Micro Twister - Micro Burst

These are extremely dangerous for aircraft

Rain! Rain!

Today was cloudy & mild.
Temperature: High - 28.2°C @ 2:05pm, Low - 23.5°C @ 2:43am
Humidity was on the higher side.
For a surprise it was raining in the evening (6pm). Take a look at the satellite pic nothing there to watch out...

There was signs of North-east warm moist air current from yesterday evening 7PM, It's good to have a spell of rain before dry winter sets in.
Let's hope this spell of showers lasts for another 2 days atleast.

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Cloudy and windy morning

Today the day started as Cloudy, windy and Cold. As you can see the Low temperature 21.4°C was at 7:18am. And today's humidity, high 87% @ 7:36am and low 57% @ 2:36pm, so this means evening is dry and mild.
Take a look at the latest satellite pic.... boo no significant changes.
We might see some changes in weather during the 1st of December, let's wait and see what kind of change? Bursts of rain? very cold? A Depression over bay?

Humanity First International - Bangladesh Cyclone

The following facts represent Humanity First International's Current Disaster Assessment of the Bangladesh Cyclone Disaster as produced in coordination with International Relief & Governmental Agencies.

Affected Areas:
The worst affected areas include Bagerhat, Barguna, Barisal, Bhola, Gopalgonj, Jhalkhati, Khulna, Mandaripur, Patuakhali, Pirojpur, Satkhira and Shariatpur districts.
Patuakhali's Golachipa and Mirzaganj and Bagerhat's Shoronkhola and Morolganj upazilas are experiencing the worst drinking water crisis.
Contaminated drinking water has resulted in a diarrhea outbreak which has started to claim lives. The first reports of diarrhea death came from Mathbaria upazila in Pirojpur, where two children died yesterday. NGO workers in a number of worst-hit areas in Patuakhali and Barguna have also reported that hundreds are affected by the disease.

Population Affected:
More than 6 million people in southern districts are now known to have been directly affected by the cyclonic storms.

Missing, Injured, & Death Tolls
2,062 individuals have been reported missing and 6,611 reported injured As of 20 November, the Government of Bangladesh official reports indicated a death toll of 3,447 people.

Property Damage:
An estimated 300,511 homes were destroyed and 626,088 houses were partially damaged. Extensive damage to roads and public buildings also occurred, including 792 educational institutions destroyed with another 4,393 partially damaged.

Crop Damage:
An estimated 870,000 acres of crops were damaged.

Immediate Needs:
- Food
- Clean Water & Water Purification
- Disease Control with focus on Diarrheal Illness Prevention & Treatment
- Shelter Assistance

Long Term Needs:
- Rehabilitation of Industry & Workplaces
- Infrastructure Recovery
- Health and Educational services
- Transition of Short Term to Long Term Housing
For more please visit www.humanityfirst.org

"Thirparappu" Falls

Thirparappu falls is a natural beauty spot attracts many tourists. It is located at a distance of 25 kms from Nagercoil (Town near Kanyakumari). There is a lord shiva temple. The lord after destroying the yagam of dhaxan as virabhadra murthi has taken abode over here. This lord, who is very sweet for the sincere worshippers, is in a fierce form. This temple is one in the shivalaya ottam temples. There are many old inscriptions in this temple including the one of the pandiya king dated nineth century.
This temple is situated in a very scenic background as the kodhaiyaru rivers makes a fall near the temple. This is a west facing abode. The sanctum is round shaped at the bottom and cone shaped toward the top. There is an abode for jvaradevar in the temple. Beautiful big temple.

"Malibu" fire

Some video clips from great fire of Malibu, USA

another one... it's Hell

Final week forecast for monsoon

If we expect rain from North-East monsoon for Chennai, then we have last 15 days window.
As far as i'm concerned the weather will stay dry thru next week and we might get an odd shower before 10th of December.
All over India the temperature is below normal for this time of the year.
Here's the rainfall forecast for the coming week(s)...

Marina beach, take a look

Distance view.

Top view

Human jungle

Close view. You make out.

Shrinking lakes of Siberia ...

The Guardian

Lakes in two large swaths of Siberia are shrinking in size and 125 of them have disappeared altogether, a US study revealed yesterday.
Scientists have examined satellite photographs of 190,000 square miles of Siberia, two areas stretching south between the Ural mountains and the Arctic mining town of Norilsk. They claim the disappearance of the lakes is a consequence of global warming.

The warning comes as Tony Blair flies to Moscow this Sunday to secure the support of Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, for G8 action on climate change.
While there were 10,882 lakes larger than 40 hectares (100 acres) in 1971, there were only 9,712, in 1997 - a decline of 11%.
Published in the journal Science, the study concluded: "The ultimate effect of continued climate warming on high-latitude, permafrost-controlled lakes and wetlands may well be their widespread disappearance."
It said: "Our study reveals a widespread decline in lake abundance and area, despite slight precipitation [rain and snowfall] increases". The study also said the total surface areas of lakes in the region had dropped by 6%, while 125 lakes of this size had disappeared completely.

The study said the way the lake disappearances were spaced out "strongly suggests that thawing of permafrost is driving the observed losses".

It said that in northern areas where there was continuous permafrost - a thick layer of frozen soil that rarely melts during seasonal changes - the total surface area of the lakes grew by 12%. But in the southern regions, the patchy permafrost cover meant that water could drain away, leading to a considerable reduction in lake area.

"These declines have outpaced lake gains in the north, leading to an overall loss to the region," it said.

Russian scientists disagreed that the lake disappearances could be attributed to climate change. Galina Malkova, a senior research fellow of the Moscow-based Earth Cryosphere Institute and an expert on permafrost, said: "The data shows that the increase of temperature did not exceed 0.3C. This is not enough to be considered as a factor.

"The water draining is mainly explained by soil erosion processes," she said, adding that lakes often disappeared as they aged. "Many are gradually taken over by vegetation."

Russia ranks quite low among global polluters. Since its industrial complex began to decline with the collapse of the Soviet Union, emission levels have sunk to levels lower than the projections when it signed up in 1992 to the Kyoto treaty to limit climate change. As it now produces less than its allocated quota of emissions under the treaty, Moscow can sell carbon credits to other treaty signatories.

Russia, the world's number two exporter of oil, ratified the treaty last year, bringing it into legal effect and rescuing it from obsolescence after the US, the biggest polluter, refused to sign up in 2001