Solar Grand Solar Minimum part deux

TxGal

Day by day
TxGal, thanks for posting this about the seeds. I'd pretty much expected this to happen this year. Wonder if I should call Lowe's and ask for their garden center? Probably not. They rotate workers there and none of them know diddly about what's out there.

And I sure don't want to drive all the way into town just to take a look. I haven't been in since early March and I'd just as soon keep it that way.

I'd told my daughter to watch for the decorative colored corn when Walmart starts getting in fall items, (if they even do!) but she looked online and is going to try to find me some Painted Mountain corn. I told her my second choice would be the red stuff that gets super tall and often gets two or even three ears on one stalk, but I can't remember the name of that one.

You're welcome....kinda depressing news. I'd think most people will do better either online or at a small feed store/hardware store near them rather than a big box store in a suburban area.

It wouldn't hurt to call and ask if they have any. I just don't know if it would be worth a special trip. At this point it's spring's leftovers, with limited selection...better than nothing I guess, but likely not what most folks are looking for. I was there for fasteners and an assortment of screws. If I'd just gone for seeds I'd have been very disappointed. As it is, I'm really finding it depressing that things have changed so much, so fast.
 

Martinhouse

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Well, I know there won't be any strawberry plants there this time of year, and I really don't need any seed other than the corn.

Just talked to nephew and he has all the materials to do the side walls of my greenhouse with the Lexan, including drop-down "windows" on two of the three open sides, and also removable door covers of the same Lexan. It will be so nice to no longer have to deal with clear vinyl that shrinks and deteriorates in a year or two, and the plastic that tears so easily!

He told me that his ex-wife, who insisted that his children visit her during her week off has just found that a co-worker tested positive for Covid. Naturally he's worried sick about his immune deficient son, and VERY angry with his stubborn ex-wife. He is trying to find a local doctor who will deal with any of the treatments that seem to be effective and none of them seem to dare to think for themselves, but prefer to follow CDC guidlines entirely. I hope he can find someone or that that co-worker's test was a false positive! Oh, and ex-wife and co-worker are nurses in a clinic.....what could be worse?!!!!!
 

Martinhouse

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Digger, YES!!!!!

Let me know if you have it. I'll pay any price you care to charge for it and at this stage, I'd be happy with a tablespoon of the seed to grow a few ears next year to get more seed!
 

Martinhouse

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Thanks, all, for the information on the corn! I hope Digger has some, as she is right in my area, but if she doesn't, there are certainly other options and there are three people I could ask to order some for me.....maybe only two right now, though, if my brother in Cedar Rapids is too busy cutting up trees to be ordering things for me.

Now I just have to find a few strawberry plants!
 

Digger

Veteran Member
Martinhouse I will look for seed this week. Tomorrow I have one of the little grandboys so I won't get much done. I have a red and white old corn also. I am not sure of the name of that heirloom variety. It produced big beautiful ears on tall stocks. I grew them different years so they wouldn't cross.
 

Martinhouse

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Digger, even just a few kernels of anything you might find would be great!

I may possibly have some Bloody Butcher around here but it would be fairly old and I have absolutely no idea where it might be.

If it's in one of the freezers, it's probably embedded in frost like "The Thing" was embedded in ice in that old movie!

I also have always been careful to plant related crops different years so they don't cross pollinate.
 
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TxGal

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SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE’S INCOMING BIG FREEZE — S. AMERICA, S. AFRICA, AND AUSTRALIA ARE ALL BRACING FOR A BRUTAL BOUT OF POLAR COLD
AUGUST 17, 2020 CAP ALLON

Latest GFS runs reveal waves of bone-chilling Antarctic air are set to be whipped up and unleashed on many Southern Hemisphere land masses–the waves riding proudly upon a weak and wavy meridional jet stream flow.

First to be hit is Southern Africa.

According to the SAWS, “icy weather and localized flooding resulting from heavy rain and snowfall are expected in the Western Cape.” And as reported by the thesouthafrican.com: “The Western Cape is set to be hammered by yet another brutal cold front this week.”

From Tues, Aug 18, temperatures across ALL of Namibia, Botswana, and South Africa are forecast to sink a staggering 20C below the seasonal average.

Then by Aug 19, vast swathes of Southern Africa will be peppered by “blues” and “purples”:



GFS 2m Temp Anomalies for Aug 19 [tropicaltidbits.com]

Next up is Australia.

Starting Thurs, Aug 20, much of the Aussie continent will be buffeted by a brutal Antarctic blast as a massive “cold pool” gathers over eastern states.

“We’ll have a major cold outbreak on our hands with that system,” according to Sky News Weather meteorologist Robert Sharpe.

The front will deliver rain, hail, snow, and well-below average temperatures across the eastern half of Australia; and by Saturday and Sunday, the mercury looks set to plummet as much as 14C below the norm:



GFS 2m Temp Anomalies for Aug 20 [tropicaltidbits.com]

In addition to the anomalous cold, Alpine areas in NSW, Victoria, and Tasmania are all set to receive 100+cm (3.3+ft) of global warming goodness this weekend, adding to the impressive snowbase accumulated already this season.



Mt Hotham is set for another 100cm of snow.

Furthermore, and looking forward further-still, another mass of Antarctic cold is forecast to arrive by early September (note, this is out of the reliable time-frame and needs to be taken with a pinch of salt–though it is certainly a development worth keeping a close eye on):


GFS 2m Temp Anomalies for Sept 1 [tropicaltidbits.com]

Last up is South America.

This latest GFS run (below) should speak for itself, as following hot-on-the-heels of Patagonia‘s record snowfall, and Brazil’s historic cold comes a truly dangerous mass of frigid polar air:


GFS 2m Temp Anomalies for Aug 21 [tropicaltidbits.com]

The Antarctic air will gradually shift northwards between Tues, Aug 18, and Mon, Aug 24, and in that time will drop temperatures by as much as 30C below the winter average ACROSS Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia, and southern Brazil.

The animation below visualizes the chill as it creeps up the continent:



GFS 2m Temp Anomalies for Aug 19 – Aug 24 [tropicaltidbits.com]

Prepare South America.

This looks big.

The COLD TIMES are returning, the mid-latitudes are REFREEZING, in line with historically low solar activity, cloud-nucleating Cosmic Rays, and a meridional jet stream flow.

Even NASA appear to agree, if you read between the lines, with their forecast for this upcoming solar cycle (25) seeing it as “the weakest of the past 200 years,” with the agency correlating previous solar shutdowns to prolonged periods of global cooling here.





Prepare accordinglylearn the facts, relocate if need be, and grow your own.
 

TxGal

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BBC ATTEMPTS TO REWRITE THE HISTORY BOOKS
AUGUST 18, 2020 CAP ALLON

I worry how history will be read in just a few decades from now. Of course, who knows if what we accept as past events today are anywhere near the truth. But before our eyes, institutions charged with advancing the AGW Party line are scrubbing inconvenient historical events from the books.

Michael Mann was one of the original culprits, with his blatant rewriting of the warm periods of the past –namely the erasing of the Medieval Warm Period– so as to make the modern Sun-driven warming trend more pronounced. But there are more-subtle attempts at rewriting history occurring right now before our very eyes, noticeable only by those who’s eyes are still their own that is.

A recent BBC article, dated Aug 17, opens with: “What could be the highest temperature ever reliably recorded on Earth – 130F (54.4C) – may have been reached in Death Valley National Park, California.”

The word “reliably” is of course key here, and it is the setup for the BBC’s attempt to discredit the hotter heat records of the past. The institution’s repellent Orwellian tirade begins by disputing the all-time record of 134F, or 56.6C set back in 1913 –the hottest temperature ever recorded on Earth (and one the BBC rounds-down for some inexplicable reason, with the official record actually standing at 134.1F, or 56.7C). According to the agenda-driven, history-twisting BBC: “[1913’s record] is believed by some modern weather experts to have been erroneous, along with several other searing temperatures recorded that summer.”

The BBC are disputing not just one temperature reading but multiple temperature readings from different thermometers and at different locations. But hold on a minute, the respected journalist at the BBC have managed to Google-up some old “science” to support their claim: they’ve come across the restroom-wall scribblings of an ill-informed activist-stooge, and, as with all restroom-wall scribblings that tow the AGW Party line: they run the risk of being used as expert testimony.

View: https://twitter.com/BBCWorld/status/1295394463292981248

The activist-stooge in question this time is Christopher Burt (…no, me neither).

“According to a 2016 analysis from weather historian Christopher Burt, other temperatures in the region recorded in 1913 do not corroborate the Death Valley reading,” goes the next paragraph of the BBC article, which totally contradicts the previous one– ignoring that though, it says a lot if Christoper-“I’ve never hear of him either”-Burt is the best you can dig-up. 1) Burt isn’t a scientist, he’s a self-appointed weather historian, and 2) even in great, respected field of self-appointed weather historians, with his eminently useful BA in International Relations in tow, Christopher Burt is still a nobody. However, that matters not of course; he spews the AGW Party line, and so, he’s in.

The BBC go on to quote Burt again: this time he’s questioning the 131F (55C) record set in Tunisia back in 1931. Apparently, this reading isn’t good enough either, and, according to Burt, and only to Burt, it has “serious credibility issues”.

That’s as far as the BBC goes though. What credibility issues? And what’s the say the temperature that day in Tunisia wasn’t actually hotter–perhaps the thermometer actually underestimated the temp. The BBC they are throwing unsubstantiated doubt on historical heat records so they can claim yesterday’s 130F in Death Valley is proof that the planet is burning-up. These historical heat records were good enough for the past 100-or-so years, but as they’re now seriously hampering the AGW Party efforts, they’re being discredited, the first step in removing them from history.

The ruse is so palpable, and this dangerous rewriting of history needs combating by all of us and at every corner.

Solar activity holds the key to Earth’s climate.

It is no coincidence that the heat experienced in Death Valley in 2020 is comparable to that during July of 1913. The year 1913 falls within the deep solar minimum of weak solar cycle 14 — a remarkably similar setup to today’s:

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Climate is cyclic, never linear — and activity within the Sun is the driving factor, not Man and his inconsequential activities. Humans have as much of a say in the grand climate cycles as ants on mound of dirt — we can shift that dirt, ravage the local environment even, completely alter our surroundings; but we have ZERO say in the multimillennial will of the cosmos.

However, Man is capable of recognizing the cycles, them having been ingrained deep within-us throughout our evolution.
And for those capable of shutting off the fear-mongering, ear-splitting bleats spewing from Big Brother’s telescreens, these cyclical patterns suggest a return of the COLD TIMES is on the cards, that the mid-latitudes are REFREEZING; in line with historically low solar activity, cloud-nucleating Cosmic Rays, and a meridional jet stream flow.

Even NASA appear to agree, if you read between the lines, with their forecast for this upcoming solar cycle (25) seeing it as “the weakest of the past 200 years,” with the agency correlating previous solar shutdowns to prolonged periods of global cooling here.

Prepare accordinglylearn the facts, relocate if need be, and grow your own.
 

TxGal

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Magnificent red jellyfish sprite photographed during a storm in Mount Locke, Texas

Erika P.
The Science Times
Mon, 17 Aug 2020 18:29 UTC

Magnificent Red Jellyfish
© S. Hummel
Magnificent red jellyfish

Storm chasers are people who love to chase storms and witness how they unfold. While most of them want to see tornadoes, many storm chasers would go for thunderstorms and the delight of seeing cumulonimbus clouds and other related hail and lightning phenomena.

Some of them chase red sprites or the tentacle-like spurts of red lightning in the sky during a storm. They happen so fast that sometimes people would think they are only hallucinating. The European Space Agency said that these sprites are ultrafast electricity traveling through the atmosphere at 37 and 50 miles up and move toward space.

View: https://twitter.com/mcdonaldobs/status/1293570650498637826


Red Jellyfish Sprite on Mount Locke

Red jellyfish sprites last about one-tenth of a second and generally obscured by the storms, making it hard to spot them. Davis Sentman, a physics professor at the University of Alaska, proposed the name "sprite" since it "well-suited describe their appearance," as the name suggests a fair-like, fleeting nature. Dark-skies specialist Stephen Hummel from McDonald Observatory was able to capture the magnificent image from a ridge on Mount Locke in Texas on July 2. Some sprites are jellyfish-shaped like the one photographed by Hummel, and some are vertical columns of red light, called the carrot sprites.

View: https://twitter.com/PaulMSmithPhoto/status/1120006297909383170


Hummel said that he was not sure if he did see a red sprite since one should be really looking for them to see one as they usually appear to the eyes as a very brief, dim, and gray structures. It was not until he checked his camera that confirmed what he saw.

He recorded four hours and 30 minutes of video footage of the storm before he snapped a photo of the sprite that night. According to him, he was able to record almost 70 hours of footage and stills this year that caught about 70 sprites, and more than half of them were from a single storm.

Jellyfish Sprite As Seen from Space

Bright Jellyfish Red Sprites, Sprite Outbreak! May 23, 2020.
Bright Jellyfish Red Sprites, Sprite Outbreak! May 23, 2020.

Red sprites could be enormous, sometimes reaching 30 miles long and 30 miles tall. There are even some that can be seen from more than 300 miles away. When lightning reaches the ground and produces positive electrical charge, it needs to be balanced so an electrical discharge, the sprites, is released.

Hummel said that the powerful storm, the more lightning it produces, then the more the sprites would be. Unlike lightning, sprites happen much farther from the Earth's surface. They are sometimes spotted by the astronauts aboard the International Space Station.

Scientists have spotted red sprites all over the world in all continents except Antarctica since its discovery in 1989.

The sprite turns red as it sparks due to the nitrogen floating high in the Earth's atmosphere. The electricity emitted excites the nitrogen, which makes it to emit a red glow.
 
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TxGal

Day by day
In case some of you aren't reading the food shortages thread, check out parsonwife's post #5188 about seeds:

 

BenIan

Veteran Member
My advice would be to snatch up any seeds you can wherever you can find them. Went to the local hardware store. Very few seeds left. I bought what little remained of the corn seeds. Very little left except lettuce and some root veggies and not much of either. Found some seed potatoes for immediate delivery on Etsy.
 

Martinhouse

Deceased
I hit the small town grocery at 6 AM when they first opened this morning. Only one other person shopping. Anyway, my feed store doesn't have any tomato seeds left, so I bought a couple of tomatoes at the grocery. One of them was half caved in from being overripe. I told the checkout girl I'd pay for it but she called the produce lady who gave me the bad tomato and the good tomato for free. They were the beefsteak type so their seed might produce something. Can only find out by growing them, I guess. Will definitely mark the seeds as to origin when I save them.

I don't plan to do any more grocery shopping unless there is another stimulus surprise added to food stamps like there was in the spring. I qualify for the minimum of food stamps which is a whopping $16 per month. Kinda silly to even bother, but I've kept it since I can let it ride three months or so and make it worth a shopping trip..
 

TxGal

Day by day
I did an order for seeds from Territorial Seeds on the 15th, and got a delivery notice from them this morning....they'll be arriving Friday. I only ordered some lettuce and several packs of Blue Lake green beans (pole variety)....I've had a hard time getting the pole variety.

They still had a good selection when I was on their site on the 15th.

This potential seed shortage is really starting to look ugly....
 
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Digger

Veteran Member
Martinhouse, Price Milling in Russellville had Beefsteak, Rutgers, Arkansas Travelers, and one other variety of seed yesterday when I was there.
 

Martinhouse

Deceased
Thank you, Digger. I'll check them if I go to Russellville any time soon. I'd really like to have some new Rutgers seed. I was thinking of going to Reimer's one last time, for my green tea, and the teeny, tiny chance that they might have Anasazi beans. Not without calling first, to see if they have any, though.
 
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Grouchy Granny

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Thank you, Digger. I'll check them if I go to Russellville any time soon. I'd really like to have some new Rutgers seed. I was thinking of going to Reimer's one last time, for my green tea, and the teeny, tiny chance that they might have Anasazi beans. Not without calling first, to see if they have any, though.

I have successfully planted Anasazi beans bought at the grocery store. PM me if you need some and I will pick up a package for you. Nice thing about them is that I can buy them pretty much anywhere in Colorado as they are packaged here.
 

TxGal

Day by day
Adapt 2030 has a new podcast out:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-hCQNvt_io


Civilization Time Lines are Off (1027)
5,786 views • Aug 18, 2020

Run time is 10:12

New finds that tons of grain were transported between the Fertile Crescent (Middle East) and Eastern China 5000+ years ago before trade routes were established is making academia question the official time line of history. Additionally the mega city of Nebelivka, Ukraine which was over a mile wide, housed 15,000 people and had roads 5200 years ago with industrial agriculture before animals were used to plow fields. These civilizations were Sun worshipers. Greenland melt season stops a month early in 2020.
 

TxGal

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All, there are so many news articles on flooding there are too many to post, again...please go to Sott.net to view them; link is below:


For any that are watching the situation in China with their dam nearing collapse - there are new reports of flooding in China.
 

Grouchy Granny

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Please send some of that cold to Colorado! So sick of the un-relenting 90+ degree days and no rain in sight. Fortunately my garden has a sprinkler system, but tomatoes are not doing well at all.

We should be in monsoon season now, but nope, nada, nyet, nothing in sight at all.
 

TxGal

Day by day
Understand that! We're 100 here....for at least a week...more next week. There is a cool front coming down soon I think from up your way. It'll bring our temps down for a day. Burn bans going up all around us, it can't happen soon enough!
 

Martinhouse

Deceased
GG, I've never seen Anasazi beans at any of our grocery stores, only at the health food store.
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Just called the HFS. They don't carry this type of bean any more at all. Not a case of out of stock.....they just don't stock it now. I wouldn't even need a whole package of them. Maybe just a couple dozen or so beans in a little bubble envelope? Enough to grow them out for more seed?

So as far as I know, there won't be any of them in all of Russellville. Hmm. There is one feed store in town that I should call just on the off chance they might sell them.
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Just called that feed store and they do not carry Anasazi beans, either.

Sigh
 

Grouchy Granny

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GG, I've never seen Anasazi beans at any of our grocery stores, only at the health food store.
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Just called the HFS. They don't carry this type of bean any more at all. Not a case of out of stock.....they just don't stock it now. I wouldn't even need a whole package of them. Maybe just a couple dozen or so beans in a little bubble envelope? Enough to grow them out for more seed?

So as far as I know, there won't be any of them in all of Russellville. Hmm. There is one feed store in town that I should call just on the off chance they might sell them.
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Just called that feed store and they do not carry Anasazi beans, either.

Sigh

So PM me and I'll send you a pound - unless you don't want your AO to be known.

p.s. These are my preferred beans for chili con carne and re-fries!
 

TxGal

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“Historical cold and snow event” warnings for for South American
August 18, 2020 by Robert

“Antarctic air” will advance over a large part of Argentina and reach parts of Brazil, Paraguay, Bolivia, Uruguay, Peru and even Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela, forecast warns.
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17 Aug 2020 – The Brazilian meteorology company MetSul warned this Sunday that a “very intense” polar air mass will reach half of the Brazilian territory and a large part of South American countries, such as Uruguay, Paraguay and Argentina, from the Litoral, NOA and Center of the country, including Buenos Aires. “The event has the potential to be a historical record of cold and snow,” they warned.

The forecast indicates that an “Antarctic air” will advance over a large part of Argentina and will reach extensions of Brazil, Paraguay, Bolivia, Uruguay, Peru and even Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela.

The report released by MetSul also warns of intensity of “snow in Uruguay, as well as in Argentina near Buenos Aires, in the provinces of Santa Fe and Entre Ríos.”

It will also cover most of Rio Grande do Sul and Santa Catarina, among other Brazilian states. “Almost every year there are strong cold air masses in southern Brazil, but they will be exceptionally strong and wide during the second half of August.

Uruguay below zero

INUMET, the Uruguayan meteorological service, published its weather outlook until August 22 and again announced minimum temperatures below zero this week.

North of the Negro River, a drop in temperatures is expected towards Friday, August 21, reaching lows between -5 ° C and -2 ° C and maximums between 11 ° C and 14 ° C until August 22nd.

“The polar wave will enter through Argentina”

MetSul Meteorology indicated that the intense polar air mass, which will reach practically half of the Brazilian territory and much of South America this week with the potential to be a historic cold and snow event, “will advance through Argentina and reach the south, midwest, southeast and part of northern Brazil through its continental trajectory, as well as Paraguay, Bolivia, Uruguay, Peru and even Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela.

https://misionesonline.net/2020/08/17/frio-y-nieve-misiones-14/
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TxGal

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NEW STUDY: COLD-WEATHER ACCOUNTS FOR 94% OF TEMPERATURE-RELATED DEATHS
AUGUST 19, 2020 CAP ALLON

A new study by researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago reveals that it is the COLD which should concern us, not the heat.

The study’s summary/abstract opens by dutifully laying out the AGW Party line (well how else would it have gotten published in the journal Environmental Research), but then attaches the hard-facts at the end:

“With the number of extreme weather days rising around the globe in recent years due to global warming, it is no surprise that there has been an upward trend in hospital visits and admissions for injuries caused by high heat over the last several years. But cold temperatures are responsible for almost all temperature-related deaths.”

According to the new study, which looked at hospital visits in Illinois between 2011 and 2018: “the crude annual inpatient admission incidence rate was more than four-fold higher for cold injuries compared to heat injuries (10.2 vs 2.4 per 100,000 people),” and, crucially, patients who died because of cold temperatures were responsible for 94% of temperature-related deaths.

The paper, in its desperate attempt to get published, crowbars in the claim that: “With the decrease in the number of cold weather days over the last several decades, we still see more deaths due to cold weather as opposed to hot weather.” However, this assertion isn’t backed up by any facts — in fact, when the researchers looked at inpatient and outpatient heat- and cold-related injuries that required a hospital visit, they identified 23,834 cold-related cases and 24,233 heat-related cases –so roughly 50-50– and among these patients, there were 1,935 cold-related deaths and just 70 heat-related deaths.

We humans have become obsessed with demonizing heat, but this stance makes no sense: history shows us periods of warmth should be embraced for they have brought-about the expansion of every great empire of the past, and have unquestionably assisted in our own modern technical advancements. EVERY great civilization has risen and thrived during times of consistent warmth; it is the times of COLD which have been the catalyst for ancient political turmoils and an eventual societal collapse:



“Currently, the public health community focuses almost exclusively on heat injury,” said Lee Friedman, associate professor and corresponding author on the paper. “Our data demonstrate that improved awareness and education are needed around the risk for cold injuries,” he concluded.

The COLD TIMES are returning, the mid-latitudes are REFREEZING, in line with historically low solar activity, cloud-nucleating Cosmic Rays, and a meridional jet stream flow.

Even NASA appear to agree, if you read between the lines, with their forecast for this upcoming solar cycle (25) seeing it as “the weakest of the past 200 years,” with the agency correlating previous solar shutdowns to prolonged periods of global cooling here.





Prepare accordinglylearn the facts, relocate if need be, and grow your own.
 

TxGal

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Snowfall in the middle of August hits south west Yunnan, China

CGTN
Wed, 19 Aug 2020 10:45 UTC

Baima Snow Mountain Nature Reserve in Deqen Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in southwest China's Yunnan Province, August 18, 2020
© Zhang Pengwan
Baima Snow Mountain Nature Reserve in Deqen Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in southwest China's Yunnan Province, August 18, 2020

In the middle of summer, unexpected snow blanketed the Baima Snow Mountain Nature Reserve in Deqen Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in southwest China's Yunnan Province.

The unusual snowfall results from the consecutive rain and decreased temperature. High altitude areas such as the Baima Snow Mountain Nature Reserve has turned into a world of ice and snow.

View: https://youtu.be/3DHYU0wPY0Y


Medusa snow rabbit in the world of snow.
© Zhang Pengwan
Medusa snow rabbit in the world of snow.
 

packyderms_wife

Neither here nor there.

My thread about the growing anomaly in the south atlantic ocean.
 

packyderms_wife

Neither here nor there.
The Antarctic air will gradually shift northwards between Tues, Aug 18, and Mon, Aug 24, and in that time will drop temperatures by as much as 30C below the winter average ACROSS Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia, and southern Brazil.

A friend that lives in Johannesburg SA woke up to snow yesterday morning, she's in her 70's and said that this was a first for her.
 

packyderms_wife

Neither here nor there.
Btw if the winter weather is mild in Australia the midwest of the US and Canada will also typically have a mild winter, our weather patterns follow theirs for some odd reason. Their summer last year was a scorcher and look at what happened in Death Valley this past week 130F temps were recorded, first time this has happened since the 1930's, which was the dust bowl years for the midwest.
 

TxGal

Day by day
We're not quite sure yet to make of the coming fall and winter. We've been sitting at pretty much 100 degrees for weeks, plus or minus a few degrees, with virtually no rain for a long time.

Despite this, two signs of fall have emerged, we think: some of our cows are showing the hint of beginning their winter coats, long hair starting at their withers in a line along their back and neck, and this morning a flock of black-bellied whistling ducks brought their 'teenage' brood in to feed for the first time today. We seem to have become one of the locations around here (we have several ponds) where they start to congregate and grow into a large group before they migrate for the winter. This is early for us.

I can speculate that the decreasing daylight that has started the winter coat growth on the cattle....maybe so the seemingly early congregating ducks. I honestly don't know. Kinda makes me want to start loading winter hay up.
 

TxGal

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Forecast warns of possible historic snowfall in Uruguay
August 19, 2020 by Robert

First significant snowfall in parts of Uruguay since 1960
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The Brazilian meteorology service Metsul warns of the arrival of a huge and very intense polar air mass that will affect practically half of the Brazilian territory and part of South America, including Uruguay.From Wednesday a marked drop in temperature is expected.

The phenomenon could be “a historical cold and snow event” and although cold air masses occur every year “it will be exceptionally strong and extensive, says the company.

The drop in temperature will be felt from Wednesday in Rio Grande do Sul with moderate to strong winds that will bring very low thermal sensations.

The models consulted by Metsul indicate that it will snow in Uruguay, near Buenos Aires and in the Argentine provinces of Santa Fe and Entre Ríos, in most of Rio Grande del Sur, Santa Catalina, Paraná, Curitiba and the south of the state of San Paul.

From the National Institute of Meteorology of Uruguay a warning was issued for the irruption of very cold air as of Wednesday, August 19. “A very cold air mass will enter the south of the Negro River, generating low temperatures and very low thermal sensations, a situation that will spread to the north of the country on Thursday 20, persisting at least until Saturday 22 August throughout the territory.”

“During this event, the formation of frosts and the occurrence of scarce rainfall, snow and / or graupel water and even the probability of snow are expected in the highlands of the eastern part of the country.”

Metsul anuncia nieve en Uruguay; Inumet dice que podría ocurrir en zonas del este

Image of the polar cold wave, on July 28, 2020. Archive
https://media.subrayado.com.uy/adjuntos/230/imagenes/002/664/0002664738.jpg

First significant snowfall in parts of Uruguay since 1960

Meteorologist José Serra reviews three cases of this phenomenon in the country.

Serrá mentioned occasions when it snowed in Cerro Colorado (Florida), in the Sierra de las Ánimas and in Treinta y Tres.

It is possible that snow will fall in the eastern part of the country this Thursday, especially in Treinta y Tres and Cerro Largo, said Serra.

There is little history of snowfall in our country. The closest in time occurred in August 1991 in the town of Cerro Colorado, Florida.

Serra also recalled a snowfall in the Sierra de las Ánimas (Maldonado and Lavalleja), but pointed out that here it must be taken into account that it is an elevated area. The highest point, the Cerro de las Ánimas is 501 meters high.

Further back in time, on July 4, 1960 in the eastern region of the country, in the department of Treinta y Tres there was a significant snowfall. There are several photographic records of that occasion, for example of the snowmen made by some neighbors.

Serra explained that it is common for sleet and graupel to fall in the high areas of the departments of Maldonado and Lavalleja.

Graupel is rain with small cores of frozen water. The rain solidifies into a small grain of rice that is diluted when it touches the surface of the soil. Something akin to “very little hail,” he explained.

For its part, sleet is partially melted snow. “It is a mixture of water with very cold air that freezes the droplet at high altitudes and when it precipitates, it melts, it does not accumulate,” Serra explained.

The meteorologist assures that very cold and frosty days are coming.

¿Nieve en Uruguay? el meteorólogo José Serra repasa tres casos de este fenómeno en el país

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