-There is a derecho going on in the mid-west right now. I have never heard of a Derecho.
Severe thunderstorms are producing widespread damaging winds across a part of the Midwest today as a derecho races eastward.
A derecho is a widespread wind damage event caused by severe thunderstorms, and this one got its start in eastern Nebraska Monday morning.
Wind gust over 100 miles an hour!!!
https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/10/weather/derecho-forecast-chicago-severe-storms/index.html
-There have been NO monsoons this year in most Arizona.
I have lived here for over 26 years and we have ALWAY had monsoon rains visit us in July, August and September. All three months. On occasion in June.
The latest drought update released on last Thursday by the United States Drought Monitor shows that nearly 82% of Arizona is now experiencing some level of drought. In May, NO part of Arizona was in drought. Where I live we are in severe drought. Phoenix Sky Harbor airport recorded one day with a 10th of an inch of rain in July. That rain did not reach to my city. It has been over 125 days of no rain here.
This is not good!
https://www.facebook.com/jamesspann/photos/pcb.10158690501755842/10158690501615842/?type=3&theater
We have had quite the storms this afternoon .. and. .some very unusual clouds in the sky yesterday.
@lovendures Okay, so I need to say something about derechos. (Trying to say that weird word with a strait face.) Former NASA climate scientist James Hansen, wrote in his last big 2015 study that he believed the new climate we will be facing will see winds so strong that they can lift thousand ton boulders high into the air. While we aren't at that point yet, the world is three times windier now and quickly accelerating.
There are such boulders in the Bahamas that no one has been able to determine how they ended up on the top of 60 foot cliff overlooking the ocean. Hansen says that 100,000 years ago when climate conditions were similar to what is happening now, the massively powerful superstorms could have lifted those boulders, although he thinks the higher oceans were also involved.
You can read about it here. https://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/national/2015/11/28/oceans/
My first thought when I read about them ( derechos) today: "I bet this is tied to what Jeanne has been predicting".
Also my first thought today when I saw no rain in the forecast yet again for the next week in the greater Phoenix area: "I bet this is also tied to what Jeanne has been predicting".
My first thought again when today about Canada's last remaining ice sheet collapsed this week: " Dang it! I know this is tied to what Jeanne has been predicting".
Again today when it was confirmed a new record for the length of lightning, doubling the previous record, had occurred in Brazil in 2019 spanning what is basically the length between Glasgow and London: "Good Grief Jeanne!"
Again, my first thought today when reading over a month's worth of rain could fall within two hours on parts of Britain this week, causing flash flooding, while an ongoing heatwave is set to break records. "...Jeanne? Yep, Jeanne!"
I have decided to take a break from reading about the weather. (I know it isn't the messenger's fault but darn it Jeanne!)
Derechos aren't all too uncommon in the eastern US in the summer, but 100 mph winds are something. My grandparents in South Jersey were in the thick of the June 2012 North American Derecho (peak winds of 91 mph). They lost power for 5 days, and my grandmother talks about how she could hear thunder approaching and see lightning flashes a full hour before the storm struck.
In addition to the Ellesmere ice caps collapsing, a hamlet in Italy's Aosta Valley was evacuated because a glacier on Mont Blanc might collapse. And in case you missed it, in June, a temperature of 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit was recorded in the northern Siberian village of Verkhoyansk, which is the first time that triple digit temps have been recorded in the Arctic Circle. The Svalbard Archipelago, north of Norway, also recorded its highest temperature on record last month: 71 degrees.
I had heard about Italy, but not about Siberia or the Svalbard Archipelago. Thank you!
Sometimes I can hear the thunder and see the lightning for quite some time when we (used to apparently) have our monsoons.
This is incredible drought in Arizona and has to have some relief soon...!!!
I am really concerned about the stresses on all the wildlife also, Lovendures, and especially... the Wild Horses ?
Here's a heartfelt request to Jeanne and everyone participating in the Circle of Light Meditation nights ... please focus a big intention for there in AZ for the rains to return? If a miracle is needed anywhere, it's there.
You guys are in my prayers and meditations always, Lovendures ⛈️
It has been hotter than usual *again* in Northern Europe as well. Crazy thing is that the temperatures were exactly the way they should be during our lock-downs. Like the clock turned back 30/40 years. Just a few weeks after everything opened up and cars, planes etc. went off, the temps rose.
We have been in a heatwave for days now. If we have one (there were only 28 in the past century, almost half of them took place the last 2 decades) it usually has about 3 or 4 days of about 96 degrees. Now it has already been 7 days and going to 10. These aren't normal occurrences. A normal summer here would have nice weather of about 77/79 degrees.
I am not sure if that should be part of pandemic bingo or a pandemic Jeopardy question.
Fire Tornado.
I think I need to stop asking what's next?