Heat Waves, Severe Storms, Deadly Weather Events

The concrete canyons and concrete plazas of the cities bake
under the summer sun, and swelter under weighted air of high
moisture content.

The fortunate escape the miserable oppression of "dog days."
Mountains, beaches on the coasts, forests, lakes, offer a more
agreeable experience.

But, sometimes that is not enough.

July 21, 2019 7:50 am

National Weather Service forecasters said that temperatures in parts of Maine fell just shy of 100 degrees Fahrenheit on Saturday. But relief will come in the form of a slow-moving front of cooler air due to hit Maine on Monday.

Temperatures that were expected to top 100 degrees Fahrenheit in southern Maine fell just below that level of misery on Saturday. Central and northern Maine endured temperatures in the 90s, with northernmost Maine temperatures in the high 80s. Temperatures dropped overnight Saturday into Sunday, with lower dew points, some cloud cover and drier air making it a few degrees cooler than the day before, said Eric Schwibs, a meteorologist from the National Weather Service office in Gray.

“It will start to cool down in the afternoon [on Sunday],” said Chris Norcross, a meteorologist with the weather service office in Caribou.

The cold front could trigger some showers and thunderstorms in northern Maine on Sunday and will eventually bring an end to the hot and humid weather throughout the state by Monday.

Saturday’s temperatures, meanwhile, came in just about as expected. The weather service predicted that Saturday would be “dangerously hot,” with temperatures in the high 80s up north, low 90s Down East and 100s in southern Maine.

The high temperature in Portland on Saturday afternoon was 90 degrees, but with the humidity added, it had a real feel of about 97 degrees. Bangor had a real-feel temperature of about 95 degrees, with Bar Harbor at about 90 degrees, which, again with humidity added, felt like 95 degrees, Schwibs and Norcross said.

“It is still oppressive anytime you get dew points in the 70s.”

https://bangordailynews.com/2019/07...ooks-like-the-heat-wave-is-going-to-end-soon/

Hurricane Dorian is an 85 mph Category 1 hurricane but isn’t content
to stay that way for long. The National Hurricane Center is forecasting
Dorian to become a Category 3 or greater “major” hurricane on Friday
as it heads toward a potential landfall in Florida or elsewhere along the
East Coast by Monday or Tuesday, potentially as a Category 4.

Since Thursday morning, the major forecast development is that the
storm’s forward speed is now expected to slow to a crawl by Sunday,
and all of Florida remains within the so-called “cone of Uncertainty."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weat...orida-guard-potential-major-hurricane-strike/

Heat Waves, Severe Storms, Deadly Weather Events

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All because of Trump's global warming. Damn him.

Way to go, JP5-etc. Nothing says "Total lack of credibility" quite like continuing to post that fake Time magazine cover that's been debunked consistently for the last six years. Finding something on Ted Nugent's Facebook page doesn't make it true.

Photoshopped Time mag cover keeps resurfacing

Just because you want to deny reality, doesn't mean you get to invent your own.

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The saddest part of the aftermath of a hurricaine
so destructive that it smashes functioning neighbor-
hoods into matchsticks and shards of kindling, is that
pResident tRump, the PABOTUS, exploits the victims.

The PABOUTUS does not have respect for the dead.
He exploits the dead, too. He's is really good at bullying
anything that cannot fight back. Maybe, that is why he
avoids pets. (Perhaps, that is a good thing. Jeffrey Epstein
proved that many turn a blind eye. I would hate to think
that the Trump family took the opportunity to take their
evil out on defenceless pets. As it is, the PAB children
are proud kill wild animals in a barrel.)

At least two people have died in Texas after Tropical Depression
Imelda dumped more than 40 inches of rain on the Houston area
over three days. It’s being described as one of the worst freshwater
floods in U.S. history. More than 1,000 people had to be rescued
on Thursday from the fast-rising waters. The storm also forced
Exxon to shut down its massive oil refinery in Beaumont.
In some areas, the floodwaters rose higher than during
Hurricane Harvey two years ago.

https://www.democracynow.org/2019/9...storm_dumps_40_inches_of_rain_on_houston_area

(Cognitive dissonance)

Fox & Friends attacks students participating in
global climate strike, then immediately reports
on catastrophic rain and flooding in Texas


— Media Matters (@mmfa) September 20, 2019

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2...ffers-stark-reminder-why-millions-are-joining

For the past 24 hours, the Guardian has been reporting in real time
as millions of people joined in a worldwide, youth-led climate strike –
with correspondents filing dispatches from the demonstrations across
the globe.

https://www.theguardian.com/environ...greta-thunberg-rally-live-news-latest-updates

The Extremist Religious Right seems so anxious to pull us back
to the Stone Age.

The Stone Age was not choking on vehicle exhaust, smog, or soaked
in deadly byproducts of fracking, industrial toxins, pharma poisons,
and nuclear waste. Man-made versions of the La Brea Tar Pits ?

Mass Extinction VS Economic Growth

Trumpypants has made his viewpoint clear-

"Die, suckers! Why- the- fuck should I care about mass extinction ?
I will die soon, and I do not care if everything on Earth dies.

"I will be dead soon."

"I will not be alive to see it, I will never suffer from it."

"Nothing matters to me."
" Not my children, my grandchildren, my current wife, or former wives."
"Live, or die, it does not matter to me."
"I will have no use for anything, or anyone, after I am dead."

"I live like a king. That is what I wanted."

Greta Thunberg spoke her mind-

"People are suffering. People are dying. "

"Entire ecosytems are collapsing. We are at the beginning
of a mass extinction and all you can talk about is money
and fairytales of eternal economic growth."

"How dare you!"

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2...fairytales-eternal-economic-growth-un-climate

"How dare you pretend that this can be solved with
business-as-usual and some technical solutions."

"There will not be any solutions or plans presented in line
with these figures today. Because these numbers are too
uncomfortable. And you are still not mature enough to
tell it like it is."

https://www.theguardian.com/comment...s-generation-climate-breakdown-greta-thunberg

"This is all wrong, I should'nt be here."

"I shouldn't be standing here."
"I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean."
" Yet you all come to me for hope? How dare you!"
"You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with
your empty words."

"You are failing us."

"But the young people are starting to understand your betrayal."
" The eyes of all future generations are upon you. "
"And if you choose to fail us I say we will never forgive you.'
" We will not let you get away with this."
"Right here, right now is where we draw the line."
"The world is waking up. And change is coming,
whether you like it or not."

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2...fairytales-eternal-economic-growth-un-climate

The latest: Trump plans to ruin Mars, too ! "Mars is the target!"

California is burning.

A systematic detrimental change is encouraged and fueled by a malicious few

On my last day with the team, I joined a Mongolian forestry graduate student
named Badar-Uugan as he wielded a chain saw to cut samples. A few days
earlier, Badar-Uugan’s father, who lived 20 minutes down the road in the
dusty town of Tariat, told us that small bodies of water, including the one
at the bottom of Khorgo’s volcanic crater, had been disappearing over the
past few decades. I asked Badar-Uugan if he had observed the same things.
“The amount of rain is the same,” he tells me. “But the biggest difference
is the variability. We used to get more consistent precipitation, but now it
rains all at once, and then maybe it won’t rain for another month or two.”

http://discovermagazine.com/2015/july-aug/14-climate-and-khan

Once, again, people are displaced because of California fires.
The horrible aspect about the fires is that it seems ENRON
never died. It might be better if the state takes over the
energy supply. ENRON cheered grandma dying in a
elevator with no AC. Today, grandma is dying in a
flash fire because nothing much has been replaced
in 80 years. It is inhuman of P&G to shrug, when
a new fire begins just after they re-start their system,
after a shut down. P&G is not the only indifferent
entity-

'Pleasure, what a name'
- 18 Nov 2018
Presiderp Pale Yam in a Cheap Chinese Suit

(Paradise was a thriving town that was burned to the ground.)

October 29, 2019

Wade Hoefer, 71, artist-in-residence at the Soda Rock Winery, surveys
the remains of his studio destroyed by the Kincade Fire (ashes)

Besides Hoefer's studio, the historic building housing the winery's
main pavilion was also destroyed by the fire -- along with about
2,000 bottles of wine.

Just the stone facade remains standing along with an enormous
steel sculpture of a boar called "Lord Snort."

Built in 1869, the building had served over the years as a bank,
a general store and a post office, said Isabelle Adams,
the hospitality director at Soda Rock.

Historical records show there was once a winery on the site in
the 1880s.

https://www.afp.com/en/news/3954/i-...a-fire-victim-returns-devastation-doc-1lu32s1

It's surreal” –owner Diane Wilson surveying Soda Rock Winery

PG&E blackout knocks out quarter of Sonoma County cellphone towers

https://www.pressdemocrat.com/lifestyle/10250832-181/its-surreal-owner-diane-wilson

Fire to ice in wine country: Kincade fire containment grows,
just in time for a frost

https://www.latimes.com/california/...e-fire-containment-grows-in-time-for-a-freeze

More than 198,000 acres of land has been destroyed across the region
this year, with fires forcing people to flee their homes as 115 structures
are razed to the ground in the last ten days alone.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...gavin-newsom-federal-aid-latest-a9183216.html

Note to Presiderp Pale Yam-

California is not a golf course on privately owned property.

The big fires that hit Southern California last week burned expensive
Los Angeles homes, swept through lush agricultural land, closed the
405 Freeway and threatened a presidential library.

But they did not burn through large swaths of forests.

Nonetheless, President Trump weighed in Sunday on Twitter
with a new critique of Caifornia’s forest management practices.

"...he ( Gov. Gavin Newsom) comes to the Federal Government for $$$ help.
No more. Get your act together Governor."

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In his Sunday tweets, Trump also seemed to threaten to cut federal
funding for fires, something he’s said before.

https://www.latimes.com/california/...ter-california-forest-fires-that-didnt-happen

Ealier in the week, I read about the decision to go ahead with staging
NYE fireworks in Sydney, Australia

2020

One of Sydney’s most controversial New Year’s Eve fireworks
displays has gone off without a hitch as almost $1m was raised
for bush communities, reports the Australian Associated Press.

Crowds lining the city’s harbour watched the display as Indigenous
electronic duo Electric Fields kicked off an all-Australian musical
playlist. The pylons of the centrepiece Sydney Harbour Bridge
earlier lit up with messages calling for donations to the Red
Cross’s disaster relief fund. By midnight, more than $700,000
had been raised.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/l...ppen?page=with:block-5e0b50aa8f087e8308e667e8

At least 4,000 flee to lake and ocean from town in Victoria
that had not been given evacuation warning

https://www.theguardian.com/austral...geddon-bushfires-rage-victoria-east-gippsland

Massive currents of smoke from Australian fires reach New Zealand

Dec 31 2019

https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/1185...smoke-from-australian-fires-reach-new-zealand

Yesterday, over 30,000 people were ordered to evacuate a huge
swath of land in Victoria state, known as Gippsland, as soaring
temperatures sparked dry lightening creating apocalyptic wildfires.

Today, thousands are trapped on a beach in the town of Mallacoota
as a massive firewall of over 65 feet bears down on them.

Heartbreaking footage of kangaroos fleeing has been captured
in Monaro, NSW, as bushfires close in.

For more fire updates

— news.com.au (@newscomauHQ) December 31, 2019

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/20...lee-into-the-ocean-to-escape-raging-wildfires

Zoo employees brought zoo animals to their homes, to save them.
Many stayed behind to care for the animals not easily transported-

Mogo Zoo where a team of 15 keepers are desperately trying to
keep the flames from destroying paddocks including one where
giraffes could be seen on Tuesday.

The zoo’s animal enclosures were threatened by the 31,000-
hectare fire burning to the north around the town of Batemans
Bay on New South Wales’ south coast.

The sprawling Mogo Zoo is home to about 200 animals and
the largest collection of primates in Australia – as well as giraffes,
lions, tigers, southern white rhinos and red pandas.

Australia’s famous Mogo Zoo is directly in the line of the
out-of-control Clyde Mountain bushfire and firefighters
warned there is nothing they can do to save the attraction.

https://thetop10news.com/2019/12/31...-are-now-feared-dead-after-horrific-bushfire/

One resident wrote on Twitter:

‘The darkness in Mallacoota is utterly surreal. Not far off pitch black
when this should be a beautiful sunny morning.’

‘This is the worst waiting now. Pitch black. The roar of… something.
No visible fire but we (and our CFA neighbour) are sure it’s coming.’

Like the California fires, the enormous bushfires generate high winds.
Strong enough to knock over trucks.

There is a photgraph of a woman in her fighefighter's uniform-
it is safety orange color. Everything is the same colour under the
glare of a red sky, of the burning bushfire.

Aftermath

https://www.theguardian.com/austral...ates?page=with:block-5e0a7eba8f08c39722642780

Hail, snow, sleet, freezing rain, and an ice storm

December 30, 2019

In a bizarre and extraordinarily rare set of circumstances, a band
of thunderstorms developed on the heels of an ice storm —
part of the same chaotic weather system that is bringing snow
to the Great Lakes and interior northern New England. Regions
of sleet and freezing rain battled it out over Massachusetts and
Connecticut much of the day.

“Ice storm warning and severe thunderstorm warning together …
it’s been quite a day,” said Rodney Chai, a meteorologist at
the National Weather Service office serving the region.

Yup... that’s thunder you heard near Springfield!

— Jacob Wycoff (@4cast4you) December 30, 2019

The thunderstorm hit as temperatures hovered near freezing.
It was 34 degrees in Springfield, Mass., at the time and 31 in
Worcester. A number of locales had already received a good
deal of glazing associated with freezing rain earlier in the day.

(Freezing rain, ices over, on contact. Roads, bridges, trees, cars, trucks, homes.)

Yet storm tops blossomed to an astonishing 38,000 feet —
about the same altitude at which commercial aircraft fly.
That would be a notable storm by summertime standards,
but for the wintertime? Practically unheard of.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weat...torm-hail-storm-severe-thunderstorm-all-once/

A big anvil cloud

Jacob Wycoff ✓
Twitter › 4cast4you

Absurd day gets weirder. Severe thunderstorm warning issued
for Springfield area including Hampden, Hampshire, and
Worcester County.

1 day ago

It wouldn't be a full weather day without some lightning!
Decent storm with lightning moving through the Catskill Mtns,
on it's way towards western Mass. Let's see if it holds together!
1 day ago

Meteorologist Jacob Wycoff

Connecticut is just a short hop away from Western Massachusetts

As of 3:45 p.m., a servere thunderstorm warning was issued for parts
of Western and Central Massachusetts. Hail could cause minor damage
to vehicles, according to the weather service.

A Severe Thunderstorm Warning has been issued for portions
of western/central Massachusetts including Springfield for
quarter sized hail. Minor damage to vehicles is possible.

— NWS Boston (@NWSBoston) December 30, 2019

Yes, that Springfield, MA that had homes smashed into splinters
by a tornado in 2011.

Burning coal in the USA ?



January 3, 2020

Protesters take the direct approach-

Climate protesters arrested after blocking train tracks in Harvard, MA
(No, not Harvard university in Cambridge, MA)

Four climate protesters were arrested Friday morning after blocking
train tracks in Harvard as part of their push to close a coal plant in Bow,
New Hampshire.

Members of the “No Coal No Gas” campaign set up a three-story
scaffolding overnight and suspended themselves above the Pan Am
Railroad tracks with signs reading, “Decoalanize Your Mind,”
in an attempt to stop a freight train from delivering coal to the
power plant.

Harvard police reached out to Massachusetts State Police
for assistance removing the demonstrators around 1:15 a.m.

The protesters refused to disperse and were taken into custody
around 7 a.m., state police said.

Harvard fire rescue crews took down the scaffolding,
allowing the train to continue to its destination.

https://whdh.com/news/climate-prote...-new-englands-largest-coal-power-plant-bow-nh

DroolinFool writes: "All because of Trump's global warming. Damn him."

Both Al Gore & Greta Thunberg tried to warn us that this would happen, but we didn't listen!

https://prepareforchange.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/al-gore.jpg - (Al Gore: the wealthy fat televangelist of the environmental religion!)

https://www.iforher.com/wp-content/...g-Powerful-Speech-Climate-Change-1024x532.jpg - (Greta: the "climate scientist" who has taken over where Al Gore left off!)

I'm expecting to see BOTH of these two speaking at next summer's Democratic Party's national convention (along with Dr. Christine Blasey-Ford & Jussie Smollett!)

jp55665566 writes: "The latest: Trump plans to ruin Mars, too! "Mars is the target!"

The Martian ice caps began shrinking when they began driving SUV's on the red planet.

They should be putting on their boots and skis,
and enjoying the slopes. They are taking a swim,
instead.

2 January 2020

Western Norway is experiencing a rare heatwave for early
January, at a time when temperatures should normally be
below freezing.

The highest temperature of 19C (66F) - more than 25C
above the monthly average - was measured in the village
of Sunndalsora.

This makes it Norway's warmest January day since records began.

It also breaks the record for any winter month (December to February) in Scandinavia

"The main cause for the record-breaking temperatures at this particular site was
from a foehn wind," BBC forecaster Peter McAward said.

Foehn winds are warm gusts that occur on the downwind side of mountain ranges.


https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50971446

Who Cares if Women Get Nude for Australian Fire Relief Efforts? Money Is Money

The Associated Press reports that 140,000 people have been evacuated from their homes in Australia due to devastating bushfires, which have claimed the lives of at least 18 people. Around 12.35 million acres have been burned. Over 480 million animals are dead. Photos show scorched earth and dystopian red skies.

Donations to relief efforts are pouring in. The actor Chris Hemsworth, who lives in New South Wales, has pledged a million dollars and encouraged others to “dig deep” and chip in. Margot Robbie, Kylie Minogue, and Nicole Kidman have also made online promises of financial aid. The Australian comedian Celeste Barber organized a Facebook group that has raised $26 million for the NSW Rural Fire Service & Brigades Donations Fund which, per NBC News, has been the website’s highest-grossing fundraiser to date.

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Trumpski can flap his lips but woe be it to the woman that shows her tits for Fire Relief.

Climate change/global warming is NOT a hoax! It's very real and it has been made much worse by man's use of fossil fuels. Fact.

I am not a scientist, but I have a friend who worked at NOAA and NASA. He's retired now and he has sent me graphs, charts, and all the evidence one needs to prove that we are doomed.

It's actually too late already. Current scientists are very careful to manage their comments so as to not get labeled as alarmists. But retired ones, like my friend, are blunt.

If we were to really change the course of the coming catastrophe, we should have started decreasing our use of fossil fuels about thirty years ago. It's now too late.

The fires in Australia now are just the beginning. By 2100, many parts of the earth will be uninhabitable. Luckily, I'll be dead long before the crisis becomes grave. However, your children and grand children will suffer greatly.

Tornado in America leaves strange things, untouched

Fire tornado in Australia leaves strange objects untouched

January 10, 2020

Enormous 'Megafire' In Australia Engulfs 1.5 Million Acres

A pair of massive bushfires in southeastern Australia has merged
into a "megafire" engulfing some 2,300 square miles —
a single blaze more than three times as large as any
known fire in California.

It is just one of some 135 bushfires in Australia's southeast
that have claimed the lives of at least 26 people, killed more
than a billion animals and damaged or destroyed nearly
3,000 homes.

The conservation group WWF-Australia estimates that
1.25 billion animals have been killed in the fires and says
it fears that some species, such as the glossy black-cockatoo
and the knee-high kangaroo, face local extinctions.

Meanwhile, the government says the loss of livestock
from the fires will exceed 100,000 animals.

https://www.npr.org/2020/01/10/795169417/enormous-mega-fire-in-australia-engulfs-1-5-million-acres