America….The thirsty nation!

Greetings,

The hand of God is weighing heavily across the whole land of America. God is angry with America for her evil done to the ex-slaves. Because she refuses to do what is right, Judgment has come to her doors.

….”This is in fulfillment to the prophecy, Bible Is. 45-23, “…unto me every knee shall bow; every tongue shall swear..” The Bible says, Mt. 25:32, “And before Him shall be gathered all nations:…” The Holy Qur’an has a similar prophecy, “that you shall see all nations kneeling before Him.”–pg.213(tfoa)

On the coming of Allah (God) He now makes everything bow to Him, whether you believe or disbelieve.Let America use the history of the fall and destruction of ancient Egypt and her Pharaohs.

….”Let it be remembered that Allah (God) came forth for the Redemption (to Deliver) the American Black People from their tormentors. Whether we like it or not, He Will Do This. This is the work of Allah (God) which is in effect.”–pg.213(tfoa)

This is what we see taking place. Judgment is bringing America to her knees. Without a doubt, this is the fall of America as she succumbs to the vicious power of the forces of nature!

How Dust Might Make Drought Worse (or a Bit Better) in California

A love-hate relationship between dust and snow may affect the state’s water supply.

Photo of dusty, fallow land near Avenal, California.
Dust rises from fallow farm fields in California’s San Joaquin Valley. As California gets drier, it gets dustier, and that dust may impact snowmelt.

PHOTOGRAPH BY PETER ESSICK, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

Michelle Nijhuis
for National Geographic

Most of California’s water comes from the snow stored in the Sierra Nevada each winter. In the spring, melting snow helps fill the state’s reservoirs for the dry summer. (Read “When the Snows Fail” in National Geographic magazine.)

As the state’s historic drought drags on, scientists are watching the Sierra snow with intense interest—and they’re worrying that even tiny airborne particles of dust may have a big effect on water supplies.

Here’s how: As California gets drier, it’s getting dustier, and at least some of that dust is landing in the Sierra. Dusty snow, with its darker surface, absorbs more solar radiation than clean snow does, meaning it heats up faster and melts more quickly.

That earlier spring snowmelt could mean that spring runoff will happen when the reservoirs are still full from winter rains, sentencing the state to a longer, drier—and dustier—summer. Rising global temperatures are already speeding snowmelt, and dust can create a positive feedback loop that makes the problem worse.

It’s Happening in the Rockies

Thomas Painter, a snow hydrologist with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, has already documented the dramatic effects of dust on snow in the Rocky Mountains. He and his colleagues have found that the increasingly severe spring dust storms from the Colorado Plateau are causing snow in the southern Rockies to melt as much as 50 days earlier than clean snow would have.

Dust has an even bigger effect than warming on melt rates: Raising the temperature by 4°C (7.2°F) accelerates the melt by only 18 days.

Painter estimates that the earlier snowmelt and longer summers have reduced average annual runoff in the Colorado River by more than 5 percent—no small matter for the seven states, including California, that use the river’s already overtapped flow.

He and his colleagues are now studying the effects of dust on snow in the Sierra Nevada through the Airborne Snow Observatory, which uses remote-sensing technology to take detailed measurements of snowpack size and reflectivity. Dust isn’t expected to have as powerful an effect in the Sierra as it does in the Rockies, partly because some of the dust in the Sierra comes from the light-colored soils of Central Valley farm fields, not the red-rock deserts of the Southwest……MORE HERE

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