Solar Grand Solar Minimum part deux

TxGal

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From Adapt 2030:

Distorted History (Real Reasons for Change) - YouTube

Distorted History (Real Reasons for Change)
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Dec 2, 2021

View: https://youtu.be/kvmbXd_Jpn4

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As we look at electromagnetic distortions happening across the planet affecting cloud cells, jet streams and agriculture, it needs to be asked if the Grand Solar Minimum is THE reason for the hurried changes we are seeing in society.
 

TxGal

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From The Oppenheimer Ranch Project:

Grimsvötn Volcano: Subglacial Meltwater Flood Started As Glacier Subsides 23m - Ulawun Alert Raised - YouTube

Grimsvötn Volcano: Subglacial Meltwater Flood Started As Glacier Subsides 23m - Ulawun Alert Raised
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Grimsvötn (Iceland): subglacial meltwater flood - top of glacier subsides https://bit.ly/3rxh0lK
The glacial flood (jökulhlaup) from Grímsvötn volcano has started https://bit.ly/3lxLfoS
Jökulhlaup Defined https://bit.ly/3n7s3jr
Grimsvötn Seismic Tremor Live Chart https://bit.ly/3GdbNmX
Grimsvotn Volcano Seismic Measurements Live https://bit.ly/3oh9s4h
Ulawun volcano (Papua New Guinea): seismic unrest, Volcanic Alert Level raised to Orange https://bit.ly/32P06o9
Ulawun Eruption History https://s.si.edu/3ElBcKW
A volcano has erupted (2019) in Papua New Guinea, forcing 5000 residents to evacuate their homes https://bit.ly/3GbyhVs
Volcano eruptions caught on satelite camera 2019 06 26 Ulawun and Manam https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_IrS...
 

TxGal

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Sure isn't a lot of good news out there any more, is there?

Today's Electroverse article was grim!

No, there really isn't. I'm trying to catch up on both reading and posting, especially GSM material, and reading it article after article gets pretty dark and grim...not much in between stuff. We're in a bit of a break cold-weather wise, thankfully, but I think we have cold fronts coming in near the end of next week. At least it gives us a bit of time to get some things done around the country place. For now.
 

TxGal

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Season's first snowfall blankets Turkey with up to 50 centimeters (19.6 inches) of snow -- Earth Changes -- Sott.net

Season's first snowfall blankets Turkey with up to 50 centimeters (19.6 inches) of snow

Kemal Pasha
toysmatrix.com
Fri, 03 Dec 2021 19:33 UTC

SNOW
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Winter has officially arrived in Turkey as several cities across the nation experienced their first snowfall of the season, which left drivers struggling on slippery roads and children rejoicing in the pristine playground Mother Nature provided.

In the east, in Muş, where the snow had reached a depth of 50 centimeters (19.6 inches), several roads to villages were closed due to the heavy snowfall overnight, and teams set out to clear the roads in the morning after four hours of arduous work.

The mountainous landscape was straight out of a postcard as the ranges of mountains were covered with blankets of snow.

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A little to the west, Tunceli's Pülümür district received the first snow of the year in the city as the town's center and hills were blanketed in white, with the higher ground seeing as much as 15 centimeters.

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Meanwhile, further west, in Bolu's magnificent ski center Kartalkaya, preparations for the season opening on Dec. 17 were met with a bit of impatience and the snow depth on the slopes reached 20 centimeters with the help of snowmaking machines.

The Kartalkaya Ski Center has always been the preferred destination of thousands of holidaymakers every winter, and this season is shaping up to be no different with 250,000 tourists expected to come to hotels in Kartalkaya.

During the ski season, the site becomes a dream location for ski lovers with 25 tracks boasting a length of 50 kilometers (31 miles) and the snow reaching a depth of 2 meters (6.5 feet).

Halit Ergül, president of the Western Black Sea Hoteliers Association, said that reservations were higher than in previous years. "As hoteliers in Kartalkaya, we are almost on the verge of finishing our preparations," he said and noted that their guest load was likely to be higher due to people wanting to get away from their homes after spending a year in them due to the global COVID-19 pandemic.

A little more central, in Ilgaz people also enjoyed the first snow of the year - and the upcoming possibility of skiing - as the Yurduntepe Ski Center, located on Ilgaz Mountain, one of the important centers of winter tourism in Turkey, turned white with snowfall.

The snow depth at the Yurduntepe Ski Center has reached 5 centimeters. Gabriel Keleş, one of the visitors at the center, said that they came to the ski resort when they heard that it was snowing.

Although there was not enough snow for skiing yet, the early snowfall this year has given them hope, Keleş said.

"We were greeted by a beautiful view of Ilgaz," he said and added: "There are estimations that it will snow more in Yurduntepe this year. We believe that this year, after the pandemic, the region will be full of photographers, nature lovers and skiers. We are waiting for heavy snowfall with curiosity and excitement."

In the Yüksekova district of Hakkari, it also snowed, covering the high parts of the Cilo Mountains in white, while in Van several people were stranded due to heavy snowfall.

People stranded in nine vehicles on the Van-Bahçesaray highway due to snow were later rescued by teams from the municipality.

The vehicles were stranded on the Karabet Pass on the highway, which sits at an altitude of 3,000 meters, after heavy snowfall.
Teams cleared the snowy road, allowing the stranded people to reach the town.

The Regional Directorate of Meteorology warned against ice and frost that may occur in the region overnight and in the morning.

The highest expected temperature for provincial centers is expected to be 5 degrees Celsius (41 degrees Fahrenheit) in Hakkari, 4 degrees Celcius in Muş and Van, and 2 degrees Celcius in Bitlis.

To the east and the northeast, Ardahan and Ağrı hosted picturesque views but also caused headaches for drivers as snowfall turned into snowstorms from time to time, causing several roads and highways to be closed, with some in Ardahan unlikely to reopen until spring 2022.

Several trucks were stranded on a highway between Ağrı and Erzurum due to icy driving conditions.


In Bursa's magnificent Uludağ, one of the epicenters of winter tourism, the snow had accumulated up to 20 centimeters. Hotel operators, which plan to open the season on Dec. 10, said that reservations had already filled 50% of the area's capacity.

On Uludağ, at an altitude of 2,543 meters, snowfall covered the ground in white.

"This year, the snow came earlier than last year," said Murat Pınarcı, one of the hotel operators. "The season is going pretty well."

Up north, in the Çamlıhemşin district of Rize, the snow in higher altitudes exceeded 30 centimeters in places. While there was a downpour in Rize's city center, the Çamlıhemşin district saw scattered snow flurries.

In addition to the snowstorm, cold and rainy weather continues to hover over the eastern Black Sea region.

Snow graced even the furthest northwestern provinces of Turkey this week, as high parts of Kırklareli were also blanketed in white.
 

TxGal

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With 'jaw-dropping,' 'astounding' and 'extraordinary' weather, Vancouver just had its rainiest fall ever -- Earth Changes -- Sott.net

With 'jaw-dropping,' 'astounding' and 'extraordinary' weather, Vancouver just had its rainiest fall ever

Brendan Kergin
Vancouver is Awesome
Thu, 02 Dec 2021 11:41 UTC

Rain drenched Vancouver this fall, smashing records in city and across the province
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Rain drenched Vancouver this fall, smashing records in city and across the province

The fall of 2021 was quite a season.

Vancouver saw weather bombs, seven atmospheric rivers in a month and a tornado, among other things. And along with all of that came the rain.

The City of Vancouver, pelted with near-constant rain for three months, smashed its record for rainiest fall on record (which meteorologically speaking runs from Sept. 1 to Nov. 30) says Environment Canada warning preparedness meteorologist Armel Castellan.

Over September, October and November 611.5 mm of rain fell here. That breaks the old record of 531.9 mm in 1996, smashing it by almost 80 mm; in meteorological terms, that's a lot. And records go back over 120 years.

On average we see 364.4 mm, so this year we got 168 per cent of the usual.

But it wasn't the most, with Abbotsford getting an "astounding" 884.5 mm over the three months; the average there is 475 mm.

"The previous wettest fall for Abbotsford was 2016 and was only 666 mm, so you overshot that in Abbotsford by over 200 mm which is absolutely jaw-dropping," says Castellan.

And in Victoria, where the total wasn't as high, the difference from the usual was massive; at the Victoria Gonzales station they had 509.6 mm, compared to the normal of 230.1 mm. That's 221 per cent of the normal.


"Honestly, for a seasonal record to be broken by that much, I don't know if I've ever seen that," Castellan says.

While daily records can vary quite a bit, for an entire season to break records by those numbers is extremely unusual, given that it requires such a long pattern of weather.

Speaking of daily record for a second, Penticton set a heat record on Dec. 1; it was 22 C in the South Okanagan town, that's the highest temperature ever recorded in Canada in December.

Castellan notes that everyone will remember the atmospheric river storm that dropped over 250 mm of rain on areas like Hope and the Coquihalla between Nov. 13 and 15; he says it's likely the most financially impactful weather event in the nation's history, and happened just months after the deadliest weather event in Canada (the mid-summer heat dome).

He adds that the situation was exacerbated by soil conditions which were already saturated after two months of rain, meaning water wasn't able to soak into the ground.

And that was followed by back-to-back-to-back significant atmospheric rivers, each dropping up to 100 mm on areas.

"That was essentially adding insult to injury," Castellan says.

Things could have been worse, though. He notes there were multiple weather bombs (when there's explosive cyclogenesis, a term for the rapid pressure drop over an area that's part of bomb cyclone).

One massive one luckily didn't hit Vancouver; to be a weather bomb a drop in pressure of 24 hectopascals has to happen in 24 hours; the one off the coast of B.C. dropped closer 40 hectopascals in 24 hours, but changed directions instead of continuing west.

Castellan says if that had happened over Vancouver it would have led to high winds and hundreds of thousands without power, if not more. And it would have happened in early November.

"It is hard to say we got lucky, that it could have been worse, but it easily could have been," he says.

While not as extreme as the other events, temperatures were high throughout November, even for Vancouver.

"7.5 C was the mean," Castellan says. "Normally it's 6.3 C. That's a 1.2 degree anomaly."

Over a month that's notable he says, but expected as seven atmospheric rivers flowed over the Lower Mainland. They aren't rare, he adds, with up to 25 over the fall, winter and early spring, but they're often not as intense as the last few have been. And with them comes higher than usual temperatures.

"November was a fairly extraordinary month in several respects," Castellan says.

Oh, and there was a legitimate, measured, rated tornado that started off the coast of the Vancouver airport and came aground at UBC. And it wasn't a little waterspout that happen once in a while in the Strait of Georgia.

"It had a supracellular structure," says Castellan. "There was deep, organized convection."

Nothing like it has been recorded near Vancouver in November, he notes.

"To see a rated tornado just goes to show how extraordinary 2021 has been," Castellan says. "And, without question, November as well."
 

TxGal

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Oh my, just spotted this posting from Patrice Lewis over at Rural Revolution....prepare accordingly!:

Rural Revolution (rural-revolution.com)

Friday, December 3, 2021
Firewood shortage

A couple weeks ago, I stumbled across an article entitled "Americans Panic-Buy Firewood And Stoves Amid Energy Crisis": "The global energy crisis has led to a spike in natural gas, heating oil, propane, and power prices, making the cost of heating a home this fall/winter very expensive. As a result, Americans are panic buying cords of wood and stoves to deflect soaring fossil fuel prices. ... 'Everyone is extremely concerned about how they are going to pay for the cost of home heating,' said Brian Pieck, the owner of House of Warmth Stove and Fireplace Shop in New Milford, a town in rural western Connecticut. He said that concern had led people to panic buying woodstoves, adding his sales for woodstoves over $2,800 are up 50%. 'Our manufacturer is working feverishly around the clock.'"



Curious, I reached out to my contact at Lehman's, Glenda Ervin, and asked if this if this is what she saw reflected in the store. She replied, "Yes, wood heating and cooking stoves are in great demand. One of our wood-cooking stoves has a year-long waiting list, but they are still being pre-ordered!"



I did a little more internet research and saw confirmation of this trend:

Firewood demand soars amid rising fuel costs: "Americans' demand for firewood is on the rise thanks to surging fuel prices and firewood suppliers are struggling to keep up. ... Phil Clement, who has operated Phil's Firewood for nearly 30 years in Jefferson County, New York, [said] keeping up with the high demand has been a 'struggle.' 'It's been a lot busier than we've had in the past. It's just never-ending,' Clement said. 'It seems like as soon as you're getting caught up, the phone rings again and you get more orders.' Clement said high fuel prices are unquestionably to blame for the demand for firewood. 'Everybody's worried about (firewood) prices because firewood follows the price of oil,' Clement said. 'It takes diesel fuel to produce the firewood because logging and everything like that runs on diesel fuel.'"

Feeling the burn: Firewood sales, prices are blazing: "Amid the inflation surge that's rippled through the U.S. economy and touched thousands upon thousands of products, one of the more obscure items on the list is firewood. It's a fuel from earlier times, so niche an industry that no one appears to even try to track pricing on a national level. Talk to firewood vendors in state after state, though, and they'll all tell you the same thing: Sales are booming on the eve of winter, and prices are soaring."

Have others noticed this? Is anyone transitionng to wood heat this winter in response to energy prices?

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And 5 people have posted comments to her posting as of now:

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    sjfDecember 3, 2021 at 7:32 AM
    We are transitioning away from wood. We have just gotten to old to fill up the wood stove. I do have 1 year's worth of wood in case the power is off saved. I always liked the wood stove but we just can not do it anymore.
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    AnonymousDecember 3, 2021 at 7:37 AM
    As someone living in Texas that struggled last February in the deep freeze, we are making sure to have sufficient fire wood on hand in case we lose power again.

    We had 30 minutes of power on a rolling 12 hour window for 3 days. We had 5 pipes burst, though fortunately we were able to shut off the water before extensive damage was done. We slept in the living room for those 3 days, closing off everything in the rest of the house. It got to -2*F overnight here (never happened before in my life) and it got down to 42*F in the living room with our fireplace going full time.

    Fortunately we have a propane stove, so I was able to prepare hot meals while we were home bound. Icy roads under 8" of snow meant even with our 4 wheel drive, we were not able to get down our driveway. Demand for firewood has skyrocketed here, with face cords running about $150.
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    daledee1946@gmail.comDecember 3, 2021 at 8:27 AM
    I would love to be able to purchase a wood stove, but living on Social Security it is not in the budget. Heating costs last year ran between $300 and $350 dollars and expect it to be higher this year . We have ordered clear plastic to line the windows and have just completed installing new weather striping . Fire wood seems to be high and sells out very fast , although we do have a wealth of trees on our property , just no way to utilize it. We may just use our solar generator if electric costs are too high this year,

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    enn essDecember 3, 2021 at 11:13 AM
    I feel for those having to deal with this and understand the hassle experienced by others regarding the work involved and BTU's gained. Wood heat as compared to any other source, is by far a more comfortable heat, it seems to warm the bones and the heart when the other forms merely put out heat. There is nothing quite like wood heat, I think it's in our DNA. I would like to not use wood heat but the alternatives are not acceptable as is the case with so many. I'm lucky in that I have my own supply, so obtaining it is merely a trade off in labor. It is labor intensive. According to my calculations, for every stick of wood put into the stove or furnace of any kind that piece of wood, from standing tree to ashes, that stick of wood is handled no less that 10 times. If you hand split, the labor is even worse.
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    AnonymousDecember 3, 2021 at 2:06 PM
    We are not new to wood, but I can see many new people scrambling to find wood. I see trucks with rounds heading to be split, so I guess lots of people will be trying to burn green wood.
    We are in East texas, so usually only need about 1 cord to get us through. Last year was an eye opener! But we survived and have fixed the gaps in our preps.
    For many years, we cut and split all our own wood, but advancing age has us buying some now. I still have the will, but the body does not!
    We love our buck stove, very efficient.
    I found an old wood stove at a garage sale for $20 this summer. I may eventually use it in our greenhouse, or my dream of having a steam sauna might come true.
    Love your column!
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TxGal

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Rare blizzard, heavy snow warnings issued in Hawaii (nypost.com)

Rare blizzard warning in Hawaii, up to 12 inches of snow expected
By
Hannah Frishberg
December 3, 2021 4:50pm
Updated

hawaii blizzard warning

A timelapse captures the incoming snowstorm enveloping a telescope in Hawaii.Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope v

A rare blizzard warning has been issued for the Big Island of Hawaii, with a large amount of snow anticipated.

The National Weather Service issued an “urgent” warning Friday ahead of a huge storm hitting the state, which generally has a tropical climate.

“Blizzard warning for the Big Island summits,” reads the weather advisory. “Travel could be very difficult to impossible. Blowing snow will significantly reduce visibility at times, with periods of zero visibility.”

The warning is in place from 6 p.m. Friday to 6 a.m. Sunday local time. A high-wind warning has also been put into effect.

Winds are anticipated to gust over 100 mph, and total snow accumulations may be up to a full foot “or more.” Additionally, the strong winds “will likely cause significant drifting of snow.”

As a result, the Weather Service advises that travel should be restricted to emergencies. “If you must travel, have a winter survival kit with you. If you get stranded, stay with your vehicle,” it further warns.

A rare blizzard warning has been issued for the Big Island of Hawaii, with a large amount of snow anticipated.
Hawaii is currently experiencing a “severe to extreme drought,” according to AccuWeather.Canada-France-Hawaii-Telescope

The last time blizzard warnings were issued for Hawaii was in the spring of 2018.
The last time blizzard warnings were issued for Hawaii was in the spring of 2018.Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope v

The storm follows an “abnormally dry” period for much of the 50th state, parts of which have recently experienced “severe to extreme drought,” AccuWeather reported. While the capital of Honolulu generally receives 2.25 inches of rain in November, this year it got just 0.09 inches. So far this month, it has received “just a trace of rain.”

With the incoming storm, a potential 6 to 12 inches of rain can fall on Honolulu, and up to 40 inches are considered possible in the south- and southwest-facing mountainsides of the islands.

A rare blizzard warning has been issued for the Big Island of Hawaii, with a large amount of snow anticipated.
The National Weather Service issued a high wind warning on the Big Island of Hawaii.Canada-France-Hawaii-Telescope

A rare blizzard warning has been issued for the Big Island of Hawaii, with a large amount of snow anticipated.
Winds are expected to reach over 100 mph, causing visibility issues.Canada-France-Hawaii-Telescope

Flood watches have been issued for “all of the islands” of Hawaii. They will likely remain in place till Monday, the outlet added.

The last time a blizzard warning was issued for the state was in spring 2018.

A rare blizzard warning has been issued for the Big Island of Hawaii, with a large amount of snow anticipated.
The National Weather Service has warned people not to travel amid the snowstorm.Canada-France-Hawaii-Telescope

“Although Hawaii has the reputation of year-round warmth, snow actually makes a yearly appearance atop some of its highest peaks,” said AccuWeather meteorologist Lauren Hyde.
 

jed turtle

a brother in the Lord
Sun’s output is down, heliosphere is shrinking, thus cosmic rays arriving are increasing, causing more clouds, blocking more solar gain, and apparently juicing the magma inside the planet, causing the volcanoes to squirt out thick gaseous clouds miles high to add to the loss of solar gain. None of that was caused by humans. All of that has happened cyclically. Before industrialization.

glad for the folks that just woke to wood heat as an alternative. Hope they can find and afford the wood.
 

Martinhouse

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TxGal, thanks so very much for posting this Rural Revolution piece.

I immediately called my sister and let her know what was said, as she has only a little over one winter's worth of firewood and maybe 80% in her propane tank. She intends to save all her propane for cooking as she probably won't be able to afford any next time, if it's even still available. Right now she's using her new mini-split as, at this time, she can still afford the electric bill and for now, at least, it's still readily available.

Thanks, again!

Off topic...did you watch Ice Age Farmer's cute little 5:16 min. video about "Survivor Cow"?
 

TxGal

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TxGal, thanks so very much for posting this Rural Revolution piece.

I immediately called my sister and let her know what was said, as she has only a little over one winter's worth of firewood and maybe 80% in her propane tank. She intends to save all her propane for cooking as she probably won't be able to afford any next time, if it's even still available. Right now she's using her new mini-split as, at this time, she can still afford the electric bill and for now, at least, it's still readily available.

Thanks, again!

Off topic...did you watch Ice Age Farmer's cute little 5:16 min. video about "Survivor Cow"?

You're welcome! Not the best news, that's for sure....but I guess not much of a surprise either. Seems like so many things are just a mess anymore.

Gosh, a few weeks ago DH and I were out cutting a few younger oak trees that were brought down by the ice storm last winter. We'd left them to dry since then, and finally got to cutting them into wood stove lengths. While we were in that stretch of our woods, we mentally marked a few oak trees of similar size for cutting down for future firewood. They were all too crowded together. We figured we'd bring them down and let them dry for next year. I'd guess we'll be dealing with this for a few years, at least.

We've got the 1lb propane bottles (several cases) for the Little Buddy heaters, and I'm really glad we got them when we did in the spring. I'm not seeing them around any more, and I think we're seeing the grilling size (20lb ?) running in short supply again.

Haven't had a chance yet to see it, maybe tomorrow morning. I was just so darn surprised he actually posted it on You Tube! I thought he was done with them.
 

Martinhouse

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When I linked to it from Twitter, it went to BitChute, so maybe he's posting in both places?

EDIT: Wrong, it linked to the youtube one. I guess I just checked BitChute first. I don't even have his YouTube link bookmarked any more.
 
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TxGal

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Here's a new one from Adapt 2030, asking a question I've been asking myself:

Göbekli Tepe, Easter Island & Kyrgyzsthan Connections - YouTube

Göbekli Tepe, Easter Island & Kyrgyzsthan Connections
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As we look at electromagnetic distortions happening across the planet affecting cloud cells, jet streams and agriculture, it needs to be asked if the Grand Solar Minimum is THE reason for the hurried changes we are seeing in society.
 

TxGal

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Another volano blows high, likely with a decent VEI ranking which could affect the climate:

Indonesia's Mount Semeru Erupts As Thousands Flee | ZeroHedge

Indonesia's Mount Semeru Erupts As Thousands Flee
BY TYLER DURDEN
SATURDAY, DEC 04, 2021 - 09:14 AM

Indonesia's Mount Semeru suddenly erupted on Saturday, spewing a massive column of ash and smoke 40,000 feet into the sky that rained down on surrounding densely populated areas.



Mount Semeru is located in the Lumajang district in East Java province. People ran for their lives as the area was quickly covered in ash and daytime turned into night.

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"Several areas went dark after being covered by volcanic ash," the country's disaster mitigation agency told CNN.

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More videos published on social media show the sheer magnitude of the eruption.

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There are reports that two districts around the volcano have been severely affected. Government officials have yet to report casualties, and emergency teams are still evaluating the situation as it unfolds.

Semeru's alert status has remained elevated since its last eruption in December 2020. Indonesia, an island archipelago made up of more than 17,000 volcanic islands, sits on the two continental plates on what is commonly known as the "Ring of Fire," which is often plagued with high levels of tectonic and volcanic activity.

*This story is developing...
 

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Indonesia's volcano spews ash, gas; 1 dead, dozens hurt
Indonesia's highest volcano on Java island has spewed thick columns of ash, searing gas and lava down its slopes in a sudden eruption triggered by heavy rains
By AGOES BASOEKI Associated Press
4 December 2021, 11:50

Villagers rest at a temporary shelter after evacuating their homes following the eruption of Mount Semeru , in Sumberwuluh village, Lumajang, East Java, Indonesia, Saturday, Dec. 4, 2021. The highest volcano on Indonesia’s most densely populated isla

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Villagers rest at a temporary shelter after evacuating their homes following the eruption of Mount Semeru , in Sumberwuluh village, Lumajang, East Java, Indonesia, Saturday, Dec. 4, 2021. The highest volcano on Indonesia’s most densely populated island of Java has spewed thick columns of ash high into the sky, triggering panic among people living nearby. There were no immediate reports of casualties. (AP Photo/Rokhmad)

LUMAJANG, Indonesia -- The highest volcano on Indonesia’s most densely populated island of Java spewed thick columns of ash, searing gas and lava down its slopes in a sudden eruption triggered by heavy rains on Saturday. At least one villager died from burns and dozens were hospitalized.

Mount Semeru’s eruption in Lumajang district in East Java province left several villages blanketed with falling ash.

A thunderstorm and days of rain, which had eroded and finally collapsed the lava dome atop the 3,676-meter (12,060-foot) Semeru, triggered an eruption, said Eko Budi Lelono, who heads the geological survey center.

He said flows of searing gas and lava traveled up to 800 meters (2,624 feet) to a nearby river at least twice on Saturday. People were advised to stay 5 kilometers (3.1 miles) from the crater’s mouth, the agency said.

“Thick columns of ash have turned several villages to darkness,” said Lumajang district head Thoriqul Haq. Several hundred people were moved to temporary shelters or left for other safe areas, he said, adding that power blackout hampered the evacuation.

The debris and lava mixed with the rainfall formed thick mud that destroyed the main bridge connecting Lumajang and the neighboring district of Malang, as well as a smaller bridge, Haq said.

Despite an increase in activity since Wednesday, Semeru’s alert status has remained at the third highest of four levels since it began erupting last year, and Indonesia’s Volcanology Center for Geological Hazard Mitigation did not raise it this week, Lelono said.

One man died from severe burns, and 41 others were hospitalized with burn injuries, said Indah Masdar, the deputy district head. She said two villagers were reported missing and several sand miners were trapped in isolated areas along the village river.

Entire houses in Curah Kobokan village were damaged by volcanic debris, Masdar said.

Television reports showed people screaming and running under a huge ash cloud, their faces wet from rain mixed with volcanic dust. The last time Semeru erupted in January, there were no casualties.

Indonesia, an archipelago of more than 270 million people, is prone to earthquakes and volcanic activity because it sits along the Pacific “Ring of Fire,” a horseshoe-shaped series of fault lines.

Indonesia's volcano spews ash, gas; 1 dead, dozens hurt - ABC News (go.com)
 

TxGal

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Below is a full video of a series Adapt 2030 did in 4 parts this past week. I think one of the parts is posted, but not the other three:

Messages From Prior Civilizations (FULL) - YouTube

Messages From Prior Civilizations (FULL)
11,810 views
Dec 4, 2021

View: https://youtu.be/XtmtmQwhI-M
Run time is 45:12

Synopsis provided:

As we look at electromagnetic distortions happening across the planet affecting cloud cells, jet streams and agriculture, it needs to be asked if the Grand Solar Minimum is THE reason for the hurried changes we are seeing in society.
 

TxGal

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From The Oppenheimer Ranch Project:

Semeru Volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: HIGH LEVEL ERUPTION TO 40000 ft (12200 m) - Grimsvötn Update - YouTube

Semeru Volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: HIGH LEVEL ERUPTION TO 40000 ft (12200 m) - Grimsvötn Update
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Semeru volcano (East Java, Indonesia): massive eruption this afternoon sends hot avalanche to inhabited areas https://bit.ly/2ZWIPIM
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Record Cold Grips Siberia (-68.3F), Northern Hemisphere Snow Mass Marches On, + Canada Sees Lowest November Temp Since 2004 (-45.6F) - Electroverse

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RECORD COLD GRIPS SIBERIA (-68.3F), NORTHERN HEMISPHERE SNOW MASS MARCHES ON, + CANADA SEES LOWEST NOVEMBER TEMP SINCE 2004 (-45.6F)
DECEMBER 2, 2021 CAP ALLON

Dr. Frederick Seitz:I have never before witnessed a more disturbing corruption of the peer-review process than the events that led to this IPCC report.”

Dr. Tom Segalstad:The IPCC global warming model is not supported by the scientific data.

RECORD COLD GRIPS SIBERIA (-68.3F)

Last winter (2020-21) held historically cold across vast swathes of transcontinental Russia — it went down as northern/central Asia’s ‘longest and harshest’ winter on record. But now this year, the chill has started even earlier…

Extreme frosts have struck Siberia this week. A low of -55.7C (-68.3F) was observed in Delyankir on December 1.

Such a reading would be considered rare for January or February, let alone the first morning of December. It’s also one just 0.7C and 2.8C above the city’s all time November and December low temperature records, respectively.

In addition, Delyankir’s high for the day reached only -48.2C (-54.8F) — a new record low-max.

Schools in the region have been cancelled –as is the law whenever temps drop below -50C– which, as noted by mkweather.com, is remarkably early: “frosts below -55C are usually coming only in late-December, January, or early February” …and this is… “one of the earliest occurrences of frost below -55C in the region in history!”

Elsewhere, Oymyakon reported a minimum temperature of -54.4C (-65.7F) in the early hours of Wednesday morning; Yurty hit -54.3C (-65.7F); and the infamous Verkhoyansk registered -50.1C (-58.2F).

View: https://twitter.com/ThierryGooseBC/status/1466304576982851595

As the season progresses, Siberia’s early blast of cold is expected to be built upon.

Thanks to the combination of historically low solar activity + a weak NOA, longer-range weather models are foreseeing an intensification of these polar conditions in the coming months. By January, readings below -60C (-76F) are forecast for many regions of Russia (such as Yakutsk) — these would challenge not only all-time regional lows, but also lows for the Northern Hemisphere as a whole.

Stay tuned for updates.

Furthermore, given the current depth of cold and also snow cover across Scandinavia/Siberia, weather models are also suggesting the possibility “of at least a surface high developing” in the coming weeks, writes @Met4CastUK on Twitter (see below). This would increase the chances of further injections of cold/snow into western Europe (including the UK) into December.

View: https://twitter.com/Met4CastUK/status/1465640575399563273

NORTHERN HEMISPHERE SNOW MASS MARCHES ON

Snow mass across the entire Northern Hemisphere is progressing incredibly well this season, and currently stands at more than 250 Gigatons above the 1982-2012 average–an impossibility under the original global warming theory:


Total snow mass for NH [FMI]

Note also that the NH’s multidecadal trend is one of increasing snow cover, particularly in the fall:


Northern Hemisphere Snow Extent (fall), 1967 -2020 [climate.rutgers.edu]

But also in the winter, too:


Northern Hemisphere Snow Extent (winter), 1967 -2020 [climate.rutgers.edu]

CANADA SUFFERED LOWEST NOVEMBER TEMP SINCE 2004 (-45.6F)

Trends appear to have shifted in the Arctic.

This summer/fall, sea ice has been holding/building strong, with extent on course to be the highest since 2001:


This shift is also seen in Greenland, where data from the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI) reveals that the ice loss trend across the glacier has now reversed:


Increased ice cover in the Arctic will often translate to colder temperatures further south, as descending polar air masses have a larger area of ice to traverse on their way down to the lower latitudes — i.e., they hold colder for longer.

Siberia and Europe, as discussed above, have been cases in point of late, and while much of North America is currently residing on ‘the other side’ of the jet stream –meaning the U.S. is experiencing above average temps– it is a different story up in Canada.

Due to a weak and wavy meridional jet stream flow, North America’s ‘winter freeze’ is currently confined to the northernmost latitudes. Because of this ‘concentration’, the cold up there has been quite extreme.

In Canada’s northernmost weather research base, Eureka, a low of -43.1C (-45.6F) was registered on November 28 (with a windchill of -59C (-74.2F) — this was the base’s coldest November temperature since 2004’s -43.3C (-45.9F), and before that you have to go back to 1989’s

View: https://twitter.com/ThierryGooseBC/status/1465395975002869760

The warmer conditions currently prevailing down south –in the U.S.– can be looked at as Earth’s climate system working to find some equilibrium. More specifically, a ‘buckling’ jet stream –linked to the historically low solar activity we’re experiencing– has pulled tropical warmth up into the CONUS and is preventing polar cold from spilling down — the JS is effectively keeping Arctic air locked in the northern latitudes, and as a result, temperatures up there have been intense (hence Eureka’s -43.1C).

Looking ahead though, this setup is set to shift as we enter the second week of December.

The U.S. is about to find itself ‘above’ a violently descending jet stream, meaning it will be open to frigid Arctic air. This will represent a stark ‘swing between extremes‘, which is another symptom of low solar activity.

The below GFS run illustrates the pattern shift:


GFS 2m Temperature Anomalies (C) Dec 5 – Dec 8 [tropicaltidbits.com].

Heavy snow is set to accompany the cold.

According to a report from OpenSnow’s Alan Smith, a more active weather pattern will be returning to the American West next week, hitting the Pacific Northwest and northern Rockies the hardest.

Joel Gratz’ Colorado-specific report shows that this shift may deliver a winter storm to Colorado on Tuesday, December 7, with half a foot likely, possibly followed by another wave of wintry weather on Dec 11.

The latest GFS run appears to back this up — it also sees substantial dumpings falling much further east, too:


GFS Total Snowfall (inches) Dec 2 – Dec 18 [tropicaltidbits.com].

The COLD TIMES are returning, the mid-latitudes are REFREEZING, in line with the great conjunction, historically low solar activity, cloud-nucleating Cosmic Rays, and a meridional jet stream flow (among other forcings).

Both NOAA and NASA appear to agree, if you read between the lines, with NOAA saying we’re entering a ‘full-blown’ Grand Solar Minimum in the late-2020s, and NASA seeing this upcoming solar cycle (25) as “the weakest of the past 200 years”, with the agency correlating previous solar shutdowns to prolonged periods of global cooling here.

Furthermore, we can’t ignore the slew of new scientific papers stating the immense impact The Beaufort Gyre could have on the Gulf Stream, and therefore the climate overall.





Prepare accordinglylearn the facts, relocate if need be, and grow your own.
 

TxGal

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Interesting article on the Culebra volcano, but perhaps the biggest gem in the article is the total number of volcanoes currently erupting - 48. Having that many volcanoes erupting concurrently must be throwing a huge amount of ash/particulate matter into the atmosphere. It would have to have an impact on our climate. High volcanic activity is a feature of a Grand Solar Minimum historically. The first thread had a good amount of discussion on that aspect.

Scientists racing to Canary Island volcano to study it -- Earth Changes -- Sott.net

Scientists racing to Canary Island volcano to study it

Shirin Ali
The Hill
Sat, 04 Dec 2021 18:20 UTC

Cumbre Vieja volcano
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Scientists with the Canary Islands' volcanology institute, Involcan, inspect as the lava flows from a volcano on the Canary island of La Palma, Spain, Saturday, Oct. 30, 2021.

As a volcano continues to spew hot lava on a little island in Spain, scientists from around the world are racing to the area to study and learn about the rare eruption.

The Cumbre Vieja volcano has been erupting since September on La Palma, a small island in the Canary Islands of Spain. So far, nearly 1,150 buildings and surrounding land has been destroyed, according to Reuters.

According to an analysis by The Associated Press, volcanic eruptions to this degree are incredibly rare, occurring once, or at most twice, in a generation in the Canary Islands. Parts of the Canary Islands are actually still growing, as magma accumulates underneath and, as is happening in La Palma, lava peninsulas are forming beyond the coastline.

The Smithsonian Institution estimates there are currently 48 volcanoes currently in "continuing eruption status" worldwide.

In order to help ease the devastation the Cumbre Vieja volcano continues to cause, scientists are flocking to La Palma to study the eruption up close. They're hoping to learn how volcanoes form, develop and how and when they stop erupting.

Scientists are bringing the latest technologies to study the rare volcanic eruption from land, sea and air in especially unique circumstances, as the Cumbre Vieja volcano is only an hour's drive from the airport and scientists are allowed to work under the escorts of military brigades.

"There has been a lot of progress in the last 30 or 40 years in the understanding of geological and evolutionary processes, but it's still difficult to know for sure what happens at 40 to 80 kilometers (25 to 50 miles) of depth," Pedro Hernández, an expert with the Canary Islands' volcanology institute, Involcan, told the AP.

When magma started accumulating deep under the Cumbre Vieja volcano, scientists were measuring the seismic activity and other signs that might indicate another eruption was coming. Though they couldn't predict the exact timing of the eruption, their work did prompt local authorities to begin evacuating residents hours before the first eruption happened on Sept. 19.

According to the AP, scientists' work has centered on trying to predict how far the volcano's damage will run, as La Palma has already lost thousands of homes and farms and destroyed local roads and crops.

Hernández said it would take at least two weeks of consistent decreases in soil deformation, sulfur dioxide emissions and seismic activity to determine whether the volcano's activity is finally slowing down.

"It's like treating a patient," Esteban Gazel, a geochemist with Cornell University in New York, also told the AP. "You can monitor how (the eruption) evolves, but saying exactly when it will die is extremely difficult."
 

packyderms_wife

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Stole this off of facebook so no real links to share.
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Great News to be Thankful For. The Antarctic Just had its coldest 6 months ever recorded. In 2014 Nasa said Ice was the largest ever recorded. Ice at the Antarctic has only grown since then. Meanwhile Arctic Ice Is reaching its highest point in 20 years.

According to the latest data from the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI), Arctic sea ice 'volume' has been on something of a tear in recent weeks — it is now tracking above all recent years and shows no signs of abating. It may hit a 30 year record before warmer weather hits

 

TxGal

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Greenland Gained 9 Gigatons Of Snow and Ice On Sunday, Australia Suffered Coldest Nov Since 1999, + Monthly Lows (And Rare Snows) Fall in Hawaii - Electroverse

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GREENLAND GAINED 9 GIGATONS OF SNOW AND ICE ON SUNDAY, AUSTRALIA SUFFERED COLDEST NOV SINCE 1999, + MONTHLY LOWS (AND RARE SNOWS) FALL IN HAWAII
DECEMBER 6, 2021 CAP ALLON

Dr. Murray Salby: “I have an involuntary gag reflex whenever someone says the science is settled. Anyone who thinks the science is settled on this topic is in fantasia.”

GREENLAND GAINED 9 GIGATONS OF SNOW AND ICE ON SUNDAY

Data from the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI) shows that Greenland ice melt slowed significantly during the past decade, and that the trend has now swung to one of growth.

Media tizzies of ‘mass ice loss’ are wildly unfounded.


As tracked on Electroverse, the Greenland ice sheet has been faring increasingly well in recent years.

Since 2016, a sharp uptick in the Surface Mass Balance (SMB) –a calculation used to determine the ‘health’ of a glacier– has been detected, and daily/monthly records have routinely been broken.

Decades of reliable satellite measurements have allowed trends to be detected, and while it is true that the world’s largest island lost mass from around 1995 to 2012, that trend has now reversed. Like the gradual turning of a ship, from 2010 to 2015, Greenland’s SMB changed course and has been on an upward trajectory ever since.

This is clearly visible on the below chart which plots the total mass balance since 1985:


[Die kalte Sonne]

2021 has continued that trend of growth started in 2012 — record-breaking gains have been posted across the Greenland ice sheet all year, including some that have literally spiked ‘off the charts’:


Off the charts’ SMB spike in late-May, 2021 [DMI].

Most recently, Sunday’s gains (shown below) also continue the trend.

The 9 Gigatons logged on Dec 5 were unprecedented for the day, and also, according to DMI data (which runs back to 1981), were among the largest daily accumulations ever seen on the ice sheet.

Note: 9Gts is enough to bury Central Park, NYC under 10,000+ feet of ice.



These impressive gains have pushed the ice sheet’s SMB above the 1981-2010 mean (shown below).

This uptrend is expected to continue over the coming weeks/months due to favorable weather forecasts.



If you want proof of mainstream media obfuscation and agenda-driving drivel, you need look no further than their reporting of the Greenland ice sheet. The above data reveals the reality, yet the following headlines are how the masses are being (mis)informed: “Greenland Ice Sheet Experiences Record Loss”, reported The Washington Post recently; “Satellite Monitoring of Greenland Ice Melting Highlights Increasing Global Flood Risk”, read a scitechdaily.com headline from Nov, 2021.

The science, in all fields, has been hijacked by vested interests. That quote from Dr. Paul Reiter again rings true: “As far as the science being ‘settled,’ I think that is an obscenity. The fact is the science is being distorted by people who are not scientists.”

AUSTRALIA SUFFERED COLDEST NOV SINCE 1999

The Australian state of New South Wales experienced its coldest November in recorded history last month (in data doing back to the 1800s), but the entire Aussie continent also ran exceptionally cold, suffering its chilliest Nov since 1999.

According to Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology (BOM), the nation’s average temperature anomaly closed a whopping -1.25C below the 1991-2020 baseline; it even finished an impressive -0.63C below the old 1961-1990 baseline (a historically cool era).

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“It was a combination [of] cloud cover and and we also saw just some cool outbreaks” during November, Agata Imielska, manager for the bureau’s NSW and ACT operations, said. With the background warming from climate change “these days are more unusual to what we generally see”, she said.

They just can’t help themselves, can they? It’s beyond a joke now. It’s painful to watch. It’s fraudulent. When that penny does finally drop –re the reality of our cooling climate– boy is it going to drop hard — it’s going to be absolutely devastating.


MONTHLY LOWS (AND RARE SNOWS) FALL IN HAWAII

Historic cold and rare blizzards have been buffeting Hawaii in recent days.

Yesterday’s high of 70F (21.1C) in Honolulu may not sound all that chilly, but the reading is now the city’s new lowest-max temperature ever recorded for the month of December. It was also Honolulu’s lowest-high for any month of the year since the 68F (20C) set back in January, 1979:

View: https://twitter.com/ThierryGooseBC/status/1467675932424957955

Over the weekend, rare blizzard alerts were issued over the islands’ peaks — warnings which are still in force.

The summits of Maunakea and Mauna Loa are suffering historic snows, reports bigislandvideonews.com, while torrential rains and thunderstorms, “capable of producing catastrophic flooding”, are hitting the lower elevations, read the National Weather Service in Honolulu’s warning.

As I write, blizzard conditions are prevailing on Hawaiʻi island summits where additional accumulations of 8+ inches as well as winds topping 125 mph are expected in the coming hours.

“Travel should be restricted to emergencies only,” continues the NWS warning.

“Blowing snow will significantly reduce visibility at times, with periods of zero visibility,” the agency added.

View: https://twitter.com/bbcweather/status/1467078027783856133
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ELSEWHERE

PALAU

Shifting 4,800 miles west of Hawaii, and to the Micronesia region of the western Pacific Ocean, Palau –an archipelago of over 500 islands– observed its coldest December temperature ever on Dec 3.

The reading of 70F (21.1C) set at the Koror International Airport was also just 1F off the island’s all-time low for any month of the year.

View: https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1467672316301692931

EUROPEAN SNOW

Heavy snow has been pounding Europe of late.

On Saturday, an early-season avalanche hit the Salzburg region of Austria killing three people and injuring two.

Record snow is forecast to persist ACROSS the European continent, including in the UK where Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks said that power has only today (Dec 6) been fully restored to all 135,000 homes impacted by the “once in a generation” weather event on November 26.

Staying in Britain, a plunging Arctic front is about to combine with recently named Atlantic storm “Barra” — according to the latest model (shown below), the combo threatens record-breaking early-December snow as far south as SW England.

Storm Barra will enter mainland Europe by week’s end, and, in conjunction with other fronts, will deliver some truly astonishing totals as the month of December progresses:


GFS Total Snowfall (cm) Dec 6 – Dec 22 [tropicaltidbits.com].

THE U.S.

A shift from unusually mild conditions will be felt across the pond this week.

The jet stream is sinking south as of Monday, December 6, which will bring extreme polar conditions to northern, central and eastern parts of the United States:


GFS 2m Temperature Anomalies (C) Dec 6 – Dec 7 [tropicaltidbits.com].

Heavy snow has already been impacting parts of the north, including North Dakota which saw near-blizzard conditions on Sunday with blowing snow; but there is much more where that came from, particularly for the Midwest and the Northeast.


GFS Total Snowfall (cm) Dec 6 – Dec 16 [tropicaltidbits.com].

Stay tuned for updates.




The COLD TIMES are returning, the mid-latitudes are REFREEZING, in line with the great conjunction, historically low solar activity, cloud-nucleating Cosmic Rays, and a meridional jet stream flow (among other forcings).

Both NOAA and NASA appear to agree, if you read between the lines, with NOAA saying we’re entering a ‘full-blown’ Grand Solar Minimum in the late-2020s, and NASA seeing this upcoming solar cycle (25) as “the weakest of the past 200 years”, with the agency correlating previous solar shutdowns to prolonged periods of global cooling here.

Furthermore, we can’t ignore the slew of new scientific papers stating the immense impact The Beaufort Gyre could have on the Gulf Stream, and therefore the climate overall.





Prepare accordinglylearn the facts, relocate if need be, and grow your own.
 

Publius

TB Fanatic
Ok; in the above article they talk about Gigiatons of Ice and Snow and for any that do not know how much a Gigaton is!
A Gigaton is one billion tons, so thats 2000. pounds times one billion
 

northern watch

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Below is a full video of a series Adapt 2030 did in 4 parts this past week. I think one of the parts is posted, but not the other three:

Messages From Prior Civilizations (FULL) - YouTube

Messages From Prior Civilizations (FULL)
11,810 views
Dec 4, 2021

View: https://youtu.be/XtmtmQwhI-M
Run time is 45:12

Synopsis provided:

As we look at electromagnetic distortions happening across the planet affecting cloud cells, jet streams and agriculture, it needs to be asked if the Grand Solar Minimum is THE reason for the hurried changes we are seeing in society.
When was the following structure built?

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TxGal

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St. Petersburg's "Deep Freeze" Breaks 1893 Record; Sweden Busts All-Time December Low (-46.8F); Bethel, Alaska Suffered Its Coldest November in 82 Years; + Grímsvötn Volcano Alert - Electroverse

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ST. PETERSBURG’S “DEEP FREEZE” BREAKS 1893 RECORD; SWEDEN BUSTS ALL-TIME DECEMBER LOW (-46.8F); BETHEL, ALASKA SUFFERED ITS COLDEST NOVEMBER IN 82 YEARS; + GRÍMSVÖTN VOLCANO ALERT
DECEMBER 7, 2021 CAP ALLON

Professor Emeritus Ian Plimer: “The hypothesis that human activity can create global warming is extraordinary because it is contrary to validated knowledge from solar physics, astronomy, history, archeology and geology.

ST. PETERSBURG’S “DEEP FREEZE” BREAKS 1893 RECORD

Exceptionally cold weather has gripped the Russian city of St. Petersburg this week.

The chill has been so severe that all-time records have been tumbling: Monday morning’s low of almost -21C (-5.8F) broke a daily benchmark set some 128 years ago, way back in 1893, according to meteorologist Mikhail Leus from the Fobos weather center.

“Today, St. Petersburg set a new daily cold weather record. Temperatures in the Northern Capital fell to minus 20.9 degrees, which is 0.4 degrees lower than on the same day back in 1893,” Leus wrote in a Facebook post.
But I think ‘Oly’ on Twitter sums it up best:

View: https://twitter.com/Olysibley/status/1467864801842024454
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Leus added that St. Petersburg, a port city located on the Baltic sea, had broken cold weather records just twice in the 21st century (before Monday): on July 14, 2015, and on January 3, 2002.

Looking ahead, Western Russia’s historic cold is forecast to linger, too.

This week, temperatures will range from -16 to -18C (3.2 to -0.4F) in St. Petersburg, and between -15 and -20C (5 to -4F) in and around Leningrad: “… the average daily temperature will be 16 to 17 degrees (C) lower than normal,” Leus noted.

Snow has also buffeted these two regions.

As reported by hmn.ru, an already snowy St. Petersburg received further dumpings of global warming goodness over the weekend, and by Monday, the snow depth had grown to a staggering 61cm (2ft) in the north of the city.

Shifting attention to Eastern Russia, record-breaking cold is also persisting here.

“Abnormally cold weather is in Yakutia,” is how another hmn.ru article puts it.

Temperatures in the cities of Oymyakon and Delyankir, for example, have continued to hold below -50C (-58F), which is unusually cold, even for them — a preliminary -56.6C (-69.9F) was set in Delyankir yesterday:

View: https://twitter.com/ThierryGooseBC/status/1468035984608559106

The most recent record-breaker, however, occurred at “Jubilee” (a Google mis-translation?) where on Sunday, December 5, “the cold increased to -48.7C (-55.7F),” continues the hmn.ru report — a reading that busted the locale’s previous record (from 1984) of -48.5C (-55.3F).

In the coming days, lows of -60C (-76F) and beyond are on the cards — record-smashing for the time of year.


SWEDEN BREAKS ALL-TIME DECEMBER LOW (-46.8F)

Sweden just set a new all-time low for December — and, according to thelocal.se, it will turn even colder as the month progresses.

Scandinavia has been holding exceptionally cold in recent weeks — as I reported last month, the small tourist town of Nattavaara –327m (1,073ft) above sea level– registered -37.4C (-35.3F) on Nov 29 — this reading was not only a record for the station, or for Sweden, but it was Scandinavia’s coldest November temperature since 1980.

Since then, the mercury across Scandia has continued to fall, and on Monday, December 5, temperatures below the freezing mark were registered across ALL of Sweden.

The remote settlement of Naimakka took the top spot, though: “At noon it was down to -42.7C (-44.9F),” said Emma Härenstam, a meteorologist at Sweden’s national weather agency (SMHI). But as the day went on, temperatures continued down and bottomed-out at an astonishing -43.8C (-46.8F) — this was Naimakka’s coldest December temperature in recorded history, and also Sweden’s lowest reading so early in the season since 1945 (solar minimum of cycle 17). It was also the country’s lowest December temp since 1986 (solar minimum of cycle 21).

View: https://twitter.com/SMHIvader/status/1467872145338425345

SMHI predicts that temperatures will remain low during the week, a forecast backed up by the latest GFS run:


GFS 2m Temperature Anomalies Dec 7 to Dec 9 (C) [tropicaltidbits.com]

BETHEL, ALASKA SUFFERED ITS COLDEST NOVEMBER IN 82 YEARS

November was brutally cold across much of Alaska, including in Bethel.

In fact, the Southwest Alaska hub suffered its coldest November in more than 80 years, and its second coldest in weather books dating back more than a century: With an average temperature of just -17.4C (0.7F), to find a colder Nov in Bethel, “you have to go all the way back to 1939,” said Rick Thoman, a climate specialist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, when an average of -17.7C (0.1F) was logged:

View: https://twitter.com/AlaskaWx/status/1466088305770971140

The deep cold is causing problems around town, reports alaskapublic.org. It’s the kind of cold that feels like it slaps you across the face. It freezes barges in their tracks. It makes pipes burst open.

“My pipes are all in my garage,” said Bethel resident Kyle Roberson; “I went into the office for like two hours. And I left the garage door open, and everything froze up,” he said.

For those with pipes prone to freezing, be warned said Thoman: This winter could pan out to be a cold one, in part because of historically early sea ice building in the Arctic, particularly in the Bering Sea, “which is a thumb on the scale to tell us to tilt us to colder winters,” said Thoman, adding, “the Climate Prediction Center, operated by the NWS, is forecasting increased chances for significantly below normal temperatures for this upcoming winter.”



GRÍMSVÖTN VOLCANO ALERT

Iceland has raised its eruption alert level to “orange” its most active volcano, Grímsvötn, after several recent earthquakes —

Authorities said on Monday that a magnitude 3.6 quake was registered; however, although seismic activity had increased, officials say they have not yet detected any tremors that have caused a surge in underground magma.

“This seismic activity may be due to the decrease in pressure above the volcano, as the floodwaters leave the Grimsvötn subglacial lake,” said the Icelandic Meteorological Office (IMO).

A “red” warning would mean that an eruption is imminent, which the IMO is not ruling out for the coming weeks/months.

Of today’s reawakening volcanoes (linked to our decent into the next Grand Solar Minimum), those located in Iceland are perhaps the most concerning. It is this highly-volcanic region that will likely be home to the next “big one” (a repeat of the 536 AD eruption that took out the Roman Republic?) — the one that will plunge Earth into its next volcanic winter.

Icelandic scientists have been carefully monitoring Grímsvötn since its 20km (66,000 ft) Plinian eruption in 2011:

View: https://twitter.com/subglacial/status/1466726690021859341

But to put that, and other, recent eruptions into context –including Pinatubo’s 1991 blow-off which dropped global temps by 0.6C– the below graphic reveals what planet Earth is capable of:

View: https://twitter.com/HubGeology/status/1468047706757033987

VOLCANIC UPTICK CORRELATES WITH CHANGES IN THE SUN

Volcanic eruptions are one of the key forcings driving Earth into its next bout of global cooling.

Volcanic ash (particulates) fired above 10km –and so into the stratosphere–– shade sunlight and reduce terrestrial temperatures. The smaller particulates from an eruption can linger in the upper atmosphere for years, or even decades+ at a time.

Today’s worldwide volcanic (and seismic) uptick is thought to be tied to low solar activity, coronal holes, a waning magnetosphere, and the influx of Cosmic Rays penetrating silica-rich magma.


The COLD TIMES are returning, the mid-latitudes are REFREEZING, in line with the great conjunction, historically low solar activity, cloud-nucleating Cosmic Rays, and a meridional jet stream flow (among other forcings).

Both NOAA and NASA appear to agree, if you read between the lines, with NOAA saying we’re entering a ‘full-blown’ Grand Solar Minimum in the late-2020s, and NASA seeing this upcoming solar cycle (25) as “the weakest of the past 200 years”, with the agency correlating previous solar shutdowns to prolonged periods of global cooling here.

Furthermore, we can’t ignore the slew of new scientific papers stating the immense impact The Beaufort Gyre could have on the Gulf Stream, and therefore the climate overall.





Prepare accordinglylearn the facts, relocate if need be, and grow your own.
 

TxGal

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Just now, Texas Hill Country, SW Gillespie Co. at ~2300' elev.

Predicted low was 'upper 30s'.

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Oh my gosh! Oddly, the weather forecasters have almost consistently been off on our lows by about 4 degrees when it's cold. If they say 35, we can pretty much count on 31 or lower.

It's that darn freezing mark that worries us the most when they're off. We just have to assume a freeze and take care of the livestock, pipes, etc., accordingly.

Hope things are okay at your place!
 

RememberGoliad

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As hard as our water is, we don't really even see much ice in the faucet juice til about 29, so I'm not worried about pipes. (Either that or all the thermometers are consistently off by about 3 degrees ;) )

I think we did lose the hanging baskets on the porch, though. They look kinda sad. I'd have moved them right up to the side of the house if I'd have even dreamed they'd be THAT far off on the forecast, though.
 

TxGal

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Alaska Suffers "Persistent Record-Shattering Cold", Unprecedented December Snow Hits The Pyrénées, + A Freezing Start To Winter Is "Rapidly Depleting" Europe's Gas Reserves - Electroverse

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ALASKA SUFFERS “PERSISTENT RECORD-SHATTERING COLD”, UNPRECEDENTED DECEMBER SNOW HITS THE PYRÉNÉES, + A FREEZING START TO WINTER IS “RAPIDLY DEPLETING” EUROPE’S GAS RESERVES
DECEMBER 8, 2021 CAP ALLON

Dr. Patrick Michaels: “The rates of warming, on multiple time scales, have now invalidated the suite of IPCC climate models. No, the science is not settled.”

ALASKA SUFFERS “PERSISTENT RECORD-SHATTERING COLD”

North America’s ‘winter chills’ have –thus far– remained trapped in the higher latitudes where the cold has proved persistent, concentrated and record-breaking.

‘Alaska had a November to remember’, is how natureworldnews.com puts it. The town of King Salmon, for example, suffered its coldest Nov on record, averaging just -15.6C (4F), and it wasn’t alone — according to National Weather Service data, many Alaskan locales suffered either their coldest or one of their coldest Novembers in recorded history last month.
Conversely, and despite a brief burst of cold this week, the CONUS has held pretty mild all fall — the warmth has actually been record-breaking at times. But rather than pointing the finger at man’s wholly irrelevant CO2 emissions, you need to instead accept that the lower-48 has been stuck on the ‘underside’ of the jet stream in recent weeks, meaning it has been open to tropical warmth being dragged up from the south as opposed to Arctic cold being pulled down from the north.

A warmer United States in November is not an indication of global warming. The nation’s standard autumn temps weren’t heated by cow farts, nor did they up and vanish or escape into space; no, they were instead merely trapped at the higher latitudes, specifically in and around the Arctic–a region of the world which, according to the 15x NASA/NOAA AMSU satellites that measure every square inch of the lower troposphere (where us humans reside), cooled a staggering -1.05C in November (while the global average temp cooled a substantial -0.29C):


Those bands of fast-moving air travelling 6-miles above our heads –the jet streams– have weakened quite substantially in recent years — they have become ‘wavier’ and less predictable, but as hinted at above, this weakening is due to an entirely natural forcing: the waning of the sun.

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Enjoy these milder conditions while they last, Americans.

It’s far better to reside ‘under’ the jet stream than ‘above’ it (at least in and around winter), just ask Europeans…

UNPRECEDENTED DECEMBER SNOW HITS THE FRENCH PYRÉNÉES

‘It has already been a remarkable December for snow in the Pyrénées,’ reads the opening line of a recent thelocal.fr article, and looking at the forecasts, more heavy falls are expected this week, with the Alps also set for additional accumulations of fresh global warming goodness.

Saturday, Sunday and Monday were all marked by sustained snowfall across the Pyrénées: Averages of between 50-80cm (20-32 inches) were logged at altitudes above 1,000m (3,900ft), and totals surpassed 1.5m (4.9ft) above 1,500m (4,900ft)–particularly in western areas of the mountain chain.

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As reported by Météo-France, the level of snowfall in the west of the Pyrénées is “remarkable for the time of year” and a stark flip from what was considered –even in late-Nov– a slow start to the season.

With the average snow depth already at 1m (3.3ft) at 1,500m (4,900ft), the Météo-France meteorologist claims this is among the highest-ever accumulations for the beginning of December, and equivalent to mid-January levels.

Getting to the records:

The 1.37m (4.5ft) of snow logged at Arette La Pierre Saint Martin on Dec 6 sets a new benchmark for the month of December–in weather books dating back to 1971.

The astonishing 2m (6.6ft) that had settled at Cauterets’ observation network post, located in the Hautes-Pyrénées, by Dec 6 also sets a new record for the month. .

While the 1.75m (5.75ft) observed at lac d’Ardiden is area’s highest December dumping since the station opened back in 1995.

View: https://twitter.com/Meteo_Pyrenees/status/1467432734251433986

Looking ahead, fresh falls are due to start Tuesday evening/Wednesday morning — these are linked to Storm Barra, which is now departing the British Isles after causing extensive disruptions, particularly up north:

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By Wednesday evening, heavy snow is again expected to have battered the Pyrénées: “Snow will fall again at relatively low altitude … with falls potentially impacting the road network,” Météo-France warned in its Monday evening bulletin.

“The Pyrénées could see another 1m-plus of snow,” continued the report: “Snow depths greater than 2m on the ground would then become extraordinary over a good part of the range for the first half of December”–they would be record-shattering, and would also greatly increase the risk of early-season avalanches.

The FMI’s Total Snow Mass for the Northern Hemisphere chart is off to impressive start this year, and has held comfortably above the 1982-2012 average all season (currently +250Gts):


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Heavy snow has also been buffeting Northern Spain in recent days — totals of 24 inches in just 6 hours were noted on Sunday.

And it’s been a similar story in Algeria, North Africa, too:

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IPCC (2001): “Milder winter temperatures will decrease heavy snowstorms…”

A FREEZING START TO WINTER IS “RAPIDLY DEPLETING” EUROPE’S GAS RESERVES

Europe’s gas stocks started the winter at historically low levels, and, as feared, have been depleting rapidly due to numerous blasts of Arctic air, heightening concerns they could become uncomfortably low in early 2022 and result in rolling blackouts.

Inventories in the EU and Britain (EU28) have been reduced by a further 97 TWh (12%) since the start of October, according to data compiled by Gas Infrastructure Europe — this is one of the largest drawdowns in the past decade, despite prices trading at or near record highs, which was expected to limit consumption.

Storage facilities are now only 66% full — a level of depletion they wouldn’t normally reach until mid/late-January. Lower than normal temperatures across Europe have intensified gas consumption and put pressure on storage, reports leaderpost.com.

Temperatures in Frankfurt, Germany, for example, have averaged 0.4C below the long-term seasonal norm over the 62 days since the start of October, boosting heating demand; but this year’s unusually frigid start to winter has been even more pronounced elsewhere:



Europe’s gas reserves failed to recover from what was a historically cold and long winter of 2020-2021. At the same time, wind speeds have been slower than average in recent months, which has depressed electricity generation from already failing renewables.

The upshot of these recent record-breaking polar outbreaks has been increased direct consumption for residential and commercial heating as well as increased indirect consumption for power generation, continues the leaderpost.com article, and with the heating season less than a quarter done, traders are anticipating increased probability that inventories will fall to critically low levels if the winter remains colder than normal for an extended period.

As it stands, Europe’s gas market is potentially one supply disruption or extreme cold weather event away from disaster, but very few realize it.


The COLD TIMES are returning, the mid-latitudes are REFREEZING, in line with the great conjunction, historically low solar activity, cloud-nucleating Cosmic Rays, and a meridional jet stream flow (among other forcings).

Both NOAA and NASA appear to agree, if you read between the lines, with NOAA saying we’re entering a ‘full-blown’ Grand Solar Minimum in the late-2020s, and NASA seeing this upcoming solar cycle (25) as “the weakest of the past 200 years”, with the agency correlating previous solar shutdowns to prolonged periods of global cooling here.

Furthermore, we can’t ignore the slew of new scientific papers stating the immense impact The Beaufort Gyre could have on the Gulf Stream, and therefore the climate overall.




Prepare accordinglylearn the facts, relocate if need be, and grow your own.
 

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Record December snow in French Pyrénées - and there's more on the way -- Earth Changes -- Sott.net

Record December snow in French Pyrénées - and there's more on the way

The Local (France)
Tue, 07 Dec 2021 19:38 UTC

Snow fell in abundance this weekend, like here at Mourtis (Haute-Garonne)
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Snow fell in abundance this weekend, like here at Mourtis (Haute-Garonne)

It has already been a remarkable December for snow in the Pyrénées - but more heavy falls are forecast from Wednesday, while the Alps are also set to enjoy more fresh snow.

The weekend was marked by sustained snowfall in the Pyrénées, with an average of between 50cm and 70cm of snow at altitudes above 1200m, rising in some areas towards western areas of the mountain chain to 1m.

According to Météo-France, the level of snowfall in the west of the Pyrénées is remarkable for the time of year,
especially since accumulations were considered 'very low' as recently as November 24th. The forecaster said the winter snow covering below 2,000m - the average now is 1m at 1500m - is among the best for the beginning of December and equivalent to normal levels in mid-January.

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The 1.37m of snow recorded at Arette La Pierre Saint Martin (1,650m) on December 6th is a record for the month since the weather station opened there in December 1971. The 1.36m recorded at the Soum Couy automatic weather station is in the top four accumulations recorded there since the station opened in January 1997.

A record 2m of snow was also recorded at Cauterets snow-meteorological observation network post, in the Hautes-Pyrénées, on December 6th - thanks to the 1m snowfall between Friday and Monday, while the 1.75m of snow recorded at lac d'Ardiden (2,445m) is the highest since the station there opened in October 1995.

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The new falls, due to start on the evening of Tuesday, December 7th, are linked to the Storm Barra weather system that is currently battering southwest Ireland and is set to move across Ireland and into Great Britain.

While winds in France will not reach speeds of 157kph recorded at Fastnet, off the coast of southwest Ireland, earlier on Tuesday, strong gusts are forecast in the northwest of France, and the Atlantic coast will experience heavy seas.

On Wednesday, heavy snow is again forecast in the Pyrénées. "Snow will fall again at relatively low altitude ... with falls potentially impacting the road network", Météo-France warned in its evening bulletin on Monday.

"The Pyrénées could see another 1m-plus of snow."


With the new snow, however, there's a warning. "Snow depths, greater than 2m on the ground, would then become extraordinary over a good part of the range for the first half of December," the forecaster said, warning of the increased risk of avalanches.

Over in the Alps, the remnants of the weather system is expected to bring substantial snowfall, particularly in western and southern areas, and another storm from the northwest will reach the mountain range on Friday.

Comment: In the same region of Europe: Heavy snowfall hits the north of Spain with more than 60 cm (24 inches) in just 6 HOURS
 

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Tiny Swedish settlement sets new record as temperature plummets to -43.8C -- Earth Changes -- Sott.net

Tiny Swedish settlement sets new record as temperature plummets to -43.8C

The Local (Sweden)
Mon, 06 Dec 2021 13:44 UTC

File photo of cold weather in Sweden.
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File photo of cold weather in Sweden.

Temperatures fell below freezing across Sweden on Monday, but no place was as cold as the remote settlement of Naimakka, where the mercury plummeted to its coldest level this season.

"It's continuing to creep down. At noon it was down to -42.7C," Emma Härenstam, a meteorologist at Sweden's national weather agency SMHI, told the TT news agency. Later in the afternoon temperatures fell to -43.8C in Naimakka, according to SMHI's preliminary data.


SMHI predicts that temperatures will remain low on Monday and Tuesday, followed by milder weather from Wednesday onwards, both in Naimakka and the rest of Sweden.

Naimakka often features in weather articles as one of the coldest places in Sweden in winter. It is located right on the Finnish border in the far north of Sweden and can only be reached via Finland. According to address website Ratsit, it is home to only two people.

But -43.8C is still a far cry from Sweden's all-time cold records. On February 2nd 1966 one of SMHI's weather stations measured -52.6C in Vuoggatjålme in the Lapland mountains. However, it is debated whether it was correctly recorded, so Sweden usually uses the runner-up, -48.9C at Hemavaan on December 30th 1978, as its official cold record. Maybe Naimakka's got a chance at beating that after all.
 

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Heavy snowfall hits the north of Spain with more than 60 cm (24 inches) in just 6 HOURS -- Earth Changes -- Sott.net

Heavy snowfall hits the north of Spain with more than 60 cm (24 inches) in just 6 HOURS

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Mon, 06 Dec 2021 13:11 UTC

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A heavy snowfall hit the north of Spain tonight, with more than 60 cm of snowfall in 6 hours. Cities such as Navarra, Larressа, Huesca and Aragon were hit hardest by snowfalls.

In the affected areas, almost 150 roads were covered with snow, most of which had to be closed, traffic was stopped, many drivers were trapped in a snow, and utilities were actively rescuing them, and fortunately there was no information about the victims. All the available special equipment was thrown into the fight against snow clearing, and snow plows were also transferred from other regions of the country.

Air and rail links were interrupted.

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RememberGoliad

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As hard as our water is, we don't really even see much ice in the faucet juice til about 29, so I'm not worried about pipes. (Either that or all the thermometers are consistently off by about 3 degrees ;) )

I think we did lose the hanging baskets on the porch, though. They look kinda sad. I'd have moved them right up to the side of the house if I'd have even dreamed they'd be THAT far off on the forecast, though.

update....didn't lose 'em. Lost a few 'branches' that were hanging off the west side of the pots, but today it was 84 and the rest of the plant in both baskets plumped right back up and looked healthy! They'll be snuggled up to the house this weekend, when we have an actual freezing forecast. Probably means mid 20's. SMH.
 

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Last Month Saw A Sharp Decrease In Solar Activity, FMI Notes Sharp Uptick In Snow Mass, + Danish Meteorological Institute Caught Data Tampering? - Electroverse

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LAST MONTH SAW A SHARP DECREASE IN SOLAR ACTIVITY, FMI NOTES SHARP UPTICK IN SNOW MASS, + DANISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE CAUGHT DATA TAMPERING?
DECEMBER 9, 2021 CAP ALLON

Dr. Richard Lindzen: “The IPCC process is driven by politics rather than science. It uses summaries to misrepresent what scientists say and exploits public ignorance.”

LAST MONTH SAW A SHARP DECREASE IN SOLAR ACTIVITY

Solar Cycle 25, after a somewhat fiery start to life, is now seeing a sharp decrease in activity — the cycle’s progression dipped significantly in November, and now only 1 or 2 relatively ‘weak’ spots are peppering the sun’s surface at any given time:


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Solar Cycle 25 has begun almost identically to the previous cycle, 24, which itself was the weakest of the past 100+ years.

Below is SC25 compared to the four previous cycles (24, 23, 22, and 21).

Note how reduced SC25 and SC24 are next to their most recent counterparts. Note also how similar the two are to each other, suggesting that this is indeed a ‘multi-cycle’ period of solar activity that we’ve entered into.


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Next is a direct comparison of SC25 & SC24 to the cycles of the Centennial Minimum (≈1880-1914).

Again, note how the modern cycles are weaker than those during the CM, signalling that what we’ve entered is not only a ‘multi-cycle’ period of reduced solar output, but also one significantly ‘deeper’ than that suffered even during the late-1800s/early-1900s.


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What we’re in is an extended period of low solar activity not seen since the Dalton Minimum (1795-1835).

The DM ran through Solar Cycles 5-7 — three cycles that the recently completed SC24 can be ‘dropped into’ (see below) and not look out of place. In fact, after SC24’s fiery start –akin to what we’ve seen in SC25– the downturn it experienced was actually more pronounced than those of SC5-7:


SC24 (highlighted) compared with SC5, 6 and 7 [spaceweatherlive.com].

As with ALL previous multidecadal spells of low solar activity, the Dalton Minimum brought with it lower-than-average global temperatures.

Historical documentation reveals that the Oberlach Station in Germany, for example, experienced a 2C decline over just 20 years, which devastated the country’s food production.

And now, occurring in line with today’s waning sun, we note that global temperatures are once again falling.

After a 10-or-so year lag –since the end of the Grand Solar Maximum (1914-2007)– lower tropospheric temperatures have, as of Nov 2021, tumbled a substantial -0.64C from their 2016 peak.

Click below for more on that:


And for a ‘deeper dive’ into Grand Solar Minimums (and maximums), see here:


FMI NOTES SHARP UPTICK IN SNOW MASS

Also worth noting this week is that the ‘Total Snow Mass for the Northern Hemisphere’ –as tracked by the Finnish Meteorological Institute– witnessed a sharp increase in mass on Tuesday, December 7 (the latest observation point).

This brings current snow totals to 300 Gigatons above the 1982-2012 average (another impossibility under the IPCC’s original Global Warming hypothesis):


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DANISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE CAUGHT DATA TAMPERING?

It would appear that the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI) may have taken a leaf out of NASA’s ‘data-fudging 101‘.

Sometime between late-Nov and early-Dec this year, the DMI’s Arctic Sea Ice Volume chart experienced a mysterious ‘vanishing’ of ice — this is revealed by a direct comparison of the Nov 18th and the Dec 8th charts below (via a slideshow):
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The DMI have inexplicably brought the entire year’s Arctic Sea Ice data down by more than 2,000 km3 (or 12+%).

Note also that previous years have been revised down, too, but only during the summer melt season.

The averages have not been changed, nor has the scale, only the data points: all have been revised down so as to create a disparity from the 2004-2013 average. I’m sturggling have no other word for this than ‘fraud’.

I had previously considered the Danish Meteorological Institute to be more trustworthy than their bigger data-tampering brothers NOAA and NASA (I still use their Greenland SMB chart on Electroverse), but I know they’re not strangers to controversy.

Back in the summer of 2019, the DMI reported a “shocking” early-August temperature of between 2.7C (37F) and 4.7C (40.5F) at the Summit weather station, located some 3,202m above sea level at the center of the Greenland ice sheet.

This news quickly spread to every corner of the alarmist web, including CNN and The Guardian; however, just a few days later, the DMI posted a tweet retracting the reading: after a “closer look” (whatever that means) it was revealed that the monitoring equipment had been giving “erroneous results”. Ironically, the DMI went on the admit that heavy snow had caused poor ventilation around the thermometers at the site, wrongly boosting the temperature.

I’ve contacted the DMI for comment re the disappearing ice, though I won’t be holding my breath…

The COLD TIMES are returning, the mid-latitudes are REFREEZING, in line with the great conjunction, historically low solar activity, cloud-nucleating Cosmic Rays, and a meridional jet stream flow (among other forcings).

Both NOAA and NASA appear to agree, if you read between the lines, with NOAA saying we’re entering a ‘full-blown’ Grand Solar Minimum in the late-2020s, and NASA seeing this upcoming solar cycle (25) as “the weakest of the past 200 years”, with the agency correlating previous solar shutdowns to prolonged periods of global cooling here.

Furthermore, we can’t ignore the slew of new scientific papers stating the immense impact The Beaufort Gyre could have on the Gulf Stream, and therefore the climate overall.





Prepare accordinglylearn the facts, relocate if need be, and grow your own.
 

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Record Snow In Austria & Turkey, "Unprecedented" Cold Wave Is Hitting Scandinavia, "Zombie Fires" & Historic Temp Disparity In Russia, + DMI Fail To Answer Key Question - Electroverse

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RECORD SNOW IN AUSTRIA & TURKEY, “UNPRECEDENTED” COLD WAVE IS HITTING SCANDINAVIA, “ZOMBIE FIRES” & HISTORIC TEMP DISPARITY IN RUSSIA, + DMI FAIL TO ANSWER KEY QUESTION
DECEMBER 10, 2021 CAP ALLON

Professor Martin Keeley: “Global warming is indeed a scam, perpetrated by scientists with vested interests, but in need of crash courses in geology, logic and the philosophy of science. It provides the media with a new scare story, which has been picked up by the focus groups and turned into the new religion, offering us hell if we don’t all change our ways.”

RECORD SNOW IN AUSTRIA & TURKEY

AUSTRIA

As reported by thelocal.at, snow levels nationwide are nearing a ten-year high, about to surpass it, with Carinthia suffering power outages due to more a foot+ of freshly fallen snow.

In the eastern state of Burgenland, totals surpassed 30cm (a foot) overnight Wednesday; while in the southern state of Carinthia, power outages are impacting homes after 40cm (1.3ft) accumulated — these are heaviest snowfalls (of any month) in nine years.

View: https://twitter.com/slave4jungkook/status/1469012818083172358

Far higher totals were logged in the mountains, as you’d expect, with 60+cm (2ft) noted up there.

In response, Austria’s Centre for Severe Weather has issued its highest alert, in Vorarlberg, East Tyrol and Carinthia–where snow-clearing operations are working nonstop to keep roads open.

View: https://twitter.com/Love_Austria007/status/1469001515633422351

Even the capital city of Vienna has registered several inches of early season snow this week, which caused disruptions.

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Looking ahead to the weekend, snow will be persistent in the west.

By Saturday morning, snow is expected to have returned to Upper Austria, Salzburg and East Tyrol.

TURKEY

Heavy snow has also been noted in Europe’s far southeast, particularly in transcontinental Turkey were drifts have reportedly blocked roads and cut off a number of towns and villages from the outside world.

Snowstorms have taken hold in Turkey’s eastern and western regions, blocking hundreds of roads, including 43 in Başkale, 11 in Digor, and a further 31 in Erzincan, according to dailysabah.com.

Trees covered with snow, Van, Turkey, Dec. 9, 2021. (AA Photo)
Trees covered with snow, Van, Turkey, Dec. 9, 2021. (AA Photo)

Snow depth has now surpassed 80cm (2.63ft) in Turkey’s higher elevations, thanks to persistent falls which began back in late-Nov/early-Dec:

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“UNPRECEDENTED” COLD WAVE IS HITTING SCANDINAVIA

As reported by softballnews.com, an unprecedented cold wave is hitting Scandinavia, bringing historically cold temperatures for the month of December.

The chill is proving so pervasive, and long-lasting, that authorities are advising northern Swede’s to use precautions when venturing outside–and not only because of the intense cold, but also due to heavy snow and high winds which are leading to blizzard conditions.

This week, temperatures across large swathes of Sweden tanked well-below -35C (-31F)

An astonishing –43.8C was registered in the municipality of Naimakka on Dec 6 — a new all-time December low for not only Sweden, but for Scandinavia as a whole; while a number of other locales also busted Dec lows, including in Karesuando with its -41.9C (-43.4F) on Dec 7 and then its -42C (-43.6F) just a day later, on Dec 8.

The only previous occasions when the municipality of Karesuando saw December lows south of -40C (-40F) was back in 1885, 1898, 1915, 1919, 1969, and 1986. Note: Sweden’s lowest-ever temperature remains the -52.6C (-62.7F) set on Feb 2, 1966 in Vuoggatjålme, in the northern province of Lapland — a benchmark I’m not ruling out falling this winter.

Scandinavia’s exceptionally cold air is set to linger through the weekend. And heavy snow will accompany the cold, particularly on Sunday, where upwards of 40cm (1.31ft) is forecast for some mountainous regions:


GFS Total Snowfall (cm) Dec 10 – Dec 26 [tropicaltidbits.com]

“ZOMBIE FIRES” & HISTORIC TEMP DISPARITY IN RUSSIA

Even when the mercury sinks to -75C (-103F), “zombie fires” can still burn below Siberia’s snowy terrain.

Russia has been suffering historically low temperatures of late; however, a number of wildfires (aka peat fires) are burning beneath a deep layer of snow and ice — such fires can actually burn for months or even years at a time–all facts I’m sure The Guardian et al are competently relating to their brainwashees.

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The snow and ice acts as a thermal insulator and barrier. The more snow and ice, the better the insulation and, potentially, the bigger the fire — the phenomenon has nothing to do with the failed global warming hypothesis, as some ill-informed sluice-sayers out there would have you believe.

In fact, and as touched on above, this region of the world –Siberia– is currently experiencing all-time December cold.

Temperatures have held below -50C (-58F) for weeks, forcing schools and industry to close, and life to effectively pause.

On Wednesday, December 8 a low of -61.1C (-78F) was suffered at Delyankir — this was the first time in a decade that such a low was logged in the city. However, more than the one-off records, it’s the persistence of the cold that has proved challenging.

Similar to last year –which turned out to be one of Siberia’s longest and harshest winters on record— punishing temperatures of -30C below the norm have lingered since early-November, as Arctic air has been transported unusually far south on the back of a weak and wavy meridional jet stream flow — a setup which is forecast to persist for the remainder of December, at least.

Below is a look at Dec 13:


GFS 2m Temp Anomalies (C) Dec 13 [tropicaltidbits.com].

Wednesday, December 8 was a historic day for another reason, too.

As the record-breaking low -61.1C (-78F) was registered at Delyankir, a high of +24.5C (+76.1F) was observed to the far west, at Shatoy. This monster 85.6C ‘spread’ is the largest ever recorded in Russia, and the second-largest logged in any country (with the top spot held by the USA’s 88.7C disparity (-56.5C to 32.2C) from 1954 — during solar minimum of cycle 18).

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Russia’s record-breaking temperature disparity.

DMI FAIL TO ANSWER A KEY QUESTION

Following the Danish Meteorological Institute’s recent ‘disappearance’ of Arctic sea ice from their charts, the agency has done little to allay suspicions that this was yet more agenda-driving data tampering — far from it, in fact.

I have contacted the DMI, repeatedly, but the only response I’ve received has been the ‘sciency’ explanation copied & pasted from the their website — the same paragraph they (@PolarPortal) tweeted Dec 9:

View: https://twitter.com/PolarPortal/status/1468884027876720646

The DMI have also said: “The complete period has been recalculated, beginning in 2004” — so not just 2021.

Comparing the graphs again (see below), if what the DMI says is indeed the case, then why haven’t the averages –most notably at the beginning and end of the year– changed? How, if this new method of measuring sea ice has been recalculated back to 2004, has 2021 (the black line) managed to drop so significantly whereas all other years and the 2004-2013 average haven’t…?



I have put this question to the DMI–as I see others on Twitter have, too. And while the institute has been very quick to respond to general queries regarding their ‘alterations’, they fall deathly silent whenever this particularly query is posed.

See Tony Heller’s latest video, if you haven’t already, for a more in-depth analysis of the DMI’s nonsensical tampering:

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This is looking evermore like a ‘hit’ on this year’s ‘inconveniently’ strong sea ice growth, which, according to other ‘more accurate’ measurements –as well as those reports of ships becoming trapped in rapidly freezing seas– did indeed expand and is indeed continuing expand at prodigious rates:

View: https://twitter.com/chrislibertynow/status/1469107966762700815


With each passing year, there appear to be fewer and fewer datasets untouched by the AGW Party.

This is a depressing reality.

Now more than ever, a fine-tooth comb, logic, intuition and a healthy suspicion are our best tools.

Enjoy your weekend.

See also:






The COLD TIMES are returning, the mid-latitudes are REFREEZING, in line with the great conjunction, historically low solar activity, cloud-nucleating Cosmic Rays, and a meridional jet stream flow (among other forcings).

Both NOAA and NASA appear to agree, if you read between the lines, with NOAA saying we’re entering a ‘full-blown’ Grand Solar Minimum in the late-2020s, and NASA seeing this upcoming solar cycle (25) as “the weakest of the past 200 years”, with the agency correlating previous solar shutdowns to prolonged periods of global cooling here.

Furthermore, we can’t ignore the slew of new scientific papers stating the immense impact The Beaufort Gyre could have on the Gulf Stream, and therefore the climate overall.





Prepare accordinglylearn the facts, relocate if need be, and grow your own.
 
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