NO SUNSPOTS NOW… BUT WHEN THEY COME BACK…

THE AURORA’S WILL BE BACK IN 2012… BACK, WAY UP NORTH!!!

THEY ARE BEAUTIFUL…  THESE APPARENTLY ARE FROM YELLOWKNIFE CANADA, WAY, WAY UP NORTH.  VERY FEW EVER GET TO WITNESS AURORAS AS SPECTACULAR AS THESE… 

AURORA’S ARE MOST COMMON WHEN THE SUN IS DOTTED WITH SUNSPOTS AND IS IMMITING AN INTENSE ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD.  THIS PATTERN COMES AND GOES WITH THE SUNSPOT CYCLE, EVERY 11-YEARS. 

THE INTEREST OF THESE AURORAS WILL HIGHTENED FOR THE NEXT FEW YEARS.  AS, SO FAR, THE CURRENT SOLAR CYCLE IS STARTING EXTREMELY SLOW AND THE SOLAR WIND ASSOCIATED WITH THE CYCLE IS THE LOWEST IN RECORDED HISTORY (ABOUT 75 YEARS).  AT IT’S EXPECTED PEAK IN 2012, THE SOLAR WIND WILL AGAIN BE STRONG ENOUGH TO CHARGE THE ELECTRONS HIGH IN THE ATMOSPHERE CREATING THESE AMAZING SIGHTS…

37 BELOW ZERO !!!  BEAUTIFUL, BUT AT THIS TEMPERATURE, SOUNDS ARE DIFFERENT…  THEY SAY, THEY CAN ACTUALLY HEAR SOME OF THESE AURORAS…  THEY MAKE “WHISTLE” AND “SNAPS”…

JG

A BEAUTIFUL PICTURE… ANOTHER FREEZING NIGHT…

BRRR….  HERE’S A BEAUTIFUL PICTURE OF THE RECENT SHUTTLE LAUNCH…

A BIG THANKS TO AUSTIN PEARCE, A SOPHOMORE AT BYU!

JG

GLOBAL WARMING??? REAL OR NOT???

I PERSONALLY BELIEVE REGIONAL WARMING HAS BEEN OCCURRING, BUT I HAVE NEVER BEEN A BIG “BELIEVER” THAT THIS WARMING IS AS GLOBAL OR THAT THE FUTURE IS AS DIRE AS FORECATED IN THE THE MOVIE “INCONVENIENT TRUTH”.  

MY ARGUMENT REMAINS, THERE IS WAY TOO MUCH WE STILL DON’T KNOW…

MORE EVIDENCE THAT SUPPORTS MY POSITION…

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/11/16/do1610.xml

JG

PALOMA – CAT 4, ALMOST CAT 5 !!!

HURRICANE HUNTERS ARE GETTING A WILD RIDE THIS MORNING…

http://www.tropicalatlantic.com/recon/archive/storm.cgi?year=2008&storm=Paloma&product=URNT12

PALOMA SHOULD WEAKEN, BUT STRANGELY THE “LEFTOVERS” OF PALOMA COULD SWING PAST JAX IN ABOUT 5 DAYS…  As no more than a few showers…

HAVE A GOOD WEEKEND!

JG

BEEN A ROUGH FEW WEEKS, BEEN VERY BUSY AND SICK… ANYWAY…

THE ELECTION IS OVER AND OUR WEATHER HAS BEEN…

Like I have been feeling… Ahhh…. Not-so-good.  Yet, here we are in November and the tropics are all cranked up!

PALOMA

WHY WON’T PALOMA HEAD OUR WAY?

Below is a map of the Upper-Level winds… Usually, these winds dictate ONLY hurricane intensity, but when the amount of upper-level winds are so uniformly out of one direction, it almost always either rips the Tropical Cyclone in half (top from bottom) OR it helps to accelerate the storm in an Easterly direction.

SO, NO WORRIES FROM PALOMA FOR US… BUT… CUBA GETS HIT (AGAIN)…

 

JG