 11,700 years ago, Milankovitch cycles sent the planet in and out of ice ages. When Earth’s orbit made northern summers warmer than average, vast ice sheets across North America, Europe and Asia melted; when the orbit cooled northern summers, those ice sheets grew again. Since warmer oceans dissolve less carbon dioxide, atmospheric carbon dioxide levels rose and fell in concert with these orbital wobbles, amplifying their effects.
Today Earth is approaching another minimum of northern sunlight, so without human carbon dioxide emissions we would be heading into another ice age within the next 1,500 years or so.
[There are illustrations of:
- changes in eccentricity as a 100,000 year cycle.
- axial precession as a 26,000 year cycle
- changes in obliquity as a 41,000 year cycle]
Three kinds of wobble: Earth undergoes cyclical changes in its orbit’s shape, known as eccentricity (top); variations in the direction of the rotational axis, known as precession (middle); and variations in the angle its rotational axis is tilted with respect to the orbital plane, known as obliquity (bottom).
Above, it is interesting that he links to a paper that suggests an ice age within the next 1500 years, if it wasn't for the importance attributed to human generated CO2 emissions that will prevent this ice age. In Cometary Encounters, Pierre argues in part 1, in the chapters on "Wandering Geographic Poles" and "Location of Geographic North Pole before Impact" (p37-44) that the positions of the geographic poles are less stable than usually assumed.
Faint Young Sun
Magnitude: No net temperature effect
Time frame: Constant
Though the sun’s brightness fluctuates on shorter timescales, it brightens overall by 0.009% per million years, and it has brightened by 48% since the birth of the solar system 4.5 billion years ago.
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These days, the alleged brightness is of less use, considering articles like Dark days: Earth has 'dimmed' by 0.5% since 2017 and scientists aren't sure why. Next the story that CO2 is the main driver. They clearly operate on the premise that changes are slow, while ignoring any recent cataclysmic events. Both of Pierre's books have comments on CO2 if one checks the index.
Carbon Dioxide and the Weathering Thermostat
Magnitude: Counteracts other changes
Time frame: 100,000 years or longer
The main control knob for Earth’s climate through deep time has been the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, since carbon dioxide is a long-lasting greenhouse gas that blocks heat that tries to rise off the planet.
Volcanoes, metamorphic rocks and the oxidization of carbon in eroded sediments all emit carbon dioxide into the sky, while chemical reactions with silicate minerals remove carbon dioxide and bury it as limestone. The balance between these processes works as a thermostat, because when the climate warms, chemical reactions become more efficient at removing carbon dioxide, putting a brake on the warming. When the climate cools, reactions become less efficient, easing the cooling. Consequently, over the very long term, Earth’s climate has remained relatively stable, providing a habitable environment. In particular, average carbon dioxide levels have declined steadily in response to solar brightening.
However, the weathering thermostat takes hundreds of thousands of years to react to changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide. Earth’s oceans can act somewhat faster to absorb and remove excess carbon, but even that takes millennia and can be overwhelmed, leading to ocean acidification. Each year, the burning of fossil fuels emits about 100 times more carbon dioxide than volcanoes emit — too much too fast for oceans and weathering to neutralize it, which is why our climate is warming and our oceans are acidifying.
Plate Tectonics
Magnitude: Roughly 30 degrees Celsius over the past 500 million years
Time frame: Millions of years
The rearrangement of land masses on Earth’s crust can slowly shift the weathering thermostat to a new setting.
The planet has generally been cooling for the last 50 million years or so, as plate tectonic collisions thrust up chemically reactive rock like basalt and volcanic ash in the warm, wet tropics, increasing the rate of reactions that draw carbon dioxide from the sky. Additionally, over the last 20 million years, the building of the Himalayas, Andes, Alps and other mountains has more than doubled erosion rates, boosting weathering. Another contributor to the cooling trend was the drifting apart of South America and Tasmania from Antarctica 35.7 million years ago, which initiated a new ocean current around Antarctica. This invigorated ocean circulation and carbon dioxide–consuming plankton; Antarctica’s ice sheets subsequently grew substantially.
Earlier, in the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, dinosaurs roamed Antarctica because enhanced volcanic activity, in the absence of those mountain chains, sustained carbon dioxide levels around 1,000 parts per million, compared to 415 ppm today. The average temperature of this ice-free world was 5 to 9 degrees Celsius warmer than now, and sea levels were around 250 feet higher.
And now the elephant in the room, as some of the climatologists clearly do not seem to communicate well with the geologists that have done research into cometary impacts. Below is an example of how an impact is translated mainly into something about CO2.
Asteroid Impacts
Magnitude: Approximately 20 degrees Celsius of cooling followed by 5 degrees Celsius of warming (Chicxulub)
Time frame: Centuries of cooling, 100,000 years of warming (Chicxulub)
The Earth Impact Database recognizes 190 craters with confirmed impact on Earth so far. None had any discernable effect on Earth’s climate except for the Chicxulub impact, which vaporized part of Mexico 66 million years ago, killing off the dinosaurs. Computer modeling suggests that Chicxulub blasted enough dust and sulfur into the upper atmosphere to dim sunlight and cool Earth by more than 20 degrees Celsius, while also acidifying the oceans. The planet took centuries to return to its pre-impact temperature, only to warm by a further 5 degrees Celsius, due to carbon dioxide in the atmosphere from vaporized Mexican limestone.
One question to the above model of ancient Earth is: how did the cyanobacteria "arise", not to mention more complex life forms? While CO2 may have been important, given what we know about comets, it would seem, their influence ought to be factored in as well. I also wonder if the Earth has always been in the present orbit around the Sun? Has it always been this close or this far away?
Large Igneous Provinces
Magnitude: Around 3 to 9 degrees Celsius of warming
Time frame: Hundreds of thousands of years
Continent-scale floods of lava and underground magma called large igneous provinces have ushered in many of Earth’s mass extinctions. These igneous events unleashed an arsenal of killers (including acid rain, acid fog, mercury poisoning and destruction of the ozone layer), while also warming the planet by dumping huge quantities of methane and carbon dioxide into the atmosphere more quickly than the weathering thermostat could handle.
The above point is of volcanic nature, and the underlying causative mechanisms mentioned earlier in connection with "volcanic sulfur" should apply. In the excerpt there is mention of mercury, which also is dealt with in Cometary Encounters p. 139-141 and again p. 150.
The article does also not mention comets, though he does mention asteroids. However, one important difference between an asteroid and a comet is that the former have low-eccentric orbits mostly within the orbits of Jupiter, and near the ecliptic plane, while comets have highly eccentric orbits that go beyond, even far beyond the orbit of Jupiter. The comets then can be much more of a surprise than the asteroids, which could be detected if we just zoomed in on the space near us, or not much beyond Jupiter. The comets include the periodic comets, with orbits less than approximately 200 years, long-periodic comets with orbits from 200 to 1000 years. These two groups are still more or less in the ecliptic, the disc like space where the planets also orbit the Sun. After long-period comets come near-parabolic comets, which have periods above 1000 years followed by hyperbolic comets which however move differently making it even more complicated to keep track of them all:
That's the definition according to mainstream science. I had almost forgotten about it myself but Pierre shows how asteroids and comets are really the same objects, the only difference being their electrical charge:
So, comets are not "dirty snowballs" after all. From all available data, they are substantially chunks of rock, just like asteroids. In fact, it was acknowledged recently that the difference between 'comets' and 'asteroids' might not be so clear-cut, although efforts to fill in gaps include suggestions that asteroids are comets that retire to the asteroid belt as "extinct rocky comets", and from where they can be "reignited".7 The difference, in the end, is not so much due to chemical or structural composition, i.e. dirty, fluffy, icy comets vs. rocky asteroids. Rather, as has been long suggested by plasma theorists, what differentiates 'comets' from asteroids' is their electrical activity.
When the electric potential difference between an asteroid and the surrounding plasma is not too high, the asteroid exhibits a dark discharge mode8 or no discharge at all. But when the potential difference is high enough, the comet switches to a glowing discharge mode.9 At this point the asteroid is a comet. From this perspective, a comet is simply a glowing asteroid and an asteroid is a non-glowing comet. Thus the very same body can, successively, be a comet, then an asteroid, then a comet, etc., depending on variation in the ambient electric field it is subjected to.10
Regarding the 539-40 AD event, a more recent study places the eruption of the Ilopango volcano around 431 CE instead of 540 CE:
The Tierra Blanca Joven eruption of Ilopango occurred during Maya times but the exact timing and its impact have been controversial. It was thought to be responsible for the anomalously cold decade experienced in the Northern Hemisphere centered at 540 CE, but this date is at odds with archeological evidence that suggests a date near the start of the Early Classic Period (pre-450 CE). Our precise age of 431 ± 2 CE allows us to pinpoint the eruption in proxy records and shows that its impact was apparently limited. It appears to have only had major effects on populations within ∼80 km of the volcano, where the regions were blanketed by decimeters of ash fallout and pyroclastic density currents.
A heads up about the huge snowstorm currently ongoing in the western mountains of the US. It often seems you have to visit specialized web sites (in this case a ski-oriented one) to obtain solid data regarding the amount of snow accumulating, osit.
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Massive October snowstorm dumps up to 42 inches of snow in 36 hours on Sierra Nevada ski resorts
A huge snowstorm hitting North America's West Coast has dumped up to 105cm (42") on Californian ski slopes in around 36 hours. The only ski areas currently open already for the 21-22 season in North America are in Colorado, but now California's...
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A huge snowstorm hitting North America's West Coast has dumped up to 105cm (42") on Californian ski slopes in around 36 hours.
The only ski areas currently open already for the 21-22 season in North America are in Colorado, but now California's Mammoth Mountain says it plans to open two weeks earlier than originally intended, this coming Friday, ready for Halloween weekend. It's not yet clear if other areas will open early, Heavenly (pictured top) has indicated its sticking to its original November opening date.
Mt Rose posted the biggest snowfall so far (38-42″ / 95-105cm) but Palisades Tahoe (formerly Squaw Valley) came close saying it had had at least three feet (90cm) at the top of the mountain and posted the image below.
That's the definition according to mainstream science. I had almost forgotten about it myself but Pierre shows how asteroids and comets are really the same objects, the only difference being their electrical charge:
That is true, and thank you, @Eboard10, for bringing it up. I will add some more details.
The difference between comets and asteroids is also mentioned in Earth Changes and the Human-Cosmic Connection p. 85 and in Cometary Encounters p. 127. I have copied the following from the article: Volcanoes, Earthquakes And The 3,600 Year Comet Cycle where there is an illustration:
An electric field line defines locations where the electric potential is the same. It's similar to the altitude lines on a geographic map where every point of the line is at the same altitude.
These changes in electric potential difference between the comet and its surrounding space triggers intense current including electric discharges between the comet and its surrounding space, leading to a overheated and glowing cometary body. That's why an astronomical body following a very elliptical orbit around the Sun with a 3,600 year period can not be a planet but has to be a comet.
Conversely, the electric potential at a given distance from the Sun being roughly the same, the astronomic bodies following a circular or slightly elliptic orbit, will go through space exhibiting a constant electric potential. Therefore there is a balance between the electric potential of the body and the surrounding space. In this case, no discharge occurs and the astronomical body doesn't glow.
In this sense, the fundamental difference between a comet and planet is not a matter of composition but a matter of electrical activity (which is related, among other factors to the eccentricity of the orbit).
"among other factors to the eccentricity of the orbit" On the Wiki for Orbital eccentricity, one finds about the orbits of asteroids:
Most of the Solar System's asteroids have orbital eccentricities between 0 and 0.35 with an average value of 0.17.[2] Their comparatively high eccentricities are probably due to the influence of Jupiter and to past collisions.
Comets have very different values of eccentricity. Periodic comets have eccentricities mostly between 0.2 and 0.7,[4] but some of them have highly eccentric elliptical orbits with eccentricities just below 1; for example, Halley's Comet has a value of 0.967. Non-periodic comets follow near-parabolic orbits and thus have eccentricities even closer to 1.
In other words, the usual orbital eccentricity is 0 to 0.35 for asteroids, and 0.2 to 1 for comets. This means there is an overlap, and in addition, there are even a few asteroids with fairly high eccentricities like Eris (0.44) and Sedna (0.85). Maybe the overlap is due to surrounding objects or past orbit or the composition, just like the Wiki on capacitor types mentions different designs and materials for different purposes and charge ranges. From everyday experience with static electricity, we know that some materials and people can build up charge differently.
Similarly, one can imagine that differences in composition and structure of an asteroid or comet would give rise to different electrical properties. On Earth for instance some engineers and geologists work with electrical resistivity tomography where the Wiki explains:
Electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) or electrical resistivity imaging (ERI) is a geophysical technique for imaging sub-surface structures from electrical resistivity measurements made at the surface, or by electrodes in one or more boreholes. If the electrodes are suspended in the boreholes, deeper sections can be investigated. It is closely related to the medical imaging technique electrical impedance tomography (EIT), and mathematically is the same inverse problem. In contrast to medical EIT, however, ERT is essentially a direct current method. A related geophysical method, induced polarization (or spectral induced polarization), measures the transient response and aims to determine the subsurface chargeability properties. Electrical resistivity measurements can be used for identification and quantification of depth of groundwater, detection of clays, and measurement of groundwater conductivity.[1]
Electrical resistivity (also called specific electrical resistance or volume resistivity) is a fundamental property of a material that measures how strongly it resists electric current. A low resistivity indicates a material that readily allows electric current. Resistivity is commonly represented by the Greek letter ρ (rho). The SI unit of electrical resistivity is the ohm-meter (Ω⋅m).[1][2][3] For example, if a 1 m solid cube of material has sheet contacts on two opposite faces, and the resistance between these contacts is 1 Ω, then the resistivity of the material is 1 Ω⋅m.
Electrical conductivity or specific conductance is the reciprocal of electrical resistivity. It represents a material's ability to conduct electric current. It is commonly signified by the Greek letter σ (sigma), but κ (kappa) (especially in electrical engineering) and γ (gamma) are sometimes used. The SI unit of electrical conductivity is siemens per metre (S/m).
There may be other factors that can explain the differences in behavior among the comets and asteroids with overlapping eccentricity. There may also be some research, but I will leave the subject here.
Next week, an increasingly cool Northwest flow will affect the #Isère and the #Alpes North. The snow will subside over the days until Thursday, and our beds should be covered with #neige (possibly from 1000 m Wednesday evening). Menu @skipass
Plains, Midwest to shiver in coldest conditions since spring
By Jessica Storm, AccuWeather Meteorologist Updated Nov. 1, 2021 4:05 AM CET Video A dramatic cooldown will send temperatures plummeting to the low 30s in major cities, sending residents of the Plains and Midwest scurrying for their coats ahead of the chilliest conditions since April.
Residents of the Plains and Midwest may be grabbing their coats and hats this week as a dramatic cooldown chills the region. This will arrive after higher-than-average temperatures warmed the region for weeks at the beginning of autumn.
"After a considerably warm start to the fall season, a cold front drawing air from northern Canada will finally dip into the northern U.S. this week," said AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Matt Rinde.
This cold front will envelop major cities around the Great Lakes, including Chicago and Detroit, while also dipping far enough south to chill residents in Omaha, Nebraska. Low temperatures in the Windy City are forecast to dive into the low-30s at the start of this week, temperatures that haven't been seen since April.
"This cold front will spread some of the coldest weather of the season so far and only felt as recently as this past spring," Rinde said.
Rapid City, South Dakota, has seen temperatures hang around 4 degrees F above average since late September. Come Monday, they could have temperatures diving into the upper teens. Several other cities in the High Plains could also see dips into the lower 20s for multiple nights.
"While this colder push will be considerably lower than recent days and thus far this season, temperatures will actually fall pretty close to average for the early part of November," said Rinde.
Despite temperatures floating around normal, this first chill is expected to feel particularly potent, since residents have not yet adjusted to the lower temperatures that arrive this time of year. Heating costs are likely to soar this week for the first time since last spring.
"The colder air will set up a possible conveyor of unsettled weather through the central Plains into the Middle Atlantic," Rinde explained.
On Halloween, snow and rain were observed streaking out into the Plains, impacting mainly western South Dakota and Nebraska. Then, precipitation expanded farther into Nebraska and Colorado on Halloween night.
The snow will likely taper off to a few chilly rain showers on Monday as the area of unsettled weather shifts into the Midwest.
Farther south, rain will likely begin to blossom by Tuesday in the southern Plains, before becoming more widespread by midweek.
"The most intense precipitation and thunderstorm potential exists in the southern Plains to lower Mississippi Valley, especially on Wednesday, which will raise concerns for localized flash flooding," said AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Tyler Roys.
Much of the northern Plains and Upper Midwest will likely be shielded from precipitation as a dip in the jet stream steers the storm around to the Northeast instead, but areas by the Great Lakes should keep an eye out this week.
"It is that time of year where these systems have the potential for some decent snowfall due to the available moisture during the fall months," Rinde added.
Despite temperatures floating around normal, this first chill is expected to feel particularly potent, since residents have not yet adjusted to the lower temperatures that arrive this time of year. Heating costs are likely to soar this week for the first time since last spring.
"The colder air will set up a possible conveyor of unsettled weather through the central Plains into the Middle Atlantic," Rinde explained.
This flow, in combination with the cold air in place over the Great Lakes, can also cause some lake-effect snow, especially off the northwestern Great Lakes.
"Some of this snow could accumulate in the overnight hours," added Roys.
As the week comes to a close, the potential for storms continues across the region, especially in southern areas.
"There is the potential for another round of enhanced precipitation across the southern Plains, Gulf Coast and Southeast this weekend as a storm tracks eastward," said Roys.
And so on. I think you get the picture. This Winter is probably going to get a little nutty … or, OK, more than a little nutty. In terms of manufactured mass hysteria, it is probably going to make Russiagate, the War on Populism, the Global War on Terror, the Red Scare, and every other manufactured mass-hysteria campaign you can possibly think of look like an amateur production of Wagner’s Götterdammerung.
In other words, kiss reality (or whatever is left of reality at this point) goodbye. The clock is ticking, and GloboCap knows it. If they expect to pull this Great Reset off, they are going to need to terrorize the New-Normal masses into a state of protracted pants-shitting panic and uncontrollable mindless hatred of “the Unvaccinated,” and anyone challenging their rule. A repeat of the Winters of 2020 and 2021 is not going to cut it. It is going to take more than the now standard repertoire of fake and manipulated statistics, dire projections, photos of “death trucks,” non-overflowing overflowing hospitals, and all the other familiar features of the neo-Goebbelsian propaganda juggernaut we have been subjected to for over 18 months.
I don’t know exactly what they’ve got in mind, but I am definitely not looking forward to it. I’m already pretty worn out as it is. From what I gather, so are a lot of you. If it helps at all, maybe look at it this way. We don’t have to take the battle to them. All we have to do is not surrender, withstand the coming siege, and make it to April.
Unseasonable low temperatures in Russia at the moment according to the latest from Electroverse.net
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The lies of those with vested interests are being exposed — more and more people are realizing that the rules of humankind are malleable, that there is no fixed authority requiring religious-like adherence. The days of multinational conglomerates...
As 'our betters' in Glasgow bemoan the impacts of global warming in, among other places, Siberia: "the planet's last great wilderness", northern Russia has actually been experiencing extraordinary lows for the time of year.
On October 31, -36.8C (-34.2F) was registered in Delyankir.
The infamous Verkhoyansk logged -36.6C (-33.9F).
A frigid -36.4C (-33.5F) was observed in Susuman.
While Oymyakon took the cherry with a reading of -38.9C (-38F) on Nov 1 — almost 10C below the seasonal average
Think so, when they pulled the trigger there was no stopping the bullet from leaving the chamber. It's all out in the open, a reinvigorated pathology mixing with growing planetary geological tensions, environmental whether system imbalances, and cosmic influences - many types and possibilities.
From electroverse.net - 11 FEET of snow has already fallen at a ski resort in Alaska since Oct 1st with more extremely heavy snow (12 FEET over 2 days) forecast to fall according to a November 1st youtube report (see below).
Alyeska Resort in Girdwood has started its snow season in jaw-dropping fashion. Officially, Alaska's largest ski resort begins recording its annual snowfall on October 1, but this year historic falls hit earlier than usual with 13 inches...
Alyeska Resort in Girdwood has started its snow season in jaw-dropping fashion.
Officially, Alaska's largest ski resort begins recording its annual snowfall on October 1, but this year historic falls hit earlier than usual with 13 inches "unofficially" settling on September 23:
For historical data consistency, we officially start recording our annual snowfall on October 1 each year. After the storm last night, we are unofficially sitting at 13" pic.twitter.com/ifaCosrD1E
— Alyeska Resort (@resortalyeska) September 24, 2021
September's snowstorm was a mere taster of things to come. Since that official start date of Oct 1, a whopping 136 inches (11.3 feet) of global warming goodness has accumulated at the top of the mountain (to Nov 1). Breaking down the numbers - data courtesy of alyeskaresort.com— 22 inches of that fell within the last 24 hours, with the 'snow depth' at the summit currently standing at an astonishing 67 inches.
"We got pounded," said one Girdwood local in an email to me.
"[This is] the most snow I have seen in my 37 years around here," they added.
Temperatures across The Last Frontier have held cooler than the average in recent months. This is thought to have been brought about by "much more sea ice in the Chukchi and East Siberian Seas northwest of Alaska," according to Rick Thoman, climate specialist with ACCAP/IARC at UAF:
October 2021 brought much more #seaice in the Chukchi & East Siberian Seas northwest of Alaska than the past few years, as seen in the median daily concentration for Oct 2018-21 from high res AMSR2 passive microwave data, courtesy U. Bremen. #akwx #Arctic @Climatologist49 @ZLabe pic.twitter.com/h5GLghr3So
— Rick Thoman (@AlaskaWx) November 1, 2021
Moreover, and as was the case last season, a lingering anomalous chill contributed to Alyeska holding onto its snowpack into the summer — as reported by climatologist Brian Brettschneider, snow depth on the mountain was still at 98 inches in late May.
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