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Jet Lag: What's Causing One of the Driest, Warmest Winters in History?
The jet stream controls winter weather, but strange forces are controlling the jet stream this season
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January 12, 2012 |
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WEATHER MAKER: An unusual region
of atmospheric pressure over the Arctic has kept the polar jet stream
(green) locked up at far northern latitudes, causing a warm, dry U.S.
winter.
Image: Courtesy of NOAA
First, a few records: The initial week of January was the driest in history. And more than 95 percent of the U.S. had below-average snow cover—the greatest such percentage ever recorded—according to some intriguing data maps generated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. During December, approximately half of the U.S. had temperatures at least 5 degrees Fahrenheit above average, and more than 1,500 daily record highs were set from January 2 to 8. Europe has seen similar extremes.
The chief suspect behind the mysterious weather is an atmospheric pressure pattern called the Arctic Oscillation, which circles the high Northern Hemisphere. Its lower edge is known as the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO). Together, the related features influence the path and strength of the jet stream. The jet itself is an air current that flows west to east across the northern latitudes of the U.S., Europe and Asia, altering temperature and precipitation as portions of it dip southward or crest northward. A strong jet stream that flows in a somewhat straight line from west to east, with few southward dips, prevents cold arctic air from drifting south. "The cause of this warm first half of winter is the most extreme configuration of the jet stream ever recorded," according to Jeffrey Masters, a meteorologist who runs the Weather Underground, a Web site that analyzes severe weather data.
By "extreme," Masters means that the jet stream was far north and fairly straight, and stayed that way for an unusually long time. That position allowed warm southern air to prevail over the entire U.S., and prevented cold fronts from descending from the north and clashing with warm fronts, creating large snow- and rainstorms. The jet stream has been locked in that position by the NAO for most of the winter, and Masters says it has sustained the largest pressure gradient since tracking began in 1865.
Conversely, December 2010 set record snowfalls in many parts of the U.S. Sure enough, the NAO at that time had some of the lowest pressures ever observed, allowing the jet stream to move south and stay there. Arctic air descended, picked up moisture or interacted with warm fronts, and dropped snow. "The December Arctic Oscillation index has fluctuated wildly over the past six years," Masters notes, "with the two most extreme positive and two most extreme negative values on record." Data for the trends is available at the Weather Underground site.
Meteorologists are not certain what causes the oscillations to vary so dramatically. Some scientists say the loss of Arctic sea ice due to global warming is causing the Arctic Oscillation to drop in pressure. Others have noticed a correlation with sunspot activity, which was very low in December 2010 and very high during December 2011, although they haven't proposed a mechanism whereby sunspots would directly alter the Arctic Oscillation.
Of course, winter has many weeks to go, so the oscillations, and U.S. weather, could shift. But if plentiful precipitation does not fall, complications could arise for many more people than ski resort owners and their patrons. A small snowpack often leads to spring droughts in the Midwest and summer water shortages in the West as well as a longer wildfire season in the latter because the soil dries out earlier than usual.
end quote from:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=whats-causing-dry-winter
One of the other problems I didn't see discussed here (I realized that most of the deaths were after the date that this was originally written) is that because of so much of the Arctic melting out last summer and fall it changed the way the arctic air masses functioned from their ordinary patterns. This caused the arctic air to fall into Siberia, Europe and Northern Africa which caused at the very least 650 people to die and uncounted people to get frostbite and lose fingers, toes etc. throughout that general region. Because the arctic air "Fell" into Siberia, Europe and North AFrica it displaced the air over Canada and North America to the north pole region. This brought up tropical and desert weather and winds up into Mexico, the U.S., Canada and Alaska and completely changed weather patterns in very serious ways and at last count just in the U.S. 7000 heat records had been broken mostly in the North East of the United States and fires up and down the East Coast of the United States have been going on which are an anomaly north of Georgia.
Here are some other interesting kind of different articles I found regarding Earth Changes:
Mysterious Siberian Blasts Warned Point To Rapid Pole Reversal
February 27, 2012An unsettling report prepared by Viktor Seleznyov, director of the Geophysical Institute at the Siberian branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SB RAS), on the 6.8 magnitude earthquake that struck the Tyva Republic in Russia’s East Siberia earlier today warns that more seismic activity should be expected within the coming weeks and that this event is part of an ever increasing body of evidence pointing to a "rapid" shifting in our Earth’s magnetic poles.
Director Seleznyov, and other SB RAS scientists, have been increasingly concerned over the past fortnight about this region after the 9 February and 12 February "mysterious blasts" in the Kemerovo Region reminiscent of the 30 June 1908 Tunguska Event that remains the largest explosion of its type in modern times that for over a century has yet to be fully explained.
The "common linkage" between these mysterious explosions and increasing seismic events in Siberia, this report says, is due to the rapid shifting of our Earth’s magnetic North Pole that has doubled in the last 50 years, and in the 1990s "picked up speed in a big way," bolting north–northwest into the Arctic Ocean at more than 55 kilometers per year.
To the most immediate effect upon our Earth due to this “magnetic pole anomaly,” this report continues, has been the "strange disruption" of the jet stream over the Northern Hemisphere that on the North American side has produced the driest and warmest winter weather in recorded history, but on the European side has caused record-setting cold and snow that has claimed over 650 lives.
Though Director Seleznyov notes in this report that the evidence for a “full scale” geomagnetic reversal of the positions of magnetic north and magnetic south are still being debated, our Earth is, “without a doubt,” currently undergoing a Laschamp-type geomagnetic “event” known as a geomagnetic excursion.
A geomagnetic excursion, like a geomagnetic reversal, is a significant change in the Earth’s magnetic field. Unlike reversals however, an excursion does not permanently change the large-scale orientation of the field, but rather represents a dramatic, typically short-lived decrease in field intensity, with a variation in pole orientation of up to 45 degrees from the previous position.
The Laschamp Geomagnetic "Event" noted in this report is interesting on a number of levels due to its having occurred between 7,000-17,000 years ago falling within the working timeframe of: 1.) The flash freezing of Siberia where still today woolly mammoths are still uncovered in near pristine condition, and 2.) The 11 August 3114 BCE start date of the Mayan Calendar that seemingly predicts the year of 2012 will, indeed, experience another such cataclysmic event.
Important to note is that in our 7 January 2011 report "Pole Shift Blamed For Russian Air Disaster, Closure Of US Airport" we had stated the growing concerns of Russian, EU and US officials due to the rapid shifting of our Earth’s magnetic poles that had led the Kremlin to order an additional 5,000 survival shelters built in Moscow alone, and the Europeans to construct what is called the “Doomsday Seed Vault.”
Most curious to note in all of these events, especially after 2011 experienced a record cost of $265 billion in natural disasters (a record set just the previous year, 2010, that cost $218 billion), are that the Western nations, most notably the United States, continues to coax their populations into complacency regarding the unprecedented events now occurring, and showing every likelihood to get worse.
To how abhorrent US officials are to their citizens preparing for natural disasters, or other type emergencies, their propaganda media organs this past month launched a series of news reports, magazine articles and television programmes depicting these people as “Doomsday Preppers” who are mentally ill, at best, or deranged, at worst.
This depiction by the US of people who prepare for the worst of times as “crackpots” stands in sharp contrast to the entirety of human civilization where it was a valued practice to store up food and supplies in preparation for any eventuality. And to the “eventuality” one should, indeed, prepare for, as noted in Director Seleznyov’s report, is the growing global chaos that could very well ensue should his predictions prove accurate.
To the validity of Director Seleznyov’s predictions, should they come horrifyingly true this year, one need look no further than the letter conversations held between arguable two of the greatest minds of the 20th century; Albert Einstein (1879-1955) the German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of general relativity, and Immanuel Velikovsky (1895-1975) the Russian-born American independent scholar of Jewish origins.
Where on one hand Einstein represented the modern scientific community regarding the possibility of “sudden” Earth changes, Velikovsky gave voice to the all of the ancient peoples who ever lived on this Earth who stated they witnessed these “sudden” Earth changes first hand, with the “battle” between them resting on what was going to be the “final outcome” and, perhaps, best articulated by Einstein in his 22 May 1954 letter to Velikovsky that, in part, said:
“The proof of “sudden” changes is quite convincing and meritorious. If you had done nothing else but to gather and present in a clear way this mass of evidence, you would have already a considerable merit.”
Though Einstein died before he and Velikovsky were able to complete their “debate,” critical assumptions made by Einstein in backing his position were subsequently proved to be false, and as Velikovsky completely documented in his manuscript “Before The Day Breaks”.
To us living today, and as detailed in Director Seleznyov’s report, of whom to believe…Einstein or Velikovsky…will determine the fate billions…and if the ancients are to be believed, the “end” will come much, much sooner than later.end quote from:
http://www.spiritofmaat.com/apr12/rapid_pole_shift.html
Though the above seemed a little out there I found myself strangely comforted by what was said.
I also found the following:
STRANGE SOUNDS IN SKY EXPLAINED BY SCIENTISTS
Saturday, 28 January 2012 09:17
Mr.
Khalilov, what is the nature of the unusual very low-pitched sounds
reported by a great number of people in different parts of the planet
since the summer of 2011? Many call them “The Sound of the Apocalypse”.
Information about that comes from all over the world: US, UK, Costa
Rica, Russia, Czech Republic, Australia, etc.
We
have analyzed records of these sounds and found that most of their
spectrum lies within the infrasound range, i.e. is not audible to
humans. What people hear is only a small fraction of the actual power of
these sounds. They are low-frequency acoustic emissions in the range
between 20 and 100 Hz modulated by ultra-low infrasonic waves from 0.1
to 15 Hz. In geophysics, they are called acoustic-gravity waves; they
are formed in the upper atmosphere, at the atmosphere-ionosphere
boundary in particular. There can be quite a lot of causes why those
waves are generated: earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, hurricanes,
storms, tsunamis, etc. However, the scale of the observed humming sound
in terms of both the area covered and its power far exceeds those that
can be generated by the above-mentioned phenomena.
In that case, what could be causing this humming in the sky?
In
our opinion, the source of such powerful and immense manifestation of
acoustic-gravity waves must be very large-scale energy processes. These
processes include powerful solar flares and huge energy flows generated
by them, rushing towards Earth's surface and destabilizing the
magnetosphere, ionosphere and upper atmosphere. Thus, the effects of
powerful solar flares: the impact of shock waves in the solar wind,
streams of corpuscles and bursts of electromagnetic radiation are the
main causes of generation of acoustic-gravitation waves following
increased solar activity.
Given
the surge in solar activity as manifested itself in the higher number
and energy of solar flares since mid-2011, we can assume that there is a
high probability of impact of the substantial increase in solar
activity on the generation of the unusual humming coming from the sky.
It should be pointed out that solar activity began to rise sharply since
early 2011, with its amplitude significantly higher than all forecasts
given by a number of influential scientific institutions in 2010 
and
2011. Meanwhile, the observed increase in solar activity is fully
consistent with the forecast of the International Committee GEOCHANGE
published in the Committee's Report in June 2010. If this growth rate of
solar activity continues, its amplitude by the end of 2012 will be
higher than the amplitude of 23rd solar cycle, and in 2013-2014 the
solar activity will reach its peak the amplitude of which was predicted
by us to be 1.5 - 1.7 times higher than the amplitude of the 23rd cycle.
and
2011. Meanwhile, the observed increase in solar activity is fully
consistent with the forecast of the International Committee GEOCHANGE
published in the Committee's Report in June 2010. If this growth rate of
solar activity continues, its amplitude by the end of 2012 will be
higher than the amplitude of 23rd solar cycle, and in 2013-2014 the
solar activity will reach its peak the amplitude of which was predicted
by us to be 1.5 - 1.7 times higher than the amplitude of the 23rd cycle.
But you said that the cause of the "sky hum" can lie within Earth's core as well, what does it mean?
There
is one more possible cause of these sounds and it may lie at the
Earth's core. The fact is that the acceleration of the drift of the
Earth's north magnetic pole which increased more than fivefold between
1998 and 2003 and is at the same level today points to intensification
of energy processes in the Earth's core, since it is processes in the
inner and outer core that form the Earth's geomagnetic field. Meanwhile,
as we have already reported, on November 15, 2011 all ATROPATENA
geophysical stations which record three-dimensional variations of the
Earth's gravitational field almost simultaneously registered a powerful
gravitational impulse. The stations are deployed in Istanbul, Kiev,
Baku, Islamabad and Yogyakarta, with the first and last one being
separated by a distance of about 10,000 km. Such a phenomenon is only
possible if the source of this emanation is at the Earth's core level.
That huge energy release from the Earth's core at the end of the last
year was some kind of a start signal indicating the transition of the
Earth's internal energy into a new active phase.
Intensification
of the energy processes in the Earth's core can modulate the
geomagnetic field which, through a chain of physical processes at the
ionosphere - atmosphere boundary level, generates acoustic-gravity waves
the audible range of which has been heard by people in the form of a
frightening low-frequency sound in different parts of our planet.
In both
cases, even though the causes of acoustic-gravity waves are of a quite
understandable geophysical nature, they are indicative of the expected
significant increase in solar activity and the geodynamic activity of
our planet. There is no doubt that processes in the core rule the
internal energy of our planet, therefore, we should expect by the end of
2012 a sharp rise in strong earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis
and extreme weather events with peak levels in 2013 - 2014.
Thank you for your answers.
WOSCO International News Agency
www.wosco.org
end quote from:
http://geochangemag.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=142:strange-sounds-in-sky-explained-by-scientists-&catid=1:global-news&Itemid=9
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