It looked like a nuclear attack in my backyard on Memorial Day and my chickens had to face it and deal with the sulfuric smell drifting into their coop. Both cats were under the bed for 2 hours too. But at least they got to see pretty colors.
Yup. They’ll eat anything. We spent 2-3 hours cleaning the mess up on our side and in our woods. Then the neighbors mowed and shot a bunch of it back in again. My birds like to wander onto their side because they keep their grass short and they can get at worms easier. Along the way they try to pick up any plastic or cardboard debris they can get. I think only one of them got a plastic piece and only saw a few manage to eat the cardboard. I’ve done my best to keep them on our side since then. Their yard is still a sty and that’s been since Memorial Day. They just keep mowing the shit over and over. Drives me insane. It’s time for a fence.
I trust Ryan with content going forward, but that relationship with Joerg is strange to me. I couldn’t understand why they partnered and then Joerg beefed up weather.us and paywalled some of that too. I sense more stability with WB.
Pretty much. When the droplets become too heavy for the updrafts to support them they fall to the ground. Of course in glaciated clouds you start dealing with the bergeron process instead of collision coalescence. So you have a supercooled condensation nuclei and differences in vapor pressure between the ice crystals and water droplets. The ice crystals readily gain H20 from the vapor and grow according to their respective habit at a given temperature and RH...ie snow crystal growth by deposition. That's the majority of how most of our precipitation forms.