- IT'S BRUTAL! Record breaking heatwaves across Britain Europe and US as roads melt in the UK and too hot to fly in parts of US
- Yellowstone Supervolcano is hit with a second cluster of quakes: Number jumps to more than 450 in the last 7 days biggest being mag 4.5
- Natural-disaster declared in parts of South Dakota as severe drought and late frost destroy nearly $ 20 million in crops and counting
- As the heatwave enters it's second week in California temperatures of 122 F (50 C) in death Valley as heat advisory is declared
IT'S BRUTAL! Record breaking heatwaves across Britain Europe and US as roads melt in the UK and too hot to fly in parts of US Posted: 21 Jun 2017 12:11 AM PDT Photo funtobebad.blogspot.com
UK heatwave Gritters were deployed to shore up failing roads as temperatures on the surface reached 104F (40C), causing them to melt. Cambridgeshire County Council took the decision to deploy the vehicles after motorists complained that their tyres had started 'ripping the tarmac off the roads.' Drivers were warned by police to take care on the B1165 near Newton in Cambridgeshire, where the tarmac has melted, and Agnes Owen, who works at a service station nearby, said that it 'sounded like cars were driving on water.' Evan Laughlin, from Cambridgeshire County Council, said gritters had been used to distribute granite dust to stabilise the road surface and stop bitumen becoming stuck on wheels. "Normally the roads stand the summer temperatures we get, but just this week it's very hot," she said. Motorists in Tarleton, Lancashire also discovered tar on their wheels as the roads melted., while some commuters in Croydon refused to use trams after noticing the track appeared to be disintegrating. Transport for London said they had thrown sand down to help protect the rails. Rory O'Neill, TfL's Director for London Trams, said: "The flexible sealant near the track has been softened by the current hot weather and although it is having no impact on the safe running of the tram network, we appreciate it may look concerning to customers. "Our engineers are on site and, as is standard procedure, they are applying sand to mitigate the effect of the heat." Elsewhere pupils were sent home from a school in East Yorkshire after refusing to wear blazers as temperatures soared past 86F (30C). Kingswood Academy in Hull said the children were defiant over their uniforms, but parents complained that teachers had put their health at risk. Allergy charities also warned that the hot weather could trigger fatal attacks and said sufferers should stay away from rural areas and avoid leaving windows open at night and early in the morning when pollen counts were at their highest. US heatwave As for how hot is too hot for planes to fly at all, experts tell us it shouldn't be an issue unless temperatures get over 120 degrees and that is exactly the type of temperatures California and Arizona have been suffering as many flights have been suffering The Daily Mail reports, the streets of Las Vegas and Phoenix have been reduced to ghost towns as temperatures hit 118F and climbing during a punishing heat wave that has grounded planes and left door handles so hot they can leave people with burns. Temperatures are predicted to reach 120F on the first day of summer in Phoenix, and the heat wave is threatening to bring the 'deadly' temperatures to several parts of Arizona, Nevada and California as well. Las Vegas is likely to hit 117F on Wednesday, as excessive heat warnings cover almost all of California. The National Weather Service has been forecasting Tuesday highs of 120F or above in Phoenix for the past several days, a number not seen in the desert city for more than 20 years. Europe heatwave Accu weather reports the historic heat that developed across much of Spain over the past week will continue this week with no relief until this weekend. Madrid set an all-time June high temperature on Saturday when the temperature reached 40.3 C (104.5 F) at Madrid-Barajas Airport. High temperatures will range from 35-39 C (95-102 F) each day through the weekend in Madrid. Elsewhere, extreme heat baked southern Spain as the mercury eclipsed 44 C (112 F) in Cordoba last week. High temperatures between 39 and 42 C (102 and 108 F) are expected this week. All of France will endure the highest temperatures of the year so far as the heat builds each of the next several days. The high temperature reached 35 C (95 F) in Paris on Tuesday, and similar temperatures expected on Wednesday and Thursday. The last time the temperature surpassed 35 C (95 F) in Paris in June was 2011 when the temperature reached 36 C (97 F). Similar temperatures are impacting Holland and Belgium. Home |
Yellowstone Supervolcano is hit with a second cluster of quakes: Number jumps to more than 450 in the last 7 days biggest being mag 4.5 Posted: 20 Jun 2017 10:52 PM PDT USGS The cluster of quakes in Yellowstone Park has now been joined with a second cluster as over 450 small and mid level quakes have have been recorded in the famous park in the last seven days. 26 of these quakes have been above magnitude 2.5 with the biggest being magnitude 4.5. The supervolcano has been rumbling with a series of more than 450 recorded since June 14th. The University of Utah Seismograph Stations reports that an earthquake of magnitude 4.5 occurred at 06:48 PM on June 15, 2017 (MDT). The magnitude 4.5 was the biggest quake at the super volcano since 2014. Wikipedia claims the last full-scale eruption of the Yellowstone Supervolcano, the Lava Creek eruption which happened approximately 640,000 years ago, ejected approximately 240 cubic miles (1,000 km3) of rock, dust and volcanic ash into the sky. Geologists are closely monitoring the rise and fall of the Yellowstone Plateau, which has been rising as fast as 0.6 inches (1.5 cm) per year, as an indication of changes in magma chamber pressure. The upward movement of the Yellowstone caldera floor between 2004 and 2008 — almost 3 inches (7.6 cm) each year — was more than three times greater than ever observed since such measurements began in 1923. From 2004 to 2008, the land surface within the caldera moved upward as much as 8 inches (20 cm) at the White Lake GPS station. By the end of 2009, the uplift had slowed significantly and appeared to have stopped. Home |
Natural-disaster declared in parts of South Dakota as severe drought and late frost destroy nearly $ 20 million in crops and counting Posted: 20 Jun 2017 09:38 AM PDT Photo ksoo.com The Hughes County Commission declared a natural-disaster drought emergency on Monday at their regular meeting, hoping it will unleash some federal and state funds to help farmers who have already lost wheat, hay and pasture-grass crops. The county's farmers have reported $16.85 million worth of crop losses, with 90.7 percent of those losses coming from the winter-wheat crop alone, which was planted last fall, according to assessments given to the five-man commission by Brian Stewart. Stewart is the director of the Farm Service Agency - the federal office that runs the farm program - in Hughes and Stanley Counties. The remaining 9.32 percent of the estimated losses come from spring wheat, alfalfa and pasture-grass crops, according to figures Stewart gave the commission on Monday. In his "loss assessment reports," which he will turn in with the commission's emergency declaration, Stewart said that 300 farmers in the county were hit hard by the hot, dry conditions, including receiving only 61 percent of normal precipitation from Jan. 1 to June 1. "We know there are a lot of losses to winter wheat," Stewart told the commission. "Alfalfa got hurt bad and it's not all because of drought. We also had frost in the last week of May. That hurt, too. But the drought has really . . . exacerbated it out there." Even with the good that last week's rains can do, "A lot of the crops were hurt bad enough where there won't be any helping them," Stewart said. "And we don't have all the acreage reports in yet." Stewart was preaching to the choir. "From what I have seen out in the county, . . in areas down by "the pocket," (in the southeast corner of the county) . . . you can count every rock out in the pasture," said Commission Chairman Norm Weaver. "That's the eastern side of Hughes County. Then you go north there, and I don't remember seeing winter wheat where you were able to row it, almost at the Fourth of July," he said, referring to the sickly growth of the wheat not filling in even its narrow rows. "It's tough out there," Weaver said. The drought disaster declaration cites "inadequate winter snowfall, inadequate spring rainfall, desolating winds and late frost conditions," which led the commissioners to unanimously declare "that said drought conditions constitute a natural disaster of such severity and magnitude that effective response is beyond the capabilities of this county, and even the state of South Dakota, and that federal assistance is necessary. . . " That's what the commission is hoping to do with their "whereases" and resolutions. Their declaration can help "open up emergency loans," through U.S. Department of Agriculture's programs, especially ones aimed at helping ranchers who are short of grass and hay, Stewart said. "And in the bigger picture, once you (pass this resolution), I will forward it on to the Secretary (of Agriculture Sonny Perdue). " That could lead to a disaster declaration for the state, Stewart said. "What that can bring, I can't tell you for sure, because Congress with a stroke of the pen can change things . . . (but) there may be some disaster money out there," Stewart's assessment reports said that county farmers lost 3.32 million bushels of winter-wheat yield on 56,311 acres in the county, caused by the hot, dry conditions since March 1 and lasting season-long, as well as a late frost at the end of May. The lost winter-wheat bushels were valued by Stewart at $4.60 per bushel, which means a $15.28 million loss in winter-wheat income to farmers in the county. The spring-wheat crop hasn't done too well, either, Stewart said. He got information from farmers on 4,642 acres that showed a projected loss of 176,396 bushels valued at $5 per bushel, for a total financial loss of $881,980. The alfalfa on 3,712 acres in the county was hit first by a late, damaging frost from May 20-22, that did an estimated $211,584 of hurt - knocking off 2,227 tons of hay valued at $95 a ton, according to Stewart. The same acres then were hit by drought starting March 1 that will have effects all season, knocking out another 4,083 tons of alfalfa hay, for a projected financial hit of $387,904. Alfalfa producers typically cut two to four crops of hay per season. Ranchers in the county also reported losses in value of $89,318 on 105,500 acres of pasture, according to Stewart. Home |
As the heatwave enters it's second week in California temperatures of 122 F (50 C) in death Valley as heat advisory is declared Posted: 20 Jun 2017 08:03 AM PDT Photo socialmediaweek.org The Heat Wave in California is still sapping strength with temperatures of 122 F (50 C) in Death Valley and up to 120 F (48.5 C) in other areas as the heatwave enters it's second week. Advisories warning of extreme heat were in effect throughout Los Angeles County today as the region's heat wave turned a week old. An excessive heat warning will be in force in the L.A. County portion of the San Gabriel Mountains until 9 p.m. Wednesday and in the Antelope Valley until 9 p.m. Thursday. Temperatures of between 100 and 106 were forecast in the mountains while in the Antelope Valley, temperatures of between 106 and 112 were expected through Thursday, according to the National Weather Service. A heat advisory, which is a notch less severe than an excessive heat warning, will be in effect until 9 p.m. Wednesday in the rest of Los Angeles County, including beach cities, metropolitan L.A., the downtown area, the Hollywood Hills, the Santa Monica Mountains Recreational area and the San Fernando, Santa Clarita and San Gabriel valleys. "Strong high pressure building across the southwestern states will cause temperatures to climb well above normal in many parts of interior Southwestern California through the middle of the week," according to an NWS statement. The weather service also issued stern warnings about guarding against the heat. "The very high temperatures will create a dangerous situation in which there is an increased threat of heat-related illnesses," according to the statement, which urged people who work outdoors to schedule strenuous activity in the morning or evening and warned against leaving children, seniors and pets in hot cars. "Temperatures inside vehicles, even if the windows are partially open, can quickly rise to life-threatening levels. The extended heat wave will also bring elevated fire danger." In response to the heat wave, several Los Angeles cooling centers -- including recreation centers and senior centers -- will have extended hours today and Wednesday. And the manager of the state's power grid issued a Flex Alert for this afternoon and Wednesday afternoon, urging residents to voluntarily conserve electricity to ease demand on the system. The Flex Alert issued by the California Independent System Operator, or Cal-ISO, will be in effect from 2 to 9 p.m. today and Wednesday. Residents were urged to set thermostats at 78 degrees or higher, close drapes and use fans to cool rooms, turn off unnecessary lights and appliances, and delay using major appliances until early in the morning or late in the evening. The NWS forecast partly cloudy skies in Los Angeles County today highs of 77 in Torrance; 78 at LAX; 79 in San Pedro; 85 in Avalon; 86 in Big Bear; 87 in Long Beach; 88 in Downtown L.A.; 90 in Wrightwood; 94 in Whittier; 95 in North Hollywood, Burbank, San Gabriel and on Mount Wilson; 96 in Pasadena and West Covina; 97 in Van Nuys; 98 in Rancho Cucamonga; 99 in Ontario; 102 in Northridge; 103 in Woodland Hills and Santa Clarita, 104 in Redlands; 106 in San Bernardino; 110 in Palmdale and 11 in Lancaster. Temperatures generally will decrease over the coming days, dipping to the week's lowest point Friday and Saturday before inching up again starting Sunday. Partly cloudy skies were also forecast in Orange County, along with highs of 70 in Laguna Beach, 71 in San Clemente; 73 in Newport Beach; 87 in Anaheim and Irvine; 90 in Mission Viejo and Fullerton; and 93 in Yorba Linda. Orange County temperatures will largely stay the same over coming days. In communities where they'll slip slightly, they'll be back at today's levels by Tuesday. Home |
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