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The Gulf of Mexico is critical to the Midwest and East Coast... Because the jet stream runs from west to east but that affects more of the temperature of America. The Gulf of Mexico feeds all the way up through Canada and into the Arctic. It supplies us with oxygen and all forms of moisture. And this is a serious problem because oxygen levels have come down in the Gulf of Mexico, the water and this supplies lots of oxygen into America, Canada and the Arctic. And the smog that is growing in Arizona and California is trapping moisture below it, preventing that from going towards the Midwest and East Coast as well from the Pacific. This is why we have the growing desert and this is why we have many more droughts in California and in effect, Mexico as well. So the Pacific is the most polluted ocean. So America is getting screwed. The lamp that goes the other way. That's more about the British Annette. The jet stream goes through America towards Britain and the golf moves moisture up and through and the Atlantic does bring it up. But it's from the South outside the Gulf and the Southern states. And then the Gulf and the Southern states, the moisture moves upward. To the top of the world... So America is having serious issues because of the pollution in the Gulf and the Pacific.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (.gov)

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Larger-than-average Gulf of Mexico 'dead zone' measured

Aug 3, 2021 — Exposure to hypoxic waters has been found to alter fish diets, growth rates, reproduction offsite link, habitat use,

So because of smog building up in the West, you and the Pacific being so polluted Moisture isn't rising and this is why the California mountains are not experiencing enough snow.

The Guardian

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Temperature inversions are trap for moisture and pollution

Feb 29, 2016 — During the day, a lid of warm clear air traps cloud, mist and moisture in the cool air below

Why does smog get trapped?

The warmer air rises and acts as a lid trapping the colder air close to the ground. Pollution, including that from road traffic is also trapped, so the air layer closest to the ground becomes more and more polluted. This continues until the prevailing meteorological conditions change.Jun 29, 2016

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Temperature inversion traps pollution at ground level

It's critical that these mountains get very heavy snowfalls because the water runs down stream and it takes care of all the vegetation and wildlife and it also takes care of all the aquatic life... It also allows for good summer rains.As it evaporates it turns into clouds and those clouds bring rain... So the monsoons had been getting less and that means things have been getting dryer...

In 2024, California's mountains have experienced record low snow, with the Sierra Nevada experiencing 52% of average snowpack in the second snow survey of the year. This is less than half of the snow the region typically receives by this point in the winter, and has raised concerns of a "snow drought".

Washington Post

Mountains in the West have a lot less snow than they should right ...

Jan 5, 2024 — Even with a small uptick in recent days, the California region SWE is less than half the normal value for the date, according to the U.S. Agriculture Department's Natural Resources Conservation Service. The SWE of 3.2 inches on Jan. 4 compares to the normal 7.2 inches. In what became a historically snowy winter, last year the SWE was 11.2 inches on the same date.

earthobservatory.nasa.gov

A “Surprisingly Average” Year for Sierra Snowpack

Apr 11, 2024 — After more than a decade of either unusually wet or unusually dry years, snowpack in the Sierra Nevada was close to normal in 2024. Snowpack throughout the Sierra range was 110 percent of average on April 1, 2024, according to the California Department of Water Resources (DWR).

San Francisco Chronicle

Here's where California's snowpack stands with winter ...

Jan 30, 2024 — California has received barely half of the snow it typically gets by this point in winter, reinforcing concerns of a “snow drought” as the wet season moves into its second half and time grows shorter to produce cold, powder-producing storms. State water officials reported 52% of average snowpack across California's high country in the second snow survey of the year on Tuesday, a day before a major storm was forecast to bear down on the state and at least slightly improve prospects for the season, particularly in the southern Sierra Nevada. Another big storm is expected to arrive Sunday.

The 2023-2024 winter has been marked by a periodic warming of the eastern tropical Pacific, known as El Niño, which has torqued winter weather across much of the Western Hemisphere. Many of California's storms this year have been warm, with rain falling instead of snow.

However, snowpack throughout the Sierra range was 110 percent of average on April 1, 2024. Angelique Fabbiani-Leon, California's state hydrometeorologist, said that several additional storms within March would help, and that the region would be up to 100% of average by April 1.

At the Central Sierra Snow Lab at Donner Pass, Calif., October through December snowfall in 2023 was the fourth-lowest since 1971. “No horrible records just yet, but we are certainly scraping the bottom of the barrel at this point,” Andrew Schwartz, lead scientist and manager of the lab, said in an interview.Jan 5, 2024

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Mountains in the West have a lot less snow than they should right

So this is causing things to have hotter and hotter temperatures in Arizona Nevada. It's affecting Utah and many other areas growing the desert region because of the pollution in the Pacific Ocean. And then the smog in California, preventing water from getting warmer and rising. As you see, the inversion traps this air below. And it prevents the water vapors from coming up... So and it's causing a problem as well.In arizona for the water to move westward the smog in scottsdale tempe area again is trapping the water in the valley and it's causing the valley to get hotter and hotter.... And this also trapped pollution.And this makes air quality worse in Arizona, California.Because it traps all the pollution below.It so literally they're killing themselves... Yes, they're killing themselves because it traps and prevents rainfall from coming in and washing it out. It prevents a snowfall from happening and cleansing. The sky and the traps all that pollution towards ground level. The smog prevents the pollution from getting the sunlight and getting evoperate. It and so literally, California's opportunities of poisoning themselves and people in Arizona are poisoning themselves.....

The National Weather Service said the monsoon season this year in the arid Southwest dropped only 0.15 inches (. 38 centimeters) of rainfall from June 15 to September 30. That's the driest since the agency began keeping records in 1895. The previous mark was 0.35 inches in 1924.Oct 1, 2023

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Phoenix, Arizona, Has Driest Monsoon Season Since 1895

Yes, monsoon rainfall has decreased in Arizona in 2023, with Sky Harbor International Airport receiving 0.15 inches of rain from June 15 to September 30, which is the driest monsoon season since 1895. This is a decrease from 2022, when 10.63 inches of rain fell, and 2021, when 10.90 inches fell.

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Phoenix, Arizona, Has Driest Monsoon Season Since 1895

Oct 1, 2023 — October 01, 2023 7:20 PM. A jet takes flight from Sky Harbor International Airport as the sun sets over downtown Phoenix, Arizona, July 12, 2023. Phoenix, Arizona — After a summer of extreme heat, Arizona's most populous city is in the record books again. This time Phoenix is notching a record for dry heat. The National Weather Service said the monsoon season this year in the arid Southwest dropped only 0.15 inches (. 38 centimeters) of rainfall from June 15 to September 30. That's the driest since the agency began keeping records in 1895. The previous mark was 0.35 inches in 1924.

The Guardian

Phoenix has driest monsoon season since record-keeping ...

Oct 2, 2023 — Monsoon 2023 was officially the driest on record in Phoenix with a grand total of 0.15" of rainfall recorded at Sky Harbor International Airport. The average during the monsoon season is typically 2.43". # azwx pic.twitter.com/3bdC728IK3. — NWS Phoenix (@NWSPhoenix) October 1, 2023. Nevada has struggled with drought conditions since 2020. New Mexico, the fourth driest state in the US with an average annual rainfall of about 14in (35.5cm) per year, also has been affected by the drought in recent years. Phoenix this summer experienced the hottest July and the second-hottest August.

AZCentral

Arizona's 2023 monsoon driest on record for Phoenix - AZCentral

Sep 29, 2023 — At the high country's airport, 2023's accumulation of 4.24 inches puts it well below its average of 7.68. The year was also dwarfed in comparison to 2022 (10.63 inches) and 2021 (10.90 inches). In Phoenix, Sky Harbor caught an abysmal 0.15 of an inch of rain this season, easily placing it as the driest on record, pushing out 1924 at 0.35 of an inch. Usually, Sky Harbor gets around 2.43 inches of rain during the season. When compared even to 2020's "Nonsoon," a total that both Tucson and Flagstaff handily exceeded, Phoenix's 2023 comes nowhere close. Sky Harbor got exactly 1 inch of rain that year, according to NWS statistics.

The 2023 monsoon season was also the 20th-warmest on record, with Phoenix experiencing its hottest July and second-hottest August. The lack of rainfall has been driving the heat higher, as when the sun shines on dry ground, more of its energy is converted into heat.

Most of the southwestern U.S. experienced drier than normal monsoon conditions in 2023, especially across central and southern Arizona into New Mexico and west Texas, with most areas receiving 50% or less of normal precipitation. However, precipitation in the north and west offset the drier areas.

Precipitation totals vary widely each monsoon season and within each season, amounts change quite dramatically from city to city. For example, during the 2013 monsoon season, Flagstaff recorded well above normal monsoon season total precipitation, while Prescott was almost two inches below normal.

So literally these people on the west coast are killing themselves... But in every city they don't understand this pollution is trapping pollution below it causing poorer and poorer air quality...

Inversion is a weather phenomenon where warmer air at higher altitudes traps colder air — and pollution — below it, according to the Utah Department of Environmental Quality.

The Gulf of Mexico's moisture can cause snowfall in Canada through low-pressure systems that move east or northeast. These storms use moisture from the Gulf of Mexico and cold air from Canada to create heavy snow and sometimes blizzards. The moisture from the Gulf of Mexico and tropics also helps the Prairies experience fluffier snow and heavier snowfall rates in the spring.

NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory

Severe Weather 101: Winter Weather Forecasting

These storms move east or northeast and use both the southward plunge of cold air from Canada and the northward flow of moisture from the Gulf of Mexico to produce heavy snow and sometimes blizzard conditions. Other storms affecting the Midwest and plains intensify in the lee of the Canadian Rockies and move southeast.

The Weather Network

How the tropics help produce big springtime snows on the Prairies

Apr 23, 2022 — MUST SEE: Spring weather words you need to know. There's still plenty of cold air locked over Canada deep into March and April, even as classic springtime storms bring comfortable warmth and rowdy thunderstorms south of the border. These low-pressure systems cross the border with plenty of atmospheric moisture pumped straight from the Gulf of Mexico and tropics to the south, providing the juice needed for fluffier snow and heavier snowfall rates across the Prairies, both of which contribute to deeper accumulations. The increased moisture doesn't just increase the tenacity of blizzards on the eastern Prairies.

The Gulf Stream, also known as the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC), is an ocean conveyor belt that moves heat, nutrients, and water from the tropics to the North Atlantic. This is responsible for the relatively mild temperatures in European countries that are roughly on the same latitude as Canada.

CBC

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10 Strange Facts About Canada's Climate - The Wild Canadian Year

Through blistering cold winters to hot muggy summers; torrential rain, blinding snowstorms, deadly tornados and scorching drought

So as you see it's causing serious issues are pollution.... It is destroying the united states.....

https://www.sltrib.com › 2022/02/09

What causes inversions in Salt Lake City? And what's behind ...

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Tuesday, January 9, 2024

Canada Offers Cities Money to Spur Home Building (WSJ) Armed with a multibillion-dollar war chest, Canada is offering money to cities to ditch zoning restrictions that thwart residential construction as the country deals with an acute housing shortage. Canada’s Liberal government is targeting municipal-government rules that, among other things, limit the number of units and stories per lot in the country’s cities. The effort highlights the urgency to ease a housing crunch that is fueling historical rent increases, and causing hardship among younger Canadians looking to own a home

First US lunar lander in more than 50 years rockets toward moon with commercial deliveries (AP) The first U.S. lunar lander in more than 50 years rocketed toward the moon Monday, launching private companies on a space race to make deliveries for NASA and other customers. Astrobotic Technology’s lander caught a ride on a brand new rocket, United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan. The Vulcan streaked through the Florida predawn sky, putting the spacecraft on a roundabout route to the moon that should culminate with an attempted landing on Feb. 23. The Pittsburgh company aims to be the first private business to successfully land on the moon, something only four countries have accomplished. But a Houston company also has a lander ready to fly, and could beat it to the lunar surface, taking a more direct path. NASA gave the two companies millions to build and fly their own lunar landers. The space agency wants the privately owned landers to scope out the place before astronauts arrive while delivering NASA tech and science experiments as well as odds and ends for other customers.

Winter Storm Hits the Northeast, Bringing a Foot of Snow to Some Areas (NYT) The first major storm of the winter season dropped more than a foot of snow in parts of the Northeast on Saturday, creating treacherous travel conditions in some areas while also bringing an end to a mostly snowless winter so far. More than 9 million people from the northeastern United States to Northern Arizona were under winter storm warnings on Sunday evening. The National Weather Service warned that the “rapidly strengthening” storm would continue to disrupt travel. Forecasters warned of low visibility and dangerous driving conditions during the heaviest snowfall, which could reach one to two inches per hour.

With Shutdown Looming, House and Senate Leaders Agree on Spending Levels (NYT) Senate and House leaders announced on Sunday that they had struck an overarching agreement on 2024 government funding, but it was not clear whether they would be able to cement the deal and pass it into law in time to avert a partial government shutdown in less than two weeks. After weeks of negotiations and on the eve of Congress returning from its holiday break, top Senate and House members said they had agreed to set the total amount of spending at nearly $1.66 trillion, bringing funding in line with the deal struck last year between President Biden and then-Speaker Kevin McCarthy that met with vehement conservative opposition.

Ecuador’s ‘most-wanted’ criminal disappears from prison (Reuters) Ecuador’s “most-wanted prisoner”, the leader of the Los Choneros criminal group, disappeared from the jail where he was being held, authorities said on Sunday and launched an operation to locate him. General Cesar Zapata, the national commander of police, told a press conference that the country’s armed forces had determined that one of the inmates in the Guayaquil prison was missing. While Zapata did not mention the inmate by name, the prosecutor’s office said it would investigate “the alleged escape” of Jose Adolfo Macias, the leader of Los Choneros. Los Choneros is a criminal organization authorities have linked to extortion, murder and drug trafficking, among other crimes, and accused of controlling the country’s main prisons.

Peru’s food culture (Washington Post) Chef Virgilio Martínez’s flagship restaurant in Lima was named number one among the World’s 50 Best Restaurants. It had ranked in the Top 10 for years. The honor, voted on by more than 1,000 international experts, cemented Peru’s place on the culinary map. With an innovative tasting menu that showcases Peru’s breathtaking geography and biodiversity, it led a cohort of four Lima restaurants in the 50 Best—more than from any other city in the world. How the gastronomic scene in the capital of troubled, underdeveloped Peru came to triumph over established powerhouses such as Paris and New York owes much to the personal talent and drive of Lima’s high-end chefs. But it’s no coincidence that they are Peruvian, their creativity forged in this South American nation’s highly original and varied national food culture, one that is finally being recognized as one of the world’s greatest. Wherever you go here, Peruvians of all races and classes love not only to eat but also to talk about food, with myriad appetizing options for all budgets. Most of the recipes can be found only in Peru, and they’re invariably made with fresh ingredients.

The truck stops here (NPR) For two months now, Polish truckers have continued their blockade at a border crossing between their country and Ukraine. The blockade is in protest of an E.U. measure Polish truckers say unfairly benefits Ukrainian drivers, allowing swarms of Ukrainians to do business in Poland as if they were members of the E.U. Currently, the line at the Dorohusk border crossing includes thousands of trucks and stretches over 20 miles. Under five trucks are let through per hour as part of the blockade. “This is a fight for our existence,” says one Polish trucker. “Ukrainian drivers, they drive around like they're members of the EU—like us—and they take away our bread, they take away our work.” Before the change, the EU maintained a permitting system that ensured that equal amounts of Polish and Ukrainian truckers were crossing the border between the two countries. Now, they've suspended it entirely as part of an effort to boost Ukraine's wartime economy—at the expense of Polish workers.

She’s 16. The war in Ukraine wrecked her city—and her childhood. (Washington Post) Newly 16, she likes to walk alone, hands shoved in pockets, music loud in her ears, for mile after mile. If Kate Kobets walks far enough, she can escape into her own world. It is a place where her childhood hasn’t been destroyed—her home loud with war, her soldier stepfather locked away as a Russian prisoner of war, she and her mom confined to a bomb shelter for much of the year after she turned 14. She is part of a generation of Ukrainian teenagers living through a conflict entering its third year with no end in sight. Raised during a pandemic—then through gunfire and bloodshed—Kate, like many of her peers, is unsure what it means for her future. She knows she is luckier than some of her friends—who have lost their homes or even their lives. Still, it is difficult to make sense of it all. Her classes are online. Her friends are displaced. Her crush is in a different country. Her beloved woods contain mines and at least one mass grave.

North Korea’s Kim Jong Un turns 40. Maybe. (Reuters) North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is believed to have turned the big four-oh on Monday, but state media continued its decades of silence on his birthday. Kim’s birthday is believed to be Jan. 8, though his secretive regime has never confirmed the date. The U.S. government lists Kim’s birth year as 1984, making him 40 years old this year. The closest North Korea has come to confirming the date came in January 2020 after authorities acknowledged Kim had received birthday greetings from then-U.S. President Donald Trump, though they did not mention the exact date. This year, state news agency KCNA on Monday showed Kim visiting a chicken farm with his daughter and senior officials.

Thousands forced from homes by a deadly Japan earthquake on New Year’s face stress and exhaustion (AP) Thousands of people made homeless overnight are living in weariness and uncertainty on the western coast of Japan a week after a powerful earthquake left at least 168 dead and dozens missing. The rescue effort since the magnitude 7.6 New Year’s Day quake has drawn thousands of troops, firefighters and police who picked through collapsed buildings Monday hoping to find survivors. Authorities warned of the danger of landslides, exacerbated by a heavy snowfall, throughout the quake’s epicenter on the Noto Peninsula in Ishikawa prefecture. The landscape blanketed in fluffy white revealed burned and crumbled houses, ashen blocks of a city, highways with gaping holes and cracks. Nearly 30,000 people staying in schools, auditoriums and other evacuation centers worried about infections as cases of COVID-19 and other illnesses popped up. In the shelters, people were still sleeping on cold floors. After initial help of a piece of bread and a cup of water for each person a day, more aid is allowing some facilities to begin serving hot food cooked in huge pots.

With every strike and counterstrike, Israel, the US and Iran’s allies inch closer to all-out war (AP) In the last week alone, Israel has killed a senior Hamas militant in an airstrike in Beirut, Hezbollah has fired barrages of rockets into Israel, the U.S. has killed a militia commander in Baghdad and Iran-backed rebels in Yemen have traded fire with the American Navy. Each strike and counterstrike increases the risk of the already catastrophic war in Gaza spilling across the region. And in the decades-old standoff pitting the U.S. and Israel against Iran and allied militant groups, any one party could choose all-out war over a loss of face. The divisions within each camp add another layer of volatility: Hamas might have hoped its Oct. 7 attack would drag its allies into a wider war with Israel. Israelis increasingly talk about the need to change the equation in Lebanon, even as the U.S. aims to contain the conflict.

Al Jazeera says Israeli strike killed another child of Gaza bureau chief (Washington Post) As veteran Palestinian reporter Wael al-Dahdouh lost his wife, several children, and his closest colleague to Israeli airstrikes and shelling, each blow was watched by an audience of millions—in Gaza today, there is little privacy to mourn the dead. But it was the news Sunday that his son Hamza al-Dahdouh, the one who had followed in his footsteps and become a journalist, had been killed alongside another colleague, Mustafa Thuraya, that cut the deepest. Hamza, 27, was on assignment for the Al Jazeera news network when a strike “targeted” the car he was traveling in near the southern city of Rafah, the network said.

Mouse filmed tidying up man's shed every night (BBC) Despite being an avid wildlife photographer, retired postman Rodney Holbrook never expected to capture a Ratatouille-style scene unfolding in his own shed. After regularly discovering that things from the night before had been mysteriously tidied, he set up a night vision camera on his workbench. It captured a mouse picking up clothes pegs, corks, nuts and bolts and putting them back in a box. He has since nicknamed the well-kept rodent Welsh Tidy Mouse. The 75-year-old from Builth Wells, Powys, said the tidying ritual had been going on for two months. "Ninety nine times out of 100 the mouse will tidy up throughout the night. I don't bother to tidy up now, I leave things out of the box and they put it back in its place by the morning," he said.

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