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Weather or not,dry is the envir…

Thanks for your service…

Wind pushed by cool front, August 16th…

Have a great week, 💗

little rain in our forecast.

El Nino

Weather comes from climate.

El Niño is a weather phenomenon that occurs every few years in the tropical Pacific Ocean. It refers to the warming of the ocean surface, which leads to changes in atmospheric circulation and weather patterns worldwide. During El Niño events, we often see increased rainfall in some parts of the world and drought in others. This phenomenon can have significant impacts on global weather patterns, influencing temperature, precipitation, and storm activity. It is an essential component of the complex climate system, and monitoring El Niño is crucial for understanding and predicting weather patterns on a regional and global scale. Source IN generated Ai.

An ancient affect

Weather systems have been affected by the El Nino/La Nina effects for perhaps thousands of years in the sense of humanity living at its consequences.

Nov 14th 2021

Flooding occurred in British Columbia that severely damaged infrastructure, crops, cattle, chickens, and caused a long-term evacuation of numbers of people something not used to by the people British Columbia.

Wind ward and lee ward sides of barriers to fronts.

We have seen the effects of barriers coming from the windward side, moist air from the Pacific Ocean and transferred into the clouds dumping huge amounts of rain in very short order just before the lee side of a barrier.

Temperature differences are sometimes mitigated by the drag effect of the currents that were created by El Nino as they continue colder water comes up from below surface to close to surface after the effect of the warm water going into the clouds is accomplished.

In particular British Columbia then can have some fairly good size pools of cold water in the Pacific this affecting our shores. Yes the increase in temperature globally including the amount of warm surface water coming out of the tropics is powerful and it doesn’t take rocket science, but more and better observation, to mitigate the effects of warm/cold water as it moves about.

Good luck and thank you Noah and:

Mobility may be necessary,in some areas

Environment Canada,👀👁️ 🌊💲💲💲💲

Environment Canada says that there are no alerts in effect at this hour. Mondays high temperature is forecast for 34°C. Dropping to 24 c Tuesday, with a 60% chance of showers.

Monday UV

The Ultra Violet index will be 8 or high. Take care.

Rain can bring mushrooms on some lawns…

Garden, glory

Last day of front:

The weather today in Merritt, BC is cloudy with a high of 19 degrees celsius and a low of 8 degrees celsius. The current temperature is 14 degrees celsius. There is an 8% chance of precipitation and a 6 UV index. The sunrise time was 5:05 AM and the sunset time will be 8:54 PM1.

Weather Thursday to the end of May.

2023-05-2526 °C9 °C620%Partly sunny
2023-05-2628 °C11 °C76%Sunny
2023-05-2727 °C12 °C626%Mostly cloudy
2023-05-2826 °C11 °C710%Partly sunny
2023-05-2927 °C9 °C81%Sunny
2023-05-3026 °C8 °C50%Sunny
2023-05-3129 °C10 °C51%Sunny
Merritt BC Canada daily temperature to end of May, source Bing

Good growth week ahead…

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How the climate made history: part two.

The end of a World empire. 🌎

Rome falls because after hundreds of years of poor weather and the lack of adaptation out of the slave cultures.

Mary Magdalene floods

After the fall of Rome because of climate,things that happened that were evil were attributed to sin, including sexual sin. This was a blight on human history and still can play on conscience today.

Wandering saints

Missionary actions of individual saints were made part of the common culture of scarcity and displacement of the general population.

Tomorrow will be kinder 🎵🎶🎶🎶

Anglican church interior, Merritt BC, File Photo KDG
The sun west of Merritt, Red from smoke, of the 2017 fire season in the Sothern interior of BC File Photo KDG

Daytime heat to 40 c

There is a heat warning for the BC Central interior from environment Canada drawing our attention to the fact that the forecast for today July 25th 2022 is for temperatures to be up to 40 degrees Celsius…

Our condolences to you.

We wish you a reasonable return to a sense of well being based on some present reality. PP

Weather is one of the biggest
contributors to natural disasters

File Photo KDG

Natural Disasters world wide cost.

The most expensive year was 1986, 700 billion dollars USD for the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.

Four Hundred Sixteen disasters in 2020

The number of natural disasters globally was 416 in 2020. The range for the last 20 years go’s from 320 (2001) as a low to 430 (2006) as a high.

On this Day: October 8th 1970

The Nobel peace prize in Literature goes Alex Solzhenitsyn.

Warmer Wetter Winter: NOAA US

Large swings in temperature.

Arctic oscilation will drive swings in temperature regardless of El Nino or La Nina.

AO to you and its predictability is limited to a weeks.

Drought improvement in southeast US.

Flooding this last year lends to drought relief in some areas combined with AO.

Cold winter for Canada : Farmers Almanac.

Calculations based on the Canadian Farmers’ Almanac’s time-tested formula suggest that the winter of 2018-2019 will be a “teeth-chattering” cold one, with below-normal temperatures forecast for much of the country.

When it comes it can be something to manage File photo KDG

On this Day: October 24th 1946

The first photography from space.

TGIF-September 22 equinox-Indigenous summer?

Red Sky in the evening
File Photo KDG

Twelve  hours of light 12 hours dark, dark starts to win after September 22:

 The knowledge that summer is gone – and winter is coming – is everywhere now, on the northern half of Earth’s globe.

If you live in the Northern Hemisphere, you can easily notice the later dawns and earlier sunsets.

Also notice the arc of the sun across the sky each day. You’ll find it’s shifting toward the south. Birds and butterflies are migrating southward, too, along with the path of the sun.

The shorter days are bringing cooler weather. A chill is in the air. In New York City and other fashionable places, people have stopped wearing white. Creatures of the wild are putting on their winter coats. source: Earth Sky News

On this Day: September 15th 1816
HMS Whiting runs aground on the Doom Bar (Dunbar)

Weather or not…

January 10th, 7pm shows  snow accumulated,Merritt BC Photo KDG

January 10th, 7pm shows snow accumulated, Merritt BC
Photo KDG

We have had snow on the ground here in South Central British Columbia, at 700 meters elevation, for about a month. The fist time in decades that snow lasted more then a week. The accumulation is forcast  for clear skies and at this writing there are heavy skies with moderately low ceiling.
This gives a feeling of normal to local long timers.

On this day: January 10th 49 BC

Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon River with his legions.

Harvest Moon

Animation of the blood moon September 28th photo KDG

Animation of the blood moon September 28th 2015
File photo KDG

Friday, (Saturday some places)that pesky full moon will be a harvest moon. The event is close to the fall equinox on the 22nd so the angle that it appears in the horizon will be smaller then usual.

The Earth’s axis is always tilted at an angle of about 23.4° in relation to the ecliptic, the imaginary plane created by the Earth’s path around the Sun. On any other day of the year, either the southern hemisphere or the Northern Hemisphere tilts a little towards the Sun. But on the two equinoxes, the tilt of the Earth’s axis is perpendicular to the Sun’s ray.
The fullness of the moon will be at 9:05:06 Central European Time, here it will be 12:05:06 PDT, Pacific Daylight Time.
Full moons are often attributed to strange events including a recent study by the University of Tokyo suggesting large earthquakes correspond to large tidal events, these events are driven by gravitational pull on the earth from the moon.

University of Tokyo, found that tides—which arise from the gravitational interaction between the Earth and the Moon—can cause changes that may trigger earthquakes. Source Time Magazine.

Editors note: Or the last tidal event triggered the big one meant for you…

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Moon at three quarter August Merritt BC Photo KDG

On this Day: September 15th 1971
The first Green Peace ship goes to Amchitka Island to demonstrate against nuclear testing.