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Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha'apai Volcano Explodes 15 Jan 22

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www.weatherwatch.co.nz

Tonga: Size of eruption put into perspective (InfoGraphics & Maps)

No matter how you look at this, the eruptions in Tonga on Saturday afternoon were absolutely enormous. From the speed…
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Satellite last 24hrs;

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Himawari-8 Real-time Web - NICT

The Himawari-8 Real-time Web is an application via big-data technologies developed by the NICT Science Cloud project in NICT (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology), Japan. Development is in collaboration with JMA (Japan Meteorological Agency) and CEReS (Center of...
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Twitter of shock wave CAUTION: LOUD!

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The wind is gusting up to 50 mph. I arrived downstairs about 20 minutes ago to find the cover of my grill in one corner of the back deck and the grill in the other.

No snow yet, but the deck is about 2 inches deep in slush. Which of course means the roads are as well. My son is simply devastated that it's not snowing. They've been hyping it all week.

Further bulletins as events warrant.
 
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Reading a bit about Tonga this morning. They are well and truly screwed.

The only communication cable was damaged and repairs won't start until February.

Relief can't be flown in because the airfield is covered in ash.

New Zealand just sent two supply ships with rations, water and desalination pumps but it's going to take them two days to get there.

Those folks are completely on their own until at least Thursday.
 
VOLCANIC GRAVITY WAVES OVER HAWAII: The eruption of an undersea volcano near Tonga on Jan. 15th was even bigger than anyone thought. It nearly touched the edge of space. Hours after a mushroom cloud burst out of the Pacific Ocean, cameras at the Gemini Observatory on Mauna Kea recorded red waves rippling over Hawaii:​

These are gravity waves, a type of atmospheric disturbance excited by intense thunderstorms and volcanic eruptions. Many gravity waves scud through the low atmosphere. The ripples caught by Gemini's Cloudcam, however, are in the mesosphere 85 km high--the realm of meteors, sprites, and noctilucent clouds.

Photographer Steve Cullen spotted the waves in online footage. "I had a hunch that Gemini Cloudcams might detect gravity waves produced by the eruption of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai. So, I just took a look and there they were!"

"The volcanic eruption happened at 04:15 UTC, and the gravity waves passed Hawaii 4.5 hours later," notes Cullen. "This corresponds to a speed of ~1100 kilometers per hour"--a good match to the speed of sound in the mesosphere.

The waves are red because of airglow, an aurora-like phenomenon caused by chemical reactions in the upper atmosphere. Airglow is usually too faint to see, but gravity waves from the volcano boosted the reaction rates. Red is a sign of OH. This neutral molecule (not to be confused with the OH- ion found in aqueous solutions) exists in a thin layer 85 km high and can produce a pure red light.​
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See the waves below. They begin at about the 3 sec mark.

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Gemini Cloudcam Gravity Waves

This movie shows waves of red airglow rippling through the mesosphere over Hawaii 4.5 hours after the Tonga volcanic eruption on Jan. 15, 2022
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I saw a show about this a year or two ago and back then I remembered thinking it was going to be a tough row to hoe.

www.politico.com

The Battle to Save Waikiki Beach

Hawaii’s most iconic beach is quickly becoming a poster child for why it’s so hard to adapt to a changing climate.
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That article makes it seem nearly impossible. Everybody once again looking after nothing but their own self interest while the walls come crashing down around them. I think this paragraph towards the end pretty much sums it all up:

A longtime Waikiki real estate lawyer who didn’t want to be named because he isn’t authorized to speak about clients said he is concerned about an incompatibility between the interests of local community members, whose children and grandchildren will live on Oahu’s south shore for decades, and hotel owners, many of whom are short-term, mainland-based or international real estate or private equity firms. “These are people who are generally not going to hold the asset for more than 15 years, so they don’t need to necessarily think long-term,” he said. “My big concern is that one day the risk profile will become too high, and people will say, ‘I’m not going to invest in Waikiki anymore.’ When that happens, a lot of people will be left behind.”​
 
Britain is also having it's issues. it's just spread over many little areas.

www.groundsure.com

Covehithe – The village lost to sea - Groundsure

Covehithe is a small village in East Suffolk, located on the North Sea coast between the more well known towns of Lowestoft and Southwold. I had never heard of Covehithe until today when I was sent a YouTube video showing the damaging effects coastal erosion is having on this quaint village...
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(the first map-gif is astonishing)

Another:
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As a British village crumbles into the sea, a family holds onto a home that can't be saved

The government says it can’t protect every home from the sea. One family says they’ll hold tight to their memories when it’s time to leave their house.
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There's another named Fairbourne.


Trying anything seems...

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All the Beijing snow is human-made -- a resource-intensive, 'dangerous' trend as planet warms | CNN

Natural snow is becoming less reliable for winter sports, which has led venues to lean more on artificial. But that comes at a cost.
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It would be hard to hold a conversation over the deafening sound of the snow machines preparing the Olympic venues northwest of Beijing. They are loud and they are everywhere, blowing snow across what will be this month's most-watched slopes.​
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It is almost beautiful -- except that the venues are surrounded by an endless brown, dry landscape completely devoid of snow.​

In an Olympic first, though not an achievement to boast about, climate variability has forced the Winter Games to be virtually 100% reliant on artificial snow -- part of a trend that is taking place across winter sports venues around the world.​
 
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