Topic: Around the Globe in Real Time

[Nichi]

There seems to be a run on these, over magnitude 6 in the last week.

Now another, in Tonga.
It's the Pacific Rim of Fire.

[Nichi]

Wray, Colorado

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[Ke-ke wan]

Canadian Summer wildfires have started early this year.  Ft McMurray has evacuated 88 000 residents and other towns are on alert.Last Summer, it was the Okanagan that was on fire.  We had ashes floating on the top of the Lake and poor air quality all summer long.

Hoping to avoid that here this year,

http://cwfis.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/firedata/maps/fwi_fbp/2016/sf/fdr20160510.png

[Michael]

Been watching this fire on the news - very scary.

I'm always amazed at how big Canada is.

[Nichi]

http://prospect.org/article/atlantic-surging-virginia-sinking

[Michael]

There you go - the inevitable march of circumstance...

[Jahn]

The higher sea levels in the oceans has already wiped out low level islands in the Pacific.

" Five Pacific islands lost to rising seas as climate change hits - Six more islands have large swaths of land, and villages, washed into sea as coastline of Solomon Islands eroded and overwhelmed


https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/may/10/five-pacific-islands-lost-rising-seas-climate-change

[Nichi]

We are going to be hearing about Matthew for a long time to come.  First, he "broke the rules" by making the 90-degree turn northward, and now, he appears to be looping around. Hitting Florida, going northeast, then coming back around and hitting Florida again. That's as it stands right now. Florida is in a huge panic, understandably.

A quote from Jeff Masters, the head of Weather Underground:

Long range forecast for Matthew: thrown for a loop

Thanks to my advancing years and a low-stress lifestyle that features daily meditation, there’s not much that can move me to profanity—except the occasional low-skill driver who endangers my life on the road. But this morning while looking at the latest weather model runs, multiple very bad words escaped my lips. I’ve been a meteorologist for 35 years, and am not easily startled by a fresh set of model results: situations in 2005 and 1992 are the only ones that come to mind. However, this morning’s depiction by our top models—the GFS, European, and UKMET—of Matthew missing getting picked up by the trough to its north this weekend and looping back to potentially punish The Bahamas and Florida next week was worthy of profuse profanity. While a loop back towards Florida and The Bahamas next week is not yet a sure thing, the increasing trend of our top models in that direction is a strong indication that Matthew will be around for a very long time. Long-range forecasts of wind shear are not very reliable, but this morning’s wind shear forecast from the 00Z run of the European model does show a low to moderate shear environment over the Bahamas and waters surrounding South Florida late next week, potentially supportive of a hurricane--if Matthew survives the high wind shear of 50+ knots expected to affect the storm early next week. The bottom line is that it currently appears that Matthew will not recurve out to sea early next week, and The Bahamas and Florida may have to deal with the storm again next week.

https://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=3464

[Michael]

Weird.

[erik]

I understand that the "hot" area of Matthew is 175 by 175 kilometres (12,000 sq miles).
They expect record level storm surge. Looks like a true beast.
Vicky, have you tried to rise up there and see what Mathhew is about? Is it possible to talk to it?

[Nichi]

New Zealand is having a terrible ordeal.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-37967178

[Michael]

My bookkeeper was telling me last week that she and her family are going to Christchurch in a few weeks for a mountain biking holiday. She will be very worried now.

[Nichi]

Wow - makes you wonder if Edgar Cayce was right after all. He said that our region would be the "safest in the world", and that new land-masses would appear when all hell breaks loose. *Crossing fingers".

https://pilotonline.com/news/local/environment/large-new-island-forms-off-popular-outer-banks-fishing-spot/article_dbf266d9-5991-586c-8209-8ec6f24a01ee.html

[erik]

There are temperatures above 40 degrees Celsius (over 104F) in 11 European countries.
The heat wave has been there for a week now.

[Nichi]

A Category 5, Irma is registering on seismographs.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4856426/Irma-strong-s-registering-earthquake-devices.html