Anything Unusual ?

[bodysong]

Anything Unusual ?

San Francisco Chronicle ✓
Twitter › sfchronicle

Meteorologists say an unusual set of circumstances led to the once-in-a-decade
thunderstorm in the Bay Area: combined moisture from Tropical Storm Fausto
with the atmospheric instability of a record heat wave.

1 hour ago

JUST IN: California energy grid operator says rolling power outages are "likely,"
during late afternoons and early evenings through Wednesday, as an extraordinary
heat wave continues to strain the power grid.

2 hours ago

Massive wildfire explodes into fire tornado in remote area north of Tahoe

San Francisco Chronicle

 

[bodysong]

August 16, 2020

-Jason Samenow

In the midst of a historic heat wave in the West, the mercury in Death Valley, Calif.,
surged to a searing 130 degrees on Sunday afternoon, possibly setting a world record
for the highest temperature ever observed during the month of August.

The temperature in Death Valley hit 130 degrees at 3:41 p.m. Pacific time on Sunday

If verified, the reading would break Death Valley’s previous August record
by three degrees, the Weather Service tweeted.

Death Valley famously holds the record for the hottest temperature ever recorded
on Earth, which is 134 degrees. This record was set on July 10, 1913

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2020/08/16/death-valley-heat-record/

NWS WPC ✓
Twitter › NWSWPC

National High/Low temps for Sunday August 16: 130 at Death Valley, CA;
23 at Peter Sinks, UT #cawx #utwx

44 minutes ago

Per the climate data in xmACIS2, this is the first time since 1913 that Death Valley
has reached 130F. In July 2013, it last reached 129F. If valid, it would be the hottest
August temperature at the site by 3F.

@NWSVegas

3 hours ago

Black outs, brown outs in California

Wildfires Continue To Burn Near LA, And The Heat Doesn't Help

August 16, 2020

Smoke from the fires is creating unhealthy air quality across much of L.A. County.
As a result, a heat wave ozone advisory is in effect. High levels of ozone can cause
respiratory problems including asthma attacks and lung damage.

https://laist.com/latest/post/20200816/wildfires-los-angeles-county-lake-fire-ranch-2-fire-update

LAist ✓
Twitter › LAist

The Lake Fire is approaching 18,000 acres at 12% containment,
and authorities are searching for a man they believe started the
Ranch 2 Fire deliberately.

(link to Laist)

3 hours ago

 

[bodysong]

Family behind gender reveal-caused wildfire in California could foot the bill for fighting it

El Dorado Fire in California’s San Bernardino County that was sparked by
a smoke-emitting pyrotechnic device at a gender reveal party

Big Bear, San Bernardino Authorities: Postpone Your Visit

Mercury News ✓
Twitter › mercnews

Oregon authorities open arson probe into deadly wildfire
Bay Area

59 minutes ago

 

[JackLuis]

America’s fast-evolving credit system shows the transition to fascism is already under way

Fascism can indeed “happen here,” but in unique fashion. Fascism, like all other systems, has varying forms. As 20th-century fascisms took shape in Italy, Germany, Japan, and Spain—to take some major examples—the same basic system interacted differently with each country’s particular history and conditions. The fascism where U.S. capitalism is now headed will display unique features as well.

The fascism taking shape here is not primarily the crude political theater that today’s wannabe fascists offer. The Trump regime’s courting of white supremacists and other extreme nationalists, its virulent scapegoating of immigrants, Latinx, and African Americans, and its encouragement of police repression are too often counterproductive. Those symbols are similar enough to many of 20th-century fascism’s horrors that they are too easily recognized as dangerous. Today, the United States moves more quietly and more effectively toward fascism via its fast-evolving credit system. It’s time to expose borrowing as a path to fascism.

Fascism is driven by the Banks and Corporations and not the political classes.

 

[sharingfantasies]

Family behind gender reveal-caused wildfire in California could foot the bill for fighting it

They certainly should.

 

[bodysong]

Axios ✓
Twitter › axios

More than 8,200 wildfires have burned "well over" 4 million acres in California this year,
killing 31 people and destroying 8,450-plus structures, Cal Fire confirmed today

(link to Axios)

2 hours ago

 

[bodysong]

- derecho transplanted in the Northeast

Just this past June, a violent derecho tore across eastern Pennsylvania, claiming three lives.

2020′s most devastating derecho struck Iowa in August, where winds up to 140 mph caused
hurricane-like destruction in Cedar Rapids and nearby communities, with damage estimated
at $7.5 billion.

October 13, 2020

Last (week) Wednesday started as a typical fall day in the Northeast

By Wednesday night, nearly 400,000 customers across the Northeast would be
without power, with a damaging derecho felling thousands of trees and claiming
two lives. The fatalities, in Clifton Park, N.Y., and Great Barrington, Mass.,
occurred when trees collapsed on vehicles.

Nearly a quarter-million customers in the Bay State found themselves in the dark
Wednesday, with a similar scenario unfolding for 150,000 customers in eastern New York.
More than 45,000 customers in Massachusetts alone remained without power Thursday
night.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2020/10/13/new-england-derecho-storms/

Bunting said that Wednesday’s derecho formed in a rather dry environment and exhibited
some of the characteristics of both a low dew point and a regular derecho; he considers the
episode a hybrid event.

The storms weren’t all bad, though. As they departed, the setting sun combined with an
impressive display of pouch-like mammatus clouds produced a brilliant display of pastel
hues that rivaled sunsets behind storms on the Great Plains.

 

[bodysong]

The New York Times ✓
Twitter › nytimes

Lake Charles, a working-class city of roughly 78,000 people, has been eviscerated
by Hurricanes Laura and Delta. Thousands of residents remain displaced, and the
dire needs of the city have been overlooked.

(link)

55 minutes ago

(history is repeating itself, more than ever)

 

[bhurry]

Anything Unusual ?

San Francisco Chronicle ✓
Twitter › sfchronicle

Meteorologists say an unusual set of circumstances led to the once-in-a-decade
thunderstorm in the Bay Area: combined moisture from Tropical Storm Fausto
with the atmospheric instability of a record heat wave.

1 hour ago

JUST IN: California energy grid operator says rolling power outages are "likely,"
during late afternoons and early evenings through Wednesday, as an extraordinary
heat wave continues to strain the power grid.

2 hours ago

Massive wildfire explodes into fire tornado in remote area north of Tahoe

San Francisco Chronicle

anyone really give a shit about that state? Just asking.

 

[LLCox]

I really hate to hear of N. California burning. That is some beautiful country. I lived in San Francisco for four years and have been all over that part of California.

 

[bodysong]

A winter storm blankets the region with ice. As temperatures dropped,
freezing rain, hail and snow fell across southeastern Louisiana.

NOLA

26F predicted for New Orleans, for Yardigras

"With 3,000 participants, the newly formed Krewe of House Floats has helped
solidify “Yardi Gras"

Re-purposed Christmas lights, during rolling blackouts ?

 

[PaxNurgle]

anyone really give a shit about that state? Just asking.

https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/masonry/000/028/453/necropost.jpg

I see your point, and I get that you're trying to be funny but... There are 34 million people in California. So yeah, 34 million people give a shit about it. I trust that not nearly as many care much about the weather in West Dakota or East Carolina or whichever state you live in.

I was actually visiting the Bay Area when the aforementioned thunderstorm (mentioned in the original post) took place (six months ago) and yeah, it was pretty frickin' crazy. A lot of the cool hiking areas that I liked to visit along the coast got badly burned.

 

[bodysong]

No picnic in Oregon -

Nearly 100,000 remain without power in Portland as outages stretch into 6th day

February 17, 2021

About 100,000 businesses and homes in the Portland area remained without power
Wednesday as outages caused by the weekend’s massive winter storm stretched
into a sixth day.

At a Wednesday media briefing, PGE president Maria Pope said the utility’s
infrastructure suffered “catastrophic damage” from the storm and its aftermath.
At the peak of the storm, she said, there were “well over 350,000 outages,”
and many customers have lost power more than once thanks to post-storm ice
bringing down branches and trees. She said workers prioritized elder-care facilities,
hospitals and water-treatment plants but also are actively restoring residential power.

https://www.oregonlive.com/portland...portland-as-outages-stretch-into-5th-day.html

73% of the lower 48 states is covered in snow, something that hasn't happened
since we've been keeping records.

https://www.thestranger.com/slog/20...omeless-japan-appoints-minister-of-loneliness

I go offline a few days and return to a GOP Gov blaming policies
he hasn’t even implemented for his own failures.

Gov. Abbott doesn’t seem to have a grasp on his state, so here’s a reminder:
Texas runs 80-90% on fossil fuels.

The real “deadly deal” is his failed leadership.

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) February 17, 2021

The South is shivering -

NC Emergency Management ✓
Twitter › NCEmergency

We can expect to see a variety of messy, cold precipitation across North Carolina
in the next few days. Here's a quick winter weather refresher on the differences
between snow, sleet, freezing rain and rain. Regardless of what falls in your area,
know how to #StaySafe #ncwx

6 hours ago

The deadly Arctic outbreak associated with two major winter storms is maintaining
its grip on much of the Lower 48 states, with Texas, Louisiana, Kentucky, West
Virginia and other states

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2021/02/17/winter-storm-weather-texas-live/

 

[bodysong]

Strong winds that blew into Maine on Tuesday morning sent the mercury diving
and caused whiteout conditions across the state.

Bangor (Maine) Daily News

https://bangordailynews.com/2021/03...-chills-and-whiteout-conditions-across-maine/

For the Heavy Freezing Spray Warning, heavy freezing spray at a rate of 2 cm per hour
or greater expected, and may rapidly accumulate on vessels.

Issued: 12:30 PM Mar. 2, 2021 – National Weather Service

IMPACTS...
Operating a vessel in heavy freezing spray ishazardous.
Freezing spray may render mechanical and electronic components inoperative.
Rapid ice accretion on decks and superstructures may result in a catastrophic
loss of stability. Very strong winds will cause hazardous seas
which could capsize or damage vessels and reduce visibility.

https://www.wunderground.com/severe/us/me/bangor

Piles of sneaux, strong winds, and wind chill, fuckin 'cold.

 

[bodysong]

Tornado energy travels from the deep south, all the way to Vermont.

 

[bodysong]

Fucking cold April Fool's Day 2021

Analysis reveals nearly 200 died in Texas cold storm and blackouts,
almost double the official count

Houston Chronicle 3 hours ago

Houston Chronicle ✓
Twitter › HoustonChron

LULAC, NAACP decry bill allowing partisan activists
to record Texas voters without consent

21 minutes ago

April Fuckheads

 

[bodysong]

April 8, 2021 at 5:44 p.m. UTC

Earlier this week, the NASA Perseverance rover reported on the weather
from Mars’s Jezero Crater for the first time, providing an invaluable data
set that will augment scientific understanding of the Martian atmosphere
and inform future decisions about the rover’s mission.

The weather data will also help mission scientists decide when to launch Ingenuity,
a drone-like helicopter, that’s set to take flight as early as Sunday.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2021/04/08/nasa-perseverence-jezero-weather/

 

[bodysong]

April 25, 2021

Snowing in Minnesota.

Freezing temps.

 

[bodysong]

14 May 2021

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has released a new report
on climate change that had been delayed by the Trump White House since
2017.

Climate change-related environmental disasters have grown more common,
according to the EPA.

The Trump administration delayed the report, which cites urban heat waves
and permafrost loss as signs of global warming, for three years

(Why would Trump bother to keep Americans updated on Climate Change information ?)

 

[BabyBoomer50s]

Yes, something unusual did happen California. The state experienced unusually prolonged and wet winters throughout most of the 20th century but has now returned to historic norms.

 

[bodysong]

Hotter, drier, stronger winds - Climate Change is Not Kind

Buried Alive In Mongolia's Worst Sandstorms In A Decade

May 30, 2021

Even the rescue teams could not go forward during one of the fiercest of many
sandstorms this spring. (march, April, May) Herders have lost their herds —
an estimated 1.6 million livestock — and their lives.

Southern Mongolia was hit particularly hard

Satellite imagery show that the sandstorms that coated China later in the spring season,
during April and May, largely originated from northern Chinese provinces like Ningxia
Gansu and Inner Mongolia.

Mongolian climate experts say an unusually dry year for precipitation
created huge amounts of loose sand.

"Almost no snow fell last winter, and some provinces had no rain last summer,"
says Dulamsuren Daskhuu, a senior researcher at Mongolia's Meteorology and
Environmental Monitoring Research Institute, a ministry.

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsa...ive-in-mongolias-worst-sandstorms-in-a-decade

(They have an equivalent of Death Vally, closer to the Russian border -Undurkhaan.
The disaster happened in Ulaanbatar, Mongolia. The Gobi desert is also growing
bigger.)

In China's capital of Beijing, residents huddle indoors each time the air outside
becomes too hazardous to breath due to sandstorms.

Those yellow skies in pics of China- fine sand and gritty sand fill the skies, and fall.

 

[bodysong]

June 16, 2021

The National Weather Service has issued an excessive heat warning
through 9 p.m. Saturday for Southern Nevada, portions of northwest
Arizona and southeast California.

The service projects the high temperature today will reach 116 degrees,
which would establish a new record high for the valley.

Burn center doctors such as Chestovich are warning of injuries from contact
with super-heated roadways and other surfaces.

Chestovich said the temperature on rocks and pavement will be 160 to 170 degrees,
meaning they can cause second- or third-degree burns in less than a minute.

https://lasvegassun.com/news/2021/jun/16/stay-safe-from-heat-as-the-sizzling-las-vegas-summ/

126F for Death Valley

 

[pecksniff]

Fascism is driven by the Banks and Corporations and not the political classes.

How is that fascism? I can't really imagine a Chase Manhattan Gestapo or capitalist Stormtroopers.

 

[bodysong]

Our soon-to-be-here heatwave is grabbing national headlines like Britney Spears.
CNN: "All-time record triple digit heat forecast for many people that don’t have A/C."
Washington Post: "Weather Service warns of ‘dangerous’ and ‘historic’ heat wave in
Pacific Northwest." Buzzfeed: "The Pacific Northwest’s Upcoming Heat Wave Could Be
Especially Deadly."

https://www.thestranger.com/slog/20...ough-of-the-container-ships-loudly-crammed-in

 

[bodysong]

A mosquito batch that was collected in Bow, N.H., has tested positive
for the rare Jamestown Canyon virus. (tracked to Jamestown, Colorado.)

Encephalitis passed on through deer.

- WMUR

'Wasting disease in deer herds noted in June 2021

The Jamestown Canyon virus last surfaced in 2015 in NJ

June 23, 2021

Rare mosquito-borne virus infects N.J. man

- NJ

Eastern Equine Encephalitis is closely tracked on the East Coast of US

Rocky Mountain fever cases emerged on East Coast.
Tiny ticks from the Western parts of the US appeared
on East Coast.