21st Century Banter Thread

[jburns]

2 hours ago, Avdave said:

Wow that will shake things up some. Hope she is ok Jburns

 

 

Heard from her. She is fine and now so is my wife.  lol   Got jolted out of bed just after 4am.  Knocked things off of her dresser and shelves but nothing more than that.  She has been feeling aftershocks since.

[griteater]

When obs threads and discussion threads have the same things in them 

[downeastnc]

18 minutes ago, jburns said:

Heard from her. She is fine and now so is my wife.  lol   Got jolted out of bed just after 4am.  Knocked things off of her dresser and shelves but nothing more than that.  She has been feeling aftershocks since.

Give me hurricanes over earthquakes any day at least we can see the canes coming.....

[Avdave]

1 hour ago, jburns said:

Heard from her. She is fine and now so is my wife.  lol   Got jolted out of bed just after 4am.  Knocked things off of her dresser and shelves but nothing more than that.  She has been feeling aftershocks since.

Thats good and Im sure it is even better now that the mrs is ok with everything    Yeah that would wake me up for sure.

[isohume]

I hope everyone gets the rain of their dreams with Hermine. 

[jshetley]

6 minutes ago, isohume said:

I hope everyone gets the rain of their dreams with Hermine. 

Not happening. That rain is about as far north as it is going to get into the GSP county warning area.

[Brick Tamland]

 

[Lookout]

On 8/31/2016 at 5:17 PM, Snowless in Carrollton said:

71 straight days that ATL has failed to get below 70 degrees. That pretty much obliterates the old record. Also, 74 days of 90+. 16 more days to go to tie the record.

That low temp streak is amazing. I have to go back and look but Im sure I'll hit the 100 day mark of 90 degree days this coming week. Athens has had 86 so far and Iast I checked I had a modest handful more. Just can not express how sick of hot weather I am...fall will be nice but i'm absolutely dying for a winter storm 

[chapelhillwx]

Hey everyone, just thought I'd check in.

Excited for this winter because I finished undergrad and now am in business school at Wake Forest. Considering I've spent my life being jealous of the Triad it'll be nice to live in Winston-Salem -- and on the NW edge of the city to boot!

Man, this 70 degree cloudy day feels nice.

[Snowless in Carrollton]

4 hours ago, Lookout said:

That low temp streak is amazing. I have to go back and look but Im sure I'll hit the 100 day mark of 90 degree days this coming week. Athens has had 86 so far and Iast I checked I had a modest handful more. Just can not express how sick of hot weather I am...fall will be nice but i'm absolutely dying for a winter storm 

What's even more amazing is the old record was 55 days. I'm so sick of summer too and looking at the forecast for next week makes me want to throw up. Enough with the 90s already. Enough is enough !

[Shawn]

It is starting to look like making a NC subforum would be a good idea.

[JacobNC]

Winter Weather Advisories are beginning to pop up in Montana.  The long night is coming!!!

[Isopycnic]

8 hours ago, Shawn said:

It is starting to look like making a NC subforum would be a good idea.

A Lexington,SC sub would be a more efficient idea, worked for theTennessee Valley.  

[buckeyefan1]

8 hours ago, Shawn said:

It is starting to look like making a NC subforum would be a good idea.

Do you not have anything better to do? 

2 hours ago, Isopycnic said:

A Lexington,SC sub would be a more efficient idea, worked for theTennessee Valley.  

 

[NWNC2015]

Anyone been to Oak Island, NC? First time going there looking to see what they have to offer. Ideas appreciated. 

[Isopycnic]

7 hours ago, NWNC2015 said:

Anyone been to Oak Island, NC? First time going there looking to see what they have to offer. Ideas appreciated. 

Myrtle beach would be a nicer beach for what your looking for.

[Isopycnic]

Mysterious Anomaly Interrupts Stratospheric Wind Pattern

For the first time, scientists have observed a deviation from the typical alternating pattern of easterly and westerly winds in the equatorial stratosphere.
SOURCE: Geophysical Research Letters

 The stratosphere, seen here as the blue region above the red-orange troposphere, sports a mysterious wind anomaly in its quasi-biennial oscillation, scientists say.

The weather we experience on Earth typically occurs in the troposphere, the lowest layer of the atmosphere. But the stratosphere, which envelops the planet just above the troposphere, is home to winds of its own. In a new study, Newman et al. report an anomalous interruption in an otherwise reliable stratospheric wind pattern known as the quasi-biennial oscillation.

Each cycle of the quasi-biennial oscillation begins with strong westerly winds that flow through the stratosphere in a belt around the equator. Over the course of about 1 year, these winds gradually weaken and descend in altitude to the lower stratosphere as easterly winds replace them. These easterly winds slowly sink and weaken, too, as westerly winds return. The cycle repeats roughly once every 28 months.

Since 1953, scientists have observed equatorial winds by instruments known as radiosondes, which are carried skyward by weather balloons. The quasi-biennial oscillation was discovered in the early 1960s. Although the timing of each cycle has sometimes varied by a few months, the pattern as a whole has remained uninterrupted—until now.

Using radiosonde data from several equatorial locations around the world, the scientists discovered that the quasi-biennial oscillation began to deviate from its usual pattern in late 2015. At that time, westerly winds were descending in altitude and should have continued to sink and weaken as easterlies replaced them.

Instead, the westerly winds shifted upward and seemed to cut off the descent of high-altitude easterlies before they could begin their usual dominance. Additional easterly winds developed at lower altitudes in the stratosphere, beneath the rising westerlies. However, by June, the westerlies appeared to have resumed their normal descent.

The researchers plan to continue analyzing wind and temperature data to determine what caused this anomaly and what its implications may be. Their investigation will include an exploration of possible connections with the 2015–2016 El Niño and climate change. (Geophysical Research Letters, doi:10.1002/2016GL070373, 2016)

—Sarah Stanley, Freelance Writer

 

https://eos.org/research-spotlights/mysterious-anomaly-interrupts-stratospheric-wind-pattern

[jburns]

8 minutes ago, Isopycnic said:

Mysterious Anomaly Interrupts Stratospheric Wind Pattern

For the first time, scientists have observed a deviation from the typical alternating pattern of easterly and westerly winds in the equatorial stratosphere.
SOURCE: Geophysical Research Letters

 The stratosphere, seen here as the blue region above the red-orange troposphere, sports a mysterious wind anomaly in its quasi-biennial oscillation, scientists say.

The weather we experience on Earth typically occurs in the troposphere, the lowest layer of the atmosphere. But the stratosphere, which envelops the planet just above the troposphere, is home to winds of its own. In a new study, Newman et al. report an anomalous interruption in an otherwise reliable stratospheric wind pattern known as the quasi-biennial oscillation.

Each cycle of the quasi-biennial oscillation begins with strong westerly winds that flow through the stratosphere in a belt around the equator. Over the course of about 1 year, these winds gradually weaken and descend in altitude to the lower stratosphere as easterly winds replace them. These easterly winds slowly sink and weaken, too, as westerly winds return. The cycle repeats roughly once every 28 months.

Since 1953, scientists have observed equatorial winds by instruments known as radiosondes, which are carried skyward by weather balloons. The quasi-biennial oscillation was discovered in the early 1960s. Although the timing of each cycle has sometimes varied by a few months, the pattern as a whole has remained uninterrupted—until now.

Using radiosonde data from several equatorial locations around the world, the scientists discovered that the quasi-biennial oscillation began to deviate from its usual pattern in late 2015. At that time, westerly winds were descending in altitude and should have continued to sink and weaken as easterlies replaced them.

Instead, the westerly winds shifted upward and seemed to cut off the descent of high-altitude easterlies before they could begin their usual dominance. Additional easterly winds developed at lower altitudes in the stratosphere, beneath the rising westerlies. However, by June, the westerlies appeared to have resumed their normal descent.

The researchers plan to continue analyzing wind and temperature data to determine what caused this anomaly and what its implications may be. Their investigation will include an exploration of possible connections with the 2015–2016 El Niño and climate change. (Geophysical Research Letters, doi:10.1002/2016GL070373, 2016)

—Sarah Stanley, Freelance Writer

 

https://eos.org/research-spotlights/mysterious-anomaly-interrupts-stratospheric-wind-pattern

 

Someone farted.

[downeastnc]

Whenever someone thinks the  are bad in the SE they should go read the other subforum threads especially those in places located north of our region threads on Hermine....

[Shawn]

On 9/3/2016 at 7:25 AM, Isopycnic said:

A Lexington,SC sub would be a more efficient idea, worked for theTennessee Valley.  

There would be only 3 or 4 of us there.  Rofl.

[NWNC2015]

5 hours ago, Isopycnic said:

Myrtle beach would be a nicer beach for what your looking for.

Well this is free..family beach house...and it's sort of a date so not really looking for all that jazz this time. Just looking for restaurant inputs etc

[NWNC2015]

I never road the ferry so going to do that. Maybe visit a lighthouse too. I thought about deep sea diving but I'm sceered.

[NWNC2015]

I have a BIG announcement to make later today w/ NOAA. Red tag worthy? Stay tuned.

[Isopycnic]

1 hour ago, NWNC2015 said:

I have a BIG announcement to make later today w/ NOAA. Red tag worthy? Stay tuned.

Becoming a member of cocorahs isn't red tag worthy.

[Snowless in Carrollton]

Am I the only one who browses through the other forums in other regions on a slow day ? Even on a slow day, I swear people in New England and NYC are posting something every 5 minutes. In the southeast, many times hours will go by between posts.

[NWNC2015]

4 hours ago, Isopycnic said:

Becoming a member of cocorahs isn't red tag worthy.

Try NOAA researcher. I look forward to providing top notch high definition extensive weather summaries this winter on the pattern. I will explain why the long range ghost storms will falter and why there is an elevated risk for at least one 6" or greater storm for areas north of i40 and west of i77. Stay tuned as I will stand out with other great red taggers for years to come.

[NWNC2015]

I blurred out my government id # but wanted to provide rock solid proof of the extensive research tools on hand to provide excellent scientific analysis. 

[Eastatlwx]

My father and I (Blackout storm chasing) chased Hurricane Hermine positioning ourselves in St. Marks FL. Here's our YouTube video make sure to watch it in HD. Any question about video and/or our chase feel free to ask.

 

[Isopycnic]

14 hours ago, NWNC2015 said:

Try NOAA researcher. I look forward to providing top notch high definition extensive weather summaries this winter on the pattern. I will explain why the long range ghost storms will falter and why there is an elevated risk for at least one 6" or greater storm for areas north of i40 and west of i77. Stay tuned as I will stand out with other great red taggers for years to come.

Nice photoshop.

[calculus1]

Try NOAA researcher. I look forward to providing top notch high definition extensive weather summaries this winter on the pattern. I will explain why the long range ghost storms will falter and why there is an elevated risk for at least one 6" or greater storm for areas north of i40 and west of i77. Stay tuned as I will stand out with other great red taggers for years to come.

If nothing else, this pic confirms that Wilkesdude and NWNC2015 are the same poster. As we assumed...

Sent from my 6045O using Tapatalk