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Funny idea:
"A stone that predicts the weather
Wet - it's raining
Dry - it is not raining
It casts a shadow - the sun is shining
White - it's snowing
Cold - it's cold
You can not see - there is fog
He is not there - there was a tornado."
Walking through the city I saw this stone. A fun idea.
Snow in our corner of Alabama, on the Elk River! Every time they predict snow, it turns out wrong, but this time- we got the white stuff! Fun to see because it will be gone quickly. The temps dropped about 30 degrees from this morning to nightfall when the snow started here!
And yes, it seems I DID take these shots after 3 AM- because that's when it was not blowing quite as badly. :) What else does a photographer do at 3 AM when it's snowing?! Stand in the door and take photos! LOL!
we have sun predicted for a couple of days so I'm racing time and trying to get things done outside. it's beautiful out and the garden thrives.
a time of beauty and, for me, a time of sadness, because so much of my garden reminds me of my dear friend april.
I think her flickr site has been closed down by her husband or I've been blocked. I wish you all could see her wonderful work.
so....good times and sad times.
schubert the standard poodle is our oldest doggy now. he is partly deaf and has cataracts. he follows me loyally when I garden until time for treats and rest, but when I come in and upstairs, he comes with me.
both of us old and slightly decrepit, keeping each other company as we rest together after work.
I will be off flickr again while the sun shines.
and this photo is best viewed large.
The 50mm lens with f/1.8 aperture offers great help. No flash was allowed in the aquarium and even you fired it, thick glass will ruin the picture. Fishes are moving in a fast pace and therefore they are sort of moving object with hard-to-predict path.
I shot with aperture wide open to keep the shutter fast enough to stop the motion.
I am grateful (and sometimes scared) that my destiny is designed by me and not left to fortune cookies.
βItβs not whatβs happening to you now or what has happened in your past that determines who you become. Rather, itβs your decisions about what to focus on, what things mean to you, and what youβre going to do about them that will determine your ultimate destiny.β
~Anthony Robbins
For the 30 days gratitude group .
Central Weather predicted that there would be a sharp frost from the 22nd going into the 23rd February. There was a frost, though perhaps not as dramatic as I hoped it might be. Nevertheless, there was some interesting light developing over Ratcliffe-On-Soar Power Station near Sawley. Direct sunlight did not materialise until later in the morning, by which time I was at home looking after my wife, who was suffering from bad dose of 'flu symptoms.
Well, we got our predicted heavy snowfall this weekend. I spent most of my days inside going over more images to put into photo books. I came across this one from Algonquin Park two years ago that I had not posted yet. It warmed me up just thinking of that morning sunrise at lake of Two Rivers. It made me think of our plans for the next camping trip this summer. I can handle the weather this week, only if we get more sun shine!
Scientists predict that when climate change eventually leads to the extinction of the human species there will be a new dawn...
It will be the Jealopus that will evolve and take our place...
Not predicted, i noticed the high waves from the other side of the harbour and nipped across to bag a shot or two. More to come.
Das ist einer der Zweige des im November neu gepflanzten Marillenbaums in unserem Garten. Aufgrund der milden Temperaturen und der krΓ€ftigen Sonne der letzten Tage blΓΌht er bereits jetzt. Doch fΓΌr heute ist Schneefall angesagt und fΓΌr die kommende Nacht ist leichter Frost prognostiziert. Nur wenn sie GlΓΌck haben, kommen die BlΓΌten ohne Frostschaden durch die Nacht. Also dann: Viel GlΓΌck, liebe Marillen !
This is one of the branches of the new apricot tree planted in November in our garden. Due to the mild temperatures and the strong sunshine of the last few days, it is already blossoming. But snowfall is forecast for today and a light frost is predicted for the coming night. Only if they are lucky will the flowers make it through the night without frost damage. So then: Good luck, dear apricots !
With the high temps for Christmas day predicted to be in the mid 70s, I'm considering phoning into my doctor to ask for a chill pill, preferably one that will allow me to take a relaxing sunset walk on the beach with my dog while dressed in garb from LL Bean, like they do on TV.
Hope everyone has a spectacular holiday. I'll just be over here sweating in front of my tree, waiting for the AC to kick on. ;-)
the predicted kp level of the auroras was only an unimpressive 3 (out of 9 possible). But the long exposure exagerates the auroras quite a bit but also increases the "comma" effect on the stars. - 9Β°C tonight but no wind ;)
The patio of our favorite riverfront restaurant is coated with snow. I'm looking forward so sitting there in the late summer afternoon and sipping a rumrunner. Apparently that will have to wait for a while. 12" of additional snow is predicted here in the near future.
I predict the Dip would have been super brief this year .... but it has been cancelled due to all the ice on the lake unfortunately. They plan on rescheduling for a later date - we'll keep you posted!
RBC Is First Bank to Predict Canada Headed For Recession in 2023
Economy to contract by annualized 0.5% pace in middle of year
βInflation has been too strong for too longβ: economists
By Randy Thanthong-Knight
July 7, 2022 at 7:33 AM EDTUpdated onJuly 7, 2022 at 11:54 AM EDT
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Royal Bank of Canada became the first of the countryβs major banks to predict the nationβs economy will fall into a recession next year amid four-decade high inflation, historic labor shortages and aggressive interest-rate hikes.
In a new set of projections released on Thursday, Canadaβs largest bank said it expects back-to-back quarters of negative growth in 2023, a situation economists refer to as a technical recession.
The recession call illustrates the extent to which Canadaβs resource-heavy economy -- which has been benefiting from the recent boom in energy prices -- remains vulnerable to global economic headwinds and higher borrowing costs that threaten to stall expansions in most major advanced economies.
Canadaβs central bank will need to continue hiking into the slowdown to temper inflation expectations threatening to entrench price pressures, RBC said.
βThough higher rates will technically push Canada toward a contraction, the Bank of Canada now has little choice but to act,β according to the report, which was written by economists Nathan Janzen and Claire Fan. βInflation has been too strong for too long and is starting to creep into longer-run business and consumer expectations.β
Earlier this week, the central bankβs quarterly surveys of executives and consumers showed inflation expectations over the next couple of years have hit a record in Canada: 78% of businesses expect the consumer price index to exceed 3% over next two years.
Still, the recession in Canada will likely be moderate and short-lived by historical standards and will be reversed once inflation settles enough for central banks to lower rates, RBC said.
The Canadian economy is expected to contract by an annualized 0.5% pace in the second and third quarters of 2023, according to the new forecasts. Growth will average 0.8% next year, down from 3.7% this year.
As the economic contraction plays out in 2023, Canadaβs unemployment rate will likely rise about 1.5 percentage points to 6.6%, they said, adding that it wouldnβt take long to unwind that weakness in 2024 and beyond.
Toronto Office Vacancies Rise to a Record on Recession Fears
Royal Bank projects the Bank of Canada will increase its benchmark policy rate to 3.25% by the end of this year, from 1.5% right now. The central bank is widely expected to hike the overnight rate by three quarters of a percentage point at its next decision on July 13.
RBC cited a number of headwinds facing the nationβs economy.
While Canadians continue to fuel a recovery in the travel and hospitality sectors and higher commodity prices have boosted the mining and energy industries, RBC said soaring prices are cutting into householdsβ purchasing power. The housiing market, meanwhile, is sliding in some regions with prices in Toronto down 11% in four months.
Canada will also feel the spillover from slowing global growth. The US unemployment rate is expected to climb and emerging markets will struggle with higher food and energy prices and borrowing costs, acting as a drag on Canadian exports.
Even without rate hikes, labor shortages would be hampering Canadaβs economy as businesses struggle to find workers to grow, Fan and Janzen said.
Well the rain arrived as predicted to make it a soggy start to the Jubilee, but i'm continuing with my own personal sunny spell and photos from my sunny wildflower photo-shoot from earlier in the week. These next two were taken with the new 50mm, I primarily got it to work as a portrait lens (low light at weddings) but its nice to give it a workout on the landscape, the tight composition (it's about 80mm on a crop sensor body) and shallow dof making for some interesting choices.
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It was predicted in the forecast....we chose not to believe it....we got it.
She always wanted a white wedding...but chose to have it in October for fear that guests would not show...9.7 inches of the white stuff later...she was right....some guests did not show, but it was the most beautiful day ever!
And now they are going from snow to sand...for their honeymoon.
I am super excited to get started on this one! But right now I am off to cook some chili on this snowy day.
This was taken in March 2013. Might be worth nipping up to this spot after work tomorrow, so glad I finish at 3pm :-)
This is one of my very close friends. his name I Dan.
Here he is predicting a Vancouver Canucks win while we were watching the game last night.
I tried to be a bit creative with the pop up flash. It made the ball look cool.
An important quality of a wildlife photographer is the ability to predict animal behavior. That means that you should not only look at your subject, but that you have to observe and analyze. If you don't do that, then every time you will be surprised by the actions of the animal and you will be too late to make a good photograph.
Young Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata), also known as snow monkeys, cling the first four weeks after birth onto the belly of their mother, and after that period they crawl on her back to move over larger distances. This period lasts about a year. In order to capture this behavior you must primarily watch the mother, especially her interaction with other macaques in the troop. Macaques have a complex social structure and hierarchy, and virtually all movements of an individual macaque are the direct result of those of more senior or dominant counterparts. This hierarchy is often maintained by force, which is why mothers with children like to keep a little aloof from the rest of the gang. If there is a disturbance elsewhere or a more senior macaque is approaching, it is often a reason for the mother to go somewhere else with her child on her back.
This photo I made at the end of a long shoot on our White & Wild Japan tour. It was cold and I was ready to call it a day. And so were the macaques, because they slowly began retreating to the mountains. This mother with child decided to walk down again when a little higher up on the mountainside a few macaques started fighting. Looking at the tracks in the snow, I could predict where they would probably go and I was able to get into a good position. I used a flash for some extra light.
Nikon D4, AF-S 70-200/2.8 VR II, 1/320 @ f / 8, ISO 800, SB-990 flash
If you're interested in joining me on this trip to photograph snow monkeys, Japanese cranes, Steller's sea eagles and whooper swans, please check out my website for more information:
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Our 2014 tour filled up really fast, so we set up a second one.
Hope to see you there!
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NPS
The Wright brothers used the Kill Devil Hills area toward the end of their first season on the Outer Banks in the autumn of 1900, following earlier experiments on Lookout Hill just south of the village of Kitty Hawk. Their first season consisted of only two days of work at the Kill Devil Hills site: October 19th, when they decided not to fly because of high winds, and October 20th, when they made several encouraging glider flights. They returned to the Kill Devil Hills site in 1901, this time pitching a tent about 1,000 feet east of the higher hill and building a rough shed to use as a workshop. They returned to the workshop for the 1902 season and, together with Kitty Hawk resident Dan Tate, rebuilt the dilapidated shed, adding an additional 10 feet to use as a quarters. In 1903, when they began their powered experiments, the Wrights made further improvements to the quarters and also built a second frame shed, measuring about 44 by 16 feet, to hold the Flyer and serve as a sheltered work area. Located a few feet west of the camp building, it is clearly indicated in the Wrights' photographs of that year.
The quarters building and the hangar rapidly deteriorated after the departure of the Wright brothers in December 1903. In the spring of 1908, when the Wrights returned to the site to test their modified 1905 Flyer, both buildings needed significant repairs. John Daniels, one of the Kitty Hawk lifesavers who witnessed their earlier flight efforts, warned Wilbur when he arrived at Elizabeth City about the ruined camp buildings and Wilbur purchased new materials for repairs. The sides of both buildings remained, but the roof of the old quarters was missing entirely and the interior was covered with sand. Wilbur hired two "semi-carpenters" to help make repairs and essentially to rebuild the structures. Largely similar to those in place in 1903, the new buildings still differed in minor ways and constituted new structures overall. Orville reused the buildings in 1911, though again with changes. Following the 1911 season, the brothers abandoned the site, and the effects of wind, sand, and weather completely destroyed the buildings. In 1928, when the National Aeronautics Association placed the first commemorative marker at the site of the first flight, little remained of the structures on which to base the location of the first flight takeoff (this was ultimately established by the surviving witnesses). Currently there are reconstructions of these building located in the approximate location based off of the Wrightsβ photographs and the takeoff point. - NPS
1903-The First Flight
Since 1899, Wilbur and Orville Wright had been scientifically experimenting with the concepts of flight. They labored in relative obscurity, while the experiments of Samuel Langley of the Smithsonian were followed in the press and underwritten by the War Department. Yet Langley, as others before him, had failed to achieve powered flight. They relied on brute power to keep their theoretically stable machines aloft, sending along a hapless passenger and hoping for the best. It was the Wrights' genius and vision to see that humans would have to fly their machines, that the problems of flight could not be solved from the ground. In Wilbur's words, "It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill." With over a thousand glides from atop Big Kill Devil Hill, the Wrights made themselves the first true pilots. These flying skills were a crucial component of their invention. Before they ever attempted powered flight, the Wright brothers were masters of the air.
Their glider experiments on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, though frustrating at times, had led them down the path of discovery. Through those experiments, they had solved the problem of sustained lift and more importantly they could now control an aircraft while in flight. The brothers felt they were now ready to truly fly. But first, the Wrights had to power their aircraft. Gasoline engine technology had recently advanced to where its use in airplanes was feasible. Unable to find a suitable lightweight commercial engine, the brothers designed their own. It was cruder and less powerful than Samuel Langley's, but the Wrights understood that relatively little power was needed with efficient lifting surfaces and propellers. Such propellers were not available, however. Scant relevant data could be derived from marine propeller theory. Using their air tunnel data, they designed the first efficient airplane propeller, one of their most original and purely scientific achievements.
Returning to their camp at the Kill Devil Hills, they mounted the engine on the new 40-foot, 605-pound Flyer with double tails and elevators. The engine drove two pusher propellers with chains, one crossed to make the props rotate in opposite directions to counteract a twisting tendency in flight. A balky engine and broken propeller shaft slowed them, until they were finally ready on December 14th. In order to decide who would fly first, the brother tossed a coin. Wilbur won the coin toss, but lost his chance to be the first to fly when he oversteered with the elevator after leaving the launching rail. The flyer, climbed too steeply, stalled, and dove into the sand. The first flight would have to wait on repairs.
December 17, 1903
Three days later, they were ready for the second attempt. The 27-mph wind was harder than they would have liked, since their predicted cruising speed was only 30-35 mph. The headwind would slow their groundspeed to a crawl, but they proceeded anyway. With a sheet, they signaled the volunteers from the nearby lifesaving station that they were about to try again. Now it was Orville's turn.
Remembering Wilbur's experience, he positioned himself and tested the controls. The stick that moved the horizontal elevator controlled climb and descent. The cradle that he swung with his hips warped the wings and swung the vertical tails, which in combination turned the machine. A lever controlled the gas flow and airspeed recorder. The controls were simple and few, but Orville knew it would take all his finesse to handle the new and heavier aircraft.
The first flight
At 10:35, he released the restraining wire. The flyer moved down the rail as Wilbur steadied the wings. Just as Orville left the ground, John Daniels from the lifesaving station snapped the shutter on a preset camera, capturing the historic image of the airborne aircraft with Wilbur running alongside. Again, the flyer was unruly, pitching up and down as Orville overcompensated with the controls. But he kept it aloft until it hit the sand about 120 feet from the rail. Into the 27-mph wind, the groundspeed had been 6.8 mph, for a total airspeed of 34 mph. The brothers took turns flying three more times that day, getting a feel for the controls and increasing their distance with each flight. Wilbur's second flight - the fourth and last of the day β was an impressive 852 feet in 59 seconds.
This was the real thing, transcending the powered hops and glides others had achieved. The Wright machine had flown. But it would not fly again; after the last flight it was caught by a gust of wind, rolled over, and damaged beyond easy repair. With their flying season over, the Wrights sent their father a matter-of-fact telegram reporting the modest numbers behind their epochal achievement.
Source: NPS
Experts make different forecasts: someone predicts a tough scenario, and someone is sure that the economy will not suffer much. Personally, I believe that any crises open up new opportunities, motivate, reveal our strengths and weaknesses, which should be worked on. Crises come and go, recession is replaced by growth. It has always been so. All that remains is not to panic, adapt and move forward.
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They are predicting rain overnight and into tomorrow. We had been cool all day until the wind shifted. That brought in humidity and the cloud bank you see here started to form. We will most likely get a thunder shower overnight. They are not calling for severe weather.
This is what happens during the autumn months. We will keep getting changes in wind direction. From the northeast, it will be cool, from the southwest it will bring in warmer moist air and when they meet, depending on conditions, all heck can break lose. it can be anything from constant rain and windy to tornadoes and gale force winds.
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Headed out to the city this morning with my good mate Ray for sunrise and the conditions weren't favourable so a quick drive over to Vaucluse to shoot this amazing Lighthouse. Weather predicted today in Sydney over 30 - Have a nice day.
Snow begins to drift when wind speeds exceed a threshold velocity of 5 meters per second. Of course, the quality of the snow already on the ground has much to do with this too, and its physical composition changes with the drifting process. The mechanisms involved can be difficult to predict. Extensive research and complex equations have been created in efforts to make those predictions.
Likewise, the reasons for which the majestic snowy owl seem to drift southward in unpredictable irruptions every few years are just as uncertain. The reproduction and survival of these exalted raptors of the north seem to be intimately tied to those of a rodent, the lemming. So population growth of the birds and the lemmings are at least part of the reason that some of these birds have traveled as far south as Bermuda. Each year, it seems, at least a few birds manage to make it to our region. I hope we will have ample opportunity to see them again this year. #SnowyOwl
It predicted many indivdual design features of Fords over the following three years. While it was a 'pushmobile', the press releases stated that it was planned around a gas turbine engine.
A huge storm caused coastal damage, including many pieces of wood and other debris into the parking lot behind me. When I was surprised by this wave, the predicted high tide of about 5.6 ft. was occurring, but the huge storm surf made it much higher and devastating. Typically there is a beach between us and the buildings at upper right. The mouth of Cayucos Creek is at far right, though the ocean surged up the creek a long ways.
Cayucos, California
Besides the relative inconvenience of a parking lot being covered with debris, the storm damaged at least two piers on the central coast, uprooted or damaged numerous trees and caused damage up and down the coast.
For comparison, here is a king tide and minus tide from about this same location: www.flickr.com/photos/marlinharms/51802785604/
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A Hindi Woman tells predicts a clients future near Batu Caves in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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The weather forecast predicted some NLC display so I headed out to see it. While quite nice the were visible just barely above the horizon. I was hoping for more clouds like this around the sky this setting allowed to see the milky way at the same time as the NLC - pretty cool :)
Anyway the sky was pretty bright, I had to choose ISO 1600 and even stopped down to f/2.8 to not overexpose the highlights (NLC). This lead to a generally low visibility of the night sky.
NLC happen mostly in summer and when viewed to the north. They are located in the Mesopause, about 90-100km above earth (imagine this, there are clouds in 'space'). Also I have never seen such pattern of clouds (apart from the forum post the other day). These clouds are the highest clouds by a big margin (nex would be 60km lower or so!)
Cloudy rainy stormy weather predicted so I thought I'd take advantage of the saturated colors .
Fujifilm X-Pro3 Classic Chrome simulation with no post processing. SOOC
This is a daylight pass of the International Space Station passing in front of the Moon. Thanks to the ISS Transit Finder (transit-finder.com/), I learned about the location and timing of a pass visible from close to home. Fortunately the weather cooperated, though there were passing clouds right before the event that came awfully close to scuttling it.
This is a composite of ten frames shot in high speed continuous mode starting a second or so before the predicted pass: Nikon D850, 200-500mm f/5/6 lens, 500mm, 1/400 sec., f/14, ISO 250. Processed in Lightroom, composited in Photoshop with lighten layer blend mode.
Top temperature predicted this week by the kind folks at the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM or as we used to call it, the Weather Bureau - why a Bureau though?) is a humid 35C. Sounds like no-one has told them it's now Autumn! Putting that aside, we were down the back alleys of Fortitude Valley in Brisbane and I noted these old commercial buildings (read shops and maybe Bubbles Bath House - whatever that could be!!!!) with four old brick chimneys. Well, they are old and back then of course before Global Warming it seemed to get colder for sure in winter. Chimneys are not rare in Brisbane at all on older buildings but I do wonder even then how many times they were lit up.
Thanks to everyone for your kind enquires about my hearts progress this last week, that support is greatly appreciated. After all the tests, they have confirmed that my heart has deteriorated in terms of its pumping capacity since my last echo sound three years back. Well, that's the heart failure for you I guess. It's kind of relentless. One happy note amongst a sea of bad (my blood pressure is also very low too which goes with the above)...when I started my cardio vascular journey as a 34 year old it was high enough 240/150 to blow my head off and get rushed immediately to hospital. My doctor at the time thought his blood pressure machine (it has a name but I can't spell it) was broken and took three readings on two machines. I have battled high BP since and it's an unpleasant change really to swim to the other end of the pool as low BP is harder to treat.
Anyway, the happy note was that I also had a four hour stress test on my heart, that test is a chemical one (walking on a treadmill uphill would kill me) so they do CT's before and after filling you with chemicals that mimic stressing your heart and radio active tracers that allow them to see your heart arteries and muscle - the upshot of which was 13 years after my quadruple by-pass, the arteries are at least still good, despite all those chocolates that our neighbour gave us at Christmas etc etc etc!
So now I am on new drugs for me and new drugs on the market that hopefully will strengthen my heart a bit without lowering my BP further. It's kind of a Catch 22 and complicated journey. I know that many of you have your own to make and of great challenge...getting old isn't all line dancing and orchid growing! Have a happy weekend everyone. And thanks again.
Predicted weather forecast for this morning sounded promising... so took the plunge, got up in the dark and drove an hour to this spot (Chalky Beach, NSW; Australia) eager for what might happen.
The image you see here was taken during a 10 minute splash of color!
I managed a couple of other keepers during this brief episode and will post them later..
Hope you like this one - thanks in advance for any comments, views or favorites - always very much appreciated!!!
Hope you have an awesome day and weekend!!
Here is another low fog take on 4/19/2019. The image is merged from 10 vertical shots taken in 160mm, with 31661 PX x 10554 PX (3:1 ratio) with a file size of 7.76GB in total.
The low fog event was predicted by Yiupai Forecast.
The weather forecast predicted heavy snowfall. The temperature was about -15C. The relentless wind out of the south-east had a familiar bite.
This female Snowy Owl is big and she is beautiful. After having been on foot for more than 90 minutes to reach this area I had decided to change locations because the wildlife activity was quiet. There was a couple more areas I wanted to explore. Not more than 30 seconds later I looked to my right and saw something white, at a distance.
I raised my camera and took a look and there she was. She had seen me but due to the distance between us she remained unconcerned. I took a few shots and moved closer. Every 50 feet I would take a series of shots as I made my approach. She remained relaxed and I'm certain that the weather conditions made her feel right at home.
She may have felt comfortable in this deep freeze but my fingers were so cold that they were starting to not function. Yes, I have to wear better gloves and I remembered I had a long walk ahead of me to get out of here, so I decided to start my exit. I would also be losing light soon and the decision to leave was an easy one.
Given the predicted weather conditions it was with some trepidation that I ventured to Wellington to record the passage of 70000 Britannia on a loaded Crewe to Crewe test run! I was one of the few to venture onto the road bridge and suffered an awful downpour prior to the working. Had it been on time, the sun would have been missing! The crowds on the platforms were vying for positions. God knows how many elbows and heads were in their shots! Cβest la vieβ !! 37688 was on the rear!