A little weather stuff...
2005 Hurricane season linked to global warming according to a director at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, CO. Um, duh. I'm sure everyone in the Gulf area would say the same thing. This report would seem obvious. Of course, there are those people who don't believe in global warming who need to be hit over the head with something heavy.
Yesterday's Oklahoma tornado video. Okay. You see that one that doesn't look really like a funnel? The one that's really dark at the bottom but almost see-through in the middle? It's also anti-cyclonic, meaning it rotates clockwise - something almost nothing in the northern hemisphere does because it goes against the order of nature (or just against the rotation of the Earth). But besides that, it's technically NOT a tornado. It's a land spout. You've probably heard of water spouts, usually occurring around Miami, sucking up fish and whatnot. The land spout forms under a clout that's not necessarily a tornado-producing one but has unstable conditions under the bottom of the cloud. The rotation begins there. That's why there's more debris at the bottom than at the top. Because the rotation began in the middle and connected with the ground and cloud, instead of starting with the cloud, as that first tornado did, creating the normal tornado shape of a V. And now you've learned something for the day. =)
We're supposed to get some nasty storms again today as the cold front that produced those twisters in OK moves through our area. Woo!
Yesterday's Oklahoma tornado video. Okay. You see that one that doesn't look really like a funnel? The one that's really dark at the bottom but almost see-through in the middle? It's also anti-cyclonic, meaning it rotates clockwise - something almost nothing in the northern hemisphere does because it goes against the order of nature (or just against the rotation of the Earth). But besides that, it's technically NOT a tornado. It's a land spout. You've probably heard of water spouts, usually occurring around Miami, sucking up fish and whatnot. The land spout forms under a clout that's not necessarily a tornado-producing one but has unstable conditions under the bottom of the cloud. The rotation begins there. That's why there's more debris at the bottom than at the top. Because the rotation began in the middle and connected with the ground and cloud, instead of starting with the cloud, as that first tornado did, creating the normal tornado shape of a V. And now you've learned something for the day. =)
We're supposed to get some nasty storms again today as the cold front that produced those twisters in OK moves through our area. Woo!