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Typhoon Tip

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  1. "Cherish these last two seasons" ?? heh... kidding, right? Cherish the last 18 years... Also, ...meh... cocaine + NFL ... not sure that's as damnable as it is just exposed -
  2. The correlation is actually specified as being those who begin experiencing aura -type Migraines later in life... They were clear in the studies ( I think the last I read was over at National Library of Medicine) that there was no significant correlation between strokes and those who were life long suffers - to which that sounds like you fit into this category.
  3. Jesus Will... I've been looking for snow events by dates for years... You saunter on in with a graph!? wtf haahahah
  4. Yeah ...mine were always distinctively phased ... always the same - aura: pain: ...mike tyson boxing match fugue for 12 hours after pain subsides. without exception... Until these recent ones. I didn't go into it because that was already getting too long for people's preferences in here... ( understood ) but for the first time in my life, the pain phase has been more manageable ...and by that, I mean tolerable. In fact, I have been able to continue with whatever I was doing ..with just a "time out" interruption while I waited on the aura to cycle through. The pain that came on the heel of the aura clearing up was minor... Just dullard ache, ...perhaps lower-moderate intensity in a wave that lasted 30 seconds, followed by extended moments where I even forgot I was Migraine... I never thought that was possible. That had never happened like that before... That is another reason why I wonder if these recent ones were more having to do with life style change. Like its partially triggering a Migraine but the complete physiological aspects are not taking place.
  5. That's a little strange to be greeted with that information ... out of nowhere, this morning, that so many in this specific pass-time ( interesting) suffer migraines? I'm having a bit of a "Devil's Tower Closer Encounters" moment here. You know ... I'm in and out of unrelated spheres of friends and acquaintances through life and times. Along that journey, and exposure to others, I find it interesting that I only know of one other soul that agonizes with these maddening Migraines. Yet .. out of nowhere ... five of them, here. I have stood there and listened to others complain about a headache they once had ... how bad of a "migraine" it must've been. Usually ...when they are commiserating my own suffering, as though they "know what I mean". Unfortunately, they don't. ..because upon some simple questions that all true 'grainers know to ask, ...these were not migraines they experienced.. I mean headaches come in vastly different form and magnitudes, for a variety of different reasons.. Injury, life-style, stress, lack of sleep... underlying illnesses.. I have had headaches for these other reasons...too, though rare. I'll tell ya -I've had a couple of hang-overs that would stop a third-world government... But Migraines? They are unique. Perhaps there is a link with weather and climate and mood. It's not that big of a stretch ... For those of us who have sought to understand, researched and/or availed of the greater ambit of medicine know ... Neuroscience is replete with research into mood/behaviors as triggers. Well, if we're being honest... weather and climate does affect us ( not just in here, but all of Humanity) in that way. It may not be such a coincidence that the crucible of time has sort of brought us together, then. Or, it's just numbers and probability. As a rough guess... 300 people in the above context of life-spheres... okay, but this site obviously is exposed to the world... A slightly larger number, huh. That may simply parlay. Still.. I can't help but wonder, based in no small part on my 40 years with these f'n things ...if there isn't a cooperative trigger so to speak... where one may set up the other ...then if other happens, one finds them self over a threshold and... WHAM. So my first Migraine occurred when I was 10 years old. 10! You tend to remember what you were doing, where and when, the first time you realize god has chosen you for Migraine uniqueness. It was 7 AM, and Jane Pauli was co-hosting "The Today Show" along side Tom Brokaw, on a small television mounted mid way up the wall in my grandmother's kitchen. As they murmured away in the back drop, there was still blackness pouring through the window set over the sink. Michigan...being western end of this time zone, the late autumn sun rises an hour later than we're used to here on the East Coast. Anyway, in that moment, I looked up toward the small television and my first in countless aura experiences was just in the initial onset stage. Half of Jane Pauli's face had vanished... Blink blink blink. Whatever was in my eye, was still there... I tried closing. I tried rubbing. Nothing... and it grew worse over the ensuing minutes.. Imagine being 10 years old, and encountering that symptom.. Umm.. I had heard of this blindness thing... Soon the affect morphed from a small blind patch into an arc of what for me ... reminds me of when you are watching cable television and the signal gets disrupted ...? The image "checkers" or distorts in a schism of the frame... But with 'graines it also tends to pulsate or wobble. The arc grows in length, and it moves from the central region of your visual plain...toward the periphery... And you really pretty much cannot resolve imagery within that arc as it travels slowly across. The total migratory pathway appears to range between 20 and 35 minutes for me, and this is also consistent with known symptomatic spectrum. I vividly recall this, and as the middle part of the vision came back and the arc was disappearing ... this was followed by something that I would describe as that seen in "Red Dragon" ...where Hannibal Lector removed the top of Ray Liotta's skull, while Ray was still awake, and began melon balling gray matter ... a cinema the writers undoubtedly borrowed from "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" monkey brains scene. (except they say that actual brain doesn't have any pain receptors ... you get my meaning). ... So ... the tsunamis of pain. It lasts 4 to 6 hours... for me. I have read that others can be inundated with pain for 72 hours... I gotta wonder if it is that bad, however, and not just a slower extinguishing rate - which they have my sympathies. I don't actually believe it is possible to suffer that degree of cephalic horror for that much contiguous time, though. Because, ...in a microcosm ( which appears to be my form of them...) the height/max of the discomfort is in that first 1/3rd of that 6-hr range... About 2-hours of wondering if your skull is actually just going to detonate like that scene in "Scanners" ( hugely underrated dystopian sci-fi romp from the early 1980s..) And yeah..there are other symptoms.. Along with this, ...failed description for entirely justifying hatred of god... nausea crashes the rager.. And at times a 'tingling' sensation in the fingers... I have not suffered the olfactory affects as others, however, I do have the sensitivity to sound. Even conversation volume in the next room seems like a cacophony ... which, it's really impossible to find that kind of quiet solitude during the Migraine cycle/post visual aura phase ...so, that's usually wrapping a pillow around the head and moaning much of the way ... Advil.. joke. Migraine is not deterred. I must echo the sentiments of y'all - I would not wish these on anyone, not as a moral human being. There was a two week period in the midst of my teen-age years when I experience a fresh new Mind-grenade ... once per two days. Different times of the day.. Waking up with aura... Struck with it mid day... While watching T.V. at night... That was a the apex era... Over the years, the frequency dropped... By the time I was 34 years old...I had one, but hadn't had one in the 8 years prior. I began having them again recently... up to 20 of them over this last year alone... two of which happened within a day of one another. This alarmed me because in the last ten years ... science is suggesting an indirect link between migraine and stroke - though they are not sure what the link is as those two phenomenon do not appear to be the same underlying physiological thing. Here I am now middle aged and Luke Perry...John Singleton... both also middle aged examples? Dead. Dropped by major storke, and I'm now suddenly saddled with Migraine recurrence I had thought I had "out grown". So... I began looking more into the dietary aspects ... and made some changes experimentally, based upon the Tyramine amino-acid/processed foods connection, which is all over the literature nowadays.. Low and behold... I am early in the experiment but abruptly, I have not had one in a month and half... Just from tweaking my diet? We'll see... But basically, I took the average of multiple reputable source work's guidelines and came up with a dietary plan that does not sans too much fun, but does compromise in favor of that plan... Seems to be tentatively working. The other aspect... I lost 35 pounds since March. I work out every day... without exception - I know I know... not everyone can bio-mechanically do that... But, as luck would have it... I can run 4 or 5 miles one day ... do the gym eliptical machine the next, then...take my road bike out and do 25 miles on the third day ... and that rotation allows me to do something every day. It's possible that this life style "reduced" a tolerance I had built up over the years... sort of re-exposing an underlying condition/intolerance to tyramines. These are amino acids that occur in aged cheeses... sausage and process meats ...and some vegetables. Find out what those are... in your diet, and if they are there, and you suffer Migraines... don't f'n argue with this - cut that shit out. And, get your ass in shape. One way or the other. Eat portioned controlled, organic sources of all food for that matter... Most of your carbs come from complex sources, and your meats are fresh - like ... gobble gobble to gravy is better.. But obviously not everyone can find farm-to-table sources...so stay away from any meat in a box or plastic wrap. That's a good start... I have since learned, however, that the stroke - migraine connection appears to be for people that did not previous experience Migraines ...i,e., new, and that those who were life time sufferers were not part of that statistical group.
  6. not lookin' for credit but ..heh...some of us did offer sarcasm that the CT early stuff f'ed up the rest of this thing going forward for area N ...hours and hours ago - it's frustratin' is all
  7. Three super cells along the same axis today ... in New England... think about that... cyclic SC's ...
  8. I know ... ( hahaha ) ... Oh man - can't wait to make Kevin read that back to us - Steve for that matter.
  9. I'm curious if the ensemble push for an elevating NAM might help in preventing a nadir quite as deep as 2012 ... We're still likely doing a bottom 3 ranking ( or so...) either way, but if the oscillation/mode relaxes toward neutral we could be on the verge of a slowing in the melt rates. + annular modes are actually inversely temperature distributive to middle latitudes and tends to favor land-based cryo ... in addition to cooling the polar vortex domain space. But not sure about sea ice though. Particularly this early in the in the boreal autumn ...and also considering the melt- inertia, which is also a factor.
  10. well, ... "meso anal" would be pretty alarming.. kidding... not sure - haven't looked but I'm an old man and this isn't my first rodeo
  11. ... might have to be mechanically driven ... it's harder to generate the good goop after 4pm this late in the solar calendar - we'll see ...
  12. gate's not impressive on that per Box velocity - but.. we'll see
  13. stuff in CT ruins it for everyone ... and it stays primarily elevated, too, so everyone gets nothing because they were so greedy they couldn't wait for the scenario to properly set up - nice goin' Kevin!
  14. We could probably figure out which was of greater importance to that season via relative standard deviation - ... I mean it may not help... If a PNA is west or east biased, or the EPO...that would skew any conclusions perhaps .. But just in general.. if the PNA was +2 the whole way and the EPO was -4 the whole way, ...the EPO may win that assumption. Oy...actually that doesn't work either... Because the EPO is a small domain space comparatively...so, you'd have to do some sort of weighting analysis and f -that...
  15. Increases in WV associated with GW contributes to more proficient precipitation, which should be acceptable via understanding Clausius Clapeyron equation ... Indeed, climate reports indicate 4 to 5% increases since 1901 ... However, looking at the graphical distribution ... the statistics are rather noisy (below)... I find it interesting ...the Autumn cuts up the lion's share of that increase ...where by eye-ballin' alone ...clearly the winters are surprising less. I mean just look at CT ... they are in a snow deficit compared to the rest of New England outside of Maine. There is pretty obvious less than ubiquitous distribution with regional variations, as well, seasonal differences involved in that mean U.S. total increase (keeping in mind, precipitation in this context pertains to both rain and snow). That sort of distribution pallet is more consistent with less skill than deterministic. I mean, just locally ... look at the difference between CT and MA. in that winter graphic. Plus...that Fall - Winter relay that is a monster differential there, and since Novie is an autumn month, and Dec is winter. is there any flop over there... Creates more questions than answers. The other aspect that muddles this, because of 'Clapeyron relationship. the same system 50 years ago does not as proficiently precipitate - that skews the model of the big ticket vs smaller aggregates.. in fact, it starts leaning the argumentative difference to moot if any trigger at all starts dumping bigger rain and/or snow bombs because of the saturation effect. To the point where we 990 mb low historic events with increased frequency, but the governing kinematics are not overtly impressive. When we look at this climate graph We may see an upward trend in big ticket events ... We may not be technically wrong... but, in reality what we are seeing may be an upward trend in precipitation period, because all events under the hood are being super-charged.
  16. yeah...it's interesting to see 2019 be within decimals of those floor values when there's an average bottom date of Sept -16 among those other years, and we're only on August 21
  17. There are solutions to the entire power-grid aspect of this that are completely obscured(ing) from masses. Partially by design ... partially by habit. There are "exotic" technologies in the private sector that no on even knows about ...buried, quietly... be it Trumpian morality and ethics, ...or just the hand-me-down dogmas of generational traditionalism within people's ways of life - basically ...culturally suppressed. But because of the suppression ... oblivion, and what probably should be more obvious has to now be 'out of the box thinking.' It's not that it is out of the box, ...it's just that we've been conditioned by a combination of convenience and apathy not to consider. It is possible to sequester electrical charge straight out of the ambient atmosphere. Yup... free energy. But therein is the problem ... that poke in the craw of the sociopath, "free" ... "hmmm... shit. That means I don't get to con Humanity into dependency on Oil and other pernicious means of energy extraction ... wantonly ignoring morality along the way in reaching the goals of my quarterly reports ...! God damn it..." It kind of reminds me of the "Mosquito Coast" Think about it - even you are not a physicist ...you should be able to intuit the plausibility. There can be a way to draw power directly from any gaseous volume that contains energy (thermal resonance) greater than absolute zero - ... we're living on a planet where there is just such a volume, and guess what... it's got so much thermal energy in the free static air that any quantization would be so large a number, it would escape all effective meaning... And, these devices have been invented... It's called the thermoelectric effect ...basically, it's theoretically known spanning multiple generations... where it is possible to convert temperature differences, directly to electric voltage ... ( and vice versa...which could be harnessed in home heating and cooling without too much imagination ... etct) And it's all done through the physics of thermocoupling ... ...etc..etc.. But nope - Humans can't seem to evolve away from that pesky evolutionary advantage that no one would ever concede was necessary along the way: GREED... Hoarding and me-firstitude favors the individual. See...the way that works ( crude model): when the collective cooperation spirit of the community is about to cause the extinction of the village that hoarder survives his/her genes into the next generation - greed lives... It is why greed is actually a core instinct along with all others, in the genetic make-up of humans. It's sneaky, stealthy ...furtive presence in all dealings has piggybacked along with cooperation instinct along the evolutionary tract. Any moral ( morals can be bad or good by the way...) we can learn to avoid them? ...suppress is more like it... But, greed is no longer necessary in times of surplus and opulence ...and at present state of evolution, human ingenuity has long outfoxed the basic ecological model of survival by provisions therein. We produce our own provisions...is surplus. Perhaps if the asteroid does strike one day, or the Carrington Event shuts this thing done and there's an immediate jolt back to primal living ...greed will have it's stealthy place again... But until that happens... it's an instinct that hasn't turned off...but is causing all this... And is hugely exposed. Because it's morality is now competing with the morality and ethics of that which would provided a greener vision for the world. That's really all it is... that simple. Humans can't do anything truly altruistic. Nope. They have to invent a illusory system of value, Economics... ( which sorry for the soulless among us who are so bought in they're oblivious to reality... money has no intrinsic value outside the parlance and tragic comedy of Human affairs - we all merely agree on it's value... ) and then hold individual's ability to survive for ransom by making profit off that dependency
  18. Yeah ....me thinks said wfront has penetrated N into SE Mass ...but probably typically lags in the deeper interior where BL featuring/sublte cool pooling is offering resistance.
  19. Warm frontal structure was analyzed by WPC extending west-east thru N. PA to Cape Cod around 6:30 this morning.. It appears slated to evolve N thru the region during the remainder of the morning. Not sure what the timing is... but it may wait until the +pressure perturbation associated with day-time heating in the BL/warm sector to give it the nudge north to southern VT/NH during the afternoon.. If you're in central new england...you are still hundreds of miles from that boundary and probably cold butt banged... If you are S of rt 2 ... you might get in... If you are S of the Pike you probably have a good shot at tainted heating with elevated dew points... One thing ... any time we have warm fronts in that configuration attempting to wobble N through the area... there is elevated torsional shear values ... I'm curious what the spinner prospects might be... ?
  20. Within a Millennium seems a bit conserved to me.... Particularly when the GW is accelerating ... I didn't look very closely at their math but on the surface ( heh...pun) they didn't appear to have logr effects due to accelerating variable values... This whole thing with synergy is just not being taken very seriously -probably more like less understood. Unrelated ... but Sanjay Gupta was recently extolling human beings are simply not wired to process the specter of climate change - I further that sentiment by re-iterating some of my recent opine material, related to " ..humans have never responded very well to threats that do not readily appeal via one of the corporeal senses.." - it's commentary routed into the same concepts... and GW/climate change is an insidiously quite stalker. This is particularly true, when the one force that is causing the ballast of the pernicious changes ( Human activity ) is uniquely adaptable ... thus making it easier to deny for readily evading its harmful effects via that same adaptation. I further again that synergistic effects ... acceleration, and gestaltian under-estimates can under calculate ablation ...the atmosphere accelerates further... that complicates their application - I'll have to read the article again... ( I'm on about 7 of these today - my god..) But the ocean levels rise at a greater rate than these linear application of rudimentary mathematics will imply given acceleration.
  21. Yeah that product I posted is the MASIE ... or the augmented IMS ... hints at that in the lower right text block ...which for some reason had previous escaped my attention. Heh... anyway I found a different site that describes similarly when searching this shit - anyway, I think these curves have to converge at some point - thing is... we're so close to shared curve space that's probably splitting hairs at the moment... 2012 vs 2019 I mean
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