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| Fireinthehole | Date: Thursday, 01.01.2015, 12:43 | Message # 2671 |
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| Quote Watsisname (  ) This made me realize my solar eclipse countdown is less than 1000 days. Yaay!
Lucky you, I need to wait until 2126 
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| apenpaap | Date: Thursday, 01.01.2015, 13:04 | Message # 2672 |
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| 20 march is going to be a pretty good eclipse here, though sadly not a total one. 84% will still be interesting to see, though. The next annular eclipse here won't be until 2093, and the next total one not until 2135.
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| Fireinthehole | Date: Thursday, 01.01.2015, 13:27 | Message # 2673 |
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| Quote apenpaap ( ) 20 march is going to be a pretty good eclipse here, though sadly not a total one. 84% will still be interesting to see, though. The next annular eclipse here won't be until 2093, and the next total one not until 2135.
Last partial eclipse I saw was the 1 August 2008 eclipse, it's pretty cool to see too! 11th June 2048 will have an annular eclipse visible from my location, although I'm not sure how much one can see with the unaided eye.
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| Watsisname | Date: Thursday, 01.01.2015, 21:56 | Message # 2674 |
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| If you use eclipse glasses then you'll see the ring of fire, otherwise with unaided eyes it's still so bright that it just looks like the normal sun (and you definitely shouldn't stare at it). Shadows will appear strange, and those cast through small holes, like through tree foliage, will be rings. And of course the sky will appear darker than usual, but nothing like during totality.
Those most covered I have ever seen the sun was .857 magnitude (79.9% obscuration), during the 1994 May 10 annular eclipse that swept across the US and north of my location. I was in elementary school at the time, and I remember looking out the window (it's about 1:30pm, maximum eclipse) and noticing the sky was quite dark, looking more like late evening. The teachers gave us eclipse glasses and took us outside to view, and it was spectacular seeing such a thin crescent sun in the sky.
Thinking back on it, I'm pleased that the teachers were competent enough to feel comfortable taking a bunch of kids out to look at the sun. There is much irrational fear of viewing these events remaining in the world today.
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| Fireinthehole | Date: Thursday, 01.01.2015, 22:28 | Message # 2675 |
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| Quote Watsisname ( ) If you use eclipse glasses then you'll see the ring of fire, otherwise with unaided eyes it's still so bright that it just looks like the normal sun (and you definitely shouldn't stare at it). Shadows will appear strange, and those cast through small holes, like through tree foliage, will be rings. And of course the sky will appear darker than usual, but nothing like during totality.
Those most covered I have ever seen the sun was .857 magnitude (79.9% obscuration), during the 1994 May 10 annular eclipse that swept across the US and north of my location. I was in elementary school at the time, and I remember looking out the window (it's about 1:30pm, maximum eclipse) and noticing the sky was quite dark, looking more like late evening. The teachers gave us eclipse glasses and took us outside to view, and it was spectacular seeing such a thin crescent sun in the sky.
Thinking back on it, I'm pleased that the teachers were competent enough to feel comfortable taking a bunch of kids out to look at the sun. There is much irrational fear of viewing these events remaining in the world today.
What an experience  Looks like the sun will be covered almost exactly as much from my location on 20th March, so hopefully it will be noticable
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| HarbingerDawn | Date: Friday, 02.01.2015, 23:50 | Message # 2676 |
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| Today I decided to assign myself a challenge: to not use a Windows operating system for 30 days. This is something I haven't done in over 20 years, so it should be an interesting experience. I hope to come out of it as a more comfortable and experienced Linux user (using Linux Mint 17 KDE at the moment).
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| spacer | Date: Saturday, 03.01.2015, 12:15 | Message # 2677 |
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| Ohh yeah!! Probably there will be snow for 3 days here on Thursday Wednesday and Friday ! the record will be in the night between Wednesday and Thursday with -2C! Finally some snow. The coldest temperature i ever been in my life is -3C year ago.
Because it happen 1 time per year or 2, when there is snow there is no school! :d but the snow storms in the last years is much stronger then it was decent ago, the area here is getting more colder winter every year. But it's probably because the climate change. If i remember correctly there was no snow at all in between 2005-2010 but i was young so maybe i dont remember.
Any way! Time to pick up the warm clothes and get ready! Happy new year and happy late winter!! Heheh
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| Billy_Mayes | Date: Saturday, 03.01.2015, 13:15 | Message # 2678 |
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| Quote spacer ( ) The coldest temperature i ever been in my life is -3C year ago.
That's funny, the coldest weather I've experienced was -37 Celsius!
Recent winters here in Finland are often coming later than usual, a few years ago the first real snow came in January. And there's much less snow than usual.
Our school never gets cancelled for snow or low temperatures.  Though when it's below -25 you can stay inside for recess.
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| spacer | Date: Saturday, 03.01.2015, 13:28 | Message # 2679 |
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| Billy_Mayes, its because snow is normal site where you live. Here in jerusalem little snow and no schools, i dont know the reason but it probably to give the children be in the snow and because its really cold here and all people stay at home.
And yeah -37c its reallt cold but you live in the north. The climate here is arid and dry. Can reach 40c in the summer and in the winter less then 5c its rare. But i am living near jerusalem in the judea mountains. So shen cold storm reach this area there will be snow, but most of the times its just 1c or 0c when there is snow and it happend 1 time per year or maybe 2 or 3 years like i said before. But like i said the winters is colder and colder every year!
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| Fireinthehole | Date: Saturday, 03.01.2015, 13:56 | Message # 2680 |
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| Quote spacer ( ) But like i said the winters is colder and colder every year!
You get our winters! I remember when I was little, at least once every year we got -30 C, now we rarely see temperatures below -15. Of course the far north parts still get really cold winters.
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| spacer | Date: Saturday, 03.01.2015, 14:34 | Message # 2681 |
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| Fireinthehole, you really can see the climate change here in action. The summers getting warmer, the winters getting colder
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| Fireinthehole | Date: Saturday, 03.01.2015, 14:38 | Message # 2682 |
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| Quote spacer ( ) Fireinthehole, you really can see the climate change here in action. The summers getting warmer, the winters getting colder
It's the other way around here, summers are chilly and winters warm
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| Watsisname | Date: Saturday, 03.01.2015, 14:58 | Message # 2683 |
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| I doubt climate change / global warming is so apparent on an individual level over 10 or 20 years. Much of that is just normal variability. At least in most cases. Evidence is mounting that certain regional and local extremes are shifting in measurable ways. The main thing though becomes apparent when averaged globally.
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| Aerospacefag | Date: Saturday, 03.01.2015, 15:25 | Message # 2684 |
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| Fireinthehole, I can kinda confirm that. There wasn't enough snow outside until at least middle of December.
Quote Watsisname ( ) The main thing though becomes apparent when averaged globally.
"Averaged globally" isn't really a proper criteria for defining the climate change - the problem is that it seems, people really can't determine what to count as "climate change" in the first place. Some say, it's "average temperature", like "average temperature in the hospital, including deceased and ill", which is legit as far as simple definitions can go. Some count the differences between recorded history of climate and actual situation, which isn't very good too because these might by just cyclic variations. The better way, as I think, is to determine economic impacts and apply appropriate measures to project the situation in the future - separately or collectively.
The problem of climate impact doesn't lie in the area of perception of regular people, but in applied sectors of the economy. Although, in the first place, our economy itself isn't very healthy, you can even observe economical instruments that are claimed to "save the nature" or "improve the ecology" while in reality they are supporting influence of big industry companies. Like the trade with emission quotas. Or "green fuel" - if you want to rise enough biomass for fuel, you will have to use land and water that can be used for quality food production. But more importantly, you will need a fuel to set this in motion - so you will have to burn several times the amount of gasoline to receive the needed amount of "clean" ethanol. But it works because people want to buy the idea of clean air in their city and don't know anything about what lies beyond their city.
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| Watsisname | Date: Saturday, 03.01.2015, 16:42 | Message # 2685 |
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| "Global warming" is the increase in average planetary surface temperature. This is fairly straightforward and is a simple application of radiative physics. Scientific consensus among those who are active in this field is that human activities are driving the current period of global warming. Previous changes in planetary temperature are also fairly well understood.
"Climate change" is the change of climate variables in response to the warmer temperature. These are regional, widely varied, not very straightforward, and are continually studied. Our ability to study and understand them barely keeps up with the rate of observed changes.
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