Smoke doesn't bother me (I actually like the smell - reminds me of victory, lol). About to do some yard work, then do some maintenance work on a local disc golf course, and then we have a small weekday evening mini-tourney at the course. Course is only 2 years old and isn't "beat in" enough to keep the vegetation at bay - it's the Grove in Manalapan, probably a top ten hardest course in the US - very long and heavily wooded/narrow fairways on most holes. Brutal but fun.
OT: Haze from the fires
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Can we do frogs instead, they're much cuter?
There you go with the masks again.
Here in Warren County, the daylight varies from a slight orange tint when more light is getting through to a darker tint when less light gets through. Based on the increase in traffic on our street about an hour ago, I think they let the kids out of school early.
Smoke show? You at the Hillsborough Deli?
It has become pretty smokey smelling (indoors) in the past half hour. And the sky does seem to have turned orange judging from my window (covered in shades).
I'm getting a headache, too. But that's probably caffeine withdrawal, a theory I will try to prove momentarily.
I feel like I could probably help the situation by "sacrificing" a few virgins. Hide your (legal age) daughters!
I'm getting a headache, too. But that's probably caffeine withdrawal, a theory I will try to prove momentarily.
I feel like I could probably help the situation by "sacrificing" a few virgins. Hide your (legal age) daughters!
Absolutely. I try to always be flexible when it comes to apocalypses.
Was out late yesterday afternoon sanding a couple of walnut slabs and didn't realize what was happening. Had a bandana over my nose and mouth with a dust mask over that. Put a bandana on my head with my straw cowboy hat over it. My next-door neighbor came over to check out the project and then another neighbor came over and commented about the smokey smell and then I noticed it. Ditched the mask to wash the vehicles and take a short walk with the dog. Today, the smell of smoke was heavy, so I wore a mask outside to get the mail and put out the garbage can.Can we do frogs instead, they're much cuter?
There you go with the masks again.
Edvard Munch's "The Scream" was inspired by skies hazed-up by Krakatoa.
“One evening I was walking out on a hilly path near Kristiania—with two comrades—The sun was going down—It was like a flaming sword of blood slicing through the concave of heaven. The sky was like blood—sliced with strips of fire—I felt a great scream,”
Even NY skies were affected:
“Soon after 5 o’clock the western horizon suddenly flamed into a brilliant scarlet, which crimsoned sky and clouds. People in the streets were startled at the unwonted sight…The clouds gradually deepened to a bloody red hue, and a sanguinary flush was on the sea…” New York Times, November 28, 1883, p. 2.
Hawaii’s erupting Mauna Loa volcano
"Although the Krakatoa eruption was one of the largest eruptions of the past 200 years, it is not exceptional in comparison to other eruptions from the geological record. In terms of eruption ‘size’ it rates as a ‘6’ on the Volcanic Explosivity Index, having erupted an estimated 12 cubic kilometres of magma. Eruptions of this sort of size occur once every 100 – 200 years around the globe; while the largest known explosive volcanic eruptions erupt many thousands of cubic kilometres of magma over a very short period of time"
Mt St Helens, Eyjafjallajökull, Raikoke and many other volcanoes have changed atmosphere
Tonga in 2022 was a real beast (150ft tsunami)
"When the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano erupted on Jan. 15, it sent a tsunami racing around the world and set off a sonic boom that circled the globe twice. The underwater eruption in the South Pacific Ocean also blasted an enormous plume of water vapor into Earth’s stratosphere – enough to fill more than 58,000 Olympic-size swimming pools. The sheer amount of water vapor could be enough to temporarily affect Earth’s global average temperature."
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/tonga-eruption-blasted-unprecedented-amount-of-water-into-stratosphere
Fires, volcanoes, red skies = nothing new - regular occurrences in geologic time
No reason to kill 200k cows in Ireland (as currently being considered))
You're a pretty smart guy.
I'm still waiting for the Ice Age that was promised in the 1970s.
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Haha weird. This guy made an account to make a post @ me. What a strange guy. Probably built like a bag of milk and shaped like a lysol can.
Laguardia shut down?
I was in the city yesterday and it wasn't too bad. Didn't notice it until I headed West into NJ going home. Today it's bad according to people there.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/07/business/faa-issues-ground-stop-laguardia-due-to-smoke/index.html
I was in the city yesterday and it wasn't too bad. Didn't notice it until I headed West into NJ going home. Today it's bad according to people there.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/07/business/faa-issues-ground-stop-laguardia-due-to-smoke/index.html
I saw that too. Imagine some places in China and India face this daily. I wonder if the old coal driven days in large cities was like this too?
hmm... wonder how "frequent forest fires" is defined? And also, why do people still live in these "frequent forest fire" areas? Dumbarses need to move, or perhaps the govt should step in and force them off their property and relocate them so that I don't have to pay increased health premiums for their "life choices"?
I remember when learned scientists noted that the land around Mount St. Helens would be a "moonscape" for decades and decades after the mountain exploded. Hmmm, life (plants, animals) returned pretty quickly.
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Very hazy and the smoke smell is strong in NB right now.Took this shot out the back door about an hour ago, but the picture doesn't do it justice as to how orange the sky appeared:
LOL. I wouldn't put ESPN on if they were giving out money to viewers.
That's because you're leaving out an important part of the narrative.
The "ice age prediction" was the outcropping of a 9 paragraph story that appeared in Newsweek in 1975. The author, Peter Gwynne - science editor for Newsweek at the time - postulated that the minor decrease in global temperatures from the 1940s through the early 70s was due to a combination of soot and aerosols and, given a status quo, would ultimately result in a repetition of the "Little Ice Age" that impacted parts of the planet beginning in the 16th century.
Media outlets ran with the story and its existence, if not exactly its substance, became pop culture. It's still cited today by politicians and media outlets in an effort to deny existing climate change.
Since then, the amount of soot in the atmosphere has dropped dramatically and aerosol sprays are practically non-existent with the use of CFCs being banned in 1990 pursuant to the Montreal Agreement.
None of that precludes the evidence of what's happening today - that global temperatures are increasing dramatically and sea surface temps are, relatively speaking, through the roof. In the majority of measurement locations in the Arctic, sea ice coverage in the month of April (the month when ice traditionally stops accumulating) is down anywhere between 35% to 60% since 1979.
That's what I was thinking I remember hearing about but then I figured all large cities must have been the same way.
Are you back in the Blue lot again this year?
Edvard Munch's "The Scream" was inspired by skies hazed-up by Krakatoa.
“One evening I was walking out on a hilly path near Kristiania—with two comrades—The sun was going down—It was like a flaming sword of blood slicing through the concave of heaven. The sky was like blood—sliced with strips of fire—I felt a great scream,”
Even NY skies were affected:
“Soon after 5 o’clock the western horizon suddenly flamed into a brilliant scarlet, which crimsoned sky and clouds. People in the streets were startled at the unwonted sight…The clouds gradually deepened to a bloody red hue, and a sanguinary flush was on the sea…” New York Times, November 28, 1883, p. 2.
Whenever I see "The Scream" I can't help but think of @PatrickRU92's avatar...
Looks like they totally changed the wind forecast. It's really ugly out there now.
At the height of its industrial era in Pittsburgh, guys that worked in the office often went home at lunch to get a new, clean shirt.
What possible effect does a smokey atmosphere have on the length of a school day?
Public schools were open but my daughters private kindergarten/daycare recommended picking up early. Mostly because visibility could get worse later in the day they said.
haha right
Mt Helens put more co2 and stuff in the sky that everything man has done to date and that doesn't even get into continued volcanic activity from under the oceans that emits more than all the cars on the planet.
it's all a money grab like reparations is now
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