Hail the size of cantaloupes: Welcome to Global Warming!
Psalm 110
an estimated foot of rain on Hebron and pounded Aurora with hail the
size of cantaloupes.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/a/2003/06/24/national0918EDT0498.DTL
Second round of damaging tornadoes strikes Nebraska, death toll
reaches two
Tuesday, June 24, 2003
(06-24) 07:49 PDT OMAHA, Neb. (AP) --
Deadly tornadoes struck Nebraska for the second day in a row as small
towns cleaned up after wind damage and flooding.
One tornado struck Coleridge, about 30 miles north of Norfolk in
northeastern Nebraska, killing a man who was pinned under an
overturned tractor, said Corey King of the National Weather Service in
Valley.
The tornado roared through the north end of Coleridge late Monday,
uprooting trees, downing power lines and blowing roofs off houses.
"I'm in my bedroom right now, looking at a tree on my house," said
Michael Biltoft, an electrician in Coleridge.
On Sunday, storms spawned seven twisters in southern Nebraska, poured
an estimated foot of rain on Hebron and pounded Aurora with hail the
size of cantaloupes.
Sunday's tornadoes killed one man in Deshler. This week's two deaths
are the first tornado fatalities in Nebraska since 1988.
At least 100 homes and 25 businesses were severely damaged in Deshler,
a town of about 900 people near the Kansas state line. Four houses
were leveled to their foundations.
Russ Wassom said he and his wife and 5-year-old son spent several
hours in their basement while a tornado lingered in the area.
"It would go one way and turn around and come back -- like it didn't
know which way it wanted to go," he said.
Flooding isolated several people in their homes or cars in the Deshler
area.
About 20 miles south of Deshler in Kansas, a tornado damaged three
houses Sunday in a rural area north of Courtland, state officials
said, but no injuries were reported.
Nebraska has fewer tornado deaths than some of its neighbors because
it is sparsely populated, with 1.7 million people spread across 77,000
square miles, said Al Dutcher, state climatologist. Most of the 52
tornadoes it averages each year strike in its central and southern
sections, away from the population centers of Omaha and Lincoln to the
east, Dutcher said.
David Ball
>On Sunday, storms spawned seven twisters in southern Nebraska, poured
>an estimated foot of rain on Hebron and pounded Aurora with hail the
>size of cantaloupes.
What an idiotic post. Do spend a little time figuring out
cause and effect. Care to explain the causal connection between large
hail and GW? Here's a hint: large hail is a function of the height of
the freezing level. If the freezing level is too high, significant
melting of the hail takes place before it reaches the ground. Care to
tell us Mr. Wizard, what will happen to freezing levels in a GW
situation? Why, the freezing level will go up! That means that one
might expect to see the occurrence of large hail go DOWN.
Psalm 110
The earth's atmosphere does not have a uniform thickness relative to
the sun. At higher latitudes sunlight photons angle in and cross more
atmospheric molecules, thereby increasing the chance of colliding with
air molecules.
Collision with air molecules increases the air molecule energy level.
Eventually this increased energy level is spontaneously discharged as
photons of lower frequency (infrared, heat). Because photons are
massless particles as far as humans are concerned, they might escape
in any direction and have no bias to head in the earth surface
direction. There is a 50-50 chance that they will radiate up as well
as down. The upward escapes leave the earth thermal system.
At the equatorial zone, the perpendicular direction of insolation
travels through 35% less air, and therefore meets 35% less collisions.
More photon reach the surface lands and waters. In effect, it is like
there is a magnifying lens over the equator. CO2 increases this lens
effect because it is transparent to some high energy photons, but
opaque to low energy (infrared, heat) photons. The high energy photons
which reach the surface and collide with molecules heat those up. The
effect is a conversion from high energy photons to low energy photons,
and we call these low energy (infrared) photons "heat".
Heat creates thermal updrafts. The greater the heat, the more powerful
the updraft. Hail is created when updrafts are raised to heights where
freezing occurs. Water vapor condenses as a nucleus of ice crystal.
The updraft suspends the ice crystal against the pull of gravity. If
the heat energy of the updraft thermal is insufficient, the ice
crystal will not be suspended in the air. It may melt on the way down
if the size of the crystal is small, and the lower temperatures are
warm, or it might land as a tiny pellet of hail.
Large hailstones require high energy thermal updrafts which can keep
the hail buoyant in the high atmosphere where the hailstone can
collect repeated coats of ice, and despite the pull of gravity, the
hailstone cannot fall against the power of the uplifting energy. At
some point, the hailstone (the size of golf balls, baseballs,
cantaloups, or volkswagons) is too heavy for the updraft to suspend.
Or alternately, the giant hailstones are juggled until they reach the
edge of the updraft. One way or another, all hail breaks loose.
The speed of acceloration of falling objects has been known since
Newton's apple. There is not time for giant hailstones to melt even in
100 degrees weather, especially if associated with a thunderstorm
which is also pouring cooling high altitude rain.
The proximately of freezing temperatures in the upper stratoshere is
unlikely to change much from anthropogenic greenhouse gases. CO2 is a
heavy gas, causes suffication in mines at lower depths first. CO2 will
be densest at lower altitudes.
The lens effect of the equatorial CO2 means that hig-energy systems
will be spun out by coriolis forces into the lower and middle
temperate zones, influenced by geology, hydrology, topology and
aeronautics. What we are seeing is the first wave of two to three
decades of weather chaos, which will give every person on earth a
bloody nose, or worse, every year, if not more often.
Denialism will not make things better. 40 to 50 million acres of new
afforestation will fix the problem, and 60% of it needs to occur in
the northern hemisphere.
Since we haven't begun to address the problem, the date of correction
is deferred further into the future with each delay in getting about
repairing what the present and recent generations ruined.
Eventually people will get tired of being beaten to their knees by
vicious weather, and tired of burying their loved ones killed by
global warming. When some F5 cyclone hits Kyoto and causes $50 billion
in damages and kills 2 or 3 million people in one swoop, the anger of
the people that they weren't warned and the governments didn't act
will be so great that denialists who obfuscated the problems are
likely to meet capital punishment at the hands of citizen tribunals.
The "precationary principle" applies to David Ball. You willingness to
surpress warnings means you pay the consequences when the shit hits
the fan.
Just as it is WRONG to yell "fire" in a crowded theater when there is
no fire, it is equally WRONG to yell "no fire" when the theater is
ablaze.
For the record, I am for capital punishment for those who created the
mess we are in, and for their agents who are "driving their getaway
car" by shilling for them. Your lack of precausion where human lives
are at stake will be entered in your tribunal so that everyone in the
future may know that your execution was just. Read line six.
Psalm 110
1: The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make
thine enemies thy footstool.
2: The LORD shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion: rule thou
in the midst of thine enemies.
3: Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the
beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew
of thy youth.
4: The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for
ever after the order of Melchizedek.
5: The Lord at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the day of
his wrath.
6: He shall judge among the weathermen, he shall fill the places with
the dead bodies; he shall wound the heads over multi-national
corporations.
7: He shall drink of the brook in the way: therefore shall he lift up
the head.
David Ball
>David Ball <wra...@mb.sympatico.ca> wrote in message news:<9tsrfvckhugmk0jl1...@4ax.com>...
>> On 25 Jun 2003 00:28:38 -0700, Melch...@USA.com (Psalm 110) wrote:
>>
>> >On Sunday, storms spawned seven twisters in southern Nebraska, poured
>> >an estimated foot of rain on Hebron and pounded Aurora with hail the
>> >size of cantaloupes.
>>
>> What an idiotic post. Do spend a little time figuring out
>> cause and effect. Care to explain the causal connection between large
>> hail and GW? Here's a hint: large hail is a function of the height of
>> the freezing level. If the freezing level is too high, significant
>> melting of the hail takes place before it reaches the ground. Care to
>> tell us Mr. Wizard, what will happen to freezing levels in a GW
>> situation? Why, the freezing level will go up! That means that one
>> might expect to see the occurrence of large hail go DOWN.
>
<entirety deleted> Care to answer the question? What do think is going
to happen to the rate of large hail events in a GW scenario? Oh, while
you're at it, could you explain to us what trends you see in CAPE in a
GW situation?
Psalm 110
Your question was answered: extreme heat causes extreme thermal
updrafts which suspends hail longer against gravity, where it can grow
to larger sizes. Greenhouse gases can cause an effect of a solar lens
causing extreme heat to build such thermals. The actual storms caused
by "global warming" (which is to mean the magified effect from the CO2
lens) manifest spontaniously as they encounter a colder air mass: the
disequilibrium is dissipated by efficient weather mechanisms
(including thunderstorms, tornadoes, tropical storms and hurricanes).
The greater the temperature difference between the hot and cold air
masses, and the greater the absolute temperature (energy charge) of
the hot mass, the more violent the potential.
As long as the polar regions have ice they will remain at or near
freezing temperatures. Global warming inputs heat most severely at the
torrid region, and spins out hot air masses by corliolis forces into
the temperate regions. G;obal warming means more frequent and more
violent dissipations of disequilibrium as hot and cold air masses
collide. The differential between the equator and the poles is greater
than ever -- the chances of a 40 degree difference between air masses
has been pushed further south, to mid and lower temperate latitudes.
David Ball
>> >>
>> >> What an idiotic post. Do spend a little time figuring out
>> >> cause and effect. Care to explain the causal connection between large
>> >> hail and GW? Here's a hint: large hail is a function of the height of
>> >> the freezing level. If the freezing level is too high, significant
>> >> melting of the hail takes place before it reaches the ground. Care to
>> >> tell us Mr. Wizard, what will happen to freezing levels in a GW
>> >> situation? Why, the freezing level will go up! That means that one
>> >> might expect to see the occurrence of large hail go DOWN.
>> >
>> <entirety deleted> Care to answer the question? What do think is going
>> to happen to the rate of large hail events in a GW scenario? Oh, while
>> you're at it, could you explain to us what trends you see in CAPE in a
>> GW situation?
>
>Your question was answered: extreme heat causes extreme thermal
>updrafts which suspends hail longer against gravity, where it can grow
>to larger sizes.
Wrong. Extreme heat is not a requirement. You can get large
hail at 15C. My question was not answered. Try again.
> Greenhouse gases can cause an effect of a solar lens
>causing extreme heat to build such thermals.
Incorrect. Try again.
>The actual storms caused
>by "global warming" (which is to mean the magified effect from the CO2
>lens) manifest spontaniously as they encounter a colder air mass:
Correct, but only in a very limited way. Thunderstorms form on
boundaries. They need not be fronts. Try again.
>the
>disequilibrium is dissipated by efficient weather mechanisms
>(including thunderstorms, tornadoes, tropical storms and hurricanes).
>The greater the temperature difference between the hot and cold air
>masses, and the greater the absolute temperature (energy charge) of
>the hot mass, the more violent the potential.
Incorrect. It is the difference between the temperature of the
lifted parcel and its environment that determines the POTENTIAL
energy. Realizing that potential is sometimes difficult. Witness very
strong wind shears here last night and CAPES near 6000 J/KG and
precious little thunderstorm activity. There was a big cap in place.
>
>As long as the polar regions have ice they will remain at or near
>freezing temperatures.
Incorrect. Thunderstorms occur regularly through the western
arctic and Alaska, less frequently in the eastern arctic. Can you
explain why? (Hint: look at a map of the Canadian arctic and find the
tree line).
>Global warming inputs heat most severely at the
>torrid region, and spins out hot air masses by corliolis forces into
>the temperate regions.
Incorrect. The majority of the warming today is occurring
during the winter north of 60N at NIGHT!!
>G;obal warming means more frequent and more
>violent dissipations of disequilibrium as hot and cold air masses
>collide.
Incorrect. The overall baroclinicity equator to pole (thermal
contrast) is likely to decrease. Does this mean much? Not really.