Thursday, December 31, 2015

16 to 31, December 2015; Climate Change Summit US switching over to Electric Vehicles

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Volume 2015, Issue No. 12b, Dated: 16 to 31 December 2015, Time: A. M

December 16 to 31, 2015 Climate Change Summit
US switching over to Electric Vehicles

Professor Dr. Kotcherlakota Lakshmi Narayana,
(Retd. Prof. of Physics, Shivaji University, Kolhapur - 416004)
Res: 17-11-10, Narasimha Ashram, Official Colony,
Maharanipeta. P. O., Visakhapatnam-530002, A.P. 
Mobile: 09491902867.
kotcherlakoa_l_n@hotmail.com
   lakshminarayana.kotcherlakota@gmail.com

ABSTRACT
                        US president thanks Indian PM for the critical role played by him on leadership, to historic success of Climate Change Summit. US is switching all its motor vehicles to run on Electricity, rather than fossil fuels. Not all Brahmins could be priests or were allowed inside the SANCTUM SANNCTORUM of temples, and only those who had mastered the AGAMAS could become Archakas. There are two kinds of Agama texts on, Agama and Tantra the former practised in Saivite and Vaishnavite temples and the later in Sakthi temples. A rare tornado hit Sydney on Wednesday with destructive winds above 200kmph and cricket ball sized hail, bringing down temperatures, trees and power lines, sheering off roofs and walls and causing flash flooding in the city. Emergency crews picking up the pieces after 72mm of rain dumped on the east on December 17, 2015 at 6:08am. Saturday it rained with force around 7PM, and gained force around 9PM. Till the evening the city had normal weather of low sun light, but evening suddenly the clouds gathered and it rained. 50bn solar masses, would have to be, for its outer edge to keep a disc, from forming calculations reveal, for a black hole. 
    Bacterium from the Bay of Bengal Sea, found to degrade plastic and assimilate the harmful substance with the soil. It degraded 90% phenol, 56% cyanide and 50% COD reductions in just two days, said Dr. Ambica. 
  The 8:29 PM lift off, on Monday 21 Dec 2015, after nine Merlin engines passed an automated health check, four hold-down clamps release the FALCON 9 booster for lift off. At 8:30PM MACH 1: The FALCON 9 rocket reaches the speed of sound. At 8:31PM the FALCON's first stage separates from the second stage moments after MECO. At 8:33PM BOOSTRACK BURN: The first stage booster ignites its engines for a "boostback" burn after using cold gas thrusters to flip around and head back. At 8:39PM SEC01, the second stage of the FALCON 9 rocket shuts down after reaching an orbit. At 8:44PM PAYLOAD SEPARATION: the 11 Orbcomm satellites, mated to three, dispenser rings on top of the FALCON 9 second stage, begin deploying at set intervals. At 8:47mPM RE ENTRY BURN: Another firing of the first stage engines further slows down the falling booster to set up for touch down. At 8:49mPM: LANDING BURN: A final landing burn with one of the first stage's MERLIN engines guides the booster to a touchdown at Landing Zone 1 at Cape Canaveral. A mild tremor shook several places in 

Srikakulam district on Thursday 24, December 2015 evening around 5h56m PM. New 

Yorkers on the Christmas Day left winter coats, sported T-shirts as mercury hit 21C.

Both the CMS and ATLAS experiments independently outlined existence of a new

particle that broke up into TWO photons or gamma particles, The photons pair up to

750 GeV energy. 20 tornadoes hit Mississippi on Wednesday. The rising water from the swollen river is expected to hit Memphis on Jan.3. 2016.

WORDS: FALCON 9, Bay of Bengal Bacterium degrade Plastic, Agama and Tantra, typhoon Melor, Mild Tremor Srikakulam,  Christamas at 21C, 750GeV particle decay, Two Photons, Tornadoes 20,

NEWS ITEMS
OBAMA THANKS INDIA PM
                US president thanks Indian PM for the critical role played by him on leadership, to historic success of Climate Change Summit. US is switching all its motor vehicles to run on Electricity, rather than fossil fuels. 

BRAHMIN ARCHAKAS
              Not all Brahmins could be priests or were allowed inside the SANCTUM SANNCTORUM of temples, and only those who had mastered the AGAMAS could become archakas. There are two kinds of Agama texts on, Agama and Tantra the former practised in Saivite and Vaishnavite temples and the later in Sakthi temples. 
                      
                  A nod by the Supreme Court on Wednesday. 16 Dec 2015, on appointment of Archakas, as per Agama, treatise relating to its functioning, as ny deviation violates freedom of religion. Agamas are treatises on matters like construction of temples, installation of idols and conduct of worship of Deity. Any deviation from the age old custom would be an infringement of the freedom of religion. 

Philippines
           
Fig.1 A Rickshaw driver wades
through flood waters to keep children safe.
               A rickshaw driver wades through flood waters in Manila on Wednesday, December 16, 2015, after typhoon Melor caused widespread flooding. 

Sydney storm: 
                A rare tornado hit Sydney on Wednesday with destructive winds above 200kmph and cricket ball sized hail, bringing down temperatures, trees and power lines, sheering off roofs and walls and causing flash flooding in the city. Emergency crews picking up the pieces after 72mm of rain dumped on the east: December 17, 2015 6:08am.  The Bureau of Meteorology recorded rainfalls of up to 72mm at Rose Bay in the past 24 hours, while further south at Kurnell copped 80mm during the tornado. There were abnormally strong winds reaching over 200km/h in parts of the city. December 25 will see storms in Sydney and rain in Melbourne,  with only Adelaide and Perth to enjoy sunny weather this year.

18 December 2015
               The Visakhapatnam has chilly weather, in the morning to-day when fog nicely settled very the city, but day times, the Sun was blazing especially in the afternoons, supporting the idea of global temperature enhancement due to the pollution by almost 2 C degrees.

Buddhist monastery excavations Dec 10, 2015
           A standing image of the Vajrayana deity Heruka, a terracotta elephant head, conical mud bowls, thumb and finger print designs, on pots, polshed black  ware, dull chocolate-coloured slip-ware and herring-bone patterns. It flourished between 3 century BC to 8 century AD. This site was located hinter-land far from coast, and flourished for about a thousand years.  
                                           
                                  Fig.2  The Buddhist monastery found
                     at hills of Vommili, Visakhapatnam on 19 Dec 2015.
   
19 December 2015
            It rained in the evening from 8h30m PM for about an hour, chill winds have blown and foggy weather settled. Saturday it rained with force around 7PM, and gained force around 9PM. Till the evening the city had normal weather of low sun light, but evening suddenly the clouds gathered and it rained. Road side vendors got disturbed due to the sudden weather change. Around midnight about 12 hours time the boulders and rocks from the hill top of Thattichetla-pallem, fallen down and  six  sleeping people were covered by the falling rocks, of whom, three people sustained injuries, and were removed to the hospital. Four people were killed in a landslide in Andhra Pradesh's Visakhapatnam city. Rocks rolled down a hillside in Thatichetlapalem, burying several houses, night 19 and early morning 20, Dec 2015. 
                           
19 Dec 2015:  LAND SLIDES IN SHENZHEN

                           
             Landslide hits Chinese city, and the industrial  park, destroying Guangdong province on Sunday, 20 Dec 2015, with at least 91 people were missing after a huge mound of mud and construction waste collapsed at a business park in southern China and buried 33 buildings in the country's latest industrial disaster. The mudslide smashed into multi-storey buildings at the Hengtaiyu industrial park in the city's north-western Guangming New District, toppling them in collisions that sent rivers of earth skyward. Villager Peng Jinxin said the mud came like "huge waves", as residents ran out of the way. 

           On 20 Dec 2015, the weather was cloudy but no rain in Visakhapatnam, Muralinagar.

  

           
                                            Fig. 3. A sun spot that appeared on 
                                   the evening of Saturday, 19 Dec 2015, 
                        
                                   At Visakhapatnam beach the Sun spot published in The New Sunday Express on 20 Dec 2015, on page 3, shows the position contrasted, given below, with the same spot No.AR2470, appearance as published in SPCEWEATHER.COM on 20 Dec 2015.


                   
                             Fig. 3a,  A sun spot  AR2470 that appeared on 
                                   the evening of Saturday, 19 Dec 2015,
                                     from spaceweather.com blogspot.

                       
                                                          Fig.4 Super typhoon March 4-5, Philippines
                                  2015 the big Super Typhoon Category 5 in Philippines March 4-5 eye from Space Station. 



BLACK HOLES GROW TO 50b SUNS
   
                                   50bn solar masses, would have to be, for its outer edge to keep a

disc,  from forming calculations reveal, for a black hole. Without disc, the black hole 

stops growing, meaning 50bn Suns upper limit, after that they loose the discs of gas 

to sustain themselves. NASA /JPL.


NEPAL'S SECOND LARGEST CITY


                     Pokhara built on massive debris deposits of medieval earthquakes.  The boulders of almost ten metres diameter and weighing about 300 tonnes, with concentration of Beryllium isotope, produced in cosmogenic radiation and the big boulders matches the earlier flows of gravel,rocks and sand that poured over a distance of 60 km from high mountains peaks of Annapurna massif downstream.



BACTERIUM FROM SEA 

                  Bacterium from the Bay of Bengal sea, found to degrade plastic and 

assimilate the harmful substance with the soil. It degraded 90% phenol, 

56% cyanide  and  50% COD  reductions in just two days, said Dr. Ambica. 

               
                     

  Fig. 5 From Vizag steel Plant Junior Manager,

 Microbiology Department.




   NEW PARTICLE OF MASS 750 GeV


            Both the CMS and ATLAS experiments independently outlined existence of a 

new particle that broke up into TWO photons or gamma particles, The photons pair 

up to 750 GeV energy. This is the measure of mass of the particle that decayed. The 

mass of a PROTON is only 1 GeV. Both the teams presented data on December 15, 

2015 at a meeting held in CERN at Geneva.



    
22 Dec 2015

                               

Fig.6 Snow on tree tops in University campus

       of Srinagar, Kashmir on 21 Dec 2015.

       Icicles hanging on tree branches at Chillai-Kalan at Kashmir University, Campus in Srinagar, on Monday 21 Dec 2015, is an astounding scenario for the youngsters to enjoy the Nature. It would be  a 40-day severe winter in Kashmir.

 Srinagar and North Eastern States: Weather Change

                       There was a huge respite in cold conditions, in some places in Kashmir with the minimum temperature in Srinagar settling above the freezing point for the first time in the last 10 days. The temperature in Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir, increased by nearly six degrees from the previous night's minimum temperature of minus 5.6 degree Celsius and settled at 0.1 degree Celsius. The tourist resort of Pahalgam, which serves as a base camp for the annual Amarnath Yatra in south Kashmir, as the mercury there settled at a low of minus 2.1 degrees Celsius compared to the previous night at minus 7.2 degrees Celsius. The famous ski-resort of Gulmarg recorded minus 10.0 degrees Celsius. The minimum temperature in Kupwara in north Kashmir went up by over four degrees from the previous night's minus 4.5 degrees Celsius to settle at zero degree Celsius. He said Kokernag town in south Kashmir recorded the minimum temperature of minus 1.5 degree Celsius, while Qazigund settled at a low of minus 2.2 degrees Celsius. The minimum temperature in Leh, the frontier region of Ladakh, increased by nearly five degrees from the previous minus 15.1 degrees Celsius to settle at a low of minus 10.2 degrees Celsius. The north-eastern states of India have witnessed a rise of two degree Celsius temperature.

FALCON 9 VERTICALLY LANDS:HISTORY
 SPACE X  Headed by Internet tycoon Elon Musk.
Head quarters in Hawthorne California. Miami NASA applauded.       
                       The 8:29 PM lift off,  on Monday  21 Dec 2015,  after nine Merlin engines passed an automated health check, four hold-down clamps release the FALCON 9 booster for lift off. At 8:30PM MACH 1 : The FALCON 9 rocket reaches the speed of sound. At 8:31PM the FALCON's first stage separates from the second stage moments after MECO. At 8:33PM BOOSTRACK BURN: The first stage booster ignites its engines for a "boostback" burn after using cold gas thrustersto flip around and head back. At 8:39PM SEC01 The second stage of the FALCON 9 rocket shuts down after reaching an orbit. At 8:44PM PAYLOAD SEPARATION: the 11 Orbcomm satellites , mated to three, dispenser rings on top of the FALCON 9 second stage, begin deploying at set intervals. At 8:47mPM RE ENTRY BURN: Another firing of the first stageengines further slows down the falling booster to set up for touch down. At 8:49mPM: LANDING BURN: A final landin burn with one of the first stage's MERLIN engines guides the booster to a touchdown at Landing  Zone 1 at Cape Canaveral.  


25 December 2015 Srikakulam Earthquake

                 A mild tremor shook several places in Srikakulam district on Thursday 24,

 December 2015 evening around 5h56mPM lasted few seconds and felt  at Etcherla,

 Laveru, Ponduru, Srikakulam town, and rural areas, Apartments shook, TV, furniture,

 utensils started vibrating and people ran out. Tremors were fel a couple of seconds 

at 1.53PM in Etcherla, Kushalpuram, Faridpeta and a few  areas on the out skirts of 

Srikakulam and Ponduru. 



AMERICA TORNADOES                  

         Local media reports described how the powerful storm system roared across Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas over the past two days leaving close to a dozen people dead.   As many as 20 tornadoes hit Mississippi on Wednesday, with one twister causing most of the damage, according to the National Weather Service. More than 8,000 homes were left without power after buildings collapsed and trees were uprooted. Search parties were dispatched for several missing people and volunteers helped in a cleaning operation ahead of the Christmas holidays. After an EF-1 tornado struck the south Indianapolis suburb of Greenwood, television stations showed pictures of damage including a portion of a roof blown off a veterinary office.  December 24, 2015 at 7:05 AM.

             Storms killed 14 people, feeding on unseasonal warm air left communities n Illinois to Alabama in the south as Christmas reached its crescendo. More than dozen tornadoes in six states, but with Mississippi  hardest hit, with seven people reported dead there. Scores of homes destroyed and people are left in tears.  Rare December Tornados flattened homes in Texas, bringing death toll to 29 in days of storms tearing across southern US. Would continue next few days. In Mississippi 17 were killed, on Wednesday in Garland, Texas. In Alabama heavy raining continued on Thursday, 23 December,  when a twister struck at 6h45m PM(0045 GMT Sunday).      


                                         Fig. 6a Tornado hit Jefferson County, Alabamaa,
                                        
                                       on Friday 24 Dec damaging several houses 
  

From 18 December 2015    
           
                In the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, nearly 1,800 families in dozens of towns had been forced to leave their homes. Heavy rain began to fall in the region on 18 December, swelling the Uruguay and Quarai rivers. South of the Brazilian border, in Uruguay, thousands of people have been made homeless in the past few days. At least two people have died in the floods, which have mostly affected the provinces of Entre Rios, Corrientes and Chaco. 



UK flood hit

           North UK drowned forcing hundreds of people to leave their homes. Amount  

of rain was unprecedented. 400 people were evacuated in Yorkshire and Lancashire 

with police drafted to flood response.   



UNUSUAL CHILLI WIND IN VISAKHAPATNAM


                
                      Morning hours from 2AM, to-day 26 Dec 2015, chilly winds have struck 

Visakhapatnam, and it became necessary to wear woollen clothes to protect oneself. 

It was cloudy with minimal sunlight on the last four days at Visakhapatnam, though 

was not raining, possibly a forerunner of the sudden gust of strong blowing wind on

the morning of 26 Dec 2015. Is it related to the  American Tornadoes?


EARTHQUAKE  on 26 Dec 2015


       Tremors felt in North India after earthquake struck at 12:44AM in the Afghanistan-

Tajikistan border region. Earthquake at a depth of 203.5km with epicentre 280 km in 

north east of Afghanistan capital Kabul. In India tremors felt in Chandigarh, Srinagar, 

Jaipur, Delhi and national capital region. Also tremors in Islambad, Lahore and Kabul.




ROSES BLOOM IN NYC: CHRISTMAS DAY

             Record warmth beats the winter chill of 2015, with New Yorkers on the

 Christmas Day left winter coats, sported T-shirts as mercury hit 21C even though 

the skies were over cast. An uncharacteristic warm winter has flower beds sprung to

life, a very unseasonal sight. Daffodil bulbs in suburban gardens sprung up tender 

green periscopes. Roses in city parks showed their plumage against Christmas tree

backdrops. It is unusual to smell, the fragrance of a viburnum in December, at NYC 

Botanical Gardens.


COLD WAVE SWEEPS NORTH INDIA

               Leh region in Jammu and Kashmir recorded minus 16.2C on Friday,  25 

December 2015. Delhi 5.5C, chilled the Dal Lake, Kargil minus 15C, Churu in Rajastan 

recorded 0.4C, Amritsar minus 0.3C, Chandigarh shivered at 3.4C, Ambala and Hisar 

5.2C, and  in Himachal Pradesh cold wave continued.


1500-yr-old Viking site    

            Norway Airport, beneath an ancient, a settlement was found. It is just 13 

football pitches size, covering an area 91,000 sqm extracted Jewellery, animal bones, 

and a shard from a green glass goblet, and remains were in good condition, due to 

the soil in the area having low-acidity.    



GOLD COINS OF HAN DYNASTY


            Number of gold coins and plates, 378 in total from a 2000-yr-old Han dynesty 

tomb in East China were unearthed. Findings include 20 thin plates, about 22cm long

and 10 cm wide. Gold coins weigh about 250g  unearthed in Nanchang city. Generals 

were rewarded with 50,000 kg of gold and a prince left 1,00,000 kg of gold at his 

death. Han dynasty dates back to 206BC-24AD, the tomb belongs to Liu He, 

grandson of Emperor Wu. The present author comments the wealth possibly due to 

trade with India, which in those days had valued money in the form of Gold. 


Last Four Days severe Winter

               Winter chill people are facing, since last four days beginning with a thud of 

chilli winds around 2 AM, morning on Friday, 25 Dec. Thick fog settling on Sunday 

morning, through out the city. Today morning 28 Dec the Planets were visible in the 

morning around 5h 30m AM.  

    
BEDIA GIRLS 

                         They were used to dance as money earners to build the Taj Mahal, 

later in British rule, became a trade mark of the tribe from UP's Basai Village to 

entertain artisans. Now  Bedia girls are going to school, on a reform path men

running stalls, tea stalls, and snacks centres. 



DEC 28 2015, 3:01 PM ET 
              As many as 58 million of California's large trees are at risk due to the ongoing drought, according to a new study and, researchers say that means big changes may be ahead for the state's forests even if El Nino does drive increased rainfall in the coming year. Using imaging tools on board the Carnegie Airborne Observatory, an ecologist and a team from the Carnegie Institution for Science surveyed forests affected, by the drought that's been ongoing since 2012. Their research, which shows how California's forest canopies have lost water over time. 
DEC 30 2015, 11:39 AM ET
                  LONDON: Wide spread flooding across northern Britain has turned streets into raging torrents, forced thousands of residents to evacuate their homes and destroyed many historic buildings including a bridge dating back to 1700. A devastating storm on Wednesday packed winds gusting up to 70mph and brought heavy rain to areas already struggling to cope with their wettest month on record.
Computer model:
                     Projections earlier this week suggested that the air temperature at the pole, which is currently shrouded in 24-hour darkness, could reach 5C, rather than the usual -30 to -35C, according to Mashable. This would make it milder than much of Canada and the US.
  

USATODAY 8:48 a.m. EST December 31, 2015
                         Heavy rain has turned Missouri's Meramec River into a nightmare for thousands of people outside of St. Louis. VPC. Some communities already hit and high waters threaten levees on The Mississippi River is expected to crest in down town St. Louis Thursday at 43.7 feet, nearly 14 feet over flood stage. The rising water from the swollen river is expected to hit Memphis on Jan.3.  

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

             The author is indebted to Late Prof. K. R. Rao  D.Sc.(Madras) D.Sc.(London) for his concern of Nature and eventualities that inspired the author, to monitor the awesome peculiarities of Nature. The research yielded lot of information on phenomenal events of changes of weather and the world over the peculiar happenings. I regard the sudden rain on 19 Dec 2015, as something different, astounding weather with unusual cold.  

Monday, December 21, 2015

The Spectrum of Water on December 22, 2015

Volume 2015, Issue No. 12c, Dated: 22 December 2015, Time: 8:58 A. M

December 22,  2015 The Spectrum of Water
in the changed world weather scenario
Professor Dr. Kotcherlakota Lakshmi Narayana,
(Retd. Prof. of Physics, Shivaji University, Kolhapur - 416004)
Res: 17-11-10, Narasimha Ashram, Official Colony,
Maharanipeta. P. O., Visakhapatnam-530002, A.P. 
Mobile: 09491902867.
kotcherlakoa_l_n@hotmail.com

INTRODUCTION
         The weather has considerably changed in INDIA, following the world trend, with the average temperature of the countries all over the world recording 1.5 C to almost 2 C. This led to remarkable shift in the rainy season in India, especially in Southern India including Maharashtra who in some parts of the states, struggling hard for just drinking water.

The Spectrum of Tap Water
          The domestic use of tap Water, even in the month of December after the last fortnight, is puzzlingly sufficiently warm, causing a panic among he residents. The weather also not that much chilly, and the afternoon, around 1 to 4 PM, is resoundingly hot reminding one of the Summer heat, though for one or two hours. reports of Water shortage, all over India is literally frightening people, who silently accepting the changed vagaries of weather, and adjusting to the circumstances with brave hearts and failing health problems.
          The author has recorded the Spectrum of water from a domestic tap, just for the sake of a comparative study, with the earlier recordings, world over. 

            
WP_20151219_13_25_41_Pro

                             Recorded in the night around 13h25m AM on the 19 Dec 2015, 

WP_20151220_06_31_45_Pro
 morning around 06h 31m 45s
 WP_20151220_06_31_35_Pro
Morning around 6h 31m 35s on 20 Dec 2015
WP_20151220_06_31_28_Pro
                                       Morning around 6h 31m 28s on 20 Dec 2015

           The idea being that the water, is now on the earth is not same as those of erstwhile years, since the entire world is engulfed in atmospheric pollution, the water on the earth cannot escape the changes it underwent during this phenomenal weather change from ancient times to-date. 

WEATHER CHANGE

            The author feels that change in weather, brought up a remarkable change, even in the taste of the water, and its augmenting power to kill the thrust of the people who drink it. In several villages, dirty Water in view of the dried up lakes and rivers, has become a must for survival of people, who can't move away from the  places of their residence, and are left praying the God to save them. Tamil Nadu state, just at the nick of the time when it was without water, blessed by the mighty Cyclones that thrashed for a full fort night of heavy rains, and people are so fed up with them that they prayed God, again, to halt the thunder showers. Things, have improved in the state, which recorded on Dec 1 and 2 the maximum rainfall.  

AN USUAL RAINFALL

               The unusual rain just for a few hours, from 7 PM to 9h30m PM, in Visakhapatnam, on the 19 Dec 2015, perplexed people who have not expected any rain atoll. It led to fall of a hillock, with boulders at 1 AM on Sunday 20 Dec 2015,  residential area in  Thattichetlapalem, and surprisingly a  similar but more magnified hillock fall in China, with a subsequent rain fall, around the same time, keeps one to wonder, the happenings world over.  

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
           The author is indebted to Late Prof. K. R. Rao  D.Sc.(Madras) D.Sc.(London) for his concern of Nature and eventualities that inspired the author, to monitor the awesome peculiarities of Nature. The research yielded lot of information on phenomenal events of changes of weather and the world over the peculiar happenings. I regard the sudden rain on 19 Dec 2015, as something different, astounding weather with unusual cold.    

Tuesday, December 15, 2015

December 1 to 15, 2015 World Events

Volume 2015, Issue No. 12a, Dated: 1 to 15 December 2015, Time: 5:47 A. M

December 1 to 15, 2015 World Events

Professor Dr. Kotcherlakota Lakshmi Narayana,
(Retd. Prof. of Physics, Shivaji University, Kolhapur - 416004)
Res: 17-11-10, Narasimha Ashram, Official Colony,
Maharanipeta. P. O., Visakhapatnam-530002, A.P. 
Mobile: 09491902867.
ABSTRACT

                       The cyclone hat has hit Tamil Nadu was a severe perfect storm of unusual version, and continued to rain from Nov 24 to Nov 30 normally, but on Dec 1 and 2 it recorded maximum down pour unprecedented in the last 100 years. NASA report. 3 December 2015 at  22:13 GMT : Mount Etna, the volcano on the Italian island of Sicily, has erupted in spectacular fashion.   North India is shivering under fall of temperatures less than the usual in this season, with foggy weather and cold winds.  Abinavagupta wrote volumes, on Tantralok, Partintrika Vivran, Paramarthsaar, Tantrasaar, Geetarthasangrata etc. He retired to a cave at the age of seventy on January 4, 1016 and died there. The cave still exists at Bhairav Gufa. He inspired the ancient spiritual and cultural heritage of Kashmir. India on Thursday cleared a $14.7 billion Japanese proposal to build its first bullet train line, one of the country’s biggest foreign investments in its infrastructure sector. Japan had offered to finance 80% of the cost of the train linking financial capital Mumbai with Ahmedabad.  Delhi experienced 6C. The air with humidity is about 85% to 40% fluctuating. Jammu and Kashmir temperature is -12C, and Leh on Sunday night recorded -12.2C. Kargil recorded -12.1C. Hishar in Haryana, recorded less by 3.4C. Chandigarh, Amritsar recorded 3.2C. Jaipur recorded 5.4C. Due to foggy weather many trains are unable to keep up scheduled times of arrivals and departures. Havara-Srinagar train delayed by 9.20h. Thansukhi-Lalgad train 5.25h late running. Pluto in colours photo by New Horizons, Mountains, Sand Dunes, and Glaciers visible clearly.
                               
          Words:  World Events, Mount Etna, Abinavagupta, Bhairav Gufa.    
INTRODUCTION
        The fortnight seems to be a hell of  world wide wrecks due to rains and unforeseen floods. Worst was at Chennai and its suburbs. So also to certain extent in Andhra Pradesh.

RAINS IN CHENNAI AND ANDHRA

               Nellore and Chittoor under heavy rain fall on Tuesday 1 December 2015, with hundreds of villages marooned in floods waters. Temple town of Tirumala again badly hit by incessant rains since the 1 December morning. High alert sounded in Naidupeta, Gudur, Kota, Chillakuru and Venkatagiri mandals in Nellore following 9-10 cm rainfall in the last 12 hours. Kavali and Gudur towns were the worst affected.

                  Heavy rains battered Tamil Nadu on 1 December, with several parts in Chennai, with possible rain showers next four days. Pondcherry and its suburbs continued to be lashed by heavy rains, since Monday 39 November night, recorded 15.2 cm rain in 24 hours. 
Fig.1 on 07 12 2015 at 5h 44m AM Moon 
with the two planets of Earth

   
Fig.1a 07 12 2015 at 5h 45m AM Moon with two Planets

                                Fig.2  on 7 12 2015 at 10h 45m AM The Hindu Newspaper.
                    The cyclone hat has hit Tamil Nadu was a severe perfect storm of unusual version, and continued to rain from Nov 24 to Nov 30 normally, but on Dec 1 and 2 it recorded maximum down pour unprecedented in the last 100 years. NASA report.

Fig.3. Flood waters of Chennai on Friday
                  Reports say there has been no rain in Chennai on Friday 4, Dec 2015 morning and water levels are receding in some parts of the city.

8 December 2015
        Large parts of the city remain without power, including hospitals.Vast swathes of the southern metropolitan city of Chennai in India are affected by heavy flooding following incessant rains over the last three weeks. Flooded rail tracks and airport runways have halted train and flight services. Thousands of citizens remain stranded on rooftops and a large portion of a major arterial road has caved in due to water-logging. While educational institutions remain closed, Indian Army personnel have been pressed to service for rescue and relief operations. Large parts of the city remain without power, including hospitals.
        Chennaiites, battling to pick up pieces of their lives after an unprecedented deluge caused death and destruction, have seen everything from panic-mongering on WhatsApp to apathy of government officials in the past one month. While people were deprived of essential commodities like milk and clean drinking water, a service that continued unaffected was of liquor supply.  According to  The News Minute, liquor shops in Nungambakkam, Choolaimedu, Anna Nagar and Arumbakkam have been functioning from 11am to 10pm for the past week. Vast swathes of the southern metropolitan city of Chennai in India are affected by heavy flooding following incessant rains over the last three weeks. Flooded rail tracks and airport runways have halted train and flight services. Thousands of citizens remain stranded on rooftops and a large portion of a major arterial road has caved in due to water-logging. While educational institutions remain closed, Indian Army personnel have been pressed to service for rescue and relief operations.

                         From November 24 to November 30, the city Chennai experienced minimal rainfall, the out flows from the reservoirs were limited. Official  of PWD  asserted inflow of 31,000 cusecs resulted in the high flow of 29,000 cusecs from the  reservoir on December 1. NASA reported the heavy rain fall was on the two days December 1 and 2. 
                                                     Fig.4    TWO DAYS AGO 8 December 2015
                                                         Fig.4a Chennai flood
   

CNN senior Meteorologist Report: Dec 2, 2015: at 18 h 37 m GMT(0237 HKT):

El Nino leads to boom hurricane season in Pacific, busts in Atlantic

MOUNT ETNA IN ITALY
                    3 December 2015 Last updated at 22:13 GMT : Mount Etna, the volcano on the Italian island of Sicily, has erupted in spectacular fashion.  Etna sent a plume of fire and ash into the  sky, several  kilometres high. The eruption caused  the closure of the nearest airport on the Italian mainland and left several villages covered in a thick layer of ash.

KASHMIR PHILOSOPHER ABINAVGUPTA
              He was a 10-11 century Shaivite Scholar and literary critic from Kashmir, studied under 19 teachers, learning grammar from his father Narasimhagupta. Authored about 50 books and wrote volumes on Tantralok, Partintrika Vivran, Paramarthsaar, Tantrasaar, Geetarthasangrata etc. He retired to a cave at the age of seventy on January 4, 1016 and died there. The cave still exists at Bhairav Gufa. He inspired the ancient spiritual and cultural heritage of Kashmir.
                     
Quake hits Tajikistan
          Tremors felt in North India, Kashmir also in Delhi, around 1h 20m PM  (IST) of the 7.0 R magnitude Earth Quake that struck at the Central Asian country of Tajikistan on Monday 7 December 2015. The depth of the quake was 25 km.  
  
Thin Power Paper developed that stores Energy
           A nano-cellulose paper and a conducting polymer, with one sheet 15 cm in diameter, and a few tenths of millimeter thick can store energy, similar to super capacitors. It has three dimensions. It was produced using simple materials, renewable cellulose, and an easily available polymer. It is light in weight, water proof, requires no dangerous chemicals or heavy meals. The material can be recharged hundreds of times claims, Professor Organic Electronics, at Linkoping University Sweden, said Xavier Crispin.  

Storm Desmond: Floods, power shortage hit North-West England

CNN: 151GMT (2311HKT) Dec 7, 2015
          Strong winds and heavy rains brought by Atlantic storm Desmond have hit normal life in parts of the United Kingdom and Ireland since Dec. 5, 2015. Several rivers in Scotland, Wales, England, and northern Ireland have reached record levels, and the Met Office has issued flood warnings in more than 60 areas. Gusts of wind reaching a speed of 85 mph (136.9 kph) were recorded in Wales, while 1,000 people were evacuated from Hawick at the Scottish borders as River Teviot breached its banks. Flooding has also disrupted power, train services, forced closure of roads, and caused landslides. Storm Desmond dumped record levels of rain on northern England and Scotland over the weekend, flooding areas of Cumbria and Lancashire counties and prompting authorities to call in the armed forces to help evacuate people. The waters inundated neighbourhoods, train lines and sports grounds, and knocked out electricity to more than 60,000 homes. Record rainfall hit northern England and Scotland, flooding some 2,000 homes. The area got a month's worth of rainfall in a day. 1:54am IST - 01:07: At least two people have died and hundreds made homeless by some of the worst flooding to hit northern England and Scotland in decades. Prime Minister David Cameron says the government is doing all it can to help ease the crisis.

DECEMBER 9, 2015

                                              Fig.5  Munt Etna spews on Monday 7, Dec 2015.

     Italy's Mount Etn, which is Europe's tallest and most active volcano, spews lava as it erupts on the  southern island of Sicily on Monday, 7, Dec, 2015.

CHILLY WEATHER IN VISAKAPATNAM
              Last two am feeling biting cold and today, 9 Dec 2015 I wore a double cloth to protect from the chill. Sun shine very much subdued due to the chill weather.

AHMEDABAD: After the first excavations at PM Narendra Modi's hometown Vadnagar threw up enough evidence of ancient trading activities to put it on the Indo-Roman trade route, Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) officials will begin their second season there from Tuesday. This time the focus is to ascertain the town's importance as an international trade centre in the first millennium.

           The town is also important due to its connection with Chinese traveller Hiuen Tsang (Xu angzang) who recorded witnessing around 1,000 monks of the Sammitiya School in 10 monasteries during his visit to Vadnagar in 641AD.  Jinping was also presented a drawing of a Buddhist monastery excavated by state archaeology department near the Ghaskol Darwaja area of the town.       

       Officials said that their prime motivation for the excavations has been to establish the ancient town as a sthala pattana (land port), an important location on ancient trade routes such as the Silk Route and chronicle its history which dates back to at least the 1st century AD also found antiquities dating back to the 2nd century BC, the 2nd century AD at Babano Tekro and 1,200-year-old structural remains at the Kirti Toran area. It is seen in ancient cities that monasteries flourished near thriving hubs and trade routes. The first excavations had encouraging results regarding the town's trading activities that could put it on the Indo-Roman trade route. She, Archaeologist, said their focus will be on the Kirti Toran and Babano Tekro sites. At both places, they found structures underground through satellite imagery which they want to explore further. "The project would provide a chronological setup of Vadnagar from the 1st century AD and earlier. Artefacts could also throw light on trading goods and settlements," she said. 


                                            Fig.6 Kashmir village women preparing mat
                                                      for winter protection  year:2015
 

                  Kashmir women weave a traditional mat on the outskirts of  Srinagar on Tuesday, 8 Dec 2015. Kashmiris are stocking supplies for themselves and their cattle to face the bitter on coming winter.

J and K tourists can now  fly high

      For the first time snowbound places of Phalgam and Sonmarg will see activities like heli-skiing, snow sculpting, snow boarding and on snow-sports. It  only costs Rs.12000/- to Pahalgam, while sortie for Gulmarg costs Rs.10000/-. 

INDIA AND JAPAN BULLET TRAIN

               India on Thursday cleared a $14.7 billion Japanese proposal to build its first bullet train line, one of the country’s biggest foreign investments in its infrastructure sector. Japan had offered to finance 80% of the cost of the train linking financial capital Mumbai with Ahmedabad, the commercial centre of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state of Gujarat, at an interest rate of less than 1%. Japan’s International Cooperation Agency completed a feasibility study in July on the 505-km Mumbai-Ahmedabad corridor offering to cut travel time to two hours from the current seven to eight hours. French and Spanish firms are also conducting studies into building two of the routes in a quadrilateral of high-speed train lines criss-crossing the country that would drastically reduce travel times.

DELHI POLLUTION MEASURE
Fig.7 Delhi pollution on 10 December 2015
more than Beijing in China.
                Delhi’s PM 2.5 concentration exceeded 250 µg/m³ thrice over the last week, placing it under ‘severe’ category. The ‘severe’ rating means the PM 2.5 concentration is so high that it might affect healthy people and seriously impact those with existing diseases. PM 2.5 are fine particulate matter found in the air with a diameter of 2.5 micrometres or less and are known to pose the greatest risk to human beings.

    Fig.8 The Lammasingi  in the Eastern Ghats
    in the Dec 10, Agency area of Visakhapatnam
    temperature drops to zero

Fig.9 Lammasingi a tribal women braving 
the winter chilli on Eastern Ghats, in Agency area. 

                   Kashmir valley of Andhra Pradesh, located in the tribal village, of Visakhapatnam. Four years ago, on January 15, 2012, due to weather condition it recorded zero degrees temperature. Now it is about 1.5 to 1 deg C.Associated Press
07 Dec 2015 17:38
NEW DELHI/ALMATY: An earthquake measuring 7.2 magnitude struck 109 km west of Murghob in Tajikistan on Monday (Dec 7), shaking buildings as far away as the Indian capital of New Delhi and in Pakistan, the US Geological Survey and witnesses said. A spokesman for Tajikistan's Emergencies Committee said it had no information so far on any casualties or damage from the quake. The quake did not affect Russian military bases in Tajikistan, RIA news agency reported, citing Russia's defence ministry. According to the USGS, the epicentre was located in a remote area some 345 km east of the capital Dushanbe. A Dushanbe resident told Reuters by telephone the quake had been felt in the capital, but described it as moderate. The quake was also felt in the capital of neighbouring Kyrgyzstan to the north, northern parts of Afghanistan to the south as well as nearby Pakistan. "I felt the windows moving and that only happens when there's an earthquake. The room was swinging," said Sara Seerat, a lawyer in Pakistan's capital Islamabad, where workers voluntarily evacuated office buildings.

JAKARTA, INDONESIA
 12 Dec 2015
A strong earthquake struck off the coast of eastern Indonesia on Wednesday, causing panic among residents but no destructive tsunami. The U.S. Geological Survey said the magnitude-6.9 quake hit 106 kilometers (66 miles) southeast of Amahai, a town on Seram, the biggest island in Maluku province.It said the quake was centered in the Banda Sea at a depth of 33.9 kilometers (21 miles). Wahyu, an official in Indonesia's Meterology, Geophysics and Climatology Agency, said there was no danger of a tsunami. The quake was felt in Banda Neira and in Maluku's capital, Ambon, said Wahyu, who like many Indonesians uses a single name. Marzuki, a hotel employee in Banda Neira on Banda Island, about 2,600 kilometers (1,615 miles) east of Jakarta, said residents and hotel guests rushed out into the streets in panic. “They ran to higher areas, some screaming `tsunami, tsunami,”' Marzuki said.Indonesia is prone to earthquakes due to its location on the Pacific “Ring of Fire,” an arc of volcanoes and fault lines in the Pacific Basin. 

UTTARAKHAND
14 Dec 2015
            Shimla: Most parts of Himachal Pradesh shivered under piercing cold wave conditions as high altitude tribal areas and other higher ranges received another spell of moderate snowfall and foggy conditions prevailed in mid and lower hills.  
Fig. 10   Snow fall in Shimla
           The icy march of winter is knocking on Uttarakhand's doors, with the higher reaches of the hill state set to receive 23 cm of snow and hail over the next three days, the meteorological department has predicted. There is also a possibility of avalanches in the interior parts of Uttarakhand. Met Department Director Vikram Singh told reporters that a strong western disturbance is moving towards the state, which would bring rain, hail and snow over the next three days. While the districts in the upper reaches like Uttarkashi, Pithoragarh, Chamoli and Rudraprayag might experience snow, sleet and hail, Dehradun, Haridwar, Udhamsingh Nagar, Pauri and Nainital will get their share of heavy to moderate downpour along with hail in some places. The mercury may dip by some five to six degrees.

VOLCANOE ETNA:

                  Volcanoes Today, 9 Dec 2015: Colima volcano, Turrialba, Etna. Wednesday Dec 09, 2015 14:00 PM | Ash emissions from NE crater. Ash emission from Etna's NE crater.

                             Fig.10 Snow Fall on Dec 11, 2015 Gulamarg 22" snow.

                                        Plains in Kashmir received first snow fall on Dec 11, Gulamarg recorded 22 inches.

Fig.11  Kashmir walk on now covered Mugal Road in Pir Panjal
                        Kashmir women walk on on the snow covered Mugal Road near Pir Panjal ranges in Shopian.
Fig.11 The Highest peaks of Himalayas 
India Soldiers safe guard
         
Fig.12 The Visakhapatnam Red
beach reflections, on Sunday, Dec.13, 2015
         The beach shows the red colour of the sky due to the dusty emissions from the volcanoes of Indonesia. I found a similar colouration of the sky, due to the disturbances in Indonesia volcanoes, even while I was in Kolhapur, MS, on SU campus, during 1966 to 2000.

LOW TEMPERATURES IN ANDHRA
                                   .  
Fig.13 Konaseema Heavy Fog on Monday 14 Dec 2015.

NORTH INDIA GRIPPING COLD             
          North India is shivering under fall of temperatures less than the usual in this season, with foggy weather and cold winds. Delhi experienced 6C. The air with humidity about  85% to 40% fluctuating. Jammu and Kashmir temperature is -12C, and Leh on Sunday night recorded -12.2C. Kargil recorded -12.1C. Hishar in Haryana, recorded less by 3.4C. Candigarh, Amrutsar recorded 3.2C. Jaipur recorded 5.4C. Due to foggy weather many trains are unable to keep up scheduled times of arrivals and departures. Havara-Srinagar train delayed by 9.20h. Thansukhi-Lalgad train 5.25h late running.


THE PLUTO IN COLOURS

                                      
Fig. 14 Pluto in colours photo by New Horizons 
Mountains, Sand Dunes, Glaciers visible clearly.
    
SBH CLEANTECH
            
              SBG Cleantech won the project, under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission, at a bid of Rs. 4.63 per kilowatt-hour India has raised its 2022 solar energy target to 100 GW from 20GW. 

   Philippines Melor typhoon Dec 15, 2015                

           At least 4 killed as typhoon Melor leaves Philippines in dark :  AFP, Bulan, Philippines: Dec 15, 2015 13:14 IST: Tattered lanterns, festive lights and tin roofs littered towns in the central Philippines on Tuesday after typhoon Melor swept through, killing at least four people and leaving millions without power ahead of Christmas. the storm packing winds of 140 kph (87 mph) was about 40 km (25 mile) north-northeast of Romblon island early on Tuesday, moving west and weakening. "Melor will continue to weaken as it crosses the central Philippines into Tuesday," weather provider Accuweather said. "However, damaging wind gusts higher than 130 kph will target the rest of southern Luzon to Mindoro." Romblon residents reported heavy rain and strong winds from midnight. Power was cut as transmission lines and electric posts came down

15 December 2015
              There was no wind breeze in Visakhapatnam, but due to winter cool weather, people have not suffered much, in fact the loss of air and wind, went unnoticed.

DARK MATTER DETECTOR 
                        The Large Underground Xenon (LUX) dark matter experiment, which operates nearly a mile underground at the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) in the Black Hills of South Dakota, has already proven itself to be the most sensitive detector in the hunt for dark matter.  It is designed to identify the very rare occasions when a dark matter particle collides with a xenon atom inside the detector. These calibrations have deepened our understanding of the response of xenon to dark matter and to backgrounds.          
   
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
           The author is indebted to Late Prof. K. R. Rao D.Sc.(Madras) D.Sc.(London) for his concern of Nature and eventualities that inspired the author, to monitor the awesome peculiarities of Nature. The research yielded lot of information on phenomenal events of changes of weather and the world over the peculiar happenings. I regard the fortnight of Dec 1-15 as something different, in respect of Global weather, fluctuations of heavy rain, unusual cold, and absence of rains in some places.