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dendroica:

October Scorches Records in the Northeast : Image of the Day

Though much of eastern North America just endured a wintry cold snap, it was not that long ago that the weather felt summery. In fact, it was just two weeks ago—well into autumn.

Weather records fell across the northeastern United States and Canada’s Quebec and Maritime provinces in October 2017. According to the U.S. National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), the month was the warmest on record (since 1895) for all six New England states. Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Vermont, Rhode Island, and Connecticut all witnessed monthly average temperatures that were 4.2 to 4.4 degrees Celsius (7.5 to 7.9 degrees Fahrenheit) above the 20th century average.

Temperatures also were much warmer than average in the Mid-Atlantic and Great Lakes regions, as well as the far Southwest. At least 20 cities—including Burlington, Albany, Portland, and New York City—set new October records. In contrast, six cities in the Rocky Mountains reported October temperatures that were among their top-10 coldest.

Environment Canada reported that dozens of cities across eastern Canada had their warmest September and October on record, including Ottawa, Montreal, Quebec, Fredericton, and Halifax. The long-term average temperature in Montreal across both months is typically 12.0°C (53.6°F), but this year the city saw a record-breaking average of 15.9°C (60.6°F). Similarly, Ottawa measured a two-month average of 14.5°C (58.1°F), compared to the long-term average of 11.5°C, (52.7°F). Toronto fell just short of its warmest September and October on record.

The nationally averaged U.S. temperature for October 2017 was 13.2°C (55.7°F), which is 0.9°C (1.6°F) above the 20th century average. The warm October temperatures in Canada and the U.S. Northeast were attributed to a strong ridge of high pressure that caused a large northward bulge in the jet stream.

According to NCEI, the span of January through October has been the third warmest and second wettest on record for the lower 48 United States.
The map above shows land surface temperature anomalies for October 2017 compared to the average conditions for all Octobers between 2002-2016. The measurements represent the temperature of the top 1 millimeter of the land surface during the daytime. Land surface temperatures (LSTs) should not be confused with air temperatures; LSTs reflect the heating of forests, grasslands, cities, and bare ground by sunlight, and they can sometimes differ significantly from air temperatures. (To learn more about LSTs and air temperatures, read Where is the Hottest Place on Earth?)

The data come from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite. AIRS is a hyperspectral infrared sensor that observes atmospheric and surface conditions at 2,378 separate wavelengths. This makes it possible for scientists to create three-dimensional temperature profiles that go from the surface to 40 kilometers (25 miles) in altitude.

Source: dendroica

cystemic:

useless-switzerlandfacts:

altonin:

the real regions of europe

crystal clear tapwater

everyone eats dinner at 10pm

slav squat

brexit

How Europe is classified by the United Nations

bad-postcards:

MAP OF U.S. and NEW YORK

mapsontheweb:

Etymological map of Sweden.

Source: reddit.com

mapsontheweb:

Sunlight duration in hours per year in Europe and the continental United States.

Source: reddit.com

mapsontheweb:

States of integration, 1957.

Source: TIME

snommelp:

mapsontheweb:

Christian Population By US State.

There is no state in this nation where Christians (or people who call themselves Christian) are a minority. Something to remember next time you witness the Culture Warriors railing about oppression.

That behavior makes more sense in its own way, considering that the minority who are into The Evangelical Persecution Complex tend not to count non-Evangelicals as Real Christians at all. Never mind the large chunk of the population who will ID as Christian when asked, but aren’t particularly religious.

Also too relevant: The End Times Part V: Signs, Prophesies, and Current Events

One result of all of this is a “persecution complex.” Premillennialists believe that Christians will be persecuted in increasing numbers during the end times, and so they look around expecting to see that, even in the United States.

Basically, they want to see persecution, or otherwise Jesus isn’t coming back.

I didn’t grow up exposed to any of this ideology, and without some context a lot of political themes just make no freaking sense. But, this persecution complex becomes even more disturbing when you understand why that vocal minority is so invested in it. There is internal logic there, and it’s kinda terrifying.

Source: reddit.com

Doing a quick look for a refresher on exactly where the Roan Highlands lie (answer: closer to Bristol and Boone than Asheville), I was also struck again by how little sense the colonial political boundaries make. We’re looking at the corners of five different states, within the relatively small area shown here. The red marker is for a little town on the Tennessee side of the border with NC, which runs along the ridgeline of Roan Mountain (and the Unakas more generally).

It still makes so much more sense to look at things in terms of topography and river drainages, and the travel routes related to that geography. Not to mention historical events and geopolitical relationships–which are just never going to be understandable in terms of political boundaries which didn’t even exist until recently. (Which I sometimes have to think the people in charge are counting on with how they’re presenting what info they’ve chosen, but hey. Reminded again of another map I had to comment on a while back.)

Anyway, with this particular map area, to great extent it still makes more sense to think in terms of existing pre-Colonial travel and trade routes tying the whole place together–and connecting up other areas. With a lot of the major roads/rail lines/etc. following sections of that, because of course they would. Also town sites getting taken over, but hey.

That’s no less relevant (or historically important) than the Roman-built road network here in the UK which were the only decent roads for centuries and went on to form the backbone of the modern highway system. lncluding right in front of our house. But, of course that doesn’t get talked about much in the US. I kind of wish I could find my copy of Alan Briceland’s Westward from Virginia: The Exploration of the Virginia-Carolina Frontier, 1650-1710 right now, but it’s still packed up in a box somewhere. (And I see my rating from 5 years ago is the only one on Goodreads 😅) It goes into some detail for that exact area, and I didn’t even know how much of the current infrastructure got built up from what was already there. Of course that doesn’t just apply to this particular region, it’s just the one I know the most about.

I grew up in Bluefield (on the WV side–the gold star at that zoom level), then Radford (VA). Which was right at a major hub, with multiple other major route branches within 50 miles. (Roanoke/Salem is just off that map view, to the NE.) Including easy access right down the Blue Ridge to what’s now Cherokee National Forest and the Roan Highlands, yeah. Where I-81 parallels the main route down there now. Besides the longterm trade routes toward the Chesapeake, Great Lakes, Gulf of Mexico, up toward Maine, etc. But sure, the geographical isolation and backwardness! 🙄

Anyway, I had to think of that again too, with the distance there looking like nothing from where I’m sitting now. It never really was that much, in more ways than one.

violent-darts:

lemon-badgeress:

andrewjacksonscenichikes:

pax-britannica:

mapsontheweb:

The World with landlocked regions removed.

good post

You can only reblog this blessed post if you have access to the sea.

Given that my location was removed and I am now IN THE SEA, I reserve my right to reblog this blessed post.

The definition of “regions” here feels, to me, like it sort of makes the whole thing a bit moot. Because I’m trying to think of something that more effectively demonstrates “land-locked” than the HUGE FUCKING DESERT in the middle of Australia, and failing. And yet because the way Australia’s divided up means that every state chunk appears to have sea-access, that GIANT FUCKING DESERT has been declared to be not land-locked. Also British Columbia has like five different regions and several of them are landlocked. So I feel like “regions” should be retitled.

Source: reddit.com

coelasquid:

land-of-maps:

Number of Metal Bands in Europe per million people [1260 x 1260]

One time I saw a map tracking how the blond hair gene mutation spread through Europe based on density of naturally blond people in different areas and it matched up pretty closely with this.

Source: land-of-maps