Weather Scenario of Second Fortnight of DECEMBER 2011 in Visakhapatnam, Berhampur and Bhubaneswar and Gravity Waves.

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Volume 2011, Issue No.12, Dt. Saturday, December 31st, 2011 Time:11h40m05s.

Second Fortnight of DECEMBER 2011 Weather Scenario in Visakhapatnam, Berhampur, Bhubaneswar and Gravity Waves & Aurora Borealis.

by

Professor Dr Kotcherlakota Lakshmi Narayana

{Retd. Prof. of Phys, SU} 17-11-10, Narsimha Ashram, Official Colony, Maharanipeta.P.O, Visakhapatnam-530002. Mobile No: 9542717723 and 9491902867

Key words: Earth tremors, Tropical cyclones, comet love joy, Venus , Jupiter, Cloud spectra of SUN, gravity waves profile, Southern hemisphere weather.

ABSTRACT:

Total Lunar Eclipse the weather has become one of a continued winter with increasing cold and chilly mild winds. The upper atmosphere cold weather has obviously affected the regions like those at Yerragondipalem village creating the whirlpool dust spirals in view of the cold upper layers and the warm land surface in the afternoons. Another interesting find is the Spectrum of Venus has a bright broad spectral distribution unlike the sharp and extended spectrum of the Jupiter. The spectrum of the Venus does indeed bring out the predominant spectral features of the Carbon dioxide. an amazing capture of the onset of sea agitation of the Bay of Bengal on 24^th December 2011 morning at the time of Sun rise. The cloud hues and the cloud patterns not only project out the Comet Lovejoy tail in the background of the Aurora Borealis of the various constituents of the Lower atmosphere. The clouds have been reshaped constantly by the mixed influence of the storm surge and the gravity waves. The Sun spectrum on 30^th at Berhampur showed the clouds of tropical cyclone THANE scintillated with green Aurora Borealis. The author noticed that near the Charaka lake of Bhubaneswar, Odisha the clouds low lying were exhibiting a gravity wave pattern.

INTRODUCTION:

India winter

Dense fog and dipping temperatures threw normal life out of gear at several places in Punjab and in Uttar Pradesh since Monday 19^th Dec 2011 evening.  Fatehgarh with a minimum temperature of 3.9 degrees was the coldest place in the state. Visibility dropped below 50 meters and to almost zero in Palam area while it was around 200 meters at Safderjung. The minimum temperature in Delhi was five degrees Celsius, three notches below normal, while the maximum settled at 21.9 degrees, a notch below normal. Kashmir valley has been reeling under a severe cold wave for the last fortnight and the expected rain and snowfall are likely to bring relief by raising the night temperatures which have remained much below the freezing point during this period. The minimum temperature in Srinagar city on Monday was 3.4 degrees Celsius below the freezing point. It was minus 5.4 in the south Kashmir hill station of Pahalgam, while the north Kashmir ski resort of Gulmarg saw the mercury plummet to minus 6.8 degrees. Leh, Ladakh's capital town, was again the coldest place in the state on Monday at minus 13.2 degrees while the Kargil town also in the Ladakh region had a minimum of minus 12.0 degrees Celsius. Most of the rain and snowfall in the valley during the winter months occurs because of western disturbances. 'Western Disturbance' is a term used in India, Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh describe an extra-tropical storm originating in the Mediterranean Sea which results in sudden rain and snow in South Asia. Western disturbances are important for the development of Rabi (winter) crops, such as wheat in the region.

On 22^nd Dec 2011, North Kashmir Gulmarg touched -11.4 deg C and in south Kashmir has about -7.4deg C while in Ladhak it is recorded -16.2deg C. In Kargil it is about -12.8deg C.In uttar Pradesh it is recorded 2.6deg C minimum while Delhi it is about 6 deg C.

On 25^th December 2011 Lambsinga recorded 1 degC (on 25^th Dec 2008 it was 0 deg C) and Chinttapalli recorded 3.6deg C temperature. In Visakhapatnam District Sapparla, Chintapalli, Lambasinga are in the agency area at a height of more than 3000feet above the sea level it almost has the same temperatures as that in the North India. The fog is very dense. On 26^th December 2011 at around 10PM the dew drops in the form water sprinkle tots were falling down. Ladak the temperature is 16.2, Pilani 0.3, Srinagar -4.8, Haryana 0 (5 deg C less than the normal), Amritsar 0.5deg C have been recorded. In Delhi unprecedented temperature of 2.9deg C has been recorded. In Himachala Pradesh the fog turned out falling like cotton thread clusters layers and white scenario thrilled the people.Simla there was no snow fall.

The coastal area between Vijayawada and Visakhapatnam from the sea coast to the railway line (Chennai-Kolkata) was once part of the Bay of Bengal the area was originally part of the sea millions of years ago. The sea receded millions of years ago exposing the land up to the coastal ridge, which is now the railway line. The salt content that is present in the ground water was deposited when the sea was originally present. The salinity in the delta regions was originally 10,000 mg per litre but because of the network of irrigation canals and the two major flowing rivers, the salinity has come down to 6000 mg per litre. The study was important to clear apprehensions about sea water intrusion as the presence of sea water in delta areas impairs the quality of the freshwater aquifers. The study area in the Godavari delta covered about 250 sq km. A network of 32 observation wells was established in the area for monitoring water level and water quality assessment. Thick marine clays exist 20-25 metres from the surface. There may be some encroachment of sea water into freshwater zones and infiltration during tidal fluctuation mainly through the Pikaleru drain.

Aurorahunters

Mr. Keen's company, Aurorahunters last week we saw one that had everything - spiralling, curtains, ribbons, greens and reds, and the whole sky lit up. We were amazed at what was unfolding before us. It's the solar wind that is the determining factor. The longer nights begin to return in the autumn, and the snow usually in October, though it was later this year. The fewer snow clouds in the sky it is better for the chasing the Aurora abundance in colors and weird shapes. The colour of that light is dependent upon which gases in the Earth's atmosphere - oxygen, nitrogen, or some other - are being excited. And when the solar winds are stronger and more 'gusty', the auroras will be more brilliant. according to Mr Kunches. "Solar activity tends to increase rapidly every 11 years or so. According to our predictions, we are about to enter in 2012 and 2013 a new wave of heightened activity. That translates to more frequent auroras," he says.

Christmas weather

Christmas weather found to be unseasonably warm with highest temperatures occurring in Scotland. But London, Bristol and the Midlands will also stay mild. Flash flooding has been reported on Cirencester Road in Charlton Kings, where the water was apparently a foot deep, the A46 at Pains wick and on the B4226 in Cinderford, where mud was sliding onto the road. Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire, parts of Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire and west Norfolk were in drought as water levels remained low because of the very dry spring and autumn. The wet weather in December has improved river flows and reservoir levels, but Leicestershire, Warwickshire and Shropshire in the Midlands region and Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, East Sussex and Kent in the South East region have experienced low groundwater levels for this time of the year.

Tropical Storm 

Under the impact of the cyclonic storm, high tidal waves damaged over 200 boats along the coast in the Visakhapatnam and West Godavari districts on Monday night i.e. 26^th December 2011 night. Officials said the waves washed away 50 boats. The incursion of sea water on land was as much as 15 meters in some coastal villages. Sea conditions have turned rough along the Andhra coast and are likely to remain so over the next two to three days. The fishermen who ventured to sea have safely returned to shore on the morning hours of Monday 26^th Dec 2011. Fisherwomen take out a procession towards the sea as part of 'Gangamma puja' to thank the water deity for having saved their men folk from the Tsunami tide. high tidal waves of eight-10 feet, sea water inundated some places in Nellore, Prakasam and Srikakulam districts. Fishing boats anchored along the coast were either washed away or damaged due to the tidal waves since Tuesday night. The road between Uppada and Kakinada in East Godavari was cut off on Wednesday as the waves damaged the embankment and the sea water overflowed the beach road,

Puducherry: Rough conditions prevailed in the sea off the Puducherry coast as giant waves rising to several metres above the normal level. Cyclone Thane which is due to hit the coast of Tamil Nadu on Friday morning has raised fears about the safety of nuclear plants in the state. Although the Kudankulam nuclear plant is at a safe distance from cyclone landfall, authorities have concerns about the safety of the Kalpakkam nuclear facilities.

Thane's fury was at its peak early this morning. At about 9 AM, the cyclone made landfall between Cuddalore, Tamil Nadu, and Puducherry on India's eastern coastline. Winds, at speeds of 140 kph. Gigantic, furious waves washed up great boulders onto the esplanade and raging winds smashed the doors of the French Consulate with debris.

 Washi a tropical storm in Philippines caused floods that struck at an unholy hour, 2:00 am when people were deep asleep on Saturday. Entire villages were swept away by floodwaters. The cities Cagayan de Oro and Iligan city were devastated. The sudden climate change had been the main factor in the unusual trajectory of the storm.  Northern Mindanao is not a typhoon path. It affected the normal life in five other southern and central provinces.

Updated 12/23/2011 9:22:00 AM ET2011-12-23T14:22:00 Northern Georgia as powerful storms roared across the area, damaging homes, downing trees and knocking out power to thousands.

Tanzania’s Floods:

It is quite unusual to see that amount of rain in this particular month. So this was much unexpected.

Blizzard Conditions: December 20, 2011 Christian Monitor:

Fierce winds and snow that caused fatal road accidents and shuttered highways in five states, crawled deeper into the Great Plains early Tuesday 20^th December 2011, Texas Panhandle as blizzard conditions forced closed part of Interstate 40, a major east-west route, Monday night. About 10 inches of snow had fallen in western Kansas before dawn Tuesday and several more inches along with strong wind gusts were expected, Snowpack and icy conditions forced the closure of roadways across western and southwestern Kansas, including a western section of the I-70, the main thoroughfare that traverses the state. The late-autumn snowstorm lumbered into the region Monday, turning roads to ice and reducing visibility to zero. The conditions put state road crews on alert and had motorists taking refuge and early exits off major roads across the region. In northern New Mexico, snow and ice shuttered all roads from Raton to the Texas and Oklahoma borders about 90 miles away. The snow moved into the Oklahoma early Monday, and 1.5 inches accumulated in about an hour. Many of the areas hit Monday enjoyed relatively balmy 60-degree temperatures just 24 hours earlier. Pyongyang's snowy main square Wednesday 21^st Dec 2011.

A thick blanket of smog cloaked Delhi on Monday 19^th Dec 2011. So when did the fog in Delhi get this bad? Analysts say the turning point was 1997. A cocktail of factors contributed: a shift in the land-use patterns, increased pollution, and more moisture due to irrigation led to a drop in the temperature by a few degrees and more fog between December and January, they say. While fog does plague other places, like London’s Heathrow Airport for instance, it lasts only for a few days. In Delhi, it can last for 20 to 25 days. Mr. Jenamani said Delhi is hard hit because of the city’s geographic location, the open space at the airport, and the prevalent wind patterns. Cities stretching from Amritsar to Kolkata also battle with fog, thanks to their own geographic conditions and rising pollution. A foggy day  ( E. Jason Wambsgans, Chicago Tribune / December 21, 2011 ) Fog hangs over Lake Shore Drive Wednesday morning. Kashmiris are enduring yet another winter without power. Many towns in Kashmir Valley get power for only four-five hours a day. Kashmiris did not have the kangri (earthen fire pot woven in willow wicker), I wonder how we would keep body and soul together said an Indian. In Andhra Pradesh Chintapalli recorded lowest as 5.1deg C while at Lambasingi it was 2.3deg C on 23^rd Dec 2011 with maximum temperatures as 22 and 17 deg C respectively.

Since last three years the temperatures averages are falling below the normal a Coast Guard Dornier aircraft from Visakhapatnam has been launched from Santhapalli to Narsapur area for undertaking coastal surveillance and assistance to fishermen in distress at sea.

FREEZING RAIN:

The Gazette Wednesday, December 21, 2011: Freezing rain which By mid-afternoon the Surete du Quebec has been worst affected. 

5:07 p.m. CST,Thursday, December 22, 2011  DENVER (Reuters) - Snowfall in the Rockies, strong winds in the West and soaking rain in the South caused problems for holiday travelers on the first official day of winter, forecasters said on Thursday. A snowstorm swept across Colorado overnight, dumping up to 10 inches of snow in the Denver metropolitan area and up to two feet of snow in the foothills west of the city, according to the National Weather Service.

 Comet's tail wriggled:

Lovejoy was incredibly close to the Sun, closer to the Sun than the Earth is to the Moon. What made the comet's tail wiggle so wildly in transit through the sun's atmosphere? The effect is clear in this sequence of extreme UV images recorded by NASA's STEREO-B spacecraft: Perhaps we're seeing material in the tail magnetically 'clinging' to coronal loops and moving with them. Coronal loops are huge loops of magnetism that emerge from the sun's surface and thread the sun's atmosphere. The comet's core must have been at least 500 meters in diameter; otherwise it couldn't have survived so much solar heating," says Matthew Knight. "A significant fraction of that mass would have been lost during the encounter. What's left is probably much smaller than the original comet.” The comet's tail wriggles wildly as the comet plunges through the sun's hot atmosphere only 120,000 km above the stellar surface. This could be a sign that the comet was buffeted by plasma waves coursing through the corona. Or perhaps the tail was bouncing back and forth off great magnetic loops known to permeate the sun's atmosphere. The abrupt changes in direction remind one of how the solar wind affected the tail of Comet Encke in 2007. Minoru Yoneto “I couldn't see the comet with my naked eye, but a 1.3 sec exposure with my Canon Kiss X2 digital camera revealed Lovejoy's long tail."

Minor Earthquake Sikkim:

The Sikkim felt a minor earthquake of magnitude 3.7R with almost the epicenter close to the state’s border with Nepal. Tremors were felt at 3h05mAM on Monday, 19^th December 2011 in the same region as earlier felt on 18^th September 2011. At Prakasam District Yerragondepalem fields felt a Whirlpool dust storm that moved on to a school premises with big sound and widely wobbling the trees. The scientist Sivasankara Nayak at the school said that when sudden gust of air from all four sides engulfing due to a low pressure region such a whirlpool dust storm arises.

The earthquake-devastated New Zealand city of Christchurch was rocked by two powerful 5.8 magnitude tremors on Friday, sending terrified residents onto the streets and forcing the airport to close. The first quake struck at 1.58 pm (0058 GMT) 16 miles (26 kilometers) north of Christchurch and 2.5 miles (4 kilometers) deep,   the second 5.8 quake came 70 minutes later as inner-city streets were gridlocked by people desperate to get home. Minutes later, a 5.3-magnitude aftershock hit, and about an hour after that, the city was shaken by another 5.8-magnitude temblor. Both aftershocks were less than 3 miles (5 kilometers) deep. The area has recorded more than 7,000 earthquakes since a magnitude-7 quake rocked the city on 4 September, 2010 New Zealand sits on the so-called "Ring of Fire" the boundary of the Australian and Pacific tectonic plates, and experiences up to 15,000 tremors a year. The quakes were felt as far south as Queenstown and as far north as Lower Hutt, according to GeoNet. People in Greymouth, Ashburton, Dunedin, Hanmer Springs and Oamaru also felt them. Rock falls had occurred in one area and there was liquefaction when an earthquake forces underground water up through loose soil in several places. Wainoni Rd, Avondale, is one of the suburbs worst hit by silt and mud formed by liquefaction during the swarm of four tremors yesterday afternoon. The liquefaction is just too much to deal with. The aftershocks inevitably delayed the rebuilding of the city. 22^nd February 2011 data from the Japanese Alos spacecraft has been used to map the way the ground deformed during the most recent quake. It shows clearly that the focus of the tremor was right under the city's south-eastern suburbs. The type of image displayed on this page is known as a synthetic aperture radar interferogram.

Phillipines capital Manila on Friday 23^rd December 2011 felt a 5.6R magnitude earthquake that struck at 12h27mPM at a depth of 24km off Mindoro island, about 160 km southwest of manila.

The Palasa, Srikakulum, Sompeta mandal villages, Bhattigaloor, Baruvaa, Nadumoor, Yerramukam and in Vajrapukothoor mandal Manchineellapeta, Akkupalli, Bathupuram and again in Mandasa mandalam Guddibhadhra, Haripuram and Hill regions have felt the mild tremors almost for three seconds, of magnitude 3R, with wall fractures of some buildings in the last two villages mentioned above. The Palasa is situated almost 10kms away from the sea and people felt fear due to a loud noise that was produced after the earth tremors.

A strong, shallow 6.6-magnitude quake shook southwestern Siberia on Tuesday 27^th December 2011 some 58 miles (94 kilometers) east of the Russian city of Kyzyl, US seismologists said. The quake, which struck at 10.21pm (1521 GMT), hit at a depth of 3.7 miles (six kilometers).

NEPAL WARMING:

The Napalese Himalayas have been warming more than the global mean temperature in recent decades. Glaciers in much of the region are showing signs of shrinking, thinning, and retreating; and this is producing a lot of melt water. On Ngozumpa, some of this water is seen to pool on the surface and then drain away via a series of streams and caverns to the snout of the glacier. There, some 25km from the mountain, an enormous lake is growing behind a mound of dumped rock fragments. This lake, called Spillway, has the potential to be about 6km long, 1km wide and 100m deep. The concern is that this great mass of water could eventually breach the debris dam and hurtle down the valley, sweeping away the Sherpa villages in its path. The threat is not immediate, but it's a situation that needs a deep study.

A recent study for the World Bank has shown that the volume of water resulting from glacial melt in Nepal makes up less than 5% of the flows of rivers leaving the country and contributing to the Ganges downstream. "That is, about 95% or more of the river flow is the result of rain and melting seasonal snow. If that is true, rivers downstream of the eastern Himalayas will hardly be affected, even if the glaciers recede or disappear.

New Zeland:

The sunshine and balmy weather enjoyed by Kiwis across the country was expected to fade and would be replaced by stagnant rain clouds likely to arrive at the end of the week.  Hayley Hannan on Dec 27^th, 2011 at 5h30mAM said the large anticyclone that brought sunny weather to the country was due to drift east.

FINDINGS:

The western disturbances of Monday and Tuesday 21^st December 2011 have jolted the Visakhapatnam with a bout of cold wind and chilly weather on the Monday 19^th December 2011 and Tuesday. Since the occurrence of the Total Lunar Eclipse the weather has become one of a continued winter with increasing cold and chilly mild winds. The upper atmosphere cold weather has obviously affected the regions like those at Yerragondipalem village creating the whirlpool dust spirals in view of the cold upper layers and the warm land surface in the afternoons.

On 25^th December 2011 the Christmas eve in Visakhapatnam has been blessed with a brilliant airglow (or the Aurora Borealis) of the typical red hue that engulfed the entire evening sky and I am amazed to note the Jupiter shinning bright in the background scenario of the red hue.  It’s not that romantically described by some that the left cheek kissed would make the other cheek blessed with a red hue just like that of the sky scenario.

While travelling by a bus the author noticed that near the Charaka lake of Bhubaneswar, Odissa the clouds low lying were exhibiting a gravity wave pattern. The Sun spectrum on 30^th at Berhampur showed the clouds of tropical cyclone THANE scintillated with green Aurora Borealis. The Sun also found to be the cause of some mysterious rays emission catastrophe of the formation of the killer tropical cyclone THANE, but not fully affirmative. Fig 9 below shows an amazing capture of the onset of sea agitation of the Bay of Bengal on 24^th December 2011 morning at the time of Sun rise. The cloud hues and the cloud patterns not only project out the Comet Lovejoy tail in the background of the Aurora Borealis of the various constituents of the Lower atmosphere. The clouds have been reshaped constantly by the mixed influence of the storm surge and the gravity waves.

Another interesting find is the Spectrum of Venus has a bright broad spectral distribution unlike the sharp and extended spectrum of the Jupiter. The spectrum of the Venus does indeed bring out the predominant spectral features of the Carbon dioxide.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENT

I am indebted to late Professor K. Rangadhama Rao D.Sc. (Madras) D.Sc. (London) for initiating me at his internationally famous laboratories in Andhra University, Visakhapatnam to do research studies and for his constant guidance during my professional career.

Astronomy & Weather Scenario of Visakhapatnam during 1st Fortnight December 2011

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Volume 2011, Issue No.12, Thursday 1^st December 2011 Time 11h33mPM

First Fortnight of December 2011 Astronomy & Weather Scenario in Visakhapatnam

by

Professor Dr Kotcherlakota Lakshmi Narayana

{Retd. Prof. of Phys, SU} 17-11-10, Narasimha Ashram, Official Colony, Maharanipeta.P.O, Visakhapatnam-530002.   Mobile Nos: 9542717723 and 9491902867 

ABSTRACT

Img_7692kln shows Rao & Anti-Rao Quanta Interplay within the scattering of Earth’s shadow on the Moon JUST eclipsed a fine observation of paramount significance since its only one of kinds image captures of the sky scenario. The author is really thrilled in the sense it corroborates his view of the interplay of the said Quanta. In another image capture the dark rings are an intriguing feature since it hints that Moon has certain mysterious rays that it can emit. The enigmatic natures of these rays are possibly of what the ancient astronomers in India have thought to be quite dangerous and cause havoc. Over the millenniums of ages the Moon must have considerably changed its topography and the dangerous mysterious rays that it was said to cause to emit especially during the time of the Eclipses needs to be viewed from gathering the ancient records and scriptures, if at all in India or elsewhere. The Sun Spectra of 15^th December 2010 at 10h25m AM exhibit very surprising intensity profiles since the green hue dominance seems to be distinguishable in the FIR and the Direct sun spectra that have been recorded and profile intensity analyzed. The spectrum of the FIR Sun seems to be very contrasting and distinct in several ways compared with the ordinary sun without the FIR filter. An immediate observation is the intense but subdued hues of the dispersion. It is an exciting observation that the 1^st Dec.2011 at 21h40mPM the sky was overcast with the Aurora Borealis of a Red display with a slightly mixed Orange hue and at 23h41m PM the Jupiter shining bright in such a scenario.

Keywords: Astrophysics, Astronomy, Solar Physics, Weather Science, Quantum Mechanics. 

INTRODUCTION:

                “Switzerland had its last heavy snowfall on Oct. 19, but the Federal Office for Meteorology is forecasting snow Friday evening, ending a five-week drought. Skiers rest on a mountain overlooking snow-free slopes Thursday at the ski resort of Verbier, in the southwestern part of Switzerland, by Pete Spotts Staff writer, Christian Science Monitor says”. These broad observations, along with more-detailed looks at some 32 environmental indicators, appear in the NOAA released Thursday, December 01, 2011. The summer sea-ice extent and its impact on the ocean as the global climate warms are the regional engine driving the changes. Summer sea ice has been declining since satellites began tracking it in 1978. As a result, a region of the world that helps moderate global climate by reflecting sunlight back into space from its veneers of snow and ice is losing its reflective surface at a time when sunlight is strongest”. Hanna Gersmann guardian, UK, Thursday 1 December 2011 22.01 GMT said “ Various techniques for combating global warming by reducing the amount of the sun's energy reaching the earth have been proposed, from huge space reflectors in orbit to stratospheric aerosols released in the upper atmosphere. A UK-backed plan to test the mechanics of inserting such aerosols, using a hosepipe attached to a giant balloon, was postponed in September.” In spite of a short advancing period in the late 70s/early 80s, glacial coverage of French Alps had decreased to a value close to 340 sq km, the new survey shows. Since then, the withdrawal has accelerated, with the area being reduced to about 275 sq km in the late 2000s.

Migratory Birds, Winter Cold:

Delhi is under the grip of intense winter cold. The mornings also full of fog and excessive cold weather. One of the clear signs that winter has set in the northern hemisphere is the arrival of migratory birds in their thousands to tropical India to escape the winter-related problems at homeland. Kerala has many such terrestrial and wetland winter resorts for them and the feathered guests have already checked in to all of them. About 152 species of migratory birds sojourn in Kerala. They include about 80 species of water birds. They are mainly from Siberia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan and other area north of the Himalayan regions. Some of the birds are also from the Himalayan region. The migratory species arriving include godwits, terns, ospreys, golden plovers, pratincoles, several species of ducks and waders like sandpipers and plovers.

The minimum temperature in AP state was recorded as 11.2deg C at Adilabad but the maximum temperature stands at 30.8 deg C. The rest of the cities minimum temperature ranges from 15 to 24 deg C. The Delhi region recorded 26 max and min as 13deg C on 4^th Dec 2011 while the West coast has max 34 and min as 19 deg C. All the Himalaya foot hill cities have recorded 29 max and min 13 deg C.

Middle East Drought:

The Dead Sea had almost disappeared once some 120,000 years ago and the way its water levels are declining; now the giant lake may not survive another significant period of drought in the Middle East.

On December 10, 2011 the Moon:

On December 10, 2011 the Moon was anticipated to start falling under the Earth's shadow at around 6.15 p.m. The total eclipse began at 7:36 p.m. and will last until 8:28 p.m. as some reports quoted. Others gave that the lunar eclipse to occur on 10^th December 2011 between 6h12m PM to 9h47m PM in the Constellations of Aldebaran and Orion. On December 8, 2011By Marina it was said that The Lunar Eclipse on 10 December 2011 is at 18º Gemini 10′. We have the Eclipse (Sun opposite Moon) making a T square to Ceres and the Moon is quincunx Venus. Moon is on Rigel on Orion. In Varanasi, the eclipse was nearly of four hours duration, from 6:15 to 9:48 pm. The celestial event started at 7.35 pm. The total lunar eclipse was visible all over the country for 51 minutes till 8.28 pm.

Rocket smash on Moon Last Year:

At the Moon's southern pole at Cabeus Crater, the impacts kicked up large amounts of rock and dust, revealing a suite of fascinating chemical compounds and far more water than anyone had imagined. A Nasa-led team tells Science magazine that about 155kg of water vapor and water-ice were blown out of the crater. The researchers' analysis suggests the lunar regolith, or soil, at the impact site contains 5.6% by weight of water-ice. If you took just the 10km region around the impact site and say it had 5% water - that would be equivalent to about a billion gallons of water. The suite of instruments deployed on that day has determined as much as 20% of this dust plume was made up of volatile compounds, including methane, ammonia, hydrogen gas, carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide. The instruments saw relatively large amounts of some metals, such as sodium, and mercury. There was even a signature of silver, but this was tiny. The rocket stage went in first, followed a few minutes later by the LCROSS probe which gathered imagery and other data just before it too slammed into the surface. It also was able to study the plume of material ejected into sunlight more than 15km above the rim of Cabeus.

Spaceweather.com:” Since Friday, sunspot AR1363 has nearly tripled in area and it has developed a delta-class magnetic field that harbors energy for X-class solar flares. This 48-hour movie from NASA's Solar Dynamic Observatory shows the changes on Dec. 3-4: Saturday night on the border between Russia and Norway, the sky suddenly erupted in color. "It was like an aurora explosion," says Sebastian Voltmer of Kirkenes, Norway. I was surprised to see a brightening snake forming an 'S' - like the first letter of my name, which appeared at 22.48 pm UT. During the outburst, Jupiter was surrounded by streamers of green light. "A very beautiful event! says Voltmer. Auroras like these have been flickering and surging around the Arctic Circle for days. The source of the displays is a minor solar wind stream, which has been gently buffeting Earth's magnetic field since the month began”. The Aurora Borealis, or "northern lights," also produce X-rays, and create changing bright arcs above the Earth's surface. The low-energy X-rays (0.1 - 10 kilo electron volts) generated have been found earlier as reported at this blog posts rather indirectly, by the present author, in the equatorial region following intense Aurora activity due to solar winds and flares, CME material of the Sun filament eruptions and emissions etc.

Aurora Spectra Details:

High-altitude oxygen atoms (about 200 miles) produce rare, all red auroras. Ionized nitrogen molecules produce blue light; neutral nitrogen molecules create purplish-red lower borders and ripple edges.

MANALI: Rohtang Pass, situated at 13,050 feet above sea level in Manali, received the season's first snowfall on Monday. Heavy rains and landslide blocked Manali-Rohtang highway leaving at least 40 vehicles stranded. Unexpected snowfall on Friday morning stranded for five hours as slush on the road brought traffic to a standstill along the 5km stretch between Manali town and Kalath. . It began snowing in Manali town around 5.30am and by 7am; the road was covered with slush which, is a dangerous mix of snow flakes and rain - making driving dangerous.  But as the Mall Road and Nehru Kund became the snow point for tourists who enjoyed skiing and other naughty events.  Rohtang Pass has received two foot snow, tribal district of Lahaul-Spiti has been cut off with the rest of the world for six winter months. Manali and Koksar (Lahaul) has received 6 inch fresh snowfall while Solang valley received 10 inch snowfall. Manali recorded minimum temperature of 1 degree Celsius and it was -0.9 degree in Keylong. About the same time the agency areas of Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh have experienced the severest of the cold.

Mexico City December 11, 2011 ACAPULCO, Mexico:

A 6.5-magnitude earthquake struck for an unusually long period,  the region north of Acapulco on Saturday night i.e., Sunday (IST 7h17m AM, people in Mexico City fled into the streets.  The epicenter was about 82 miles north of Acapulco in the southwestern state of Guerrero and about 40 miles deep. The quake was initially reported as a 6.8 but downgraded to 6.5.  Parts of Mexico City rest on the shaky soil of a former lake bed, which tends to magnify the effect of earthquakes. An 8.1-magnitude quake in 1985 killed as many as 10,000 people in the city. In Pacific Ocean coastal beach resort the City Acapulco is about 133Kms distant from the epicenter of the earth quake. The epicentre of the quake was 45 km from Iguala in Guerrero and was 40 miles (64 km) deep, the U.S.G.S reported. The quake, originally reported as 6.7 on the magnitude scale, was felt in other states including Michoacan, Puebla and Hidalgo, local media reported. "The most damage was in Iguala because the epicentre was very close to there," a spokesman for Guerrero emergency services said.

The meteor:

The meteor, described as a "slow-moving fireball, estimated to be no bigger than a basketball," was recorded at 6:04 p.m. ET Monday by six cameras that are part of the University of Western Ontario's Southern Ontario Meteor Network, the university said in a news release. Researchers think it likely dropped meteorites ranging in size from one gram to hundreds of grams east of Selwyn, Ont., north of Peterborough, near the end of Upper Stony Lake, about 115 kilometers northeast of Toronto. They may have a total mass of up to a few kilograms. The video footage showed that the meteor first entered the atmosphere at an angle of 25 degrees from the horizontal, moving at 14 kilometers per second. It first became visible over Lake Erie, then moved toward the north-northeast and was visible until it reached an altitude of 31 kilometers, when it was just south of Selwyn. On Wednesday night 14^th December 2011, up in the sky on the Golden plated Pagoda of Shri Venkateswara Temple in Tirupati some devotees, along with a security guard, noted a fireball moving blazing as a shooting star, from the East to the West for almost in a journey of 2 to 3 minutes. There is a beautiful picture of orbital motion of meteors nearly 32 of them observed in USA using a set of cameras.

PRESENT FINDINGS:

a). The sudden change of weather in Visakhapatnam began in the evening of 1^st December 2011 when the Aurora Borealis could be observed. And in the wee hours of morning of 2^nd Dec2011 there was a little drizzle of rain and then except for a short spell at around 10.30AM the entire day was without any rain (luckily for the Cricket Match of India Vs West Indies). But at 4.00AM on 3^rd Dec 2011 Saturday it began to rain and is sequel to the low depression in the Bay of Bengal.  b). The evening of 1^st Feb and as well on the 2^nd Dec 2011 night the Aurora Borealis of Red glow could be observed it was very pleasing to the eye due to probably its slightly Orange mixed hue. In other words the Far Infra Red radiations have been absorbed away by the cloudy and haze dotted atmosphere.   c). The Congo Volcano eruption hot winds couldn’t possibly outweigh the Low depression progression in Bay of Bengal.  The haze yet times the fog might be a consequence of the secondary particle matter produced by the primary CME that penetrated the D-layer ionosphere. d). The 2^nd December 2011 early morning sky cloudy presented a Gray scenario which, as per my theory is a sequel to the bombardment of the D-layer atmosphere by the X-Ray and other irradiations from the Sun that have reached the Earth. e). Img_7692kln shows Rao & Anti-Rao Quanta# Interplay within the scattering of Earth’s Shadow on the Moon JUST eclipsed a fine observation of paramount significance since its only one of kinds image captures of the sky scenario. The author is really thrilled in the sense it corroborates his view of the interplay of the said Quanta. The details would be further given in a subsequent publication by me at this blog spot post of trusciencetrutechnology.  f). The breath taking total lunar eclipse in the evening of 10^th Dec 2011 was observed by many people in India. The eclipse has led to a very cloudy aftermath of the scenario of the sky in Visakhapatnam, as a result the visibility stars was very interminient. g). The weather in Visakhapatnam after the Eclipse has become very chilly. Its surprising that  Manali, Rohtang Pass, Nehru Kundu  and other valley areas of Kulu recived sudden snow fall on Friday morning around 5h30m till 7h30mAM about the same period agency areas of Visakhapatnam experienced severe winter cold and with poor visibility due to dense fog and haze.

IMAGES:

 Fig.1. It is an exciting observation that the 1^st Dec.2011 at 21h40mPM the sky was overcast with the Aurora Borealis of a Red display with a slightly mixed Orange hue and at 23h41m PM the Jupiter shining bright in such a scenario.

Fig.2. Here the Moonshine showed different hues of color just within few seconds. That has been thought as response behavior of the topography of the Moon to different radiation intensity of solar radiations on the Moon. What Moon surface constituents respond to these radiations at different times is a subject matter of further study.

Fig.3. The Sony handy cam photo views of the Moon and the Sun set are given show the finer features of the Moon topography and the aurora glows around it in the form of several rings. The dark rings are an intriguing feature since it hints that Moon has certain mysterious rays that it can emit. The particular characteristic nature of these possibly of what the ancient astronomers in India have thought to be quite dangerous and cause havoc. Over the millenniums of ages the Moon must have considerably changed its topography and the dangerous mysterious rays that it was said to cause to emit especially during the time of the Eclipses needs to be viewed from gathering the ancient records and scriptures, if at all in India or elsewhere. The spectrum of the seas of the Moon given analyzed in this figure possibly has hidden signatures of the water-ice crystals in the lunar dust.

 

Fig.4: This figure gives a fascinating Jupiter and Moon close apparent proximity as viewed from the Earth. The relative Brightness of the Jupiter contrasted with the spectrum of the Moon is also given.

Fig.5. On the 6^th December 2011 around the time 11h44m PM the sky was overcast with a Gray hue. But it allowed, the Orion Hunter to be nicely image captured. Both the Moon and Jupiter were found to be present in a Gray sky scenario by the evening at 6h49mPM on the 6^th December 2011. Mercury tube light spectrum provides a standard contrast to have the frequency and wave length determination of the Spectrum of the Moon Shine in img_7361kln obtained at 5h50mPM on the 6^th December 2011. Two different spectra of the brilliant Moon and the relative brightness of the Jupiter are presented in the img_7364kln and img_7378kln. Of interest is the attempt made to image capture img_7383kln the spectra of the Belt stars of the Hunter in Orion constellation.

 

Fig.6. mvi7540kln gives the Moon in a red ring tinge along with its spectrum obtained with the scenario of Gray sky at 5h19mPM on 7^th December 2011. The FIR image of the Moon shows a region at the top of the Moon that needs further corroborate evidence. It has obvious physical interpretation. Several spectra of the Moon in this Gray sky scenario have been presented that shed light on Moon and Jupiter contrast of their relative brightness.

Fig.7. The Gray scenario of the sky has developed so nice and fine on the 7^th December 2011 when the Moon in such background gave a good view of its sea regions delight to even naked eyes. The contrasting figures of img_7537kln and img_7538kln give the change of the different hues of the sea regions of the Moon. The img_7661kln at 4h54mPM i.e. in the early evening of the 8^th December 2011 has a marked Gray sky scenario behind the rising Moon. The FIR of the Moon revealed that the Moon has a clear patch of a bright self-radiance region. The splendid Moon spectrum with the bright Jupiter captured in it is very intense in different hues.

 

Fig.8. At 10h02mAm on 8^th Dec 2011 the Bay of Bengal Sea and the water waves gave a scintillating view of the Deep Blue Grayish sky scenario at Visakhapatnam. The Sun’s radiance has illuminated the individual cluster sea wave droplets. The emitted FIR radiance has given a colored hue to the humid air of the Ocean at the horizon. The distinct regions of the color hues, extending from the surface of the sea to the Sun above and beyond it,  constitutes a spectrum of significant information regarding the at-the-time present physical constituents.

Fig.9. The aftermath of the Total Lunar Eclipse* on the 10^th Dec 2011 is to generate some clouds that gave a Gray scenario glowing in the Moon shine and as well influenced by the X-ray and other radiations that have penetrated the D-layers of the ionosphere. The Moon FIR exhibits a patch of glowing region on the Moon. Of course at different times it has its own color hues. The relative positions of the Moon and Jupiter are given as well the spectrum of the bright Moon (8th Dec 2011).

Fig.10. The FIR brilliance of the Sun is breathtaking and exhibits various hue regions of its glow. The spectrum of the FIR Sun seems to be very contrasting and distinct in several ways compared with the ordinary sun without the FIR filter. An immediate observation is the intense but subdued hues of the dispersion.

Fig.11. The cloudy weather during the nights following the eclipse has not permitted to have a good view of the Hunter in Orion constellation. The Gray scenario of the sky seems to be persistent and but the Belt stars could be image captured.

 

Fig.12. This gives the Moon relative to the Gemini bright stars. The Geminid shower could not be recorded. The Rigel bright star is remarkably visible as a Blue Giant some distance away from the Planet Jupiter which is also considerably bright in spite of the good Moon shine. The Sun Spectra of 15^th December 2010 at 10h25m AM exhibit very surprising intensity profiles since the green hue dominance seems to be distinguishable in the FIR and the Direct sun spectra that have been recorded and profile intensity analyzed.  The spectra are of interest since it is reported that a comet Lovejoy (C/2011 W3) nearly as wide as two football fields (200m) is plunging toward the sun where it will most likely be destroyed in a spectacular light show on Dec. 15/16.

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* A new post by the present author, would detail out the findings and observations made during the complete period of the occurrence of the Total Lunar Eclipse on the 10^th December 2011.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT:

          I am deeply indebted to Professor K. Rangadhama Rao D.Sc. (Madras) D.Sc. (London) for initiating, inspiring me for research investigations and observations.    A cursory look through the Biography of the Life and Work of Prof. K.Rangadhama Rao D.Sc. (Madras) D.Sc. (London) establishes the fact that he was A WORLD TEACHER, right from his first research publication made in 1924 (thanks to Dr. K. V. N. Rao, Bedford, Boston, USA for this information) following the careful experimental studies made during the higher education years from 1919 to 1923 and his mission of Leadership Business as evident of his endeavor as a post Doctoral honored invitee by many countries of the Germany, England, Sweden, France during the years 1928-1930 and his reputation in USA.  

#  What I have found is that but for the effort of Professor K. Rangadhama Rao, Andhra University, Science & Technology progress would have become stranded at the level of Classical Harmonium Physics. It was the genius and singular effort of Professor K. Rangadhama Rao D.Sc. (Madras) D.Sc. (London) that led to the introduction of Quantum Modern Physics, Quantum Spectroscopy, Quantum Resonance thoughts etc., which were obviously a sequel of his earlier research as an ordinary student of Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry at Intermediate course, and later at the under-graduate and post-graduate degree courses, in different institutions. And it was more of his personal effort & astounding zeal as teacher cum student of saving money for the pursuit of his continued research ambition that forms a remarkable achievement during the days of no help from Maharajas or the so-called educational authority. It was his personal effort that won him an Andhra fellowship from Madras University to do outstanding research at Viziyanagaram and subsequently to get a financial grant to proceed to highest research degree of D. Sc, from London University as well.