I find the discovery of this as ironic as it was random, as I was trying to check the weather to see if there would be a break in the clouds to give any hope in spotting Elenin C/2010 (or the supposed remnants there of)
I was greeted with this fascinating weather pattern upon zooming out from my location in NE PA.   Sure does bring thoughts like HARP to mind. The correlation to the earth quake in the center of that region is also another ironic twist.  Illinois? New Madrid?

But setting aside unfounded theories, this is a fairly interesting weather pattern; if it is indeed Nature born, I’m glad to have noticed it.

Current US Radar Map

The extent of sea ice in the Arctic dropped to a new record minimum last week, according to researchers at the University of Bremen in Germany, who used high-resolution microwave data from a sensor on board NASA’s Aqua satellite. At 4.24 million square kilometers, sea-ice cover on 8 September was 27,000 square kilometers smaller than the previous record low, observed in 2007. Melting on the surface of the ice (pictured, during a NASA ICESCAPE research mission in July) has already ended, but late-season ice loss may continue, say scientists with the US National Snow and Ice Data Center, in Boulder, Colorado, as warm water continues to melt the ice from below.

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These pictures were taken after River Road was reopened near the Delaware Water Gap on Friday 09/09/11.  The baseball field across the street was also inundated.

Delaware Water Gap soccer field flooded

Broadheadsville Creek overflows into gap soccer fields

Entrance to the Delaware Water Gap soccer fields roped off