Harry Palmr wrote: » By way of a contrast! The American western interior is about to receive a mighty Arctic blast. Could see a 30c fall in 24 hours as it plunges southwards.
Bsal wrote: » 33C in Denver today and the airport is forecasting snow in the morning.
Harry Palmr wrote: The American western interior is about to receive a mighty Arctic blast. Could see a 30c fall in 24 hours as it plunges southwards.
Wanderer78 wrote: » Spotted that alright, that must be really weird to experience
CelticRambler wrote: » It actually feels surprisingly uneventful! At least here in continental Europe. In the centre of France, we'd regularly get 25-30°C of difference between day and night in January/February. The record, IIRC, is a swing of 55°C. Last week, we had overnight lows of around 12°C for a daytime max of 30-32°C.
M.T. Cranium wrote: My guess is that these huge fires in 2020 and recent years are part of a cycle and of course it does not help that there are some cases of arson and human carelessness involved, but on the other hand, in past centuries, similar years would have come to their conclusion only when winter rains set in. The native population had no resources to fight fires and were totally at their mercy, having to move hundreds of miles in some cases to get out of harm's way. Our modern lifestyle keeps us more fixed to locations, and those locations are continuing to spread out into the forest boundaries as suburban and exurban living appeals to more and more people. It's great having a few big trees, wide open spaces, and nearby forest in your back yard until a forest fire comes over the ridge, then you are about where the fire can most easily accelerate forward.
Wanderer78 wrote: » Maybe, maybe not, we have no way of truly knowing for sure, but with the rate of deforestation that has occurred on this planet, we may also be accelerating the likelihood of these fires. trees are critical to our exitence, and to all other creatures we share this planet with, it is also understandable why people want to live amongst them, as it's an incredible way to connect with oneself and this planet, rather than man made concrete jungles
CelticRambler wrote: » Catastrophic flooding in the Var region of France (extreme south-east) this weekend.
Nabber wrote: Trees are important as a habitat for a multitude of animals. But for example the 'lungs of the earth' for the Amazon has been debunked. The Amazon forest has a net contribution of 0%, replacing forest with farms isn't as impactful to the planet as most would think. Deforestation is alarming none the less but for different reasons, but not critical to human or existence.
Wanderer78 wrote: » Debunk by whom?
But that’s not the whole story. Trees don’t just exhale oxygen—they also consume it in a process known as cellular respiration, where they convert the sugars they amass during the day into energy, using oxygen to power the process. So during the night when there’s no sun around for photosynthesis, they’re net absorbers of oxygen. Malhi’s research team reckons that trees inhale a little over half the oxygen they produce this way. The rest is probably used up by the countless microbes that live in the Amazon, which inhale oxygen to break down dead organic matter of the forest. “The net [oxygen] effect of the Amazon, or really any other biome, is around zero,” he explains. Because of this balance between oxygen production and consumption, modern ecosystems barely budge oxygen levels in the atmosphere. Instead, the oxygen we breathe is the legacy of phytoplankton in the ocean that have over billions of years steadily accumulated oxygen that made the atmosphere breathable, explains Scott Denning, at atmospheric scientist at Colorado State University.source
[...] Typhoon Goni, expected to be the strongest storm to hit the Philippines this year, made landfall on Sunday morning, with weather officials predicting “catastrophic wind damage” as it roared through the country. [...] The typhoon had sustained winds of 135 miles per hour at its center and gusts of 165 miles per hour as of early Sunday, prompting the Joint Typhoon Warning Center to categorize the storm as a super typhoon. [...]
RobertKK wrote: » Not extreme but it can be recorded here.https://twitter.com/MetEireann/status/1344311971106185217?s=20
This week has been very cold, with frosts in much of Spain even in areas very close to the coast. The early hours of this Wednesday were marked by intense cold and snowfall. The thermometers show such low figures that the temperature at the Clot de la Llança (Alto Aneu) weather station stands out: - 34.1 degrees. It is the lowest temperature in the Iberian Peninsula since there are records.
Pa ElGrande wrote: » Storm 'Filomena' leaves the lowest temperature ever recorded in the Iberian Peninsula: -34.1 ° C
