{"id":8394,"date":"2019-02-01T23:05:03","date_gmt":"2019-02-02T06:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/?p=8394"},"modified":"2019-02-01T23:05:03","modified_gmt":"2019-02-02T06:05:03","slug":"not-so-nasty-news-february-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/?p=8394","title":{"rendered":"Not so nasty news February 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Item #1: Extra legs<\/span>\"\"<\/p>\n

The comb-crested Jacana<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

We know this is male because “Once the female lays the eggs she disappears and goes off partying with other males and leaves the male to incubate the eggs.”
\nThat’s not nice.
\nHowever, the males seem to be quite smart. Having sensed his chicks were in danger, he tucked them under his wings and carried them around. The chick’s dangling legs are about all one can see of them. At one site, this is described as the male signals to the chicks and the chicks will disappear under his wings. That is, they tuck themselves.
\n How many chicks do they have at a time? How big can they be and still get under there? Do they push each other around in the process?
\nSo many questions.<\/p>\n

Item #2: RIP Ron Joyce <\/span>\"\"<\/p>\n

He was 88. The story begins in Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia where the French River meets the embayment of the Waugh River flowing into the Bay. Born in 1930, and leaving at age 15, Roy had a long and interesting life. His first food action was in owning a Dairy Queen.
\nHe was the first franchisee of Tim Horton’s coffee shops, and when the baseball player was killed in a car crash, Ron eventually bought out the owners and began an expansion.
\nThe story is here: Canadian above all else <\/strong><\/a>
\n ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
\nItem #3: Ice<\/span>\"\"
\nNote: Sister Peggy lives near Cleveland.
\nThis funny looking map has some things on it you can ignore.
\nThe interesting part is the patch of blue between Erie and Buffalo. I almost missed Cleveland at the lower left.
\nOver the past few days, with intense cold in the region, that blue patch has been getting smaller. Today, February 1st, that bit of blue disappeared. Lake Erie surface water is more than 90% covered by ice, that’s the red. Likely now that the wind has dropped and changed direction, the roughness of the water has dropped and the broken ice will fill in to total. The wind change was at about 6 PM on Thursday. But temps are rising fast.
\nThe significance of this for Cleveland and Erie is (a) Lake Effect snow will not be happening (until open water comes back), and (b) the water is not there to help moderate the temperature, so no help from that direction. That won’t matter much.
\nThe wind \u2013 very little tonight \u2013 is more from the south, temperatures are rising, and will be in the low 50s by Monday.
\nOther places in the mid-West have had much colder temperature than Cleveland, and will have about a 70 degree change \u2013 Wednesday night (30th) to Sunday afternoon. <\/p>\n

Here on the Naneum Fan, our weather is getting colder. After Monday, we won’t get above freezing for a week.
\nSeattle may get snow.
\nSouth Lake Tahoe may get 3 feet. Friends there.<\/p>\n

Item #4: Not so nice<\/span>\"\"<\/p>\n

Washington’s Clark County \u2013 southwest near Portland OR \u2013 is the center of a measles outbreak. As of today, there are 42 confirmed cases and 7 more being investigated. So far it is known that 37 (with 31 under age 10) were not immunized.
\nVisitors to the area have now carried the disease back to Hawaii.
\nState law is permissive about vaccinations. Perhaps, that policy is going to change.
\nA bill was introduced to the WA House<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Item #5: incongruity?<\/span>
\nI’m not sure I’ve got the correct word, but close enough. Back in March of 2000, a British newspaper had an article with this in it:<\/p>\n

However, the warming is so far manifesting itself more in winters which are less cold than in much hotter summers. According to Dr David Viner, a senior research scientist at the climatic research unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia,within a few years winter snowfall will become \u201ca very rare and exciting event\u201d.
\n\u201cChildren just aren\u2019t going to know what snow is,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Since then there have been several UK winters with severe weather — with snow.
\nThe latest is this week.
\nSnow to continue<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

So the question is, when David Viner said “within a few years”, what did he mean? What’s your definition of “a few”?<\/p>\n

The video at the link shows a snowy road in Basingstoke. This is a town about 40 miles southwest of London.
\nPart of the problem is that, in fact, these areas do not get much snow, and do not prepare for it the way, say northern cities in the U. S., would do. <\/p>\n

And that, for this week, is the not so nasty news.
\nJohn <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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