Thursday - September 02, 2010
Global Warming Weather Report ….
I see it got to be 88 in Joisey today .... Been pretty nice here, a warm spot found in front garden of house but otherwise, I’m wearing a quilted flannel shirt.
I’ve been telling folks it’s been cooler here last few yrs but some who insist the sky is falling say otherwise. Maybe cooler here but hotter somewhere else. OK, doesn’t that balance things out? What the heck, I am not taking things too seriously.
However, it transpires that I was correct, without any scientific study on my part, to just know things were NOT warmer here this summer. Hey folks, when you’re wearing flannels to bed at night, in August, you don’t need to get any more scientific then your own personal experience to realize things are on the cool side. Which was a welcome plus this year.
Hot it was not… farewell to coldest August for 17 years
By Ryan Kisiel
It should have been the height of summer, but was notable only for its low temperatures.
The UK has just endured its coldest August for 17 years, which was marked, say forecasters, by a complete absence of ‘hot days’.
The month also saw the lowest single-day August temperature for 23 years, with it falling to 55f (12.8c) in Edgbaston, Birmingham, last Thursday.
And several ‘notably’ cold nights were recorded last week.
An exceptionally cloudy period in the South East of England put something of a dampener on the holiday period as heavy rain fell across large swathes of the country.
THERE’S MORE HERE FOR THOSE INTERESTED
On an entirely unrelated subject ..... Business section of paper reports Burger King having $$$$ trouble and can’t keep up to McDees. Brit company said to be interested but no confirmation from them. Yet. Gee. Burger King? We live in sad times. But we can console ourselves that McD is okay. So far.
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Permalink • Thursday - August 19, 2010
Today In Weather History
Today in weather history ...
August 19, 1896
The famous Cottage City (Oak Bluffs) waterspout occurred off Martha’s Vineyard, MA. The vortex was 3,600 feet high, formed three times, and was well photographed.
Martha’s Vineyard is a small island just off the coast of Massachusetts, right by New Bedford and Newport. It’s south of the Cape Cod peninsula, 60 miles south east of Boston and about 80 miles east of the end of Long Island Sound. Not exactly the kind of place you’d expect tornadoes. But they had one once, and it was a big job. Martha’s Vineyard is also where Chappaquiddick is, and the whole Kennedy compound. This waterspout never touched land, thus no Kennedys had the chance to be sucked into the vortex.
Waterspouts are like little tornadoes that form over water. Most are of the non-tornadic variety, but some can form the same way from thunderstorm clouds that a regular tornado can. Generally they are not dangerous, winds about 30mph, and rate a 0 on the Enhanced Fujita Scale.
Speaking of small tornados and thunderstorms, we have a new member. Well, actually a very old member who went away and has now come back. Banned, but now unbanned. Guess who?
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Permalink • Thursday - August 12, 2010
More of … More News that isn’t … or … The flowers that grow in the winter, tra-la
Drew keeps feeding me with stuff .... Not looking for a debate on the subject. Just an observation is all.
Here it is August 12 and I’m dressing warmly in spite of promises of a Bar-B-Q summer. Or was that last year? I have actually run the heat a few times.
Hey .. I like it cool and even downright cold doesn’t bother me. I hate humidity, didn’t much care for picnics even as a kid, and so no complaint from me if I have to wear flannel PJs to bed at night in August.
Now then, I don’t know much about flowers coz aside from helping the wife water the darn things, I do not plant them. But I do like taking photos of them on occasion. As I say, no expert on flowers but I know the name of this one.
It’s called an Amaryllis. I may be corrected by those who know more, but this is a winter flower. At least around here, it is a Christmas flower. When they stop blooming you let em die off and do not cut the leaves. They are supposed to die off naturally. But this one suddenly started sprouting a couple of days ago.
So then, here we are with a Christmas flower on August 12, 2010.
Global Warming. Uh huh. Right.
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Southern hemisphere experiencing worst winter in just about forever. Hey, why isn’t that headline news?
Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia and Brazil are all experiencing some of the coldest weather in many years. That’s right, Brazil! According to the report,
On July 14th, in the afternoon hours, temperatures in the hills of Rio Grande do Sul state in Southern Brazil were lower than in Marambio, the main polar base of Argentina in Antarctica.
In Paraguay, thousands of cattle perished from the extreme cold. In some provinces of normally-balmy northern Argentina, snow has been seen for the first time since 1921.
Southern Brazil was also very affected by the cold air eruption from the Southern Pole. Last week the temperature dropped to -7.8C in the city of Urupema, Santa Catarina. In Rio Grande do Sul, in the hills of the state, temperature felt to -4.9C in the city of Cambara. In the state of Parana, the low was -6C. Only the nights were freezing, but the afternoons were very cold. In some days, temperature failed to reach 5C in many towns, the first time in a decade. Flurries observed in towns of Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina and Parana and sleet was also reported in Western Santa Catarina.
The most striking scenes came from the top of Morro da Igreja, a 1800 meters elevation in the state of Santa Catarina. The area recorded snow and freezing rain. As anyone can imagine, freezing rain is extremely rare in Southern Brazil. The event was witnessed and photographed by weather observers from MetSul Marcelo Albieri and Caio Souza.
Maybe the most notable fact took place in North South America. The cold reached Amazon and temperatures felt to as low as 7C in towns in the Amazon Forest in the states of Acre and Rondonia. Temperature even felt in Roraima, where the state capital Boa Vista record 20C (normal lows are 25C) and the wind were blowing from the South.
Boa Vista is located at 2 degrees North of latitude, so the influence of the Antarctic cold blast crossed the Equator line and reached towns in the Northern Hemisphere. It would be the same of a cold snap from the Arctic crossing the entire North America continent, the Caribbean and reaching North Brazil in cities at 2 degrees South of latitude as Santarem, a bizarre situation.
Australia is in a similar boat as well, with record setting lows in Perth, Adelaide, etc., and even New Zealand is freezing.
An extreme cold snap has broken temperature records and produced what are likely to be the country’s coldest nights this year.
The National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research said the past few days had seen some of the lowest temperatures on record.
Air temperatures in Taumarunui, in the central North Island, dipped to -6.8C this week, the coldest since records began in 1947.
Te Kuiti and Turangi had their coldest July nights on record, and in the South Island, Blenheim experienced its second-coldest July temperature yesterday morning.
Queenstown, at -7.2C, had its third coldest night in 139 years of records.
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Permalink • Monday - July 19, 2010
drip drip drip
The scroll of fear was running like mad on all channels on TV. Severe Weather Alert, We’re All Gonna Die!! I even had people calling me up on the phone to tell me how bad the weather was about to become.
“Killer Storm” came thru here at 8:20. Rain rain rain, a bit of thunder and L. Half an hour later it’s all over. Big yip.
But a cloud went briskly west to east from north NJ over NYC and across Lpng Island. So it was the end of the world on TV. And now a cloud is approaching Boston, so the Campaign of Weather Terror continues.
3 or 4 people hit by lightning from this storm, 2 in St. Louis, 2 in taxachussets I think. Sorry guys, but life is risky.
Yes, you have to be aware of the weather. Try looking outside, that usually works. And lightning can mess you up, so when it starts raining the smart set lets go of the copper flagpole at the top of the lonely hill and stops cursing the gods! Duh.
It rained this morning too, just in time to make rush hour a mess. Now after Storm Two, with a chance of Storm Three later on, the lovely NJ humidity has gone up while the temperature has dropped 10 degrees. Soak a sponge, wring it out, and hold it over your face and mouth. Now try to breath. That’s about what it’s like outside right now. I think I’ll turn the A/C another notch colder.
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Permalink • Friday - July 16, 2010
The Sky IS Falling!
Horry Clap, the atmosphere just collapsed! Well, last year anyway. Did you notice? No, neither did I. My ears didn’t even pop. But NASA noticed! And like every other kind of New that impacts Science, experts are baffled!!
NASA-funded researchers are monitoring a big event in our planet’s atmosphere. High above Earth’s surface where the atmosphere meets space, a rarefied layer of gas called “the thermosphere” recently collapsed and now is rebounding again.
“This is the biggest contraction of the thermosphere in at least 43 years,” says John Emmert of the Naval Research Lab, lead author of a paper announcing the finding in the June 19th issue of the Geophysical Research Letters (GRL). “It’s a Space Age record.”
The collapse happened during the deep solar minimum of 2008-2009—a fact which comes as little surprise to researchers. The thermosphere always cools and contracts when solar activity is low. In this case, however, the magnitude of the collapse was two to three times greater than low solar activity could explain.
“Something is going on that we do not understand,” says Emmert.
The thermosphere ranges in altitude from 90 km to 600+ km. It is a realm of meteors, auroras and satellites, which skim through the thermosphere as they circle Earth. It is also where solar radiation makes first contact with our planet. The thermosphere intercepts extreme ultraviolet (EUV) photons from the sun before they can reach the ground. When solar activity is high, solar EUV warms the thermosphere, causing it to puff up like a marshmallow held over a camp fire. (This heating can raise temperatures as high as 1400 K—hence the name thermosphere.) When solar activity is low, the opposite happens.
Lately, solar activity has been very low. In 2008 and 2009, the sun plunged into a century-class solar minimum. Sunspots were scarce, solar flares almost non-existent, and solar EUV radiation was at a low ebb. Researchers immediately turned their attention to the thermosphere to see what would happen.
Emmert uses a clever technique: Because satellites feel aerodynamic drag when they move through the thermosphere, it is possible to monitor conditions there by watching satellites decay. He analyzed the decay rates of more than 5000 satellites ranging in altitude between 200 and 600 km and ranging in time between 1967 and 2010. This provided a unique space-time sampling of thermospheric density, temperature, and pressure covering almost the entire Space Age. In this way he discovered that the thermospheric collapse of 2008-2009 was not only bigger than any previous collapse, but also bigger than the sun alone could explain.
One possible explanation is carbon dioxide (CO2).
When carbon dioxide gets into the thermosphere, it acts as a coolant, shedding heat via infrared radiation. It is widely-known that CO2 levels have been increasing in Earth’s atmosphere. Extra CO2 in the thermosphere could have magnified the cooling action of solar minimum.
“But the numbers don’t quite add up,” says Emmert. “Even when we take CO2 into account using our best understanding of how it operates as a coolant, we cannot fully explain the thermosphere’s collapse.”
According to Emmert and colleagues, low solar EUV accounts for about 30% of the collapse. Extra CO2 accounts for at least another 10%. That leaves as much as 60% unaccounted for.
So now what? Are we going to have AGC? Now it’s carbon dioxide causes atmospheric COOLING?? The boy who cried wolf, much?
Here’s a link to a NASA video that smells like bullshit to me. CO2 catches IR rays from the earth. That causes it to get hot, and that means the molecules vibrate faster, causing them to collide with more other molecules and thus shedding the heat. But as it rises into the higher parts of the atmosphere, where there are exponentially less other molecules around, the CO2 gets heated up by colliding with those other molecules, and then sheds the heat via plain old radiation. But dear old PV=NRT is still the law even in the thermosphere, so this cooling effect causes the thermoshere to contract. And pretty much by definition, that means it’s density has to increase. Which means more molecules in closer proximity, which means a minimization of the upper atmospheric behavior of the gas. It seems to me NASA is saying the density decreases as the layer cools. Personally, I think they are even more unwilling to stop blaming carbon for all their problems then Obama is unwilling to stop blaming Bush for all of his.
Hey, maybe they should bring sunspots into their equation. Why not? The sun continues to be at or very near the minimum point in the opening years of Solar Cycle 24, currently still below even the revised sunspot predictionsmade last year. Right now we have a grand total of ONE visible sunspot. Does that help or hurt? Who knows? I’m baffled, which implies that I am an expert!
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Permalink • Saturday - June 26, 2010
Flirting With Disaster
MIAMI—Tropical storm Alex formed in the Western Caribbean Saturday, and forecasters said it was unclear if it would hit the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center in Miami said early Saturday that the storm has maximum sustained winds of about 40 mph. Most storm prediction models show Alex traveling over the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico over the weekend, but they no longer have it going across the oil spill once it reaches the Gulf, hurricane forecaster Jack Bevens said.
A tropical storm warning is in effect for the coast of Belize and the east coast of the Yucatan Peninsula, which separates the Caribbean Sea from the Gulf of Mexico.
It’s too early to tell if the storm will hit the northeastern part of the Gulf, where the spill has spread over the past 10 weeks, Bevens said. While the current forecast track has the storm shifting away from the spill, Bevens noted that could change.
Am I the only person who sometimes gets the idea that the Chicken Little Weather Wienies™ are rooting for this to happen? I swear, to be a meteorologist you have to love weather, but you also have to have a darker side. They THRIVE on predictions of Doom & Gloom. They WANT this event to happen. It makes me wonder what their political and psychological makeup is. I think they may all be left wing hippie children who revel being the heralds of Gaia’s Revenge. And if that’s the case, the only question is how many seconds it will take for them to declare that such an event, a hurricane disrupting the oil spill efforts and spreading the mess even further, is Bush’s fault because of Global Warming. I’ll put my dollar in the pool and go with 53.
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Permalink • Friday - May 28, 2010
Those Lying Losers At NASA
NASA has been fudging the earth’s energy calculation ... for 40 years!
Climate Sceptic Scientists’ Growing Confidence
Thanks to Siddons and his co-authors of ‘A Greenhouse Effect on the Moon,’ the world now has scientific evidence to show the greenhouse gas theory (GHG) was junk all along.
As the truth now spreads, an increasing number of scientists refute the greenhouse gas theory, many have been prompted by the shocking revelations since the Climategate scandal. The public have also grown more aware of how a clique of government climatologists were deliberately ‘hiding the decline’ in the reliability of their proxy temperature data all along.
But NASA’s lunar temperature readings prove that behind that smoke was real fire. Some experts now boldly go so far as to say the entire global warming theory contravenes the established laws of physics.
How NASA responds to these astonishing revelations may well tell us how politicized the American space agency really is.
Read the whole thing.
Thanks to CBullit for the reference post and CMBlake6 for the h/t.
Just a day or so ago I read a piece somewhere on how the New York Times blithely ignored the ClimateGate story until just recently, and most of the MSM followed suite. Or only ran pieces on those “whacko” deniers and their crazy ideas, stories that supported AGW, or tried to make the whitewash of the Phillip Jones investigation look like the real deal. Now that just about all of Europe has been there, done that, and discredited the entire thing, months ago!, it’s finally starting to leak into the US MFM. And now we have pretty strong evidence that the entire greenhouse gas theory was bogus, and was known to be bogus, 2 generations ago. So expect Fox News to run this story ... around Christmas.
Meanwhile, Ocommieba and his assclownposse continue to try and push for Cap and Trade Crap’n Traitor, the Ponzi scheme bill made to save the planet from the evil Man Made Global Warming and it’s eviller Carbon Footprint.
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Permalink • Sunday - May 09, 2010
As Usual
Today is the 9th of May. Your kids off at college are hitting the books big time. Final exams start tomorrow at many schools, next week at the rest of them. In another 2 weeks it will be time to make that big long drive to go pick them up, attend graduation, and watch them say goodbye to the old alma mater and the friends they have made there. Ah, the milestone moments of growing up. Sniff, sniff.
At my old school, it is snowing today. Middle of May. Less than a week before the parents show up.
Toldja so. Winter will simply not let go up there. Gray and brown, the unofficial school colors. The sky above, the mud below.
But to be fair, it’s only in the mid 50s down here this morning. Winds have been blowing like mad for a full day now. Trees down in places, branches all over. Helluva blow. Still, it could be so much worse. Look at Nashville, the poor sods. Coping the best they can, but finding out that FEMA is broke for the year, and it’s only May. Peiper must be heartbroken over the damage there, his old stomping ground nearly drowned.
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Permalink • Saturday - April 17, 2010
They Never Learn
Yet ANOTHER warmist needs arctic rescue after nearly dieing from frostbite.
Yet another alarmist is nearly killed by global warming hysteria:
Tom Smitheringale ... was on his way to the North Pole, alone, when he fell through an ice sheet. He was close to death when he was miraculously rescued by Canadian soldiers… He wrote on his website: ”Had a bad fall into the ice today and came very close to the grave.”
He’s been in constant strife from the cold:
Last week he almost quit after excruciating frostbite in his fingers and thumbs forced him to call in an emergency rescue.
Smitheringale had intended, in fact, to demonstrate we’re in the grip of global warming:
Part of the reason Tom’s One Man Epic is taking place now is because of the effect that global warming is having on the polar ice caps… Some scientists have even estimated that the polar ice cap will have entirely melted away by 2014!
The very bestest part is that the story is carried by an internationally respected online newspaper. And they pretty much mock the crap out of these people. Go Aussies!!
stolen from CBullit via his link at Lemur King’s!
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Permalink • Saturday - March 27, 2010
EARTH HOUR IS ONLY MINUTES AWAY HERE IN UK AS MILLIONS OF IDIOTS BUY INTO JUNK SCIENCE
An article appeared in the Sat. Times which isn’t available (that I can find) saying this even will actually use up more energy and cause larger emissions. HA!
First of all .... Please go and turn on extra lights in your house for the next hour. Screw these jerks. I already have every light in the house on as I write.
Experts say that the great switch off will not result in less energy being pumped into grids. But that when everythings gets turned back on, there will be an increase. Also they say that the upsurge in turning the lights back on one hour later will require power stations that can fire up quickly such as coal and oil. The experts say that the result will be an increase rendering all good intentions useless. HA once again. These comments appeared under a headline which read, “Costly way to save the earth.”
OK, that’s it. Go turn on those extra lights.
Landmarks go dark, millions unplug for Earth Hour
By ROHAN SULLIVAN (AP) – 7 hours ago
SYDNEY — The white-shelled roof of the Sydney Opera House fell dark Saturday night, one of the first landmarks to turn out the lights in an hour-long gesture to be repeated by millions of people around the world who are calling for a binding pact to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
Asian cities followed Australia and New Zealand as the fourth annual Earth Hour cranked up. Buildings in some 4,000 cities in more than 120 countries were expected to unplug to reduce energy consumption and draw attention to the dangers of climate change, according to organizers.
The event will roll across the world, with participants turning off the lights when the clock strikes 8:30 p.m. local time. From a shopping mall in Manila to the Eiffel Tower in Paris and the Empire State Building in New York, landmarks and skylines will dim.
“We have everyone from Casablanca to the safari camps of Namibia and Tanzania taking part,” said Greg Bourne, CEO of World Wildlife Fund in Australia, the environmental group that came up with the idea that started in Sydney in 2007 and has since grown to every continent.
The shutdown is completely voluntary and street lights, traffic lights and other safety measures are unaffected.
Andy Ridley, a WWF worker in Sydney who cooked up the idea of Earth Hour in a pub with friends, said he hoped this year’s event would inspire world leaders to strive for a much stronger climate agreement than that struck at December’s Copenhagen climate change summit, which failed to come up with binding rules on reducing pollution blamed for global warming.
“What we’re still looking for in this coming year is a global deal that encourages all countries to lower their emissions,” Ridley said Saturday. “China is going to have to be a big part of that but so is every other major economy.”
China first took part in the campaign last year, and this year more than 30 cities were to switch off their lights, including those at the landmark Forbidden City in downtown Beijing.
A U.S.-born giant panda, Mei Lan, who lives at the Chengdu Panda Breeding Research Center in the southwestern province of Sichuan, will kick off China’s participation: When she walks onto a platform in her enclosure, the lights at the breeding center will go out, said Chris Chaplin, communications officer for WWF in China.
Some 88 cities took part in last year’s Earth Hour, which has the backing of the United Nations as well as global corporations, nonprofit groups, schools, scientists and celebrities — including Oscar-winning actress Cate Blanchett and retired Cape Town Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
Earth Hour organizers say there’s no uniform way to measure how much energy is saved worldwide, but that the simple fact that so many places have signed up to take part should send a message to leaders that global warming is a topic of great concern to people worldwide.
In the Philippines, Roman Catholic bishops said they would urge the faithful to preserve natural resources during special prayers to be read on church-run radio for an hour starting at 8:30 p.m.
“Failure of today’s people to care for the earth’s resources is akin to stealing the future of the coming generations,” said Manila Archbishop Gaudencio Rosales.
Residents in 1,000 towns and municipalities were expected to switch off their lights in the Philippines, with the main event taking place at a Manila Bay mall complex, including a rock concert and street party, according to WWF-Philippines.
In Taiwan, the Presidential Palace along with at least 20 skyscrapers — including the world’s second-tallest building — in the capital of Taipei switched off their lights. Hundreds of Taiwanese placed candles beside a Taiwan map formed by energy-saving LED lights at a square outside the city hall. Also dimmed for an hour were large advertising billboards in a nearby commercial district.
Amazing how easily idiots can be led. I guess they’ll all come away thinking they’ve done something other then waste time.
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Permalink • Thursday - March 25, 2010
Global warming scepticism forces Science Museum to rename ‘climate change’ gallery
caught my eye late yesterday. meanwhile, in an article today, someone is raising alarm over the rising sea and claims that at some point in the future England will have Portugal’s climate.
hmmm. well, that will please the brits who hate theirs.
Global warming scepticism forces Science Museum to rename ‘climate change’ gallery
By Kate Loveys
Last updated at 10:12 AM on 24th March 2010The Science Museum is acknowledging growing scepticism about climate change by changing the name and contents of a new gallery devoted to the subject.
London’s 100-year-old museum is to abandon the name ‘climate change gallery’ in favour of the neutral ‘climate science gallery’, its director has confirmed.
And it will refrain from scaring visitors with apocalyptic predictions of rising sea levels at its £4million gallery by adopting a less bias approach, acknowledging legitimate doubts about the impact to man-made emissions on the climate.
The move reveals how deeply scientific institutions have been shaken by the public’s reaction to revelations of malpractice by climate scientists.
It recently emerged that scientists have been encouraged to manipulate climate change data to support the Government’s position.
As a result the public has grown increasingly sceptical about the impact of climate change. An Ipsos Mori survey last month found 30 per cent of the public thought the issue is being exaggerated.
The Science Museum initially took a strong stance on climate change, launching a temporary exhibition last October called ‘Prove It! All the evidence you need to believe in climate change’.
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Permalink • Saturday - March 06, 2010
Run For Your Life
A selection of photographs taken by storm chaser Mike Hollingshead that are making the email rounds as being taken in New Orleans LA just before Katrina hit in 2005. More pics online at his page here.
Great pictures, evil weather, wrong event. These are from Kansas and Nebraska. Several years before Katrina.
That last one may be from Katrina. Then again, maybe it’s from the tsunami in Thailand a few years back. Doesn’t matter. The only way I want to see ANY of these pics in real life is in the rearview mirror of a hemi Charger with a full tank of gas heading in the opposite direction at full speed!
Thanks anyway, C.
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Permalink • Friday - March 05, 2010
Damn that Al Gore
The ships got into difficulties off Sweden’s east coast, and rescuers were on standby to evacuate them if needed, officials said. It is reportedly the worst Baltic freeze for 15 years. The Swedish Maritime Administration said that ice breakers in the area were trying to free the ships, but gale-force winds were hampering the effort.
”As soon as they break the ice it freezes over again,” sea rescue spokesman Peter Lindquist said.
He said no one was hurt and there were no immediate plans to bring people off the ships, but helicopters and military hovercraft were on standby in case evacuations would become necessary.
The agency said four ships were stuck, including the Amorella, a passenger ferry with 943 people on board. Two other ferries that got stuck in the ice were able to break free.
Dozens of ships stuck in the thick Baltic ice off Stockholm have now been freed.
26 other ships reportedly remain stuck firm in ice in the Baltic Sea off the Bay of Bothnia to the north.
Those broke free included five passenger ferries, carrying more than 1000 passengers, who were trapped half-way-through for several hours in frozen waters.
Amorella, a cruise ship with 943 people on board, the smaller Via Mare ferry carrying 66 people, the passenger ferry Sea Wind with 32 people and the Regal Star, a cargo ship with 56 people on board were freed by rescue teams deployed by Swedish Maritime Administration.
Isabella and the Finnfellow, two other ferries that got stuck in the ice, were able to break free Thursday.
Both Sweden and Finland have deployed ice breakers in the area to help the stranded vessels.
STOCKHOLM (AFP) – Around 50 ships, including large ferries carrying thousands, were stuck in the ice in the Baltic Sea Thursday and many were not likely to be freed for hours, Swedish maritime authorities said.
“Around 50 commercial vessels are waiting for help from ice breakers (and) we have had as many as six large passenger ferries stuck, but have managed to free two of them,” Johny Lindvall of the Swedish Maritime Administration’s ice breaker unit told AFP.
He said all the six ferries besides one were shuttling passengers between Sweden and Finland, while the Regal Star ferry, which had been stuck since midnight (2300 GMT Wednesday)—had been on its way to Estonia.
So maybe nobody is quite sure of the number, but it looks like it’s a whole bunch. Icebreakers are working to free them all just as fast as they can. Worst freeze in the Baltic in 15 years. Guess we know where all that ice from the “melting” North Pole wound up. Time to play Where’s Waldo with Al again.
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Not that very many people ever read this far down, but this blog was the creation of Allan Kelly and his friend Vilmar. Vilmar moved on to his own blog some time ago, and Allan ran this place alone until his sudden and unexpected death partway through 2006. We all miss him. A lot. Even though he is gone this site will always still be more than a little bit his. We who are left to carry on the BMEWS tradition owe him a great debt of gratitude, and we hope to be able to pay that back by following his last advice to us all:
It's been a long strange trip without you Skipper, but thanks for pointing us in the right direction and giving us a swift kick in the behind to get us going. Keep lookin' down on us, will ya? Thanks.
- Keep a firm grasp of Right and Wrong
- Stay involved with government on every level and don't let those bastards get away with a thing
- Use every legal means to defend yourself in the event of real internal trouble, and, most importantly:
- Keep talking to each other, whether here or elsewhere
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Oh, and here's some kind of visitor flag counter thingy. Hey, all the cool blogs have one, so I should too. The Visitors Online thingy up at the top doesn't count anything, but it looks neat. It had better, since I paid actual money for it.
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