Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #1027 - Meteorologist

Permanent link to this comic: https://xkcd.com/1985/

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #1027 - Meteorologist

Hi Mom,

Past due time for a random xkcd comic. Actually, I did not press the random button for this one. Instead I went to the current comic and then back one day and when I saw it was about the weather, I was sold on it as my choice.

The weather is frustrating me. Actually, the weather itself has been fine. I should say the forecasting has been frustrating me, specifically the KOIN-6 local CBS affiliate's radar's future cast, which showed me this morning that I had an optimum DRY window for a walk with my dogs from 10:30-12:30, and it RAINED ON ME. Granted not a lot of rain, but when I arrived home and looked at the radar, the weather HAD NOT moved in the pattern predicted in the model. I rely on these models to help me keep the dogs dry. I don't mind so much about walking in the rain -- though I would have worn different shoes had I known I would be rained on -- but wet dogs are... well, WET. And that's an easy thing for any of us: me, them, passers-by getting soaked by their droplet shaking sprays.

Anyway, this comic amused me.

And it's raining now, but then, that's what the radar predicted.

That's all folks (and Mom). I needed a quickie as I am allegedly grading like a fiend. Or at least that's what I am putting here in case any of my students look!! Ha! Kidding.

I am grading, but I also had to do normal life things: dog walking, grocery shopping, taking the dogs to be groomed...

There may be a dog grooming report tomorrow! :-)


Permanent link to this comic: https://xkcd.com/1985/

                                        Meteorologist

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Reflect and connect.

Have someone give you a kiss, and tell you that I love you, Mom.

I miss you so very much, Mom.

Talk to you tomorrow, Mom.

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- Days ago = 1029 days ago

- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 1804.28 - 10:10

NEW (written 1708.27) NOTE on time: I am now in the same time zone as Google! So, when I post at 10:10 a.m. PDT to coincide with the time of your death, Mom, I am now actually posting late, so it's really 1:10 p.m. EDT. But I will continue to use the time stamp of 10:10 a.m. to remember the time of your death, Mom. I know this only matters to me, and to you, Mom.

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #810 - What's Causing the Hurricanes?

Hurricane Maria - 1709.19 - space.com

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #810 - What's Causing the Hurricanes?

Hi Mom,

Just a straight up share today, a day late, so much work.

But I checked my stats and my BUFFY post hit 930 views!! I am excited about that traffic.

In concern about hurricanes, Maria, the third in the last few weeks, brewed south of the U.S. and hit Puerto Rico.

There's been some interesting discussions about what's causing them.

https://news.slashdot.org/story/17/09/10/1441224/whats-causing-the-hurricanes

What's Causing The Hurricanes? (yahoo.com)

Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday September 10, 2017 @11:34AM from the sources-of-cyclones dept.




An anonymous reader quotes AFP:Hurricane Irma, now taking aim at Florida, has stunned experts with its sheer size and strength, churning across the ocean with sustained Category 5 winds of 183 miles per hour (295 kilometers per hour) for more than 33 hours, making it the longest-lasting, top-intensity cyclone ever recorded. Meanwhile Jose, a Category 4 on the Saffir Simpson scale of 1 to 5, is fast on the heels of Irma, pummeling the Caribbean for the second time in the span of a few days. Many have wondered what is contributing to the power and frequency of these extreme storms. "Atlantic hurricane seasons over the years have been shaped by many complex factors," said Jim Kossin, a NOAA hurricane scientist at the University of Wisconsin. "Those include large scale ocean currents, air pollution -- which tends to cool the ocean down -- and climate change"... 

Some think a surge in industrial pollution after World War II may have produced more pollutant particles that blocked the Sun's energy and exerted a cooling effect on the oceans. "The pollution reduced a lot of hurricane activity," said Gabriel Vecchi, professor of geosciences at Princeton University's Environmental Institute. Pollution began to wane in the 1980s due to regulations such as the Clean Air Act, allowing more of the Sun's rays to penetrate the ocean and provide warming fuel for storms. Vecchi said the "big debate" among scientists is over which plays a larger role -- variations in ocean currents or pollution cuts. There is evidence for both, but there isn't enough data to answer a key question... 

The burning of fossil fuels, which spew greenhouse gases into the atmosphere and warm the Earth, can also be linked to a rise in extreme storms in recent years. Warmer ocean temperatures yield more moisture, more rainfall, and greater intensity storms. "It is not a coincidence that we're seeing more devastating hurricanes," climatologist Michael Mann of Penn State University told AFP in an email. "Over the past few years, as global sea surface temperatures have been the warmest on record, we've seen the strongest hurricanes -- as measured by peak sustained winds -- globally, in both Southern and Northern Hemisphere, in both Pacific and now, with Irma, the open Atlantic," he added. "The impacts of climate change are no longer subtle. We're seeing them play out in real time, and the past two weeks have been a sadly vivid example."

AND THIS......


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgFPoDL9Wgw&feature=youtu.be

HURRICANES CAN BE CAUSED BY WEATHER MODIFICATION - DR. MICHIO KAKU ON CBS NEWS

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Published on Sep 10, 2017

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Dr. Michio Kaku states that hurricanes can be the result of a government weather modification

program called H.A.A.R.P. in which the skies are sprayed with nano particles and storms are then activated through the use of a directed high voltage trillion watt laser up into the ionosphere. CBS anchor emphasized repeatedly that this program was ALLEGED - Obviously no confirmation from CBS.

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Reflect and connect.

Have someone give you a kiss, and tell you that I love you.

I miss you so very much, Mom.

Talk to you tomorrow, Mom.

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- Days ago = 812 days ago

- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 1709.24 - 10:10

NEW (written 1708.27) NOTE on time: I am now in the same time zone as Google! So, when I post at 10:10 a.m. PDT to coincide with the time of your death, Mom, I am now actually posting late, so it's really 1:10 p.m. EDT. But I will continue to use the time stamp of 10:10 a.m. to remember the time of your death, Mom. I know this only matters to me, and to you, Mom.