Well I'm Sorry About The Weather - The Climate, Earth, Space, Storms, Weather Thread

Now Roby finally has a place to drop his walked-to-school-on-his-hands-uphill-both-ways-in-a-blizzard stories.

Tsunami warning in Japan after 7.6 earthquake

https://www.nbcnews.com/world/japan...ami-hokkaido-meteorological-agency-rcna248007

 

Insert overweight FIL/MIL joke here

Black hole spotted blasting winds at 130 million mph: "A scale almost too big to imagine"

A black hole inside a distant spiral galaxy is devouring material from the universe around it and creating winds at speeds never before seen by astronomers.

The European Space Agency said that the black hole inside NGC 3783 has the mass of 30 million suns. The black hole consumes nearby material to power an active galactic nucleus at the center of the galaxy, the ESA said in a news release. The nucleus is "an extremely bright and active region" that sends out powerful jets and winds, the agency said.

One powerful wind was measured at 60,000 kilometers per second, or 130 million piles per hour, about 20% of the speed of light.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/black-hole-winds-spiral-galaxy-space/

 

Not comprehensive & global warming is so AlGore

 

Don't recall. Some places like Miami get flooded at high tides

 

At least the air's still good

 

When a current starts meandering

A river in the ocean

The deep, warm Kuroshio transports more than 200 times as much water as the Amazon River, traveling north from the equator and normally banking east around Japan’s Boso peninsula, near Tokyo. Here, it becomes known as the Kuroshio Extension as it heads into the open Pacific.

But in recent years, the current has been behaving in anything but the usual way, and the Extension, in particular, made a major divergence along Japan’s coast. Its northern edge shifted as much as 300 miles farther poleward, leading to unprecedented warm waters in the surrounding region.

“I was so surprised I don’t even know if ‘surprised’ is the right word,” said Shusaku Sugimoto, an associate professor at Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan, a northern coastal city.

So what's all this mean?

But the questions remain: what do these extreme ocean events mean, how they are linked to climate change? For at least one researcher, they’re an early sign of things to come.

“It’s a great opportunity to learn what the oceans will be like 100 years from now,” said Sugimoto, of Tohoku University in the northeastern region of Honshu, Japan’s largest island.

“An unprecedented ocean phenomenon is now occurring by chance in Tohoku,” he continued. “Understanding how this has altered the seas of Tohoku offers a chance to understand how the world’s oceans will change in the future.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/17/climate/japan-sea-level-fishing-impact

 

Due to massive rains & flooding, Seattle-King County Public Health gives residents some pointers on how to handle toilet rats

 

Dayum! This is colder than the stare Roby got when he tried to pass off Prego as the Sunday gravy to his MIL