The Big Wobble - LOOK AT THE PICTURES

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The Big Wobble - LOOK AT THE PICTURES

by Lobo Wed 12 Apr 2017, 2:59 pm

It's Back! A massive coronal hole which sprayed Earth with 700 kilometer per second solar wind in early and late March is set to return next week.
Massive fish die off along Costa Rica's northern Caribbean coast thought to be caused by pollution from nearby farms
Indonesia's colossus Mount Sinabung erupts ash and steam 3 kilometers into the sky causing evacuation of thousands
Florida state of emergency! 2017 shows a 250% increase in forest fires along with a crippling drought: 68,000 acres destroyed by fire so far this year: Worse to come!
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It's Back! A massive coronal hole which sprayed Earth with 700 kilometer per second solar wind in early and late March is set to return next week.
Posted: 12 Apr 2017 01:41 AM PDT

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Spaceweather.com are warning us of a massive Coronal hole which sprayed Earth with 700 kilometer per second solar wind in early and late March is set to return next week.
NOAA forecasters say there is a chance of G1-class geomagnetic storms on April 22nd intensifying to G2 storms on April 23rd in response to a repeat encounter with the solar wind stream.
We've seen this coronal hole before.
In early March, it lashed Earth's magnetic field with a fast-moving stream that sparked several consecutive days of intense auroras around the poles.
The coronal hole is potent because it is spewing solar wind threaded with "negative polarity" magnetic fields.
Such fields do a good job connecting to Earth's magnetosphere and energizing geomagnetic storms.

SOLAR FILAMENT EXPLODES, HURLS CME: On April 9th, a dark filament of magnetism on the sun rose up and hurled a portion of itself into space.
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded the eruption: Flying debris from the filament formed the core of a coronal mass ejection (CME).
A movie from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) shows the cloud leaving the sun.
At first it appeared that the CME would miss Earth, but a new analysis by NOAA forecasters suggests that a glancing glow is possible on April 15th.
G1-class geomagnetic storms are possible when the CME arrives this weekend

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Massive fish die off along Costa Rica's northern Caribbean coast thought to be caused by pollution from nearby farms
Posted: 12 Apr 2017 01:06 AM PDT

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Residents of Costa Rica's northern Caribbean reported a massive number of fish deaths on the Pacuare and other nearby rivers between Sunday and Monday.
Mauricio alvarez, president of the Costa Rican Conservation Federation (FECON), told The Tico Times that his organization received reports that the dead creatures included various species of fish, including rainbow bass, sea bass, jurels and sardines, as well as crustaceans.
Many of the dead fish appeared floating on the Goshen river.
Most of these fish are part of the diet of various species of birds, therefore, environmentalists and local residents say they fear that the damage will expand to other animals.
Alvarez said he believes that incident could be linked to the use of agrochemicals at farms in the area. Matina and other northern Caribbean regions are home to extensive plantations of bananas, pineapples and rice, among others.
Coast Guard officers and staff of the National System of Conservation Areas collected water and fish samples from the river and sent them for laboratory analysis.
There is no official confirmation that the fish died because of pollution from nearby farms, but alvarez said this has happened several times in the past.
"Every single time it was for the same reason.
It's never been for any other reason than pollution from farms," alvarez said.
Contamination from chemicals comes from various sources, from substances applied to crops, to chemicals used to wash farms' equipment.
"It has also happened when they don't properly dispose of water used for washing the tanks in which they store the chemicals," he explained.
The environmentalist leader said fishermen in the area have told FECON that actions from these farms have caused the death of animals in the region's rivers many times since 2003.
However, not a single company or farm owner has ever been convicted.
There were six legal claims for fish deaths by poisoning in 2004, some of them linked to the Standard Fruit Company, "but the case ended in a settlement agreement," alvarez said.
The transnational company at the time pledged to pay $8,000 annually for five years.
The funds were to be used to repopulate the river.
A similar but larger incident occurred earlier this year in the Gulf of Nicoya, where thousands of dead sardines washed ashore near the coastal Pacific town of Manzanillo on Feb. 15. Preliminary reports from the Environment Ministry at the time attributed the deaths to a spike in the water temperature and lack of oxygen.
A few days later, however, experts from the National University stated that the collected evidence did not support that hypothesis.
Those scientists posited that the dead fish had been discarded by illegal fishing operations.

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Indonesia's colossus Mount Sinabung erupts ash and steam 3 kilometers into the sky causing evacuation of thousands
Posted: 12 Apr 2017 12:49 AM PDT

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A volcano on Indonesia's Sumatra island spewed hot smoke and ash high into the air Wednesday, in its latest violent eruptions.
Mount Sinabung has erupted repeatedly in recent days, pumping hot gas clouds up to three kilometers (1.8 miles) into the sky, the local disaster agency said.
The clouds of smoke shrouded the sky above a school in North Sumatra province but children continued to play outside in the yard in the shadow of the volcano.
Local authorities insist the school is safe as it is outside a seven-kilometre (four-mile) restricted area around the volcano, which has been erupting almost continuously since 2013.
Villagers also continue their precarious existences despite the eruptions, putting on masks to go shopping as ash falls from the sky, and tending to their crops.
Over 2,000 families have been evacuated from around the rumbling volcano in recent years, and many will soon be relocated to new villages after lengthy stays in temporary shelters.
Sinabung roared back to life in 2010 for the first time in 400 years.
After another period of inactivity, it began erupting again three years later.
In May last year, seven people were killed in one of Sinabung's eruptions, while in February 2014 an eruption left 16 people dead.
Indonesia is home to around 130 volcanoes due to its position on the "Ring of Fire", a belt of tectonic plate boundaries circling the Pacific Ocean where frequent seismic activity occurs.

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Florida state of emergency! 2017 shows a 250% increase in forest fires along with a crippling drought: 68,000 acres destroyed by fire so far this year: Worse to come!
Posted: 11 Apr 2017 11:58 PM PDT

Florida Gov. Rick Scott declared a state of emergency Tuesday as more than 100 wildfires blaze across the state.
More than with a quarter of the fires are burning more than 100 acres each, according to the Florida Forest Service. Since February, more than 68,000 acres have been scorched across the state.
"Much of Central and South Florida are approaching drought-like conditions and the chances for wildfires are continuing to increase with hotter temperatures and low rainfall.
This may only get worse as we enter the hotter summer months and it is crucial that we take every action right now to be prepared," Scott said.
"It is incredibly important that wildfire response is swift and deliberate and this state of emergency will make it easier for our state, regional and local agencies to quickly work together to protect our families, visitors and communities."
Drought conditions have already spread throughout the Florida Peninsula.
About 42 percent of the state was in drought as of April 4, said weather.com meteorologist Chris Dolce.
Some of the worst drought conditions are in southwest Florida where Naples has a rainfall deficit of more than 8 inches since Nov. 1, Dolce added.
Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam told News 6 that this is the most active wildfire season since 2011, with a 250-percent increase in acreage burned in the first three months of this year since compared to last year.
A fire in the Big Cypress National Preserve, called the Parliament fire, is the largest active blaze and has burned more than 41 square miles and is 95 percent contained, according to Inciweb.
That fire started March 18. Another fire that began March 30 in the preserve, the Cowbell fire, has burned more than 16 square miles and is 5 percent contained.
On Monday, a man was charged with reckless burning of leaves in connection with a large blaze that broke out on St. George Island over the weekend, the Tallahassee Democrat reported.
No injuries or property damage was reported, and the fire was extinguished by Saturday around midnight.
Wildfires can occur in Florida any time of year, Dolce said, but they can be particularly active in the late winter and spring months.
"This is due to the fact that the state is in the typical dry season when rainfall is less frequent and the air is less humid," said Dolce.
"The air becomes more humid and the return of afternoon thunderstorms begins in late spring and continues through summer, lessening the wildfire threat."

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Photo of the day! More wonderful tree blossom in Holland
Posted: 11 Apr 2017 02:38 PM PDT