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Apparently temperatures in the Ohio River Valley had been a good 5 to 10Foggy Hamilton wrote:A Tornado Rips Southern Indiana, Killing at Least 22
degrees above normal all through October. (That would be 5 to 10 degrees Farenheit, I think.)
Funny how difficult these things are to check out. I would have thought people would be watching out for extreme reactions to extreme weather.
There you go. Nought as queer as folk.
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a stiff E breese this morning woke to a heavy shower at 7 30 am dropped 5mm heavy rain on the radar this morning from about welsford north moving in a west direction can see that it is very dark to my east so could possibly be in for some good falls 2day I saw that clip on th enews last night about the tornado in the USA holy moly alright
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One of the strongest in decades or something... most deadly?spwill wrote:A lot of people live in caravan parks over there in the USA, no protection if a Tornado comes through.
In winter... at that.
Apart from the fact that building controls in most of the USA are "somewhat" lax, there is a tendency to place trailer parks in regions no-one in their right minds would build an house for themselves.
All grist to the mill for people who propound the theory that the world is getting warmer (than whatever it is supposed to do or be.)
So what explains the series of extreme events that should ultimately cause cooling as witnessed by all the supertyphoons and hurricanes in the last few months?
And it isn't over yet. In 2 or 3 weeks the USA or somewhere nearby is due another one.
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Aaron J Wilkinson wrote:What does Cj mean? I'm guessing some type of Cumulus cloud.
And what does THSW indices mean? lol
It gets calculated by the Davis VP2 stationThe THSW Index uses humidity and temperature like the Heat Index, but also includes the heating effects of sunshine and the cooling effects of wind (like Wind chill) to calculate an apparent temperature of what it “feels†like out in the sun.
Cj is the abbreviation for cumulus conjestus.. or is it a g?
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hmm well, actually it's both according to WZ, originally it was a j.. from the word jest (Latin), which means to make a remark intended to make someone laugh.. so what it means is 'cumulus with jest' or cumulus with humourTonyT wrote:Its a 'g'. No wonder I hadnt the foggiest what you were on aboutFoggy Hamilton wrote:Cj is the abbreviation for cumulus conjestus.. or is it a g?
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So this has been turned into a 'g' somewhere down the line..
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No sorry, nice try but no points there. Congestus comes from the same Latin root as congestion, and means a sky which has become congested with clouds, ie many cumulus all sprouting upwards and obscuring the blue.
Edit: It seems congestus means piled up, so the sky is not so much congested with clouds, as having clouds which have piled up, ie got taller than they are wide.
Edit: It seems congestus means piled up, so the sky is not so much congested with clouds, as having clouds which have piled up, ie got taller than they are wide.
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Been 10c above normal there
Weatherlawyer wrote:Apparently temperatures in the Ohio River Valley had been a good 5 to 10Foggy Hamilton wrote:A Tornado Rips Southern Indiana, Killing at Least 22
degrees above normal all through October. (That would be 5 to 10 degrees Farenheit, I think.)
Funny how difficult these things are to check out. I would have thought people would be watching out for extreme reactions to extreme weather.
There you go. Nought as queer as folk.
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Thanks for that Foggy, look here:
http://downunderchase.com/miscellaneous ... onary.html
Just remembered that part of his site.
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http://downunderchase.com/miscellaneous ... onary.html
Just remembered that part of his site.
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By looking at this radar looks like something beafy and heavy off Taranaki lots of pink .
Doesnt seem to be any electrical activity so i think its just a local convergence zone.
Short forecast for all New Zealand
Short forecast for all New Zealand to midnight Thursday 10-Nov-2005
Issued by MetService at 08:05pm 09-Nov-2005
Northland
Cloudy periods, with isolated showers tomorrow afternoon and evening, mainly in the north.
For the remainder of the North Island, also Nelson
Fine, apart from some cloudy periods from Taranaki to Wellington.
MetService hasn't predicted it, so must be some unexpected disturbance or convergence zone
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All those echoes on the Wellington radar picture are another example of anomalous propagation, where the radar beam is getting bent back onto the ground (from a low-level temperature inversion). In this case the beam is hitting the hills of South Taranaki and Wanganui, which provides a very strong signal. These types of false radar echoes are very difficult to remove.
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