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Curd fertilizer alternative to Urea , Successfully tested by ICAR
By: Gunteshwar Singh
Tags: Farmers, Farming, Fertility, Cost Savings, Organic

Example image of curd

Curd fertilizer increases the soil fertility rate and increases the microbial activity in soil. Curd fertilizer raises 25–30% yield of wheat ,rice,fruits etc. 2.5kg of milk is needed to prepare the curd whereas for a chemical spray in field cost amounts to Rs. 1,100 or more.

It is also used as a pesticide from the butter which is received after water is added to curd. spray of curd mixture is cheap as it requires Only 2 kg of the mixture is required to replace 25 kg of urea(nitrogen fertilizer).

As you have got to know major benefits of this home made fertilizer . So you check out the whole process to make it from the link below.The main is to make aware and give cost effective solutions for farmers.

https://www.themarketeers.online/post/curd-use-as-urea
Laws of the Land and Them that Follow
By: Backyard Farmers
Tags: India, Farmers, Farming, Crops, Agriculture

We are transported to the times of kings, about 9000 BC. Farmers, the main source of food are high up in the economy table. The Indus valley civilization had technologies that were way ahead of their time, much of which were the building blocks for the technologies we have today, like dams, irrigation facilities etc. The Indus Valley civilization grew an innumerable amount of crops along with cotton grown in summer. They were free to grow and sell crops or other materials like cotton for clothes and other crops for food. This got them more income and were essential for many occupational fields. They had their freedom to do their bidding how they wanted, without any interference from external sources.

Back to present times. Most farmers in India live in poverty. Suicide rates spiking. Crop failures, etc. The government has provided them with many schemes that are supposed to help them with these problems, but the results are yet to be seen. Do programs like Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojana, which promotes organic farming render and propagate the minds of these farmers, who have been practicing agriculture for centuries now? Or do they help these farmers have better yields and gain more income?

Comparing what the Indian government is doing with what the US government does changes your perspective. USA doesn’t have multiple schemes, instead, they provide the farmers with loans, with which they can buy machinery or other technology, land etc., which increases the productivity, income and yield. The farmers there have a better quality of life and better income.

The question we need to ask now is whether providing various schemes to farmers in India actually help them or does it make their perspective falter, leading them to wonder if what they were doing for hundreds of years is right or not. Are they, in some way, being controlled? Do we need to give them their freedom back?
Cointiger exchange just confirmed our listing next Wednesday. Congratulations
By: Satobank Smart Farming
Tags: Blockchain, Ethereum Blockchain, Trading, Farming

SatoBank Extreme Farming is the proof that there are other ways of doing smart farming today, https://satobank.money/
Moon+HD Double mining on MOONSWAP
Tags: Hubdao, Defi, Farming, Crypto, Moonswap

안녕하세요 HubDAO 커뮤니티 여러분

Ethereum Layer 2 AMM 플랫폼인 MOONSWAP에 HD-USDT 페어가 론칭되었습니다.

여러분들은 HD와 USDT를 MOONSWAP의 유동성 공급풀에 제공하여 MOON 토큰 및 HD를 채굴 가능합니다.

MOONSWAP은 Conflux Network를 사용하며, MOONSWAP 위에서 Farming을 하기 위해서는 Ethereum Network의 자산을 Conflux Network로 이동시켜야 합니다.

이는 Conflux Network의 크로스체인 기술인 ShuttleFlow를 활용합니다.

MOON 보상은 즉각적으로 제공되며, HD 보상은 모든 채굴이 종료된 후에 수령 가능합니다.

Hello, HubDAO community.

The HD-USDT pair has been launched on MOONSWAP, the Ethereum Layer 2 AMM platform.

You can mine MOON token and HD by providing HD and USDT to MOONSWAP’s liquidity pool.

MOONSWAP is using Conflux network, and in order to Farming on MOONSWAP, the assets of the Ethereum Network must be moved to a Conflux network.



This utilizes ShuttleFlow, a cross-chain technology for the Conflux Network.

MOON rewards are immediately allocated, and HD rewards can be obtained after all mining has been completed.

LP 제공 순서 / LP PROVIDING

https://portal.conflux-chain.org/ 에서 Conflux Portal 설치 메타마스크에 HD 및 USDT 준비

(HD는 500개 이상, USDT는 20개 이상 준비해야합니다. -> Cross-chain 기술의 최소 이동수량)

3. http://preswap.moonswap.fi/#/wallet 에서 Conflux Portal 및 MetaMask 동기화

4. 이후 Wallet Menue에서 USDT 의 Deposit 클릭

Install the Conflux Portal at https://portal.conflux-chain.org/ Prepare HD and USDT in Metamask

(At least 500 HDs and at least 20 USDTs must be prepared. -> Minimum movement quantity for Cross-chain technology)

3. Synchronize Conflux Portal and MetaMask at http://preswap.moonswap.fi/#/wallet

4. Then click on the Deposit of USDT in the Wallet Menu

4. 이동을 원하는 USDT 수량 선택 및 메타마스크에서 승인

4. Selecting the amount of USDT you want to move and approving it in the Metamask

5. HD의 경우도 이와 마찬가지로 진행

5. The same goes for HD.

6. https://app.moonswap.fi/#/add/0x8f4452d72fc41536cd8660e43c4d9a381dfc5696/0x8b8689c7f3014a4d86e4d1d0daaf74a47f5e0f27

에서 HD와 USDT를 추가하여 유동성 풀 제공

Add HD and USDT to provide a liquidity pool

7. https://farm.moonswap.fi/farms

에서 HD 마이닝 팜 참여 (Farm 클릭)

Join HD Mining Farm (click Farm)

8. 개인 지갑 풀 OPEN 승인 이후 Staking 개수 입력

8. Approve the cHD-cUSDT MLP and enter the Quantity

9. Farming 시작 / Farming start

— — — — — — — —

Website : https://hubdao.org/

Farming : https://hubdao.finance/

Telegram : https://t.me/hub_DAO_Community

Twitter : https://twitter.com/hub_dao

Medium : https://hub-dao.medium.com/
YTHO Online Casino
Tags: Ethereum, Defi, Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, Farming

Blockchain DeFi Casino?

by @bitcorom

Do you want to farm casino tokens?Like....free gambling money?

Website: ytho.online

Farming: ytho.finance

Telegram: t.me/ythochat

Twitter: twitter.com/ythoonline

Dex explorer here!

Let’s see what YTHO team wants to do:

„YTHO is a team of three anons who met on Telegram, the only thing they knew about each other was that they’d all just been rug pulled by the same project. Pissed off and eager to find a new better project, the three degens started talking about what they wanted to see from the next DeFi experiment. Not able to find what they were looking for, they wondered y tho.

Soon they stopped wondering, said f*ck it and started building it themselves. They envisioned a future where farming yields could be used to play games, while being a liquidity provider also meant you were part of the house. And thus, degen blackjack was born.”

Thats what we find about this project but what if we go down the road?

What is $YTHO ?

Total supply 10,000

Dev Locked Liquidity = 1,800

Pre-sale= 5,500

Airdrop = 900

Founders = 900

Marketing & Dev = 900

Contract adress here.

Liquidity info and stats here.

Liquidity locked on unicrypt,no rug pulls,check here.

$YTHO is the token that represents the house of the casino.

When you provide liquidity to YTHO/ETH pool on uniswap you get the liquidity pool tokens that you can stake on ytho.finance to farm $BRADS.

What is $BRADS?

Total supply 500k

Contract adress here.

No liquidity added yet!

$BRADS is the token used in the casino,players need to get $BRADS to use it in the blackjack game and next games added to the ecosystem.

Farming

Farming $BRADS with the house token $YTHO will always get you nice income because the players who buy $BRADS to play with,will also lose sometimes and the house is never losing,being the house means you never lose in the long run.

Getting into farming early is a gold mine right now! $BRADS is not listed yet and has no liquidity added. The distribution of it is fair and getting in now means you are ahead of others.Total suply is 500k $BRADS so plenty of them are getting farmed now,after the 500k is farmed,the rewards are gonna be just what the house wins,wich is going to be a lot less than the initial distribution.

Blackjack and other games

Blackjack should go live late December and other games are coming also.

Maybe NFT’s airdrops as well?

Rope?

Few?

Much to come! Few understand! Many will see!

So…decentralized finance,on decentralised network.no KYC,farming the future chips of an actual online casino,sounds good?

Visit ytho.online or ytho.finance and find all the information there to start farming and be a part of this project!

Go get a bag!

Follow me on twitter just for fun!
RES Liquidity Provider Incentive: 434% APR
Tags: Ethereum, Defi, Res, Farming, Income

We are pleased to announce a Resfinex token RES liquidity provider incentive program on Uniswap. This program aims to raise awareness, volume and on-chain usage. The program will end until Dec 31th, 2020, at 00 UTC.

The eligible pools for rewards as below:

Buy RES if you have not got any, trade on the link below,

How it works

You must first provide liquidity to the eligible pools above on Uniswap V2 and lock for 21 days after that. We will take snapshot the liquidity provider’s address daily.

The specific distribution rules will be as follows:

The reward is paid in RES at the end of your lock-up period.

It should be locked up for a 21 days to earn the additional 25% of total amount of RES you provided in the pools.

to earn the additional 25% of total amount of RES you provided in the pools. Rewards will start being distributed to your address after ending your 21 days lock up.

About RES

Resfinex Token RES is the heart of the Resfinex ecosystem. We have carefully designed incentive schemes to increase network effects and demand for RES, and to decrease its circulating supply.
About me
By: Serhan Ozgurkey
Tags: Weather, Meteo

Enjoy sunbathing landscapes. I generally just do it . Occasionally I exhibit my work for exhibitions or to get particular missions for young photographers. Among other things, I love to discuss my expertise, to inform what and how I really do and to assist somebody with it. As an example, recently I was informed about my favourite times of the day once I take photographs. Let’s say sunrise is a wonderful time for landscape photography. The span before sunrise has come to be one of my favorites. Frequently the light has a milder pastel feel now than following sunrise, for instance. As we move from regime time to sunrise, then the light conditions vary dramatically. As sunrise arrives, there are many beautiful colours in the sky. In photographs taken at the moment, you may see the orange glow across sunlight about to climb over the horizon as well as the pink colors of the dawn sky. In order not to miss the good time of dawn, as it doesn’t really last long, I use confirmed weather websites that tell me exactly what time it is sunset or sunrise. Most often I trust the weather site https://havadurumu-tr.com/tr/ which tells me what time it will likely be sunrise and what period I need to be there to take the photographs I’d like.

Hi. My name is Serhan. I’m 29 years of age. I am from Istanbul. Right now I’m single, I am not in a critical relationship. I believe my job would be to some extent to blame for it. I am a photographer and I frequently have to work a busy schedule. I can either be at home all day, processing photographs, or that I could be away from home from early afternoon until late at night. Not many folks would like that, but I really don’t see myself in every other profession and I love it.

Photographing cities in the early morning hours before they fill up with life. I love It is a Really quiet time where you can capture a very different Atmosphere and mood. Plus Nobody will get in the way, especially in Case You want to I really Photograph the principal square in the city or something quite popular for vacationers.
What is the perfect Weather
By: Everything Cj
Tags: Rain, Weather, 140 Words, Vibe, Sun

The perfect weather is defined by you. Everyone is different. For some it is a clear light breeze, for others it can be snow of any kind and for others it is a season they rarely feel so yearn for it. Cloudless weather seems to be a common theme among many I have spoken to.

Once again, defining the best weather is not just about view, but feel, touch, temperature, mood and so much more. There is a connection we feel with our perception of the perfect weather and it is this connection which resonates with our souls on a spiritual level giving us a vibe we yearn for all the more.

If you liked this piece why not check out some of my other pieces here.
Fire pit and picnic tables: Niles tries to work around virus restrictions and cold weather
By: Trisha Dowden
Tags: Virus, Picnic, Weather

NILES — City officials couldn’t do much about restrictions prohibiting patrons inside bars and restaurants in Michigan.

And they couldn’t do much about the increasing probability of cold and snowy weather.

But that didn’t stop them from devising a plan to block off a portion of Second Street running just north of Main Street where visitors can enjoy takeout food and beverages — including the adult variety — at picnic tables that have been set up in the street.

“The purpose is to show businesses that we’re behind them,” said Mayor Nick Shelton. “We can’t do much about the coronavirus and the cold weather, but we can do something to try to create a gathering spot.”

The spot, which is directly across from the Brass Eye at 205 N. Second St., is within easy walking distance of a variety of restaurants and stores in the downtown corridor. It includes a nearly 6-foot fire pit that’s powered by natural gas as well as picnic tables with wind blocks.

Many of the components of the gathering spot were donated by local businesses and organizations, said Lisa Croteau, director of marketing and administration for Niles Main Street. A small stage area also will be set up for local performers on the north side of the gathering spot.

“We’re just trying to create a gathering spot in the business district,” said Croteau. “Maybe it will turn into another reason for people to come visit Niles.” See more…..
Hot chocolate
By: Richard Eaton
Tags: Photos, Project365, Chocolate, Photography, Weather

Photo of the day 357/366

Sometimes only a hot chocolate will do to warm you up 👍 The temperature has dropped to 20 degrees and it genuinely feels freezing. As someone from the UK that sounds ridiculous but it really does. We’ve even resorted to a hot water bottle and buying slippers and warmer clothes!

When people told us it gets cold in winter I laughed when 20 degrees was mentioned and had visions of still using the pool etc. Now I understand what they meant, lol!

#project365
Weather
Tags: Nature, Weather, Poetry On Medium

Red silk and your amber touch,

Clouds my eyes in water like shape,

When the petals fall from the sky.

The moon sometimes trick me into thinking,

You’re somewhere still around,

When you’re just thought in and out.

Arching over me and smiling,

While the mist enters our space,

That’s when I know you’re around.

It’s like your voice is reaching,

But they’re instead hurting,

So come back around when you feel like I’m here.

Lost in the void, Lost in your weather.
The Longest Lightning Bolt and Lightning Flash Ever Observed
By: Daniel Ganninger
Tags: Science, World, Storms, Weather, Electricity

Lightning is one of nature’s most amazing and potentially deadly events. Most lightning lasts for one to two seconds and travels a few miles, but two record-breaking lightning bolts shattered all the norms for what is typically seen when lightning strikes.

During a giant thunderstorm over southern Brazil on October 31, 2018, lightning shot 440.6 miles (709 km) across the sky from the Atlantic Ocean across Brazil and into Argentina. The distance was equivalent to the distance from Boston to Washington DC. The lightning bolt shattered the previous record holder when lightning flashed over Oklahoma on June 20, 2007, for a distance of 199.5 miles (321 km).

But another lightning strike holds the record for the longest duration lightning flash. A flash of lightning over northern Argentina on March 4, 2019, lasted for an astonishing 16.73 seconds, more than doubling the previous record of 7.74 seconds from lightning that flashed over Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, France, in 2012. The longest lightning flash and longest duration of lightning records were certified by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Committee on Weather and Climate Extremes.

The longest lightning strike and longest duration areas

These incredible lightning events were the result of a giant collection of thunderstorms that act as a single storm, a phenomenon known as a “Mesoscale Convective System,” or MCS. These storms allow a massive buildup of charge, which gives way for lightning to flash a long duration and distance. The storms can be 60 miles (96.6 km) across and hundreds of miles long, especially in the summer months. The massive lightning strikes associated with these storms are known as “megaflashes,” which spread horizontally. South America, it just so happens, is ideal for these huge storms.

The lightning was measured by the GOES-16 weather satellite that maps lightning occurring over North and South America. An instrument called the Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) on the satellite detects light given off from lightning during the day and night at the cloud tops.

The WMO has some grim records that have been accepted for lightning extremes. The most people killed by a direct lightning strike happened in 1975 when 21 people were killed by a single flash of lighting in Zimbabwe as they huddled for safety in a hut. The most people killed by an indirect strike of lightning occurred in Dronka, Egypt, in 1994, when 469 people were killed when lightning struck oil tanks, causing burning oil to flood the town.

Due to the dangers of lightning, the WMO recommends people follow the 30–30 rule. If the time between thunder and a flash of lightning is less than 30 seconds, people are instructed to go inside for at least 30 minutes after the last lightning flash.

Sources: Discover Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, WMO

Want to delve into more facts? Give a look at Knowledge Stew’s Fact World, here on Medium.
Single and Multi-Step Temperature Time Series Forecasting for Vilnius Using LSTM Deep Learning Model
By: Eligijus Bujokas
Tags: Python, Timeseries, Lstm, Weather, TensorFlow

The data is obtained using an API from https://openweathermap.org/. The data was gathered every hour from 1990.01.01 to 2020.11.30 near the TV tower of Vilnius. Vilnius is not a large metropolis and the TV tower is in the city itself so the temperature that is near the tower should be very similar to what is the temperature in all parts of the city.

Here and throughout the article the main data object is called d. It is created by reading the raw data:

d = pd.read_csv(‘data/weather.csv’) # Converting the dt column to datetime object

d[‘dt’] = [datetime.datetime.utcfromtimestamp(x) for x in d[‘dt’]] # Sorting by the date

d.sort_values(‘dt’, inplace=True)

Photo by Author; First 10 rows of data

Photo by Author; Last 10 rows of the data

There are 271008 total data points in the dataset.

Photo by Author; Hourly temperature data near Vilnius TV tower

The data seems to be stationary with a clear cyclical pattern.

Photo by Author; Boxplots to visualize the temperature distribution by hour

The graph above shows that there is a clear day cycle of temperatures — the median temperature is the highest around noon and the lowest around midnight.

Photo by Author; Temperature distribution by month

The cyclical pattern is even more evident in the temperatures grouped by month — the hottest months are June up to August and the coldest ones are December to February.

The problem with the data as it is now, we only have the date column. If would convert it to numeric (let us say, extract the timestamp in seconds) and add it as a feature in modeling the cyclical nature would be lost. Thus, the first thing we need to do is to engineer some features that catch the cyclical trend.
Why in the world is it so cold this week?
By: Doug Keating
Tags: Letter To Sons, Divorced Dad, Weather, Life Lessons

Wow-what a week. We went from great weather to a snowstorm within a matter of a few days.

Hard to admit that I was caught somewhat off guard, even though it is December. I knew it was going to snow but did not prepare myself for the change.

You will recall that we experienced the blizzard of 2016. The storm lived up to the hype, dumping over a foot of snow.

It is amazing to me how it can get so cold so quickly, even in winter.

Gavin and Riley standing on a snow pile in Reston Town Center.

Bad weather makes us slow down

Three life lessons come to mind when I think about how a major snowstorm affects us.

First, we have to slow down. The roads are slick, and it is dangerous to drive too fast. If you do not slow down, you will end up in a ditch.

In life, sometimes slowing down is the right thing to do. We tend to rush through life without paying much attention to what is going on around us.

If you are not careful, you may end up in a dangerous situation.

Riley, Ruger, and Gavin in the 2009 snowstorm. It was a big one.

We stick to the basics in cold weather

Second, the storm forces us to prioritize our needs. Everyone flocks to the stores for supplies to stock up before the storm hits.

Notice that we buy what we need like milk, bread, beer, and toilet paper.

This lesson is helpful when thinking about how to spend your money and your time. Both are limited resources.

Don’t waste them on things that are not important. You will regret it.

People stock up for a coming cold storm.

We change our plans when it is cold

Third, we become more flexible when it is cold. Think about all the plans that had to change.

Thousands of flights were canceled, stores and schools closed, and we all had to hunker down during the blizzard.

Being flexible is critical because you cannot control the weather at all. You may experience a similar situation at some point in your life.

It will change in ways you do not anticipate and you will need to be flexible to deal with it.

Hopefully, we will not have any more weather surprises…but you never know it is still 2020.

And you may ask yourself, “What is that beautiful house?”

And you may ask yourself, “Where does that highway go to?”

You may ask yourself, “Am I right? Am I wrong?”

And you may tell yourself, “My God! What have I done?” Once in a life time by the Talking Heads

I am Doug Keating and this is my letter to sons.

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I write a blog for my sons called Doug Keating Letter to Sons. I am sharing content from my blog here. I hope you enjoyed it. All feedback is welcome. Thanks for reading it.
How Much Snow Did We Get
By: Neil Shurley
Tags: Snow, Humor, Weather

How Much Snow Did We Get

Photo by boris misevic on Unsplash

How much snow did we get?

Here’s your definitive guide.

A dusting: Wait, they said it was supposed to snow.

Half inch: Seriously? That’s it? I can’t even make a snowball out of this.

One inch: It’s so pretty.

Two inches: Snow day!

Three inches: Snuggle up, everybody, we’re staying in today.

Four inches: I should have bought more Swiss Miss.

Five inches: I told you that global warming stuff was a load of crap.

Six inches or more: REDRUM.
The Wind
By: Victoria Ponte
Tags: Wind, Poetry, Weather, Blue Insights, Poetry On Medium

The Wind

We never see the source of the wind

It blows in from nowhere

Be it a gentle breeze or gale force

It can be biting and cold

Or a warm breeze

Jimi Hendrix asked

“Will the wind ever remember

the names it has blown in the past?”

Then he told us

“The Wind Cries Mary”
NODE JS REQUEST MODULE
By: Lavi Kushwaha
Tags: Node Js Tutorial, Api Development, Weather, Node Request Install, Weather Forecasts

Call weather API using node request module.

Install request package :- First move inside your node project folder then open terminal inside that folder and use the below command to install request package.

Package.json :- This command will add request module in you package.json file.

Code :- Below is the code call a weather API.

Here we used require function to import request module and then passing the url for API. Inside request method pass your url in object form {url:your url,json:true} or you can use JSON.parse(response.body).
Forecast
By: Victoria Ponte
Tags: Poetry, Weather, Blue Insights, Self, Poetry On Medium

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Gray Morning
By: Christina Meier Ph.D
Tags: Stormy, Weather, Poem, Sea

A poem

Last night, the sky was clear, the stars were bright

this morning rain lashes the harbor, the gray-green sea

seagulls glide the thermals, wind swirls up waves

what a difference a night makes

Mild, but stormy, stormy means gray morning

colors are subdued with no bright sunshine

I make my way, breathe in the salt air, braced in the elements

drab, but dangerous, high tide whips the shore
Investigating the Climate Change with Python and Spark, Part 3
By: Kaya Kupferschmidt
Tags: Data Science, Climate Change, Big Data Analytics, Weather, Pyspark

1. Retrospective and final Steps

The first part of this series focused on getting some raw weather data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and on transforming the data into a more convenient file format. The second part of the series focused on building an aggregated data set which is well suited for answering basic (but nevertheless relevant) questions about the overall weather for each country on a daily basis.

Weather Stations Map — Source: NOAA

What is now left is to perform the analysis itself and to draw some conclusions. Specifically I will try to reproduce some graphs from the real weather experts in my country (“Deutscher Wetterdienst” in Germany)

So what will we learn this time?

How to aggregate data with PySpark (once more…)

How to create meaningful and insightful visualizations of weather data

2. Prerequisites

I assume that you already followed the first part and the second part of this series, since we will be building upon the resulting Parquet files again. The good news is that we won’t generate new data sets this time, which would require more free space on your hard drive or SSD.

As the first step (and to warm up again), let’s read the final data set that we produced in the last article and display its schema:

# Read in data again

daily_country_weather =

spark.read.parquet(daily_country_weather_location) # Inspect Schema

daily_country_weather.printSchema()

Schema of aggregated weather data

3. Yearly Average Weather

As I told you, we will rely on “common sense” and we will see where we get with this. So the very obvious idea to proof the climate change is to create some yearly plots — and that’s not the worst thing to do. But before we follow down this route, please let me restate the systematic shortcomings that we will have to accept:

3.1 Disclaimer

I am no weather expert, and therefore my methodology isn’t really correct. Specifically we are working with a huge data set containing weather measurements from weather stations around the world. But most weather stations have only a very limited life span, which means that the metering points change over time and therefore the weather information isn’t strictly comparable between different years having different sets of active weather stations. We also don’t weight the measurements of weather stations according to their distance to other weather stations (which could be an interesting idea) or other fancy stuff. We follow a plain stupid (but still educated) approach ignoring all these important details.

3.2 Yearly World Temperature

The simplest thing to do right now is to create a visualization which plots the global average temperature over all countries for all years. We will be using PySpark for the aggregation and Seaborn for the visualization:
Nimbostratus
By: Daniel A. Teo
Tags: Nature, Storms, Rain, Weather, Poem

A Poem about the better weather

Photo by El Mehdi Rezkellah on Unsplash

Beauty doesn't always have to be

in the performance of the sun’s glamour.

And although the concept of day

is that related to happiness and glee

Have you ever given yourself to the

the viciousness of the wind breeze;

wind so strong

that your windows start to vibrate together

with the rumbles of thunder?

Because in that very moment

where nimbostratus clouds stoop so low,

Rain doesn't stop you from going out anymore.

You’ll climb onto the asphalt roof of your home

ignoring that if you fall, you fall face first

but in the weather of the proverbial “raining cats and dogs”

hold in your hands a book about the sun

and a cup of long black coffee diluted by raindrops.

Give your entirety

to the tempest of the thunderstorm

as your hair sticks to your face drenched,

hearing only the

the reverberation of echos.

Rain is the true beauty.
Mystery Solved: New Study Shows Link Between Hot and Dry Weather and Air Quality in Korea
By: Gwangju Institute Of Science, Technology, Gist
Tags: Climate Change, Pollution, Weather, Ozone, Atmospheric Sciences

Air pollution from human activities and dry, sunny weather combine to increase surface ozone concentrations, and ozone emissions are very harmful to health | Photo courtesy: Daniel Moqvist on Unsplash

While ozone in the stratosphere acts as barrier that protects the Earth from ultraviolet radiation, ground-level (or tropospheric) ozone is a dangerous trace gas that can cause serious health problems. This ozone is the result of photochemical reactions between nitrogen oxides and volatile organic compounds, which are two major air pollutants.

Over the past decades, East Asia has witnessed a marked degradation of air quality, especially so in terms of ground-level ozone, that is consistent with human activity. However, in Korea, the specific reasons behind increase in ozone levels during warm seasons remain a mystery among atmospheric scientists.

To shed light on this issue, a team of scientists, including Prof Jin-Ho Yoon from Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Korea, recently conducted a study that was published in Atmospheric Environment. They focused on the relationship between large-scale weather patterns (called synoptic-scale weather) and surface ozone concentration. To do this, they used synoptic weather data from 17 airport meteorological stations and hourly observations of ground-level ozone concentrations from 306 monitoring sites.

One of the main findings of the study was that a particular synoptic weather pattern called ‘dry tropical’ was consistently associated with high ozone concentration. This is because ozone formation requires sunlight — which implies that dry and warm atmospheric conditions are favorable for its formation.

Most importantly, the researchers found that dry tropical weather had steadily become more frequent in Korea over the past 50 years, which is consistent with the gradual increase in tropospheric ozone levels. “We estimate that tropospheric ozone concentration could increase by 3.5% if the frequency of dry tropical weather doubles, and by an alarming 7.5% if it triples,” comments Prof. Yoon. “Our results imply that future air quality regulations in Korea should be issued together with those related to global and regional warming,” he adds.

Overall, this study provides valuable insights to tackle the long-standing mystery of tropospheric ozone in Korea. Lead author Dr. Hyun Cheol Kim from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the University of Maryland, USA, remarks: “Understanding the relationship between synoptic weather patterns and surface ozone concentration will help us assess the contribution of meteorological conditions to regional air quality and establish an effective early warning system.” Let us hope this study brings more attention to the serious and interlinked issues of air pollution and climate change so that decisionmakers can act in time.
It’d be cold outside
By: Trin Carl
Tags: Taxi, Weather, Ridesharing

It’d be cold outside

Photo by Trin Carl

I enjoyed this backhanded compliment today from one of my passengers said:

“I looked at the app and thought it’s cold 🥶 outside and Uber be at it.”
Foggy Turn of the Road
By: William J Spirdione
Tags: Sonnet, Poetry, Society, Weather, Travel

Foggy Turn of the Road

photo by William J Spirdione

It is time to slow down a little now.

Not sure who or what lies around the bend.

To move as fast as conditions allow.

Alert, aware, on all senses depend.

The fog it rolls off hills of melting snow.

Wet blackened trunks of trees create rhythm.

A gentle curve completes the peaceful flow.

No problems here, at least that’s our theorem.

If lulled to sleep, might wake to find trouble.

Someone or something was crossing the road.

A broken down truck, a tree, some rubble.

From the woods to the road a deer has strode.

The road was clear, no smashing of metal.

Safe passage now, a little unsettled.
Boot Dryer
By: Richard Eaton
Tags: Photos, Project365, Photography, Weather, Dry Cleaning

Photo of the day 349/366

I got caught in the rain on my motorbike and my boots got soaked inside and out (I discovered they are no longer waterproof!). The problem with high humidity, rainy season, and no heating, is that when things get wet its difficult to get them dry again. If you leave things they go mouldy very quickly and lots of houses have damp and mould problems here.

We are lucky to have a tumble dryer for clothes but that would ruin shoes and boots. I had to improvise so say hello to my boot drying machine 😂 It worked surprisingly well and totally soaked boots were completely dry after spending the day like this 👍

#project365
Cold vs hot drinks for hot weather?
Tags: Nutrition, Weather, Health, Food And Drink, Foodies

This topic has been hotly debated for long. During a heat wave, we look for various means of cooling ourselves. The debate is: “are you better off drinking a cup of hot tea or coffee or should you take icecream, iced tea or some other cold drink?” It all boils down to thermoregulation, which is a series of process by which the body adapts to thermal changes in order to keep us in good condition (homeostasis).

The case for cold drinks

Obviously, drinking something cold is a natural response to heat. This is because it reduces your core body temperature as your body loses as much heat as is needed to warm up the cold drink coming into your mouth.

Unfortunately, this results in a reduction in the amount of sweat produced, which is the main way that the body loses heat. It also tightens the end blood vessels on the skin that ordinarily aid in dissipating heat. These make the effects of the cold drink short-lived as the amount consumed is small compared to the amount of heat that needs to exit the body.

Do hot drinks fare better?

The Eqyptian and Indian cultures are famous for drinking hot tea; even in hot weather. The science is that hot drinks work by increasing your body’s internal heat and the response to this raised body core temperature is increased sweating. The evaporation of this sweat then leads to cooling. In addition to this, the end vessels on the skin dilate so they can convey more blood to the skin and help dissipate the heat better to the air around. Viola! Problem solved? No, not so fast.

The heat produced by the hot drinks makes you sweat much more than previously. If the sweat cannot evaporate fast enough, then the heat cannot escape, and you would actually end up feeling hotter. Apart from this, the rush of blood to the skin end vessels makes you feel flushed. By the way, many of the studies that were conducted in were not carried out under very humid conditions.

In short, hot drinks would cause you to sweat more but for you to feel cooler, this sweat would need to evaporate quickly. This would not readily happen in a humid climate or with regular clothes on.

The verdict

It seems like a no-win, right? Well, our advice is stick to iced drinks except it is dry heat (in some places up North Africa and not a humid place like Lagos), you are wearing loose Egyptian cotton or no clothes at all, and your fan is on. Yes. Those are the basic conditions under which hot drinks actually help.

Final word

Whatever you do- Hot, cold or tepid drinks- just ensure that you are adequately hydrated as dehydration is a frequent outcome of hot weather and it can be dangerous to your health.

Do you have any questions or concerns that you would like to discuss with a doctor? Call or chat with one now at doctordial.ng
Wild Weather Creates Stories Inspired by the Elements — Daily Quote
By: Jo Hawk
Tags: Motivation, Stories, Weather, Inspiration, Quotes

They predict a storm this weekend. The forecast calls for precipitation, freezing rain, sleet, and snow with projected accumulations of 2 to 4 inches, and I am expecting them to add hail, tornados, thundersnow, flooding, high winds, and streets covered with ice to the line-up. I am waiting for locusts, snowmageddon, and the four horsemen. It is 2020, after all.

I drive home, racing past packed grocery store parking lots without stopping. At my house, a full freezer, a stocked pantry, and the aroma of a simmering crockpot greet me. I have plans, and the impending assault helps set the mood as a dense fog obscures the view from my window, and a misty drizzle falls.

I have scheduled a long writing session, and the inclement conditions suit me. My characters are on the run, fleeing their evil tormentors. Biting wind gusts blow fallen leaves into their path. Tree limbs crack like whips, and lightning scratches angry marks across the midnight sky. Bram Stoker trembles in his grave as the pursuers gain on our intrepid heroes.

Temperatures plummet, the torrent solidifies, snowflakes fall, sticking to every surface. Jon Snow adjusts his Night Watchman cloak. Winter is coming. Can my protagonists escape? Will hunters captured them, or do they succumb, becoming victims of the elements? There is no way to foretell the tempest’s fury.

Does the weather influence your work?

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Keep on writing.

Jo Hawk The Writer
wind
Tags: Nature, Weather, Poem, Poetry

no wind again today,

look how the leaves don’t fall

they should be dancing down

hear those silent footsteps

echoing overground?

no rain again today,

look how the clouds are full

they should make rivers drown

hear those dripping faucets

empty without a sound?

no sun again today,

look how the shadows fell

they should hide all over town

hear those opaque fossettes

brightening our surround?
Love, Weather or Life Which One is The Most Unpredictable?
By: Regia Marinho
Tags: Unpredictable, Future, Weather, Love, Life

I’m just thinking about it, but really I don’t know the right answer … let’s try.

LOVE:

Love is as irrational as hate and just as unpredictable. ~Marty Rubin

Love can take you by storm. It’s very unpredictable. You can find it anywhere and anytime.

“The behavior of lovers is oscillating like the moon, and unpredictable as the weather.”

Love isn’t something you find. Love is something that finds you.~Loretta Young

WEATHER

The weather is so unpredictable.

London is completely unpredictable when it comes to weather.

An unpredictable weather behave in ways that cannot sometimes be predicted.

LIFE

I think life is almost totally unpredictable.

Life is no different than the weather.

At its best, life is completely unpredictable. ~Christopher Walken

I don’t make plans, because life is short and unpredictable — much like the weather!

Life is no different than the weather. Not only is it unpredictable, but it shows us a new perspective of the world every day.”

― Suzy Kassem,

One day everything is going as planned and then out of the blue, your whole world crashes.

You never know what sort of event will happen.

If someone(a drunk guy) or something is unpredictable…it means that you cannot tell what they are going to do or how they are going to behave.

If trains are unpredictable, they wouldn’t follow a set schedule and you will never know when it would arrive.

The adjective unpredictable also can be something that is unexpected or not known in advance.

What more is unpredictable?

7 things that are unpredictable in life.

The news.

Sports.

British weather.

Trains (in some cities).

When pandemic will happen.

When I want to make a big painting, or a new commission.

When I will sell my next art online.

Life is full of uncertainty because of two things.

1 — In the world there are more questions than answers.

Questions are easy. They take very little time to ask.

Answers provoque more questions.

Ask… Why the sky is blue?

Blue shy at sunset. Texas. Photo by RegiaArt.

You get answers like… because the oxygen in the air is blue. So why is oxygen blue?

When you make questions you can always identify a wise person. They don’t know anything. Only idiots are certain about anything.

2 — There is more than one answer to most questions.

Not all questions. Some have specific, single answers. But most questions have too many answers.

“What this says on a spiritual level is that we can never really know what direction life will take, what changes those small butterfly-flutters of intention and action might cause in our destiny. And at the same time, it also tells us that we can never truly know the mind of God. We can never fully understand the how, where, and when of anything, even something as simple as boiling water. We have to surrender to uncertainty, while appreciating its intricate beauty.”

― Deepak Chopra

The conclusion is: LIFE is the most unpredictable thing.

“Be unpredictable.” ― Steven Magee

Why not?

Thank you! And stay safe!

Regia Marinho

December 7, 2020
A.I. Weather and Stock Project
By: Carlos E Penzini
Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Weather, Inspirit Ai, Stock Market

After the Inspirit AI course I took in the summer, I started to brainstorm ideas about how to implement the vast knowlege I accumulated over the summer. While I was brainstorming, a hurricane was suppose to hit Miami, Florida (Where I live). Then an idea hit. What if I could build an AI, to predict the overall rise and fall of a certain stock based on weather predictions and the stock market indicator for that country. Also due to the increase of storms every year, this A.I. would grow more intellegent as more data is leanred in this evolving world.

There are some obvious issues with this idea. For example, for a more developed country small wheather events wont affect the market because stock holders are confident of stability. So we would have to pick a less developed country that gets affected by whether events that do affect some of their industries. Some of the countries I thought of were the Bahamas, Indonesia, and Singapore (Although they are developed, they rely on shipping).

I decide I could not do this alone, so I asked in the Inspirit AI Ambassadors discord if anyone wanted to work on a project. Due to the great group of experts selected by the Inspirit AI Leaders, a large group of 15 committed, smart highschoolers volunteered for the project. We created a discord and have had meetings every week. My collegues are exited to keep working on this project througth the year. If it were not for them and the Inspirit AI founders, I would not be able to fire up my passion for artificial intellegence.
Mendel Letters 9: Mendel’s Complaint
By: Mendel Letters
Tags: Work, Subway, Weather

Hard copies of these typed letters were discovered in an old camp trunk in the basement storage facility of one of the few buildings that remain standing in this Brooklyn neighborhood. The building is quite decrepit and is scheduled for demolition. The letters were found in November 2048 by a teenager who believes they were written by his great-grandfather. The letters are addressed to Mendel, the letter writer’s father, who appears to have been dead for at least six years when his son, whose name we are unsure of, started to write him. The son appears very agitated in some of the letters. With permission from the family, we are publishing them on the date they were written, only 28 years later.

December 5, 2020

Dear Mendel,

It’s December now and the weather has gotten a little nastier. It makes it harder to go for walks in the park, which makes the COVID stay at home lock-down even more difficult. There is a funny story that pops into my head every time the weather changes. I don’t know if you remember it, but it always stays with me.

I worked with you in your Queens luncheonette on Saturdays starting when I was 14. At 5 AM in the morning we would walk to the IRT subway stop near our Bronx apartment. But the longer walk was from the BMT stop in Astoria to the store. All winter you would complain, “I can’t stand the cold. Summer is okay, I just can’t stand the cold.” In the summer I heard, “I can’t stand the heat. Winter is okay, I just can’t stand the heat.” Finally, one year I said, “You realize that all winter you complain about the cold and say you don’t mind the summer heat and all summer you complain about the heat and say you don’t mind the winter cold?”

You looked at me, paused for a few seconds, and said “Can’t a working man just complain?”

I can image if you were here now. With the COVID infections and deaths picking up and the promised vaccine month away, “Can’t a working man just complain?”

Your son
there is no bad weather just bad clothes
By: Lian Hakobyan
Tags: Umeå, Weather, Sweden, Student

W eather Forecast For Tonight is 100% Dark.

Okej, so the story begins like this.

I have been admitted to study in Umeå, which is the biggest city in the north of Sweden. When I got the news, I immediately informed one of my best friends, Meri and her first question was: Have you checked the weather?

Well, Good Question Girl. Until now I am still wondering why tough I have not checked the weather before applying to study in Sweden and especially in the north of Sweden. But who cares I was thinking, the weather is just the weather, nothing special or drastically important.

P.S. Simple Idiot. If I had a time machine, I would go back and pour cold water on me. No jokes!

But don’t get me wrong. In Armenia, I barely talked about the weather, like less than two or three times a week. The only exceptional times I was checking the weather forecast were for December to see when it was gonna snow, February to see when the snow was gonna melt finally, and for the days when my father was deciding to wash his car. These were the only important life events.

But here in Sweden, I talk about weather constantly, and never get bored of complaining about the cold, darkness, wind, rain, snow, or worse snow with the wind.

In my situation, a rational person would initially Google search “Weather In Umeå”, find the website Visit Sweden, read this info about the weather:

“In the northeast the winters are severe, the more so as you travel further north, while the summers can be surprisingly warm.

In the far north the winters are also severe, with snow lying the year-round on elevated areas, and the summers are short and changeable. And because Sweden lies at a high latitude much of the country has very long hours of daylight in summer and very long nights in winter.”

and then will close the website and go to check the “Weather in Barcelona” or Weather in Lisbon”. But no, of course I checked this info, only when I was in Sweden already. Genius :)

But you know, I will never regret about this decision to move to Umeå.

Even though the Darkness comes at 2 PM (I have candles and bicycle lights), the winter is cold (I have a cool Yellow Coat and Awesome Friends), and there is no traffic Jams (I still have no solution for this).

Is the weather only thing people talk in Sweden?

Not sure about other people, but I personally do:)