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Whale-ista
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Weird & historic weather: record rainfall, snow in Hawaii & sierras, hurricanes in Baja... add: volcano eruption
Adding to our weird weather (e.g., early season hurricanes, snow in the Sierras this week): the impact of major volcanic eruptions in Mexico.
I have a feeling this is going to be a very strange year...
Hawaii Just Got Hit By A July Snow Storm (Seriously) http://t.co/TW4pnbRZ4T via @HuffPost #extremeweather http://t.co/Z6HwEHw9ce
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/Volcano/
http://youtu.be/gw24KT8yoV8 (eruption/flows)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Vwa_iCqDFL0 (various eruptions)
mexiconewsdaily.com/news/big-eruption-last-night-at-volcano-of-fire/
1991 Pinatubo impacts on weather:
The 1991 eruption of Pinatubo produced about 5 cubic kilometers of dacitic magma and may be the second largest volcanic eruption of the century.
Eruption columns reached 40 kilometers in altitude and emplaced a giant umbrella cloud in the middle to lower stratosphere that injected about 17
megatons of SO2, slightly more than twice the amount yielded by the 1982 eruption of El Chichón, Mexico. The SO2 formed sulfate aerosols that produced
the largest perturbation to the stratospheric aerosol layer since the eruption of Krakatau in 1883. The aerosol cloud spread rapidly around the Earth
in about 3 weeks and attained global coverage by about 1 year after the eruption. Peak local midvisible optical depths of up to 0.4 were measured in
late 1992, and globally averaged values were about 0.1 to 0.15 for 2 years. The large aerosol cloud caused dramatic decreases in the amount of net
radiation reaching the Earth's surface, producing a climate forcing that was two times stronger than the aerosols of El Chichón. Effects on climate
were an observed surface cooling in the Northern Hemisphere of up to 0.5 to 0.6°C, equivalent to a hemispheric-wide reduction in net radiation of 4
watts per square meter and a cooling of perhaps as large as -0.4°C over large parts of the Earth in 1992-93. Climate models appear to have predicted
the cooling with a reasonable degree of accuracy. The Pinatubo climate forcing was stronger than the opposite, warming effects of either the El Niño
event or anthropogenic greenhouse gases in the period 1991-93. As a result of the presence of the aerosol particles, midlatitude ozone concentrations
reached their lowest levels on record during 1992-93, the Southern Hemisphere "ozone hole" increased in 1992 to an unprecedented size, and ozone
depletion rates were observed to be faster than ever before recorded. The atmospheric impact of the Pinatubo eruption has been profound, and it has
sparked a lively interest in the role that volcanic aerosols play in climate change. This event has shown that a powerful eruption providing a 15 to
20 megaton release of SO2 into the stratosphere can produce sufficient aerosols to offset the present global warming trends and severely impact the
ozone budget.
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\"Probably the airplanes will bring week-enders from Los Angeles before long, and the beautiful poor bedraggled old town will bloom with a
Floridian ugliness.\" (John Steinbeck, 1940, discussing the future of La Paz, BCS, Mexico)
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norte
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Been getting strange. Its what happens when man messes with the environment. We need to change our behavior before the environemtn changes us.
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bezzell
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Quote: Originally posted by norte  | | Been getting strange. Its what happens when man messes with the environment. We need to change our behavior before the environemtn changes us.
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It's already baked into the cake.
That horse has left the barn.
( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xdOTyGQOso )
The grandchilds are in for a rough time
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Bajaboy
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uh oh, the Simpletons should be showing up any time now to talk about Shell beach, etc.
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AKgringo
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I hear you Whal-ista, and my gut is telling me this might be a very intersting season. I am looking forward to seeing how it plays out, floods,
drought, who knows?
I just hope your thread doesn't turn into another environmental name calling, peeing contest. We have had too many of those lately!
Edit; I suppose that the auto correct changing 'iss' to' ee' makes me sound less crude!
[Edited on 7-12-2015 by AKgringo]
If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much space!
"Could do better if he tried!" Report card comments from most of my grade school teachers. Sadly, still true!
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grizzlyfsh95
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If you carefully arrange sparrow bones on a pewter platter, so that they resemble Stonehenge, and dust them with granite powder, you can influence
your environment. If you use crystals in conjunction with certain positive phrases, you can make all be well. It was cold last winter and I made it
warm this summer with this method.
The harder I work, the luckier I get
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LancairDriver
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| Quote: Originally posted by AKgringo | I hear you Whal-ista, and my gut is telling me this might be a very intersting season. I am looking forward to seeing how it plays out, floods,
drought, who knows?
I just hope your thread doesn't turn into another environmental name calling, peeing contest. We have had too many of those lately!
Edit; I suppose that the auto correct changing 'iss' to' ee' makes me sound less crude!
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Too late. The head simpleton has already logged in to start the peeing contest.
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ligui
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I love Shell beach 
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bezzell
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There are no longer any peeing contests.
Only those that are peeing (w/ science) ... and those that are being peed on!
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Whale-ista
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Just posting the variables. As in many calculations, More variables create more uncertainty and unlikely/unpredictable outcomes.
I'm in the home I grew up in, 5 miles from the hospital where I was born. I've seen a lot of changes in my hometown over the last half century. But a
benefit of living in the same place for decades: I have a good longterm perspective of change over time.
Related: I'm caring for two desert tortoises that have been in our family since the 60s. Estimate their ages at 70 to 80 years old since they were
adults when we adopted them. It's been interesting to watch their activity and hibernation calendars change over that period of time.
[Edited on 7-12-2015 by Whale-ista]
\"Probably the airplanes will bring week-enders from Los Angeles before long, and the beautiful poor bedraggled old town will bloom with a
Floridian ugliness.\" (John Steinbeck, 1940, discussing the future of La Paz, BCS, Mexico)
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toneart
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| Quote: Originally posted by grizzlyfsh95 | | If you carefully arrange sparrow bones on a pewter platter, so that they resemble Stonehenge, and dust them with granite powder, you can influence
your environment. If you use crystals in conjunction with certain positive phrases, you can make all be well. It was cold last winter and I made it
warm this summer with this method. |
I accomplished the same thing with two women. The research was arduous, but I say, anything to advance the science. Oh, and it can be done on Shell
Beach, too. 
Disclaimer: This has nothing to do with Global Warming. I am not sharing my laboratory with the rest of the world.  
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bajabuddha
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Well, I'll be at Sun Nova Beach !! 
I don't have a BUCKET LIST, but I do have a F***- IT LIST a mile long!
86 - 45*
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BajaDanD
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where is shell beach anyway
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BajaRat
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^^^Good to see ya Tone.
We are setting in for a third year of great Monsoon activity with above average rain fall up here on the Rim, guess ya never know till all the data's
in but I'm hoping for wetter not drier summers.
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toneart
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| Quote: Originally posted by BajaRat | ^^^Good to see ya Tone.
We are setting in for a third year of great Monsoon activity with above average rain fall up here on the Rim, guess ya never know till all the data's
in but I'm hoping for wetter not drier summers.
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Thank you, BRat! "Wetter Summers"...just so you don't get devastating floods like Texas and Baja Sur. We need rain to eliminate our drought here in
California. An El NIno current is predicted. How that will affect us remains to be seen.
I may know you. If so, send me a U2U.
Tony
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David K
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By Punta Chivato, NE of Mulege.
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blackwolfmt
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It has been weird weather in the San Juans May we had 12" of moisture snow rain ect, June was 2.75 rain and july so far we are at 4+ inches of rain
So understand dont waste your time always searching for those wasted years
face up and make your stand and realize that your living in the golden years
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Mexitron
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Was just reading that the current El Nino is setting up to be even stronger than 1982-3 and 1997-8. They've never measured water as warm in the
Eastern Pacific. In fact the worry is that it's so warm the southern jet won't materialize to take advantage of all the tropical moisture available.
Should be a good monsoon summer either way though
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Whale-ista
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^^Makes sense. The monsoons have already started. In late June we had "Monsoonal flows" in San Diego.
This created a little rain, lots of humidity, plus thunder and lightning in the mountains east of San Diego.
They also started early up in Flagstaff, just as my sister was re roofing her house. Earliest she's seen in 20 years.
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\"Probably the airplanes will bring week-enders from Los Angeles before long, and the beautiful poor bedraggled old town will bloom with a
Floridian ugliness.\" (John Steinbeck, 1940, discussing the future of La Paz, BCS, Mexico)
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ligui
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Colorado mts . most rain we've seen in my 34 yrs here .
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