SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- The Pops in the Park concert scheduled for tonight -- Tuesday, July 1 -- at Onondaga Park has been postponed due to the extreme heat.
Brownskin was scheduled to perform at 7 p.m. as the first in the month-long series. The concert has been postponed until Tuesday, Aug. 5.
The National Weather Service has issued a heat advisory for parts of Central New York, where high temperatures and high humidity may make it feel like 100 degrees or more. The advisory will last until 9 p.m.


As a winter storm sweeps across New York City, authorities have issued a snow emergency, prompting the closure of schools and urging residents to take precautions. The Nor’easter, a powerful weather system, is expected to bring heavy snowfall and strong winds, posing significant challenges to the city’s infrastructure and transportation networks.
The decision to close schools comes as a precautionary measure to ensure the safety of students and staff amid the hazardous weather conditions. With the potential for snow accumulations and reduced visibility, officials have advised residents to avoid unnecessary travel and to stay indoors if possible.
The National Weather Service has issued a winter storm warning for the New York City area, with forecasts predicting snowfall rates of up to several inches per hour. As a result, roadways are expected to become treacherous, making travel difficult and potentially dangerous.
In addition to the closure of schools, the winter storm has also prompted the cancellation of various events and activities across the city. Public transportation services may experience delays or disruptions, and commuters are advised to plan accordingly and allow for extra travel time.
City officials have activated emergency response protocols to ensure a coordinated and effective response to the winter storm. Snowplows and salt spreaders are on standby to clear roadways and sidewalks, while emergency personnel remain on alert to respond to any incidents or emergencies that may arise.
Residents are urged to take precautions to protect themselves and their property during the storm. This includes staying indoors, avoiding unnecessary travel, and ensuring that vehicles are equipped with winter emergency supplies such as blankets, food, and water.
As the winter storm continues to unfold, authorities will continue to monitor the situation closely and provide updates and advisories as necessary. Residents are encouraged to stay informed through official channels and to heed any warnings or instructions issued by local authorities.
Despite the disruptions caused by the winter storm, New Yorkers are known for their resilience and ability to weather even the most challenging conditions. With proper preparation and cooperation, the city will work together to overcome the impacts of the Nor’easter and ensure the safety and well-being of all residents.
As the winter storm intensifies, city officials are deploying additional resources to address the challenges posed by heavy snowfall and strong winds. Snowplows and salt spreaders are working around the clock to keep roads clear and passable, but drivers are urged to exercise caution and avoid unnecessary travel.
In addition to the closure of schools, many businesses and government offices have also announced closures or reduced operating hours in response to the storm. Public transportation services, including buses and trains, may experience delays or service disruptions, further impacting travel across the city.
Residents are advised to stay updated on the latest weather forecasts and emergency alerts issued by local authorities. It’s essential to have emergency supplies on hand, including food, water, flashlights, and batteries, in case of power outages or other emergencies.
The winter storm serves as a reminder of the importance of preparedness and resilience in the face of extreme weather events. New Yorkers are encouraged to check on vulnerable neighbors, especially the elderly or those with limited mobility, to ensure their safety and well-being during the storm.
While the snow and wind may create challenges for city residents, the winter storm also presents an opportunity for communities to come together and support one another. From sharing shovels to lending a helping hand, acts of kindness and solidarity can help mitigate the impacts of the storm and strengthen the bonds of community.
As the storm gradually subsides, city officials will assess the damage and begin the process of recovery and cleanup. In the meantime, residents are encouraged to remain vigilant and take necessary precautions to stay safe until the winter weather passes.
Despite the disruptions caused by the storm, New Yorkers are resilient and adaptable, and they will undoubtedly rise to the occasion to overcome the challenges posed by the winter weather. With cooperation, preparation, and community support, the city will weather the storm and emerge stronger on the other side.


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FOX19 - Ice and snow caused problems on roadways across the Tri-State Saturday evening.
Traffic was halted for more than an hour while salt trucks treated both directions of Interstate 275 at the Ohio/Indiana border near Kilby road. The interstate reopened by 6:15 p.m.,
In northern Kentucky, slick roadways caused at least 20 minor crashes on the interstate, according to Boone County dispatchers.
Erlanger police advised motorists to stay off the roadways. Officers were responding to emergency calls first ahead of minor accidents and stuck vehicles, according to Jon Sterling, public information officer for Erlanger PD.
"Brine helped initially, but there were periods of heavy snow squalls that covered many roads with a thin layer of snow which caused slick conditions in some areas," said Nancy Wood, spokesperson for Kentucky Transportation Cabinet.
Crews will remain on duty throughout the evening as needed, Wood said.
A light dusting of snow combined with below-freezing temperatures caused icy spots on the road Saturday. The snow will move out of the Tri-State by 11 p.m. Saturday night.


MEXICO CITY (AP) — Hurricane Roslyn grew to Class 4 drive on Saturday because it headed for a collision with Mexico’s Pacific coast, probably north of the resort of Puerto Vallarta.
The U.S. Nationwide Hurricane Heart stated Roslyn’s most sustained winds stood at 130 mph (215 kph) at midafternoon Saturday.
The storm was centered about 115 miles (180 kilometers) south-southwest of Cabo Corrientes — the purpose of land jutting into the Pacific south of Puerto Vallarta — and transferring north-northwest at 9 mph (15 kph).
The forecast known as for Roslyn to start shifting to a northward motion after which northeast, placing it on path that might take it near Cabo Corrientes and the Puerto Vallarta area on Saturday night time earlier than making landfall in Nayarit state on Sunday morning.
Hurricane Orlene made landfall Oct. 3 a little bit farther north in roughly the identical area, about 45 miles (75 kilometers) southeast of the resort of Mazatlan.
Hurricane-force winds prolonged out 30 miles (45 kilometers) from Roslyn’s core, whereas tropical storm-force winds prolonged out to 80 miles (130 kilometers), the U.S. hurricane middle stated.
Mexico issued a hurricane warning protecting a stretch of coast from Playa Perula south of Cabo Corrientes north to El Roblito and for the Islas Marias.
Seemingly oblivious to the hazard simply hours away, vacationers ate at beachside eateries round Puerto Vallarta and smaller resorts farther north on the Nayarit coast, the place Roslyn was anticipated to hit.
“We’re tremendous. The whole lot is calm, it’s all regular,” stated Jaime Cantón, a receptionist on the Casa Maria lodge in Puerto Vallarta. He stated that if winds picked up, the lodge would collect up exterior furnishings “so nothing will go flying.”
Whereas skies started to cloud up, waves remained regular, and few individuals gave the impression to be speeding to take precautions; swimmers had been nonetheless within the sea at Puerto Vallarta
“The place is filled with vacationers,” stated Patricia Morales, a receptionist on the Punta Guayabitas lodge within the laid-back seaside city of the identical identify, farther up the coast.
Requested what precautions had been being taken, Morales stated, “They (authorities) haven’t instructed us something.”
The Nayarit state authorities stated the hurricane was anticipated to make landfall Sunday across the fishing village of San Blas, about 90 miles (150 kilometers) north of Puerto Vallarta.
The top of the state civil protection workplace, Pedro Núñez, stated, “Proper now we’re finishing up patrols by means of the cities, to alert individuals in order that they will hold their possession secure and hold themselves secure in safer areas.”
Within the neighboring state of Jalisco, Gov. Enrique Alfaro wrote that 270 individuals had been evacuated in a city close to the hurricane’s anticipated path and that 5 emergency shelters had been arrange in Puerto Vallarta.
Alfaro stated on Twitter that any college actions within the area could be cancelled Saturday and he urged individuals to keep away from touristic actions at seashores and in mountainous areas over the weekend.
The Nationwide Water Fee stated rains from Roslyn might trigger mudslides and flooding. and the U.S. hurricane middle warned of harmful storm surge alongside the coast, in addition to 4 to six inches (10 to fifteen centimeters) of rain..


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Originally posted by munkey66
One thing I have learnt about Cyclones, it doesn't matter what the predicted path is, they can just do a complete U turn and change directions in a matter of hours.
Happens more when they sit still for a while.
And in reply to the bit about the difference between hurricanes and cyclones, they spin in opposite directions, Cyclones are clockwise and hurricanes are counter clockwise.
as for the strength of them, Hurricanes tend to be much larger than cyclones and cover a larger area, cyclones are smaller and generally can pack a mighty big punch
Originally posted by munkey66
reply to post by OzWeatherman
I was talking in general about the size comparison,
Living in an area where cyclones come and go, I understand about the movement of them, just look at TC steve, it tried to circum navigate Australia
Australia Northeast shores fear hurricane, floods
Updated at: 1301 PST, Sunday, March 08, 2009
SYDNEY: Thousands of holidaymakers fled one of Australia's top tourist destinations Sunday as a tropical cyclone lashed the country's northeast coast.
Authorities in Queensland state ordered the evacuation of Fraser Island as Tropical Cyclone Hamish approached the World Heritage-listed site shortly after it was upgraded to a category five storm, the most severe on the weather scale. The cyclone has been tracking south about 120 kilometres (75 miles) off the Queensland coast, but meteorologists warn its path is unpredictable and it could veer onto the mainland, potentially sparking a major disaster.
Queensland Emergency Services Minister Neil Roberts said three islands were evacuated Sunday -- Fraser, Heron and Lady Elliot -- bringing the total number of tourist islands cleamated 500 million dollars (321 million US) in damage to crops and infrastructure. Even it remains offshore, the storm could cause major flooding, high seas and wind gusts reaching up to 100 kilometres (62 miles) an hour.
Thousands flee Australia cyclone
Sunday, March 08, 2009
18:52 Mecca time, 15:52 GMT
Thousands of tourists and residents have been evacuated from Australia's islands on the Great Barrier Reef, as a tropical cyclone battered the region, state officials said.
Evacuations were carried out on Sunday, following warnings from the weather bureau that Cyclone Hamish could cause substantial damage and flooding, with the
storm packing winds of up to 295kph.
Despite the Bureau of Meteorology downgrading Hamish to a category 4 storm, the second highest level, up to 3,000 people were evacuated from the popular tourist destination of Fraser Island, a spokesman for Queensland state's emergency services minister, said.
"They are being moved off the island by barge. The process has been under way most of the day," the spokesman said. He said evacuations were also planned for other islands.
Although the damage reported from the cyclone has so far been limited, Anna Bligh, Queensland's prime minister, has declared a "disaster situation" in response to the storm.
Sugar farmers in Queensland, who produce 95 per cent of Australia's sugar crop, are already facing substantial losses, battling floods since December 2008 after a number of storms and cyclones.
Thousands of cattle are also thought to have died in earlier flooding in the area.


Solar Cycle 25 Prediction Panel, co-chaired by NOAA/NASA, released its latest forecast for Solar Cycle 25 (SC25) on December 9, 2019.
The forecast consensus: a peak in July 2025 (+/- 8 months), with a smoothed sunspot number (SSN) of 115.
The panel agreed that SC25 will be average in intensity and similar to Solar Cycle 24 (SC24).
Additionally, the panel concurred that solar minimum between cycles 24 and 25 will occur in April 2020 (+/- 6 months).
If the solar minimum prediction is correct, this would make SC24 the 7th longest on record (11.4 years).
In their preliminary forecast, released in April 2019, panel scientists said SC25 is likely to be weak, much like the current one (SC24).
"SC25 may have a slow start, but is anticipated to peak with solar maximum occurring between 2023 and 2026, and a sunspot range of 95 to 130. This is well below the average number of sunspots," they said back in April, adding that 'the panel has high confidence that the coming cycle should break the trend of weakening solar activity seen over the past four cycles.'
"We expect SC25 will be very similar to Cycle 24: another fairly weak cycle, preceded by a long, deep minimum," said panel co-chair Lisa Upton, Ph.D., solar physicist with Space Systems Research Corp.
"The expectation that SC25 will be comparable in size to SC24 means that the steady decline in solar cycle amplitude, seen from cycles 21-24, has come to an end and that there is no indication that we are currently approaching a Maunder-type minimum in solar activity."
Solar Cycle 24 reached its maximum - the period when the Sun is most active - in April 2014 with a peak average of 82 sunspots. The Sun’s Northern Hemisphere led the sunspot cycle, peaking over two years ahead of the Southern Hemisphere sunspot peak.
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Possible tornado flips vehicles at Baton Rouge General Hospital
BATON ROUGE – A possible tornado tossed around vehicles in the parking lot of Baton Rouge General Hospital this morning.
No injuries were reported, but several vehicles were flipped onto their sides or roof after the severe weather moved through at around 8:15 a.m., according to hospital officials.
Minor damage to the main hospital building was reported, but patient services were not interrupted.
The National Weather Service has not yet confirmed a tornado touchdown.


|July 1907: St Pancras Railway Station. (Topical Press Agency / Getty Images)|
The cold weather preceding and during the smog meant that Londoners were burning more coal than usual to keep warm. Post-war domestic coal tended to be of a relatively low-grade, sulfurous variety (economic necessity meant that better-quality “hard” coals tended to be exported), which increased the amount of sulfur dioxide in the smoke. There were also numerous coal-fired power stations in the Greater London area, including Fulham, Battersea, Bankside, and Kingston upon Thames, all of which added to the pollution.


The Global Methane, Climate and Clean Air Forum opened to a packed room, with nearly a thousand people convening to discuss policy options for quickly cutting methane and other short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs).
In the morning, participants heard from several keynote speakers on national and international initiatives for methane action, including from the United States (US), Canada, and Ghana, as well as on sector-specific initiatives. John Kerry, Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, US, stressed the need to reduce methane and other SLCPs, pointing to a soon-to-be-published UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and CCAC report, which notes that, without the Global Methane Pledge launched in 2021, methane emissions will increase by up to 13% by 2030—a far cry from the 30% methane reductions needed to keep the temperature goal 1.5°C within reach.
A panel of scientists further explored the Global Methane Assessment Baseline 2030 report later in the morning. The report outlines that, among others:
- mitigating methane and other SLCPs is essential to achieve decarbonization goals;
- mitigating SLCPs will enable further carbon dioxide (CO2) removal;
- compared to constant present-day emissions, the baseline projections predict growth in methane emissions; and
- achieving the low end of the Global Methane Pledge’s target would lead to a 36% reduction in emissions.
Discussing the report, the scientists commented on how closely linked methane and CO2 decarbonization are, despite their different shelf lives in the atmosphere. One scientist used a running metaphor to explain the efforts needed: “in this work, we need to run a sprint, a marathon, and an ultramarathon all at once.” The panel also discussed the need for socioeconomic and behavioral assessments to meet natural science assessments and help them maximize the impact of mitigation policy.
Later in the afternoon, participants split into two sets of parallel sessions divided along six themes:
- science, planning, and cross-cutting issues;
- air quality, hydrofluorocarbons, health hazard evaluations, and heavy-duty vehicles and engines;
- agriculture and food systems;
- waste and wastewater;
- coal; and
- oil and gas.
Participants convened over drinks for an informal reception in the evening.
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EGA to further reduce PFC emissions after record low in 2017
Controlling emissions of PFCs, a group of greenhouse gases, is a global aluminium industry goal
Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) has signed an agreement with the University of New South Wales for continued research on the reduction of perfluorocarbons emissions, after the company achieved a record low in 2017.
Perfluorocarbons, known as PFCs, are a group of greenhouse gases which have thousands of times more global warming potential than carbon dioxide. Reducing PFC emissions is an important environmental goal of the global aluminium industry.
EGA’s emissions of PFCs were 22 kilogrammes per tonne of aluminium produced in 2017 compared to a global average of 380 kilogrames per tonne in 2016, the most recent year for which figures are available from the International Aluminium Institute.
At EGA’s newer Al Taweelah smelter, PFC emissions in 2017 were seven kilogrammes per tonne of aluminium produced.
In the aluminium industry, reported PFC emissions are known to be associated with momentary process imbalances known as Anode Effects.
These occur when the alumina concentration falls in the reduction cells in which aluminium is smelted.
EGA is set to conduct new research with scientists from the University of New South Wales aiming to reduce what the industry terms ‘background’ PFC emissions – those that are from variations in reduction cell conditions that are too small to be detected and remedied by the control technology available today.
The research will focus on developing sophisticated technology to continuously monitor conditions inside reduction cells in great detail and semi-autonomously feed alumina in response to minute changes.
More accurate feeding of alumina in response to changing conditions is also expected to lower energy consumption, reducing emissions of CO2 created through power generation.
EGA’s work to reduce PFC emissions is led by executive vice president Dr Ali Al Zarouni, who is in charge of the company’s aluminium smelters in Abu Dhabi and Dubai and EGA’s technology development.
Dr Al Zarouni said: “Reducing PFC emissions in the aluminium industry is a matter of fundamental environmental responsibility. Unfortunately no single factor provides the solution. Rather we have achieved our reductions through developing our own smelting and pot control technology, continuously improving our operational processes, and rigorously monitoring the quality of our raw materials.
“We believe our new research is the first of its kind as it aims to tackle emissions from minute changes rather than just reducing Anode Effects that we can all detect today. Working with the University of New South Wales enables us to combine our own technology expertise with the latest academic thinking to tackle this particularly difficult challenge.”


Despite torrential rain and strong winds in the Larnaca and Famagusta districts during the night, no damage was reported.
Rain and snow in the mountains however mean that a number of roads are dangerous and slippery, police warned on Tuesday morning.
Many roads were closed on Tuesday morning due to torrential rain and snowfall which caused immense problems to the road network.
The following roads are closed for all vehicles:
In the Paphos district:
Arminou – Filousa – Kelokedaros
Episkopi – Natas
Ayios Geogios – Kidasiou
Kelokedaros – Trachipedoulas
Trachipedoulas – Salamiou
Kelokedaros – Filousa
Kelokedaros – Amargetis
Salamiou – Galataria
Ayios Nicolaos – Kaminaria
Ayios Nicolaos – Pera Vasa
Giolou – Miliou (old road)
Panayia – Cedar valley
Kritou Marottou – Kannaviou
Akoursos – Adonis baths
In the Limassol district:
Gerasa – Kalo Chorio
In the Morphou area:
Vyzakia – Ayia Marina Xiliatou
Ayia Marina Xiliatou – Ayia Marina Xiliatou reservoir
Ayios Vavatsinia – Vavatsinia
Because of landslides, the following Tsada – Stroumbi and Pedalia – Panayia roads in the Paphos district are dangerous.
There were also landslides on the main road from Evrichou to Kakopetria near the entrance to the Kakopetria. Drivers should use the road via Galata and Ayios Nicolaos to enter the village.
Landslides caused problems on the following roads in the Limassol district:
Platres – Troodos
Agros – Karvounas
Amiantos – Karvounas
Paramytha – Gerasa
Ayios Ioannis – Agros
Lania – Trimiklini
Saittas – Amiantos
Moniatis – Platres
In the Nicosia district:
Gourri – Macheras – Kioni
In the Troodos area visibility is limited because of dense fog.
More snow, strong winds and rain are expected over the next few days and temperatures will fall to -7C in the mountains on Tuesday and Wednesday evening.
On Troodos square 50 centimetres of snow has been recorded.
The amount of water in the reservoirs overall is now close to 30 per cent, with the biggest, Kouris, still at 23.1 per cent of capacity while some of the smaller reservoirs are full and overflowing. Xyliatos dam also overflowed (see video below):
Η υπερχείλιση του φράγματος Ξυλιάτου είναι πλέον γεγονός (βίντεο από τον εκδρομικό χώρο).
Posted by Τμήμα Δασών on Tuesday, 15 January 2019


Weather forecast: September 24, 2022
Posted at 4:47 p.m. on Friday, September 23, 2022
BROOKHAVEN – It’s going to be a big Saturday starting with the grand opening of the Old Koke factory on US51 in Brookhaven. Doors open at 6 a.m.
The weather promises to be rather mild this weekend as well. Saturday will be sunny with highs of 91 and calm winds. Saturday night will be mostly clear with lows around 66 and calm winds turning south-southeast around 5 p.m.
On Sunday, a 20% chance of rain is forecast, but the weather will be mostly sunny.
Sunrise is at 6:51 a.m. and sunset is at 6:56 p.m.
It will also be a busy day of SEC football.
Here is the program :
Kent State at Georgia, 11 a.m. on SECN+ or ESPN+
Missouri at Auburn, 11 a.m. on ESPN
Bowling Green at Mississippi State, 11 a.m. on SECN
No. 20 Florida at No. 11 Tennessee, 2:30 p.m. on CBS
Tulsa at No. 16 Ole Miss, 3 p.m. on SECN
- Illinois at No. 8 Kentucky, 6 p.m. on ESPN2
No. 10 Arkansas at No. 23 Texas A&M on ESPN
Vanderbielt at No. 2 Alabama, 6:30 p.m. on SECN
New Mexico at LSU, 6:30 p.m. on SECN+ or ESPN+
Charlotte, South Carolina, 6:30 p.m. ESPNU


Bucharest Inspectorate for Emergency Situations on Tuesday informed that 25 houses, 33 courtyards and 16 basements have been flooded after Monday night’s storm. Weather forecasters had issued a code orange alert for storms in Bucharest and Ilfov.
At the same time a scaffold fell down on several vehicles on Major Vasile Bacila street in the Capital, causing serious damages. Another cars have been damaged by the trees fallen on the streets
Firemen intervened with 126 intervention equipment, power pumps, motor fire engines, portable water pumps and chainsaws.
Heavy rain showers in Bucharest also blocked road traffic and several trams in the 11 Iunie area, near Carol Park.
“We are talking first of all about interventions to remove flood water from the people’s basements or courtyards. During 10 to 11 p.m. on Monday, more than 20 such requests were made. (…) After 11 p.m., the number of requests increased and also included removal of fallen trees from the pavement or cars,” ISU Bucharest Spokesman Daniel Vasile told Digi 24 private broadcaster.
The National Weather Administration (ANM) on Monday evening issued a code yellow of thunderstorms now-casting advisory.
Frequent thunders, blasts occurred along with rain showers that exceeded 15-20 l/sq.m. and even 25 l/sq.m.
ANM also warned that rainfalls are to be heavier particularly in the southern districts of the Capital city.


In the state Rajgarh recorded maximum rainfall of 85 mm, Sunnibajji 64 mm, Solan 63 mm, Gohar62 mm, Kandaghat 61 mm, Nadaun 58 mm, Nahan 57 mm, Dharamshala and Nauni 54 mm each, Dharampur 52 mm, Kasauli 47 mm, Kotkhai 43 mm, Karsog 42 mm, Sundernagar40 mm, Banjar 39 mm, Kumarsain 38 mm, Amb 31 mm and Tinder 30 mm.
Heavy rainfall at isolated places of Himachal Pradesh not only disrupted the normal life but it also brought down the minimum temperature by 1 to 2 degrees Celsius. In Shimla heavy rains uprooted trees at some places blocking the traffic and commuters had a tough time in reaching their destination during the morning hours.
The Shiv Sena’s disgruntlement over a single ministerial berth in the Union cabinet as well as allocation of portfolio came into the open on Tuesday with Anant Geete refusing to take charge of the heavy industries department
The move will see the Japanese giants pair up for a joint venture with state-owned Myanma Posts & Telecommunications (MPT).
The traffic police department here has asked its officers to step up vigil to prevent heavy vehicles from entering Steel City during no-entry hours and take action against those flouting rule.
The Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) has welcomed the Government of India’s move to raise the bar on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in the defence sector.
The government's approach to the economy and how it wants to drive development will top the expectations of the manufacturing sector when finance minister Arun Jaitley will present his maiden budget on Thursday.
The Shiv Sena on Wednesday accepted the heavy industries portfolio in the Union cabinet after Prime Minister Narendra Modi reportedly spoke with Sena president Uddhav Thackeray over phone
Modi has included Anant Geete in his Cabinet, but he did not assume the charge of the heavy industries ministry today because he was unhappy with the portfolio, sources said.
It has been found that the state-run Maharashtra Industries Development Corporation (MI-DC) allotted 382 hectares to Adani Power Maharashtra Limited in Gondia, the hometown of senior NCP leader Praful Patel.
For the first time in this monsoon Valsad receives heavy rain on Wednesday.
After a brief lull, the monsoon is back in Kerala with heavy rains inundating the low lying areas, leading to traffic snarls disrupting normal life in many places. Heavy rains will continue to lash Kerala till July 18 with squally winds reaching 50 to 60 kmph and fishermen have been advised not to venture into the sea. You dont have to live with pain. Call VARDAN for a Functional Manual Therapy appointment on 09910955500. Centres in Delhi and Gurgaon.
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Me anwhile, the India Meteorological Department (IMD), in its weather bulletin on Tuesday night, stated that moderate thunder squalls would occur at isolated places over Telangana in the next 24 hours.
"The sudden development of cumulonimbus clouds accompanied by thundershowers caused the pre-monsoon rain. A generally cloudy sky will prevail on Wednesday too, with the maximum temperature at around 38 degree Celsius at the Airport and 34 degree Celsius in Waltair," a senior CWC officer predicted.
While Waltair recorded the maximum temperature of 33.5 degree Celsius on Tuesday, Vizag Airport recorded 38 degree Celsius maximum temperature. Both Waltair and Airport registered 80% and 77% humidity levels respectively, the weathermen added.
The weathermen at the CWC attributed the sudden spell of rain to the activeness of the cumulonimbus clouds that were hovering over the city due to soaring temperature and humidity levels.
According to the Cyclone Warning Centre (CWC) here, the city (Waltair) received 18 mm of rainfall in just one hour -- from 7.30 pm to 8.30 pm. However, the airport and its surrounding areas received only 1 mm of rainfall as per the collection report of 8.30 pm.
However, in a major respite, the heavy rains this time were not accompanied by heavy winds. A few days ago, rains and heavy gales had uprooted many trees and electricity poles, causing a nearly day-long power disruption in many areas, including MVP Colony.


Syracuse, NY --A series of thunderstorms raked Central New York Tuesday, damaging homes, flooding businesses and basements, forcing the closure of Interstate 81 and spawning what might have been a tornado in Oneida County.
A team will investigate the wind damage today, said meteorologist David Nicosia of the National Weather Service in Binghamton.
Nicosia said this afternoon could bring another outbreak of severe weather.
The first of the storms struck after 3 p.m. Darkened western skies were ripped by bolts of lightning that were quickly followed by gusting winds, hail and a deluge of rain.
Within minutes, water was slicing over roadways. Before 4 p.m., police shut down Interstate 81 because flooding beneath the Butternut Street bridge made the road impassable.
Water and traffic on I-81 forced ambulances from as far away as Jefferson County to use city streets instead of the interstate to reach Syracuse hospitals.
The amount of rain that fell reached 1.79 inches, a record for the date. With four days left, this April is already the second-soggiest on National Weather Service records.
Damage was widespread, particularly in Syracuse, where Upstate University Hospital briefly closed its lobby when a pipe carrying rain water from the roof burst.
Reports of flooding were equally widespread, from the State Tower Building to a carpet store on North Salina Street to homes throughout Onondaga, Oswego and Cayuga counties. Firefighters struggled to keep up with calls. Asked how many reports of flooded basements had come in, Syracuse District Fire Chief Steven Evans said, “right now I’d say we’ve got hundreds.”
Flooding in the basement apparently led to the collapse of a wall of a home at 309 Martin St. Al Sienke said he was cleaning out a drain minutes before the wall collapsed. “It took out the whole back wall, the washer and dryer,” he said.
The walkway along Onondaga Creek in Franklin Square was submerged, the creek’s turbid waters coursed through gaps in the iron fence that lines the walk. On the other bank of the creek, three mallards paddled serenely in high water.
In the midst of the storm, workers at the Atrium building downtown reported seeing storm-drain covers forced out of the ground by water pressure.
Power outages were reported throughout the region, with hundreds of customers affected, according to National Grid.
The National Weather Service reported the storms may have dumped golf-ball sized hail and spawned damaging winds in excess of 60 mph.
Staff writers Robert Baker, Douglass Dowty, John Mariani and Charles McChesney contributed to this report.
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Thousands of runners underwent a hazy morning run on last Sunday (19 November) at the Airtel Delhi half marathon despite serious health warnings from doctors who fought for the controversial race in the heavily polluted city to be postponed.
The Indian capital has been plagued with almost two weeks of hazardous smog that forced schools shut for several days. The levels of the harmful airborne pollutants hovered above 200 – eight times the World Health Organization’s safe maximum – for the duration of the 21km race, the US embassy website indicated on Sunday.
The course was sprayed with salted water to keep dust levels down and all traffic barred from nearby roads and several participants wore pollution masks during the race. Others have complaining of side effects from the polluted conditions such as dry throat, burning eyes and difficulty in breathing.
Despite described as a public health emergency, the race organisers refused to postpone the event and declared the event an unequivocal success that “lived up to its legacy of being the world’s most prestigious half marathon”. The Airtel Delhi Half Marathon is an annual half marathon footrace held in New Delhi, India since 2005.
Doctors warn running in severe pollution can trigger asthma attacks, worsen lung conditions and increase the risk of heart attacks and strokes.
During this time of the year, pollution surged across north India and Pakistan due to burning of post-harvest crop stubble and the lower temperature prevent pollutants from dispersing.
Delhi is one of the most polluted cities in the world as authorities are still trying to find a way to curb the serious pollution issues.
Singapore has also been hit with haze pollution issue in recent years however the authority and race organiser would not allow an outdoor event to continue when the pollution rating rise to unhealthy level.
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Morning high (7.00am): 23C
Forecast high: 28C; UV: 7
Three-day forecast: 2 September - Cloud, 26C; 3 September - Cloud, sun, 30C; 4 September - Sun, cloud, 29C
Sea conditions (northern Mallorca; Alcúdia and Pollensa bays to 20.00): Northeast 4 to 5.
Welcome to September, a month that many a business relishes because of a change to the general tourist profile and also a month when storms are not unknown. Sunny later today. Tomorrow may see some more rain.
Evening update (20.30): High of 27.3C. Turned out reasonably good.
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SEOUL (AFP) – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has ordered 12,000 elite members of his ruling party based in Pyongyang to help with recovery efforts in two rural provinces lashed by a powerful typhoon, state media reported yesterday.
Typhoon Maysak brought days of heavy downpours to the country’s east coast earlier this week even as the North was still reeling from earlier flooding and typhoon damage, and another storm is forecast to barrel through the peninsula by Tuesday.
Natural disasters tend to have a greater impact in the North due to its creaking infrastructure, and the country is vulnerable to flooding as many mountains and hills have long been deforested.
More than 1,000 homes were destroyed by Maysak and public buildings and farmland were inundated with floodwater across North and South Hamgyong provinces, the official KCNA news agency reported.
Kim inspected the damage on Saturday and held a policy meeting on disaster relief efforts, KCNA said.
He also dismissed the chairman of the South Hamgyong provincial party committee, the report added.
Photos carried by Sunday’s official Rodong Sinmun newspaper showed Kim standing in front of destroyed homes and toppled trees as he discussed the situation with officials.
In a two-page handwritten open letter to members of the ruling Workers’ Party in Pyongyang, Kim said around 12,000 members from the capital will be sent to the two provinces to help with the recovery ahead of a key holiday next month.
North Korea will mark the 75th anniversary of the foundation of the party on October 10.
“We cannot let a lot of people in South Hamgyong Province and North Hamgyong Province who newly suffered damage spend the holiday homeless,” Kim was quoted as saying in the letter, which was carried by the Rodong Sinmun.
The damage was an “urgent situation which needs to be tackled without even a moment’s delay”, he added.
The report did not say how many were injured, missing, or dead.
In 2016 at least 138 North Koreans died after torrential rain triggered major floods, the United Nations said at the time.
In the summer of 2012 more than 160 people were killed by a massive rainstorm.
In related news, a powerful typhoon headed toward southern Japan yesterday, with officials warning of record rainfall and winds strong enough to snap power poles and flip vehicles.
Typhoon Haishen, categorised as “large” and “extremely strong”, was expected to move in the afternoon through the Amami region of small islands near Kyushu that separate the Pacific Ocean and the East China Sea.
At noon (0300 GMT), Haishen was about 80 kilometres (50 miles) east of Amami Oshima island, with gusts up to 234 km (145 miles) per hour.
The storm was forecast to head north-northwest and travel off the western coast of Kyushu – one of Japan’s main islands – from the evening through early Monday before reaching South Korea, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency.
Once the storm comes near inhabited islands, its violent winds might become strong enough to snap power poles and flip vehicles, meteorologists have warned.
“In areas where the typhoon will draw close, record-level rainfall is expected. It may cause landslides or it could cause even large rivers to flood,” Yoshihisa Nakamoto, director of the forecast division at the weather agency, said during a televised briefing.
He added that surging tides may cause widespread flooding in low-lying areas, particularly around river mouths.


Heavy rains lash twin city; road, rail & air traffic affected
Bhubaneswar: Thunderclouds hovered over the twin city of Bhubaneswar and Cuttack on Wednesday morning bringing along heavy rains and lightening throwing normal life out of gear. Students and office-goers faced huge inconvenience while getting to their destinations as both road and rail traffic were affected.
“A cloud mass that had formed near Odisha-West Bengal border is moving towards the south triggering heavy rains in Bhubaneswar and Cuttack. It is likely to move towards Puri first and then to the Bay of Bengal,” informed IMD Bhubaneswar Director, Sarat Chandra Sahu.
“I faced a lot of problem since auto-rickshaws and other public transports remained off the roads due to strong wind and lightning,” said Sulagna, a student.
“I came to open my shop in the morning and got totally drenched. However, the rain has been a great respite from the scorching sun,” said a businessman in Cuttack.
The Regional Meteorological Department here issued a thunderstorm warning for 15 districts across Odisha and advised people to remain alert between 7.30 am to 11.30 am today.
In their latest forecast, the weathermen said that thunderstorm accompanied with hail and gusty surface wind reaching a speed of 50 to 60 kmph is likely to occur in Dhenkanal, Angul, Mayurbhanj, Balasore, Jajpur, Bhadrak, Jagatsinghpur, Kendrapara, Khurda, Puri, Nayagarh, Boudh, Sonepur, Sundergarh and Jharsuguda districts.
In a related development, one person was injured after lightening struck his house at Jhanajhana village under Hatadihi block in Keonjhar district. The injured has been rushed to a nearby hospital.As per the weather office, monsoon would hit Odisha in the second week of June.
Meanwhile, rail services from Bhubaneswar to Puri, Berhampur and Bhadrak were badly hit after electric wires snapped and signals stopped functioning due to the rains.
The Cuttack-Puri shuttle train was stopped midway after a CESU wire snapped near Lingaraj station. Passengers of the train waited for more than four hours for restoration of the services.The Angul-Puri Passenger train was stopped at Bhubaneswar station whereas both Tata-Kacheguda and Talcher-Puri trains were halted at Mancheswar.
While Bhadrak-Bhubaneswar Passenger was stopped at Barang, Puri-Cuttack was stopped at Retang, Palasa-Cuttack Passenger at Khurda and Secunderabad -Howrah Falaknuma Express at Tapanga. Similarly the Bengaluru-Bhubaneswar Express was stopped at Nirakarapur and the Puri- Santragachhi Passenger had to be halted at Delang.
The Puri-New Delhi Nandankanan Express is yet to depart from the Puri railway station, informed sources.Flight services to and fro Bhubaneswar Airport was also affected by the heavy rain and strong wind.The New Delhi-Bhubaneswar Vistara 785 flight was diverted to Kolkata due to bad weather, informed airport authorities.


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Summer's heat wave is unleashed early this year
Although spring started just a month ago, temperatures already are starting to feel like summer.
April's average monthly high of 80.4 degrees starts a heat wave lasting half the year, keeping Gainesville's monthly high above 80 until November, according to the National Weather Service in Jacksonville.
The highest temperature ever recorded in the last week of April was 95 degrees, which last occurred in 1991.
Today's expected high is 88, and highs for the rest of the week should be in the mid-80s, with a 30 percent chance of thunderstorms Wednesday and Thursday, according to the National Weather Service.
"It's unusual that it's so hot this early in the year," said Gina Busscher, spokeswoman for the Department of Transportation, which oversees road maintenance throughout the state.
She added that in the hottest months of the year, road maintenance workers must take precautions earlier to reduce the risk of dehydration, dizziness and heat exhaustion under the unrelenting sun.
Some road maintenance is done overnight to avoid traffic tie-ups and to keep workers cooler.
During the day, frequent breaks are recommended, and workers are encouraged to seek out shade, either from nearby trees or air-conditioned trucks, whenever they feel the need.
A large supply of ice water is standard gear on maintenance vehicles this time of year.
"They are continually drinking water or Gatorade to keep their fluid levels up," Busscher said.
Workers also are supplied with what Busscher called "cool bands" - similar to a sweatband with a cooling insert to be worn underneath a hard hat.
For local roofers, where daytime temperatures atop homes can soar well above 100 degrees, the concerns are much the same.
"Dehydrations would definitely be the biggest problem," said Don Hickman, owner of Hickman Metal Roofing.
His employees typically work from 7 a.m. until 2:30 p.m., with breaks as often as every hour on the hottest days.
Roofers also are advised to start drinking water the night before work and wear hats, shirts and sunscreen to stay cool and avoid long-term sun exposure.


Just as the weekend ended on a warm note, so shall the work week begin.
A fading front just north of the area will do little to shake up the local pattern Monday.
Highs will still reach the lower 80s with only a slight chance for a shower.
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Behind this washed out boundary, an ocean breeze develops and brings in passing showers from time-to-time Tuesday through Thursday.
Of the next several days, the best chance for widespread shower activity will come Wednesday.
The greatest hazard this week won’t be the rain, but the wind. Breezy conditions mid to late week will trigger a high risk for rip currents on all Atlantic beaches.
Overnight lows will continue to hover near 70 while afternoon highs level near 80, if not in the lower 80s, all week.


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Met Office warnings for the weekend are turning from yellow to red
AN alert meaning flooding is possible on the River Taff has been issued by Natural Resources Wales as Storm Jorge approaches.
River Cynon, Rhondda Rivers, River Ely and River Thaw also have flooding alerts while more serioius flood warnings, meaning flooding is expected, have been placed on the River Cadoxton at Dinas Powys and River Ely at Peterston-super-Ely.
NRW said the yellow rain warning, issued by the Met Office, could lead to major problems and dangerous conditions, especially in South Wales.
Jeremy Parr, head of flood incident risk management for NRW, said: “Coming so soon after Storm Dennis, we are particularly concerned that the forecast is for significant levels of rain in South Wales.
“This could have impacts again in the eastern valleys of South Wales and everyone should take the warnings extremely seriously.”
The worst of the rainfall for Wales is set to be in the south. This heavy rainfall combined with already high river levels, following Storm Dennis, and saturated ground has prompted the flood warnings.
“Natural Resources Wales will be working around the clock to help communities be prepared – monitoring river levels, issuing warnings, checking and erecting defences, and making sure drainage grids and screens are clear,” said an NRW spokesperson.
People are advised to take great care if they need to travel.
“If you are out, take extreme caution and never drive or walk through flood waters,” said Mr Parr.
- Flood alerts and warnings are updated on the Natural Resources Wales website every 15 minutes, and updates are also available by calling Floodline on 03459881188.


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Gale-driven downpours that drenched the New York metropolitan region yesterday brought more annoyance than damage to the city and immediate suburbs, focusing instead on the same area hit by deadly flash floods a week ago, the sodden hills of upstate Delaware County, where trailers were overturned, power lines were downed and rising streams forced new evacuations.
In the New York City area, the impact was less severe, partly because most of the region's heavy snowpack had already melted.
Scattered power failures were reported upstate as well as on Long Island and in Connecticut, with high winds tumbling trees and temporarily forcing the closings of some lanes on area bridges.
Just before 9 A.M. yesterday, a Manhattan-bound Metro-North train leaving the Brewster-North station struck a wind-toppled tree north of Valhalla, delaying the train by just six minutes, said Dan Brucker, a spokesman for Metro-North Commuter Railroad.
Near Margaretville in Delaware County, an intense gust, possibly from a small tornado, ripped through a trailer park, with four residents of one trailer suffering minor injuries, said Nelson Delameter, the director of emergency services for the county, which remained in a state of emergency from last week's flooding.Continue reading the main story
Elsewhere, gusting winds ranging from 31 to 46 miles per hour were reported at La Guardia Airport and up to 58 m.p.h. in Bridgeport, Conn. Along the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge yesterday, winds of up to 66 m.p.h. prompted officials to close the upper level from 1:30 P.M. to just after 5 P.M. and to ban trucks from the lower level. Trucks and buses were also banned from the Tappan Zee Bridge until the wind died down.
Federal meteorologists recorded gusts of up to 60 m.p.h. in eastern Pennsylvania and northern New Jersey, as well as a gust of 54 m.p.h. in Rockland County.
Wind-whipped rain stung pedestrians in New York City as gale-force southerlies wove through its glass and steel canyons. City police officials reported no damage as of early yesterday afternoon, save for a handful of damaged or downed street signs and trees.
The New York City Fire Department reported that a building at 147 Felix Street in downtown Brooklyn partly collapsed yesterday afternoon, but it was unclear whether the wind or rain contributed to the collapse.
Connecticut and New Jersey similarly rode out the first half of the storm without substantial damage, the state police departments said. About 27,000 customers of Northeast Utilities lost power Saturday, beginning about 3 P.M. when winds began to knock trees down onto power lines. Minor street flooding caused some road closures in the Grosvenor Dale section of Thompson, Conn., the police said.
In New Jersey, where almost an inch of rain fell on the state's already saturated soil, the National Weather Service said the storm produced only minor flooding. Forecasters had called for up to two inches of rain, which a meteorologist had said could force evacuations as rivers swelled and streets flooded. But the police in Bergen, Middlesex and Passaic counties, which are most prone to flooding, reported no evacuations or road closures.
In the western Mohawk River Valley in upstate New York, several homes lost roofs and gusts toppled several tractor trailers on the highway, state police officials said.
The wind was expected to moderate and the rain to end last night as the cold front passed and the wind direction shifted from south to west, said Michael Wooldridge, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service. About an inch of rain was expected in Central Park. By early this morning, the front was expected to push down temperatures to the teens and 20's and could change the rain to snow, meteorologists said.
The heaviest patch of rain yesterday first soaked the eastern slopes of the Appalachians in northern Virginia with up to two inches of new precipitation, then moved through the sodden Susquehanna River Valley and into Delaware County and the Catskills, where rainfall was expected to be similar, said Frederick J. Gadomski, a meteorologist at Pennsylvania State University.
As the storm peaked in Putnam County shortly after noon, flooding temporarily blocked a major north-south highway, Route 9, and also blocked roads near Cold Spring, the Putnam County Sheriff's Department said.
The 85,000 residents of the Dutchess County city of Poughkeepsie, who draw their drinking water from the storm-muddied Hudson, remained under a local health alert to boil water for two minutes before drinking, because of turbid water conditions.
Around Delaware County, residents of Margaretville, Arkville and Fleischmanns fled from low ground near streams leading to New York City's Pepacton Reservoir. Low-lying areas in Schoharie and Ulster Counties also were evacuated in a few trouble spots. And road crews, who had been repairing hundreds of miles of asphalt undercut by last week's floods saw their work undone by renewed runoff yesterday, Mr. Delameter said.Continue reading the main story


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“Elsa” had previously raged in the Caribbean, killing at least three people. On Wednesday he is due to hit the west coast of Florida.
The tropical storm “Elsa”, which is currently approaching the US state of Florida, has again been upgraded to a hurricane. The US hurricane center NHC in Miami assumed wind speeds of up to 120 kilometers per hour on Tuesday (local time). Accordingly, the storm should reach the west coast of Florida on Wednesday night or in the early morning hours.
“Elsa” had previously raged in the Caribbean, killing at least three people. In Florida, however, the US authorities initially assumed the situation would go smoothly. One of the main concerns was the collapse of a high-rise building in Surfside near Miami, where rescue workers continued to search for victims in the rubble.
“Wind hinders the big cranes”
For fear of “Elsa”, the demolition work on the collapsed skyscraper in Surfside had continued all night. Among other things, experts use explosives. A week and a half after the building collapsed in the town of Surfside near Miami Beach, there was little hope of finding survivors in the rubble.
The number of deaths rose to 36, and another 109 people were still missing. The authorities were certain that 70 of the missing persons were in the skyscraper at the time of the accident.
According to Surfside’s Mayor Charles Burkett, the weather was already hampering the search in the rubble. “The wind is hindering the big cranes that move very heavy debris,” he said. “That is a challenge that you are trying to avoid right now.”
Not in the eye of the storm
“Elsa” was recorded on Friday as the first Atlantic hurricane of this year’s season. On Saturday, the experts downgraded him to a tropical storm.
Now again with the status of a hurricane, “Elsa” turned towards the west, according to the NHC, so Florida would avoid the eye of the storm. Originally it was feared that the storm would hit the southwest coast of the US state head-on.


Fantastic Vilankulos Weather and Fishing going on right now
Fantastic Vilankulos Weather and Fishing going on right now: whilst South Africa is being beaten to a pulp by hail in some places, other places are snowing, and there was even a tornado in Standerton – up north in Vilankulos – it is braai vleis, fishing, sunny skies and Chevrolet.
Almost every day!
In the early summer like this, the predominant airflow around the east part of Southern Africa is a huge cyclical flow of air running clockwise with its centre kind of in the Lowveld. As the monumental system turns slowly, it affects the different regions it passes through, differently.
Up north in Vilankulos, almost halfway up the sheer length of Mozambique, the wind predominantly is an offshore/sideshore that is a sheer delight to be in and around. Cools you down just when you really start to overheat in the humidity that so prevails up there in the Bazaruto Archipelago.
In KZN, South Africa, where the flow is currently predominantly howling onshore, we get rain and blasting winds as the high-pressure systems up top, battles the low-pressure guys as they traverse the country on their journeys north.
These arguments between the two winds happen every day!
So whilst we down south here have to take our chances the minute the winds and rains give us a gap – up in Vilankulos weather conditions are firmly on your side.
This brings us to the fishing…
The fishing has been excellent off Vilankulos. And so has the flow of content from the Bazaruto fleet. Which in turn gets turned into these videos…
There are also all of Captain Duarte Rato’s marlin fishing reports, available for you to check out, on the FishBazaruto website.


1938 -- A small tornado hit the east edge of Fowlerton, Indiana.
1949 -- A tornado in Terre Haute, Indiana killed 3 people and did a million dollars damage.
1975 -- A very small tornado unroofed a home and a foundry on the east side of Coldwater, Michigan.
1987 -- 6" of rain fell in one hour at Hagerstown, Indiana.
1996 -- Lightning burnt down a half million dollar house in Carmel, Indiana at 3:30am.


It's going to get cold!
Latest weather charts show a wintry mix on Wednesday and Wednesday night with rain possibly turning to sleet and snow for areas in the East and North midlands, according to www.carlowweather.com.
However, forecaster Alan O'Reilly said: "I wouldn’t be expecting much away from higher ground. It will be hard to forecast what areas will see sleet and snow."
Heavy rainfall on saturated ground could lead to some spot flooding, he warned.
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Breakthrough in Research into Air Quality in Industrial Coastal Cities: Findings of Klaipėda University Researchers
Dr. Paulius Rapalis and dr. Nadezhda Lazareva, researchers of the Institute of Marine Research, Klaipėda University, publicly presented the findings of the study Exploration of the Amount and Composition of Atmospheric Particulate Matter and Identification of its Origin in Klaipėda. For seven months, the researchers have been collecting and systematising data in accordance with a methodology not yet tested in Lithuania, but already used in Western European and Asian countries; it enables effective identification of the level of particulate air pollution, particle composition, and pollution sources as well as modelling the trends of solid particle dispersion in the air.
Breakthrough in air pollution studies
Particulate air pollution is a problem relevant not merely to Klaipėda. “The methodology tested and presented by KU researchers is a breakthrough in the solution of the problem of particulate air pollution, important for most contemporary cities. It is especially relevant to Klaipėda, because the city and the port have to live in close neighborhood and find ways to reconcile their specific interests. I welcome the initiative of the Marine Research Institute team to address the ‘hot’ issue and provide a scientific basis for any discussion on this topic. Perhaps the findings of the research will not be pleasant for everyone, but in order to successfully solve problems, we need to know the objective reality,” says KU Rector prof. dr. Artūras Razbadauskas.
In the initial phase of the study, special accumulators were installed in 10 locations of the city to collect airborne particulate matter. The matter was removed from the accumulators four times. Each time, its mass was measured and the composition was examined. Soil samples were taken. The research team – four researchers of the MRI KU Paulius Rapalis, Nadezhda Lazareva, Sergej Suzdalev, and Ričardas Taraškevičius – argue that this is an effective and objective way to find solutions to the problem of dust pollution.
“So far, only individual air pollution measurements have taken place in Klaipėda. Our study covered a large area of the city, and the data obtained revealed where particulate pollution was lower, where it was higher, what the origin of the dust was, and whether it was transport emissions or the effects of manufacturing processes in certain places. With such an analysis, it is already possible to respond to the situation more quickly and improve it, e.g., to direct street washing machines to one or another neighborhood, to intensify green belt development, or to find measures to neutralise pollution caused by manufacturing processes,” comments dr. Rapalis.
Innovation will help environmentalists to identify pollution sources more effectively
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of the Republic of Lithuania is pleased with the research conducted by Klaipėda University researchers and its findings. “We can only rejoice in the successful result of the cooperation between the two institutions, since by applying new research methods we have gained the opportunity to significantly reduce pollution not only in Klaipėda, but also in the whole country. With these research data, we can now improve the environmental assessment system, which will make it much easier to determine the impact of economic entities on the environment”, says Rimgaudas Špokas, Director of the EPA.
For Klaipėda University, this study is another step in the implementation of the EU-CONEXUS vision: to use the potential of science to solve the problems of economic and social development of modern cities as effectively as possible.


New Delhi, July 25
The IMD has predicted an increase in rainfall activity over northern parts from July 27 due to the northward shift of the Monsoon Trough. Officials are also expecting improvement in sowing of paddy in the backward parts due to deficient rains.
The Monsoon Trough, which is moving south from its normal position, is expected to gradually shift northwards from July 26, leading to an increase in activity over the north.
While excess rains wreaked havoc in many parts of the country, many areas also recorded deficient rainfall. Less paddy acreage has been reported in many parts that due to lack of rain, the seedlings have become unsuitable for transplanting.
Till date, there is a rainfall deficit of 53 per cent in Uttar Pradesh, 49 per cent in Jharkhand, 45 per cent in Bihar, 24 per cent in Manipur, Mizoram and Tripura and 45 per cent in West Bengal.
There has been good progress in Kharif sowing, but the area under paddy is about 18-19 per cent less than last year. In Haryana too, there was a decline in the area under paddy due to less rainfall.
Haryana is one of the major contributors of rice to the central pool. However, officials say there is a “slight shortfall” in coverage of paddy in the current kharif from eastern India, which will soon recover. In southern states, paddy has been planted in a significant area due to well-distributed rainfall and irrigated parts such as Punjab, Haryana and western UP are no cause for concern, he says. Till July 17, all India paddy sowing was less by 128.50 lakh hectare as against 155.53 lakh hectare last year. Although the cumulative rainfall across the country between June 1 and July 25 is 11 per cent higher, the East and North East are deficient by 15 per cent, leading to an overall coverage deficit.
Paddy growers will benefit
- 18-19% fall in paddy field
- 128.50 lakh hectares covered so far
- 155.53 Lakh hectares covered last year
- 53% Uttar Pradesh
- 49% Jharkhand
- 45% A state in Eastern India


The night sky will light up with a brilliant display of shooting stars over the next few days, as the annual Lyrid meteor shower makes its appearance for 2015. Considered the oldest-known meteor shower, the Lyrids will peak on 22 and 23 April, with stargazers able to spot between 10 to 20 meteors per hour.
Typically the first good meteor shower of the year, the Lyrids are visible from most parts of the world, although the timing this year may favour Europe. According to the Slooh Community Observatory, which will host a live stream of the event on Wednesday, 22 April 2015, it is set to be a good year for the Lyrids because the moon will be a slender waxing crescent and will not obscure the view of the meteor shower.
What are the Lyrids?
The April Lyrids have been observed for the past 2,600 years. They are the strongest annual shower of meteors from debris of a long-period comet, mainly because as far as other intermediate long-period comets go (between 200 and 10,000 years), this one has a relatively short orbital period of about 415 years.
The source of the shower is particles of dust shed by the long-period comet Comet C/1861 G1 Thatcher. As the comet sheds debris, the fragments of rock and dust strike the Earth's upper atmosphere at around 110,000 miles per hour, vaporising the debris and creating streaks of light. Sometimes, Earth may pass through a thick clump of comet debris, meaning more meteors will be visible.
Lyrid "fireballs" are created when brighter meteors cast shadows for a split second, leaving behind smoky debris. The radiant of the shower is located in the constellation Lyra, near the brightest star of the constellation, Alpha Lyrae, or Vega. The Lyrids can appear anywhere in the sky.
Why do the shooting stars leave behind a glowing trail?
Shooting stars are not actually stars but fast-moving fragments of rock and debris left behind by a comet, and as the Earth moves around the sun, some of these pieces are pulled toward Earth by gravity. Around a quarter of the meteors produced during the shower will leave behind an ionised gas trail that glows for just a few seconds.
When a meteor enters Earth's atmosphere it is moving so fast that its atoms collide with air molecules and electrons are 'knocked' loose - creating free electrons and positively charged ions. As the shooting star passes, the negatively charged free electrons are attracted to the positively charged ions and combine with them. When this happens energy is released in the form of light, creating the glowing trail behind shooting stars.


CHARLES COUNTY, Md. — Two tornadoes touched down in Maryland Wednesday as the remnants of what was Hurricane Ida came through the DMV region.
One tornado was observed by the National Weather Service in Charles County and another in Anne Arundel County.
The first tornado touched down in Charles County around 1:50 p.m. near Allens Fresh and Dentsville.
The second tornado that touched down in Anne Arundel County happened around 2:15 p.m., according to the National Weather Service. The Anne Arundel County tornado was near Londowntowne, and not too far from Edgewater, Annapolis, Gingerville, Weems Creek and Parole.
Downed trees and power wires, and damaged buildings, are some of the impacts that were reported near Edgewater and Annapolis from the tornado that went through Anne Arundel County.
WUSA9's Adam Longo spotted a McDonald's sign in Annapolis that was ripped off the pole and flung to the ground by the tornado.
Just off West Street in Annapolis, the damage was just about everywhere you looked. Photos of the area show power poles on top of cars, the siding of a home blown away and trees collapsed on the ground.
A quarter-mile stretch of West Street in Annapolis was also evacuated due to a gas leak and powerline damage after the tornado. Army and Air Force recruiters arrived to help evacuate people in the area.
A number of businesses were significantly damaged and the Fire Department says the roadway will be closed well into Thursday.
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Let's talk about the weather
I love hearing about what's happening in other parts of the country/world - weather-wise that is.
All the plants are still outside since our normal July weather decided to appear in September this year. There's only a minor cool down in the immediate future, so it looks like the plants stay outside for some time yet. Normally they've all been carted to the sunporch by now. If it would only rain. Please rain. We really need rain bad.
Kevin in toasty Minnesota


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The Atlantic Arc and the Bay of Biscay are certainly the maritime areas where the strongest storms multiply in the northern hemisphere. The phenomena of gales, gust of wind and storms are becoming more common on our shores.
Brittany, this “end of the earth” (Finistère), is, along with the English Cornwall, the Cork County and Galicia, the point which first undergoes these repeated meteorological phenomena. Find our photographs of lighthouses in the storm, of the coasts in the wind stormed by the waves, of raging seas, of lifeboats in heavy weather and take advantage of a large selection of photos to hang the sea on your walls.
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Get out your warm jackets, skywatchers: One of the best meteor showers of the year is almost here.
The 2013 Geminid meteor shower is expected to peak on the night of Friday, Dec. 13, and continue into Saturday morning for viewers in the Northern hemisphere. The window of peak activity runs from 1 p.m. GMT Friday (8 a.m. EST) to 10 a.m. GMT Saturday (5 a.m. EST).
The meteors, which come from the constellation Gemini, may also be visible at night a few days before the peak -- but the best view of the "shooting stars" should come between 9 p.m. and 10 p.m. (local time) Friday.
"Bundle up as warmly as you can," Sky & Telescope senior editor Alan MacRobert said in a written statement. "Go out around 9:00 or preferably later. Find a spot with an open view of the sky and no lights to get in your eyes. Bring a reclining lawn chair, face it away from the moon, lie back, gaze into the stars, and be patient."
For the truly dedicated skywatchers, the pre-dawn hours on Dec. 14, after the moon sets, should provide a darker sky to see the incredible show. (Head over to the U.S. Naval Observatory's website to find out the moonset time for your location.)
Skywatchers may have been disappointed by last month's Leonid meteor shower, which was obscured by a full moon. But the Dec. 13 shower is expected to be quite the show. After all, the annual Geminid meteor shower is considered one of the most reliable displays of shooting stars.
NASA's Asteroid Watch blog reported that viewers can expect to see about 120 meteors per hour during the shower's peak. Though the moon will be nearly full, the brightest Geminids should outshine the moon.
The Slooh space camera is scheduled to stream a live broadcast of the celestial sight (see video above) on Friday night.
For an idea of what to expect from the 2013 Geminid meteor shower, check out images from last year's show in the gallery below:


The best heat in Japan! 41.0 degrees Celsius! (at the time of 2013)
On August 12, 2013, observation in Japan recorded 41.0 degrees Celsius to become the highest temperature in history in AMEDAS Ekawasaki observatory. In addition, we observed 40.0 degrees Celsius on 13th, the following day and recorded the 40 degrees Celsius level for 4 consecutive days for the first time in Japan. (at the time of 2013)
Ekawasaki is located in the northern part of Shimanto-shi, Kochi, and northwest faces with Ehime, and clear stream Shimanto River flows through central part. It was in inland and summer heat was severe and added to foehn phenomenon when wind from northwest blew, and sea breeze from the Pacific was hard to enter and was always known as "area where it was easy to be in high temperature" in Kochi.
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Traffic jams were devastating.
In what's become a Winter with some seriously wild weather, the South is now facing yet another icy storm. Parts of Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina are among the areas experiencing extreme conditions that are rare within the region. Locals prepared for Winter storm Pax ahead of time by stocking up on food and supplies, but the weather is leaving thousands of people without power and crazy traffic jams are forcing some to abandon or push their cars after they've run out of gas. While up to 10 inches have fallen in parts of North Carolina, the storm is also impacting the Middle Atlantic and the Northeast. Check out the Winter storm Pax forecast, and get a glimpse of what's happening in the South below.


Members of the Metropolitan Washington Air Quality Committee (MWAQC) of the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (COG) are sharing innovative local programs as part of a to help clean the region’s air.
A special strategic planning session on May 25 highlighted eight inventive programs adopted by cities and counties to help reduce air pollution. These programs, currently active in the District of Columbia, Montgomery County, Arlington County, Fairfax County and Prince George’s County include:
Air Quality Action Days Policies
Today’s meeting was the first of three special strategic planning sessions intended to foster information sharing and brainstorming among the region’s jurisdictions as they work together to improve air quality for local residents. Some of the innovative programs discussed are part of the metropolitan Washington region’s current regional air quality plan for the region, while others are being proposed for a new plan due to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency by December 2007.
“I hope this will be a way to help jurisdictions implement some of these programs,” said Nancy Floreen, MWAQC Vice Chair and Montgomery County Council Member. “We’ll see what we can collectively develop now that we have items to take back to our respective jurisdictions.”
Local jurisdictions are voluntarily initiating policies and programs that aim to reduce the formation of pollutants such as soot and ozone that contaminate the air. A Fairfax County emissions reduction program, for instance, has successfully retrofitted nearly 600 diesel school and transit buses. The program is anticipated to decrease emissions by 25 percent, reduce fuel needs by 73,000 gallons each year and save $138,000 annually. In Montgomery and Arlington counties, tree planting is being proposed to increase the area’s tree canopy as a way to absorb ozone, particles, and other airborne pollutants. The District of Columbia, meanwhile, has begun enforcing a new policy that penalizes tour buses and trucks that let their engines idle for more than three minutes during summer months, when ground-level ozone most often forms. Ozone, the main ingredient in urban and regional smog, is created when air pollutants from a variety of sources react in sunlight.
Dana Kauffman, MWAQC Chair and Fairfax County Supervisor, said counties and cities in the Washington region deserve credit for adopting innovative programs to reduce air pollution. MWAQC is the agency responsible for developing a regional plan – known as the State Implementation Plan -- to meet national air quality standards by 2010.
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Hundreds of holiday travelers spent the night in the nation's second-busiest airport and others faced delayed or canceled flights and highways choked by snow and ice as storms kept up their assault on northern states. More snow fell today in the Midwest, while the Northwest faced more snow and sleet, with up to 20 inches falling in some places. "We're seeing quite a bit of messiness out there," said one meteorologist.
Today "is going to be an absolute nightmare, both in the air and on the ground," added another. About 500 travelers had to spend the night at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport after stormy weather canceled more than 500 flights yesterday. "My kids are traumatized for life from this," said one traveler, who won't reach home until four days after his scheduled arrival.
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15 January 2013
The Lows and Highs of Weather
This is January 2013 and look at those "snaps" every few days. This is what global warming experts talked about thirty years ago. We go from -15 on Sunday to a high of 51 on Wednesday - a 65-degree swing. I wonder how this will affect the trees?
Even though it's cold, my thoughts turn to making compost. Here's a terrific post from Jaden at Steamy Kitchen about making compost in three days. I haven't mastered making compost in three months! You?


Snow storm strikes state
WORTHINGTON -- A mid-autumn storm slammed into Minnesota starting late Friday night, blanketing the state from its southwest corner all the way up to Duluth, leaving the Twin Cities a mess of traffic and causing one car to slide into a lake in Co...
WORTHINGTON -- A mid-autumn storm slammed into Minnesota starting late Friday night, blanketing the state from its southwest corner all the way up to Duluth, leaving the Twin Cities a mess of traffic and causing one car to slide into a lake in Cottonwood County.
"The atmosphere was very conducive to producing heavy snowfall. That's what made travel so difficult," said Philip Schumacher, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service. "It snowed so hard it was able to stay on the roadways."
While Pipestone and Rock counties saw very little snow, most of the rest of southwest Minnesota reported cars in the ditch or at least a few collisions impacted by ice, slush or snow.
One vehicle slipped into Round Lake at 9 a.m. Saturday between Storden and Jeffers, but a passer-by pulled the driver out of the vehicle and a tow truck was called to get the vehicle out.
"We did not have to call in extra help," said Jay Elness, a dispatcher with Cottonwood County. "We're tough down here."
Elness reported there had been eight to 10 vehicles in the ditch on Minnesota 60, as well as a few on other roads in Cottonwood County.
Just to the west, a Murray County dispatcher reported there had been a few people sliding into the ditch on U.S. 59, but considering the amount of snow and that it was the first substantial snowfall for the region, Saturday had been mostly quiet.
Nobles County reported a few cars had gone into the ditch Saturday morning, including a collision with injuries, but noted that Saturday had not been an especially crazy day for local law enforcement and emergency personnel.
Jackson County had nothing to report, though the city of Jackson received the largest snowfall total in the area -- 7 inches, compared to 6 inches of snow in Windom, 5.8 inches near Lakefield and 5.5 in Worthington. Fulda and Slayton both received 4.0 inches of snow, and Adrian had 2.5 inches, with Pipestone garnering just a trace of snow.
Dickinson County, Iowa, reported a few cars in ditches due to the snow. A dispatcher for O'Brien County, Iowa, reported there had been a few minor accidents during and after the slushy snow fell. Osceola County also had a few collisions, but most were not attributed to the snow.
Southwest Iowa's snowfall totals also varied quite a bit, with areas near Alta and Arthur receiving 8 inches of snow, Storm Lake, Spirit Lake and Spencer receiving 6 inches, Melvin and Ocheyedan getting 4 inches and Sheldon receiving just 1 inch of snow. Sioux City, Iowa, got only trace snowfall, and Sioux Falls, S.D., recorded none at all.
Despite the snow's effect on travelers and how suddenly it seemed to overtake the area, it did not set any records in the southwest Minnesota-northwest Iowa region.
"It's not completely unusual to get snow at this time of year," Schumacher said. "Back in 1998, in Sioux Falls, we had a foot of snow right on Veterans Day, and of course back in 1991 was the Halloween storm."


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Meteorologist: 'It's going to be a wild seven-day forecast'
Posted April 22, 2013
Raleigh, N.C. — Monday's breezy, cool weather will warm up considerably come Wednesday as temperatures jump nearly 20 degrees to a high of 79.
Winds were gusting up to 20 mph Monday as temperatures struggled to get past 60 degrees.
"You may need a jacket, even this afternoon, even with sunshine," said WRAL meteorologist Elizabeth Gardner. "This breeze is not helping at all."
Tuesday will be slightly warmer with a high of 68 degrees, which is just shy of the normal high this time of year.
"Its going to be a wild seven-day forecast. It’s up. It’s down. It’s up. It’s down," Gardner said.
Temperatures will take a 13-degree dip Thursday as a front from the west moves in, bringing cooler weather and a high of 66 degrees.
"Our big drawback with the weather is the chill that’s in the air," Gardner said.
Friday and Saturday look beautiful with sunny skies and highs in the low 70s. More clouds and some light rain are possible Sunday, which should see a high of 68 degrees.
In celebration of Earth Day on Monday, Wake Technical Community College launched a new partnership with JouleBug, a free mobile app created in Raleigh that gives users incentives and rewards for making sustainable choices.
"Sustainability is an integral part of Wake Tech facilities and operations as well as its instructional programs," university officials said in a statement. "The college’s Public Safety Education Campus is home to a solar array, which provides power to Progress Energy, and two other campuses offer electric vehicle-charging stations. Wake Tech is among the signers of the American College and University Presidents Climate Compact, which has the ultimate goal of being carbon neutral by 2050."


|Teacher:||Petra Censarek, Raimund Servos|
|Team members:||Hannah Besser, Laura König, Violetta Schmitz|
|School:||Erzbischöfliche Ursulinenschule Köln|
Description of the Cansat mission:
The team will analyse humidity on two different ways. On one hand, they will measure relative humidity with the SHT15 (humidity and temperature sensor) and, on the other hand, they will take air samples during the fall of the CanSat.
Read the team's interview.


From Taking It Global: The Effects of Global Warming on Human lives in West Africa
Global Warming has sparked lots of arguments in environmental, industrial, political and academic circles, governmental and non-governmental alike. What is Global Warming? Global Warming is simply the increase of the atmosphere’s temperature and its effect on the environment, including all ecosystems. The effects of global warming are brought about due to industrialization and other human practices such as farming and construction.
Human activities impact the climate in different ways. Obvious aspects of the impact of Global Warming will be changes in both average and extreme temperatures. Global Warming will obviously enhance coastal erosion, lengthen the planting/ growing seasons and possibly change the range of some infectious diseases.
In West Africa, due to natural climatic conditions, Global Warming will result in more hot days and fewer wet days. However, current trends in climatic changes show a slight change. There have been more hot days and heavy storms. Areas at high latitudes that are already experiencing much rainfall will have more storms while tropical regions and dry places will likely receive scanty rains. The increase in rainfalls will translate into heavier storms, but not into an increase in the number of rainy days. This will lengthen the period of drought. Global Warming in West Africa will thus prolong drought/ dry seasons. In Ghana this was seen during the energy crisis which followed the lack of rains in the Upper White Volta.
From the period of industrialization till now, there have been more gas emissions into the atmosphere than in any other era in global history. Due to industrialization climatic change cannot be avoided. As long as there is a continuous influx of production industries and an unquenchable quest for a massive infrastructural and industrial boom in West Africa, the globe will experience inevitable climate change. This will obviously have an impact on human lives, the ozone layer and the ecosystems.
Industrial emissions like methane will deplete the ozone layer, which is a covering, and temperatures will go up. Global Warming is very likely to invent heavy and more destructive storms, and to increase drought, burning and coastal damage from high sea levels. However, there are going to be some exceptions. Tropical areas are likely to receive less rain as the earth becomes warmer.
Global climate change and its effects are seen all over the world and Africa is no exception. However, this article is limited to the West African sub-region (and especially focused on Ghana). In Ghana it is evident that climatic conditions have changed for the past eight years or so. Rainfall patterns have changed as the wet or rainy season has shifted and the intensity or depth of rain has increased. There are more storms and the dry season has become very intense. What has caused these climatic changes in a lowly-industrialized continent like Africa. The answer to this question lies with us. Lots of bush burning, the emission of fumes from cars and trucks and the destruction of forests have had their impact.
The most affected in these climatic changes will be farmers and fisherfolk. The changes in rainfall and dry season patterns will have a great effect on growing plants and animals. Storms and flooding will be inevitable. The weather is not the only thing global warming will impact. Rising levels of the sea will destroy seacoasts and cause increased coastal flooding. Thus, the sea will begin to “eat our land”. The problem is serious because in Ghana it is estimated that about 70% of the population are farmers and fisherfolk. Thus climate change will mean less production of food, including fish and meat. Feeding oneself and one’s family will be difficult.
This writer and others believe strongly that the current world food crisis has its genesis in global climate change. Countries like Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, which are well noted for meat production, will suffer because the rearing of animals like cattle will lessen as water bodies dry up and vegetation dies. These animals in turn will have little to feed on and drink. Not only will meat decrease but fresh milk will also be scarce. The decrease in the production of staples will mean an increase in the price of the little that is available. No wonder we are faced with global food crises.
When the production of food crops and export produce decreases, it is obvious that the poverty levels of the people in West Africa will rise. This is the time for various West African governments and, more importantly, for ECOWAS to make strict environmental policies and enforce already existing ones. Thus, they can save poor farmers and fisherfolk from unbeatable poverty, and the whole sub-region from diseases such as cancer, malaria, heat strokes and other infections caused by heat.
The inability of these high-powered bodies to come out and strictly supervise and implement environmental laws means that residents of poorer countries, who do not have the resources to fend off changes in the climate, will be the hardest hit. As temperatures in tropical areas rise, the rate at which some diseases like malaria attack people will change. Intensive rains will lead to more severe flooding and the rising of sea levels. The dry season will be hotter and bush fires will increase. The intensity of droughts could lead to an increase in malnutrition as animals and plants will die out of hunger and thirst.
Plants will die out because of excessive water from flooding. Also, fresh water will become scarce during the dry season as the drought period will be lengthened. In Ghana where there is a shortage of good drainage systems, hot days will be more of a blessing than a problem: flooding will have a tendency to render most people in these unplanned areas homeless as they will be prone to losing most of their properties. Longer growing seasons could also increase food production in some temperate areas.
Global Warming has put increased pressure on the ecosystems of West Africa. The plants and animals that co-existed in particular climates are beginning to migrate to find new ecosystems that can support them. Warmer temperatures have already shifted the growing season in Ghana. Both the dry and wet seasons come earlier than expected. As such, migrating animals begin their journeys earlier in search of food. Since the growing season has lengthened, it is obvious that plants will need more water to keep growing or they will die out. As the growing season progresses, there are increases in daily temperatures. These temperatures are sometimes beyond the tolerance of plants and animals. Some animals must migrate to survive this harsh climate change.
Talking to some fisherfolk at the Jamestown beach, I asked why some fish species that had been sold in the market in years past were no more. Their answer was no different from what I have been discussing in this article. They confirmed that most of the species had migrated to other countries’ waters and to the deep sea because the water temperature around the Ghanaian coastline could not support their existence.
I also spoke with some hunters who confirmed that some animal species they had once hunted as game had migrated to other parts of the country or died out due to the temperature changes and bush fires. Thus species that cannot migrate or adapt to climate change face extinction. According to climate experts, an estimated 25- 35% of plant and animal species risk extinction if atmospheric temperatures keep rising in the next few years.
Another critical issue that needs to be discussed is what the global warming experts call the “greenhouse effect”. The “greenhouse effect” has received critical scrutiny because of its association with global warming, but it is important to the sustenance of life on earth. Thanks to the “greenhouse effect”, the deflection of sunlight from the earth back into space is about 30%.
The rest of the sunlight, which reaches the surface of the earth, is reflected upwards as energy called infrared radiation. This infrared radiation is carried by air currents which are absorbed by “greenhouse gases” such as water vapor, carbon dioxide, ozone and methane. Even though the gases amount to only 1% of the planet’s atmosphere, they regularize the climate as they trap heat and hold it in something like a “warm air” blanket that surrounds the planet.
Without the “greenhouse effect” it is believed that the earth’s temperature will increase by 30 degrees. Thus, the West African ecosystem will be in jeopardy. In West Africa, human activities have changed and catalyzed the God-made “greenhouse effect” by creating more greenhouse gases in the atmosphere than we need. The result is what we are all experiencing.
The climate in West Africa has become very warm. Most vehicles in Ghana emit fumes into the atmosphere, raising the level of carbon dioxide. Research shows that about 75% of people in West Africa are farmers who use all kinds of methods in farming. Some of these farming and land usage practices increase the levels of nitrous oxide and other chemicals in the ecosystem. In addition, the activities of the small number of factories contribute to the enhancement of global warming in the sub-region.
Mention can also be made of deforestation. This occurs at high rates in West Africa. Our forests and trees protect us from the rays of the sun and use carbon dioxide and give off oxygen. But they are now being logged for timber or cut down to create space for farming. There is also the issue of population growth and its contribution to the increase in the use of fuel for heat, transportation and manufacturing. This, in turn, causes an increase in greenhouse gases. To sum it all up, the increment of greenhouse gases means more infrared radiation will be trapped and held in the atmosphere. This will cause the temperatures of the earth’s surface and the atmosphere to increase.
It is clear that global warming will continue to impact life on earth in several ways. How far it will go depends on you and I. Climatic change experts have shown that the activities of humans catalyze the emission of greenhouse gases and this increases global temperatures. It is not surprising that what scientists have predicted is coming to pass. God has given as all the rules but we have chosen to do what pleases us. In the beginning, as noted in the Bible (Genesis 1: 28), He said “man should have dominion”, but our dominion has turned us into destroyers of that over which we were supposed to be “watchmen”.
As a result of our disobedience, ecosystems in West Africa and elsewhere have been affected and surprising changes are taking place. Plants and animals are migrating or dying out. Tropical rain is taking on different dimensions and there are widespread and frequent droughts. It is evident that the effects of global warming on West Africa will be diabolical if lasting and timely interventions are not undertaken by ECOWAS and environment protection bodies in various West African countries.
The current global food crises will be very harsh on West Africans, droughts will increase and access to fresh water will be reduced. Famine and diseases will become widespread in West African states. Considering that some of the world’s poorest countries are found in West Africa, the repercussions of global warming on West African people will be very great.
The onus lies, not only on ECOWAS and nations in West Africa, but also on individuals like you and me, and on communities and various NGOs, CBOs and NPOs to educate people. This we can do by creating awareness and asking people to reduce their dependency on fossil fuels and increase their use of renewable energy. We could also ask them to live a daily lifestyle that will help in the sustenance of their environments.
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