All Things Meteorological

[Camazotz Automat]

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Your local weather driving you crazy? 
Extreme weather videos. 
Annoying weather forecasters.
Your personal weather sensors hooked into your computer.
A metal can with a tomato label still on it, used to measure rainfall.
Your grandparents' questionable weather vane.
Vintage weather predicting postcards that change color.
And the heat. My God, the heat.

It's all good.

[saucerlike]

One of my favorite meteorological clips, from Hurricane Charley: 2004.  Better versions are out there as I also have the official DVD but too lazy to search.  Crazy shit:

Crazy Wind - Blow Your House Apart !

[Mind Flayer Monk]

One of my favorite meteorological clips, from Hurricane Charley: 2004.  Better versions are out there as I also have the official DVD but too lazy to search.  Crazy shit:

Wow, that is crazy.

[Camazotz Automat]

Dallas, Texas.  1957, April 02.

[b_dubb]

http://youtu.be/lipO92aJK4U

I'm not sure which posed a greater danger: the tornadoes or the two weather nerds filming video as they drove around. They're autistic for weather.

[Jackstar]

Okay, look, look, look. I wish to be clear here.

Is this thread really for.... all things meterological??? Because in the past, I have experienced confusion on labelling issues such as these.

Perhaps some thread merging and heterodyning will be appropriate measures.

[saucerlike]

Another favorite of mine, watch in HD if you can:

Transformer Explosion Hurricane Sandy, Cliffside Park NJ

[Camazotz Automat]

Another favorite of mine, watch in HD if you can:

Well that was disturbingly cool.

Two hundred and thirteen years from now, they will view us as barbarians in so many ways. 

"High voltage wires everywhere? Wooden poles? Out in the weather? What could go wrong? What the Hell was wrong with those people? Why couldn't they have come up with the S__ E__B__T__ †† back then?  We did. So simple. They had all the needed components."

†† Time Lord censored

Okay, look, look, look. I wish to be clear here.

Is this thread really for.... all things meterological??? Because in the past, I have experienced confusion on labelling issues such as these.

Perhaps some thread merging and heterodyning will be appropriate measures.

No. You read it right the first time, Interloper. Meteorological is the way this room will roll, however empty it may remain.

Thank Zephyr for the few posters so far, else I would look like a real tool.

Don't go there.

I'm not sure which posed a greater danger: the tornadoes or the two weather nerds filming video as they drove around. They're autistic for weather.

I'm going to go with Six of one, Half dozen the other.  And welcome to The Village.

You'll need a slicker and an E-Z carry lightning rod.

[Camazotz Automat]

Speaking of.

The Seattle Space Needle has twenty-five lightning rods.

About twenty-four more than I would have guessed.

The entire structure looks like a classic lightning rod.

The video:

http://abcnews.go.com/US/video?id=7637117

[saucerlike]

There was a Pbs Nova episode a little while back featuring sprites, elves and other high-altitude phenomena.  They were able to capture some amazing shots using high speed cameras. 


Link to show page:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/earth/edge-of-space.html


I love the post about future civilizations looking at us as barbarians.  I've thought about that a lot and it's pretty fascinating. 

[Agent : Orange]

Never seen a green flash at sunset, but I always watch for it

http://www.bishopmuseum.org/planetarium/greenflash.html

http://youtu.be/WTvIenot5ck

[jazmunda]

After spending 2 and half weeks in Summer it sucks to be back in Winter. I have put my flip flops back in the closet. See you in 4 months flip flops.

[Camazotz Automat]

There was a PBS Nova episode a little while back featuring sprites, elves and other high-altitude phenomena.  They were able to capture some amazing shots using high speed cameras. 

PBS replayed that in my area recently, and I watched it again. Time well spent - a lot of data to contemplate.

I love the post about future civilizations looking at us as barbarians.  I've thought about that a lot and it's pretty fascinating. 

Thanks. If only there were such a thing as - for lack of a better phrase - a reverse time capsule that "they" could send to us barbarians.  Conversely, it's SO EASY for us to send a time capsule to THEM.

(if it is soundly constructed)

Heh.

[Camazotz Automat]

Never seen a green flash at sunset, but I always watch for it

I didn't learn of the green flash until I was in my twenties. Up until then, I might have thought someone was mixing up their superheroes.

But then I read A Flash of Green, a stand alone novel by John D. MacDonald.  It was a great read and it talked about the phenomenon.

A movie version was released in 1984. I saw it in the 90s and it was good, if you like that sort of thing, and I do.  This is one of those VHS tapes, that if you come across at a thrift store, grab it and sell it on Amazon, where they list for forty or more dollars.

Now that I think of it, there's a good amount of weather in JDM's books.

[Agent : Orange]

I didn't learn of the green flash until I was in my twenties. Up until then, I might have thought someone was mixing up their superheroes.

But then I read A Flash of Green, a stand alone novel by John D. MacDonald.  It was a great read and it talked about the phenomenon.

A movie version was released in 1984. I saw it in the 90s and it was good, if you like that sort of thing, and I do.  This is one of those VHS tapes, that if you come across at a thrift store, grab it and sell it on Amazon, where they list for forty or more dollars.

Now that I think of it, there's a good amount of weather in JDM's books.

That's awesome! Now I want to read this book

[eddie dean]

Reporter welcomes monsoon dust storm to Phoenix.
"It's really dangerous out here!  People shouldn't be outside right now."

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[jazmunda]

Reporter welcomes monsoon dust storm to Phoenix.
"It's really dangerous out here!  People shouldn't be outside right now."

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We've had 2 or 3 in my city over my lifetime and you really get a sense of armageddon when they occur.

Since it does not snow here it was the only time in my life where we got a "snow" day.

[onan]

Reporter welcomes monsoon dust storm to Phoenix.
"It's really dangerous out here!  People shouldn't be outside right now."

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Yep they come on fast. At least three times while living in Phoenix, while driving on a highway, everything to a standstill with zero visibility.

[Camazotz Automat]

Reporter welcomes monsoon dust storm to Phoenix.
"It's really dangerous out here!  People shouldn't be outside right now."

We've had 2 or 3 in my city over my lifetime and you really get a sense of Armageddon when they occur.

Yep they come on fast. At least three times while living in Phoenix, while driving on a highway, everything to a standstill with zero visibility.

Intimidating situation. I'm imagining driving into such a storm and experiencing a flat tire. I would hopefully have this extra equipment with me in the car if I had to hoof it:

[Camazotz Automat]

My grandmother had one of these hygrometers when I was a boy. I don't know what became of it, but I remember being fascinated by it.

Depending on the humidity, one of the figures would exit the little house while the other figure pivoted further inward.  I believe hers was an abstract red figure and an abstract green figure.

This one is a boy and girl on one side (sunny) and a witch (rain) on the other.

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[Camazotz Automat]

Rocks that slide in the desert, leaving a track, and the theories involved.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racetrack_Playa

[Mr. Fidget]

Rocks that slide in the desert, leaving a track, and the theories involved.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racetrack_Playa

Ahh... the rabbit hole... just a peek!
Interesting... could be Hoagland territory.

wiki:
   When dry, its surface is covered with small but firm hexagonal mud crack polygons that are typically 3 to 4 inches (7.5 to 10 cm) in diameter and about an inch (2.5 cm) thick. The polygons form in sets of three mud cracks at 120º to each other.

"Sailing" through that wiki:

The sailing stones are most likely moved by strong winter winds, [[some stuff]] is lending support to this hypothesis.
[[some stuff]]
An alternate hypothesis builds upon the first.
[[some stuff]]
A more recent theory.
[[some stuff]]
The most recent theory.
[[some more stuff]]

To the punchline:

On 30 May 2013, the LA Times reported that park officials are looking in to the theft of several of the rocks.
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Seems like they'd just geotag them, or use a motion sensing transponder w/ video on motion.
I guess it's not easy territory.

[saucerlike]

I just saw/read something about those 'moving rocks'.  Wish I could remember what it was now, dammit,  C.R.S.

[Camazotz Automat]

A site devoted to All Martian Weather, All the Time!

I don't know about you, but just seeing the word "Martian" makes life better.

http://marsweather.com/

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[Agent : Orange]

A site devoted to All Martian Weather, All the Time!

I don't know about you, but just seeing the word "Martian" makes life better.

Wow. It's the future

[Camazotz Automat]

Wow. It's the future

When I hear of a new and strange scientific discovery or notice new technology at my beck and call, I sometimes get the feeling I am residing within a Philip K. Dick novel.

[nextgen.fm]

Polar Vortex returns next week!

temps 10-30 degrees below normal for northeast mid atlantic while the southwest bakes

[b_dubb]

Condolences to eddie.dean on scorching SW temps

[eddie dean]

Condolences to eddie.dean on scorching SW temps

It's brutal.  People who live here are idiots!
I'm considering  a kickstarter campaign  so I can buy a summer cabin in Colorado,  with an assortment of box fans.

[Camazotz Automat]

Condolences to eddie.dean on scorching SW temps

Yes, condolences, eddie.dean. Beware metal door knobs and shifty con men selling ice subscriptions door to door.

Polar Vortex returns next week!

I'm going to keep my eye on that event.  I'm wondering what effect it will have on rainfall, both inside and outside the "push."

It's brutal.  People who live here are idiots!
I'm considering  a kickstarter campaign  so I can buy a summer cabin in Colorado,  with an assortment of box fans.

heh

(I will contribute if I get to use the cabin two days a year for the first three years ... also, please construct cabin near a creek where I can pan for gold with one of those Garrett brand green plastic "Gravity Trap" pans. Always wanted to test one. If nothing else, it would make an interesting food bowl at the cabin.)

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