A New Work/Retirement Week
Bob Shannon, Kathy Meader US Editors
Ron Rattray, Rick Price British Columbia and Alberta Editors
Bob Shannon, Kathy Meader US Editors
Ron Rattray, Rick Price British Columbia and Alberta Editors
Zone Forecast Product for Eastern Washington and North Idaho
National Weather Service Spokane WA
353 AM PDT SUN OCT 5 2014 IDZ001-WAZ037-060430-
Northern Panhandle-Northeast Mountains-
Including the cities of...Sandpoint...Rathdrum...Bonners Ferry...
Priest River...Eastport...Colville...Deer Park...Chewelah...
Newport...Kettle Falls
353 AM PDT SUN OCT 5 2014
Kansas City Star
Triple-digit fall temperatures roasting California
KHQ Right Now
(AP Photo/ Nick Ut). Women shade themselves from the sun in the Chinatown section of downtown Los Angeles on Thursday, Oct 2, 2014.
"There is still time for endurance, time for patience, time for healing, time for change. Have you slipped? Rise up. Have you sinned? Cease. Do not stand among sinners, but leap aside."
— St. Basil the Great
Topsoil and crops are being lost in California every day. Even with a good rainfall this coming winter it will be many years before California can build itself up again. Now entering its fourth year of drought and a dry California this year it may not be able to grow sustainable crop again in the near decade, possibly much longer.
3 DAYS TO THE LUNAR ECLIPSE: Mark your calendar. On Wednesday morning, Oct. 8th, observers across the Pacific side of Earth will see the Moon turn a beautiful shade of red as it passes through the sunset-colored shadow of our planet. Totality begins at 10:25 UT (3:25 a.m. PDT) and lasts for nearly an hour. Don't miss it! Eclipse resources: NASA video, animated eclipse, live webcast.
The story begins three weeks ago. On Sept. 12th a CME hit Earth head-on, sparking a G3-class geomagnetic storm. Using a helium balloon, the students of Earth to Sky Calculus launched a radiation sensor into the storm, expecting to measure an increase in energetic particles. Instead of more, however, they measured less. The CME had swept away many of the cosmic rays around Earth and so radiation levels in the stratosphere dropped. The CME was long gone on Sept. 28th when they repeated the experiment and found radiation levels returning to pre-storm values.
Camel crickets may have been largely overlooked by scientists over
the past several decades, but the results of a new citizen science
project, released Sept. 2, reveal the insects may outnumber humans in
the United States.
What's more, the study found that an invasive species of camel cricket from Asia is now far more common in American basements than the native variety.
The study got its start when a cricket taxonomist at North Carolina State University found an invasive camel cricket in the home of a fellow researcher. ("Grad Student Too Busy, Annoyed to Care about Giant Bugs in Basement" was how Holly Menninger, director of public science in the Your Wild Life lab and co-author of the study, phrased it in the subheading of her blog post describing the cricket-infested house.) [7 Insects You'll Be Eating in the Future]
Camel crickets also known as "sprickets," spider crickets and cave crickets have an arched back and long hind legs. The ones scientists would expect to find in North America are thick-bodied and a mottled brown in color; they belong to the genus Ceuthophilus. An invasive species of camel cricket from Asia, Diestrammena asynamora, became established in the United States during the 19th century. It was dubbed the greenhouse camel cricket, and scientists thought it was rarely found outside of greenhouses. It has a banded pattern on its legs and is more slender than its American counterpart.
As the human population continues to inch closer to 8 billion people, feeding all those hungry mouths will become increasingly difficult. A growing number of experts
claim that people will soon have no choice but to consume insects.
As if to underscore that claim, a group of students
from McGill University in Montreal has won the 2013 Hult Prize, for
producing a protein-rich flour made from insects. The prize gives the
students $1 million in seed money to begin creating what they call Power
Flour. "We will be starting with grasshoppers," team captain Mohammed Ashour told us.
National Weather Service Spokane WA
353 AM PDT SUN OCT 5 2014 IDZ001-WAZ037-060430-
Northern Panhandle-Northeast Mountains-
Including the cities of...Sandpoint...Rathdrum...Bonners Ferry...
Priest River...Eastport...Colville...Deer Park...Chewelah...
Newport...Kettle Falls
353 AM PDT SUN OCT 5 2014
TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the 70s.
TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 30s to mid 40s.
MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s to lower 80s.
MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the 40s.
TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 70s.
TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of rain showers. Lows in the 40s. Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s.
WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s to mid 40s. Highs in the lower 60s to lower 70s.
FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of rain showers. Lows in the lower to mid 40s. Highs in the 60s.
I work early on the blog & I work hard on the news which is on Facebook. I am continually updating as much as I can with the newest information I can. The world we live in is constantly changing and some of those things which we thought to be rumors are coming through. Those who fought global warming for such a long time have wasted the time and now we are losing time. There is no reason to fight among each other whether Republican, Democrat or independent. The damages for all of us are real and we must learn to listen and do what we can about them. We must also hope that we're not too late in saving some parts of their own good country such as California. Therefore and in case, I have been keeping you all as informed as I can about what is happening for sure and what is a lie or a miss truth. Almost all of the pictures taken by our professional photographers such as, Rick Price of Medicine Hat Alberta, myself Bob Shannon of Cheney, Washington , Kathy Meader, assistant editor of Cheney Washington and Ron Rattray of British Columbia. If you need to remember an address to get to the Blog, to Facebook or the homepage simply remember
bobshannon.org
bobshannon.org
Kansas City Star
Triple-digit fall temperatures roasting California
KHQ Right Now
(AP Photo/ Nick Ut). Women shade themselves from the sun in the Chinatown section of downtown Los Angeles on Thursday, Oct 2, 2014.
"There is still time for endurance, time for patience, time for healing, time for change. Have you slipped? Rise up. Have you sinned? Cease. Do not stand among sinners, but leap aside."
— St. Basil the Great
Topsoil and crops are being lost in California every day. Even with a good rainfall this coming winter it will be many years before California can build itself up again. Now entering its fourth year of drought and a dry California this year it may not be able to grow sustainable crop again in the near decade, possibly much longer.
Rick Price
This is a guest post from Prof. Adam Sobel, Dept. of Applied
Physics and Applied Mathematics & Dept. of Earth and Environmental
Sciences, Columbia University. He has also started his own blog, adamsobel.org, and his book about Hurricane Sandy, Storm Surge, will be published by HarperCollins on October 14.
In mid-July 2014, Michelle hypothesized
that the reason El Niño was having trouble getting started was that
although eastern Pacific sea surface temperatures (SST) were above
average, they weren’t being felt by the atmosphere (1). While the
central and eastern Pacific were warm, so were the western Pacific and
Indian Ocean—so the SST gradient was small (2)—and the gradient is one factor that matters to the atmosphere, because it drives the winds.
That is a convincing explanation for why the SST anomalies in the
eastern Pacific have not led to a full blown El Niño yet. In this post,
though, I want to explore a different way in which the ocean influences
the atmosphere, through the temperature of the entire tropical
atmosphere.
As of late August, tropical atmospheric temperatures appear to be responding more strongly to the ocean than they typically do at this early stage of El Niño development. This may be precisely because the tropical ocean as a whole (as Michelle described her in post), rather than just the eastern Pacific, is already warm.
3 DAYS TO THE LUNAR ECLIPSE: Mark your calendar. On Wednesday morning, Oct. 8th, observers across the Pacific side of Earth will see the Moon turn a beautiful shade of red as it passes through the sunset-colored shadow of our planet. Totality begins at 10:25 UT (3:25 a.m. PDT) and lasts for nearly an hour. Don't miss it! Eclipse resources: NASA video, animated eclipse, live webcast.
BobShannon
The story begins three weeks ago. On Sept. 12th a CME hit Earth head-on, sparking a G3-class geomagnetic storm. Using a helium balloon, the students of Earth to Sky Calculus launched a radiation sensor into the storm, expecting to measure an increase in energetic particles. Instead of more, however, they measured less. The CME had swept away many of the cosmic rays around Earth and so radiation levels in the stratosphere dropped. The CME was long gone on Sept. 28th when they repeated the experiment and found radiation levels returning to pre-storm values.
Temperatures approached triple digits in much of California on Saturday
afternoon and surpassed 100 degrees in inland areas as a steaming autumn
in the state seemed more like an endless summer.
Heat in the low 90s was felt in the normally temperate San Francisco Bay
Area, and it reached the upper 90s in the Sacramento area.
Throngs of thousands who crammed Golden Gate Park in San Francisco for
the annual Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival were chugging water and
dumping it on their heads as they danced to banjos and fiddles in the
midday swelter, with many wearing shorts and little else.
The mercury was at 95 degrees in downtown Los Angeles by midday and over 100 in the suburbs of San Bernardino County.
What's more, the study found that an invasive species of camel cricket from Asia is now far more common in American basements than the native variety.
The study got its start when a cricket taxonomist at North Carolina State University found an invasive camel cricket in the home of a fellow researcher. ("Grad Student Too Busy, Annoyed to Care about Giant Bugs in Basement" was how Holly Menninger, director of public science in the Your Wild Life lab and co-author of the study, phrased it in the subheading of her blog post describing the cricket-infested house.) [7 Insects You'll Be Eating in the Future]
Camel crickets also known as "sprickets," spider crickets and cave crickets have an arched back and long hind legs. The ones scientists would expect to find in North America are thick-bodied and a mottled brown in color; they belong to the genus Ceuthophilus. An invasive species of camel cricket from Asia, Diestrammena asynamora, became established in the United States during the 19th century. It was dubbed the greenhouse camel cricket, and scientists thought it was rarely found outside of greenhouses. It has a banded pattern on its legs and is more slender than its American counterpart.
As the human population continues to inch closer to 8 billion people, feeding all those hungry mouths will become increasingly difficult. A growing number of experts
claim that people will soon have no choice but to consume insects.As if to underscore that claim, a group of students
from McGill University in Montreal has won the 2013 Hult Prize, for
producing a protein-rich flour made from insects. The prize gives the
students $1 million in seed money to begin creating what they call Power
Flour. "We will be starting with grasshoppers," team captain Mohammed Ashour told us.
Picture by Des Waterfall
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