Note to self: Stop saying “This will just be a quick video.” A week ago I wanted to make a video illustrating last week’s obvious heterodyne wave example, and it turned into this video covering a week’s worth of implausible flash-show events in October, and a “Halloween Polar Vortex” materializing in the South. After fourteen hours of rendering (because the first rendering attempt crashed my machine after seven hours) and a week later, I’ve come to two conclusions. One, “quick videos” just isn’t what I do, and two, I still need all new and significantly more powerful equipment to accomplish the work I’m trying to accomplish. My personal criteria about increasing detail and production values with each video, is getting considerably more difficult to achieve. Meanwhile, the total absence of substance from any “meteorologists” or “weather people” regarding any of these events, should be personally insulting to each and every individual in this country (and on this planet) at this point. --- Halloween weekend vortex – Capital Weather Gang ow.ly/DNKOp “An unusually intense upper level disturbance for mid-autumn crashes from Lake Superior to South Carolina between Thursday and Saturday.” “This spinning, super high energy weather system sets up a snowstorm for sections of the Appalachian mountains. In its wake, unseasonably cold temperatures drive into the Southeast, challenging records.” “The wound-up disturbance or vortex, practically free-falling from north to south along a sharply undulating jet stream, is likely to produce several inches of snow along the spine of the Appalachians from western Maryland southward.” “After the disturbance takes its bowling ball-like dive from the Great Lakes to South Carolina, it curls off to the northeast over the ocean, spawning a storm.” --- What is this meaningless gobbledygook? I was under the impression that meteorologists were supposed to actually ‘explain’ the weather. This meaningless chatter is little more (as I have described it frequently in the past) than sportscasting continuously inexplicable events. At what point is the Capital Weather Gang actually explaining and illustrating the existence of the “Polar Vortex” in Florida in October, on a planet that is getting exponentially hotter everywhere else? --- NOAA: January 2014 Was 4th Warmest on Record ow.ly/DNKXC In January, the global average temperature – the combined temperature of both land and ocean surfaces – was 54.8°F, or about 1.17°F above the 20th century average of 53.6°F. At the same time, if you ask anyone living in the eastern half of the United States, they’re likely to tell you this winter has been brutal. This was particularly true in January, when temperatures dipped below -40°F in International Falls, Minn., and many parts of the Deep South reached the single digits. In a warming world, how can it be so bitterly cold? Deke Arndt, a scientist at the National Climatic Data Center explains, “We see more evidence that we will continue to have cold air outbreaks as the climate continues to warm. Cold air outbreaks, like the type we saw in January, over time, have become statistically more uncommon.” --- These people are explaining – nothing… and that should obviously speak volumes. With a zillion dollars in high resolution data available on every conceivable aspect of storm creation, how come these “meteorologists” are only using a five-frame animated GIF to document and explain the “Polar Vortex” existing in Florida? Because explaining it isn’t their intention at all, that’s why. If they show you the actual preposterous data like I do, they would have to explain it… like I do. WW101
Posted on: Tue, 04 Nov 2014 22:16:29 +0000
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