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September of 2019 All High Sierra Backpacker, Hiker, Outdoors, & Nature News Index
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September 30, 2019
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Man and Nature
September, 2019
Happenings in the relationship between Man and Nature affecting our hike down life's trail through both worlds. We study both the reality created by humans and the uncreated reality reflected in, and tended by Nature.
The vast majority of our reporting on Nature comes from the American Association of Scientists summarizations of each day's bounty of the peer-reviewed research published by academic institutions and journals around the world.
Our focus is on everything, every living thing and natural process that we will encounter hiking from Lake Tahoe to Mount Whitney, and out the Portal. The birds, the bees, the water, the trees, the granite in the ground under our feet, and the stars in the sky at night.
Our goal of tracking the status and trajectory of everything we encounter and engage as we hike through the Natural World then brings into play everything it takes to put and keep us out there, which covers a plethora of backpacker-related safety, health, fitness, gear, skills, observation, navigation, and, of course, weather and climate issues.
Finally, the most deciseive factor we track that predicts the current status and future trajectory of the health and well-being of Nature are the behaviors, science, culture, and arts of Mankind, who are both one of Nature's greatest and worse creations at the same time. We're going to try to make things better at the bottom-line.
We track the alingment of forces affecting the Nature of our hike through Life on this planet.
You will get the latest news from the forefronts of Climate, Bio, Astro, and the hard sciences affecting our engagement with Nature here, typically two days before hitting the corporate press, but a very long time after they've already deeply affected Man & Nature, if the grimness of our purposeful ecological collapse even comes across the pages of the corporate press at all.
You'll get the real deal here.
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September 30, 2019
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Day Length
September 1
13:01:43
Day length decreasing -2:25 per day
August 1
14:10:29
Day length decreasing -1:53 per day
July 1
14:51:07
Day length decreasing -0:33 per day
June 1
14:43:02
Day length increasing +1:06 per day
May 1
13:50:16
Day length increasing +2:10 per day
April 1
12:38:41
Day length increasing +2:31 per day
March 1
11:19:59
Day length increasing +2:29 per day
February 1
10:14:51
Day length increasing +2:02 per day
January 1
9:29:49
Day length increasing +0:38 per day
FALL EQUINOX
September 23, below.
12:07:05
Equal, now days shrinking by 2:30 per day
WINTER SOLSTICE
December 21
9:32:53
Day length decreasing −0:01 per day yesterday, as daylight contraction ended today. and began expanding.
December 1
9:38:23
Day length decreasing -1:12 per day
Night Skies
Summer Triangle
Night Skies on the Trail Guide
Summer Triangle, signpost for all seasons,
Earth-Sky, March 2, 2017.
December 21
First Day of Winter
NASA: Annual Cycle of Light
Astro Observation Tools
Fermilab Virtual Telescope, all views
Current Star Chart and Sky Wheel for Field Use
The In-The-Sky.org Digital Star Wheel
Backpacker Planning & Study Constellation & Star Chart
All Astro-Phys, Stellar, & Atomic News
Also of Interest
NASA Astro Image of the Day
High Sierra Roads & Highways
All CalTrans High Sierra Road Status
High Sierra Road Opening History
Fed: Tioga Pass Status
OCTOBER HIGH SIERRA TRAIL NEWS
LATEST HIGH SIERRA GENERAL NEWS BELOW
September 2019
WEATHER, TERRAIN, & TRAILS
NEWS
IMPORTANT
Updated
September 29
WEATHER: FALL SNOW
Snow Squall Clearing
Fall to Winter 2019-2020 Update
September 28
HIGH SIERRA WEATHER
Early Winter of 2018 Begins?
HIGH SIERRA WEATHER
2019 Fire Season Over?
COLD
HAZARD
RENO--CARSON PASS
"...STRONG COLD FRONT THIS WEEKEND WITH WELL BELOW NORMAL
TEMPERATURES INTO NEXT WEEK..."
"...with breezy winds, rain, snow,
and much colder weather returning for the weekend."
FULL FALL KIT
NOW REQUIRED
Graphical Weather Forecasts
NorCal Graphics
All Graphics
Hazards
September 23
CLOCK, COMPASS, & CLIMATE: EARTH'S ORBITAL ALINGMENT
Fall Equinox
TEXT
This Fall Equinox
A Fine Astronomical Description,
In The Sky.
IMAGE
Astronomy Picture of the Day
The Seasonal Range of the Sun Across the Sky
VIDEO
Equinoxes and Solstices:
A Terrestrial Year from Space,
APOD, March 19, 2017.
Trail Guide
Celestial Resources,
Simulators, Star Charts, Astro Data, Deep Space & Our Galaxy...
September 20
WARMING TREES & FORESTS BURNING
Climate Warming Directly Responsible for 400% Increase in California Fires
Rising Global Temperatures Increasing Size & Intensity of California’s Fire Season
ECO-CRASHING NEWS
Australian Drought Deepening
The drought is now so severe it is biting in even the greenest corners of the country,
ABC AU, September 15, 2019.
Related
Our Hot as Holy Hell New World: Melbourne & Sydney 50-degree Celsius days
ECO-CRASHING WEATHER: TS IMELDA & HURRICANE HARVEY
Imelda & Harvey: 2 Hundred Year Storm-Floods in Three Years?!
Two Media Reports, Research on Harvey and Storm Intensification
September 19
CLIMATE CRASHING NEWS
NOAA: Assessing the Global Climate
August 2019 Second Hottest August Ever
September 18
WEATHER WISE
Approaching Fall, 2019 Implications & Context of Early Season Snow
FIRST PRECIP
Weak Front from North
Early AM
Light Snow Sweeps
Sierra Crest
Maybe an Inch on High Points
Cooler temps, but still well within full comfort zone of Summer Gear Kit.
Nonetheless, the spectre of early cold and snow has arisen...(?)
High Sierra Calendar
with
Extensive
Weather Page Resources
"This instant trend of cooling and snow is, or should be, easily handled by our standard Summertime Pack, which anticipates dealing with below freezing and snow events. "
SUMMER 2019
End of Season Report
Not a Hot Year: Less Blue-Green Algae
September 16 Late Summer Report...
Winter snow standing deep into Spring this year, plus temperate Summer Temps, brought minimal Green Water to the High Sierra (and California) this year.
September 10
OCEANS, ICE, WATER, & THE BLOB
Massive 2019 Blob Forms
New Marine Heatwave Emerges off West Coast, Resembles "the Blob."
LAST MONTHS'
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MAN, NATURE,
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THEIR VARIOUS INTERFACES
Updated
FALL
2019
September 30
BIRDS: DESERT HEATING BEATING BIRDS
Rising Heat Isolated as Main Cause of Desert Bird Declines
Collapse of Desert Bird Populations Due to Heat Stress from Climate Change
ECO-CRASHING NEWS: CO2 FEEDBACK LOOPS
Tropical Soils, Microbes, and Heat Add Up to 10% More CO2
Microbes in Warm Soils Released More Carbon Than Those in Cooler Soils
September 29
ECO-CRASHING NEWS: AUSTRALIAN DROUGHT DEEPENS
Direct to Articles
Australian towns prepare for the day when the water is gone,
Digital Journal, September 28, 2019.
Drought Exacerbates Australian Fires,
NASA Earth Observatory, September 14, 2019.
Related Recent Heatwave News
Previous on this
Australian Drought
August 2019
Europe Frequently Frying During Summer of 2019
August 2019
Japan Heatwaves Kills 60+, Hospitalizes near 20,000
July 2018
Climate News (updated): Cape Town gets a Break, "Day Zero" Posponed
Recent Heatwave Research & Links
July 2018
Climate-Driven Anthropocene: Killing Ourselves and Everything Else with Heatwaves
September 28
ECOCRASH NEWS: UNPRECEDENTED MODERN CO2 LEVELS
A Human First
Humankind Did Not Live With a High-Carbon Dioxide Atmosphere Until 1965
OCEANS, WARMING, O2, & EXTINCTION
Modern Record Tracking Lau/Kozlowskii Extinction Event
Oxygen Depletion in Ancient Oceans Caused Major Mass Extinction
September 27
GLACIERS
Direct to Article
An Entire Alpine Glacier Might Collapse Any Moment, And People Are Being Evacuated,
Science Alert, September 27, 2019.
Italian Alps, Planpincieux Glacier
"...the lower portion of the glacier was moving 19 to 23 inches (48 to 58 cm) per day..."
Also See
April 2019
Euro Glaciers Gone by 2100
September 26
ASTROPHYSICS: BLACK HOLE HUNGRY
Black Hole Eats Sun-Sized Star
NASA’s TESS Mission Spots Its 1st Star-Shredding Black Hole
GROUNDWATER IS FOR FIGHTING: SGMA
Farming Overproduction in The Valley Hits the Wall with SGMA
California Farmers Face ‘Catastrophic’ Water Restrictions. Can They Adapt to Survive?
ASTROPHYSICS, & THE NATURE OF REALITY
Black Hole Relativistic Accretion Disk Behavior
NASA Visualization Shows a Black Hole's Warped World
BIRDS
Abstract Bird Communication Skills
Jackdaws Learn from Each Other about 'Dangerous' Humans
September 25
ECO-CRASHING NEWS: CLIMATE CHANGE-GLOBAL WARMING
For the Skeptics
Straight Talk From an Expert on Climate Change
ARCHAEOLOGICAL CLIMATE & WEATHER
We've Got to Look Deep into the Past to Find Equal Magnitudes of Change,
to Put Ourselves into Our Proper Historical Perspective
Study of Ancient Climate Suggests Future Warming Could Accelerate
September 24
NEWS of WATER, FISH, OCEANS, & ICE
The Arctic Summer Sea Ice Minimum
Annual Downtrend of Arctic Ice Continues
Arctic Sea Ice Reaches Second Lowest Minimum in Satellite Record
SUMMER
2019
September 20
WARMING TREES & FORESTS BURNING
Climate Warming Directly Responsible for 400% Increase in California Fires
Rising Global Temperatures Increasing Size & Intensity of California’s Fire Season
ECO-CRASHING NEWS: MASSIVE BIRD DECLINE
Bye, Bye Birdie!
Nearly Three Billion Fewer Birds in North America since 1970
September 18
SKEETER NEWS
Mosquito News: Screwing with Nature Blows Up in Brazil's Face...
Failed GM Mosquito Control Experiment may have Strengthened Wild Bugs
September 16
ASTROPHYSICS & THE NATURE OF REALITY
"God's" Gong Show: Merging Black Holes Ring Like Bells
'Ringing' Black Hole validates Einstein's General Relativity
OCEANS, ICE, WATER, PLASTICS, & HEALTH
Tampa Bay is a Great Pool of Microplastics, & it is Likely Your Bay or Waterway is Too
Four Billion Particles of Microplastics Discovered in Major Body of Water
September 10
HEALTH FITNESS, BRAIN HEALTH & COGNITION
Physical Fitness Correlated with Intellectual Fitness
The Fast and the Curious: Fitter Adults Have Fitter Brains
HEALTH, FITNESS, FAT, & AGING
Your Physical Fate Awaits: Aging Slows Fat Cell Turnover
New Study Shows Why People Gain Weight as They Get Older
NATURE IS AMAZING: ASTROPHYSICS, "STEVE"
More EM Fun
NATURE IS AMAZING: SUPERBOLTS
Electromagnetic Nature of Reality Full of Superbolt Lightening Surprises!
Lightning 'superbolts' form over oceans from November to February
OCEANS, ICE, WATER, & THE BLOB
Massive 2019 Blob Forms
New Marine Heatwave Emerges off West Coast, Resembles "the Blob."
September 9
ECO-CRASHING NEWS: LAND-ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES
Finding an Increasing Extreme Land-Atmospheric Feedback Loop
New Feedback Phenomenon Found to Drive Increasing Drought and Aridity
September 8
ANTHROPOCENE
We Changed the Trajectory of Life & Climate on Earth Long, Long Ago...
Archaeological Assessment reveals Earth's Early Transformation through Land Use
September 6
HEALTH, FITNESS, SODA POP, & DEATH
Death in a 16oz Bottle
Soft Drinks Associated with Risk of Death
POTENTIAL ANTHROPOCENE-ECO-CRASH NEWS: NUKE WAR
Grim New Model Updates 2007 Model Run: Nuke War Still Bad News
Nuclear Winter Would Threaten Nearly Everyone on Earth
OCTOBER ALL HIGH SIERRA GENERAL NEWS
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Originally Published
2019-09-03
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