Tropical Cyclone Zaka heads for New Zealand
February 7, 2011 – NEW ZEALAND – A Tropical Cyclone named Zaka by the Nadi Weather Office formed close to Tonga early this morning and is now tracking southwest towards the New Zealand area. Duty Forecaster at the Nadi Weather Office confirmed that the system developed rapidly overnight on the outskirts of Fiji waters at around 1 o’clock this morning. He said the system will not have any direct or indirect effect on the Fiji group due to its current location and projected path. The weather office said the system is now in New Zealand’s area of responsibility and they are closely monitoring Tropical Cyclone Zaka. Meanwhile, for the Fiji group, the Nadi Weather Office predicts fine weather for most parts of the country for the next few days. -Fijivillage
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Rivers of moisture: super-storm systems now span across the globe
February 6, 2011 – This fascinating satellite picture from the Japan Meteorological Agency of the Southern hemisphere perhaps demonstrates better than any other just how the planet’s weather patterns are rapidly morphing. On February 6, 2011, a band of moisture stretched from Australia to Antarctica. Cyclone Yasi’s length spanned the width of the continental U.S. Arkstorm systems, known as Rivers of water, similarly span across the Pacific to California. The recent Ground hog day winter storm system that struck the U.S. was 2100 miles long. Jupiter’s planetary storm has raged for centuries and in 2011, scientists were alarmed to find the super-storm on Saturn had now morphed to stretch across almost an entire hemisphere of the planet. There is no longer any doubt Earth’s climatic patterns are in the midst of major epochal change. See : Weather meltdown on Saturn
Zoo animals freeze to death in coldest winter to hit Mexico in 60 years
February 6, 2011 – CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) — Thirty-five animals at a zoo in the northern Mexico state of Chihuahua have frozen to death during the region’s coldest weather in six decades. Serengeti Zoo owner Alberto Hernandez says 14 parrots, 13 serpents, five iguanas, two crocodiles and a capuchin monkey died. He said Saturday that power failures cut off electrical heating at the zoo in the town of Aldama. Temperatures have dropped to 9 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 13 Celsius) in the area, the coldest weather in 60 years. Power outages have affected much of northern Mexico, forcing factories and businesses to close. Dozens of people are in shelters. Schools have been closed in Chihuahua state but are expected to open Tuesday as the weather warms.” -AP News
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Earthquake swarm in Western Turkey
A flurry of seismic activity is occurring in Western Turkey- including some 18 quakes today
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New Zealand sees hottest day ever recorded
February 6, 2011 – NEW ZEALAND – Timaru has broken the record for their hottest day ever with the temperature hitting a scorching 40.3 degrees shortly before 4pm today. The extreme heat, which WeatherWatch.co.nz predicted yesterday, is connected to the same heat wave that saw Sydney climb to 42 degrees yesterday and then recorded their hottest night ever. WeatherWatch.co.nz says Timaru has hovered around 39 degrees for much of the day but peaked at 40.3, breaking their previous record of 39.7 degrees recorded in February 1973. Weather analyst Richard Green says it was a similar Australian/New Zealand heatwave back in 1973 too. “Sydney reached 27.6 as their overnight low last night, beating their record by a whole degree set in February 1973. That same heat wave also hit Timaru in 1973 and again today that record has been broken by point six of a degree”. The heat has been widespread too with WeatherWatch.co.nz readers reporting highs in the late 30s and around the 40 mark this afternoon across Canterbury. Other centres to melt in the heat today were Christchurch, Alexandra, Ashburton, and Oamaru who all reached 36 officially, although private weather stations within Christrchurch were closer to 40. -Voxy.NZ
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Wildfires rage across sections of Western Australia
February 6, 2011 – PERTH, Australia — Wildfires tore across the outskirts of an Australian city on Sunday, destroying at least 35 homes, authorities said. One firefighter was reportedly injured. Two fires fanned by hot summer winds were burning in forested areas to the north and southeast of Perth in Western Australia state, the Fire and Emergency Services Authority said. At Roleystone and the nearby community of Kelmscott, residents were told to evacuate from the path of a fire that erupted after noon and had claimed 35 homes and was threatening more, the authority said. “There is a threat to lives and homes. You are in danger and need to act immediately to survive,” it said in a warning statement. It said people should leave immediately if they believe the path is clear, otherwise they should dig in and be prepared to take shelter in their homes. Police closed roads leading to threatened areas, preventing residents who were not at home when the fire flared from returning because it was too dangerous. Authority spokesman Rick Tyers said the fire had scorched almost 800 hectares by Sunday evening, and that strong winds and huge plumes of smoke were making firefighting very difficult. The cause of Sunday’s fires was not immediately known. The fires in Australia’s far west come as huge areas of the east coast recover from a huge cyclone that struck in Queensland state last week and from flooding from drenching rains in Queensland and in southern Victoria state.” -CTV News
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Pulsating auroras, oscillating waves and planetary tremors
PULSATING AURORAS: During the geomagnetic storm of Feb. 4th, Fredrik Broms of Kvaløya, Norway, witnessed an episode of elusive pulsating auroras. “The sky was filled with patches of green that oscillated in brightness,” he explains. A snapshot with his Nikon D3 caught the phenomenon in mid-pulse: “The patches didn’t move much, but their intensity changed. When one patch got brighter another became more diffuse and so on,” Broms describes. Reports of pulsating auroras go back more than a century, but until recently no one knew what made the aurora borealis behave like a strobe light. Researchers from UCLA solved the puzzle in 2009-10. Using data from NASA’s THEMIS spacecraft, they discovered that auroras pulse in sync to ‘chorus waves’ in Earth’s magnetosphere. This is a type of plasma wave that seems to be able to modulate the flow of solar wind particles down to Earth during geomagnetic storms. Clearly, the chorus was singing on Feb. 4th. –Space Weather
We detected this unusual oscillating pattern in our report of a magnetospheric anomaly associated with the planetary tremor event on February 4th. See - Anomalistic 21:00 hour tremor
Hundreds of fish found dead near Cleveland, Oh river
February 6, 2011 – SOLON — Biologists are trying to figure out what led to the deaths of hundreds of stocked trout in three-acre Shadow Lake in the South Chagrin Reservation of the Cleveland Metroparks. Metroparks Fisheries biologist Mike Durkalec says oxygen depletion can lead to fish kills when lakes ice over in the winter, but that’s doesn’t appear to be the cause at Shadow Lake. He says officials are trying to determine whether the oxygen loss was somehow accelerated by runoff with a “high organic content” but that any comment on the cause of the fish kill would be speculation. A representative for Waste Management, the company that runs a now-closed landfill near the park, says it’s cooperating with investigators.” -WKYC
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Heightened seismic unrest seen under Icelandic glacier
February 6, 2011 - Earthquake swarm at Vatnajökull glacier
- 3.4 06 Feb 01:07:07 90.1 9.7 km E of Hamarinn
- 3.3 06 Feb 07:51:25 90.0 13.6 km SE of Kistufell
- 3.1 06 Feb 01:07:12 67.9 12.4 km SSE of Kistufell
- 3.0 06 Feb 07:51:27 90.0 3.8 km SW of Kistufell
- 2.8 06 Feb 03:30:46 33.4 2.8 km SSE of Eldeyjarboði
- 2.3 05 Feb 15:12:46 75.2 10.4 km NE of Bárðarbunga
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Scientists no closer to eradicating disease that is wiping out bats
February 6, 2011 – “Conservationists across the United States are racing to discover a solution to White-Nose Syndrome, a disease that is threatening to wipe out bat species across North America. A review published in Conservation Biology reveals that although WNS has already killed one million bats, there are critical knowledge gaps preventing researchers from combating the disease. WNS is a fatal disease that targets hibernating bats and is believed to be caused by a newly discovered cold-adapted fungus, Geomyces destructans, which infects and invades the living skin of hibernating bats. Since 2006 about one million bats across six species in eastern North America have died from WNS, and as a result several species of bats face endangerment or extinction. The low temperatures and humid conditions of bat caves create ideal breeding grounds for this fungus, and in some bat colonies the mortality rate from WNS has been more than 95%. -Science Daily
| Magnetic Polar Shift Causing Massive Superstorms By Terrence Aym link |
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| Superstorms can cause certain societies, cultures or whole countries to collapse. Others may go to war with each other. |
4 Feb 11 - (Excerpts) - NASA has been warning about it…scientific papers have been written about it…geologists have seen its traces in rock strata and ice core samples…
Now "it" is here: an unstoppable magnetic pole shift that has sped up and is causing life-threatening havoc with the world's weather.
Forget about global warming—man-made or natural—what drives planetary weather patterns is the climate and what drives the climate is the sun's magnetosphere and its electromagnetic interaction with a planet's own magnetic field.
When the field shifts.... all hell breaks loose.... The magnetic field drives weather to a significant degree and when that field starts migrating superstorms start erupting...."
The superstorms have arrived
The latest superstorm—as of this writing—is a monster over the U.S. that stretched across 2,000 miles affecting more than 150 million people.
Yet even as that storm wreaked havoc across the Western, Southern, Midwestern and Northeastern states, another superstorm broke out in the Pacific and closed in on Australia.
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