There's Always The Weather

[moi621 (imported)]

100F

here at the desert by the sea

about a mile inland on a bluff with line of sight to the ocean.

90F at the water's edge.

hot, Hot, HOT! :-\

[Arab Nights (imported)]

Rain, rain, glorious monsoon rain here!

[MacTheWolf (imported)]

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90F at the water's edge.

hot, Hot, HOT! :-\. 100 is cool - today was 121 arrgghhhh

[Arab Nights (imported)]

Thunderstorm rains all week. Just had intense lightning so close you could hear a sizzle like bacon on the grill.

[moi621 (imported)]

Hasn't been that hot here, a mile inland from the ocean.

But, just a few miles inland it goes up ten degrees.

An few more miles, twenty and on up to one hundred.

The air is heavy with humidity but, not that uncomfortable.

An hour north on the 405 Freeway, Santa Monica had down pours

and thunder storms with lightening that the authorities closed the beaches.

They reopened in a few hours.

The night is muggier than it was all day.

Fava bean plants are happy. I need to plant corn and watermelon.

They say humidity will leave and then it gets hotter.

But, "they" cannot be trusted.

Any news from the land of Lava Bombs?

No not Guatemala where there is also an active volcano eruption.

Moi

[Dave (imported)]

The Fire Station at the summit of Kilauea volcano has moved off the summit just in case the ground collapses underneath the building.

Much of the caldera on the summit of Kilauea is collapsing slowly as the lava leaves the chamber beneath. The Vulcanologists measure the frequency of the earthquakes at the summit and as the frequency and intensity rises. Thee geologists know approximately when the next collapse will occur because the cycle time between collapses is between 30 to 50 hours. Several collapses have been caught on video. There usually is a corresponding gush of lava from Fissure 8.

Go watch and listen to the briefings here:

http://www.bigislandvideonews.com

Halema'uma'u crater was the first portion of the caldera at the summit to go as lava moved eastward. Fissure #8 is still erupting.

[moi621 (imported)]

The Fire Station at the summit of Kilauea volcano has moved off the summit just in case the ground collapses underneath the building.

Much of the caldera on the summit of Kilauea is collapsing slowly as the lava leaves the chamber beneath. The Vulcanologists measure the frequency of the earthquakes at the summit and as the frequency and intensity rises. Thee geologists know approximately when the next collapse will occur because the cycle time between collapses is between 30 to 50 hours. Several collapses have been caught on video. There usually is a corresponding gush of lava from Fissure 8.

Go watch and listen to the briefings here:

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http://www.bigislandvideonews.com

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s lava moved eastward. Fissure #8 is still erupting.

Today, CBS News claimed the volcanic activity was lessening for the first time in months.

What is going to fill all that space that was filled with not excreted lava and rock. More magma.

And whats going to fill the space where it came from? Some place sinking maybe? :-\

My watermelon is growing well but, my corn won't sprout.

Peter's Honey figs will be declared ripe tomorrow, could have been today. Lots of fruit. 2 candidates for ripe.

Picked a green lime today. Had it with tacos made by a real Mexican.

The Holy Fire is about 30 minute drive inland to canyon country. It grew quickly.

Here is a thin sliver of mapped land not in the Heat Alert area. But it is hot and more so when the humidity washes in from Arizona's monsoons.

Cats, little Floosie and huge Pretty Boy are loving the weather. I let them out and they come in after some 6 hours outside, full of fleas. They stop flea scratching after a while. Maybe because they are triple treated. Sprayed with stuff that kills via poison and insect growth hormone. Likewise Advantage II on the back of the neck. And flea collars with poison and insect growth hormone. Huge Pretty Boy is the most gentle cat I have known. Big bear paws but never breaks skin. Floosie is as her handle.

Moi

[Arab Nights (imported)]

What is going to fill all that space that was filled with not excreted lava and rock. More magma.

And whats going to fill the space where it came from? Some place sinking maybe? :-\

Moi

Back in late 80s/early 90s I was an active private pilot. When you get in the area of Lassen and Shasta and look at them from 10,000 feet, that is exactly the thought I had. Those are gargantuan volumes of rock.

There was a volcanologist at a meeting of the local geology club a couple of months ago and I asked him exactly the same questions. He said that he has struggled his entire career to try to get his mind around that and was still struggling.

So Moi gets a gold star next to his name for having two brain cells and rubbing them together! Who'd a thunk it?

[Paolo]

​There are only a few possibilities for that empty space left behind, which Moi mentions.

Something else fills it.

It becomes a stable empty space, a'la a cave.

It collapses in, with or without collapsing the surrounding and surface areas, which would in turn create other stable, empty spaces. A big enough collapse, and it could collapse the surface somewhere. However, as I understand it, these areas are usually far too deep for that.

[Arab Nights (imported)]

You are thinking of a brittle deformation world. I think the answer probably lies at depths and pressures for partial melting with resulting volume change and ductile deformation to occupy a space by plastic deformation oozing. Think ductile! That is tough for us in a brittle reality.