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Split Seasons under the Full Moon

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Diagram of Earth's split seasons as seen from the north.

The Earth tilt creates split seasons between the northern and the southern hemisphere.

For the first time in decades, the full moon and the summer solstice will take place almost on the same day. Even though the exact hours of the events do not match perfectly, Monday will be the best day to enjoy both a bright full moon and a full bright sun.

The Happy Monday

Monday will be this year’s longest day, with 14 hours and 56 minutes of daytime. On the summer solstice, the sun appears to be stopping in the middle of the sky.

Days will become hotter and hotter because from now until the beginning of autumn the rays of the sun will fall straight towards Earth and thus they will be more powerful.

The summer solstice signals the start of astronomical summer in the northern hemisphere.

On the same time, Monday will be the day of June’s full moon. Our planet’s satellite will be opposite to the sun, allowing its two hemispheres to be completely illuminated.

The lunar event will be the fourth of the season, which makes it a bit unusual because normally there are only three full moons in one season.

Our satellite will usually appear low near the horizon during summer time and high up in the sky during winter. As the full moon on Monday will remain low, the thicker air will make it appear colored in shades of red.

The full moon rise will be webcast live by the Slooh telescopes from the Institute of Astrophysics in the Canary Islands.

Split Seasons Reunited by Full Moon

The day will be full of celebrations, marking the split seasons from the northern and southern hemisphere. The summer solstice will take place in the northern part of the globe, and the winter solstice will happen on the southern part of the Earth.

Therefore, on Monday Chileans will celebrate winter in their We Tripantu festivities. People used to stay up all night with the fear that the sun will not rise the next day again.

No one told Chileans’ ancestors that the sun was, in fact, hold captive in the northern hemisphere, where it seems it completely forgets to come down from the sky and visit the southern part of our planet.

On the northern hemisphere, the longest day of the year will be celebrated with parades and festivals. In the old days, there were also feasting, dancing, and bonfires.

The exact time of the two events is more than 12 hours apart. However, Monday will be the best time to relax under the full strength of the sun by day and enjoy the beautiful full moon by night.

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NOAA: El-Nino Finally Arrives, May Not Affect California Droughts

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El Nino of 2015

According to NOAA Climate Expert, the long-awaited El-Nino has arrived.

Yesterday, NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center has released an EL-Nino Advisory report.

El-Nino refers to the cycle of cold and hot temperature that is measured with surface temperature of tropical and eastern Pacific Ocean Sea.

However, this time El-Nino would not leave a considerable impact on global weather and weather patterns. Climate Experts reported that El-Nino is too weak to affect the upcoming four consecutive droughts of California.

Nonetheless, it would probably influence a few regions of the Northern Hemisphere.  This year, it is expected to transform the usual weather conditions into a bit wetter one.

Mike Halpert, director of NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center, declares the arrival of El Nino. He states that all the latest observation of western and central equatorial Pacific Ocean confirms that El-Nino is finally here.  Numerous climate prediction models indicate that El-Nino will persist till summer season.

A group of climate predictor notifies that there are 50 to 60 percent chances that the condition will continue throughout summer.

El-Nino is significant because it is directly connected with chances of weather changes.  Even though, El-Nino occurs all around the globe, but its affects are stronger in regions near the tropics.

Normally, fishermen of Peru observe El-Nino before the rest of the world.

Study Reveals: Rising Crop Yields Stimulate Global Warming

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It appears to be irrational, however, mounting crop yields really add more carbon dioxide to the environment. Over the recent decades, sustenance generation has expanded pointedly to meet demands for rising populace. As per the recent study directed by researchers at Boston University, expanding crop yields represents as much as 25% of the recurring boost in greenhouse gases.

Crops Acts As Mop

Plants soak up carbon dioxide in spring and summer alter solar energy into food, prompting an exceptional drop in barometric Co2. At the same time that consumed Co2 is discharged once again into the air in the fall and winter, said Chris Kucharik, co-creator of the study and a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The study is published in the Nature journal.

It’s not that crop yielding is adding more greenhouse gasses to the environment. Rather, crops acts as a mop for Co2. Researchers say the mop has turned a lot bigger, holding and discharging a greater amount of carbon. Global food production is anticipated to twofold in the following 5 decades. The results of the recent study could help analysts enhance atmosphere models and better comprehend Co2 buffering ability of ecological unit.

Link Between Crop Yields & Co2 Increment

It’s yet an alternate bit of proof that when people do something at a vast scale, we “significantly impact” the environmental synthesis. In spite of the fact that farmland has expanded practically nothing, crop generation has expanded fundamentally in the most recent 50 years, on account of plant propagation, fertilization developments, and watering system. Cropland records of only 6% of the aggregate green vicinity in the Northern Hemisphere. Yet it is a “prevailing patron” to the half increment in the carbon dioxide regularity cycle.

Among different crops, corn assumes the greatest part in irritating worldwide temperatures, emulated by wheat, rice and soybeans. Researchers said these products assimilate and discharge a billion metric huge amounts of Co2 yearly. Up to this point, mainstream researchers had missed the association between growing crop yields and the sporadic Co2 increment.

Uranus Storms Perplexes Astronomers

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Incredible Storms in Uranus

Astronomers observed powerful storms on the featureless surface of Uranus. The presence of these storms in the atmosphere of Uranus has perplexed the scientists.

In August, the professional astronomers witnessed these storms with the help of Keck Telescope.  At that moment astronomers discovered eight other large storms in the Northern hemispheres of the gas giant in infrared light. Afterwards, amateur astronomers determined these storms as clear spots on the surface of the planet.   Fortunately, these amateur astronomers recorded the images through some latest techniques and equipments

Marc Delacroix, an amateur astronomer expressed that he was quite excited to view the activity of Uranus. Nowadays, it is a usual thing for astronomers to get information about Jupiter, Mars and Saturn. However, Uranus and Neptune are certainly an exceptional one for the amateur astronomers.

Among those entire 8 storms one was the stronger one. It appeared with a wavelength of 2.2 microns and produced nearly one third of the light of the entire planet. This high frequency permits researchers to analyze the development in the lower layer of Uranus atmosphere.

Heidi Hammed, the head of the study reported that scientists came across this kind of activity in 2007. At that time Uranus equinox occurred and the sun shined straightly on the equator. Later on, the experts believe that such type of activity would not ever emerge again. Therefore, these storms are pretty surprising for everyone,

Uranus is the third largest planet of the solar system. It contains a diameter that is four times greater as compared to the planet Earth.

Climate not responsible for changes in Eastern Forest, Report says

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Several times researchers talked about the drastic impact of climate change on the forests located at Northern hemisphere.

Lately, the Nature World News presented a report that demonstrates the condition of Minnesota, where trees are relatively more common than the original species of that forest. Minnesota is a state located in the Midwestern United States.

The trees such as black cherry, red maple and white oak are more in number than the species like white spruce and balsam fir tree. It appears like these kinds of trees are facing a real difficulty in getting used to the modification in temperature.

Recently, a researcher of Penn State’s College of Agricultural science claimed that changes in climate is not the basic reason behind the overhaul of forests. He gave this statement, particularly for the forest situated in the eastern United State.

Marc Abrams, a Forest ecology researcher believes that these forests are still struggling to retrieve from the state which emerged in 1800s. The state is generally known as “disequilibrium” that occurred due to the cutting and burning of the trees in the late 1800s and beginning of 1900s

Furthermore, Abram said that the alteration produced by both the natural and man played a more vital role than the usual change in climate.

Moreover, he emphasized that scientists are more concerned about the effect of the climate change than environmental. Undoubtedly, climate changes are extremely significant, but it cannot suppress the importance of environmental change of the forests of Western U.S.

The study is printed in the journal of Global Change Biology. In this report researchers put side by side the data of the presettlement original land survey and the present state of vegetation in the western U.S forests.

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