Tuesday, July 1, 2014

JUNE 2014 Weather Report and the News Significant

Volume 2014, Issue No.6, June 1, 2014: Time: 11h33m.A. M.

Professor Dr. Kotcherlakota Lakshmi Narayana
{Retd. Prof. of Physics, SU, Kolhapur}, 17-11-10, Narasimha Ashram,
Official Colony, Maharanipeta. P.O, Visakhapatnam-530002 cell no: 09491902867.


JUNE 2014 Weather Report and 
the News Significant


                                    ABSTRACT
Three 1000 year old statues smuggled out of Cambodia in 1970 after hacking off from their bases, during a civil war, being returned away from auction houses, from USA. “Rohini Karthe” from 25 May morning up to 6p.m on June 7, 2014 gave an intense heat wave in Andhra region in spite of the one hour heavy showers on 1 June and on 3 June evenings that only added to the sweltering heat. “Mrigashirarasi” from morning 3AM on 9 June gave a respite from the scorching Sun. But from 10 June to 14 June the scorching Sun troubled people and on 15 June morning there was no supply of Curd in the milk booths at Maharanipeta, though the day was cloudy but no rain. The swirling pattern in the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) caused by gravitational waves and detected by the BICEP2 telescope. PSLV launched on 30 June around 9h52m A.M. Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle–C2 almost 44.4meters tall dedicated as gift from India to our neighborhood that launched five satellites one each from France, Germany and Singapore and two from Canada. Around 20 minute launch mission turned to be a good success. Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi watched the launch. He praised the cost-effective launch and complimented our Indian Space Program.

INTRODUCTION

BRAIN INSIDE THE SKULL
Several thousand basic tasks of conscious and subconscious brain life proceed all under the coordinated control effort of roughly 86billion neurons and an equal number of governing cells all inside the human skull. Genetic activity points to the wiring among the neurons rather than genetic activity within the cells.

Combined Solar Devices
       Carbon nanotubes absorb sunlight which converts the entire solar spectrum to heat. This heat then flows into a photonic crystal made up of silicon and silicon dioxide. When it achieves 10000C it begins to glow, emitting photons of a wavelength that exist matched with the photovoltaic cell kept below generating electricity. Process of light into heat and then back heat into light is a novel step but it needs to achieve sufficient efficiency.

Higgs Particles decay to Fermions
       Direct decay of 125GeV Higgs boson into fermions, such as pairs of W, Z and photons, declared in Nature Physics on line. Website note of ATLAS also reported a similar observation. Higgs gives coupling by decay fermions, in addition to the weak gauge bosons. Higgs going into tau-anti-tau and as well into b--anti-b has been thought. The Standard model fails to explain why the Higgs Boson mass is light enough to have been observed at the LHC.

MIGRATORY BUTTERFLIES’
            The North American yellow-and-black monarch butterfly migrates every winter from Southern Canada to Mexico in search of milkweed to lay eggs, and it is now found, Nature Communications, that like many birds and sea turtles are aided by inclination geo-magnetic compass. Proteins called CRY in the butterflies’ antennas that activate this inclination when UV fell on it.

CAR HEAD LIGHTS
            R8 LMX car model uses lasers and a video camera. Once the car is above 37mph speed the integrated system keeps a watch on the road and monitors.

COLLISION THEORY- CREATION OF MOON

          German scientists claim that a massive collision between Earth and a planet, given a name “theia”, created Moon some 4.5Million years ago. Studying rock samples from Moon they found a distinct chemical signature of the original planet-sized object. It centered on measuring the ratios of isotopes of oxygen, titanium, silicon and others. They contradicted the existing theoretical models and hence the new theory.

Noctilucent Clouds
The first Noctilucent Clouds (NLCs) of the northern season were noticed on May 24th before sunrise the telltale electric-blue ripples over Kiel.  Ground-level sightings followed soon thereafter--first on May 30th and then on June 3rd in Germany.

Harvest of Solar Energy
Rare phenomenon of a chemical reaction responsible for propelling microscopic crystals to leap distances up to hundred times, of their own size, when exposed to Ultra Violet light has been suggested as a possible harvest of Solar Energy.

ASTRONMERS DISCOVER ROCKY EARTH
            It weighs about 17 times Earth, termed Kepler 10c circles about its Sun in about 45 days. It is situated about 560Ly away in constellation Draco. It has positive indications of life!

METAL MEDICINE
        Constitution of body is studied before administering the drug. Rasa Medicine (a branch of Ayurveda) treatments are affordable compared to Ayurveda. 12 metals are  used which include Iron, Zinc, Lead, Tin, Mercury, Brass and Bronze plus minerals and gems plus corals like conch shells, pearls, oyster and toxic herbs says mother, Dr.K.P.Krishanaprabha, of the Doctor Shaslkumar Nechiyil. (Graduated from Kottakkal Ayurveda College, Kerala) The bhasmams are purified and metals and minerals are used in minute dosages.  Karalmanna in Palakkad district with a 300 meter walk down a Main road has the Siddesitionalwara Drugs. Leela purifies mercury in a traditional stone grinder, Safiya makes Vanga bhasmam, deft hands of women beside her prepare Kaseesa bhasmam, with bright blue flames in a corner worker Manikandan says we are producing Sidhamakaradwajam which cures neurological complaints. (News in Sunday express Dateted Sunday 22 June)

METAL FROM SPACE
            Devandhra Mewari (dmewari@yahoo.com) (2014, p.28 June Dream 2047) observed in Hindi writing that 15000 years ago a meteorite fell in Chinga river valley at the border of Siberia and Mongolia and a statue of Buddha about 24cm high and weighing 10.6Kg was made around 1000 years ago in Tibet. They called the “Iron Man”. See Fig. A. This statue was seized by Ernest Schafer (who travelled the Himalayan land to know the origin of the Aryan race) prior to Second World War, from Tibet and reached Germany. The statue is made of iron and nickel and has a Swastika mark. Below the belt there was a dagger. In 2007 it was put on auction and it disappeared from view.
             There is a verse in Athar-Veda praying for protection from meteorites and meteors. 



Fig. A “Buddhist Iron Man” Statue from Tibet.


EARTH’S LARGEST WATER RESERVOIR
            It exists 643km in a mantle rock, underneath North America. May not be in familiar liquid water form but its ingredients are bound up in the rocks. Plate tectonics possibly hold the water to exist at such great depths.

Rotorua in New Zealand
            Geo-thermally heated pools, pink and white terraces of Rotorua in Taupo Volcanic zone and (stone) jade, mineral rich mud offers a glorious spa experience in this country. Terraces protecting the pools were razed down in 1886 with Mount Tarawera eruption, but the water retained its potential medicinal value to cure skin and joint conditions. Smoking geysers spouting steam at will but you can take home the magical water, packaged mud in the form of soaps, scrubs, bath salts, and mud packs etc. Scientific activity to wow at supervised public and private baths to “ahhh” about them. Each bath contains 70kgs of rich geo-thermal mud a little smoothed over your body while people soak in the pool. After 20 minutes in mud, a dip in sulfur rich water in an adjacent bath. Smell of sulfur is strong but doesn’t affect you. Temperature is 400C that help skin spores to open up, and facilitates exfoliation. Locals are the Mori Tribe flourishing in the process.      


OBSERVATIONS
CAMBODIA RECEIVED 1000YR STATUES
            Three 1000 year old statues smuggled out of Cambodia in 1970 after hacking  off from their bases, during a civil war, being returned away from auction houses, from USA.
   

                                                  Fig.1 a Statue out of three smuggled
in civil war of 1970 Cambodia.
The Visakhapatnam
The Visakhapatnam received its first one hour rain with thunder and lightning on 1 June 2014 evening around 5h30PM. Again there was a rain on the 3rd night but lasted few minutes only. In spite of the rains the heat of the summer season extended to 20 days of June month is formidable.
Monsoon shifted towards sea instead of land, resulting in the hot weather in Visakhapatnam, with the monsoon should strike on 9 June but not certain till to-day 24 June. No rainfall in the nine coastal districts of AP.


MONSOON PROGRESS & NORTH HEAT WAVES
            Monsoon to hit Kerala on the Friday 6, June 2014, and may set over Tamil Nadu and Bay of Bengal during the next 24 hours. Jaipur hottest in 33 years at 46.30C, Allahabad at 46.10C and Delhi touched 44.70C. Heat wave is gripping north. Faizabad, Lucknow, Bareilly, Moradabad, Jhansi, Agra and Meerut divisions are reeling under heat wave. It continued unabated with temperatures of 48.20C in Uttar Pradesh Bandah district on Wednesday 11 June, 47.30C in Agra, and Delhi at 43.60C.


NORTH INDIA HEAT WAVE
       
Capital reached the 470C mark and climbing the highest since 200m. Palam Airport recorded 47.20C on Friday and heat wave soaring between 46 to 48.40C all over north in Patiala, Haryana, Chandigarh, Lucknow and Allahabad. The May 30 storm damaged in the North, several Electric poles resulting in Power cuts are over 7 to 8 hours a day.

ROHINI KARTHE

The evening of Saturday June 07, 2014 gave a relief of the intense Sun’s heat of the period from 25 May to June 07, 2014. The period is regarded in Hindu Astronomy as a ROHINI KARTHE of (about 15 days) the hottest days of the year. It ended with the beginning of Mrigashira Rasi at that time. June 8 (Birth Day of Late Kotcherlakota Amarnath B. Sc. (Special, Physics) B. E.(Civil) M. Tech (Soil Mechanics) father of Dr. K. Suhasini, Assistant Professor in USA) is relatively cool and nice. In the evening of 8 June it was scorching heat till late night.

Mrigashira Rasi

Mrigashira Rasi brought the rains and on June 9 at 3AM the heavy monsoon rain struck Visakhapatnam and it rained with lightning and heavy thunders up to 4.30AM. Up to night the cloudy rainy weather continued with no Sun light at all during the day.

The Hot Days
Formation of a cyclonic storm Nanauk in Arabian Sea and moved luckily to Oman coast. The southwest monsoon was rendered inactive due this cyclone.  So, on 10 June 2014 the SUN’S heat has been felt with the full Sunshine throughout the day, except for two hours in the evening when cold breeze delighted the people. 11 June began with cloudy weather in the morning but the blazing sun began by 8AM it subsided in the evening around 6.PM. The Sunny days would be for another three days till Friday 13 June when Monsoon rains may reach Visakhapatnam. The 12 June heat wave started around 10.AM and unbearably hot it was. Scorching summer Waltair, Visakhapatnam recorded 40.40C the highest in three years. The humidity was lowest at 47% due less moisture content. 13 June early morning was pleasant with the clouds and cool weather. Prediction of Monsoon was not that much promising since the night rain was just a shower on the 12 June. On the 14 June to 16 June there was no respite from Sun’s heat.  

FINALLY RAINS.

On 15 June 2014 there was a heavy blowing gales rain that made even motorists to stop. It rained an hour from 2h30mPM from Zoo area up to Madhurwada in Visakhapatnam but as soon it stopped the Sun shown brighter and weather became sultry.

17 June till 3PM it was very hot though cloudy and for about an hour around 3 to 4 PM it rained heavily with thunder and lightning. It cooled the city in Maharanipeta area. Also on 18 June the morning is very cloudy. By afternoon it became very hot and on the 19 June the hot weather prevailed though the sky was relatively cloudy.

Rituals for Rain performed
        Simhachalam hills V.L.N. Swamy temple rituals were performed on Thursday 19 June to appease the rain Gods and indeed there was rain in the evening around 5h.30m PM for an hour with 0.5mm rain. The program of rituals would continue till 21 June. Dark clouds covered both Telangana and Andhra region on Thursday.  But, the major cities Vijayawada, Tirupati and Nellore continue to be under grip of heat wave with temperatures around 400C. 20 and 21 June it was relatively hot.
           
            The weather in Visakhapatnam was a rainy day on June 22, 2014 with a slight rain in the morning from 3 AM to 4 AM but till 11 A M it was all cloudy and fine weather.
            The Tirupati devasthanam did three days puja for rain and of course, it rained on Thursday 26 June.

HEAT WAVE IN ANDHRA

                                                

Fig.3. Heat Wave in AP 12 June to 19 June 2014

Up to 5h30mPM on Monday 23 June the temperatures at Kakinada 41.2, Nellore 40, Vijayawada 40.3, Machilipatnam 41.3 and Ongole 40.5 were recorded.  Surprisingly four Rayalaseema districts including Kadapa, Ongole, Kurnool and Anantapur received from June 1 to 23 a rainfall of 55.3mm as against average of 45.8mm. Last week they recorded only 2.7mm instead of 18mm. June 15 to June 20 the district Srikakulam registered maximum temperature of 420C. Rs 1L compensation paid for heat stroke deaths in Srikakulam.
For the last two weeks the heat wave conditions exist in AP. Schools closed on Wednesday 25 and Thursday 26 also. Visakhapatnam became cool on Thursday 26 with cloudy weather but no rain. 18 deaths total due to heat in Visakhapatnam. Death toll in Srikakulam was 38. Vijayanagaram death toll is 127. EG district recorded 5 deaths.  Guntur no respite from heat wave and rain fall for June was 94%below normal. Death toll was 79. Prakasam district recorded 42 degrees temperature and in Chittoor and Nellore schools functioned normally since temperature were normal. 
26 June and 27 June happen to be sensational cool days with cloudy weather throughout the day in Visakhapatnam and people also enjoyed the beach shore. Upper air cyclonic trough in the North Bay of Bengal lowered temperatures and would continue next 24 hours on Thursday. In the night it rained in Visakhapatnam. But 27 June afternoon it became pretty hot though weather was cloudy till late night. Cold weather conditions and rain prevailed in the state on Friday and expected that from July 1, under the influence of Monsoon. Incessant rain havoc in Guwahati, Assam state, with 8 killed on Friday 27 June.  The 28 June in Visakhapatnam was very cloudy but no rain. In the evening it was a very pleasant weather. The 28 June in Visakhapatnam was very cloudy but no rain. In the evening it was a very pleasant weather.



Fig.3a  Beach Shore at Visakhapatnam around 6h30m P.M.



Fig.3b Beach Shore at Visakhapatnam around 6h30m P.M.


The Mudasarlova reservoir source of drinking water to Visakhapatnam, exist filled to brim despite scanty rainfall, since desilting was undertaken last year.



Fig.3c Mudasarlova reservoir of
drinking water in Visakhapatnam IMG_4044


29 June was partially cloudy weather with no rain. A powerful Earthquake struck oat far South Atlantic Ocean in the inhospitable South Sandwich Islands (SGSSI) which in turn is part of a British overseas territory. region around 0752GMT 5:52 a.m. local time. 30 June began with cold cloud covered sky in Visakhapatnam till late night. Weather is pleasant to freely move around in the city.

Department of Conservation staff on Raoul Island have escaped uninjured following a magnitude 7.2 earthquake off the coast of the island this morning. The earthquake was 5km deep and occurred around 7.20am, 73km southeast of Raoul Island, according to the US Geological Survey. Raoul Island is part of the Kermadec Island arc, which sits around 800-1000km off the coast of the North Island.
The National rainfall average was deficient by 42% in June in India according to Skymet, a private forecasting agency, making it 12th instance in last 113 years.

El Nino’s Complex Link  
            How El Nino shapes up and it’s forecasting still remains a challenging problem. The interplay between Monsoon and El Nino not clearly understood. It is not as yet clear to-date what sort of El Nino would evolve whether Central or Eastern Pacific. Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) when positive affects the Eastern equatorial Indian Ocean off Sumatra in Indonesia becomes colder while western tropical part of Ocean near Africa coast becomes Warmer. A negative IOD reverses and hampers the monsoon. Forecasting monsoon without depending on predictability of El Nino is important. Some people in Andhra believe that till the Radha-Sapthami Day, 29 June 2014 the Monsoon would be lingering.

NASA’s Laser Beam Triumph Space Station to Earth using a new laser
 The OPALS transmitted a 37-second 175-megabit video with the message, of 3.5 second, to a ground station in California on June 5 from the NASA’s jet propulsion Lab in Pasadena, California.

Finding Gravitational Waves – a misnomer

            Harvard Group at BICEP2 telescope observed a twist in the polarization of ancient light according to David Spergel this twist is due to the dust present in the Milky-Way and outside it. This ultra-fine dust can absorb star light and re-emit it as “Infra-Red rays or as Radio-Waves” and due to their uneven shape could twist the light. The same effect of twisting the polarization of light can be produced due to when light curves around massive objects.

Colliding Plasma regions
            These may have same density, temperature and strengths of magnetic fields, but with different orientations, then symmetrical reconnection begins and the topology of magnetic field changes. These observations of the Sun seem to be new.

GEO-THERMAL HEAT
            This is the cause of Thwaites Glacier the rapidly changing outlet of Antarctic Ice Sheet, is being eroded by the Ocean, and now newly found from below by Geo-thermal heat.

Haruko Obokata
            She believes (June 3) that the breakthrough research of a new way of reversing the adult cells into pluripotent stem cells using slightly acidic conditions as a stressor. The STAP cells had the ability to form both embryonic and placental tissues. The authenticity of STAP cells was questioned. Also Japanese media opposed the observations. Plagiarism and duplication of images and inability of others to replicate the study findings became a big issue. The research work in two papers given to the Nature was withdrawn.

 ROMAN COINS FOUND KOTTAYAM
              The Roman Silver small-minted minted coins, each 3.7gms and about 2cm in diameter, identified as Denarius of Augustus, and other as of Denarius of Tiberius, more than 2000 years old recovered. And many precious artifacts as palm leaves of texts on Ayurveda, a few Chola coins, and more than 1200 Chinese coins dating from 1 to 15 century were recovered in Kerala. North Paravoor resident mining the Periyar river bed found a golden vase with a long neck weighing seven sovereigns but he took to a jeweler melted it and made a gold chain for his wife. Only UK British Museum that launched a Portable Antiquities Scheme in 1997 in Kerala and Tamil Nadu seem to be successful.





THREE ICE HALOS
On June 21st, Jun Lao of Mason, Ohio, saw three "ice halos,"  at once  they formed   when sunlight shown through ice crystals in high clouds around 4 P.M. EDT in the greater Cincinnati area. These multiple halos were caused by pyramidal ice crystals.



Fig.4 Ice Halos



Fig.4a Longest Day of 2014 June 21 IMG_4041



INDUS VALLEY CIVILIZATION
        The first urban civilization in the world that flourished, in the north-western part, in the vast plains of River Indus, and its tributaries thrived from 2600BC to 1900BC with a population of five million with well developed cities, sewage systems, metallurgy techniques, trade system, and many other mathematical and technical successes and a script that couldn’t be deciphered. Climate change as per researchers at BHU and Univ. of Cambridge revealed that series of droughts over 200 years, resulting in sudden disappearance of civilization in 1800BC to 1700BC.

GRAVITATIONAL WAVES
The swirling pattern in the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) caused by gravitational waves and detected by the BICEP2 telescope.





Fig.5 The Gravitational Waves schematic IMG_4031


INNOVATIVE IDEA

            Chandigar lady Manisha Mohan developed a bra that would send shock waves to molesters causing severe burns and the garment sends an emergency message to parents and police using embedded GPS and GMS systems.


INDIAN SPACE PROGRAM
PSLV launched on 30 June around 9h52m A.M. Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle–C2 almost 44.4meters tall dedicated as gift from India to our neighborhood that launched five satellites one each from France, Germany and Singapore and two from Canada. Around 20 minute launch mission turned to be a good success. Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi, watched the launch. He praised the cost-effective launch and complimented our Indian Space Program.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

                          The author is greatly indebted to Late Prof K. R. Rao, D.Sc. (Madras) D.Sc. (London) for his continuous zeal in promoting the outstanding research work at Andhra University, Waltair covering the entire Electromagnetism Spectrum from Cosmic Rays to the Radio waves during the years (1932 - 1972) of his unselfish and devoted research in several branches and exceptional devotion in care-taking the youngsters to achieve glory and comfortable positions at several institutions in India and especially abroad.
It was his initiation and support that the Andhra University launched Space Physics studies as soon the first Russian Rocket launch of human being went up in the Sky.


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