Opening Ceremony of London Olympic 2012 and Short History

The 1908 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the IV Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event which was held in 1908 in London, England, United Kingdom. These games were originally scheduled to be held in Rome. At the time they were the fifth modern Olympic Games. However, the Athens Games of 1906 have since been downgraded by the International Olympic Committee and the 1908 Games are seen as the start of the Fourth Olympiad, in keeping with the now-accepted four-year cycle. The IOC president for these Games was Baron Pierre de Coubertin.

 After a 12-year hiatus because of World War II, these were the first Summer Olympics since the 1936 Games in Berlin. The 1940 Games had been scheduled for Tokyo, and then Helsinki; the 1944 Games had been provisionally planned for London. This was the second occasion that London had hosted the O

lympic Games; the city had previously been the venue in 1908. The Olympics returned to London in 2012.

The 2012 Summer Olympic Games, officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad, also known informally as London 2012, began in London, United Kingdom, on 27 July and will continue until 12 August 2012. The first event, the group stages in women's football, began two days earlier on 25 July. Around 10,500 athletes from 204 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) are expected to participate.

Mohammad Ali 

A video clip of the ceremony with MUSE music as official song of London Olympic here in my facebook

Founder of modern Geography in Iran died

Mohammad Hassan Ganji

Mohammad Hassan Ganji Ph.D (11 June 1912 – 19 July 2012)^[2] was an Iranian meteorologist and academic. He was born in Birjand.^[3][4] He is credited as being the father of modern geography in Iran.^[5]

Ganji established the Iran Meteorological Organization in 1955 and served as the head of Iran's Department General of Meteorology from 1956 to 1968.

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) awarded Dr. Ganji as the outstanding scientist of the world in 2001 to recognize his life-long efforts and achievements in his field of expertise. 

Ganji has published several books, including the Atlas of Iranian Climates as wells as over 130 articles in Persian and English. 

                                                             

WHERE'S THE HOTTEST PLACE ON EARTH?

When it comes to temperature specially surface temperature no place on earth can bit Lut desert in Iran.


Watch the video about lut

Lut desert a magnificent landscape 

 Lut  desert ( lut Kavir) is a geologically a depression. On the other word it is a low land. lowest elevation using Google Earth indicates 109 meter above sea level. But I heard from my geography teachers at Tehran university that in some  ravines they plotted a trench which only has 75 meter above sea level. So by combination of very low land plus precipitation below 100 mm , its distant from sea and very bare soil (mostly sand and clay with no vegetation at all for kilometers) , we come to conclusion that we just discovered the hottest place on earth. 

 The image was created from data collected by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite, which flies overhead at about 1:30 p.m. local time, close to the hottest part of the day. MODIS records land surface temperatures, which reflect how hot the ground is to the touch.

The single highest land skin temperature recorded in any year of the study was found in the Lut Desert in 2005 and measured a stunning 159.3 F (70.7 C). Lut had the highest surface temperature in 2004, 2006, 2007 and 2009 as well.

Global warming is true

 This is a really hot news:

The temperature hit 36.2 C at Pearson International Airport in Toronto on Tuesday afternoon, breaking the previous record for July 17 of 35.2 C set last year.

Read more: http://www.cp24.com/news/temperature-soars-to-record-high-in-toronto-1.881694#ixzz20w0zuj74

This remind me global warming. The average temperature of the world increasing.

 NOAA prepared a map for month of June ,2012 which is very helpful. Red means above average. Almost all land surfaces shows above average temperature.Specially northern hemisphere with more land masses comparing to southern hemisphere shows higher values. It is noteworthy that Siberia , Greenland and north of Canada receiving higher temperature than before. In these areas glaciers and polar icebergs are reducing their sizes each year.

Above average temperatures throughout the world in June, 2012.  Courtesy  of   NOAA

      

Hot days in Toronto

Temperature hits 36.3 Celsius which with humidity you feel it like 41C. Such a high temperature is very rare in Toronto.

 Toronto has only been that hot once, when it reached 38.3 C on August 25, 1948 according to measurements at Pearson airport.

Factor in the humidex and Thursday was felt like somewhere in the mid to high 40s.

If it doesn’t quite beat 38.3 Friday July 6,2012  could still be the hottest July day on record, beating out the 37.6 C high on July 7, 1988. Temperature records at Pearson have been kept since 1937.

A temperature record was also broken on Wednesday when the city reached a high of 36.3 C, shattering the old record of 36.1 C set on that day in 1955.

The extreme heat is caused by a high-pressure system sitting over the city that’s warding off weather and keeping the jet stream well to the north.