Wild Weather, the Wobble Effect

[Sevan Makaracı]

Giant waves crash over seawalls during a storm

in the suburbs of Taipei, Taiwan. 21.10.2025

"We warned at the start of ZetaTalk, in 1995, that unpredictable weather extremes, switching about from drought to deluge, would occur and increase on a lineal basis up until the pole shift. Where this occurred steadily, it has only recently become undeniable. ZetaTalk, and only ZetaTalk, warned of these weather changes, at that early date. Our early warnings spoke to the issue of global heating from the core outward, hardly Global Warming, a surface or atmospheric issue, but caused by consternation in the core. Affected by the approach of Planet X, which was by then starting to zoom rapidly toward the inner solar system for its periodic passage, the core was churning, melting the permafrost and glaciers and riling up volcanoes. When the passage did not occur as expected in 2003 because Planet X had stalled in the inner solar system, we explained the increasing weather irregularities in the context of the global wobble that had ensued - weather wobbles where the Earth is suddenly forced under air masses, churning them. This evolved by 2005 into a looping jet stream, loops breaking away and turning like a tornado to affect the air masses underneath. Meanwhile, on Planet Earth, droughts had become more intractable and deluges positively frightening, temperature swings bringing snow in summer in the tropics and searing heat in Arctic regions, with the violence of storms increasing in number and ferocity."

ZETATALK

Wild Weather, the Wobble Effect - Earth Changes and the Pole Shift

[KM]

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/wildfire-hazard-extreme-...

Wildfire hazard extreme in northern Saskatchewan

Travel to area not recommended, province says

A forest fire in the La Ronge area from earlier in June. (Facebook)

The wildfire situation in Saskatchewan's north is getting worse.

Officials are recommending people not travel to the La Ronge area, including north of the community. 

Provincial fire officials said Thursday that the hazard from wildfires is extreme. There are several fires burning in the area and a change in wind direction could lead to evacuation orders. Smoke is also a concern.

People in the affected communities — including La Ronge and Air Ronge, Sucker River, Wadin Bay, Stanley Mission and Nemeiben — were encouraged to relocate to a safer community.

Throughout Saskatchewan's north there are 31 wildfires burning.

Officials said the area has been drying out significantly since the last rainfall, leading to the potentially hazardous wildfire conditions.

The province has also issued a fire ban, meaning no open fires and no fireworks, for the northern part of the province.

• Here's a map showing the areas covered by a fire ban

http://globalnews.ca/news/2076694/la-ronge-area-residents-asked-to-...

[Derrick Johnson]

 

@ Kris, this is ZetaTalk about what the northern islands on the Caribbean Plate will experience during the 7 of 10 plate movements.  The exposed shores in article are on the banks of inland reservoirs so this appears to be a result of drought, but if there is more beach exposed on the northern shores of these lakes that could mean the island is tipping.

"wonder if your post of drought in Puerto Rico is actually just a result of the Caribbean Plate tipping. I think Puerto Rico is on edge of plate that's rising. Maybe that's why those waters have receded. Drought might be the excuse. Would a drought have that effect there? How much of a drought? And has that level been met, if one looks up the rainfall stats?

http://zetatalk.com/7of10/7of10-42.htm

“The larger islands along the northern part of the Caribbean Plate could be assumed to gain elevation except that the entire Caribbean Plate is losing, overall. Thus the southern shores of these larger islands will experience some elevation loss, where beaches may emerge on the northern shores.”

La Plata reservoir in Toa Alta, Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico

 

https://www.google.com/maps/place/18%C2%B020'00.0%22N+66%C2%B014'12...

 

Carraizo reservoir in Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico

 

https://www.google.com/maps/dir//18.3142925,-66.0213867/@18.3789105...

[jorge namour]

Dramatic flash flood ravaging the city of Sochi, fallen over 177 mm of rain in a few hours - Southern Russia

June 26, 2015

A series of strong thunderstorm flooded the city of Sochi, on the heights of the nearby hinterland are estimated more than 200 mm of rain

http://www.meteoweb.eu/2015/06/drammatica-alluvione-lampo-flagella-...

https://translate.google.com.ar/translate?sl=it&tl=en&js=y&...

Credit Severe Weather RU (facebook)

The streets of Sochi completely under water. Credit Severe Weather RU (facebook)

An overhead view of members flooded after heavy storms yesterday

A dramatic flash flood, yesterday afternoon, Thursday, June 25, 2015, swept through the city of Sochi, one of the best known and most famous cities of southern Russia, overlooking the Black Sea coast. During the day yesterday the city was invested by a series of strong rain, to vent thunderstorm, sometimes even violent, that in less than 12 hours have downloaded to the ground over 177 mm of rain.

But on the areas near the mountainous hinterland, behind the town, the intense precipitation, characterized by indices of rain / very high rate, in a few hours would have downloaded up to 200 mm of water. Just enough to transform the hilly streets in torrents of water and mud that have afflicted with all their impetus Housing, dragging the Black Sea coast of a large quantity of water and debris that reached as well the districts of Sochi. All that water falling in such a short time on the surrounding heights could not be disposed of easily. The large "surplus" water caused the flooding of almost all rivers and the subsequent "flash flood" that put under water much of the city. The steepness of the area has made it even more destructive floods.

In practice, in as little as 11-12 hours on the eastern part of the region of Krasnodar it fell the same amount of rain that usually falls in two months. Probably on the southern slopes of the hills that characterize the immediate hinterland, behind the city of Sochi, they have focused the maximum loads precipitation,

This flow of very moist air and highly unstable raised by the now more warm surface waters of the Black Sea, going towards the north-east, has reached the coastal area near Sochi.

Just three years ago, in July 2012, a devastating flash flood, caused by a violent storm, plague the city of Krymsk and Novorossiisk, claiming dozens of casualties and enormous damage materials for the overflowing of all rivers and streams in the western part of the region of Krasnodar. In those days the very serious flood event that drench Krymsk and locations near forced Russia to stop naval activity in the port of Novorossirsk, with the temporary shutdown of oil exports because of the floods and a landslide that rendered impossible any type of connection, both road and rail. Meanwhile, between today and tomorrow, given the persistence of the cyclonic circulation at high altitude in the east of Ukraine and southern Russia, new rains and thunderstorms will strike again Sochi and the flooded areas, the risk of causing new hardships on land already seriously vulnerato.

MAP : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sochi

[KM]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/06/24...

Nearly 300 fires are burning in Alaska right now. That’s an even bigger problem than it sounds

Trees are consumed by flames as an out-of-control wildfire burns near Willow, Alaska, on June 14. (Stefan Hinman/Mat-Su Borough via Reuters)

This story has been updated.

Following on a record hot May in which much snow cover melted off early, Alaska saw no less than 152 fires erupt over the weekend. The numbers have only grown further since then, and stood at 291 active fires Thursday,according to the Alaska Interagency Coordination Center.

“Given the high number of fires and the personnel assigned to those fires, the state’s firefighting resources are becoming very limited, forcing fire managers to prioritize resources,” noted the state’s Department of Natural Resources Tuesday. The preparedness level at the moment for the state is 5, meaning that “resistance to control is high to extreme and resistance to extinguishment is high.”

[KM]

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-33265985

India floods: Fifty die in Gujarat rains

Gujarat has been hit by heavy rains

Authorities in India's Gujarat state have asked people to move to higher grounds as incessant monsoon rains have triggered floods and house collapses.

Heavy rains have been battering the worst-affected Saurashtra region, where more than 50 people have died in flood-related incidents.

Nearly 10,000 people have been moved to higher ground, including 1,000 who were airlifted to safety.

India regularly witnesses severe floods during the monsoon season.

But the ferocity of this year's monsoon in Gujarat has surprised many, says the BBC Hindi's Ankur Jain in Ahmedabad, the main city in Gujarat.

House collapses have been responsible for most of the deaths and the toll is likely to increase, our correspondent adds.

"The coastal district of Amreli was the worst affected, where 36 people succumbed to the flood fury," Gujarat's disaster control room said in a statement.

There have been reports of lions coming out of their habitat in the Gir forest in Junagadh - the only home to Asiatic lions - which has been hit by rains, our correspondent adds.

Indian air force helicopters have airlifted people stranded in a bus on a highway and low lying villages in the flood-hit districts.

An air force helicopter rescued passengers from a stranded bus
The Saurashtra region is the worst-hit by floods

India receives 80% of its annual rainfall during the monsoon between June and September.

[Derrick Johnson]

Parched Caribbean faces widespread drought, water shortages

 By DANICA COTO8 hours ago

This June 19, 2015 aerial photo shows the drought affected lakeshore of La Plata reservoir in Toa Alta, Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico expanded water rationing across several municipalities as it continues to confront a drought of potentially historic proportions. Thanks to El Nino, a warming of the tropical Pacific Ocean that affects global weather, and a quieter-than-normal hurricane season that began in June, forecasters expect a shorter wet season. (AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo)

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The worst drought in five years is creeping across the Caribbean, prompting officials around the region to brace for a bone dry summer.

From Puerto Rico to Cuba to the eastern Caribbean island of St. Lucia, crops are withering, reservoirs are drying up and cattle are dying while forecasters worry that the situation could only grow worse in the coming months.

Thanks to El Nino, a warming of the tropical Pacific that affects global weather, forecasters expect the hurricane season that began in June to be quieter than normal, with a shorter period of rains. That means less water to help refill Puerto Rico's thirsty Carraizo and La Plata reservoirs as well as the La Plata river in the central island community of Naranjito. A tropical disturbance that hit the U.S. territory on Monday did not fill up those reservoirs as officials had anticipated.

Puerto Rico is among the Caribbean islands worst hit by the water shortage, with more than 1.5 million people affected by the drought so far, the U.S. National Drought Mitigation Center says. The amount of water flowing into 12 of at least 22 rivers that supply the island's reservoirs is at an all-time historic low, the Department of Natural Resources reported Wednesday.

Tens of thousands of people receive water only every third day under strict rationing recently imposed by the island government. Puerto Rico last week also activated National Guard troops to help distribute water and approved a resolution to impose fines on people and businesses for improper water use.

The Caribbean's last severe drought was in 2010. The current one could grow worse if the hurricane season ending in November produces scant rainfall and the region enters the dry season with parched reservoirs, said Cedric Van Meerbeeck, a climatologist with the Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology.

"We might have serious water shortages ... for irrigation of crops, firefighting, domestic consumption or consumption by the hotel sector," he said.

The Caribbean isn't the only area in the Western Hemisphere dealing with extreme water shortages. Brazil has been struggling with its own severe drought that has drained reservoirs serving the metropolis of Sao Paulo.

In the Caribbean, the farm sector has lost more than $1 million in crops as well as tens of thousands of dollars in livestock, said Norman Gibson, scientific officer at the Trinidad-based Caribbean Agricultural Research and Development Institute.

On St. Lucia, which has been especially hard hit, farmers say crops including coconuts, cashews and oranges are withering.

"The outlook is very, very bad," said Anthony Herman, who oversees a local farm cooperative. "The trees are dying, the plants are dying ... It's stripping the very life of rivers."

Officials in Cuba say 75 percent of the island is enduring a drought that has killed cattle and destroyed thousands of hectares (acres) of crops including plantains, citrus, rice and beans. Recent heavy rains in some areas have alleviated the problem some, but all 200 government-run reservoirs are far below capacity.

In the nearby Dominican Republic, water shortages have been reported in hundreds of communities, said Martin Melendez, a civil engineer and hydrology expert who has worked as a government consultant. "We were 30 days away from the entire water system collapsing," he said.

The tourism sector has also been affected.

Most large hotels in Puerto Rico have big water tanks and some recycle wastewater to irrigate green areas, but many have curtailed water use, said Frank Comito, CEO of the Florida-based Caribbean Hotel & Tourism Association.

Other hotels have cut back on sprinkler time by up to 50 percent, said Carlos Martinez of Puerto Rico's Association of Hotels. "Everybody here is worried," he said. "They are selling water tanks like hot cakes ... and begging God for rain."

Guests at Puerto Rico's El Canario by the Lagoon hotel get a note with their room keys asking them to keep their showers short amid the water shortage. "We need your cooperation to avoid waste," says the message distributed at the front desk of the hotel in the popular Condado district.

At the Casa del Vega guesthouse in St. Lucia, tourists sometimes find the water in their rooms turned off for the day, preventing them from taking a shower. "Even though we have a drought guests are not sympathetic to that," hotel manager Merlyn Compton said.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/parched-caribbean-faces-widespread-drought-wa... 

[Derrick Johnson]

Water level in reservoir formed by Hoover Dam dips to record low

Low water levels of Lake Mead is seen near the Hoover Dam on the Nevada and Arizona border in this April 11, 2015, file photo. REUTERS/Jim Urquhart/Files

By David Schwartz

(Reuters) - The largest capacity reservoir in the United States has hit its lowest water level in history following years of severe drought that have dramatically reduced flows from the Colorado River, water managers said on Wednesday.

Officials said Nevada’s Lake Mead, the 79-year-old reservoir created by the massive Hoover Dam, registered 1,074.98 feet (327.7 meters) above sea level late on Tuesday, but was able to rise above a critical mark by early on Wednesday morning.

A water level of below 1,075 feet projected for January would translate to water cutbacks in 2016 for two U.S. western states, Arizona and Nevada. An announcement would be made this August.

But a U.S. Bureau of Reclamation spokeswoman said cutbacks are not expected to be implemented and that projections are for the water level to be 6 feet (1.8 meters) above the trigger point.

“We don’t expect that to happen right now,” spokeswoman Rose Davis said, referring to possible cutbacks. “Right now the probability of a shortage for 2016 is negligible.”

Davis said the reservoir’s water level could again fall to record lows in the next six to eight weeks, but that it would rebound by the end of December.

Lake Mead supplies water to roughly 40 million people and agricultural customers in Nevada, Arizona, Southern California and northern Mexico.

The water source and several other man-made reservoirs springing from the Colorado River have dropped to as low as 45 percent of their capacity as the river suffers a 14th straight year of crippling drought.

About 96 percent of the water in Lake Mead is from melted snow that falls in Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and Wyoming, officials said.

Snowfall has dipped in the Rocky Mountains, leading to a drop in snow pack runoff that feeds the river, according to Bureau of Reclamation statistics. In 2013, runoff was at 47 percent of normal.

“We’re all definitely concerned about the low levels of Lake Mead,” Davis said. “You have to be... this drought has extended for so long.”

She said water managers will continue to closely monitor its levels and work with those involved on various conservation efforts.

(Reporting by David Schwartz in Phoenix; Editing by Cynthia Johnston and Lisa Lambert)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/water-level-reservoir-formed-hoover-dam-dips-... 

[Moderating Staff]

Comment by SongStar101 19 hours ago

Arctic Sea Ice Area Drops 340,000 Square Kilometers in Just One Day

On Tuesday evening, the Cryosphere Today site showed Arctic sea ice at about 8,986,000 square kilometers. The next day the measure stood at about 8,646,000 square kilometers. That’s a huge loss of 340,000 square kilometers in just one day!

https://robertscribbler.wordpress.com/2015/06/18/arctic-sea-ice-are...

(Cryosphere Today sea ice graph shows that losses basically went vertical on Tuesday, June 16. Image source: Cryosphere Today.)

340,000 square kilometers gone in a single 24 hour period. That’s an area of sea ice the size of the state of New Mexico gone in a single day. In the above graph, you can see the drop as the vertical turn in the yellow line denoting 2015.

The massive single day drop temporarily brought sea ice area in the Cryosphere Today sea ice area chart into the range of second lowest on record for the date. Area losses of around 70,000 square kilometers for Wednesday resulted in a retreat to around 4th lowest on record. But any period in which drops of this size become frequent would easily transport the measure into new record low territory.

[lonne rey]

South Island wakes to record freeze (new zealand)

http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/regional/276919/south-island-wakes-to...

In a rare event, almost the entire South Island has woken up to temperatures below zero degrees today.

MetService meteorologist Stephen Glassy said the coldest place in the South Island overnight was Pukaki aerodrome near Twizel which reached a bone chilling - 19.8°C.

The all time record low is - 25.6°C recorded in Ranfurly in 1903.

Power still out for many

Some people in the Canterbury region have been without power since heavy snow brought down lines last week.

Line workers have been working to restore power, using helicopters to get to isolated places.

[lonne rey]

Pakistan Heat Wave Kills Hundreds: Victims 'Dying On the Streets'

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/pakistan-heat-wave-kills-hundreds...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A heat wave raging through southern Pakistan has claimed more than 700 lives, officials said, with witnesses describing victims "dropping dead" on the streets.

Temperatures have exceeded 110 degrees in recent days, and thousands of people have been left to face the heat without electricity amid widespread power outages.