Lake bed's gonna do what lake beds do.

 

Lake bed's gonna do what lake beds do.

Man vs nature. Who wins?

 

Reminiscent of Woodstock in 69... Hey, what's a little rain man...

 

https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/06/world/hottest-summer-record-climate-intl/index.html

As heat waves continue to bake parts of the world, scientists are reporting that this blistering, deadly summer was the hottest on record – and by a significant margin.

June to August was the planet’s warmest such period since records began in 1940, according to data from the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service.

The global average temperature this summer was 16.77 degrees Celsius (62.19 Fahrenheit), according to Copernicus, which is 0.66 degrees Celsius above the 1990 to 2020 average – beating the previous record, set in August 2019, by nearly 0.3 degrees Celsius.


Typically these records, which track the average air temperature across the entire world, are broken by hundredths of a degree.

This is the first set of scientific data to confirm what many had believed was inevitable. It’s been a searingly hot summer for swaths of the Northern Hemisphere – including parts of the United States, Europe and Japan – with record-breaking heat waves and unprecedented ocean temperatures.

 

Just another hot and steamy August on the Georgia Coast...

Edit: With another possible hurricane heading our way it seems. But then, it is Hurricane Season here on the coast. I did discover that Idalia took down my sloper antenna by removing the tree branch it was attached to. Nothing like the damage Matthew did to my antenna farm which even broke my 2" pipe "tower" mast at its pipe reducer fitting. Matthew took down ALL of my antennas!

 

70 degrees F outside this morning. Forecasting 83 which is average for this time of year. Clear skies, low humidity. But they DID use the S word the other day. Snow above 10,000 feet.

For you Brits:
21.1 degrees C outside this morning. Forecasting 28.3 which is average for this time of year. Clear skies, low humidity. But they DID use the S word the other day. Snow above 3 Km.

 

https://www.iflscience.com/three-eyed-dinosaur-shrimp-are-waking-up-at-burning-man-70529

Relatives of the oldest living creature, Triops cancriformis, are among the fold, which is why Triops have the nickname “dinosaur shrimp”. These “three-eyed” miniature beasties have two main eyes and a pit organ, a “third eye” that’s common among insects, and comes in handy for prey animals as it enables them to detect changes in light – be that a bird coming in to hunt, or the muddy boots of Chris Rock escaping a flooded art festival.

 

Ah. The next star of "Alien", only this one's on a small scale. Larval actually. Next comes Pupa, then comes Politicians.

 

 

Saw that. Almost landed in it. Came to NY just a few days ahead of the storm. Staying with my cousin and we got some drizzles. Absolutely nothing serious. Back home they're having 15 degrees F below average temps for daytime highs. But oddly enough the overnight lows are just about on track.

Just spoke to my wife. She's going to leave the car out so the rain can wash it for her. "/

 

Saw that. Almost landed in it. Came to NY just a few days ahead of the storm. Staying with my cousin and we got some drizzles. Absolutely nothing serious. Back home they're having 15 degrees F below average temps for daytime highs. But oddly enough the overnight lows are just about on track.

Just spoke to my wife. She's going to leave the car out so the rain can wash it for her. "/

Hope he rain doesn’t wash it away for her

 

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/septemb...d-by-a-gobsmackingly-bananas-margin-1.1980012
September Broke the Global Heat Record by a ‘Gobsmackingly Bananas’ Margin

“This month was — in my professional opinion as a climate scientist — absolutely gobsmackingly bananas,” Zeke Hausfather, a researcher with Berkeley Earth, said on the social media platforms Bluesky and X.

The numbers are stark. September 2023 beat the previous record for the month, set in 2020, by 0.5C (0.9F), according to data sets maintained by the Japan Meteorological Agency and the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service. The temperature anomaly for the month was roughly 1.7C above pre-industrial levels, which is above the symbolic 1.5C mark set as the stretch goal in the Paris Agreement.

 

As Climate Scientists go - the use of highly specialized terminology regarding climate such as "Gobsmackingly Bananas" is beyond my third grade education. I have no idea what that means in terms I can understand.

It sure sounds scary though.

 

As Climate Scientists go - the use of highly specialized terminology regarding climate such as "Gobsmackingly Bananas" is beyond my third grade education. I have no idea what that means in terms I can understand.

It sure sounds scary though.

“Climate scientists are running out of superlatives to describe 2023,” Hausfather said.

Americans Will Measure With Anything But The Metric System

 

Tropical rain.

 

I was born and grew up in the tropics. That’s what rain looks like.

 

I was working in Milwaukee a few years ago. Was there for 9 months. Stayed in a long term hotel. They served Continental Breakfast. Every morning before going to work I'd take a banana or two for later in the day. One desk clerk demanded that the TV can ONLY be tuned to FAUX NEWS. I got so tired of all the banter about politics I asked to change the channel. He said "NO! Company policy - the TV stays on Fox News." Later that afternoon when I returned I complained to management about being forced to watch news I didn't want to see or hear. I was assured that the guests have the right to change the channel. That desk clerk was spoken to the next day. The day after that there were no bananas in the continental breakfast bar. So I went to the desk and asked him if I could get a banana or two. He gave me two TINY bananas. They couldn't have been more than 4 inches long. I was sure he did that deliberately, go back into the store room and pick out the smallest bananas he could just because I complained. So to me - bananas have no intrinsic value as far as measurements go. This is literally what he gave me, two of these:

 

I was working in Milwaukee a few years ago. Was there for 9 months. Stayed in a long term hotel. They served Continental Breakfast. Every morning before going to work I'd take a banana or two for later in the day. One desk clerk demanded that the TV can ONLY be tuned to FAUX NEWS. I got so tired of all the banter about politics I asked to change the channel. He said "NO! Company policy - the TV stays on Fox News." Later that afternoon when I returned I complained to management about being forced to watch news I didn't want to see or hear. I was assured that the guests have the right to change the channel. That desk clerk was spoken to the next day. The day after that there were no bananas in the continental breakfast bar. So I went to the desk and asked him if I could get a banana or two. He gave me two TINY bananas. They couldn't have been more than 4 inches long. I was sure he did that deliberately, go back into the store room and pick out the smallest bananas he could just because I complained. So to me - bananas have no intrinsic value as far as measurements go. This is literally what he gave me, two of these:

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I've seen lots of tiny ones in Asia and central America, very common. Likely they didn't put them out because they were all small sized fruit.