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Archive for July 10th, 2008
Amazing Images: Terrace rice fields in Yunnan Province, China
Posted by feww on July 10, 2008
Posted in Climate Change, energy, environment, food, Global Warming, health | Tagged: agriculture, China, Phantasmagoria, rice fields, Yunnan Province | 1 Comment »
UPDATE: California Fires
Posted by feww on July 10, 2008
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15,000 residents of Paradise, California, ordered to leave their homes!
The problem is they don’t understand the fires in California!
Californians Lack a ‘Life Policy’ and Will Pay Dearly!
A firefighter watches over a backfire set in a redwood forest along Pacific Coast Highway 1 during a massive wildfire in Big Sur, California July 6, 2008. REUTERS/ Robert Galbraith. Image may be subject to copyright. See FEWW Fair Use Notice!
Up to 15,000 residents of Paradise, California, were ordered to leave their homes on Wednesday as fire threatened to spread into town where it consumed nearly 80 homes in June.
The ‘Butte Lightning Complex’ fire near Paradise, about 140 km north of Sacramento, is one of nearly 350 lightening-started wildfires still burning across California. The Butte fire has consumed about 20,000 hectares since June, destroying as many as 60 structures including 45 residences and now threatens up to 4,000 residences.
In the Big Sur area 2,300 firefighters and volunteers have contained about a quarter of the Basin Complex fire, which has burned up to 40,000 hectares of land along California’s pacific coast. Further south, about a half of the Gap Fire in Goleta, near Santa Barbara, which has consumed about 4,000 hectares, has been contained.
About a quarter of a million hectares of scenic land have been scorched in California in the past two weeks. Meanwhile California temperatures rise in what is considered to be “the first significant heat wave of the summer,” according to the California Independent System Operator.
In October 2007, California Wildfires left eight people dead, burned about 200,000 hectares and consumed 2,000 homes displacing about 700,000 people.
The National Weather Service has issued the following alerts throughout California:
- Red Flag Warning
- Excessive heat warning
- Air Quality Alert
- Hazardous Weather Outlook
- UPDATE #2 – California Fires [July 12, 2008] AND
- Our Forecast for 2009 California Fires [Aug 14, 2008]
- Gov. Schwarzenegger signs 10 wildfire-related bills, 104 others (September 26, 2008)
For more information go to: National Weather Service link
This Is NO Way to Deal With California Fires!
Posted in Climate Change, energy, environment, food, Global Warming, health, politics, Tourism | Tagged: air quality, Basin Complex fire, Butte Lightning Complex, California Wildfires, Gap Fire, Goleta, life policy, Los Padres, Paradise, pollution, Sacramento, Santa Barbara, Schwarzenegger | 5 Comments »
UPDATE: HURRICANE BERTHA
Posted by feww on July 10, 2008
See Latest Update [July 14, 2008] Bertha Revving UP!
5:00 PM AST WED JUL 09 2008
BERTHA STRENGTHENS BACK TO A CATEGORY TWO HURRICANE
Hurricane BERTHA Public Advisory #27
AT 500 PM AST…2100Z…THE CENTER OF HURRICANE BERTHA WAS LOCATED
NEAR LATITUDE 24.8 NORTH…LONGITUDE 58.1 WEST OR ABOUT 560 MILES…
900 KM…NORTHEAST OF THE NORTHERN LEEWARD ISLANDS AND ABOUT 660
MILES…1060 KM…SOUTHEAST OF BERMUDA.
Portrait of Bertha [Updated] NOAA
BERTHA IS MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHWEST NEAR 12 MPH…19 KM/HR. A
GRADUAL TURN TOWARD THE NORTH-NORTHWEST WITH A DECREASE IN FORWARD
SPEED IS EXPECTED DURING THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS.
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS ARE NEAR 105 MPH…165 KM/HR…WITH HIGHER
GUSTS. ADDITIONAL STRENGTHENING IS FORECAST DURING THE NEXT 24
HOURS AND BERTHA COULD AGAIN BECOME A MAJOR HURRICANE.
Bertha Heading West/Northwest. [Updated] NOAA
HURRICANE FORCE WINDS EXTEND OUTWARD UP TO 30 MILES…45 KM…FROM
THE CENTER…AND TROPICAL STORM FORCE WINDS EXTEND OUTWARD UP TO 140
MILES…220 KM.
ESTIMATED MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE IS 970 MB…28.64 INCHES.
LARGE SWELLS AND HIGH SURF COULD BEGIN AFFECTING PORTIONS OF BERMUDA
TONIGHT OR TOMORROW.
REPEATING THE 500 PM AST POSITION…24.8 N…58.1 W. MOVEMENT
TOWARD…NORTHWEST NEAR 12 MPH. MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS…105 MPH.
MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE…970 MB.
THE NEXT ADVISORY WILL BE ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER AT
1100 PM AST. FORECASTER RHOME
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