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Met Winter 2016-17 Banter


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8 minutes ago, NortheastPAWx said:

New winter, new location, same old watching everyone south and east get the best snows.

Thanks for jinxing us ;-)

Looks like the snow shield came south with you haha

PS- PSU didn't choke, that was a great game.  Better than any other this year (and that includes the NFL).  I would have liked to see them play Clemson instead of Ohio State,  guaranteed they wouldn't have been shut out.

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18 minutes ago, pazzo83 said:

Current temp in NYC right now is 4 Kelvins.

Brrr.

Fake News FTW ;-)

wanna know where it's really cold right now?  Try Omyakon, Siberia- 59 below zero Brrrrrrr.  The forecast there for Friday is snow and a high of -24 and a low of -38

 

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19 minutes ago, Paragon said:

Fake News FTW ;-)

wanna know where it's really cold right now?  Try Omyakon, Siberia- 59 below zero Brrrrrrr.  The forecast there for Friday is snow and a high of -24 and a low of -38

 

Haha check out Vostok, Antarctica.  It's almost comical how f'ing cold it is there.

Wednesday 20 % Precip. / 0 in

Cloudy. High near 5F. Winds SE at 15 to 25 mph.

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Cloudy. Gusty winds this evening. Low around -20F. Winds ESE at 20 to 30 mph.

Thursday01/050 | -24 °F
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Cloudy with gusty winds developing during the afternoon. Morning high of 0F with temps falling to near -10. Winds ENE at 20 to 30 mph.

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Cloudy skies. Low -24F. Winds NNE at 10 to 15 mph.

Friday01/06-2 | -27 °F
mostlycloudy.svgFriday 10 % Precip. / 0 in

Mainly cloudy. High -2F. Winds N at 5 to 10 mph.

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Mostly clear skies. Low -27F. Winds WNW at 10 to 15 mph.

Saturday01/07-11 | -30 °F
clear.svgSaturday 0 % Precip. / 0 in

Sunny. High -11F. Winds W at 10 to 20 mph.

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Clear skies. Low near -30F. Winds WSW at 15 to 25 mph.

Now it's funny I post this, 5F is like less than 2F off the ALL TIME HIGH for Vostok station.  Wow.

This is summer and usually it's -20 to -40.  But in winter it hangs around -100F.

 

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Wow, they're near a record high huh?  Figures lol- like northern Alaska

The other place in Antarctica that's really cold is Dome A- they actually just set up an automated station there and they report on wunderground.  They haven't beaten Vostok's record yet but satellite measurements suggest it could be colder.  Right now Vostok is -14 and Dome A is -22 while the South Pole is -8.  Nice summer they have there......

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_weather_records

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_weather_records#Lowest_temperatures_ever_recorded

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lowest_temperature_recorded_on_Earth

The last two links are for the highest temps ever recorded, it's interesting the guy on wunderground talks about the Death Valley -134 record being in question (it makes sense because it's 5 degrees hotter than any other temp ever recorded- including any other temps ever recorded in Death Valley itself.)  If so, the highest temp ever recorded is 129 and it's a tie between 4 different places (including Death Valley).

https://www.wunderground.com/blog/weatherhistorian/hottest-reliably-measured-air-temperatures-on-earth

https://www.wunderground.com/blog/weatherhistorian/hottest-reliably-measured-air-temperatures-on-earth-part-two

I also liked how you expressed the temp in Kelvin lol, funny I was reading this earlier about how negative Kelvin temps are possible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_temperature

In physics, certain systems can achieve negative temperature; that is, their thermodynamic temperature can be expressed as a negative quantity on the Kelvin or Rankine scales.

In colloquial usage, "negative temperature" may refer to temperatures that are expressed as negative numbers on the more familiar Celsius or Fahrenheit scales, with values that are colder than the zero points of those scales but still warmer than absolute zero.

A system with a truly negative temperature on the Kelvin scale is hotter than any system with a positive temperature. If a negative-temperature system and a positive-temperature system come in contact, heat will flow from the negative- to the positive-temperature system.[1][2]

That a system at negative temperature is hotter than any system at positive temperature is paradoxical if absolute temperature is interpreted as an average kinetic energy of the system. The paradox is resolved by understanding temperature through its more rigorous definition as the tradeoff between energy and entropy, with the reciprocal of the temperature, thermodynamic beta, as the more fundamental quantity. Systems with a positive temperature will increase in entropy as one adds energy to the system. Systems with a negative temperature will decrease in entropy as one adds energy to the system.[3]

Most familiar systems cannot achieve negative temperatures, because adding energy always increases their entropy. The possibility of decreasing in entropy with increasing energy requires the system to "saturate" in entropy, with the number of high energy states being small. These kinds of systems, bounded by a maximum amount of energy, are generally forbidden classically. Thus, negative temperature is a strictly quantum phenomenon. Some systems, however (see the examples below), have a maximum amount of energy that they can hold, and as they approach that maximum energy their entropy actually begins to decrease.[4]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute_hot

Quantum physics formally assumes infinitely positive or negative temperatures in descriptions of spin system undergoing population inversion from the ground state to a higher energy state by excitation with electromagnetic radiation. The temperature function in these systems exhibits a singularity, meaning the temperature tends to positive infinity, before discontinuously switching to negative infinity. However, this applies only to specific degrees of freedom in the system, while others would have normal temperature dependency. If equipartitioning were possible, such formalisms ignore the fact that the spin system would be destroyed by the decomposition of ordinary matter before infinite temperature could be reached uniformly in the sample
 

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2 minutes ago, Ralph Wiggum said:

When did this subforum become such an "I'm right and you're wrong" type of place?
 

I may be in the minority, but i like the arguing, as long as it involves facts. Nothing wrong with holding people accountable for their posts, as long as people can try to keep it civil.

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