[ExI] oh no, not this again...

[William Flynn Wallace]

Loud angry weather?  Try tornados.  One came by my little trailer in '73
(?) and shook it - approaching it sounded like 100 freight trains or a
million bee hives.  A little too angry for me.  Wiped out a trailer where
the manager had wanted to put me (but I convinced him otherwise) - just 150
feet or so from me - 150 feet between life and death.  The woman and the
trailer that was on that spot left just a few months earlier.   bill w

On Wed, Sep 14, 2022 at 5:31 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> From: extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> On Behalf Of
> Stuart LaForge via extropy-chat
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> Subject: Re: [ExI] oh no, not this again...
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> > ...that would be a compelling theory except that Atlantic sea
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> > surface temperatures this fall are not cooler, they > are warmer.
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> > This in theory should have be a very active hurricane season according
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> > to long-accepted theory.
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> >…I am by no means an expert on the weather, but the standard explanation
> for hurricanes doesn't make sense. The high temperature of the sea surface
> can't drive a hurricane by itself, it needs a temperature gradient from the
> ocean surface to the top of the convection cell. It doesn't matter how warm
> the surface temps are if the upper atmosphere is too warm to get a good
> convective flow going.
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> I don't have solid data, but during the volcanic eruption, the
> stratosphere had its moisture content increased by 10% in a few seconds in
> the form of superheated steam. The oceans surface is a little warmer this
> year, but the atmosphere is also warmer. Less of a temperature gradient
> means less convection means fewer storms and no hurricanes.
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> But like I said, I am just broadly applying fluid dynamics to the
> situation, I am not a meteorologist.
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> Stuart LaForge
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> Stuart sheesh I leave you lads for a mere three days to go hiking in the
> Sierras, trust you in charge of the weather, and whaddya do?  NOTHING!
> Nada.
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> Dang this is weird.  Peak of the seasons, nothing out there.  One measly
> tropical elation, one.  Lotta years we have had three namers going
> simultaneously in mid September including a furious hurricane.
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> With this flat spot in the accumulated cyclone energy curve, 2022 is right
> back in the running for being the second quietest year behind 1983.
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> I am guessing it will pass up about half a dozen of the quiet years
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> I am in the mood for some loud angry weather.
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