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First time ever observed. http://www.blastr.com/2015-11-4/nasa-just-saw-something-come-out-black-hole-first-time-ever

NASA MAVEN Indicates Martian Atmosphere Began to Be Stripped Off By Solar Storm Winds Beginning 4.2 Billion Years Ago When Mars Lost Its Protective Magnetic Field. “Solar wind storms of a very active sun in the beginning of our solar system began stripping the upper atmosphere of Mars away into space beginning 4.2 billion years ago when Martian magnetic fields were lost for unknown reasons, while Earth's strong magnetic fields have persisted and repelled the solar wind enough to preserve the Earth's atmosphere.” - Bruce Jakosky, Ph.D., Principal Investigator, NASA MAVEN Mission NASA's MAVEN spacecraft launched in November 2013 and entered Martian orbit on September 22, 2014. Its mission has been to study how Mars lost most of its atmosphere and water. Artists' conception by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Illustration of Mars surrounded by strong solar storm wind that could strip the Martian upper atmosphere beginning 4.2 to 3.7 billion years ago after Mars is hypothesized to have lost its protective magnetic fields for unknown reasons. On the right, Earth's strong magnetic fields still persist and deflect the solar wind. Illustrations by NASA Earth files.com

So, there's nothing new in the universe, except perhaps another universe. When our universe was 380,000 years old after the Big Bang, the above cosmic microwave background (CMB) observed by the Planck Telescope is the oldest light from that beginning. While mapping the CMB, European Space Agency astrophysicist Ranga-Ram Chary, Ph.D., who studies Planck Space Telescope data at CalTech, found an unexplained signal in a baryon to photon ratio that does not exist in our known universe. One hypothesis is that the signal is matter “leaking” from a parallel universe into ours. So for the physicists here..... “Spectral Variations of the Sky: Constraints on Alternate Universes,” by R. Chary, Astrophysical Journal, Oct. 1, 2015. http://arxiv.org/pdf/1510.00126v1.pdf Anyone care to weigh in ?

http://phys.org/news/2015-10-china-super-super-collider.html This will be The largest most powerful collider with multinational scientists present for study.

https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/2015-21 . Astronomers announced today that they have spotted a large, rocky object disintegrating in its death spiral around a distant white dwarf star. The discovery also confirms a long-standing theory behind the source of white dwarf "pollution" by metals. "This is something no human has seen before," says lead author Andrew Vanderburg of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA). "We're watching a solar system get destroyed." The evidence for this unique system came from NASA's Kepler K2 mission, which monitors stars for a dip in brightness that occurs when an orbiting body crosses the star. The data revealed a regular dip every 4.5 hours, which places the object in an orbit about 520,000 miles from the white dwarf (about twice the distance from the Earth to the Moon). It is the first planetary object to be seen transiting a white dwarf.

I saw that on world news. This isn't about climate change - pro or con. This is about global economics and control of the masses. One tiny little problem. The real scientists are estimating a very cold turn in about 10 yrs. Then they'll blame CO2 through some other rationale. The fix is in.

Winter has arrived early in Germany http://www.dw.com/en/first-snow-showers-winter-has-arrived-early-in-germany/a-18780737 Britain facing 'longest winter in 50 years' http://travel.aol.co.uk/2015/10/13/uk-weather-longest-winter-50-years-siberian-swan-arrives-early/

This is quite a treat to many scientists. It establishes we aren't the only ones out there to be graced with blue skies and waters. Let's hope they find life soon. http://www.nasa.gov/nh/nh-finds-blue-skies-and-water-ice-on-pluto

I understand this has been proven to be computer enhanced. It was a good show, but it's all Hollywood. Too bad.

This is just awesome. https://www.facebook.com/bbcearth/videos/1059976274035928/

2015-16 winter is looking like it will be a strong on in Europe, so I'm creating a thread for It. Austria had a very hot summer, however, winter has suddenly surprised the area with a heavy snowfall. http://www.thelocal.at/20150924/winter-makes-early-visit-to-salzburg This is early even for higher elevations which received 2 meters. A lot of snow even for them.

These are just gorgeous. Some people thought it was a sign from heaven. In a way, it was,-a nice one. The colorful luminescence is caused by the sun's light being refracted by water droplets and ice crystals in the cloud, said, Eladio Solano, a meteorologist with Costa Rica's National Meteorological Institute, according to Costa Rica media outlet Teletica News.

Tsunami waves spotted. 1 to 3 meters. Some areas off Chile could see damaging waves. http://ptwc.weather.gov/ptwc/text.php?id=pacific.TSUPAC.2015.09.17.0122

This just happened and information is trickling in. 150 miles off the coast and 34 miles deep. Tsunami warning up but no details. Building in the city were known to sway, and people rushed out in to the streets. This is quite big. Damage will be known later. For now, the tsunami is the big concern if it forms. http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us20003k7a#general_summary Tsunami Center http://ptwc.weather.gov/?region=1&id=pacific.TSUPAC.2015.09.16.2323

Arizona should be in that with California and the southern half of the U.S. Will likely see significant moisture.

September 12, 2015 — 5.4 Quake Hit Tokyo Bay, Japan, Friday, Sept. 11, After Typhoon Etau Flooded Hundreds of Tons of Radioactive Water from Fukushima Nuclear Plant Into Pacific Ocean. — “On September 9 and 11, 2015, due to typhoon no. 18 (Etau), heavy rain caused Fukushima Daiichi K drainage rainwater to overflow to the sea. ... measurement results show no impact to the ocean.” - TEPCO website — “This is a downpour on a scale that we have not experienced before.” - Takuya Deshimaru, Japan weather forecaster in press conference Flooding in Joso, Ibaraki prefectur, northeast of Tokyo, on September 10, 2015, a Japanese town of 31,000 people most intensely flooded during Typhoon Etau that forced evacuations of 100,000 in central and northeastern Japan. 3 dead, 23 missing, 13,000 homes flooded, thousands evacuated from homes. The Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) says that testing of waters around its Fukushima nuclear power plant and in the nearby Pacific Ocean are “sufficiently below” the legally permitted radioactivity level, according to Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga. But amid the overwhelming typhoon waters, many are concerned that TEPCO has restarted nuclear reactor Unit 1, even while the company still struggles to contain highly radioactive water from the other damaged units during the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami.

The article speaks of the Highlands yes, but it speaks of Birmingham receiving a hailstorm and frost forecast that night with 23*F temps. Birmingham is in the English Midlands not the highlands and this is not normal for them at all. I've lived over there near Cambridge and so far all my friends over there have said they're freezing their arse off this summer. Their winters recently have been exceptionally cold and a great deal of heavy rain and flooding. They say they've never seen the UK so cold in the south. Typically early September brings rain and cooler air, not cold and frost or frozen anything. "Freak hailstorms left Birmingham under a carpet of white this week as forecasters warn autumn is about to turn nasty. Plunging thermometers will push the mercury close to -5C (23F) overnight on Saturday with the risk of frosts on Sunday morning. Forecasters are not ruling out a flurry of snow over high ground as a swathe of bitter air floods in from the Arctic."

In Britain it isn't unusual for the " weather to turn " as they say, in early Sept. But usually that means from warm to cool, not cold to snow. The UK may be in for a rough winter. Winter hits Britain http://www.express.co.uk/news/weather/602694/Britain-braces-snow-winter-weekend Coldest summer in decades. http://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/britain-endures-coldest-summer-in-years-met-office-figures-show-a2926106.html

http://solarscience.msfc.nasa.gov/predict.shtml The current prediction for Sunspot Cycle 24 gives a smoothed sunspot number V2.0 maximum of about 101 in late 2013. The smoothed sunspot number V2.0 reached a peak of 116.4 in April 2014. This will probably become the official maximum. This second peak surpassed the level of the first peak (98.3 in March 2012). Many cycles are double peaked but this is the first in which the second peak in sunspot number was larger than the first. We are currently over seven years into Cycle 24. The current predicted and observed size makes this the smallest sunspot cycle since Cycle 14, which had a maximum smoothed sunspot number V2.0 of 107.2 in February of 1906.

August 16th on record. And this is the height of their summer. Coldest 17th of August on record in Holland. Just 15.2°C (59.4°F). And on Sunday the temperature dropped to just 16.6°C (61.9°F), making it Holland’s second coldest August 16th on record.

I thought Sno would show up as the El Niño has grown. Promises to be a really good one.

And just for fun, Hobart, Tasmania had snow on their beaches as Melbourne, Australia had the coldest July ( their winter) in 20 yrs. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-08-01/melbourne-shivers-through-coldest-july-in-20-years/6665178 Hobart Surfs up dude !

Yeah Chris, I saw where Iran had temps of 126*F over this past week. That's hot ! The northern parts of Europe remain chilly. Crazy. Normally found 2,000 miles away, it’s the first time this Arctic species (Beluga Whale) has been recorded in Northern Irish waters. “A beluga whale is extremely unusual,” said Dr Peter Evans, director of the Seawatch Foundation. A fall in sea temperatures could be why the whale, which was sighted off the County Antrim coast near Dunseverick, strayed so far from its usual habitat, said Evans. http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-33746156

Iceland The past weekend was exceptionally cold throughout all of Iceland. Sharp winds ravaged the Western coast, while snowfall and hail hit the East and South. On Sunday, the ground was white with snow all around the highlands in Central Iceland. “Everything was white. When we got up at 9AM the snowfall was mostly over, but by the time we left, around noon, it had started up again,” Þorgerður Eva Þórhallsdóttir, a member of the Search and Rescue team in Skagafjörður, North Iceland, told Morgunblaðið. “I think this is rather abnormal weather for the middle of the summer. It wasn’t like this last year.” http://icelandreview.com/news/2015/07/21/summer-snow-highlands Scotland However, it is unusual for fresh snow to fall at this time of year. Scotland’s main ski resort at Cairngorm Mountain has been able to remain open into June just once in more than 20 years, after unexpected heavy snowfalls in 2010. Temperatures have also been autumnal, with some claiming June could be the coldest summer month in 40 years. http://www.scotsman.com/news/environment/scotland-s-weather-snow-forecast-as-gritters-seen-1-3843824 Finland This summer, the temperature has only surpassed 20 degrees Celsius (68 Fahrenheit) at FMI monitoring points on 37 days. In Finnish Lapland, there have only 19 such days. As a result, this summer is set to go down in the history books as one of the coldest on record – bucking the worldwide trend whereby this year brought the hottest June ever, according to official US and Japanese climate reporting agencies. In northern Finland, only 1962 so far as stands as a colder summer – although the summer figures are based on June through August. In Rovaniemi, capital of Finnish Lapland, there have only been two days over 20 degrees so far. However there have been slightly warmer readings along the Russian border, as well as in the Tornio River Valley on the Swedish border, FMI meteorologist Asko Hutila told Yie. http://yle.fi/uutiset/summer_2015_poised_to_be_chilliest_in_50_years/8188502