Tuesday, July 3, 2007
Monday, July 2, 2007
موجة استبدال الثلاجات بالأفران
منذ بدء موجة الصقيع القارصة تمّ تصدير أكثر من مليون ونصف ثلاجة من الإمارات العربية إلى إفريقيا وتمّ إستيراد أكثر من مليون فرن من كلّ أنحاء العالم لحفظ الطعام أقلّ برودة ولمدّة أطول.
"ما زلت أذكر حتى اليوم النهار الذي اشترى فيه أبي هذه الثلاّجة. كنت صغيراً وكانت أمّي ترقص من الفرح. اليوم وللأسف أضطرّ إلى استبدالها بفرن ثانٍ يحفظ الطعام أقلّ برودة بسبب موجة الصقيع." هذا ما قاله المواطن حميد منصور من سكّان دبي. وأضاف: "ثمّ لماذا أحتفظ بالثلاجة؟ يكفي أن أخرج الطعام من الفرن كي يبرد ويجمد." فهو مثل عدد كبير من سكّان دبي أجبر على التخلّص من ثلاجته واستبدالها بفرنٍ ثانٍ بسبب صغر منزله.
"أمّي إشترت 5 أفران جدد وتبقيها شغالة 24 ساعة في النهار لتحفظ الطعام." هذا ما قاله سامي فقيه، لبناني الأصل ويسكن في دبي. وبسبب موجة الصقيع القارصة أصبحت أفران الخبز والمعجّنات تعمل على مدار الساعة؛ وقال محمود عجمي الذي يعمل في فرن السلامة: "المواطنون يشترون كميّات كبيرة من الخبز لسهولة حفظها تحت درجات الحرارة المنخفضة، وهذا يدر علينا الربح الوفير والحمد لله."
ما من أحد يعلم إلى متى ستستمرّ موجة الصقيع والجميع يسأل: هل نتخلّص من الثلاجات إلى الأبد أو نبقيها جانباً لمدّة قصيرة ونعود ونستخدمها قريباً؟ والجواب: لا أحد يعلم.
Sunday, July 1, 2007
عبايات من الفرو... موضة هذا العام
جرى عرض ضخم جداً للأزياء ضمّ عدداً كبيراً من مصممي الأزياء العالميين في صالة رويال في دبي فاشون سنتر، تمّ خلاله اطلاق موضة جديدة لهذا العام تتكيّف مع موجة الصقيع بأسلوب يليق بالموضة ويحاكي الذوق والأناقة.
وتمّ تجهيز الصالة خصيصاً لهذا الحدث، وتألّقت العارضات بعبايات من الفرو بألوان مختلفة وتصاميم مختلفة. فكانت بعض العابايات مصممة من فرو فقط دون قماش وبعضها مزيج من قماش وفرو بأبهى الألوان. وما إن انتهى العرض حتى نفدت الكميّة وباشر المصممون بتلقي الطلبات من الحضور لتنفيذ عبايات جديدة.
ومن أبرز التصاميم: "عباية السهرة"، وهي عبارة عن عباية تقليدية من قماش فاخر وبرّاق في الوسط وفرو على الجوانب والأكمام يرتفع ليشكّل قبعة من فرو تغطّي الأذنين وتحميهما من الصقيع القارص. و"عباية كلّ يوم" وهي عباية من فرو خالية كلياً من القماش ترتفع إلى أعلى الرقبة حيت تطول من طرفيها لتشكّل وشاحاً من فرو يلفّ حول الرقبة. هذه العباية الأنيقة متوافرة بجميع الألوان.
وقال مصمم الأزياء الشهير فرانسوا فورير: "وضعت جميع المنفذين الذين أعمل معهم عادة في تصرّف موجة الصقيع وسنطلق في القريب العاجل وفي جميع الأسواق العربية أكثر من مليون عباية من فرو وبتصاميم مختلفة ولكن بسبب كثرة الإقبال يفضّل أن يتمّ حجز العبايات منذ الآن عبر زيارة موقعنا الالكتروني
"www.francoisfourrure.com
Thursday, June 28, 2007
الصقيع يتنقّل والمواطنون يتأقلمون معه
إلى حين تمكّن الإعلام من الوصول إلى المكان نترككم مع هذه الصورة التي أرسلها بلال لزوج بعد خروجهما من مركز تسوّق.
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
Friday, June 22, 2007
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
موجة الصقيع تغطي الرياض
"أبو الليث" في "الساحة العربيّة" يعرض الصور والوقائع لموجة الصقيع في الرياض
إليكم العنوان وبعض صوره
إضغط هنا لمتابعة "أبو الليث"
نزلة ديراب
سيارتي معلقة مقابل جلة
مشارف الرياض / حي الفواز
نداء إستغاثة من أحد سكّان الرياض
أعزّائي القرّاء، وصلنا نداء الإستغاثة هذا. الرجاء المساعدة حالاً
للإطلاع على المصدر إضغط هنا
ماشاء الله تبارك الله
الساعة الواحدة ظهرا بالرياض الآن ودرجة الحرارة ــ4 وضباب كثيف ورذاذ
مطر
ومخرج 10 مغلق لكسح الجليد
ياشباب اللي له واسطة بأمانة الرياض شارعنا مغلق من الجليد ونحتاج
كاسحة جليد بأسرع وقت .
إلى القرّاء المشككين
لا أستغرب على الإطلاق تشكيك بعض القرّاء في صحّة الأخبار والصور على مدوّنتنا المتواضعة، خاصّةً في ظلّ التعتيم الاعلامي التام على الموضوع، وذلك خوفاً من حالة هلع بين المواطنين ونظراً لضعف الاستعداد الرسمي للتعامل مع هذه الظاهرة الغريبة عن المنطقة وعن شعبها.
لكننا نؤكد لجميع القرّاء الكرام أن هذه المدوّنة يديرها مجموعة من المحترفين في مجال رصد الأحوال الجوّية ودراسة التغيّرات المناخيّة، وبالرغم من عجزنا عن الإفصاح عن أسمائنا بسبب سرّية المعلومات التي نفصح عنها في المدوّنة وكي نتجنّب الإحراج مع مصالح الأرصاد الجويّة وأجهزة الاستخبارات التي تلاحق كل من يفصح عن هذه المعلومات، سوف نعمل بكل قوانا وكل ما يتاح لنا لتوفير البراهين والأدلّة.
يمكننا أيضا أن نحيلكم إلى الدكتور شريف الحجازي في الجامعة العربيّة الأميركيّة في بيروت الذي يتابع الموضوع عن كثب، ويجمع في مدوّنته الكثير من البراهين والعلل من مراكز دوليّة كوكالة الناسا الأميركيّة بالإضافة إلى تحاليله الشخصيّة المفيدة.
http://www.alnatoor.blogspot.com/
شكراً للقرّاء الكرام على المتابعة والتشجيع.
الفريق المنظّم لمدوّنة الأرصاد الجويّة في الشرق الأوسط.
Monday, June 18, 2007
Friday, June 15, 2007
موجة الصقيع بالصور!!!!!! الحدث وقع
لا نملك الإجابة على هذا السؤال، ولكننا أُعلمنا من شهود عيّان في منطقة القصيم أن أحداً لم يلتفت إلى هذه الظاهرة في المنطقة غير صديقنا المصوّر عبد الله العريجي صاحب هذه الصورة الأولى لموجة الصقيع! ويبدو أن الشهود في هذه المنطقة يختبرون حالة إستثنائية (حتى الآن) حيث يعيشون في المملكة السعوديّة تحت درجات حراريّة تصل إلى حدود ٥ درجات مئوية تحت الصفر
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
درجات الحرارة تسقط: مرحبا موجة الصقيع
وقد وعدنا زميلنا العامل في إحدى القنوات الإخباريّة بتغطية هذا الحدث بالصور
تابعونا
Monday, June 11, 2007
درجات الحرارة لهذه السنة
Friday, June 8, 2007
بعد غونو: صيف صاقع في الخليج العربي؟
قد تظن ذلك مستحيلاً غير أن بعض الخبراء في مجال الطقس والأحوال الجوّية يؤكدون وجود إشارات بيئية لموجة من الصقيع ستجتاح الخليج هذا الصيف.
وفي حديث له مع إحدى محطات التلفزة المحليّة قال السيّد فيصل الأعجمي، مدير مركز الأرصاد الجوّية الحديث للخليج العربي: "العالم يتحدث عن ارتفاع الحرارة نتيجة الانحباس الحراري، وعن ذوبان يتعرّض له القطب الشمالي؛ بينما تشير جميع العوامل البيئية في بلادنا إلى أنّ الخليج العربي سيتعرّض إلى موجة صقيع كاسحة."
ويعود الأعجمي في هذه النظرية إلى براهين لاحظها خلال الأشهر الماضية. فمعدّل حرارة المياه إنخفض عن السنة الماضية بمعدّل 50%، كما أن الحرارة تنخفض قبيل الفجر إلى 5 درجات مئوية تحت الصفر منذ أسبوع في بعض المناطق الصحراويّة في الرياض، وفي الامارات العربيّة.
"إذا استمرّت حالة إنخفاض الحرارة كما نشهدها، نتوقّع أن تصل إلى الصفر أثناء النهار خلال بضعة أسابيع" ويتابع الأعجمي: "لا بدّ من التيقّن إلى هذه الظاهرة، فنحن نجهل السبب في هذه اللحظة، لكن الوقائع حقيقية. استعدّوا لإطفاء المكيّفات هذا الصيف، الصقيع قادم."
Cold Wave over AP slows down Gonu
We are still not very sure about the cause of this cold front in the Arab peninsula, but we are certain that it is a fact. The Wave has been dropping down temperature in the Arab Desert significantly as we have never witnessed before. If the temperature decrease continues systematically we can expect a freezing wave by next week that can cover the Arab Peninsula with ice. All i can say is that nature is getting back at us.
Whatever you do, do not panic! it will be slow but REAL! At least it saved us from Gonu.
Check out the temperature of the atmosphere in the Arab Peninsula for the coming week:
Thursday, June 7, 2007
Wednesday, June 6, 2007
Hurricane Gonu Sign of Global Freeze
Tuesday, June 5, 2007
Hurricane Advice Oman
Cyclone Gonu will start to impact the Oman coastline in the next 12 to 24 hours. Musqat will see the storm passing by in the Gulf of Oman on June 6th.
Weather conditions will be EXTREME. On nearing land, the storm will bring winds of 220 kph, gusting to 260 kph. Whilst passing into the Gulf of Oman, winds will decrease, but on passing Musqat, speeds of 125 kph are still possible. The seas are likely to be phenomenal, with waves reported as high as 13 metres - that is a 4 storey block of flats.
In summary:
* assess whether you need to evacuate: you should consider that if you are near the water, or in a low-lying area
* take essentials with you for 3 days
* organise a place to stay
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
A Way to Freeze Global Warming??!!
U.S. Energy Experts Announce
Way to Freeze Global Warming
by Press release
On Wednesday morning, January 31, 2007 at a press conference in Washington, D.C., ASES unveiled a 200-page report, Tackling Climate Change in the U.S.: Potential Carbon Emissions Reductions from Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy by 2030. The result of more than a year of study, the report illustrates how energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies can provide the emissions reductions required to address global warming.
The press event included remarks from report editor Chuck Kutscher, ASES Executive Director Brad Collins, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) climate scientist James Hansen, Sierra Club Executive Director Carl Pope, Senator Jeff Bingaman, and Congressmen Henry Waxman and Christopher Shays. According to Hansen, "We must begin fundamental changes in our energy use now in order to avoid human-made climate disasters."
To develop the report, ASES recruited a volunteer team of top energy experts. These experts produced a series of nine papers that examined how energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies can reduce U.S. carbon dioxide emissions-the main cause of global warming.
ASES collected the nine papers together and added an overview of the studies to create the report. It covers energy efficiency in buildings, transportation, and industry, as well as six renewable energy technologies: concentrating solar power, photovoltaics, wind power, biomass, biofuels, and geothermal power. The results indicate that these technologies can displace approximately 1.2 billion tons of carbon emissions annually by the year 2030-the magnitude of reduction that scientists believe is necessary to prevent the most dangerous consequences of climate change.
The report illustrates how energy efficiency measures could keep U.S. carbon emissions roughly constant over the next 23 years as the economy grows, and how renewable energy technologies could make deep cuts below today's emissions. Wind energy provides about 35% of the renewable energy contribution, while the rest is divided about evenly among the other technologies. "Energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies can begin to be deployed on a large scale today to help save us from the worst consequences of global warming," said Kutscher. "With continued R&D to lower costs and a reasonable level of policy support, they have the potential to meet most, if not all, of the carbon reductions that will be required in the future."
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The report is available as a free download. High-quality graphics showing the various emissions reductions and deployment locations are also available at that site.
Table of Contents
Full report (9Mb pdf)
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Original article available here.
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Friday, May 25, 2007
global cooling is for real
Global warming can cause
global cooling
Jeff Poling
Scientists announced in the July 21, 1999, edition of the journal Nature findings that suggest that global warming can sometimes lead to cold weather or even a worldwide freeze.
Scientists have long known that a severe cold spell occurred after the end of the Pleistocene glaciation, approximately 8,200 years ago. The cause, however, has been a mystery. The authors of the Nature article write that the centuries long cold spell might have been caused by meltwater from the disappearing glaciers, cooling the North Atlantic.
The Laurentide Ice Sheet covered parts of North America with ice up to two miles thick for more than a million years. When the Earth began to warm 10,000 years ago, it retreated back toward the poles. The ice sheet left in its wake at least two lakes containing more water than the Great Lakes combined.
In the Hudson Bay, ice held the water in place like a plug in a bathtub. When the plug finally melted, trillions of gallons gushed into the Labrador Sea, flowing out at 100 times the rate water leaves the Mississippi.
The conclusions of the authors are the result of a study by University of Colorado and Canadian researchers who examined evidence of this huge flood in the Hudson Bay region of Quebec and Ontario.
Independent research showed that global temperatures dropped significantly within several hundred years of the flood. Until this study, nobody could pinpoint if these two events were connected, said the study's lead author, University of Colorado geologist Don Barber. The scientists used radiocarbon dating of clams in the flood sediment, and other evidence, to correlate the two events.
The Atlantic Gulf Stream normally acts like a conveyor belt to deliver warm tropical water to temperate regions. By adding so much cold fresh water in such a short time, the flood shut down the Gulf Stream, said Richard Alley, a climate expert at Penn State University.
Temperatures in Greenland and Europe dropped by 6 to 15 degrees for at least 200 years, according to ice core data.
The authors conclusions demonstrate how global warming can, paradoxically, provoke a global freeze. If a modern glacier such as the Greenland Ice Sheet melts as a result of rising temperatures in the next century, it could trigger a similar flood and climate fluctuation, the researchers said.
Copyright © 1999 by Jeff Poling. Quotes are from media sources.
Revised: August 2, 1999; New: July 19, 1999
http://www.dinosauria.com/jdp/news/freeze.html
Sunday, May 20, 2007
Is global freeze on the way?
Copyright 1999, The Associated Press
July 22, 1999
PHOENIX (AP) -- Global warming sometimes can lead to cold weather, researchers said Thursday in a report that outlines how a giant flood can trigger a worldwide freeze in a matter of decades.
Scientists say that as the glaciers melted at the end of the Ice Age, so much cold fresh water gushed into the North Atlantic 8,200 years ago that it cooled the atmosphere for hundreds of years.
The cold spell has been well known to researchers, but its cause was a mystery.
The flood scenario, described in Thursday's issue of the journal Nature, demonstrates how global warming can, paradoxically, provoke a global freeze.
If a modern glacier such as the Greenland Ice Sheet melts as a result of rising temperatures in the next century, it could trigger a similar flood and climate fluctuation, researchers said.
"Ultimately, that's the interest here," said Richard Alley, a climate expert at Penn State University. "We've been pretty lucky, the climate hasn't varied much in 8,000 years. But could the big changes come back?" The study by University of Colorado and Canadian researchers examines evidence of a huge flood in the Hudson Bay region of Quebec and Ontario.
The Laurentide Ice Sheet covered parts of North America with ice up to 2 miles (3.2 kilometers) thick for more than a million years. As it retreated toward the poles, the ice sheet left in its wake at least two lakes containing more water than the Great Lakes combined.
In the Hudson Bay, ice held the water in place like a plug in a bathtub. But when the plug finally melted, trillions of gallons (liters) gushed into the Labrador Sea, shooting out at 100 times the rate water leaves the Mississippi.
Independent research showed the temperature dropped significantly within several hundred years of the flood. But nobody could pinpoint if these two events were connected, said the study's lead author, University of Colorado geologist Don Barber.
The evidence linking the temperature drop to the flood includes radiocarbon dating of clams in the flood sediment.
The Atlantic Gulf Stream normally acts like a conveyor belt to deliver warm tropical water to temperate regions. By adding so much fresh water in such a short time, the flood shut down the Gulf Stream, Alley said.
Temperatures in Greenland and Europe dropped by 6 to 15 degrees Fahrenheit for at least 200 years, according to ice core data.
http://www.climateark.org/articles/1999/glfreez.htm
Monday, April 16, 2007
The Science Behind the Current Africa Freeze
It is calm in the harsh desert of the Serengeti. Giant dung beetles scurry along the dusty plains and a lone leopard can be spotted in the distance, searching for a drink. While the scene just described might seem just perfect, unfortunately this is not the case. Africa is just one of the latest regions experiencing a wave of freezing climate change and the reason it is so quiet is because migratory patterns have been destroyed for most indigenous birds. Several recent theories in scientific circles have attempted to explain this phenomenon but the most convincing ones are shattering everything we knew about global warming.
Previous theories of global warming conventionally relied on Grünberg-solar fluctuation patterns in their analysis of eco-historiographical data. Understandably, this led to the data favoring heat rise when ecological weather patterns were analysed, for a total global warming scenario. In the recent Schuler model, the data factors of random fluctuation (or noise) usually discarded by most scientists are factored in. Suddenly, with this approach, climate patterns now tend downwards and global heat becomes radically localized. Rather than global warming, a cooling phenomenon could very well be the case, creating what is termed global freezing. What is more, supporting evidence for the global freezing theory is already finding its way across the globe with researchers uncovering more and more geothermal clues in such diverse places as Africa, the Arab peninsula, and Central Europe.
According to Dr. Peter Flynn from The International Research Initiative on Climate, “The cooling signs are overwhelming and completely contradict most standing theories we have today on global warming. This could literally mean another ice age.” Of course, it will be some time before that happens. Estimates for significant change typically range between 150-200 years at the low end of the scale. (The high end of the scale is 20,000 years) But already some minor effects are being perceived across the world.
Adam Green
From The Global Review
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
Strange Weather in Madina
Madinah's Weather is normally just dry and warm, but it rained yesterday. A lot of times we'll see rain clouds forming, but then after a while they will be carried off to another area of the Kingdom and we won't get any rain. But yesterday we were all quite optimistic that it might actually rain because it had rained in the Mountain city of Ta'if the day before.
Some of you might ask why this seems like a strange thing, when rain is such a common thing in many parts of the world... well it's not that common at all over here. It rains only a handful of times in the Kingdom, and even less in Madinah. I posted a while back on it raining in Madinah. Now that wasn't the only other time it rained, but it hasn't come down that much since then.
The other strange weather phenomenon was these really strong winds we were receiving today. While I was at School, we could see the Palm Trees waving in the wind, which is not very easy to do unless the wind is pretty strong. On my way home, the car was being pushed to the left because of the strong winds coming from the right. The Prophet used to seek refuge in Allah from the wind being of the types of winds that Allah destroyed previous nations with. He used to ask Allah for the good of the wind and the good that it was sent with, and seek refuge in Allah from the bad of the wind and the bad that it might be sent with.
I was truly scared today from the strange weather, you never know what Allah has planned for you, but al-Hamdu lillah, it can't be too bad in Madinah, right?
Here's a current sattelite picture, supplied by the Weather Channel: