Solar Grand Solar Minimum part deux

TxGal

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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.

That's a good point, I know we've talked about it before. I guess if they don't mention GSM in there, that may be the only dividing line...and I'm not even sure about that anymore. Sigh.
 

Martinhouse

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In a way, all the other things are a result of the GSM, either caused by it or simply allowing or even encouraging it. In a way, ALL the rest of it mostly boils down to politics, and when have we ever been able to remove THAT from our daily lives?
 

alpha

Veteran Member
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.
If it's any consolation, we are suffering the same issue up here in NH. We planted 15 pounds of seed potato and came away with 50 pounds. Normally over 100! At any rate, we went looking to subsidize our reserves by visiting local farms in an attempt to buy 50 more pounds of red Pontiacs or Norlands. To our surprise, everybody within an hour's drive (in all directions) suffered the same fate. It took us about four hours to visit 5 of the largest farms in our area... all had only as many as two five pound bags of 'taters. We ended up with only 25 pounds and felt lucky!!!
Thank God we had an excellent harvest of Butternut squash, cabbage and turnip. We tried some of that perpetual spinach that IAF recommended last Fall - WOW! It grows and grows and grows without bolting. Tastes excellent too!
 

TxGal

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If it's any consolation, we are suffering the same issue up here in NH. We planted 15 pounds of seed potato and came away with 50 pounds. Normally over 100! At any rate, we went looking to subsidize our reserves by visiting local farms in an attempt to buy 50 more pounds of red Pontiacs or Norlands. To our surprise, everybody within an hour's drive (in all directions) suffered the same fate. It took us about four hours to visit 5 of the largest farms in our area... all had only as many as two five pound bags of 'taters. We ended up with only 25 pounds and felt lucky!!!

Oh my....I have seed potatoes on order, time will tell if they actually are able to deliver. Most of the red potatoes we've bought from the stores down here haven't had the staying power that they used to. Very often, they just don't last long, even when stored in dark and cool conditions.
 

Martinhouse

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TxGal, a few years ago, a produce manager in a store I was in agreed with me that the potatoes we buy nowadays do not store over the winter like they used to. He didn't say why and I have always wondered if he actually knew why. I never thought to ask at the time. The only way they last for me is to keep them in the crisper drawer in the bottom of the fridge and of the ones I bought a year ago, one drawer lasted really well and grew sprouts around three inches long and in the other drawer they turned totally black and dried up. Not rotten, just all dried up. Weird thing is that the drawer that lasted had a few of the other kind added to it from the other drawer and thos lasted just fine, too.
 
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TxGal

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More than Three Million Underwater Volcanoes
September 22, 2020 by Robert

Ever wonder what might be heating the world’s oceans?
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Most estimates of volcanogenic carbon dioxide emission are woefully low, says consulting geologist Timothy Casey.
An enormous and unmeasured amount of carbon dioxide degases from volcanoes, mostly submarine.

Underwater eruption
Underwater eruption

Lava contains a surprising amount of carbon dioxide, said Casey in his paper, “Volcanic Carbon Dioxide.” (Principia Scientific International, 16 June 2014). In fact, CO2 is the second most abundantly emitted volcanic gas next to steam.

Carbon dioxide from underwater volcanoes dwarfs man-made contributions

Carbon dioxide emissions from volcanoes – especially from underwater volcanoes – dwarf anthropogenic (man-made) contributions, says Casey. Unfortunately, some researchers dismiss not only mid-oceanic-ridge emissions, but all other forms of submarine volcanism altogether, which is a major oversight.

According to one study, Pacific mid-plate seamounts number between 22,000 and 55,000, of which 2,000 are active volcanoes, says Casey. One researcher dismisses those few, justifying the omission by claiming that mid-oceanic ridges discharge less CO2 than is consumed by hydrothermal carbonate systems.

Submarine lakes of liquid carbon dioxide

In point of fact, says Casey, carbon dioxide escapes these hydrothermal vent systems in such quantities that it sometimes accumulates in submarine lakes of liquid carbon dioxide. There is nothing to prevent that superheated carbon dioxide from dissolving into the seawater or otherwise making its way to the surface.

Since seawater in the vicinity of hydrothermal vent systems is saturated with carbon dioxide, and since seawater elsewhere is not saturated with CO2, it stands to reason that this saturation came from the hydrothermal vent system, Casey argues. If the vent system consumed more carbon dioxide than it emitted, the seawater in the vicinity of hydrothermal vent systems would be CO2 depleted.

Because the oceans occupy twice the surface area of land, it would be easy to believe that one the oceans would contain twice the number of volcanoes as exist on land. But the number of submarine volcanoes is far, far higher than that.

3,477,403 submarine volcanoes exist worldwide

As Casey points out, after surveying 201,055 submarine volcanoes, Hillier & Watts estimated that a total of 3,477,403 submarine volcanoes exist worldwide, of which, Casey estimates, 139,096 are active.

Casey’s conclusion?

Three Million Volcanoes Can’t be Wrong.

My conclusion?

Those active underwater volcanoes are pumping superheated water – as much as 2,150°F (1,177°C) hot – into the world’s oceans. More than ten times the boiling point!

Those same underwater volcanoes are pumping massive amounts of CO2 into the oceans, which then makes its way to the surface, and thence into our atmosphere.

It’s not global warming, it’s ocean warming.
I’m including the four references that I think are most relevant.
Hillier, J. K., & Watts, A. B., 2007, “Global distribution of seamounts from ship- track bathymetry data”, Geophysical. Research. Letters, Vol. 34, L13304, doi:10.1029/2007GL029874
Plimer, I. R., 2001, a short history of planet earth, 250 pp., ISBN13: 978-0-7333-1004- 0
Plimer, I. R., 2009, Heaven and Earth: Global Warming, the Missing Science, 503 pp., ISBN13: 978-1-9214-2114-3
Wishart, I., 2009, Air Con: The Seriously Inconvenient Truth about Global Warming, ISBN13: 978-0-9582-4014-7
See entire paper:

Volcanic Carbon Dioxide

Thanks to Hans Schreuder for this link
“This paper totally blows the man-made CO2 hype out of the water and underscores your own predictions of the amount if underwater volcanic activity,” says analytical chemist Hans Schreuder.
“To those of us who can see through the official mist, the CO2 issue is nothing more than a political ruse, eagerly underwritten by academics who have never thought for themselves and only regurgitate what was written in their textbooks,” says Hans. “No critical thought, no acceptance that the old “masters” might have been wrong, such as Kirchoff, Arrhenius et al.”
Note: In an attempt to make it readable for the layman, I’ve taken great liberties with Casey’s paper, simplifying, simplifying, simplifying. If you think I went too far, you’re welcome to point out your disagreements in the comments section.
I think the original paper – 20 pages long, quite technical, with more than 60 entries in the bibliography – would have made the average reader’s eyes cross very quickly.
 

TxGal

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RECORD COLD caused hundreds of thousands of birds to fall from NM skies earlier this month

September 22, 2020 by Robert

Social media was wrong about the hundreds of thousands of dead birds in New Mexico. Don’t blame the California wildfires.

According to UNM Ornithology PhD students Jenna McCullough and Nick Vinciguerra, the historic Arctic front that rode anomalously-far south on the back of a meridional jet stream flow was the primary cause of the deaths.

“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.

"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
 

TxGal

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Adapt 2030 has a new podcast out:

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


Changing of Eras: New Money Control Begins What Will You Do ? (1039)
6,588 views • Sep 22, 2020

Run time is 11:11

Synopsis provided:

Looking back through history from 3000 BC through to the Maunder Minimum 1650, every Grand Solar Minimum a new money system emerges because of such a radical shift during low food the population for decades that old ways do not make it through the society reset. Since a new GSM has begun, the shift is now underway, this time its at the beginning of the cycle not the end, which is the first time in 5000 years its happened.
 

TxGal

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SURPRISE SEPTEMBER SNOW COVERS SIGLUFJÖRÐUR, ICELAND
SEPTEMBER 23, 2020 CAP ALLON

Winter has already besieged the Nordic island nation of Iceland, and its only September. The country is the first in Europe to feel the brunt of the front about to sweep the continent.

Residents of Siglufjörður, located in North Iceland, woke to a surprise wintry shock on Monday morning, reports mbl.is: ‘All of a sudden, the surrounding mountains and the whole town were covered in snow’ (see featured image above).

Winter also rocked-up early in Southwest Iceland, with the mountains receiving a rare, healthy dusting on Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday:

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Esja mountain, seen from Reykjavík on Monday morning.

According to the Icelandic Road Administration, ice on mountain roads in the West Fjords is causing treacherous driving conditions. Icy spots are also on the Holtavörðuheiði and Brattabrekka mountain passes in West Iceland, and on Þverárfjall mountain pass in North Iceland.

The forecast calls for additional icy roads and heavy snow through the remainder of the week, and into the weekend, plus all of next week. Winter is here–as it appears to be across the ocean to the southeast: mainland Europe will feel the brunt of the front Thursday through Monday. Here, temperature departures are expected to sink as much as 16C below late-September norms, particularly across France, Spain, Italy, Austria, the Balkans, and even Northern Africa:


GFS – Sept 26. Note the stark divide in temps running down the continent, another example of a meridional jet stream flow associated with the historically low solar activity we’re experiencing.


GFS 2m Temp Anomalies (C) Sept 26 [tropicaltidbits.com].

As well as the cold, the Arctic front will also deliver heavy, potentially record-setting snow over Scandinavia and the Alps:

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GFS Total Snowfall (cm) Sept 23 – Oct 5 [tropicaltidbits.com].

This signals an early-start to winter for Western Europe.

Prepare.

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

TxGal

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BRITISH ASTROPHYSICISTS: “MINI ICE AGE IS ACCELERATING – NEW ‘MAUNDER MINIMUM’ HAS BEGUN” + THE BEAUFORT GYRE
SEPTEMBER 23, 2020 CAP ALLON

“We are plunging now into a deep mini ice age,” says British astrophysicist Piers Corbyn, “and there is no way out”.

For the next 20 years it’s going to get colder and colder, on average, says Corbyn who holds a B.Sc. in Physics and an M.Sc. in Astrophysics. The jet stream will be wilder: there will be more wild temperature changes, more hail events, more earthquakes, more extreme volcano events, more snow in winters, lousy summers, late springs, short autumns, and more and more crop failures.

“The fact is the sun rules the sea temperature, and the sea temperature rules the climate,” explains Corbyn.

“What we have happening now is the start of the mini ice age … it began around 2013. It’s a slow start, and now the rate of moving into the mini ice age is accelerating.

LITTLE ICE AGE TRIGGERED BY ARCTIC SEA ICE

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The Little Ice Age (LIA) was triggered by a large outflow of sea ice from the Arctic Ocean into the North Atlantic, according to the findings of a new paper published in the journal Science Advances.

The paper combines marine sediment cores drilled from the ocean floor from the Arctic Ocean to the North Atlantic, and what these records indicate is an abrupt increase in Arctic sea ice and cold waters exported to the North Atlantic starting around 1300, peaking in mid-century, and ending abruptly in the late 1300s.

Crucially, the provocative paper concludes that external forcing from volcanoes or any other cause may not be necessary for large swings in climate to occur — a previously widely held assumption: “These results strongly suggest that these things can occur out of the blue due to internal variability in the climate system,” said Dr. Martin Miles, researcher in the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research at the University of Colorado. But the marine cores do also show a sustained, far-flung pulse of sea ice near the Norse colonies on Greenland, an event which coincided with their demise in the 15th century; a cooling climate is thought to have pushed hard on their resilience.
Today, it is feared a similar event may be about to occur.

“We are waiting for a huge burst of cold water to be released from the Beaufort Gyre,” says David Mauriello of the ORP, a release which is is long overdue with the gyre having circulated in-place far longer than is normal. “And when it does this,” continues Mauriello, “it will potentially shut down the Gulf Stream.”


The Beaufort Gyre has been circulating in-place for far longer than is normal. When it finally lets-up, cold water will outflow into the Atlantic, potentially disrupting/shutting-down the Gulf Stream.


The Gulf Stream is key to Europe having the mild, habitable climate that it does.

A shutting down of the Gulf Stream will lead to cold Arctic-like conditions invading Western Europe almost overnight, concludes Mauriello, with Britain, Ireland, and Scandinavia at the forefront of the blast.

However, it must be stressed that these processes and mechanisms remain poorly understood–but then so do the majority of subjects within the field of climate science: this reality makes the purported 100% confidence and consensus around the impact a trace gas such as CO2 can have on global temperatures even more absurd. Again, that Michael Crichton quote rings true: “Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you’re being had.” And for those out there crying ‘but Crichton’ isn’t a scientist’: 1) err, he brought dinosaurs back to life, and 2) fine, you got me, so I’ll included astrophysicist Piers Corbyn’s views on CO2 instead. So, to conclude: “Carbon dioxide levels do not have any impact –I repeat, any impact– on climate,” states Corbyn, “the CO2 theory is wrong from the start.”

Don’t fall for bogus political agendas.

You’re being had.

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

parsonswife

Veteran Member
Oh my....I have seed potatoes on order, time will tell if they actually are able to deliver. Most of the red potatoes we've bought from the stores down here haven't had the staying power that they used to. Very often, they just don't last long, even when stored in dark and cool conditions.
Where did you order seed potatoes from?
 

TxGal

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Author (that’s me) to appear on George Noory show tonight
September 23, 2020 by Robert

I’ll be on George’s Coast to Coast AM radio show for two hours, from 10 to 12 pm, Pacific time. Please join us.

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Author Robert Felix

If you have access to coast-to-coast am radio, I’ll be on with George Noory tonight for two hours.

We’ll be talking about our entry into a new Little Ice Age – and who knows what else?

George’s website:
Coast to Coast AM: The Best Paranormal News Show | Coast to Coast AM

State-by-state list of radio stations where show is aired.
Where to Listen to Coast to Coast AM | Coast to Coast AM
 

Martinhouse

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Oh, dear. I'd sure like to tune into a Felix interview! But I got so little sleep last night that there's no way I could listen to something for two hours starting midnight tonight. I'll just have to hope Noory lets him post it on his own site within the next day or two.
 

Martinhouse

Deceased
IAF has just put up a 15:17 minute video. I have not watched it yet.

Violent Diseased Super Pigs "Swine Bomb" Vector for Next Pandemic?
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Also he posts that another one, almost an hour long, is supposed to start at 9 PM. This one is apparently an interview with Mike Adams.

I'll have to watch this one tomorrow, as I plan for my book and me to be horizontal by 8:00 PM. It's getting pretty tired out around here right now.
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Oops! Forgot to post this when I finished it!
 

Martinhouse

Deceased
I just looked again and that interview is no longer listed as premiering on Ice Age Farmer's Youtube site. Nothing on his Twitter page about it. Wonder if the interview was cancelled?
 

TxGal

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Adapt 2030 has a new podcast out:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSOZrB_Imo4


Out of Place Floods, Hurricanes and Freeze Events (1040)
11,143 views • Sep 23, 2020

Run time is 10:06

Synopsis provided:

Biggest floods ever recorded in Ethiopia, right over the new Renaissance Dam, the largest in Africa that is beginning to fill, now with a super charge. I wonder who knew the cycles of change turning desert to grassland that would have billions to fund such a project. First ever cyclone to hit Portugal mainland and hurricanes Beta and Teddy connect across 3000 miles of Atlantic waters.
 

TxGal

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This is the podcast Martinhouse mentioned above from Ice Age Farmer. Because illness and disease have run rampant during previous GSMs, this podcast could have relevance here. I can't watch it right now (med appts scheduled), but if anyone feels it crosses a line of nonrelevance, please advise):

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDlItyuH-qk


Violent, Diseased Super-Pigs: Vector for Next Pandemic?
24,733 views • Premiered 13 hours ago

Run time is 15:16

Synopsis provided:

The USDA has warned that "SuperPigs" have arrived, and with them, myriad virus (including the G4 swine flu that threatens zoonotic transmission). Media has gone to town on this story -- ensuring it reaches the collective conscious -- but why? Could these superpigs be the vector by which a new disease might be delivered, ensuring that we re-engineer our food supply and end animal agriculture? Problem, reaction, famine: Christian breaks it down.
 

TxGal

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I just looked again and that interview is no longer listed as premiering on Ice Age Farmer's Youtube site. Nothing on his Twitter page about it. Wonder if the interview was cancelled?
Mike Adams, AKA The Health Ranger if it's the same person, has been considered controversial. I'm not sure what the subject matter of the podcast was to be, but it bears caution. Unfortunately, to my way of thinking, Ice Age Farmer is branching out into other topics that are somewhat distant from his 'Ice Age' moniker. Kind of creates a minefield for posting GSM material.
 
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TxGal

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EUROPEAN SKI FIELDS ARE OPENING EARLY THANKS TO HEAVY SUMMER SNOW
SEPTEMBER 24, 2020 CAP ALLON

Another three Austrian glacier ski fields are expected to open their slopes for the 2020-21 season at the weekend, taking the country’s total to five — the most in the world right now after New Zealand, notes @SnowForecast on Twitter.

Austria’s Molltal Glacier, Kaun Gletscher and Soelden Com all plan to open thanks to the heavy early-season snowfall seen over the past few weeks, joining Hintertux and Pitztal. According to skiresort.info, that will take the number of open European ski fields to more than 20, in September!

View: https://twitter.com/SnowForecast/status/1303956270001664000


Looking at the GFS, additional snowstorms are forecast to bury the Alps and western Scandinavia this weekend. Temperature departures are expected to sink some 16C below the seasonal norm, with potentially record-breaking September snow-totals accumulating:


GFS Total Snowfall Sept 24 to Sept 30 [tropicaltidbits.com].

Latest GFS runs see well-below-average temperatures persisting over the Alps for the foreseeable, until at least Oct 10: this gives the snow a great chance to survive, and at relatively low-levels, too, meaning this could be it for many of the higher elevations of Europe: winter is here, and it’s here to stay.

For some European nations though, this approaching historic snow is a mere bonus. At Finland’s Ruka and Levi Ski Resorts, which are due to open Oct 2, huge piles of snow stored from last winter are currently being uncovered and spread back out over the slopes:


The uncovering of huge piles of snow stored from last winter in Finland.


The slopes when covered in snow.

During what we’re led to believe was the Northern Hemisphere’s ‘hottest summer on record’, Finland’s piles of snow from last winter failed to melt — it’s time we dumped the biased, UHI-ignoring official temperature data sets (which are largely guesswork anyway) and replaced them with real world observations, logic, and, at a stretch, the UAH Satellite-Based Temperature of the Global Lower Atmosphere.

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

TxGal

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“EARTH IS ABOUT TO ENTER A MINI ICE AGE” — ROBERT FELIX
SEPTEMBER 24, 2020 CAP ALLON

Robert W Felix, author of “Not by Fire but by Ice” and proprietor of iceagenow.info, has written a great article entitled “Earth about to enter Mini Ice Age” — below is my abridged version.

I’ve been saying this for years, begins Felix, but now we’re starting to hear it from the mainstream media. As power-hungry politicians ramp up their man-made global warming propaganda, some scientists warn that a far different type of climate change is headed our way.

We should be bracing for a prolonged solar minimum that could last for decades, until the 2050s, is the stark advice coming from Valentina Zharkova, professor at Northumbria University in Newcastle, England.

“The Sun is approaching a hibernation period,” says Zharkova, who holds a BSc/MSc in Applied Mathematics and Astronomy, and a Ph.D. in Astrophysics: “Less sunspots will be formed on the solar surface and thus less energy and radiation will be emitted towards the planets and the Earth.”

This could cause global temperatures to drop by one degree Celsius, warns Zharkova–and while a 1C drop may sound insignificant, it is more than enough to trigger a slowdown in agricultural production: “This would dramatically effect food harvests in middle latitudes, because the vegetables and fruits will not have enough time for harvesting,” explains Zharkova.

These shorter growing seasons might mean empty supermarket shelves and even famine: “It could lead to a food deficit for people and animals, as we have seen in the past couple of years when the snow in Spain and Greece in April and May demolished the veggie fields, and the UK had a deficit of broccoli, and other fruits and veggies.” Zharkova also points to the recent unusual chills in Canada and Iceland as evidence of the Grand Solar Minimum already taking hold, and she concludes by saying “we can only hope that the mini ice age will not be as severe as it was during the Maunder minimum” (a climatic ‘event’ which brought about crop failure, starvation, disease, social unrest, and the untimely deaths of millions upon millions of people).

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

TxGal

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Earth about to enter ‘Mini Ice Age,’ warns expert
September 23, 2020 by Robert

I’ve been saying this for years. But now we’re starting to hear it from the main-stream media.
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Earth about to enter ‘Mini Ice Age,’ expert warns
Robert W Felix

As power-hungry politicians ramp up their man-made global warming propaganda, some scientists warn that a far different type of climate change is headed our way.

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Size of a sunspot compared to Earth

We should be bracing for a prolonged solar minimum that could last for decades, until the 2050s, says Prof. Valentina Zharkova, a professor of mathematics at Northumbria University in Newcastle, England.

Zharkova is not alone in saying that the earth is headed into a solar minimum. According to NASA, the Sun will reach its lowest activity in over 200 years in 2020.

“The Sun is approaching a hibernation period,” says Professor Zharkova, who has published multiple scientific papers on solar minimums.

“Less sunspots will be formed on the solar surface and thus less energy and radiation will be emitted towards the planets and the Earth.”

This could cause global temperatures to drop by one degrees Celsius, says Dr. Zharkova, who also has a doctorate in astrophysics.

While a one-degree drop may sound insignificant, it could trigger a slow down in agricultural production. Agricultural seasons could be shorter for several decades.

“This would dramatically effect food harvests in middle latitudes, because the vegetables and fruits will not have enough time for harvesting.”

Food deficit for people and animals

Those shorter growing seasons could lead to food shortages and famine, according to Zharkova. “It could lead to a food deficit for people and animals, as we have seen in the past couple of years when the snow in Spain and Greece in April and May demolished the veggie fields, and the UK had a deficit of broccoli, and other fruits and veggies.”

Zharkova also pointed to recent unusual chills in Canada and Iceland as evidence of the Grand Solar Minimum (GSM) already taking hold.

“We can only hope that the mini ice age will not be as severe as it was during the Maunder minimum,” Zharkova said.

Millions of people died of starvation

The Maunder Minimum, known as a Grand Solar Minimum (GSM), occurred from the mid-16th century until the early 17th century, and coincided with a time on Earth known as the Little Ice Age, when millions – millions! – of people died of starvation.

“The reduction in temperature will results in cold weathers on Earth, wet and cold summers, cold and wet winters,” said Zharkova.

Although this warning was published in The Sun and The Express, which many of my readers ridicule, it was also published in The New American and on msn.com, indicating to me that the idea of mini ice age is slowly working its way into the mainstream media.

One of the things I found laughable was The Sun’s assertion that “Most of the effects will be harmless.”
Mass starvation is “harmless”?

Claim that Earth will enter 'mini Ice Age' for is wrong, scientists reveal
Weather warning: Earth could be hit by MINI ICE-AGE as Sun ‘hibernates’ - expert claims
'Mini Ice Age' warnings for next 30 years with -50C temperatures in coldest areas
Climate Change: Grand Solar Minimum May Bring Global Cool-down

Thanks to Jack Bailey, Bill Sellers, Dr Klaus Kaiser and Mike McEvoy for these links
 

TxGal

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Eruption at Sangay volcano hits Ecuadorian banana output - 55,000 hectares under carpet of ash

Maura Mawell
Fruitnet.com
Tue, 22 Sep 2020 10:39 UTC

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A volcanic eruption in Ecuador has covered 80,000 hectares of farming land in Ecuador in ash, the Andean country's government says.

Production on affected farms will be below normal levels for at least a month, Acorbanec said

The eruption of Ecuador's Sangay volcano has left around thousands of hectares of banana production under a carpet of ash.

According to exporter association Acorbanec, around 55,000ha have been affected. "We estimate that this will lead to a 25 per cent fall in the weekly exportable offer from the affected farms for at least a month," Richard Salazar told Fruitnet.

Sangay volcano is one of the highest active volcanoes in the world and one of Ecuador's most active ones. Since June, it has registered very high levels of activity.

The latest eruption occurred on Sunday morning, with ash continuing to fall until Monday night.

View: https://youtu.be/e5LUz1t0poQ


Juan José Pons, coordinator of a group of four grower-exporter associations known as the banana cluster, said that areas such as Naranjito, El Triunfo, in Guayas, and Mata de Cacao (Babahoyo), Los Ríos, are among the most affected.

"The ash shower interrupts the proper ripening process of the banana, so now the workers in the field will have to do a more meticulous job to avoid the loss of product," he explained to El Comercio.

The latest figures published by Acorbanec show that Ecuador exported 260.64m boxes of bananas between January and August 2020, an increase of 8.45 per cent on 2019. The association said this was due to a larger exportable offer and strong demand in most markets, the exceptions being the US, the Far East and Oceania.

Shipments to the European Union were up 12.47 per cent compared with the same period last year, while exports to the Middle East, Eastern Europe and Africa increased by 18.99 per cent, 32.75 per cent and 28.10 per cent respectively.
 

Martinhouse

Deceased
TxGal, I agree that IAF is branching out more than we'd like, as far as this thread is concerned. But. really, his main theme has always been that we should grow our own food because of the GSM. All the crop failures are related to the GSM, even the ones that are more harvest failures than crop failures, because of how the "pandemic" is being dealt with.

So actually, even the political things he's brought into his discussions are relevant. Lately, though, he seems almost frantic in his presentations. He seems to have gone into panic mode and his videos aren't as nicely laid out as they used to be. I think maybe now it'll be up to us to listen to what he has to say, to take the things he tells us and put them together ourselves to see how they are all happening at the same time because they really are all tied together.

At this stage, GSM (climate, weather), pandemic, politics large and small.....I don't think they actually can be separated any more.

I guess you'll have to use your own judgment, since you are carrying the real load on this thread. And after this I should probably listen to any podcast before I post about it here. Maybe that would help?
 

TxGal

Day by day
TxGal, I agree that IAF is branching out more than we'd like, as far as this thread is concerned. But. really, his main theme has always been that we should grow our own food because of the GSM. All the crop failures are related to the GSM, even the ones that are more harvest failures than crop failures, because of how the "pandemic" is being dealt with.

So actually, even the political things he's brought into his discussions are relevant. Lately, though, he seems almost frantic in his presentations. He seems to have gone into panic mode and his videos aren't as nicely laid out as they used to be. I think maybe now it'll be up to us to listen to what he has to say, to take the things he tells us and put them together ourselves to see how they are all happening at the same time because they really are all tied together.

At this stage, GSM (climate, weather), pandemic, politics large and small.....I don't think they actually can be separated any more.

I guess you'll have to use your own judgment, since you are carrying the real load on this thread. And after this I should probably listen to any podcast before I post about it here. Maybe that would help?

All valid points! I appreciate your input. :-)

If you have time to watch the podcasts first, it couldn't hurt. IAF, in my humble opinion, is branching out more. His twitter feed is way off GSM topics at times, which is his choice, of course.

Actually, I take great comfort in the fact that I am not the OP - Dennis is. And I'm not a Mod, thank heavens and God bless them all for the hard work they do.

Fortunately, I am just a very frequent poster. I believe there is some responsibility on the part of the posters to post relevant material. That is often a challenge for everyone. I don't often have time to watch all the podcasts I post early in the morning and rely on the synopsis provided, which I do post. Sometimes they are too vague for my taste. But, if I am going to post them, I personally have to be comfortable with their content being relevant --- if I have any doubt, I'm just not going to jump in and post them without watching them.

Fortunately we do have many other posters. If there is something I choose not to post --- someone else certainly can choose to post it. As I said, I am not a Mod and I am definitely not trying to be one. I am just my own personal mini-Mod for lack of a better term.
 

TxGal

Day by day

Burning Climate Skeptics at the Stake – Video
September 23, 2020 by Robert

Dr. Sallie Baliunas discusses the Little Ice Age and the history of people’s superstitious reactions to extreme weather.

Dr Baliunas, an astrophysicist, lays out a great read of propaganda and the manmade global warming crowd.

View: https://youtu.be/wcAy4sOcS5M


Only seven minutes long, this eye-opening video is well-worth watching.

The Little Ice Age lasted about 500 years, but the most severe period during the Little Ice Age occurred in Europe between 1550 and 1700, says Dr Baliunas. That was also probably the harshest period of weather in the last 1,000 years, if not longer.

Crop failure, starvation, disease, death and social unrest

The severe conditions in climate brought about crop failure, starvation, disease, death and social unrest.

Because people “knew” that with Satan’s help one could “cook the weather,” the extreme weather and harsh conditions during that period contributed to mass executions and Witch Trials.

Witch trials were completely legal and were administered by highly educated upper level social strata.

50,000 skeptics executed

Skeptics were considered sorcerers or witches and were tortured until they confessed. Then they were executed.

It is now estimated that some 50,000 executions took place across Europe.

Dr. Sallie Baliunas is a retired astrophysicist. She formerly worked at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and at one point was the Deputy Director of the Mount Wilson Observatory. Her awards include the Newton Lacey Pierce Prize by the American Astronomical Society, the Petr Beckman Award for Scientific Freedom and the Bok Prize from Harvard University. In 1991 Discover magazine profiled her as one of America’s outstanding women scientists.

Strong correlation to energy output of the sun

According to Dr. Baliunas, the 20th Century temperature pattern shows a strong correlation to energy output of the sun.
Although the causes of the changing sun’s particle, magnetic and energy outputs are uncertain, as are the responses of the climate to the Sun’s various changes, the correlation is pronounced. It explains especially well the early 20th Century warming trend, which cannot have much human contribution.
 

TxGal

Day by day
Thank heavens Felix seems to be back posting on the GSM:


Trump was right – It will start getting colder – Video
September 24, 2020 by Robert

“We are now about to dive into the ice-age cycle,” warns Ben Davidson over at Suspicious Observers.

View: https://youtu.be/78E4nRfZnQM


“Half of the Arctic warming, or a third of all global warming, is due to ozone loss at the Polar regions,” says Ben. “Earth magnetic-field weakening is significant cause of proton destruction of that layer.”

“At this same time we have seen volcanic cooling drop to the lowest levels in hundreds of years if not more a thousand.”

“We are now about to dive into the ice-age cycle.”

The Science, The Controversy & The Failed Political Hit Job: Climate Playlist |
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list…
 

Martinhouse

Deceased
TxGal, thanks so much for finding and posting so many great articles. Some I've seen, some not. Some I've read, some not.

This gives me an easy way to go back and read the ones I skipped before.

Again, thanks!
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After seeing that last post, about the potatoes, I do believe I'll be getting more red potatoes in the morning, if the store still has them. I didn't shop this AM as I'd wanted because I'd forgotten to gather up and set out the trash. The new guy comes right after 8 AM instead of noon, which I've been used to for probably fifteen years! I'm glad I was delayed a day.....this article has made me stop being wishy-washy about getting more potatoes.
 

TxGal

Day by day
TxGal, thanks so much for finding and posting so many great articles. Some I've seen, some not. Some I've read, some not.

This gives me an easy way to go back and read the ones I skipped before.

Again, thanks!
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After seeing that last post, about the potatoes, I do believe I'll be getting more red potatoes in the morning, if the store still has them. I didn't shop this AM as I'd wanted because I'd forgotten to gather up and set out the trash. The new guy comes right after 8 AM instead of noon, which I've been used to for probably fifteen years! I'm glad I was delayed a day.....this article has made me stop being wishy-washy about getting more potatoes.

I just got lucky today, but you're welcome! I'm really glad Felix is coming back to the GSM material, and today IAF has done pretty well, too.

I picked up more potatoes today for 'fresh eating' but honestly I still don't think any of them look as good as they did last year. I went to both HEB and Kroger today, and while HEB was in pretty good shape, I still didn't get a warm fuzzy from either about the variety and stock levels of groceries. More articles coming out on the GSM at the same time is making me a little uncomfortable, too. And, we've got cold fronts coming in next week...several of them.
 
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Martinhouse

Deceased
I'm going to have another cold spell next week, too. Wish my greenhouse were finished, but with the new roof, I can always staple plastic around the sides if my nephew can't get to the permanent panels soon. His time is still being terribly consumed by doing the remote schoolwork with his kids.

The lady at the nursery in our big town called me and she did get me some broccoli bedding plants as well as the kale she's been holding for me for a week. So I have to go way down there tomorrow as well as just to my small town for groceries. If my small town feed store has ordered the same plants for me, I'll just have to find space to plant all of them. Dehydrated kale and broccoli leaves are important to me. I do get mighty tired of nothing but peas. Oh how I miss being able to eat a big salad with lots of greens! So now I have the bedding plants I need for growing in the winter. Now I just have to find the energy to do all the work involved. Wish I could order that from a store, too!
 

TxGal

Day by day
Adapt 2030 has a new podcast out (still not sure about posting this one):

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-scLJ103y8


Collapse Cycle Begins Across Society (1041)
8,325 views • Premiered 2 hours ago

Run time is 11:37

Synopsis provided:

Collapse dominoes are entering a feedback loop for our society, from 75% of hotels not able to remain in business for six more months to endless money printing, to a second lockdown and grocery retailers planning for guards in stores and limiting anyone stocking up to what you need weekly and no more. Good news is that 40% of Russian food production comes from small farms of 2-5 acres, that is indeed hopeful news.
 

alpha

Veteran Member
As foolish as it makes me feel, I honestly don't know if people use root cellars in the southern parts of our country. I would certainly hope so as this potato issue is flashing red flag warnings in my mind. Long and short of it is that I don't believe in coincidences so my Lord is confirming His earlier warning to me to increase my potato stores. The root cellar issue concerns where to store them in order to survive until April or May at planting time. We have always had them start to spud in mid to late April when stored in our root cellar.
 

TxGal

Day by day
Ice Age Farmer has a new podcast out:

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


US Rep: "Food Shortages Are Coming" - Crops Destroyed - UK Limits Purchases
16,745 views • Premiered 4 hours ago

Run time is 10:51

Synopsis provided:

Rep. Scott from Georgia warns that "food shortages are coming." Farms are destroying crops, plowing under fields without the labor to harvest them! As new laws accelerate the demise of California's agriculture, Washington's governor commits an act of agricultural terrorism, emblematic of the wholesale attack on food production across the world. UK's Morrisons resumes rationing of pasta and canned goods, and "Safety Marshalls" and police are being deployed to ensure social distancing -- as Boris Johnson deploys the Army to assist. The scene is set for food shortages. Start growing your own today.
 

TxGal

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The Oppenheimer Ranch Project has two podcast out today:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y597jckTKGo


First Time In 18 days No Cyclones In The Atlantic - Smoke Kills 3000 - Arctic Blast - Lopevi Unrest
4,399 views • Premiered 6 hours ago

Run time is 21:09

Synopsis provided:

For first time in 18 days, no tropical cyclones spinning over the Atlantic https://bit.ly/33RzeRc
Up to 3,000 deaths linked to poor air quality from wildfire smoke https://bit.ly/2FRWBT4
October to begin with widespread Arctic outbreak in the Midwest https://bit.ly/3j2WwtR
11 feet of snow expected on American mountain https://bit.ly/2RTDJp4
GFS Total Snow USA https://bit.ly/3j3ZTRd
GFS Total Snow Europe https://bit.ly/332e83w
Lopevi volcano (Vanuatu): increased seismic activity https://bit.ly/34d6DX5
Lopevi Detailed Info https://s.si.edu/36d0ix4
Mount St. Helens https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_S...
Climate scientists uncover new record-low temperature in Greenland https://bit.ly/3kN5Gex
Coldest Northern Hemisphere temperature, first recorded by UW–Madison, officially confirmed https://bit.ly/3i3bCOE
Earth's Magnetic Field Can Reverse Poles Ridiculously Quickly, Study Suggests https://bit.ly/2FPi0w9
Experts: Sun’s increasing solar flares could cause major problems https://yhoo.it/3i3baQH
and more

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(posted by the Oppenheimer Ranch Project)


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ckt14vFgMQA


Understanding Solar Activity and Climate - Perspectives on Ocean Science
7,352 views • May 14, 2010

Run time is 52:45

Synopsis provided:

The sun dominates life on our planet, yet we know astonishingly little about long-term variation in solar activity and how it might have influenced Earths climate. Join Devendra Lal as he explains how chemical clues locked in Antarctic ice can reconstruct 1,000 years of solar activity and how this knowledge is critical to understanding Earths climate history. Series: Perspectives on Ocean Science [5/2010] [Science] [Show ID: 18196]
 
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TxGal

Day by day

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THE UK RECORDS ITS COLDEST SEPTEMBER TEMPERATURE IN 23 YEARS (SINCE SOLAR MINIMUM OF CYCLE 22)
SEPTEMBER 25, 2020 CAP ALLON

The Scottish Highland village of Altnaharra, Sutherland has just recorded Britain’s coldest September temperature in 23 years as a bitter Arctic front begins its descent into western Europe.

Altnaharra recorded a low of -5C (23F) Thursday morning: the UK’s lowest September temperature since 1997 (solar minimum of cycle 22) when the night of Sept 19 saw the hamlets of Corgarff and Boultenstone also sink to -5C.

View: https://twitter.com/metoffice/status/1309062050870632451


BBC meteorologist Matt Taylor said the freezing night was down to clear skies and an extremely cold air mass: “The air originated across the Arctic, and with clear skies and the now longer nights, temperatures were able to drop below freezing widely across the northern half of Scotland. Some more frosty nights are expected over the coming days, with a small chance we could see the odd spot get even colder than last night,” said Taylor.

The Arctic blast also threatens to deliver rare September snow to the Scottish Highlands over the weekend, according to latest GFS runs and The Weather Outlook.

Altnaharra was far from the only location waking up to a frost across Scotland yesterday morning: nearby Kinbrace registered a low of -4.3C (24.3F), while Tulloch Bridge in Lochaber dipped to -3.7C (25.3F). Further east, Braemar reached a duvet-hogging -1.3C (29.7F).

View: https://twitter.com/metoffice/status/1309014318034432007


Altnaharra is no stranger to frigid temperatures. The village jointly holds the record for lowest ever temperature set in the UK. Back on December 30, 1995 (also Solar Minimum of cycle 22), the mercury plunged to -27.2C (-17F) — tying the observations recorded at Braemar on Feb 11, 1895 and Jan 10, 1982.

Could yesterday’s bone-chilling low of -5C (23F) be a harbinger of another brutally cold winter to come: activity on the sun would suggest yes.





Climate is cyclic, never linear — driven by the output of the sun and its impact on earth’s oceans. The cycles suggest we should all be bracing another bout of cooling, now: 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 COLDlearn the facts, relocate if need be, and grow your own.
 

TxGal

Day by day

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ANOTHER CRACK JUST OPENED IN EARTH’S MAGNETIC FIELD
SEPTEMBER 25, 2020 CAP ALLON

As predicted, yesterday’s sunspot (AR2773) turned out to be very short-lived, lasting barely half a day — it has already dissipated, meaning the Sun’s deep, dark, and drawn-out solar minimum persists with spotless days now reaching 190 in 2020 (or 71%).

AR2773 –and the magnetic froth encompassing it– did, however, manage to deliver some perturbations to Earth’s magnetic field. This agitation resulted in a G1-class geomagnetic storm which in-turn allowed solar wind blowing at almost 500 km/s to slip through a crack in Earth’s magnetic field.

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The wind fueled stunning bright-green Auroras across the skies of the far-northern latitudes: “It was a great display–our first ‘big one’ of the season,” says photographer Markus Varik from Tromso, Norway.


[Markus Varik]

Earth’s magnetic field is waning in line with both a Grand Solar Minimum and a Magnetic Pole Shift — these two independently occurring factors drastically reduce Earth’s magnetic field strength, the major upshots of which include: a) an influx of atmospheric Cosmic Rays meaning increased cloud nucleation as well as a heating of the muons in silica-rich magma which triggers large-scale volcanic eruptions; and b) outbursts from the Sun having a much larger impact here on Earth, meaning even relatively minor events such as this week’s G1 can produce surprisingly dramatic results — a) contributes to global cooling, while b) means trouble for the electrical grid.


[Markus Varik]

NASA is attempting to paint the upcoming Grand Solar Minimum as a window of opportunity for space missions: “the improving ability to make such predictions about space weather are good news for mission planners who can schedule human exploration missions during periods of lower radiation.”

But this is absurd and serves as yet another example of government obfuscation and half-truths. NASA are effectively forecasting a return to the Dalton Minimum (1790-1830) but give no mention of the brutal cold, crop loss, famine, war, and powerful Volcanic eruptions associated with it. Neither are they warning of the widespread destruction a major solar flare (or CME) will cause to our modern-day electrical grid during a time of ‘shields down’.

For a more detailed look at the cracks in Earth’s magnetic field, click the link below for an explanation from spaceweather.com‘s Dr. Tony 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 COLDlearn the facts, relocate if need be, and grow your own.
 

TxGal

Day by day

Red sprites captured in slow motion over Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia in August

Starvisor
YouTube
Sun, 20 Sep 2020 11:50 UTC

sprites

Red sprites captured over the Sverdlovsk oblast in the summer of 2020. The abundance of nighttime thunderstorms this season has made it possible to capture this rare phenomenon in great detail:

View: https://youtu.be/doieS-iJQ2c


00:00 - sprite №1 close-up, real time
00:10 - sprite №1 close-up, speed is slowed down 2 times
00:13 - sprite №1 close-up, speed is slowed down 5 times
00:19 - sprite №1, stack of frames
00:27 - sprite №2 close-up, real time
00:29 - sprite №2 close-up, speed slowed 2 times
00:35 - sprite №2 close-up, speed is 5 times slower
00:39 - sprite №2, stack of frames
00:48 - sprite №3, real time
00:52 - sprite №3 close-up, speed slowed 2 times
00:56 - sprite №3 close-up, speed slowed down 5 times
01:00 - sprite №3, stack of frames

01:10 - sprites over thunderstorms south of Yekaterinburg, speed slowed down by 1.25 times
01:40 - sprites over the thunderstorms north of Yekaterinburg, view from the allsky camera
01:52 - stack of frames of bright sprites
02:14 - sprites over thunderstorms north of Yekaterinburg, real time and x0.5 from speed
02:57 - sprite №4 close-up, real time
03:00 - sprite №4 close-up, speed slowed 2 times
03:05 - sprite №4 close-up, speed slowed 5 times
03:10 - sprite №4, stack of frames
03:20 - sprites over thunderstorms north of Yekaterinburg
03:38 - maps of thunderstorms with indication of the direction of the camera

Location - Irbit, Sverdlovsk Oblast
 

TxGal

Day by day

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UNPRECEDENTED SPRING SNOW HITS PARTS OF AUSTRALIA AS REGIONS SUFFER THEIR COLDEST SEPTEMBER TEMPERATURES EVER RECORDED
SEPTEMBER 25, 2020 CAP ALLON

As predicted, a blast of brutal Antarctic air has been diverted anomalously-far north on the back of a meridional jet stream flow and is engulfing both Australia and New Zealand.

Multiple Aussie regions are suffering their coldest September temperatures ever recorded, and out-of-season snow is burying parts of South Australia, Victoria and NSW as the Grand Solar Minimum ramps-up its intensification.

View: https://twitter.com/gabby_marchant/status/1309296323938713601


The spring snowfall is incredibly rare, even unprecedented in some areas. Lismore and Lake Bolac in Victoria’s Western Districts, for example, saw snow accumulate to as low as 200 metres today–with more to come.

“They don’t see snow this time of year, or at all, very often,” said Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) senior forecaster, Keris Arndt.

View: https://twitter.com/PAMason16/status/1309329772296642560


Ballarat just experienced its coldest-ever September day on record: the city, located in the Central Highlands of Victoria, registered a max of just 5.8C at 10am on Friday morning — that’s 0.2C lower than the previous all-time record of 6C observed on September 15, 1957.

In addition, a record-crushing low of 0.1C was recorded at 1.40pm (yes, ‘pm’), and “surprise snow” even accumulated across the city and surrounding areas. The flakes were indeed something of a shock, particularly given the BOM’s official snow level forecast which was for 600m. The fact that Ballarat’s temperature dropped below zero meant snow fell far-lower than expected.

But it wasn’t just Ballarat receiving unprecedented spring snow, even lower-lying regions such as Lismore and Mortlake also received heavy falls.

View: https://twitter.com/DavidBrehaut/status/1309379083038457857


The spring scenes on Australia’s Alpine regions were also quite exceptional:

View: https://twitter.com/_hotham/status/1309254713741725699


Looking forward, and at the latest GFS runs (shown below), further heavy snow and record-low temperatures will persist throughout the weekend and into next week. As a result, NSW has seen Mount Canobolas closed ahead of anticipated blizzard-like conditions, and a sheep graziers warning is in place for many regions.

These forecast snow totals and temperature departures are truly astonishing:





In addition, a fierce wintry storm will ravage the entire length of New Zealand this weekend, prompting the country’s meteorological agency to place 90% of the nation under at least one “severe weather” warning.

“This is a significant weather event,” the MetService said, adding that “the combination of snow and strong cold southwest winds from Sunday evening through to Tuesday is likely to cause stress to livestock, and affect many higher roads and passes across the South Island causing disruption to travel.”

This will prove a historic event, concludes the service–stay tuned for updates.

Finally, and looking even further ahead (shown below), it could be Western Australia’s turn for a brutal Antarctic blast come the first week of October–again, stay tuned.

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The Grand Solar Minimum and the Swings-between-Extremes

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