I was unaware of this until today when someone pointed to a photograph in a newspaper.
Image from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derweze
Derwese, Turkmenistan
Remarkably Microsoft have a good shot Bing
This was expected to burn out in a few months… over 40 years ago.
How much methane is down there?
Thermometer here (one of 4) recorded -6.7C the other night (13th Nov) which I took for a fault, never seen one in years. Then I discover a Met Office station not far away was coldest place in the UK at -6.5C, a horrible night, kind of clear with a severe hoar frost which I assumed meant it was wet, not cold. Different direction Chilbolton dipped to -3C at dawn with signs there was a wet frost, wind near zero
All it takes is dead calm under a clear sky, maybe there was a clearer sky locally. (I’m still mystified, surely not because that cold would have killed various plants)
Belfast and Edinburgh are well below zero as I write. Dover, Kent, only reach 0.4C today. Twirp, I misread the figures, was regional and since I didn’t save it but did the natonal, no idea what it was, maybe overnight coldest. I’m wearing thermals and fingerless gloves, a practical matter.
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Tallbloke's Talkshop 
Chilly in Belfast (Aldergrove), few clicks, quick look
This is not ideal but is a new facility here trying to sensibly plot some of the basic weather info. Any feedback welcome. (hint, vector plots so you can magnify as needed)
Tchannon can see that the jet stream directs now over Central Europe.
Next week in the U.S..
http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/new-thermostats-bring-potential-for-lower-winter-fuel-bills/19977948
Thermometer stuck to the outside of my kitchen window reads 2C. This is Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire!
R111, Crash, tinkle, thermometer enters kitchen.
Worth seeing variations of cosmic rays. Solar activity decreases.
http://cosmicrays.oulu.fi/webform/query.cgi?startday=20&startmonth=10&startyear=2013&starttime=00%3A00&endday=22&endmonth=11&endyear=2013&endtime=00%3A00&resolution=Automatic+choice&picture=on
Nah! It’s double glazed! 🙂
Today’s weather in the southern U.S..
Tim,
The Great Lakes are starting to dump 20-30 cm tonight and may keep up for the next 3 days due to the Arctic Cold front swinging through and the warm lakes at 5 degrees Celsius still. Ontario, Canada
Tim. With wind at near zero, we get uneven surface temps. Especially with ‘clear night skies’ when there’s a dearth of WV in the atmosphere. The near surface atmosphere ‘cools quickly’ (there’s little ‘latency buffer’ to slow this) encouraging any surface water to evaporate. This often results in a ‘ground frost’, which, for gardeners, can be off-set by a ground-covering of plastic/glass which inhibits evaporation! 🙂
Best regards, Ray.
Joe Lalonde says: November 23, 2013 at 12:30 am
Joe, would this be linked to the ‘weather divide’ that currently divides the East from the West advancing in the US?
Best regards, Ray.
This appeared a few seconds ago, Didn’t do anything ‘guv. Automated system and how, neat stuff. Input plot scales are now read by OCR (optical character recognition) and a new binary library parses the plot to numbers, which is then replotted. Writing both is one reason I have been absent.
Taking a pause whilst I cogitate on what best to enhance. Quite fun when real things work, creating genuinely new code. Reworking the replots is for sometime, work for now, not pretty.
Wind speed is m/s, barometer is now corrected to msl.
That shows a sunny day, some days stay well below 100W/sqm. Outgoing is limited by the high water content and yet this is lower than summer. Curiously the highest outgoing seems to be during winter, not summer unless we get a very dry spell, not seen this. Drying out of the land and no sea air, well, look at the geography.
Works like this: yes there is less water in the air during winter but the emitting temperature is lower, whereas summer has a higher emitting T. but much more water up there. For both cloud blocks direct outgoing, reflects back down.
suricat says: November 23, 2013 at 2:47 am
TB et al. Why was this post ‘moderated’!
If I can’t post here with confidence on ‘innocuous’ subjects, I just can’t ‘post’ here with any confidence at all!
RSVP by email.
Ray.
“coldest place in the UK at -6.5C, a horrible night, kind of clear with a severe hoar frost ”
Not impressed! 🙂
Here in mid U.S. (35.5N!) about the same time, a week ago, it was -11.1°C (12°F) the other night. Tonight we have sleet, freezing rain, the wind chill is -13°C to the northwest but the next winter storm in a few days is the big one with the snow on it’s way. I think you all live in too moderated weather from that warm gulf stream! Now what’s your latitude?
Why is currently in the Arctic increased temperature? That’s the answer.
Suricat , AO spada, będą śnieżyce na północnym wschodzie.
Ray,
That is the one. We are north of the US and have had many unusual events with temperatures and much more precipitation this year.
Our scientists do NOT take into account the Nitrogen is 80% in our atmosphere.
What I have been looking at is the temperature differences of that gas to the rest of our gases.
The natural temperature state of it is (-346°F and -320.44°F) but being trapped in our atmosphere, the gases are extremely far from it’s natural state and are super heated to a ultra vibration which could theoretically trap water vapour in our atmosphere and hold them separate reacting with temperature differences and changing vibration patterns with being warmed and cooled.
The sun’s inactivity for the last decade has given out far less material that our outer atmosphere would pick up as insulation. Since we have lost some of our outer atmosphere, we have also lost some of our insulation value as the sun is the ONLY energy besides what little our own planet has below the surface.
wayne, cool for here, near maritime climate, 60N
Compare these two graphs.
Graphs are very similar. Look at the line 20200.
I give you a link to the source.
http://terra2.spacenvironment.net/~raps_ops/current_files/index.html
suricat says: November 23, 2013 at 3:48 am
Thanks for the mails Tim. Yes, your site needs security and posters need to feel confident, but I think your ‘spam filter’ may need attention. 😉
wayne says: November 23, 2013 at 5:41 am
“Not impressed!”
You’re very ‘English’ for someone that lives ‘across the pond’ from us. Apparently, we in the UK, talk mostly about ‘the weather’! 🙂
‘ren’s’ following post may well enlighten you.
ren says: November 23, 2013 at 8:17 am
Yes ren. The ‘AO’ is defined by the ‘planar centrifuge’ that governs its current configuration.
ren says: November 23, 2013 at 8:34 am
Hi F****c. I only ever learned a bit of Russian, which only offers ‘insight’ into ‘other’ Cerbo/Croat languages. Could you please repeat your post in English?
Joe Lalonde says: November 23, 2013 at 11:49 am
“That is the one.”.
I thought it was. 🙂
Relax! This is a 1 in whatever circumstance. Whatever the ‘change’, we can ‘engineer’ a ‘suitable outcome’. 🙂
Best regards, Ray.
I’ve just pulled Ray’s comment out of the spam box, he’s been having a tango with a machine after
zapping one not caught by the spam system, caught on something else, if it hadn’t we get into spotting items and deleting them. (indirect advertising for an air carrier)
Sorry Suricat, the Northeast U.S. will blizzards next week and will be a cold wind.
Here in mid-ok the brunt of that fall snowstorm missed to the south this time. North texas and sw-ok got the over-one-foot of the cooling stuff. Dallas is the one on “Ice1” alert and lost quite a few mainly on the sheet-of-ice roads today, it’s all over the news stations right now — so this is what global cooling looks like! That must be the ‘winter’ storm Spencers ‘predicting’ to hit the northeast in a few days.
Thanks again Tim. Which “air carrier”? No! Never mind. 🙂
ren says: November 24, 2013 at 5:08 pm
Cryptic as ever, eh. That was the subject of your ‘links’, not your ‘post’. However, I concur. 🙂
wayne says: November 25, 2013 at 12:46 am
I concur.
Well guys, it seems as though we are all ‘on the same page’. However, this has ‘bugger all’ to do with Tim’s OP.
The fact that these flammable gasses exude from a ‘crater’ must be some indication of a subterranean ‘explosive event’ in the past history for the location.
To me, this scenario looks like the first recognition of a ‘natural “fracking”‘ incident!
Best regards, Ray.
National carrier for a small landlocked middle eastern state. Nothing bad it’s just a messy way of advertising… there again it could be a cover for infective.
Doug might have some idea of the geology there. Seems an implication the whole region leaks methane anyway, in which case for how many years, not been submerged for a long time.
tchannon says: November 25, 2013 at 4:08 am
“Doug might have some idea of the geology there.”
“Doug” who? Where can we find him? 🙂
Best regards, Ray.
Hello Suricat, I’m Polish. In my post I’ve said: AO goes down, there will be blizzards on the Northeast.
ren says: November 25, 2013 at 6:20 am
I owe you an apology ren. I’ve confused you with another commenter from the USA, whom, I believed was using a pseudonym. Fe’ren’c Miskolczi (ren). I am truly sorry! Ferenc has a habit of showing the ‘data’ and asking for your ‘inference’ on the subject. Presumably, he wants a ‘slant’ on the ‘obs’ and takes this into consideration when weighting his ‘ideas’ (brainstorming). I guess that we all do it. 🙂
However, you are ‘not’ this person. Sorry. 😦
Notwithstanding:
“Hello Suricat, I’m Polish. In my post I’ve said: AO goes down, there will be blizzards on the Northeast.”
“Northeast” of where? You don’t “quote” from your ‘original post’ and this can be confusing. Don’t be disheartened, many professionals make this same mistake. There’s a tendency to ‘assume’ that readers of your posting are ‘au fête’ with current logic within the thread. I would advise posters to include as much of ‘prior thread logic’ within any post that you make. It also brings ‘other’ readers ‘up to speed’ in the thread. Enough about ‘Netiquet’!
Yes ren. ‘Tornado alley’ is the ‘marginal dividing line’ between E/W weather for the USA (especially when solar insolation is low). The ‘Pacific and Atlantic’ emitters of energy must find a point/line of equilibrium during their ‘discharge events’ over the USA. However, ‘the discussed anomaly’ is located at “Derwese, Turkmenistan”!
How do you relate your post to this location???
Best regards, Ray.
Suricat, you’re right. I just wanted to warn people in the U.S.. It will be very dangerous weather before Thanksgiving.