Solar Grand Solar Minimum part deux

[TxGal]

Major eruption at Sangay volcano, ash to 12 km (40 000 feet) a.s.l., Ecuador

A major eruption started at Ecuador's Sangay volcano at 09:20 UTC (04:20 LT) on September 20, 2020. According to the Washington VAAC, volcanic ash rose to 12.2 km (40 000 feet) above sea level…

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Major eruption at Sangay volcano, ash to 12 km (40 000 feet) a.s.l., Ecuador

Posted by Teo Blašković on September 20, 2020 at 18:08 UTC (5 hours ago)
Categories: Featured articles, Volcanoes

A major eruption started at Ecuador's Sangay volcano at 09:20 UTC (04:20 LT) on September 20, 2020. According to the Washington VAAC, volcanic ash rose to 12.2 km (40 000 feet) above sea level, moving W at 18 - 28 km/h (11 - 17 mph). Heavy ashfall was reported in provinces west of the volcano.

Major emissions ended by 15:33 UTC, with only minor volcanic ash emissions detected on satellite imagery, moving W of the summit.

Detached plume up to 180 km (115 miles) W of the summit is expected to dissipate after about 6 hours, the Washington VAAC reported at 15:33 UTC.

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IGEPN volcanologists said that explosions and ash emissions were much more energetic than any of those observed in the past couple of months. A large ash cloud was reported at 09:40 UTC, with the highest part of the cloud heading east, while the lower part headed west of the volcano.

Weather and night conditions prevented direct observations.

Image credit: NOAA/GOES-16, RAMMB/CIRA

Image credit: NOAA/GOES-16, IGEPN, RAMMB/CIRA

Ash dispersal models showed there is a high probability of ashfall in the provinces of Chimborazo, Bolívar, Guayas, and Los Ríos, and less probabilities in Santa Elena and Manabí.

The potentially most affected provinces would be Chimborazo and Bolívar, where ash accumulations could exceed 3 mm (0.11 inches) and 1 mm (0.03 inches), respectively. This is enough to affect agriculture, IGEPN said.

Ashfall temporarily suspended all flights in and from Guayaquil Airport (GYE).

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Authorities urge residents and tourists to stay away from danger zones. If you are in an ashfall zone, protect yourself with a mask, goggles, and limit your exposure.

Authorities urge residents and tourists to stay away from danger zones. If you are in an ashfall zone, protect yourself with a mask, goggles, and limit your exposure.

Sangay is located in the Morona Santiago province, 41 km (25 miles) north-west of the city of Macas.

The current eruptive period began in May 2019 and remains to this day. The activity is characterized by the generation of lava flows, pyroclastic density currents (pyroclastic flows), and gas and ash emissions.

Geological summary

The isolated Sangay volcano, located east of the Andean crest, is the southernmost of Ecuador's volcanoes and its most active. The steep-sided, glacier-covered, dominantly andesitic volcano grew within horseshoe-shaped calderas of two previous edifices, which were destroyed by collapse to the east, producing large debris avalanches that reached the Amazonian lowlands.

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The modern edifice dates back to at least 14 000 years ago. It towers above the tropical jungle on the east side; on the other sides flat plains of ash have been sculpted by heavy rains into steep-walled canyons up to 600 m (1 979 feet) deep.

The earliest report of a historical eruption was in 1628. More or less continuous eruptions were reported from 1728 until 1916, and again from 1934 to the present.

The almost constant activity has caused frequent changes to the morphology of the summit crater complex. This volcano is located within the Sangay National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage property.

Featured image: Ash rising over Sangay volcano, Ecuador at 12:20 UTC on September 20, 2020. Credit: NOAA/GOES-16, RAMMB/CIRA

 

[TxGal]

This is a major eruption, large enough to have some effects on weather if I recall the VEI scales and effects correctly. We should have postings/podcasts from Felix at Ice Age Now, David DuByne at Adapt 2030, and likely Ice Age Farmer. Electroverse and Sott.net will most likely have articles posted, also. They should go over the VEI and effects.

I'm guessing most reporting will show up tomorrow morning.

 

[Publius]

Thats lower Stratosphere and if we get a few more like that one in the next two weeks it could have a serious effect on our winter by December and January.

 

[TxGal]

Thats defiantly lower Stratosphere and if we get a few more like that one in the next two weeks it could have a serious effect on our winter by December and January.

I thought it sounded ominous. Thanks, Publius - this definitely bears watching.

 

[TxGal]

Adapt 2030 has a new podcast out:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrQoUWagJHM


Solar, Economic and Ice Age Cycles (1037)
4,825 views • Sep 20, 2020

Run time is 8:14

Synopsis provided:

Experts now telling the world that Solar Cycle 25 will not live up to its expected strength, meaning a false hope forecast was given so the planet wouldn't equate low solar activity cycles in history and famine. At the same time the inverse of 1% elite stock traders have begun to see massive holdings while main street gobbles up the excess at market highs. A look at temps during the last ice age and coast line differences vs today.

 

[TxGal]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1307915366799085568

View: https://twitter.com/IceAgeFarmer/status/1307915366799085568

 

[TxGal]

German Meteorologists Warn "Now Comes Autumn" as Plunging Temperatures Threaten Rare September Snow - Electroverse

The higher elevations of Germany are bracing for a rare flurry of early-season snow as a record-setting mass of Arctic air approaches Europe.

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GERMAN METEOROLOGISTS WARN “NOW COMES AUTUMN” AS PLUNGING TEMPERATURES THREATEN RARE SEPTEMBER SNOW
SEPTEMBER 21, 2020 CAP ALLON

The higher elevations of Germany are bracing for a rare flurry of early-season snow as a record-setting mass of Arctic air approaches Europe

The heights of the Black Forest and Bavarian Forest are on for some healthy, potentially record-breaking September snow accumulations: “Without winter equipment you shouldn’t be there,“ warn the experts as rain is forecast to quickly turn to snow following a nationwide temperature nosedive.

“Now comes autumn,” tweeted wetteronline.de in blunt Germanic fashion, who closed their tweet with the trending hashtag “Schnee” (snow):

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View: https://twitter.com/WetterOnline/status/1307593732414418944


Brutal polar air will enter Germany on Friday (Sept 25), a dramatic switch from the Indian summer forecast for Monday through Thursday. A low pressure system is forecast to accompany the cold and is expected to deliver rain showers and thunderstorms that will, by the weekend, have turned wintry over the higher elevations after a continent-spanning temperature drop sets in:

Record-Breaking September Snow Headed for the Alps - Electroverse

Just like all the other 'bleats of ignorance' spewed by the MSM that are intended to keep us compliant, snow isn't a thing of the past.

electroverse.net

According to pledgetimes.com, German meteorologists suggest hikers tackling trails above 1000m bring-along “snow hammers” as an “early taste of winter” concludes what has been a “zigzag September” across Europe — a month that serves as further evidence of the ‘swings-between-extremes’ expected during a Grand Solar Minimum:

Grand Solar Minimum and the Swing Between Extremes - Electroverse

Intense bursts of heat will linger in one area, while a teeth-chattering chill will dominate nearby -- and then the regions will "switch". GSM.

electroverse.net

Both the breadth and intensity of Western Europe’s coming Arctic blast will bring a violent transition to winter, one that skips autumn altogether:


GFS 2m Temp Anomalies for Sept 26 [tropicaltidbits.com].

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. Both NOAA and NASA appear to agree, if you read between the lines, with NOAA saying we’re entering a ‘full-blown’ Grand Solar Minimum in the late-2020s, and NASA seeing this upcoming solar cycle (25) as “the weakest of the past 200 years”, with the agency correlating previous solar shutdowns to prolonged periods of global cooling here.





Prepare for the COLD— learn the facts, relocate if need be, and grow your own.

 

[TxGal]

Australia's Alpine Areas brace for more Heavy Spring Snow as Record-Threatening Antarctic Blast Approaches - Electroverse

Winter still dominates much of the Southern Hemisphere, even as both meteorological and astronomical calendars have now flipped to 'spring'.

electroverse.net

AUSTRALIA’S ALPINE AREAS BRACE FOR MORE HEAVY SPRING SNOW AS RECORD-THREATENING ANTARCTIC BLAST APPROACHES
SEPTEMBER 21, 2020 CAP ALLON

Winter 2020 is still dominating much of the Southern Hemisphere, even as both meteorological and astronomical calendars have now flipped to ‘spring’.

Parts of Australia prophesied to never see a drop of rain ever again –thanks to climate change– were ‘enjoying’ record-setting deluges over the weekend: Marree in South Australia recorded its heaviest rainfall in 36 years on Saturday, in just 24hrs, 93mm of cosmic ray assisted raindrops fell; while the frontier mining town of Broken Hill received 36mm over the weekend which resulted in flash-flooding (shown below) and also went down as the town’s heaviest rain for 4 years.

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Looking forward, brutal polar cold is preparing to ride anomalously-far north on the back of a meridional jet stream flow: a violent ‘buckling’ of the stream will deliver a monster out-of-season freeze to much of the Aussie continent.

To begin the week, a chill will dominate the west:

GFS 2m Temp Anomalies — Sept 21 [tropicaltidbits.com].

But then by Wednesday/Thursday the frigid air will have shifted east where it will have been joined by a second far-more intense blast of polar cold:

GFS 2m Temp Anomalies for Sept 21 – Sept 28 [tropicaltidbits.com].

“We will start to feel by Friday, winter-like weather in southeastern Australia,” said Sky News meteorologist Rob Sharpe, adding that “Adelaide, Melbourne, Canberra, and Hobart will feel winter-like as we move through to the end of the working week.”

By Saturday, temperature departures will have plunged some 6C to 16C below the late-Sept norm across two-thirds+ of the continent:


GFS 2m Temp Anomalies — Sept 26 [tropicaltidbits.com].

And will persist through the weekend and into next week:


GFS 2m Temp Anomalies — Sept 27 [tropicaltidbits.com].

This looks BIG.

In addition, the brutal mass of Antarctic air will also deliver heavy spring snow to Australia’s Alpine regions, with as much as 60+cm of late-season powder forecast to accumulate:


GFS Total Snowfall (cm) Sept 23 to Sept 27

Looking across the Southern Hemisphere, winter is also proving hard to shift in parts of South America as well as over large swathes of Southern Africa:


GFS 2m Temp Anomalies — Sept 22 [tropicaltidbits.com].


GFS 2m Temp Anomalies for Oct 1 – Oct 6 [tropicaltidbits.com].


GFS 2m Temp Anomalies — Sept 27 [tropicaltidbits.com].

For more on the impact Grand Solar Minimums have on the SH, click below:

NASA has been warning of a Grand Solar Minimum (GSM) for the past Decade - Electroverse

But today's AGW dogma has stopped the agency short of drawing a connection between reduced solar output and "ice age" type weather events.

electroverse.net

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. Both NOAA and NASA appear to agree, if you read between the lines, with NOAA saying we’re entering a ‘full-blown’ Grand Solar Minimum in the late-2020s, and NASA seeing this upcoming solar cycle (25) as “the weakest of the past 200 years”, with the agency correlating previous solar shutdowns to prolonged periods of global cooling here.





Prepare for the COLD— learn the facts, relocate if need be, and grow your own.

 

[TxGal]

Ecuador's Sangay Volcano sees uptick in activity with blasts, ash emissions -- Sott.net

Ecuador's active Sangay Volcano on Sunday registered a significant uptick in volcanic activity, including several strong explosions and ash emissions, the Geophysical Institute (IG) of Ecuador said. Activity increased from 04:20 a.m. local time...

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Ecuador's Sangay Volcano sees uptick in activity with blasts, ash emissions

huaxia
Xinhua
Sun, 20 Sep 2020 23:31 UTC


© IGEPN
Explosion and pyroclastic flow from Sangay volcano yesterday

Ecuador's active Sangay Volcano on Sunday registered a significant uptick in volcanic activity, including several strong explosions and ash emissions, the Geophysical Institute (IG) of Ecuador said.

Activity increased from 04:20 a.m. local time (09:20 GMT) with seismic tremors that were more intense than any "observed in the preceding months," the institute said.

Satellite images showed a large ash cloud rising up to 10 kilometers above the volcano's crater.

Sangay is one of the most active volcanoes in Ecuador and has been in constant eruptive activity since 1628, when it last erupted.

The volcano, located about 5,230 meters above sea level in an unpopulated region of the southern Amazonian province of Morona Santiago, began a new eruptive period in May of last year.

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The provinces of Chimborazo and Bolivar, in the country's central Andean region, are expected to be the most affected by the potential accumulation of one to three millimeters of ash, "which is enough to affect agriculture," the institute said.

The National Risk and Emergency Management Service said in a statement that its monitoring units reported "strong volcanic ash fall" in several cantons of the provinces of Chimborazo and Bolivar, as well as in Guayas to the southwest and Los Rios to the west.

Local and regional "Emergency Operations Committees (COE) have been activated to coordinate response measures and delivery of humanitarian aid to the affected populations," the agency said.

 

[MountainBiker]

Given all the abnormally cold weather discussion of late I thought I'd throw in a local comment. Where I live (Vermont) there can be great variation in when the 1st frost comes but the pattern is usually the same. It starts with occasional light patchy frosts usually by mid-Sept. but it can be earlier or later. Then one day usually by mid-Oct a heavy killing frost will come. Occasional heavy frosts eventually become a daily occurrence and by then nobody even notices.

This year the first couple light patchy frosts came starting on the 12th I think it was, so perfectly normal but we've now had 3 days in a row of heavy killing frosts which is unusual and perhaps a month earlier than what we might expect. Now it'll be in the 70's later this week but the garden is done and gone for this year as are my flowers.

 

[TxGal]

I thought long and hard before posting the below from Felix at Ice Age Now. Most of the article is not about the GSM but the virus and political ramifications - until the very end. It was that ending that convinced me to post the article. I've bolded it and italicized it for emphasis.

Destroying the energy industry just as we're entering a Little Ice Age

They have already hamstrung the world’s economies. ________________ Destroying the energy industry just as we're entering a Little Ice Age Jimmy Walter Unless they are permanent, the lockdowns, at best, only delay the infections. The

www.iceagenow.info

Destroying the energy industry just as we’re entering a Little Ice Age
September 20, 2020 by Robert

They have already hamstrung the world’s economies.
________________

Destroying the energy industry just as we’re entering a Little Ice Age

Jimmy Walter

Unless they are permanent, the lockdowns, at best, only delay the infections. The disease is not dying out – that is not the way viruses work. Herd immunity will rise as the disease spreads throughout the entire world population. The lockdowns give it a continuous media propaganda, continuous shocks on your, everyone’s psyche – continuous fear that drains the blood from your thinking brain parts and puts your fight, flight, and follow-the-leader brain part in total control.

There is only one possible endgame for them: vaccinations that “cure” everyone – not the numerous cures that have been proven to work since the number of really sick people is an infinitesimal number compared with the profits to be made by vaccinating everyone in the world. Of course, it could be even more sinister – they might want to, as the Prince of Wales wishes, to wipe out a large part of the world’s population. But like the sorcerer’s apprentice, they know not what they are doing. There are already serious problems with Astrazeneca’s version:

Internal AstraZeneca safety report sheds light on neurological condition suffered by vaccine trial participant

So far, they have already hamstrung the world’s economies. As usual, the big bankers (not the nice guy you know who is running the local branch) will end up owning more while the average person’s wealth and life are destroyed. This is not a new pattern. The “Great Depression”, the “Great Recession” (both euphemisms) , and the myriad other economic collapses throughout banking history have done this before. However, this time, we are entering a massive Little Ice Age which may burn the house down to the ground since they are not preparing for it – just the opposite, they are destroying the energy industry.

 

[TxGal]

Sangay Volcano Erupts to 40,000 ft (12.2 km) - Electroverse

Many provinces were buried under ash, but more crucially; particulates ejected into the stratosphere can have a direct cooling effect.

electroverse.net

SANGAY VOLCANO ERUPTS TO 40,000 FT (12.2 KM)
SEPTEMBER 21, 2020 CAP ALLON

Ecuador’s active Sangay Volcano exploded in dramatic fashion over the weekend, firing volcanic ash high into the atmosphere — the explosion was a number of times stronger than those previously observed during the volcano’s recent uptick.

The ‘high-level’ eruption occurred at 04:20 local time on Sunday, September 20 and generated a dense, dark ash plume, but the ‘biggie’ was sandwiched between numerous other powerful blasts that occurred throughout the weekend:

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According to volcanodiscovery.com, the dense ash plume reached an altitude of approx. 40,000 ft (12,200 m) and spread-out towards the east and west, burying the Ecuadorian provinces of Chimborazo, Bolívar, Guayas Los Ríos, Santa Elena and Manabí:

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More crucially though, particulates ejected to around 32,800 ft (10 km) –and into the stratosphere– can have a direct cooling effect across the planet.

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Volcanic eruptions are one of the key forcings driving Earth into its next bout of global cooling. Their worldwide uptick (along with a seismic uptick) is tied to low solar activity, coronal holes, a waning magnetosphere, and the influx of Cosmic Rays penetrating silica-rich magma.

SANGAY
Stratovolcano: 5230m / 17,159 ft
Ecuador: -2°S / -78.34°W
Current status: ERUPTING
Eruption list: 934-ongoing (as of 2017), 1728-1916, 1628 (first observation) – ?
For more see VolcanoDiscovery.com.

Seismic and Volcanic activity has been correlated to changes in the Sun.
The recent global uptick in earthquakes and volcanic eruptions is likely attributed to the drop-off in solar activity, coronal holes, a waning magnetosphere, and the increase in Galactic Cosmic Rays penetrating silica-rich magma.
Check out these link for more info:

https://principia-scientific.org

https://www.researchgate.net

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. Both NOAA and NASA appear to agree, if you read between the lines, with NOAA saying we’re entering a ‘full-blown’ Grand Solar Minimum in the late-2020s, and NASA seeing this upcoming solar cycle (25) as “the weakest of the past 200 years”, with the agency correlating previous solar shutdowns to prolonged periods of global cooling here.





Prepare for the COLD— learn the facts, relocate if need be, and grow your own.

 

[TxGal]

Snow has already made its way to parts of Quebec... and it's only September -- Sott.net

On September 14, Environment Canada issued frost advisories for certain southern parts of the province, predicted for the following days. But frost seems like a blessing when you find out that some of Northern Quebec got snow dropped on it this...

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Snow has already made its way to parts of Quebec... and it's only September

Alanna Moore
MTLBlog
Sun, 20 Sep 2020 13:25 UTC


Photo used for illustrative purposes only.

On September 14, Environment Canada issued frost advisories for certain southern parts of the province, predicted for the following days. But frost seems like a blessing when you find out that some of Northern Quebec got snow dropped on it this Saturday.

Yes, snow... in September. Which means it may just be time to pull out your hats, scarves and mittens.

A meteorologist for MétéoMedia, Sophie Colombani, tweeted "Snow this morning on the side of the Réserve faunique des Laurentides" on Saturday, September 19. She also noted that Montreal's temperature dropped to 2 C the previous night.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1307329302539706376

View: https://twitter.com/meteomedia/status/1307329302539706376


The video above gives you a little taste of what that snow looked like: white and fluffy.

The Weather Network's fall 2020 predictions expect "lots of sunshine and above-average temperatures" for October and November though, so there may still be hope for a more-than-one-week-long fall season in Quebec.

 

[TxGal]

Mt. Fuji in Japan gets first sprinkling of snow 1 month earlier than 2019 -- Sott.net

Japan's iconic Mount Fuji got its first dusting of snow of the season, the central Japan city of Fujiyoshida in Yamanashi Prefecture announced on Sept. 21. According to the city, cooler temperatures prevailing over the four-day long weekend that...

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Mt. Fuji in Japan gets first sprinkling of snow 1 month earlier than 2019

The Mainichi
Mon, 21 Sep 2020 13:46 UTC


© Mainichi/Koichiro Tezuka
A dusting of snow is seen near the summit of Mount Fuji on Sept. 21, 2020.

Japan's iconic Mount Fuji got its first dusting of snow of the season, the central Japan city of Fujiyoshida in Yamanashi Prefecture announced on Sept. 21.

According to the city, cooler temperatures prevailing over the four-day long weekend that started on Sept. 19 turned rain that had been falling on the mountain into snow, leaving a light sprinkling of the white stuff near the peak.

Mount Fuji's first observed snowfall in 2019 came on Oct. 23, over a month later than this year. According to the Japan Meteorological Agency, on average the mountain gets its first snow on Sept. 30.

 

[TxGal]

Early snowfall on the central Ural mountains in Russia

The first snow fell in the Sverdlovsk region, reports RIA News. It is noted that currently there is rainfall in the region in the form of wet snow. "The snow cover did not have time to form," the agency's correspondent reports. According to the...

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Early snowfall on the central Ural mountains in Russia

Bhavi Mandalia
Pledge Times
Mon, 21 Sep 2020 13:53 UTC


The first snow fell in the Sverdlovsk region, reports RIA News.

It is noted that currently there is rainfall in the region in the form of wet snow.

"The snow cover did not have time to form," the agency's correspondent reports.

According to the Ural Hydrometeorological Center, on Monday night the air temperature in Yekaterinburg dropped below zero. On September 21, cloudy weather with clearings and light rain is expected in the city. The thermometer will reach plus 5-7 degrees.

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© RIA Novosti / Ilya Timin

We will remind, on August 23 in the Dagestan high-mountainous village of Kurush snow fell. It was noted that snowdrifts formed on the streets of the village.

Earlier, the scientific director of the Hydrometeorological Center, Roman Vilfand, said that from Tuesday, September 22, Indian summer will come in the Central Federal District of the Russian Federation.

 

[TxGal]

Great picture:

Sangay volcano (Ecuador): spectacular eruption; emissions to 40,000 ft

Sangay volcano (Ecuador) eruption news & activity updates

www.volcanodiscovery.com

Sangay volcano news

Sangay volcano (Ecuador): spectacular eruption; emissions to 40,000 ft
Monday Sep 21, 2020 09:47 AM | BY: MARTIN

Ash column visible from aircraft (image: @dani100sweet/twitter)

A powerful eruption at 04:20 local time occurred yesterday that generated a dense dark ash plume, which reached approx. 40,000 ft (12,200 m) altitude and drifted towards the east and west direction. The explosion was a few times stronger than the average size of explosions at the volcano during the previous months.

Ash fall affected an area of the provinces of Chimborazo, Bolívar (1-3 mm ash layers), Guayas Los Ríos, Santa Elena and Manabí.

Source: Instituto Geofísico volcano activity update 21 September 2020

• • All news about: Sangay volcano
  • Information about: Sangay volcano

 

[Martinhouse]

TxGal, do you know if the eruption is ongoing or if it's pretty much finished and thus the air can maybe start clearing for all those poor people?

 

[TxGal]

TxGal, do you know if the eruption is ongoing or if it's pretty much finished and thus the air can maybe start clearing for all those poor people?

Last I read this morning it was still ongoing, just not erupting as high. Sure is scary stuff, though.

 

[TxGal]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1308169816709017601

View: https://twitter.com/IceAgeFarmer/status/1308169816709017601

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1308161767499943936

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And here's the article on the new potato disease in China. Good heavens I hope we don't get it here:

Agroinsurance

agroinsurance.com

China - A new potato disease

17.09.2020

Potatoes are an important crop throughout the world but a new and, so far, undescribed disease has been observed on potato plants during the growing season, and in tubers during the storage period, from Nileke County, Qitai County and other locations in Xinjiang, China.

Scientists at Xinjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences have isolated a particular fungus from the infected potato plants and tubers. The variety of the diseased potato was Atlantic. The leaves were found to be yellow and wrinkled with wilted edges of the leaves. The diseased tubers showed a large number of depressions and many black lesions, as well as cracks. Some lesions were easy to peel off.

Based on its morphology, molecular characteristics, pathogenicity test and internal transcribed spacer (ITS) sequence, the pathogen was identified as Galactomyces candidum F12. Further study on biological characteristics also showed that the hyphae and conidia of the pathogenic fungus grew faster as the temperature was 30°C, pH was 7, soluble starch was used as optimal carbon source and yeast powder as optimal nitrogen source. In addition, 12-h continuous illumination light was beneficial to the hyphal growth, while 24-h continuous illumination was beneficial to the sporulation of the strain at 30°C.

“To our knowledge, this is the first report of Galactomyces candidumcausing leaf wilt and postharvest tuber rot on potatoes in China. Further studies on this pathogen are needed, including its host-specificity and ecological characteristics, as well as its relevant management strategies,” the scientists say.

Source – FreshPlaza: Global Fresh Produce and Banana News

Read more at: Agroinsurance – Portal on Agricultural Insurance and Risk Management » China – A new potato disease

 

[Martinhouse]

Wow! I just bought 50 pounds of nice red potatoes. I intend to blanch them and grate them and then dehydrate them. Not for hashbrowns, but just because if grated, they will cook up a lot faster than just sliced and that might be important if I need to conserve fuel, like on the rocket stove or the woodstove. Or even the little propane campstove.Makes me wish I could get another 50 pounds. They were on sale last week, but I'd get them at full price. I just don't think I have time or energy to work up a hundred pounds of potatoes this fall.

 

[jazzy]

Wow! I just bought 50 pounds of nice red potatoes. I intend to blanch them and grate them and then dehydrate them. Not for hashbrowns, but just because if grated, they will cook up a lot faster than just sliced and that might be important if I need to conserve fuel, like on the rocket stove or the woodstove. Or even the little propane campstove.Makes me wish I could get another 50 pounds. They were on sale last week, but I'd get them at full price. I just don't think I have time or energy to work up a hundred pounds of potatoes this fall.

that is a very good idea, THANKS

 

[Martinhouse]

Welcome!

 

[TxGal]

Wow! I just bought 50 pounds of nice red potatoes. I intend to blanch them and grate them and then dehydrate them. Not for hashbrowns, but just because if grated, they will cook up a lot faster than just sliced and that might be important if I need to conserve fuel, like on the rocket stove or the woodstove. Or even the little propane campstove.Makes me wish I could get another 50 pounds. They were on sale last week, but I'd get them at full price. I just don't think I have time or energy to work up a hundred pounds of potatoes this fall.

That's a great idea!

Red potatoes are still the one thing I worry about. No matter how many forms of potatoes I have in the food storage pantry, it's fresh red potatoes I really worry about. I have a bunch of small ones that have begun sprouting that I plan to plant when I can get to it, and have more seed potatoes on order. We have potatoes every single day, usually with breakfast. Lots of nutrition and staying power in potatoes.

 

[TxGal]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1308215334986379265

View: https://twitter.com/IceAgeFarmer/status/1308215334986379265

While not GSM-related per se, I'm bringing over IAF's tweet below so people can plan accordingly. If anyone can catch meat sales and has the ability to freeze/can, this is definitely something to keep in mind:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1308263110793256962

View: https://twitter.com/IceAgeFarmer/status/1308263110793256962

 

[TxGal]

The Oppenheimer Ranch Project has a new podcast out:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSTMxCauocs


Tropical Storm Beta Makes Landfall On Texas - The Sun Awakens - Climate Fraud Exposed - LIA Science
5,048 views • Premiered 6 hours ago

Run time is 17:53

Synopsis provided:

Bobcat Fire grows to 103,000 acres - LA County's largest ever wildfires http://dailym.ai/35VEGFr
Tropical Storm Beta Key Message https://bit.ly/3hSega2
Tropical Storm Beta nears landfall along Texas coast https://bit.ly/3hLuxxu
ELEVATED FIRE WEATHER, THUNDERSTORMS AND SNOW FORECAST IN WYOMING THIS WEEK https://bit.ly/32SCgp2 GFS MOdel Total Snow USA https://bit.ly/35VYMiV Frosty start allows Maine ski area to fire up snow guns https://bit.ly/2FZjiUK
Beta Nears the Texas Coast; Teddy Brings Swells and Rip Currents to the East Coast https://www.weather.gov/
GFS Model Total Snow Europe https://bit.ly/3kBGUhf
GOES X-Ray Flux http://bit.ly/38EqTBu
Solar Ham Coronal Holes https://bit.ly/3iRNdgv
Sangay volcano (Ecuador): spectacular eruption; emissions to 40,000 ft https://bit.ly/35SX3Lj
University Appeal Upheld, Peter Ridd Loses – We all Lose https://bit.ly/2RPkYmt
Why Deny the Beautiful Coral Reefs Fringing Stone Island? https://bit.ly/3mRy8xQ
Little Ice Age Triggered by Arctic Sea Ice https://bit.ly/2EmqaLA
Evidence for extreme export of Arctic sea ice leading the abrupt onset of the Little Ice Age https://bit.ly/3clqV4j
The tipping points at the heart of the climate crisis https://bit.ly/33PobIh
Arctic Sea ice melts to second-place finish at annual minimum https://bit.ly/2ElKCw4
Scientists find 'secret molecule' that allows bacteria to exhale electricity https://bit.ly/2ZXt68S
New solar cycle to potentially cause technology vulnerability https://bit.ly/2ZZ6KEe

 

[TxGal]

Oh Hell's Bells, here we go:

"We are now experiencing a century-class Solar Minimum" - Dr Tony Phillips - Electroverse

The sun has been blank for 32 days; this sees the stretch enter the SIDC books as one of the longest 'periods with spotless days' since 1849.

electroverse.net

“WE ARE NOW EXPERIENCING A CENTURY-CLASS SOLAR MINIMUM” — DR TONY PHILLIPS
SEPTEMBER 22, 2020 CAP ALLON

The sun has been blank for 32 consecutive days, a stretch that enters the SIDC record books as one of the longest ‘periods with spotless days’ since 1849, and it ain’t over yet. In addition, the highly active region turning around the limb –expected to spoil the party this week– has turned out to be “all sizzle”.

All sizzle, and no sunspot, writes Dr Tony Phillips of spaceweather.com. We expected a sunspot. Instead, we have plage. French for “beach,” a plage is the bright magnetic froth that surrounds many big sunspots. In this case, however, there are no sunspot:



Dr Phillips continues: This frothy network of white-hot plage is emerging over the sun’s northeastern limb underneath a canopy of sizzling magnetic arches. Usually, such a canopy would herald an active sunspot group. So far, however, no dark cores are visible, he writes.

The sun has been blank for 32 days and counting, which sees it enter the SIDC record books as one of the longest ‘periods with spotless days’ since 1849:


SIDC (periods with spotless days).

As visible in the above SIDC table, recent years are increasingly making the mark.

The Solar Minimum of Cycle 23 (2008-09) was the deepest of the past 90 years: referring to the table above, the minimum achieved a 32 spotless day run between July 31 and Aug 31, 2009; as well as a 31 day run between July 21 and Aug 20, 2008.

The Solar Minimum of Cycle 24 comfortably surpassed Cycle 23 in both weakness and duration: the minimum achieved an impressive 40 spotless day run between Nov 14 and Dec 23, 2019 and then a 34 day run between Feb 2 and Mar 6, 2020.

Today’s stretch of 32 spotless days is potentially even more impressive though: this year, solar Cycle 25 has shown clear signs of firing-up but the fact that we’re still able to experience a month-long spell of blank solar discs is quite remarkable. SC25 should be upon us, yet instead we’re suffering an extended and historically prolonged Solar Minimum. This all further supports the forecast that the period we’re entering is indeed the next ‘full blown’ Grand Solar Minimum:

NOAA confirms a 'full-blown' Grand Solar Minimum - Electroverse

NOAA's PREDICTED SUNSPOT NUMBER AND RADIO FLUX data shows a full-blown Grand Solar Minimum running from the late-2020s to at least the 2040s.

electroverse.net

This interval has pushed the current Solar Minimum into historic territory, writes Dr Phillips. Since 2016, there have been 825 spotless days. To find a lull in the solar cycle with more spotless days, you have to go back to the years around 1913 when the sun racked up 1023 spotless days (the years around 1913 fell within the Centennial Minimum).

We are now experiencing a century-class Solar Minimum, concludes Dr Phillips.

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. Both NOAA and NASA appear to agree, if you read between the lines, with NOAA saying we’re entering a ‘full-blown’ Grand Solar Minimum in the late-2020s, and NASA seeing this upcoming solar cycle (25) as “the weakest of the past 200 years”, with the agency correlating previous solar shutdowns to prolonged periods of global cooling here.





Prepare for the COLD— learn the facts, relocate if need be, and grow your own.

 

[TxGal]

"Tweet Tweet" - Social Media was Wrong about the Hundreds of Thousands of Dead Birds in NM: Science says it was the RECORD COLD what did it - Electroverse

Objective scientific research has completely contradicted the mainstream narrative, as it usually does -- Grand Solar Minimum.

electroverse.net

“TWEET TWEET” — SOCIAL MEDIA WAS WRONG ABOUT THE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DEAD BIRDS IN NM: SCIENCE SAYS IT WAS THE RECORD COLD WHAT DID IT
SEPTEMBER 22, 2020 CAP ALLON

Researchers at the University of New Mexico believe it was the RECORD COLD WEATHER that caused the hundreds of thousands of birds to fall from the NM skies earlier this month, due to a lack off edible insects and hypothermia.

For weeks, social media was ablaze with speculation and theories, and it being social media, one cause was permitted to take-flight: the California wildfires. However, objective science has now spoken and, as usual, it completely contradicts the mainstream narrative.

According to UNM Ornithology PhD students Jenna McCullough and Nick Vinciguerra, who were busy collecting samples around the Sandia Mountains while the parrots on SM were blindly tweeting #climatebreakdown!, the historic Arctic front that rode anomalously-far south on the back of a meridional jet stream flow was the primarily cause of the deaths, the record cold leading to a lack off edible insects and hypothermia.

“The day after the [early-September snow]storm, I was contacted via email by my supervisor, Mariel Campbell, the collections manager of the Genomic Resources Division of the Museum of Southwestern Biology, about birds dead and acting weird in Tijeras,” said Jenna McCullough.

“We collected 10 birds there and in the Sandias,” she recalled. “We found several dead Empidonax flycatchers of three species, a Vesper Sparrow, and a Townsend’s Warbler. Some birds were wet from the overnight snow, but others were completely dry, huddled in the corners of buildings.

“We first thought little of it. Mortality is expected for migratory birds, and we didn’t find more than a handful of carcasses. But social media told a grimmer story that night. We read reports of widespread mortalities across the state: dead swallows along a bike path in Albuquerque, a half-dozen Empidonax flycatchers and swallows in one park in Clovis, and a local news report of 300 carcasses recovered by researchers from New Mexico State University and nearby White Sands Missile Range. It was soon apparent that a significant mortality event had occurred.

“I would say swallows are the most affected. This is pretty common though, because swallows are very sensitive to these types of weather events because they are aerial insectivores. They only eat insects while flying around. If no insects are flying around, there’s nothing for them to eat,” McCullough explained, who went on to address the much publicized California wildfires: “I do not think the wildfire smoke killed them outright. Instead, the data points to starved birds with very low body weight and poor muscle condition, lending credence to the hypothesis that it was lack of food plus hypothermia.”

McCullough concluded: “The birds that we collected were currently migrating through New Mexico. Migration is a very intensive time for birds. They will fly for hundreds of miles overnight. It depletes their fat stores, so they have little energy when they land at a critical stopover site. On a normal day, they will gorge themselves on food and build up their fat stores to continue. In this case, they stopped in New Mexico, exhausted from migration with little fat, to find very few insects due to cold temperatures that either killed or made insects go dormant. Without fat, they have no protection from the cold and are very susceptible to hypothermia.”

Basically, the birds died of starvation due to the record-cold and snow.

But now, let’s not fall into the trap of assuming the science is settled as questions regarding the deaths do still remain. One that stands out in my mind is the impact the ongoing magnetic pole shift could be having.

The deaths across New Mexico, and the entire Southeast, are all occurring in migratory birds who pass through the region. The species, which include warblers, bluebirds, sparrows, and blackbirds, could-well be having their onboard navigation systems interfered with by a waning magnetosphere. This theory could also tie-in with the recent rise in stranded/dead migratory sea creatures, too — including the 250 pilot whales in Tasmania.

Many additional questions remain for those scientists still trying to ram every round peg into the decidedly square hole that is AGW: “We began seeing isolated mortalities in August, so something else has been going on and we don’t know what it is,” said NMSU professor Martha Desmond who then, after just admitting that she ‘doesn’t know what it is’, concludes that “climate change is playing a role in this” (but she was speaking to CNN at the time…?).

Not all of the deaths occur in mid-air, noted Desmond. The birds have been demonstrating unexpected behavior, such as searching for food on the ground as opposed to in bushes and shrubs. “Birds who migrated before they were ready because of the [COLD] weather might have not had enough fat to survive,” said Desmond. “Some birds might have not even had the reserves to start migrating so they died in place.” The answers appear to be right under Desmond’s nose, but having to fit the religion of AGW into every naturally-occurring phenomenon continues to blind modern science who’s existence (i.e. funding) now relies on it. However, facts and reality will always remain in tact: it was the cold what did it.

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. Both NOAA and NASA appear to agree, if you read between the lines, with NOAA saying we’re entering a ‘full-blown’ Grand Solar Minimum in the late-2020s, and NASA seeing this upcoming solar cycle (25) as “the weakest of the past 200 years”, with the agency correlating previous solar shutdowns to prolonged periods of global cooling here.





Prepare for the COLD— learn the facts, relocate if need be, and grow your own.

 

[TxGal]

Snow-covered Siglufjörður in Iceland surprises residents

The residents of Siglufjörður, North Iceland, woke up to a surprise this morning. All of a sudden, the surrounding mountains and the whole town were covered in snow, mbl.is reports. You may remember that part of the popular TV series Trapped,...

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Snow-covered Siglufjörður in Iceland surprises residents

Iceland Monitor
Mon, 21 Sep 2020 19:21 UTC


© mbl.is/Sigurður Ægisson
Siglufjörður, dressed in white this morning.

The residents of Siglufjörður, North Iceland, woke up to a surprise this morning. All of a sudden, the surrounding mountains and the whole town were covered in snow, mbl.is reports.

You may remember that part of the popular TV series Trapped, directed by Baltasar Kormákur, was filmed in Siglufjörður on days when the town was under a thick blanket of snow.

The forecast is for continued snow showers in Siglufjörður and the neighboring town of Ólafsfjörður.


© mbl.is/Árni Sæberg
Esja mountain, seen from Reykjavík, this morning.

In Southwest Iceland, winter knocked on the door as well, albeit softly and only in the mountains, which were covered in snow this morning.

According to the Icelandic Road Administration, there are icy spots on mountain roads in the West Fjords, as well as on Holtavörðurheiði and Brattabrekka mountain passes in West Iceland, and on Þverárfjall mountain pass in North Iceland.

Since the ground is not yet frozen, the snow cover in the mountains is not expected to last long, a meteorologist tells mbl.is.
http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php

 

[Martinhouse]

There is a nice rain falling here in Arkansas from the system that came up out of the Gulf. It's supposed to rain like this until past midday tomorrow. There's been no thunder, lightning or wind.....just a nice slow rain.

Normally this kind of day feels very soothing to me, but today it's making me feel like I'm going to jump right out of my skin. I can't imagine why this is so. Maybe something way different about the atmospheric pressure?

I have almost decided I might get that extra 50# of red potatoes after all. If nothing else, I can keep putting the best ones aside to save until spring as I always do nowadays, in case no seed potatoes are available then. Now that's it's gotten cooler I should be able to find someplace suitable to store them until I can get my dead refrigerator replaced. I might even be able to plant a few in the greenhouse. If I use pots on casters so they can be moved to the warmest spot during the coldest winter nights, I might be able to grow a few more potatoes by the end of this year.

 

[TxGal]

Adapt 2030 has a new podcast out:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDCzmJNjlW0


If You Don't Feed Your People You Don’t Stay in Power (1038)
3,826 views • Sep 22, 2020

Run time is 10:21

Synopsis provided:

Catalyst for a superpower food buying spree led by China after central grain growing areas missed the quota to fill strategic grain reserves, the buying pressure from china alone at 1/5 of the trade commitments pushing international prices up 20%. Yemen water well refilling after massive 3rd year n a row rains and Korea reversed temperatures with July 2020 being colder than June 2020, first time ever recorded back to 800AD.

 

[nomifyle]

There is a nice rain falling here in Arkansas from the system that came up out of the Gulf. It's supposed to rain like this until past midday tomorrow. There's been no thunder, lightning or wind.....just a nice slow rain.

Normally this kind of day feels very soothing to me, but today it's making me feel like I'm going to jump right out of my skin. I can't imagine why this is so. Maybe something way different about the atmospheric pressure?

I have almost decided I might get that extra 50# of red potatoes after all. If nothing else, I can keep putting the best ones aside to save until spring as I always do nowadays, in case no seed potatoes are available then. Now that's it's gotten cooler I should be able to find someplace suitable to store them until I can get my dead refrigerator replaced. I might even be able to plant a few in the greenhouse. If I use pots on casters so they can be moved to the warmest spot during the coldest winter nights, I might be able to grow a few more potatoes by the end of this year.

Sorry you are feeling out of sorts. Maybe its because its grey, rainy and much cooler than it was just a few days ago. It cooled off very fast. I'm familiar with the Little Rock area and it can get very cold there.

We seem to have not luck growing potatoes, we plant and they don't grow potatoes.

God is good all the time

Judy

 

[Martinhouse]

Judy, I used to grow really nice potatoes. Lots and lots of them. But they have been big flops for the last two summers, for so reason I can figure out. No pests, no blight, just a few marbles and ping-pong ball sizes from what should have been somewhere between 30 and 50 pounds of result.

 

[Martinhouse]

TxGal, Robert Felix just posted a good short article on cooling temps for 8000 years. There's a nice graph with it.

 

[TxGal]

Thanks, Martinhouse! I was beginning to wonder when Felix would get back to posting what he's known for.

Temperatures have been FALLING for the past 8,000 years

The 'hottest year ever' is a lie. ______________ Temperatures have been FALLING for the past 8,000 years By Ray Kraft Short term variations, local record hots and colds, don't mean much, that's just weather. What

www.iceagenow.info

Temperatures have been FALLING for the past 8,000 years
September 22, 2020 by Robert

The ‘hottest year ever’ is a lie.
______________

Temperatures have been FALLING for the past 8,000 years
By Ray Kraft

Short term variations, local record hots and colds, don’t mean much, that’s just weather. What matters is long term global trend lines over decades, centuries, millennia, eons, epochs.
.

Expanded record of temperature change since the end of the last glacial period

The only ‘normal’ in climate is constant change

Some places are hotter than average and some places are cooler than average on any particular day (I don’t use ‘normal’ because the only ‘normal’ in climate is constant change).

Average global temps

In the 1880s: 56.7 F.
1920s to 1980s: 57.2 F.
Circa 2000 to 2010: 58.1 F.

These are not ‘hot’ temps. Below 60 degrees F most people start putting on sweaters and jackets. At 58 degrees F in your living room you’re probably gonna turn up the heat! It is a good temp for longer term wine storage.
______________________

Source of graph (I [Robert] added the red arrow):
File:Holocene Temperature Variations.png - Wikimedia Commons
File:Ice Age Temperature.png - Wikipedia
Global temperature record - Wikipedia
Annual Average Temperature History for Earth - Current Results

 

[Martinhouse]

I thought this latest from Felix was a good one. Short and precise and easy to understand.

 

[Martinhouse]

TxGal, Ice Age Farmer was just interviewed by a guy named Marty Leeds. I'm watching it from IAF's Twitter page, I'm only about 20 minutes into it but it seems a good one to listen to.

You might want to post it here. It runs 1:02:00. So far they are just talking, so I'm happy it's going to be long enough for me to pick up my knitting again. Right now they are talking about how he came to get into the GSM thing and maybe there will be a better description on Youtube. I'll bet he will post it on his own page before the end of today.

I've watched nearly the entire IAF podcast now and you may not want to post it here. He does talk about food shortages and mentions entering into the GSM as it affects food, but mostly this one is about what he believes to be the big elites' conspiracy to reduce and control population and establish the NWO.

Maybe if he posts it on his own Youtube sitem there will be a decent description to help decide about posting it.

 

[TxGal]

TxGal, Ice Age Farmer was just interviewed by a guy named Marty Leeds. I'm watching it from IAF's Twitter page, I'm only about 20 minutes into it but it seems a good one to listen to.

You might want to post it here. It runs 1:02:00. So far they are just talking, so I'm happy it's going to be long enough for me to pick up my knitting again. Right now they are talking about how he came to get into the GSM thing and maybe there will be a better description on Youtube. I'll bet he will post it on his own page before the end of today.

I've watched nearly the entire IAF podcast now and you may not want to post it here. He does talk about food shortages and mentions entering into the GSM as it affects food, but mostly this one is about what he believes to be the big elites' conspiracy to reduce and control population and establish the NWO.

Maybe if he posts it on his own Youtube sitem there will be a decent description to help decide about posting it.

Thanks, Martinhouse! Yep, these are the kind of podcasts that give me fits - do I or don't I. Of course, if someone else wants to post it that's totally up to them! I'll wait until it's posted on IAF's youtube and see what synopsis he has.

 

[Martinhouse]

That's kind of what I thought you'd want to do.

 

[TxGal]

That's kind of what I thought you'd want to do.

Yeah, kinda damned if I do and damned if I don't. I just wish our GSM 'expert' folks would stick to the GSM, or clearly break out all GSM stuff from the virus and the politics, and heaven knows what all and do those separately. But, I'm dreaming. I just never thought we see them turn so completely to other news. IAF and Felix, and DuByne often, too. Maybe it will level off after the election.

 

[Martinhouse]

TxGal, I don't think all those things really can be separated any more. They are becoming more and more intertwined, to the point where, going forward, we'll have to consider all of them each time we make decisions of any kind.