Weather scenario of April 2011 at Visakhapatnam
by
Professor Dr Kotcherlakota Lakshmi Narayana
{Retd. Prof. of Phys, Shivaji University} 17-11-10, Narsimha Ashram, Official Colony, Maharanipeta.P.O, Visakhapatnam-530002. Mobile: 9542717723
ABSTRACT:
More study of the interdependent parameters need to be made in an integrated effort and exclusive ideas of convection of weather and the temperature sea patterns should be shelved off. The age old methods of gauzing the weather need to be rebrushed with the modern digital understanding of the micro weather contributions to the mega weather events. The idea that different layers of the terrestrial atmosphere in the region of India, Japan, Australia and the Newzealand exhibit characteristic features is one of an afterthought following the recent earth tremors of intense jolts. The dense clouds formation over the Andhra Pradesh region both near the coast and in the interior parts of the districts shows the vegetative and seasonal agricultural growth impacts on the weather conditions. The 14th to 17th April 2011 evening the Sun setting was quite visible at around 5.30PM with an aurora of red glow of the surroundings of the Sun to the extent of about 4 to 5 times the diameter of the Sun. What is intriguing is the fact that in spite of relatively stable weather conditions of the Japan Islands the Visakhapatnam Bay of Bengal sea and the horizon sky happens to be predominantly gray-deep bluish a finding of significance that the atmosphere is sensitive even at lower levels to the other than visible radiations from the Sun.
INTRODUCTION:
Japan did not fully recover from the earthquake and Tsunami that occurred in the previous month that it had to face another earthquake of magnitude of 7.4 on Richter scale. The earthquake shook the entire north-eastern Japan. A warning for a Tsunami has also been given. So the terror and struggle for existence continues in Japan. The earthquake hit Japan around 11:30 on Thursday, according to Japan time.140 people died. In prefectures Yamaghata, Miyaga, Ivete about 4 million houses electric supply damaged. The Onwaga nuclear centre the nuclear atomic radioactive control rods immersion water has overflowed but reactor is running normally. The Khiaga nuclear reactor third unit producing about 250MW electricity control room gave smoke signal and at 4h30m on Friday 8th April 2011, and hence the nuclear reactor has been shut down somewhat earlier by two weeks than the usual yearly servicing of the establishment.
Mexico experienced an earthquake of M6.5R at 8h11mAM in Coatzacoalcos with epicenter 57km Veracruz region. From the capital city of Mexico the distance is about 800kms. The United States Geological Survey said Thursday that a magnitude 6.5 earthquake struck in the region of Veracruz, Mexico at 9:11 a.m. Eastern time. Officials haven't noted any initial damage or casualties, according to media reports. The epicenter of the quake is in a rural area in central, southern Mexico, about 56 miles from the city of Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, according to the USGS
Kashmir valley is experiencing the earth tremors since one month and has created a fear among the people whether they are precursor signs of an impending major earthquake. The French Nuclear series of explosions for nuclear fuel generation and the super heavy bombardment of the Taliban region hilly tunnels by the peace keeping forces, impact on the geological frictures pressure and stress releases and rearrangements have not been studied. The geological frictures have been subject to 10% excess pressure due to the October 8th 2005 earthquake. Mujafaridabad earth tremor has been of considerable magnitude and it affected the Jelam river western side, and extended to Yuri south side. This valley is in the 5th order earthquake prone zone. Hapzard construction of concrete buildings is the cause of geological local stresses. The Kashmir valley geological binding strength is somewhat low. During the last one month the Kashmir valley experienced about seven tremors in total at almost magnitudes of 4.9R. The Afghanistan and Hindukush earth tremors have influenced the Thursday Kashmir valley jolts.
During the last five days from the 11th April 2011 the Araku Valley in Andhra Pradesh has experienced rains during the late evenings that brought down the temperatures and helped the vegetable and other crop growths. But Visakhapatnam has been reeling under intense sun. The Kolkata had a wonder5fuk ring around the sun due to cirrus clouds for nearly an hour and on 9th April 2011 the evening from 6 to 0PM at Visakhapatnam there was a huge cloud formation that didn’t bring any rain but the beach showed a gray scenario along with the touching horizon. The 12th April 2011 at morning around 9.30AM the sea waves were occasionally of about 3 feet height which was a bit unusual.
6.2R magnitude earth quake of epicenter, at 35.406 deg latitude and 140.542 deg longitude near the east coast of Honshu, Japan, which occurred at a depth of 13.1kms and the earth tremor has shook the buildings in Fukushima city around 23h08m16s on 11th April 2011, once again after nearly a month. Japan added to the evacuation zone around a stricken nuclear plant on Monday 11th April 2011, as a 6.6-magnitude aftershock hit 81 km south of Fukushima city, rattling buildings in Tokyo (AFP). The 6.0R magnitude earth quake occurred at a depth of 10.6kms at 37 Latitude and 140.7 Longitude in Eastern Honshu, Japan on 12th April 2011 around UTC date and time 05h07m42s. Japanese officials reported the aftershock at 7.1 before downgrading it to 7.0, but the U.S. Geological Survey said the quake was closer to a magnitude 6.6. A 6.6-magnitude aftershock rattled Japan today on the one-month anniversary of the twin disasters that left at least 25,000 dead and officials scrambling to prevent a meltdown at damaged nuclear reactors. A 3-foot tsunami warning was issued after the temblor hit the northeast coast 5:16 p.m. local time. All advisories and warnings were lifted about an hour later, according to local Japanese TV.
There were hailstorms in several regions of the Andhra Pradesh. Mostly the heavy rain with thunderbolt strikes were on Friday April 15th evening. Dhanuujavari, Gajjalavari and Modugulapalli villages were affected with death of people due to thunderbolt strikes. Malkapuram division in Prakasham district, Gudur village of Kothoor mandal, in Mahabhooba nagar district there was heavy rain with gales and very big and intense lightning and thunders. Araku valley had heavy fast, intense rain for about 4 hours beginning in the afternoon till the evening. Most of the streams, roads, canals etc have overflowed and rain flow water entered into several houses. The Visakhapatnam city in the morning reeled under intense heat of the Sun and only stray black clouds were visible in the evening at the Moon rise time of 5.30PM. Low depression formed on the north Andhra Pradesh upper layers and influenced the weather in the next 24hours in both north, south Andhra regions and as well in Telengana.
Saturday April 17th, 2011 Japan experienced another earthquake jolt of magnitude 5.9R at 11h19m in the western of Japan. The buildings have swayed but no damage. Sunday Mirror 17/04/2011 news is about RADIATION levels around Japan’s stricken nuclear plant soared after another earthquake jolted the ¬country yesterday. Engineers fear the 5.9 quake may have caused fresh leaks at Fukushima Dai-ichi, north of Tokyo. Levels of radioactivity rose sharply in seawater near the plant. It happened shortly after the Tokyo Electric Power Company had beefed up safety ¬systems. TEPCO has been fighting leaks at the plant since it was crippled by a tsunami on March 11.In South-East Australia the earth tremor has been recorded in Towneswelly of Queens’ Land district. In Newzeland the earth tremor has been recorded as of magnitude 5.2R .The Christchurch electricity has been knocked out due to the earth tremor on Saturday 17th April 2011.
Central America had gales, hurricanes and sequence of cyclones some of which so powerful that they lifted away a heavy trawler by the winds and thrown to a distance of 21 meters. The Oklahama, Outing, Washington, Mississippi, Alabama, Kansas, Texas, and Arkansan regions experienced severe gales and heavy rain causing the death of many unaware people due to fall of trees and building collapses. An asteroid of 50meters, at a distance of 2085321miles from the Earth had a glancing passage with a speed of 10 times the speed of Earth’s rotation around itself. It could be image captured in Chelmsford by nick James on the Monday night using an 11inch telescope.
From almost 17th April to 21st April the entire Andhra Pradesh reeled under intense Sun summer heat. But suddenly following the two days, beginning from the afternoon of Thursday, 21st April 2011, thunder showers, hail stones, gales and heavy rain lashed several districts of Andhra Pradesh and made a record of down pour exceeding 100mm in several specific regions spread out over the several of distant districts. The unattended farmer, with his moved crop loads into the purchase sheds and open yards of marketing, which have been damaged, bringing tears to the hard hit farmers, due to the delay in procurement and as well delay on the part of price fixing & purchase agencies of both the private and public enterprises. Tirupati hills received heavy rain.
OUR OBSERVATIONS
The weather in the 2nd and 3rd weeks of April 2011 at Visakhapatnam and in Andhra Pradesh was one of a very complex character. It has been a mix of heavy rains isolated, dusty atmosphere and intense heat pockets. The dense clouds formation over the Andhra Pradesh region both near the coast and in the interior parts of the districts shows the vegetative and seasonal agricultural growth impacts on the weather conditions. More study of the interdependent parameters need to be made in an integrated effort and exclusive ideas of convection of weather and the temperature sea patterns should be shelved off. The age old methods of gauzing the weather need to be rebrushed with the modern digital understanding of the micro weather contributions to the mega weather events. The 14th to 17th April evening the Sun setting was quite visible at around 5.30PM with an aurora of red glow of the surroundings of the Sun to the extent of about 4 to 5 times the diameter of the Sun. This clearly establishes the fact of possible dust and debris accumulation at lower reach of the Visakhapatnam atmosphere due to the continued earth tremors of the Indian sub continent and the East neighboring countries. On the 17th April 2011 the evening sky around 22h50mPM showed very fast moving clouds from the South to the North bordering the Sea coast line. The west is relatively cloudless. The clouds of brown color and the dark dense type both were mingled and the boundaries of these cloud masses gave interesting spectral absorption properties over the entire visible range. What is intriguing is the fact that in spite of relatively stable weather conditions of the Japan Islands the Visakhapatnam Bay of Bengal sea and the horizon sky happens to be predominantly gray-deep bluish a finding of significance that the atmosphere is sensitive even at lower levels to the other than visible radiations from the Sun.
IMAGES:
Fig 1 of 9thApril2011at9h07mPM kln
This show within a minute’s time the different Moon surroundings of clouds and the dusty atmosphere of the sky
Fig.2 of 15th April 2011 evening clouds Image0070kln
This figure shows the dense black clouds engulfing the evening Moon and are found by me somewhat very similar to the ones that have occurred on the April 9th, 2011 on the Sea Coast
Fig.3 of the Images Nos. imgs 0072, 73, 74 KLN 16th April 2011
The Fig.3 shows how the different levels of the atmosphere in the Visakhapatnam exhibit certain features that change almost within a minute, due to induction of different earthquake debris constituents.
Fig.4 of 17th April 2011 PM Images 0080 to 87kln
Fig 4 presents the spectral scenario of the Moon in different cloud environments at different times. This image is clear indication of the mix of the atmosphere constituents of several kinds.
Fig 5 of IMG_3330kln 24th April 2011 at 8.30AM at RK beach icy clouds
Fig 5 asserts the continued influenced weather conditions of Visakhapatnam sea coast due to the low depression that formed a band of cloud mass movement from the tip of southern peninsular region of India to the Assam region of North East. Slow movement of this band across the coastal land from the Coast to the central region of India, as evident from satellite images, may be due to the density of the cloud masses loaded with several constituents originating from different regions of the Ocean neighborhood and the terrestrial land masses
Fig.6 of Rain fall 21 to 23rd April 2011
Fig.6 gives the sudden spurt of icy crystal clouds following the two day heavy rain during 21st to 23rd April 2011 in several regions of Andhra Pradesh, What is intriguing is the fact that in spite of relatively stable weather conditions of the Japan Islands the Visakhapatnam Bay of Bengal sea and the horizon sky happens to be predominantly gray-deep bluish a finding of significance that the atmosphere is sensitive even at lower levels to the other than visible radiations from the Sun.
Since my Canon Camera digital IXUS 130 has been under service for the last fifteen days, for the malfunctioning, recourse is made to the mobile Nokia 2700 camera of 2MP to capture the weather conditions. The spectral profiles have a superimposed stray dispersion of atmosphere and street light profiles in the image capture. But distinct spectral profiles of the Moon and the surroundings have been neatly obtained. The Fig.1 shows within a minute’s time the different Moon surroundings of clouds and the dusty atmosphere of the sky. Fig.2 shows the dense black clouds engulfing the evening Moon and are found by me somewhat very similar to the ones that have occurred on the April 9th, 2011 on the Sea Coast. In both the events the earth tremors of low magnitude have occurred in the Japan and the Australia & Newzealand continents during the concomitant time durations. The Fig.3 shows how the different levels of the atmosphere in the Visakhapatnam exhibit certain features that change almost within a minute, due to induction of different earthquake debris constituents. Fig 4 presents the spectral scenario of the Moon in different cloud environments at different times. This image is clear indication of the mix of the atmosphere constituents of several kinds. Fig 5 asserts the continued influenced weather conditions of Visakhapatnam sea coast due to the low depression that formed a band of cloud mass movement from the tip of southern peninsular region of India to the Assam region of North East. Slow movement of this band across the coastal land from the Coast to the central region of India, as evident from satellite images, may be due to the density of the cloud masses loaded with several constituents originating from different regions of the Ocean neighborhood and the terrestrial land masses. Fig.6 gives the sudden spurt of icy crystal clouds following the two day heavy rain during 21st to 23rd April 2011 in several regions of Andhra Pradesh,
FINDINGS:
It appears to me that weather conditions in Visakhapatnam much depend on the Ring of Fire happenings of the fracture of the Earth about the Pacific Ocean. The idea that different layers of the terrestrial atmosphere in the region of India, Japan, Australia and the Newzealand exhibit characteristic features is one of an afterthought following the recent Earth tremors of intense jolts. The dense clouds formation over the Andhra Pradesh region both near the coast and in the interior parts of the districts shows the vegetative and seasonal agricultural growth impacts on the weather conditions. The 14th to 17th April evening the Sun setting was quite visible at around 5.30PM with an aurora of red glow of the surroundings of the Sun to the extent of about 4 to 5 times the diameter of the Sun. The day time hot summer prevailed in the five days from 16th to 21st April 2011. The morning of 18th April 2011 at Visakhapatnam beach coast was very pleasant with cool and refreshing breeze. It didn’t rain much in Visakhapatnam but cooled on the 21st afternoon. The unusual rain [Refs.1, 2, 3] was found to have excessively down poured only in certain, the local village areas of the state. Four villages are reported to have received maximum rain fall.
REFERENCES:
1. TRU SCIENCE Issue Vol.2005 No.4 Dt 29th April 2005 4:31:38 PM P.M http:\\tru-science.westgodavari.orgThe Strange Weather Phenomenon: Puzzling the Weather Experts: Is it a Double Strange Event?
2. TRU SCIENCE Issue Vol.2005 No.4 Dt. 5th April 2005 21:36:18 P.M.Aftershock Gravity Wave energized AMO conversion to Tropical Cyclone during the period 28th March 05 to 5th April 05 on Indian Ocean By Kotcherlakota Lakshmi Narayana
http://tru_science.westgodavari.org/ Email Id: freekln@yahoo.co.in
3. TRU SCIENCE Issue Vol.2005 No.4 April 3, 2005 4:27:53 PM
AMO EXPLANATION OF PHENOMENAL WEATHER THAT PREVAILED OVER INDIA DURING FEBRUARY 2005 FOLLOWING TSUNAMI OF 26th DECEMBER 2004 by
Kotcherlakota Lakshmi Narayana http://tru¬_science.westgodavari.org
ACKNOWLEDGMENT:
I am deeply indebted to late Professor K. Rangadhama Rao D.Sc. (Madras) D.Sc. (London) of J.V. D. College of Science & Technology, Andhra University, Waltair, for his initiation and stimulation provided to me to become a researcher in Fundamental Physics.