In Finnish, November Is ”marraskuu”. Marras Is An Old Word For The Dead, Dying, Ghosts And Omens

Global Temperature by the Numbers

The Year

4th Hottest

2018 was the fourth hottest year since modern recordkeeping began. NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration work together to track temperatures around the world and study how they change from year to year. For decades, the overall global temperature has been increasing.

Over the long term, world temperatures are warming, but each individual year is affected by things like El Niño ocean patterns and specific weather events.

1.5 degrees

Globally, Earth’s temperature was more than 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than the average from 1951 to 1980.

The Record

139 years

Since 1880, we can put together a consistent record of temperatures around the planet and see that it was much colder in the late-19th century. Before 1880, uncertainties in tracking global temperatures were too large. Temperatures have increased even faster since the 1970s, the result of increasing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

Five Hottest

The last five years have been the hottest in the modern record.

6,300 Individual Observations

Scientists from NASA use data from 6,300 weather stations and Antarctic research stations, together with ship- and buoy-based observations of sea surface temperatures to track global temperatures.

The Consequences

605,830 swimming pools

As the planet warms, polar ice is melting at an accelerated rate. The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets lost about 605,830 Olympic swimming pools (400 billion gallons) of water between 1993 and 2016.

8 inches

Melting ice raises sea levels around the world. While ice melts into the ocean, heat also causes the water to expand. Since 1880, sea levels around the world have risen approximately 8 inches.

71,189 acres burned

One symptom of the warmer climate is that fire seasons burn hotter and longer. In 2018, wildfires burned more than 71,189 acres in the U.S. alone.

46% increase in CO2 levels

CO2 levels have increased 46 percent since the late 19th Century, which is a dominant factor causing global warming.

I want one!

🐣Granny-core’s Guide to the Norwegian Easter🐣

I loooove easter!! 🐣

I know easter is very much a religious holiday, but the Norwegian way of celebrating has become pretty far removed from it’s roots, at least for those of us (like me) who aren’t religious. We still have some very established traditions, which I greatly enjoy, like:

🏔️ Going to your cabin (or staying at someone else’s if you don’t have one. We also have some public ones that people can use for free).

🏔️ Skiing! Especially if you bring an orange and some chocolate wafer (there’s one that’s almost like a slightly less sweet Kit Kat).

🏔️ Paper easter eggs filled with candy.

🏔️ Easter marzipan! Commonly yellow, always delicious.

🏔️ Sunbathing in the snow, with most of your clothes still on.

🏔️ “Påskekrim”, which literally translates to “Easter crime”. Perhaps the oddest Norwegian easter tradition is watching crime shows, reading crime fiction, or listening to crime radio shows. Often older crime stories, like the ones about Poirot.

🏔️ Easter quizzes, commonly on the radio, tv, or at your cabin with your familiy or friends.

🏔️ “Påskeris”; twigs you bring in and decorate, often with wooden chickens and eggs (see the photo). Will often start to get tiny little leaves, which gives me that lovely spring feeling.

i have this writing style i like to call “uncertain.” it’s where the narrator isn’t really sure what they’re talking about either

Sometimes your song can’t start until you go some place to reflect.

are you ready for my favorite fact?

If you leave a hamster wheel out in the forest, wild mice will come and run on it.

that is my favorite fact

Nihon no kotori (Japanese small birds), cute helpful chart by @T_marohiko listing the following species:

First row - 百舌 mozu (bull-headed shrike) / 目黒 meguro (bonin white-eye) / 川蝉 kawasemi (kingfisher) / ツグミ tsugumi (dusky thrush) / 鶯 uguisu (japanese bush warbler)

Second row - 雀 suzume (sparrow) / 燕 tsubame (swallow) / 椋鳥 mukudori (grey starling) / 駒鳥 komadori (japanese robin) / 赤啄木鳥 akagera (great spotted woodpecker)

Third Row - 頬白 hoojiro (meadow bunting) / シマエナガ shimaenaga (silver-throated dasher) / 鷽 uso (japanese bullfinch) / 菊戴 kikuitadaki (goldcrest) / 白鶺鴒 hakusekirei (black-backed wagtail)

Fourth row - 五十雀 gojuukara (eurasian nuthatch) / 四十雀 shijuukara (japanese tit) / 小雀 kogara (willow tit) / 日雀 higara (coal tit) / 山雀 yamagara (varied tit)

Fifth row - 黄鶲 kibitaki (narcissus flycatcher) / 小瑠璃 koruri (siberian blue robin) / 大瑠璃 ooruri (blue-and-white flycatcher) / 瑠璃鶲 ruribitaki (red-flanked bluetail) / 尉鶲 joubitaki (daurian redstart)

“Evil Queens don’t get regular fairies.” Regina is offered supernatural help from an unusual fairy godmother. She has realized her perfect family is right here, in Storybrooke. With a little magic and a lot of hard work, will she win Emma’s heart?

The last time Emma trusted someone she ended up abandoned, pregnant, and in prison. Regina is beginning to treat her differently, but can she trust her? Her heart wants to, but her brain still screams “Evil Queen, arch enemy of my mother.”

Set in Storybrooke, around season two, but with some locations altered and people from other seasons added. Any citations of popular culture, etc. can be found at the end of the last chapter. Original characters are strictly a product of my imagination, and bear no resemblance to actual people. I used them when needed to create depth in secondary roles.

Thanks for reading! Hope you enjoy.

Enjoy this fic by @linzmj!!

From @sphynxnille: “Sunday again ❤” #catsofinstagram [source: http://bit.ly/2FzX2Pp ]