January 1-16, 2018, :Sea Moved forward, Vedic maths, winter storm in America & Europe, Florida Snow, Cyclone Ockhi travelled 2400 km round India, Dark Matter, FRBs,Prof. K R Rao outstanding person, Heavy Fog in Visakhapatnam, Makara Sankranti Bhogi festival fires,

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Volume 2018, Issue No.1,  Dated: 1 to 16 January 2018,  Time:06:26:49 AM

January 1-16, 2018:  Sea Moved forward, Vedic maths, winter storm in America & Europe, Florida Snow, Cyclone Ockhi travelled 2400 km round India, Dark Matter, FRBs, Prof. K R Rao outstanding person, Heavy Fog in Visakhapatnam, Makara Sankranti Bhogi  festival fires,

               Professor Dr. Kotcherlakota Lakshmi Narayana,

M.Sc. (Math. Phys.), M.Sc. (Nucl. Phys.), Ph. D. (AU), Int. Edu & Res. (Sweden 1964-65) 

      While returning from Sweden, spent few days in England, Paris, Egypt and etc. countries.

Visited USA about 12 Universities, several National Laboratories and Institutes 

during four months Sept.to December 1988. and in 1989 visited Japan, and South Korea.

 [Retd. Prof of Physics; Shivaji University, Kolhapur - 416004]

Residential Address: 17- 11-10, Narasimha Ashram, Official Colony,

      Maharanipeta. P. O., Visakhapatnam-530002, A.P. Mobile: 09491902867.

       kotcherlakota_l_n@hotmail.com; DOB:23-07-1940.

lakshminarayana.kotcherlakota@gmail.com

                                                                    ABSTRACT

                 The sea in Andhra Pradesh at  Mukkal moved forward on 1 Jan. 2018 night and frightened people till Tuesday 2 Jan. 2018 morning.. Out of 44 taxa, 31 species and 13 varieties of genus Hedychium, found in India, only five are reported in South India. Haryana goes on overdrive, to promote Vedic maths in schools, and universities. Winter storm Eleanor barrels through Europe, causes widespread damage and disruptions. Winter storm Eleanor swept across Europe on Wednesday, causing widespread damage and disruptions.  Jan 04, 2018 00:00 IST: First snow in Florida in 29 years. Heavy snow and ice, fell from Florida in the southeast up to New England and the Northeast on Wednesday and Thursday. Cyclone Ockhi was the first to travel 2400km in almost in 40 years.  Severe cyclonic storm from Bay of Bengal travelled round India to as far as the Gujarat coast.  The observations have been combined with optical data from the Hubble space telescope (pink) and radio-emission data from the Very Large Array (red) in New Mexico. If these findings are confirmed with future observations, it would signal a major step forward in comprehending the nature of dark matter. Earlier analyses of the stone revealed that it contains micromineral compounds that are not found anywhere on the planet or any known meteorite. The compounds are not even found elsewhere in the solar system. 10,000 FRBs happening per day, or a radio flash every 10 seconds. They may arise from a neutron star near a very powerful magnetic field, which may be proximity to massive black hole or within a powerful nebula. 13 Jan: Serious damage was reported from Kotadeniyawa after gale-force winds swept across the area during a heavy downpour yesterday; 15 houses have been damaged. Due to the Makara Sankranti burning of wood etc., in the early morning on 13 Jan 2018. In Florida Lguanas dropping from trees because of the cold wave sweeping the USA. 14 Jan 2018: The recovery of the ozone layer, due to lack of chlorine from chlorofluorocarbon, each year between 2005 and 2016, would fully recover by 2080.      

DETAILS
30 and 31 December 2017: Photos on the Ocean Beach Road at Visakhapatnam.

Fig. A Beach Decoration in Visakhapatnam 

 Fig. B Beach Decoration in Visakhapatnam 

Fig. C  Airlifting move for children at Beach Visakhapatnam

and The Full Moon 

Fig. D  Beach Visakhapatnam 

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Fig.1 The forward moved Sea at

Vijayanagaram Zilla Village Mukkala

with ferocious sound that frightened villagers.

The sea moved forward about 50 meters and the sea waves were frightening people and  on Monday especially it was ferocious. From Monday 1 Jan. night to 2 Jan. Tuesday early morning the waves caused anxiety to people. It destroyed the beach road totally.

Visakhapatnam sea moved forward  on 1 Jan. with waves of height about 2 feet but by 4 Jan. it subsided and waves ere only about half foot to one foot height. Also sea moved backwards considerably giving a wide shore space. This is a bit rare observation.   

At Uppada near Kakinada coast also the sea moved forward. Coastal belt of 974 km at several places the sand was dumped at other places it eroded the coast.                 

Jan. 1, 2018: Two new Ginger species found in Northeast, India. Hedychium chingmetanum a epiphytic plant that grows on tall trees, reddish stems and creamy white flowers, located in Nagaland, the other Caulokaempferia was found growing in rock crevices, boulders, humus rich soil in the Shirul Hill at elevation of 2,938 meters in Manipur. Out of 44 taxa, 31 species and 13 varieties of genus Hedychium, found in India, only five are reported in South India.  Caulokaempferia has beautiful oval-shaped pink flowers which appear in June-July.  

Jan. 1, 2018: EARTH'S NATIVE SOUND: The data was collected between 2012 and 2013, but it was only after experts filtered out interfering sounds from sea waves and electronics on two specific sites that they were finally able to hear the Earth's native sound. Despite this, it is still virtually undetectable to the human ear, as it the sound doesn't exceed 4.5 milli-hertz a frequency that is 10,000 times lower than what humans can hear.

Supermoon on 2 Jan. 2018, with perigee at 3.34 PM with its distance from Earth would be 3,56,565 km and it will be illuminated 99.9%  the full moon phase comes about 4.5 hours later at 7.54 PM. he Moon will be at 3,56,846 km from Earth. It appears 13% bigger and about 30% brighter than the normal full Moon.

2 Jan. 2018: The month long Madhav Narayan festival began in Nepal on Tuesday. During the festival devotees recite holyscriptures dedicated to the Hindu goddess Swasthani and Lord Shiva. Unmarried women pray to find a good husband while those married pray for the longevity of their husbands by observing a month-long fast.

Jan 03, 2018 12:07 IST:  Haryana goes on overdrive, to promote Vedic maths in schools, and universities. The BJP government in Haryana had asked the Haryana Board of School Education in 2016 to explore steps to promote the subject.

Jan 03, 2018, 23:44 PM IST: Winter storm Eleanor barrels through Europe, causes widespread damage and disruptions. Winter storm Eleanor swept across Europe on Wednesday, causing widespread damage and disruptions.

Jan 04, 2018 00:00 IST: First snow in Florida in 29 years. Heavy snow and ice, fell from Florida in the southeast up to New England and the Northeast on Wednesday and Thursday. New York City was under a winter storm watch, with 8-15cm of snow expected from Wednesday night to Thursday.

   Fig.2 America and Europe in the grip of extreme chill weather.

HUNDRED YEAR’S FEAT: Cyclone Ockhi was the first to travel 2400 km in almost in 40 years.  Severe cyclonic storm from Bay of Bengal travelled round India to as far as the Gujarat coast. It formed as a depression over south west Bay of Bengal on November 29, 2017, intensified into a cyclone off the Kanyakumari coast in Tamil Nadu, on November 30, and travelled to Gujarat, before it dissipated on December 6, as a low-pressure area.  In three decades this a severe cyclone storm to have travelled 2400 km, a century ago a similar or longer distances than Ockhi occurred nearly a century ago. It had copious rainfall especially in southern districts of Tamil Nadu, with Tirunelveli and Kanyakumari, getting 42% and 23% excess rainfall during the north-east Monsoon season.

6 Jan. 2018: BOSTON/NEW YORK: A shroud of bone-chilling arctic air covered the U.S. East Coast and Midwest on Saturday, creating dangerous conditions as tens of millions of people struggled to clean up from a blizzard that dumped deep, drifting snow in many areas earlier this week. Wind chill and freeze warnings stretched from New England to Ohio and Pennsylvania, while the National Weather Service warned of freezing rain in Missouri and areas to the northeast. The cold snap complicated efforts by crews to clear snow and ice from roadways after the blizzard, which clobbered the Northeast after sprinkling snow in areas as far south as Savannah, Georgia and Tallahassee, Florida. In New England and the Middle Atlantic states, the storm forced hundreds of schools to close and commuter rail services to suspend or reduce service. Cold and snowy weather was blamed for at least 18 deaths in the past few days, including four in North Carolina traffic.

Jan 6 (IANS) Beijing, China has maintained its blue alert for intense snowfall in the central parts of the country, which has so far killed 13 people, The agency said it expected blizzards to dump 4 to 8 centimetres of snow in parts of Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan, Anhui and Hubei provinces and some areas could be hit with more than 10 centimetres.
7 Jan, 2018 08:37: Dormant Kadovar volcano erupts for 1st time in known history, prompting evacuations. a large plume of ash rising 2.1km above sea level, forcing the evacuation of over 500 residents. The 365-meter (1,197-ft) volcano started erupting on Friday, the Darwin Volcanic Ash.
Sunday, 07 January 2018 03:21:26 PM: The city of Sydney recorded its hottest day on Sunday with the mercury hitting 47.3 degrees Celsius after almost 80 years, according to Australian weather authorities.
Sun 7 Jan ‘18 16.10 GMT: Snow in Spain traps thousands of people in cars overnight: Thousands of people stuck on roads in Castile and León region are rescued by Spanish police and soldiers.  Around 70 km (44 miles) of motorway between Madrid and nearby Segovia were affected, with some motorists trapped for up to 18 hours.
7 Jan. 2018:

                         

                          Fig.3 Composite picture of X-Ray and Optical observations.

A composite image of X-ray and optical observations of the Perseus galaxy cluster: This image contains X-ray data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory (blue) of the Perseus galaxy cluster. The observations have been combined with optical data from the Hubble space telescope (pink) and radio-emission data from the Very Large Array (red) in New Mexico. If these findings are confirmed with future observations, it would signal a major step forward in comprehending the nature of dark matter.

07 January 2018: 11:08, UK, Sunday: US weather station colder than the Arctic and Siberia: As the US and Canada continue to suffer frostbite-inducing temperatures, airports are struggling to cope with huge backlogs. On Saturday, it had fallen to -38C (-37F), with a wind chill equivalent of -69C (-93F), tying it with Armstrong, Ontario, in Canada, as having the lowest temperature in the world.

7 Jan. 2018: Manipur rocked: A 5.5R earthquake rocked Manipur and some neighbouring states a little past noon on Sunday. It lasted 20secs. The epicentre was located along the India-Myanmar border about 100 km from Imphal. People feared aftershocks and stayed outside in the night. 

 THREE OUTSTANDING ANDHRA PEOPLE.   

                     

               Fig.4. Chilakamarthi Lakshmi Narasimham, Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan,

and Prof.Dr. Kotcherlakota Rangadhama Rao D.Sc. (Madras).  D.Sc. (London).

The Three outstanding personalities of Andhra Pradesh,  projected by "Enati Vidyut Karmikudu". issue 20, Sanchika 11, 2017.

January 8, 2018, 7:23 AM IST New York Airport Terminal Flooded as Brutal Cold Grips US East Coast: Gushing water compounded meltdown at John F. Kennedy International Airport, where furious passengers have camped out for days as a result of equipment damaged by the storm and a backlog of flights.

8 Jan. 2018: Extreme heat swelter’s southern Australia: Sydney has endured its hottest temperature in nearly 80 years.

8 Jan, 2018 04:48: Tornado rips through 2 towns in French Pyrenees.

8 Jan. 2018: Visakhapatnam has been under the grip of a fresh cold wave in the last two days. Visakhapatnam airport records lowest temperature of 14.2C. 18.8C was registered in Waltair area which is right next to coast.  Visakhapatnam city is shivering under chilly weather conditions since beginning of January. Chill is due to  cold which blowing southward to the city from Chhttisgarh and Odisha.

January 8, 2018: Madagascar cyclone kills 29, displaces thousands. ANTANANARIVO: A cyclone that hit eastern Madagascar over the weekend killed at least 29 people and injured three others while two people were reported missing, authorities said on Monday. Tropical Cyclone Ava passed through Madagascar on Friday and Saturday, hitting mostly the eastern coast of the island with wind speeds of between 140-190 kph (87-119 mph).
January 9, 20181:24 PM ET: For a few fleeting hours Sunday, people perched in the arid heights of northwest Algeria caught sight of something rarely seen: the Sahara Desert, shrouded in white. Residents of Ain Sefra, a small town surrounded by the Atlas Mountains of Northern Africa, walked outside to find a dusting of snow underfoot and more than a foot of it crowding the town's outer boundaries.  While it's not unheard of, snow visited this landscape in December 2016, after all, the wintry weather is indeed rare for the region: the last major snowfall in Ain Sefra before that happened in 1979.

9 Jan. 2018: 

Fig.5 The giant lilies spanning 1.5 meters 

appear every third or fourth month in Piquete Cue.

Asuncion: Oof-the-beaten-path corner of Paraguay has become a tourist attraction this month as visitors flock to see a rare delight floating on a hidden lagoon: giant round water lilies spanning over 1.5 meters (five feet). These aquatic plants, scientific name is Victoria Cruziana but locals call them "alligator lilies", sprawling enough that they can provide a hiding place for a small alligator. They appear just every third or fourth southern hemisphere summer. Over in Piquete Cue, about 25 km (15 miles) north of Asuncion, fans of botany, water lilies.

10 Jan 2018: Oldest Supernova found in Kashmir rock carving: India Astrophysicists unearthed 5000 years old rock carving which is the oldest supernova carving and sky chart in Burzahama region in Kashmir. It is an irregular stone 48 cm by 27 cm with the figure showing two bright spots in the sky with rays of light coming out of them.

Jan 10, 2018, 9:16 AM ET: MONTECITO, Calif.: Death toll hits 15 in California mudslides; search goes on. The death toll from the mudslides that struck Southern California climbed to 15 on Wednesday as rescue crews searched for anyone trapped, injured or dead in the onslaught that smashed homes and swept away cars. The torrential rainstorm that set off the disaster cleared out and was no longer a hindrance as searchers made their way across a landscape strewn with boulders and covered in cement-like mud shoulder-high in some places.
January 10, 2018: There is no longer a tsunami threat for the Caribbean and Central America after a magnitude-7.6 earthquake struck 27 miles (43 km) off the coast of Honduras, the US Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said Wednesday. Waves reaching 0.3 to 1 meter above the tide level had been possible, but the agency said the threat had passed. 
10 Jan 2018: A small pebble discovered in Egypt is challenging current understanding of the solar system. The analysis suggests that the diamond-filled stone has extra terrestrial origins and contains compounds that predate the  Sun.  The Hypatia stone was picked up from the Libyan Desert Glass Field and named after the ancient astronomer Hypatia of Alexandria. Earlier analyses of the stone revealed that it contains micromineral compounds that are not found anywhere on the planet or any known meteorite. The compounds are not even found elsewhere in the solar system. Now, findings of a new study published in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta found that the alien rock also lacks silicate minerals, which make it more unique from other known materials in the solar system. The stone also contains minerals that appear to predate the Sun.

Jan. 11, California: Anxious family members awaited word on loved ones Wednesday as rescue crews searched for more than a dozen people missing after mudslides in Southern California destroyed an estimated 100 houses, swept away cars and left at least 17 victims dead. A dozen people were hospitalized at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital and four of them were in critical condition, Dr. Brett Wilson said. The deluge destroyed 100 houses and damaged 300 others, Santa Barbara County authorities said. Eight commercial properties were destroyed and 20 damaged.

11 Jan 2018: The intense vibrations triggered a massive chain of landslides along the Yarlung-Tsangpo river. Several satellites have taken images showing approximately a 100 sq km area of landslides. The volume of material lost is yet unknown. The satellites have captured dust and debris in the air, indicating that landslides continued even 20 days after the earthquakes struck. This landslide area is 400 km upstream from Pasighat, the headquarters of East Siang district, and 200 km from Geling near the international border with China. The affected part of the river is 30 km in length.
11 Jan 2018: UV Exposure: Wearable device that monitors UV exposure scientists have discovered  the world's smallest device - wafer thin, feather-light sensor- that can fit on a finger nail and precisely measure a person's exposure to UV light from the Sun. 

Origin of mysterious radio bursts revealed:  Astronomers believe that the mysterious fast radio bursts (FRB) are flashed from a dense stellar core called a neutron star near a powerful magnetic field such as one near a massive black hole. FRBs are intense pulses of radio waves lasting just milliseconds. They give off more energy in a fraction of a second than the Sun does in hours, days or weeks. There are about 10,000 FRBs happening per day, or a radio flash every 10 seconds. They may arise from a neutron star near a very powerful magnetic field, which may be proximity to massive black hole or within a powerful nebula.

Jan 12, 2018, 06:27 AM IST Strong 6.0 quake hits central Myanmar: USGS: The shallow quake struck at a depth of 10 km (six miles) some 40 km (24 miles) west of the town of Phyu and 176 km (110 miles) northwest of Yangon. 

Jan 13, 2018: Gale-force winds hit island as more thundershowers are expected. Showers or thundershowers will occur over several places elsewhere after 2 p.m. with fairly heavy showers (exceeding 50 mm) expected particularly in the Western, Sabaragamuwa and Central Provinces and in Galle and Matara districts. Serious damage was reported from Kotadeniyawa after gale-force winds swept across the area during a heavy downpour yesterday; 15 houses have been damaged. 

13 Jan. 2018:

                          

                                        Fig.6 Nilgata City stranded train                                                                                       with 430 people   in Snow 11 Jan. 2018                 

430 people stranded overnight on a train in Japan’s Nilgata city because of heavy snow on Thursday, 11 Jan., 2018.The four car train was stuck for 15 hours but it had electricity, heat and toilets.
14 Jan 2018: Heavy Fog in Visakhapatnam  till morning 8 AM, an unusual weather phenomenon.  Due to the Makara Sankranti burning of wood etc., in the early morning on 13 Jan 2018.
January 14, 2018 11:51 IST: Sydney:  A volcano on the island of Kadovar, located about 24 km north of the Papuan mainland, began erupting on January 5.  About 1,500 people are being evacuated from an island off the northern coast of Papua New Guinea (PNG) after a nearby volcano erupted, the local Red Cross said on Sunday. A volcano on the island of Kadovar, located about 24 km north of the Papuan mainland, began erupting on January 5. That prompted the evacuation of 590 people on Kadovar to the nearby island of Blup Blup. After venting ash for several days, the volcano exploded on Friday, blasting out glowing red rocks and sulphur dioxide. The PNG government then decided to evacuate Blup Blup as well because of issues with supplying people on the island along with the danger from the eruption.
14 Jan 2018: In Florida Lguanas dropping from trees because of the cold wave sweeping the USA. After being hit by bomb cyclone a severe winter storm, the lguanas and turtles are being taken special care.
14 Jan 2018: The recovery of the ozone layer, due to lack of chlorine from chlorofluorocarbon, each year between 2005 and 2016, would fully recover by 2080.

Jan 14, 2018, 18:50 IST Magnitude 7.1 quake hits off Peru, some damage reported. Magnitude of 7.1, down from an earlier calculation of  7.3. The epicentre was 25 miles (40 km) south-southwest of the small town of Acari in the Arequipa district. It was centred 22 miles (36 km) below the surface.
January 14, 2018 16:35 IST: NASA Discovers Farthest Known Galaxy In The Universe: In intensive survey deep into the universe by NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes has yielded the image of the galaxy named SPT0615-JD. 
Los Angeles, Jan 15 (IANS) The death toll in the flooding and landslide that last week hit Montecito, California - northwest of Los Angeles - rose to 20 on Sunday, with four people remaining missing.

NEURONAL GROWTH: There’s the potential that a cocktail of molecules to spurr neuronal growth could come in pill form.This concept does raise a lot of questions, like “Will we be a different person if brand new neurons connect differently?” Or ,“How many cells can be replaced without fully becoming a whole different person?” Stem cells are currently used for a variety of conditions, from stroke to paralysis.

January 16, 2018 06:34 IST: The three-minute movie, which shows the Orion Nebula in both visible and infrared light, helps audiences explore fundamental questions about the universe.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:

                 The author is indebted to Late Prof. K. R. Rao D.Sc. (Madras) D.Sc.(London) for his guidance and inspiration to present these articles on my website. He is grateful to his mother Late Mrs. Peramma Rangadhama Rao for her sustained interest.                                                   **************************

REFERENCES:

1. TRU Literary works: A Science-Fact Episode: No.34: Date: 16 January 2018: Time:12:40:56: Life a Different Perspective: Professor Dr. Kotcherlakota Lakshmi Narayana; M.Sc. Mathematical Physics, M.Sc. Nuclear Physics, Ph. D (Physics): AU.  {Retd. Prof. of Physics, Shivaji University, Kolhapur-416004, MS, India}; 17-11-10, Narasimha Ashram, Official Colony, Maharanipeta. P.O., Visakhapatnam - 530002, AP, India. Mobile No. 09491902867. kotcherlakota_l_n@hotmail.com; lakshminarayana.kotcherlakota@gmail.com: ABSTRACT: Diverse aspects of Universe manifestation, Dark Episodes, newer thoughts on Space Dust and miniscules life forms, third order and fifth order equations description in terms of three sum quanta matter are quoted. Space-time viewed phased with dobule “eh” pairs of opposing charater to explain gravitation and occurrence of gravity, with zero spin, and extraordinary thought that would revolutionize, human endeavour of Cosmos.

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