http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/breaking-news/volcano-showers-sand-and-ash-over-guatemala/story-fn3dxity-1225859029132

THE Santiaguito volcano showered sand and ash on Monday over a large area of western Guatemala in an “unusual”‘ and “violent”‘ eruption, the national seismological institute said.

Winds were carrying the ash in a northeasterly direction from the volcano, 2500 metres above sea level in the province of Quetzaltenango, 206km west of the capital, it said.

The ash plume spread across six provinces, raising fears of damage to crops, the institute said, while classes were suspended at schools in three provinces.

The national disaster reduction coordination agency CONRED increased its alert level to orange, one level below the maximum red, its director Alejandro Maldonado said.

The volcanic activity propelled gray ash more than 8300m into the air, and Conred advised civil aviation authorities to ban flying within 15km of the volcano.

Santiaguito’s worst eruption occurred in 1929 when 2500 people were killed.

Many believe that there is a correlation between geomagnetic storm and earthquakes and volcanic activities.

On this april 23rd 2010 we are a gain in a geomagnetic storm.  We then should expect earthaquakes and volcanic activities if this theory still prove its righteousness.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?p…d=amm7GJfWypJE

“Weak El Ninos are notorious for cold and snowy weather on the Eastern seaboard,” Rogers said in a Bloomberg Television interview from Washington. “About 70 percent to 75 percent of the time a weak El Nino will deliver the goods in terms of above-normal heating demand and cold weather. It’s pretty good odds.”

Warming in the Pacific often means fewer Atlantic hurricanes and higher temperatures in the U.S. Northeast during January, February and March, according to the National Weather Service. El Nino occurs every two to five years, on average, and lasts about 12 months, according to the service.

Hedge-fund managers and other large speculators increased their net-long positions, or bets prices will rise, in New York heating oil futures in the week ended Sep. 22, according to U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission data Sept. 25.

“It could be one of the coldest winters, or the coldest, winter of the decade,” Rogers said.

U.S. inventories of distillate fuels, which include heating oil, are at their highest since January 1983, the U.S. Energy Department said Sept. 23. Stockpiles of 170.8 million barrels in the week ended Sept. 18 are 28 percent above the five-year average.

Heating oil for October delivery rose 1.38 cents, or 0.8 percent, to settle at $1.6909 a gallon on the New York Mercantile Exchange.

21 08 2009

All the title is duly corroborated (Peer Review) at www.flutrackers.com

Decrease of 20 to 35% of cereals and grains, 10 to 20% on fruits and vegetables duly corroborated at the above adress.

In the next 18 months the depopulation Agenda expect 2 billions deaths.

We cannot respond violently, so what is left is the Earth response, the Sun response and since our solar system magnetic shield is shrinking day by day, Galactic Cosmic Ray (Sorry again all duly corroborated)

Manas, the Mind enshrined 4th dimesion (Time) is becoming more and more universally Conscious.

Peace of Mind to all

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Svensmark has a new paper and it is a doozy:  Cosmic ray decreases affect atmospheric aerosols and clouds (full text PDF).

The major conclusion: “A link between the Sun, cosmic rays, aerosols, and liquid-water clouds appears to exist on a global scale…”

This paper confirms 13 years of discoveries that suggest a key role for cosmic rays in climate change. It links observable variations in the world’s cloudiness to laboratory experiments in Copenhagen showing how cosmic rays help generate atmospheric aerosols.

This is important, because it confirms the existence of a sun-earth atmospheric modulation mechanism for clouds and aerosols. It is seen in an event called a Forbush Decrease, which A Forbush decrease is a rapid decrease in the observed galactic cosmic raycoronal mass ejection (CME). It occurs due to the magnetic field of the plasma solar wind sweeping some of the galactic cosmic rays away from Earth. Here is what the Oulu Neutron Monitor plot looked like during such and event on May15th, 2005:

When the CME hit Earth, the magnetic field of the CME deflects the Galactic Cosmic Rays and the secondary particle flux (Neutrons) decreases. In this graph there is also another Forbush decrease visible, which was caused by another, not that powerful flare, which CME passed Earth a few days before this event.

See more from CosmicRays.org Now at last, a linkage has been established on earth showing such events affect cloud cover and aerosols. Luboš Motl gives a good summary ina post from a  few days ago, shown below.

Forbush decreases confirm cosmoclimatology

By Luboš Motl

Recall that cosmoclimatology of Henrik Svensmark and others postulates that the galactic cosmic rays are able to create “seeds” of low-lying clouds that may cool the Earth’s surface. A higher number of cosmic rays can therefore decrease the temperature. The creation of the cloud nuclei is caused by ionization and resembles the processes in a cloud chamber.Read the rest of this entry »

The filament was shed by Perseid parent comet Swift-Tuttle in the year 1610, and this is one of Earth’s first encounters with it. “In addition,” notes Cooke, “the main Perseid debris stream, which we run into every year, may be denser than normal due to a gravitational enhancement by Saturn. The total combination of these effects could result in as many as 200 meteors per hour (ZHR).”

Bright moonlight will overwhelm the outburst’s fainter Perseids, but even a fraction of 200 is a good show. Science@NASA’s “The Perseids are Coming” offers observing tips and sky maps.

SWIRLING DEBRIS ON JUPITER: The “Wesley impact cloud” on Jupiter continues to expand and evolve. On August 1st and 2nd, worldwide observers noted that it had transformed from a concentrated, cindery-black spot to an Earth-sized paling swirl. South is up in this just-updated Aug. 3rd image from the cloud’s discoverer, Anthony Wesley of Murrumbateman, Australia:

“Polar winds seem to be carrying the main body of the cloud westward (to the right in the photo),” says Wesley. “Also, a small stream of dark material is being pulled down and in the opposite direction–perhaps around a cyclone or some other localized weather feature?”

Researchers are scrambling to study the cloud before it disperses. Light reflected from the debris may hold clues to the nature of the mystery-impactor. “If the cloud’s spectra contain signs of water, that would suggest an icy comet. Otherwise, it’s probably a rocky or metallic asteroid,” says JPL planetary scientist Glenn Orton. Several teams of professional astronomers are working to obtain the data.

Meanwhile, amateur astronomers can monitor the cloud as it shifts and swirls near Jupiter’s System II longitude 210°. For the predicted times when it will cross the planet’s central meridian, add 2 hours and 6 minutes to Sky and Telescope’s predicted transit times for Jupiter’s Great Red Spot. [sky map]

more images: from Raffaello Lena of Rome, Italy; from Glenn Jolly of Gilbert, Arizona, USA; from Wah! of Hong Kong; from William Rison of Newburg, Maryland; from Joel Warren of Amarillo, Texas; from David Kolb of Lawrence, Kansas; from Alphajuno of League City, Texas; from Mariano Ribas of Buenos Aires, Argentina; from Giancarlo Ubaldo Nappi of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

http://www.space-video.info/jupiter/19940719-shoemaker-levi.html

Here is what Erik Klemetti on Scienceblogs

Quick hit post from beautiful Walnut, Iowa, but this was too interesting to pass up…

Bright plume spotted on Venus, image taken by the ESA Venus Express.

Did a volcanic eruption recently occur on Venus? No one really knows, but a bright plume of unknown material was spotted by an amateur astronomer. One possible source for this plume might be a volcanic eruption. In the first articles, it was dismissed by “experts” because it is believed that Venus mostly has effusive (lava flow) eruptions not explosive eruptions that form big ash-laden plumes. However, basaltic eruptions on Earth (as it is presumed to occur on Venus) do release a lot of volcanic aerosols – possible more than classical explosive eruptions. Laki in Iceland had just such an eruption in 1783 … just something to ponder when more information on the Venutian plume rolls in.

Thanks to Barb for this link

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17534-mysterious-bright-spot-found-on-venus.html

From what we witness on Jupiter last week and on Venus this weeks it seems that the

Oort chunks are nearer

Achak

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UNUSUALLY COOL JULY FOR CENTRAL PARK

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PNSOKX
CTZ005>012-NJZ002>006-011-NYZ067>081-251000-

PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
444 AM EDT FRI JUL 24 2009

…UNUSUALLY COOL JULY FOR CENTRAL PARK…

FOR SOME PERSPECTIVE…HERE ARE THE TOP TEN COOLEST JULYS ON RECORD
SINCE 1869 FOR CENTRAL PARK IN NEW YORK CITY:

COOLEST
AVG. TEMP. YEAR
70.7     1888
71.9     1884
72.1     1914
72.3     2000/1871
72.4     1891
72.6     1895
72.8     1902/1869
72.9     1956
73.1     1890
73.2     2001

DUE TO THE UNUSUALLY COOL CONDITIONS THUS FAR IN JULY…HERE ARE
SOME INTERESTING FACTS TO NOTE…

WITH AN AVERAGE DAILY TEMPERATURE OF 71.6…CURRENTLY RUNNING 4.7
DEGREES BELOW NORMAL…THIS JULY IS ON TRACK FOR THE 2ND COOLEST
ON RECORD. BELOW AVERAGE TEMPERATURES HAVE OCCURRED ON 21 OUT OF
23 DAYS…WITH THE OTHER TWO DAYS BEING NORMAL. THERE HAVE BEEN
ZERO ABOVE NORMAL DAYS.

CENTRAL PARK HAS ONLY REACHED 85 DEGREES ONCE THIS MONTH…ON THE
17TH…AND HAS NOT YET REACHED 90 DEGREES THIS SUMMER. IF THIS
CONTINUES THROUGH THE END OF THE MONTH…IT WILL ONLY BE THE
SECOND TIME SINCE 1869 THAT 90 DEGREES WAS NOT REACHED IN JUNE OR
JULY. THE ONLY OTHER TIME THIS OCCURRED WAS 1996.

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Cincinnati Weather Examiner

Since I’ll be doing the first radio show tomorrow, and have new articles with all kinds of new data next week, I’ll keep this update brief.  For those in the Cincinnati area, from which this article originates, the average temperature for month of July 2009 (69.6) is solidly below the old record of 70.7 degrees from 1947 and there is nothing over the next 8 days that will change that.  I am predicting the average temperature to be around 70.2 degrees, breaking the old average by a full .50 degree.  That may not seem like much because it’s an average, but it will be the coldest July ever and it will represent a total of 380 degrees below normal or 12.3 degrees per day!  As for rainfall, we’re right on track and assuming we get another inch before the end of next week, we’ll end the month with normal rainfall…but it’s worth noting that we have at least 4 more days with rain likely, so we may follow June’s lead and finish well above normal in rainfall.

How about this?  We typically hit 90 degrees 8 times in July in Cincinnati.  This month we will not reach 90 once!  Beyond that, we haven’t even reached a “normal” high this month, and we will not do so before the end of the month.  We have had 5 days with October level readings (highs in the 60s to low 70s), and there were 3 days with record cold high temperatures…so far.

Globally, we have more information on cooling ocean temperatures, flat sea-levels (no rises that were predicted by the climate models), thousands of record cold temperatures being set (in the United States alone) and monster winter storms in South America in places that haven’t seen such snow and cold in nearly a century.  Oh, and the sun has been blank for 12 straight days, with an occasional weak sunspot trying to develop…and we’re nearly 200 days beyond the duration of a typical (485 days) solar minimum.  Think about that.  In a few months our minimum will be more than a year past the norm and there are still no signs of the new cycle beginning.

More soon!

Rich Apuzzo
Chief Meteorologist
Skyeye Weather
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