By P Gosselin on 9. October 2024
North Africa seems to be greening as a result of climate change, which mostly occurs naturally.
Satellite photos and studies have shown that the Sahara desert has been shrinking over the past 40 years, e.g. read here and here.
The latest news is from the southeastern Moroccan desert, which is among the driest around the world, where it is reported to have gotten up to 100 mm of rain within a 24 hour period in September. Hard hit were villages 400 miles from the capital city of Rabat, including Tata, reports Al Jazeera here.
Image: NASA Earth Observatory
Once dry lakes are filling again
“What’s also fascinating is that normally dry lakes in the Sahara are filling due to this event,” said Moshe Armon, a senior lecturer at the Institute of Earth Sciences and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Several of these lakes are visible in the image as dark blue areas, including one in Morocco’s Iriqui National Park (shown in detail within the inset circle).
“It’s been 30 to 50 years since we’ve had this much rain in such a short space of time,” added Houssine Youabeb of Morocco’s General Directorate of Meteorology. See more photos here.
“Preliminary satellite analysis shows accumulations of many tens to more than 200 millimeters of rainfall in the areas affected—roughly equivalent to what the region receives in a year. The rainfall accumulation estimates are based on NASA’s IMERG (Integrated Multi-Satellite Retrievals for GPM) data,” NASA reported.
The rains, of course, are welcome, making a harsh region a bit less harsh for those living there. Nothing you’ll hear about in the climate propaganda media.
Hat-tip: Snowfan here.
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Lots of things you won’t hear about in our severely biased so-called main stream media.
Exactly, but Sky News in the UK has had to report this:
Hurricane was not ‘worst-case scenario’, governor saysFlorida governor Ron DeSantis said that while Hurricane Milton was “significant”, it “thankfully was not the worst-case scenario”.
He added: “The storm did weaken before landfall and the storm surge, as initially reported, has not been as significant overall as what was observed for Hurricane Helene.
“Right now, it looks like Sarasota County had the most significant storm surge.
“Likely somewhere between eight to 10 ft, and remember with Helene we had 15 to 20 feet up in Taylor County.”
Despite the media hysterics it seems that Milton was a very ordinary hurricane 🤡
Yes, exactly!
And the MSM, particularly national TV news, is falling over backwards to maintain their fronting—in line with President Biden’s statement—of Milton being “the worst storm to hit Florida in 100 years”.
The current claim is that it hit Florida as a Category 3 hurricane with sustained winds of 120 mph and gusts to 150 mph . . . yet national TV news, when they broke out weather reports from Tampa, St. Petersburg, Sarasota, and Ft. Meyers at the time of Milton’s eye hitting Siesta Key, FL, showed maximum gusts only up to 85 mph.
The national news media attempts to portray Milton as an hurricane unprecedented in recent history were, let’s say, dis-gusting, pardon the pun.
All of the alarmists are claiming climate change… again.
I thought Governor DeSantis did a good job of debunking the “unprecedented” claims of the Media at one of his new conferences yesterday.
Story tip: WUWT should post a transcript of DeSantis’ news conference yesterday where he detailed past weather history and showed that Hurricane Milton was not a hurricane of unprecendented fury. DeSantis did a very good job of debunking, despite the press arguing with him, which tells me he has studied the situation and the history of weather, at least as concerns Florida. Maybe DeSantis reads WUWT.
Btw, DeSantis gave at least three news conferences yesterday, so you need to find the proper one. I believe it was the second one, where he cited weather history.
“unprecedented in recent history”
Even if that were true, though it isn’t- “recent history” is irrelevant regarding climate change. Useless information.
Joseph, these are media staff who can barely spell, so don’t expect much.
“recent history” only goes back as far as last weekend.
Shorten the period “recent” until the description is apt. Let’s say, the past 8 days. There! Fixed it.
“Category 6”
You mean it wasn’t a cat 6? Man oh Mann.
The cat numbers go up with rising CO2?!??
The delusions of alarmists increase with rising CO2.
The fit of the least squares regression line is nearly perfect.
Not assymptotically (sic)?
Definitely not asymptomatic.
Speaking of which, from one of the world centers for climate delusions and as a:
Story Tip
Here’s a follow-up (although not directly-related) to the Rob Bonta suing Exxon story:
https://www.sfchronicle.com/eastbay/article/rob-bonta-viridis-oakland-19789139.php?utm_campaign=CMS%20Sharing%20Tools%20(Premium)&utm_source=share-by-email&utm_medium=email
Maybe it is directly related. I’m kinda hoping that bear is tired of being poked. This guy has ambitions of being our next Governor.
Funny…nicely done!
“””Greening: Rare, Heavy September Rainfalls Have Brought Back Lakes in The Sahara!”””
It’s been a cool, soggy, and sodden year in blighty. Meanwhile in narrativeland it’s a very different story…
“””Climate Change Is Drying Up All the World’s Rivers at an Alarming Rate”””
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/climate-change-drying-world-rivers-134036818.html
So, how exactly do [global] drying up rivers do the opposite of dry up?
“””Rivers in Europe Burst Their Banks – NASA Earth Observatory”””
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/153358/rivers-in-europe-burst-their-banks
Well…
“””In short, the latest report paints a disconcerting portrait of what may happen to riversheds around the world if climate change continues unabated.”””
https://wmo.int/publication-series/state-of-global-water-resources-2023
More could, possibly might, may etc etc etc
Harvest in England the second worst on record because of wet weather – The Guardian
There you have it. Climate Change!
From the above article:
“What’s also fascinating is that normally dry lakes in the Sahara are filling due to this event”
Which just goes to show that people commenting on climate should ALWAYS avoid reference to the unqualified term “normal”.
As in: would that be “normally over the last 250 years”, “normally over the last 12,500 years” or “normally over the last 100,000 years”?
As a young child, I noticed that the mud puddles always seemed to form in the same place.
But, should they choose to be honest, ad revenue clicks would tank.
Sensationalism and fear sell. Good news and factual reporting do not.
I am becoming convinced that the biggest or one of the biggest threats to human civilization is advertising.
It certainly is true for being the biggest threat to honesty.
According to the TV ads everyone in the UK lives in a multi racial household.
So very true.
That applies to advertising in the United States, too, although I heard a claim not long ago that about 40 percent of families in the United States are now mixed-race, so there might be some basis in fact for such advertising in the U.S. I don’t know if that applies to the UK.
I’ve seen reports that the Sahara turned green- very, very green about 200 times in the past few million years.
Normally, I’d agree…
cute!
It is interesting. Here in Southern California we are often told that temperatures will be hotter than normal, or colder than average. Maybe trying to get across a message?
That rain should help raise he aquifer- somewhat anyway.
Aquifers ! Where would that water come from ?
Saudi Aramco World : Last Lakes of the Green Sahara
normally dry lake……
is that like a normally not painful headache?
Remember that undersea volcano that erupted and put lots of water in the upper atmosphere, last year?
Tonga Eruption Blasted Unprecedented Amount of Water Into Stratosphere – NASA
What goes up, must come down.
Except the increase in alarm.
. . . and taxes.
Tell that to hydrogen and helium gases.
In the vastness of space, it is still so.
That’s where stars come from.
Touché!
A few years back, after Lake Chad had mostly dried up (climate change disaster), there was a rainy year and Lake Chad expanded again. It was another piece of bad news, as farmers who had been using the dry lake bed for agriculture were flooded out.
In the climate-media complex, all weather events must be presented as bad news, and must be interpreted as the consequence of our sins of emission. It feels like a secular version of hair-shirt Calvinism, where everything that happens is fodder for a new round of guilt.
It seems to be human nature to imagine humanity’s wrongs ruining a perfect existence in harmony with the self-stabilizing Gaia. The Abrahamic religions start out the story of humanity with our sins destroying our birthright to the Garden of Eden where everything was perfect.
The reality is that the world is constantly changing and evolving. The best humans can do is prevent actual pollution (i.e. not dumping toxic substances like lead, cadmium, mercury) and adapt to the changes as they happen.
I’m sure the actual polluters just love how the whole world is focusing on CO2 instead of the actually toxic waste they produce.
Crocodiles in the Sahara Desert: An Update of Distribution, Habitats and Population Status for Conservation Planning in Mauritania
Relict populations of Crocodylus niloticus persist in Chad, Egypt and Mauritania. Although crocodiles were widespread throughout the Sahara until the early 20th century, increased aridity combined with human persecution led to local extinction. Knowledge on distribution, occupied habitats, population size and prey availability is scarce in most populations. This study evaluates the status of Saharan crocodiles and provides new data for Mauritania to assist conservation planning.
It’s not since now crocos live there…. 😀
Remember that hippos used to live in the Thames during the Eemian interglacial.
A very different scenario, as hippos don’t live there anymore, but crocos still live in Sahara and around.
VIDEO shows the moment CNN anchor Anderson Cooper is drilled in the face by flying debris during his live coverage of Hurricane Milton.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/30999756/cnn-anderson-cooper-hit-in-face-hurricane-debris/
Oh dear
Cooper’s remarks after being hit with appears to me to be a large piece of white cardboard:
“Whoa . . . Okay, that wasn’t good . . . Um, we’ll probably go inside shortly, but you can see the amount of water here on the ground . . .”
What a hero of in-the-field news reporting . . . continuing to bravely press on despite no evidence of blood or injury. He’s deserves the Purple Heart of broadcasting!
At least he was present
Wasn’t he the guy who stood in an ditch to pretend the water was very deep, but had two guys in shorts walk across the back of the shot.
I don’t know about a video of that scenario . . . but here’s a link to one that I imagine is even better: a female reporter paddling a canoe and commenting about recent flooding, saying “this is essentially now a part of the Passaic River” (in NJ) while two guys in waders walk by in front of her in at most 4 inches of water.
TYS I’ve seen so much of this, going so far back (remember the fake exploding trucks?) that I’ve come to doubt everything the media reports without independent verification.
Just so . . . I’m of the same mindset.
Remember: it’s drama and conflict that sells (ads)!
Fox Weather’s Robert Ray, an intrepid weather reporter who likes to stand out in hurricane winds for dramatic effect, was hit by a falling tree limb during Hurricane Milton. Not to worry though, Robert is experienced enough that he now wears a hardhat during his spectacular hurricane reporting and he was not injured on this occasion.
He was in some Hurricane Milton winds that had him down on the ground on all fours trying to not get blown away. I laughed and laughed and laughed at this scene. Robert is more than a little dramatic. I could have understood the effects of the wind in other ways, without him standing out in it. But that wouldn’t be dramatic enough for Robert. That wouldn’t put him in the limelight.
It’s really stupid for people to stand out in hurricane winds, is my point. That goes for weather reporters, too.
Robert is experienced enough that he now wears a hardhat
Not at all hurricane related but this reminded me of a newscast I remember from California – I think it was KTLA – the reporter was reporting live on fire operations in the San Bernardino mountains. He was NOT being stupid, he was in a fairly safe place, when suddenly the fire surged up around him. It was a few weeks IIRC before he could go back out and do any live reporting again.
Thanks, Tom,
Your post reminds me of a TV new segment during a hurricane where an in-the-field weather reporter intentionally positioned himself at the corner of a large building so as to “experience gale force” winds while—unfortunately for him—the background trees indicated ambient winds were perhaps 30 mph tops.
One thing about Robert Ray is he does get out in the violent winds. It’s not staged with him. I think he likes to test himself. One of these days I expect to watch him be sucked into the sky and out of sight by some monster storm wind.
I can see where weather reporters would want to be outside, but not in 70 or 80mph winds. That’s just crazy. You don’t know what is flying through the air at those kinds of speeds.
Anybody here have info on Forbush Decreases this hurricane season?
There was a large solar flare recently.
“What’s also fascinating is that normally dry lakes in the Sahara are filling due to this event,”
Good news = isolated event
Bad news = part of trend
Its just the way people seem to think
Story tip, maybe: the GLOBAL BOILING IS HERE – https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/10/10/bbc-weather-app-incorrectly-forecasts-15000mph-hurricane-uk/
In the Argonautica, Apollonius of Rhodes wrote of how the heroes sailed across the lakes to reach the Mediterranean from the middle of the Sahara.
Myth, of course.
But the idea of lakes in the Western Sahara was well-established, just 23 centuries ago.
Ancient Lakes of the Sahara
Myth is just societal memories at a long time distance.
Extremely strong geomagnetic storm. Huge jump in solar wind speed of up to 850 km/s in an extremely short period of time.
https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/planetary-k-index
This is the precession cycle doing its work. And it is only 500 years into a 9,000 year warming trend for the Northern Hemisphere.
The Mediterranean is latitudinally constrained so the increasing peak sunlight is getting it up to the ocean surface limit temperature of 30C where convective instability creates monsoonal storms..
“It’s been 30 to 50 years since we’ve had this much rain in such a short space of time,”
Apparently climate is changing back to a previous (unprecedented?) state.
By all accounts the artificially intelligent should produce artificial news. Just imagine no more living. breathing journalists but just large boxes bearing the initials of whichever journal they are producing.
The UK already has a box which bears the marking BBC (A&E) rumoured to stand for anything and everything but not guaranteed to be in the least intelligent.