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Green Lady
The UK has just decided that our big Atlantic winter storms are going to have names from now on - just like other people's hurricanes, typhoons and cyclones. So we are about to get battered by Storm Abigail...
[www.theguardian.com]
Under the scheme, storms will be named when they are deemed to have the potential to cause a substantial impact in the UK and/or Ireland.
Abigail is the first on the list of winning names, followed by Barney, Clodagh, Desmond, Eva, Frank, Gertrude, Henry, Imogen, Jake, Katie, Lawrence, Mary, Nigel, Orla, Phil, Rhonda, Steve, Tegan, Vernon and Wendy.
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Green Lady
The UK has just decided that our big Atlantic winter storms are going to have names from now on - just like other people's hurricanes, typhoons and cyclones. So we are about to get battered by Storm Abigail...
[www.theguardian.com]
Under the scheme, storms will be named when they are deemed to have the potential to cause a substantial impact in the UK and/or Ireland.
Abigail is the first on the list of winning names, followed by Barney, Clodagh, Desmond, Eva, Frank, Gertrude, Henry, Imogen, Jake, Katie, Lawrence, Mary, Nigel, Orla, Phil, Rhonda, Steve, Tegan, Vernon and Wendy.
That's ridiculous. The Weather Channel - which, the past few years, hardly shows anything about the weather and is more interested in stupid reality shows that are complete bunk - started naming winter storms in the US a few years back. Some people even though it was be good for "raising awareness", even though I'm pretty sure "A blizzard is about to leave the Midwest and will dump a ton of snow on the Great Lakes from Chicago to Cleveland" is just as "raising awareness" as some stupid name and the fact that the National Weather Service gave TWC no mind at all and will not name winter storms, that only tropical systems will be named... winter storms across a continent go west to east, there is no wandering around like tropical storms do.
There was also a twisted idea that it was because of insurance claims.
Thanks to and making fun of the eggheads at TWC I name clear days, cloudy days, drizzly days, windy days...
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6853
Veðrið á Islandi er kalt 4 til 6 gráður Celcius og verður áfram næstu daga. takk og bless.
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.................................................. Eddystone Rock
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Hairball
Eddystone rock
"A recently discovered Tasmanian Big Wave spot lying 26 kilometres off the south coast near Pedra Blanca. The main wave breaks to the east of Pedra Blanca near a bathymetric feature called Eddystone rock. Featured in the Tom Carroll, Ross Clarke Jones documentary "StormSurfers". If you're heading out here to surf, you'll either be one of the handful of guys in the world that can tow-in to these monsters, or have a death wish".
Photo: Andrew Chisholm
Marti Paradisis at Eddystone Rock: “This is a image that won the biggest wave in Australia for 2012".
Photographer Andrew Chisholm
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Green Lady
The UK has just decided that our big Atlantic winter storms are going to have names from now on - just like other people's hurricanes, typhoons and cyclones. So we are about to get battered by Storm Abigail...
[www.theguardian.com]
Under the scheme, storms will be named when they are deemed to have the potential to cause a substantial impact in the UK and/or Ireland.
Abigail is the first on the list of winning names, followed by Barney, Clodagh, Desmond, Eva, Frank, Gertrude, Henry, Imogen, Jake, Katie, Lawrence, Mary, Nigel, Orla, Phil, Rhonda, Steve, Tegan, Vernon and Wendy.
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Green Lady
The UK has just decided that our big Atlantic winter storms are going to have names from now on - just like other people's hurricanes, typhoons and cyclones. So we are about to get battered by Storm Abigail...
[www.theguardian.com]
Under the scheme, storms will be named when they are deemed to have the potential to cause a substantial impact in the UK and/or Ireland.
Abigail is the first on the list of winning names, followed by Barney, Clodagh, Desmond, Eva, Frank, Gertrude, Henry, Imogen, Jake, Katie, Lawrence, Mary, Nigel, Orla, Phil, Rhonda, Steve, Tegan, Vernon and Wendy.
That's ridiculous. The Weather Channel - which, the past few years, hardly shows anything about the weather and is more interested in stupid reality shows that are complete bunk - started naming winter storms in the US a few years back. Some people even though it was be good for "raising awareness", even though I'm pretty sure "A blizzard is about to leave the Midwest and will dump a ton of snow on the Great Lakes from Chicago to Cleveland" is just as "raising awareness" as some stupid name and the fact that the National Weather Service gave TWC no mind at all and will not name winter storms, that only tropical systems will be named... winter storms across a continent go west to east, there is no wandering around like tropical storms do.
There was also a twisted idea that it was because of insurance claims.
Thanks to and making fun of the eggheads at TWC I name clear days, cloudy days, drizzly days, windy days...
The personification of weather storms, trying to understand the reasons and implications of it, coming up short. Perhaps they will start giving all these bad storms Islamic names in order to subliminally brainwash us or something.
"The storm Osama in the Bin Laden front is about to hit the western seaboard with incredible force. Everybody should hunker down inside with fear and horror, your government has this under control and we will inform you when it's ok to go outside again."
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desertblues68
Windy in Hertfordshire. At home with two broken bones in my hand.
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latebloomer
Ancient ocean found under Chesapeake Bay
In this view, looking east from a tower of the westbound span of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, a tugboat tows a barge south on the Chesapeake Bay on Jan. 30, 2002.(Photo: Roberto Borea, Associated Press)
The remains of a salty ocean ancient enough for dinosaurs to have drowned in it have been found deep in the sediment under the Chesapeake Bay.
The seawater — believed to be 100 to 150 million years old — was isolated, trapped a half-mile underground, and preserved with the help of an asteroid that smashed into the area around 35 million years ago, creating a huge crater.
The watery fossil holds around 3 trillion gallons, and is "the oldest large body of ancient seawater in the world," according to government hydrologists who made the amazing find while mapping the ancient crater under Virginia's Cape Charles.
"We weren't looking for ancient seawater," the lead researcher tells the Washington Post, calling the find "surprising."
The underground seawater, twice as salty as that found in today's oceans, comes from a time when "the Atlantic was a smaller ocean," the lead researcher tells NPR. "It had only been in existence for about 50 million years and it was isolated from the rest of the world's oceans. It had its own salinity and its salinity was changing at a different rate and by different amounts from the rest of the global oceans."
But while the distinct chemical signature of the Cretaceous-era ocean has been preserved, the remnants are scattered among countless cracks and pores, meaning any ancient ocean life is very unlikely to have survived.
[www.usatoday.com]
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NICOS
November 21, 2015
The winter arrived.........yesterday and today hail......... and temperature went from +/- 14 C the last couple of weeks to 8 C