The Ice Age Cometh! Forget Global Warming!

[Konstantin]

Amazing. I saw a flock of storks yesterday too. They were in formation and flying west. Maybe they are feeling something. There was one interesting story that i read today. Its about some monkeys in some Dutch zoo. They were frighten and all the time they look only in one direction. They were siting in a group and just looking in one direction for a few day all in fear. Nobody knows why. Maybe they feel something too. And also about weather. Here in Macedonia we have 2 really hot periods until now. One in June for about one week and second at the end of July. Its interesting that in the morning air is unusually cold for this part of the year. It was never like that before. The atmosphere is colder.If you stay in the shadow or there are clouds on the sky and sunlight cant rich directly on you, then its pretty cold. Very interesting times. Periods of very sharp temperature changes. Period with unusual death of young people also.( teenagers or few years older) from strokes and cardiac arrest in most cases. I guess that this earth changes and changes in our universe are affecting everyone .

 

[Pierre]

Here in France we experienced the third warmest month of July since WWI. It was indeed very warm with an average maximum temperature of 31° Celsius. Thermometers reached almost 40° Celsius in some places in the South West. There's also been quite a lot of violent stormy episodes.

However this warm month of July happened after 7 unusually cold and wet months. So while July 2013 might be a very warm month, 2013 might be overall quite a cold and humid year.

 

[Laura]

Not only are we having this very warm month, we are having an odd infestation of mice. Now mice usually flock into a house when it turns cold, not hot. And we don't have stuff out for them to eat. But it's like the insides of the ceilings and some other areas are just crawling with them and they are unusually bold. One in my office was climbing up and down the curtains in the middle of the day right next to me sitting here typing! What is UP with that?

 

[dant]

Perhaps that mouse wanted a sneak
preview of HOM II as you are writing it? ;)

 

[Keit]

There was one interesting story that i read today. Its about some monkeys in some Dutch zoo. They were frighten and all the time they look only in one direction. They were siting in a group and just looking in one direction for a few day all in fear. Nobody knows why. Maybe they feel something too.

Very interesting. Here is an article on SOTT about it:
http://www.sott.net/article/264624-Spooked-baboons-baffle-Dutch-zoo-in-Emmen

 

[H-KQGE]

Not only are we having this very warm month, we are having an odd infestation of mice. Now mice usually flock into a house when it turns cold, not hot. And we don't have stuff out for them to eat. But it's like the insides of the ceilings and some other areas are just crawling with them and they are unusually bold. One in my office was climbing up and down the curtains in the middle of the day right next to me sitting here typing! What is UP with that?

I've had mice problems for a while now too. I just assumed it was the uncouth neighbours along with the wafer-thin walls in the building. And funnily enough the mice (it's got to be a family because others have complained) have been quiet during the cooler periods (it sounds like a mouse war in the walls & ceiling half the time) & have picked up again recently. I've noticed & commented to others about their "brazen attitudes" to others but no one else seems to be paying attention as is most days.

 

[Buddy]

Not only are we having this very warm month, we are having an odd infestation of mice. Now mice usually flock into a house when it turns cold, not hot. And we don't have stuff out for them to eat. But it's like the insides of the ceilings and some other areas are just crawling with them and they are unusually bold. One in my office was climbing up and down the curtains in the middle of the day right next to me sitting here typing! What is UP with that?

I've had mice problems for a while now too. I just assumed it was the uncouth neighbours along with the wafer-thin walls in the building. And funnily enough the mice (it's got to be a family because others have complained) have been quiet during the cooler periods (it sounds like a mouse war in the walls & ceiling half the time) & have picked up again recently. I've noticed & commented to others about their "brazen attitudes" to others but no one else seems to be paying attention as is most days.

Being a country boy, I grew up noticing my family was always pleased with any evidence of barn owls in residence on or near our property. Come to find out later a single family of these owls can find and dispose of more that a dozen mice in one night. So, I'm wondering about the status of mice predators like owls, hawks, cats, dogs, skunks and snakes in y'alls environment.

If there are no other significant changes in the food supply that mice eat or will adapt to eating, then conventional grandfolks' wisdom suggests that usually when mice are that bold, the pointer is to something extra ordinary - like either too few predators or too many.

 

[Laura]

We have owls in the park and other nightbirds.

 

[H-KQGE]

I don't know what birds are in my vicinity other than gulls, but there's foxes & cats.

 

[Yozilla]

There is an old saying here:"Kad nema mačke - miševi kolo vode!" (When there is no cat - mice are dancing around!)


Almost forgotten what i wanted to pass - there was some serious rainfall in Pakistan:

_http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/08/03/317023/flash-floods-kill-13-in-nw-pakistan/

 

[Yozilla]

More inundations:
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/08/17/319162/flash-floods-kill-25-people-in-china/
&
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/08/17/319243/flood-lightning-killed-50-in-yemen/

Y

 

[angelburst29]

*Record floods hit Russia border area*

http://www.euronews.com/2013/08/18/record-floods-hit-russian-border-area/ Plus video.

Officials say the floods, brought on by unusually heavy rains, are the biggest to hit the area in 120 years.

Around 15-thousand people have already been evacuated. They are now taking refuge in emergency shelters.

The government is flying in aid to help those in the worst affected areas.

The flood waters are not expected to recede for several days.

Devastating floods along Russia’s border with China could force 100-thousand people out of their homes.

Villages in the Amur region and in the Jewish Autonomous District have been engulfed. Water levels have reached six metres in some places.


*34 major fires are burning across 11 states, fueled largely by severe drought conditions*

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/08/15/20034927-idaho-faces-risk-of-explosive-fire-growth-as-34-wildfires-rage-nationwide

Though it has not been a record setting year for the amount of wildfires, it has been a noteworthy one. In June, 19 firefighters were killed while attempting to contain a fire in Yarnell, Ariz. In July, 486 homes were destroyed in Colorado’s Black Forest Fire, the most destructive ever in state history.

The Forest Service issued a map showing the location of the wildfires throughout the country Thursday.

Apart from Idaho, California and Oregon were both dealing with five large wildfires. Utah had four, Alaska three, with Washington and Montana both on two. Arizona, Colorado, Nevada and Wyoming each had one.

 

[Ellipse]

For the record, I just discovered there is this site with stats per year about fireball : http://www.amsmeteors.org/fireball_event/2013/

2005 : 467 events
2006 : 517 events
2007 : 591 events
2008 : 728 events
2009 : 695 events
2010 : 954 events
2011 : 1632 events
2012 : 2141 events

But there's this warning on the site:

Circumstances effecting the number of reports and events collected by the AMS

There are circumstances affecting the data collected by the AMS that should be understood to prevent misinterpretation regarding the change of fireballs reported.

From January 2005 through December 2010 the AMS fireball reports system was based on the same data collection form and process created by Bob Lunsford in 2005.
In December 2010 the AMS fireball reporting system was upgraded to a database google maps system developed by Mike Hankey and company.
The new software made it much easier for witnesses to file reports and resulted in more witnesses successfully reporting events.
Internet traffic on the AMS site has increased since 2005. In current years, more people are connected with mobile devices, laptops and computers than ever before. This leads to more people reporting fireballs.
At least one huge event with over 100+ reports in 2009 was space trash, and there was at least 1 space trash event for 2012. The graph of 100+ events has not been adjusted to account for space trash.
A percentage of reports received are cloud contrails, planes, sun dogs or phenomenon other than fireball meteors. These reports are deleted when detected and generally tend to be events reported by only one witness.
In November 2012, the AMS fireball reporting software was upgraded again and this upgrade resulted in an immediate increase of reports received. It is believed that improvements to the user interface lessened the amount of form abandonment and other training issues that may have kept witnesses from successfully logging events on the previous version.

[...]

While the AMS fireball log has many uses and benefits, based on the AMS reports alone it is not possible to make conclusions about an increase or decrease in fireball/bolide events from year to year. However, the data shows that reports submitted to the society have been increasing and a significant increase in large events was specifically noticed in 2012. This warrants further study. A pairing of DOD bolide data with AMS event data would prove useful to the scientific research of meteors striking Earth. In addition, the AMS reports identify the date, time, location and relative size of significant fireball events. This information could be useful in pinpointing events inside the DOD’s data sets. The AMS makes all report data available through our website and encourages the use of our data.

http://www.amsmeteors.org/fireballs/fireball-tracking-system-analysis/

 

[Pierre]

For the record, I just discovered there is this site with stats per year about fireball : http://www.amsmeteors.org/fireball_event/2013/

2005 : 467 events
2006 : 517 events
2007 : 591 events
2008 : 728 events
2009 : 695 events
2010 : 954 events
2011 : 1632 events
2012 : 2141 events

Yes that's the source we use to get an idea of the increase in observed fireballs. Believe or not, there's no global fireball observation network, so we have to rely on those limited data. In another message I posted the chart compiled from the annual activity that you listed.

 

[Ellipse]

Thanks for the link Bellibaste.