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2024-09-06 04:44:05 UTC
The local city spent the last week digging up the streets on both
sides of my property to repair the drains. It seems the teams were
going through the whole region to catch up on the backlogs of sewers
blocked with branches and dead animals. A couple times I think they
dug up the street to put in larger diameter pipes.
It's been raining cats and dogs for a few weeks now. Every other day
there's a flood emergency declared somewhere on the AUS east coast or
down in TAS.
At the start of the year we were seeing local streets flooded with 6"
of water and the water hanging around for a couple days after the
deluge because the drains couldn't handle it.
(Also note I'm located up on a bit of a hill about 100m away and 10m
above the local crick which is itself about 100m wide these days).
Last week we had the spectacle of even the sidewalks flooded with 6" of water.
The amount of mud I've dug out of my partly-below-yard-level patio in
the past few months must be in the 100s of kg now. Mostly you have to
chuck it in the general garbage because it's so full of dead rats,
bats and cats as well as random putrid animal matter you just can't
put it on the garden for reasons of general health.
While the local data is a bit hard to come by, the GHCN now apparently
moved from the NOAA to NASA's management (and a totally different
format of course), is still being updated pretty quickly. New data
downloaded in the past few days shows PRECIP entries right up to the
end of Aug.
From which -- for 1000s of stations located on the Gulf coast --
we can ask the question:
for each station, of the top10% rainiest days for that station,
which years did they occur in?
A plot is here: <kym.massbus.org/graphs/evcount.gif>.
Only stations that had rainfall data for 2022-2024 as well as at least
50 years of prior data were included in the numbers.
We can see the relevant trend.
Flash flood threat continues across the Southeast
MSN, 06 Sep 2024 0:46Z
As a tropical rainstorm moves east, parts of the Gulf Coast and Southeast
can expect days of flooding rain.
Street flooding in Tampa
Biloxi News Events, 05 Sep 2024 23:48Z
Invest 90-L bringing heavy rain, flood threat to New Orleans
WDSU, 05 Sep 2024 22:46Z
Florida Map Shows Rainfall Estimates as Storm Approaches
Newsweek, 05 Sep 2024 21:47Z
Meteorologists began warning Floridians about the "considerable" flash
flooding threat earlier this week.
--
[Transparent Mice!]
Common food dye found to make skin and muscle temporarily transparent
The Guardian, 05 Sep 2024 19:28Z
[Plant Food!]
Extreme weather impacts agriculture in Hungary
FreshPlaza, 05 Sep 2024 11:42Z
This summer, Europe's agriculture faced challenges due to extreme weather
conditions, leading to crop failures and an increase in food prices.
Phoenix set to break record for 110-degree days as extreme heat plagues West
Coast
ABC, 25m
Extreme late-season heat is plaguing the West Coast from Los Angeles to
Seattle with heat alerts issued for more than 65 mn Americans across
six states
`Detrimental impact': Farmers push back on climate report
AFR, 05 Sep 2024 08:35Z
The Climate Change Authority review sparked criticism from the agricultural
sector over a call for large-scale forestation.
Right-Wing Influencers Deny Knowledge of Russian Funding
Rolling Stone, 05 Sep 2024 14:48Z
Blaze fires contributor linked to alleged Russian operation
Semafor, 05 Sep 2024 16:48Z
In 2023, Earth experienced its hottest year on record, and massive floods,
wildfires, and other climate-related disasters affected mns of people
around the world. Meanwhile, rapid and worrisome developments in the life
sciences and other disruptive technologies accelerated, while govts
made only feeble efforts to control them. [...]
Today, we once again set the Doomsday Clock at 90 seconds to midnight
because humanity continues to face an unprecedented level of danger.
Our decision should not be taken as a sign that the international
security situation has eased. Instead, leaders and citizens around the
world should take this statement as a stark warning and respond
urgently, as if today were the most dangerous moment in modern history.
Because it may well be.
-- Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 23 Jan 2024
[At 1 min to midnight pushing the apple cart over seems rational].
Finally, we suggest that 2024 is likely to be off the chart as the
warmest year on record. Without inside information, that would be a
dangerous prediction, but we proffer it because it is unlikely that
the current La Nina will continue a fourth year. Even a little futz of
an El Nino - like the tropical warming in 2018-19, which barely
qualified as an El Nino - should be sufficient for record global
temperature. A classical, strong El Nino in 2023-24 could push global
temperature to about +1.5°C relative to the 1880-1920 mean, which is
our estimate of preindustrial temperature.
-- J Hansen et al, newsletter 23 Sep 2022
Harris will beat Trump, says election prediction legend Allan Lichtman
CNBC, 05 Sep 2024 16:49Z
[Predicted last 9 out of 10 correct. But past performance is no
indicator future performance ;) ].
Why flowers blooming all year round may be cause for concern
ABC News, 05 Sep 2024 23:31Z
A native flower farmer has not had her usual winter break from
picking this year as unseasonably warm weather brings blooms
through the usually quiet months.
[For a few years my nasturtiums have flowered almost every couple wks.
The various sap-sucking birds seem to enjoy that. But some of the
fruit trees are starting to do the same and the plums are now looking
worn out with the effort and looks like the apricots will be next to
die back].
[Snowmaggedon!]
This year's ski season ended far earlier than usual, prompting soul-searching
among operators
ABC News, 05 Sep 2024 20:38Z
Tourism operators and the broader Snowy Mountains region are
looking to summer tourism options as they face the prospect of
warmer winters and shorter ski seasons.
China to launch Mars sample return mission in 2028, will follow planetary
protection guidelines
SpaceNews, 05 Sep 2024 13:30Z
[BepiColombo:]
Closest Flyby of Mercury Reveals the Planet's Mysterious Craters in
Unprecedented Detail
Gizmodo, 03 Sep 2024
Reclusive tribe armed with bows and arrows kills loggers allegedly
encroaching on their land in Peru, group says
CBS News, 05 Sep 2024 19:25Z
'3,000 veterans dead': This grieving mother has led the fight for all of them
ABC News, 05 Sep 2024 18:46Z
The governor-general will soon receive the final report of the
Royal Commission into Defence and Veterans Suicide. Grieving
families are hoping it will lead to lasting change.
Mediterranean, it's a broth! Severe weather in many regions
Meteo Giornale, 05 Sep 2024 12:42Z
The Mediterranean is experiencing a significant increase in extreme weather
phenomena, making it one of the main global centers of atmospheric turbulence.
US Sen. Peter Welch celebrates 60th anniversary of landmark Wilderness Act
Brattleboro Reformer, 05 Sep 2024 16:02Z
Vt., is celebrating this week's 60th anniversary of President Lyndon B.
Johnson signing the Wilderness Act of 1964, ...
sides of my property to repair the drains. It seems the teams were
going through the whole region to catch up on the backlogs of sewers
blocked with branches and dead animals. A couple times I think they
dug up the street to put in larger diameter pipes.
It's been raining cats and dogs for a few weeks now. Every other day
there's a flood emergency declared somewhere on the AUS east coast or
down in TAS.
At the start of the year we were seeing local streets flooded with 6"
of water and the water hanging around for a couple days after the
deluge because the drains couldn't handle it.
(Also note I'm located up on a bit of a hill about 100m away and 10m
above the local crick which is itself about 100m wide these days).
Last week we had the spectacle of even the sidewalks flooded with 6" of water.
The amount of mud I've dug out of my partly-below-yard-level patio in
the past few months must be in the 100s of kg now. Mostly you have to
chuck it in the general garbage because it's so full of dead rats,
bats and cats as well as random putrid animal matter you just can't
put it on the garden for reasons of general health.
While the local data is a bit hard to come by, the GHCN now apparently
moved from the NOAA to NASA's management (and a totally different
format of course), is still being updated pretty quickly. New data
downloaded in the past few days shows PRECIP entries right up to the
end of Aug.
From which -- for 1000s of stations located on the Gulf coast --
we can ask the question:
for each station, of the top10% rainiest days for that station,
which years did they occur in?
A plot is here: <kym.massbus.org/graphs/evcount.gif>.
Only stations that had rainfall data for 2022-2024 as well as at least
50 years of prior data were included in the numbers.
We can see the relevant trend.
Flash flood threat continues across the Southeast
MSN, 06 Sep 2024 0:46Z
As a tropical rainstorm moves east, parts of the Gulf Coast and Southeast
can expect days of flooding rain.
Street flooding in Tampa
Biloxi News Events, 05 Sep 2024 23:48Z
Invest 90-L bringing heavy rain, flood threat to New Orleans
WDSU, 05 Sep 2024 22:46Z
Florida Map Shows Rainfall Estimates as Storm Approaches
Newsweek, 05 Sep 2024 21:47Z
Meteorologists began warning Floridians about the "considerable" flash
flooding threat earlier this week.
--
[Transparent Mice!]
Common food dye found to make skin and muscle temporarily transparent
The Guardian, 05 Sep 2024 19:28Z
[Plant Food!]
Extreme weather impacts agriculture in Hungary
FreshPlaza, 05 Sep 2024 11:42Z
This summer, Europe's agriculture faced challenges due to extreme weather
conditions, leading to crop failures and an increase in food prices.
Phoenix set to break record for 110-degree days as extreme heat plagues West
Coast
ABC, 25m
Extreme late-season heat is plaguing the West Coast from Los Angeles to
Seattle with heat alerts issued for more than 65 mn Americans across
six states
`Detrimental impact': Farmers push back on climate report
AFR, 05 Sep 2024 08:35Z
The Climate Change Authority review sparked criticism from the agricultural
sector over a call for large-scale forestation.
Right-Wing Influencers Deny Knowledge of Russian Funding
Rolling Stone, 05 Sep 2024 14:48Z
Blaze fires contributor linked to alleged Russian operation
Semafor, 05 Sep 2024 16:48Z
In 2023, Earth experienced its hottest year on record, and massive floods,
wildfires, and other climate-related disasters affected mns of people
around the world. Meanwhile, rapid and worrisome developments in the life
sciences and other disruptive technologies accelerated, while govts
made only feeble efforts to control them. [...]
Today, we once again set the Doomsday Clock at 90 seconds to midnight
because humanity continues to face an unprecedented level of danger.
Our decision should not be taken as a sign that the international
security situation has eased. Instead, leaders and citizens around the
world should take this statement as a stark warning and respond
urgently, as if today were the most dangerous moment in modern history.
Because it may well be.
-- Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 23 Jan 2024
[At 1 min to midnight pushing the apple cart over seems rational].
Finally, we suggest that 2024 is likely to be off the chart as the
warmest year on record. Without inside information, that would be a
dangerous prediction, but we proffer it because it is unlikely that
the current La Nina will continue a fourth year. Even a little futz of
an El Nino - like the tropical warming in 2018-19, which barely
qualified as an El Nino - should be sufficient for record global
temperature. A classical, strong El Nino in 2023-24 could push global
temperature to about +1.5°C relative to the 1880-1920 mean, which is
our estimate of preindustrial temperature.
-- J Hansen et al, newsletter 23 Sep 2022
Harris will beat Trump, says election prediction legend Allan Lichtman
CNBC, 05 Sep 2024 16:49Z
[Predicted last 9 out of 10 correct. But past performance is no
indicator future performance ;) ].
Why flowers blooming all year round may be cause for concern
ABC News, 05 Sep 2024 23:31Z
A native flower farmer has not had her usual winter break from
picking this year as unseasonably warm weather brings blooms
through the usually quiet months.
[For a few years my nasturtiums have flowered almost every couple wks.
The various sap-sucking birds seem to enjoy that. But some of the
fruit trees are starting to do the same and the plums are now looking
worn out with the effort and looks like the apricots will be next to
die back].
[Snowmaggedon!]
This year's ski season ended far earlier than usual, prompting soul-searching
among operators
ABC News, 05 Sep 2024 20:38Z
Tourism operators and the broader Snowy Mountains region are
looking to summer tourism options as they face the prospect of
warmer winters and shorter ski seasons.
China to launch Mars sample return mission in 2028, will follow planetary
protection guidelines
SpaceNews, 05 Sep 2024 13:30Z
[BepiColombo:]
Closest Flyby of Mercury Reveals the Planet's Mysterious Craters in
Unprecedented Detail
Gizmodo, 03 Sep 2024
Reclusive tribe armed with bows and arrows kills loggers allegedly
encroaching on their land in Peru, group says
CBS News, 05 Sep 2024 19:25Z
'3,000 veterans dead': This grieving mother has led the fight for all of them
ABC News, 05 Sep 2024 18:46Z
The governor-general will soon receive the final report of the
Royal Commission into Defence and Veterans Suicide. Grieving
families are hoping it will lead to lasting change.
Mediterranean, it's a broth! Severe weather in many regions
Meteo Giornale, 05 Sep 2024 12:42Z
The Mediterranean is experiencing a significant increase in extreme weather
phenomena, making it one of the main global centers of atmospheric turbulence.
US Sen. Peter Welch celebrates 60th anniversary of landmark Wilderness Act
Brattleboro Reformer, 05 Sep 2024 16:02Z
Vt., is celebrating this week's 60th anniversary of President Lyndon B.
Johnson signing the Wilderness Act of 1964, ...