Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 01/27/2011 5:34:31 PM PST by tobyhill
The weather seems to be going berserk, with more snow dumped on our beleaguered Northeastern cities in a month than in a year, paralyzing business and our lives. Records are being broken even as we speak.
Common sense says that it's the freezing cold that is behind the freaky weather. But physics says otherwise.
Basically, snowstorms in this region arise from the collision of cold Arctic air from Canada moving south and bumping up against warm, moist air from the Gulf of Mexico, causing water vapor to condense and freeze and then form snowstorms, which travel up the Northeast corridor.
Among many factors, the amount of snow dumped is largely driven by the amount of moisture in humid air and not so much the temperature, and this seems to go against common sense. (For example, if we are making ice cubes, the amount of water in the ice tray, not the temperature, determines how much ice we can make. If we crank down the temperature dial in our freezer, this simply makes the ice freeze faster but does not increase the amount of ice produced.)
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
They were still just graduating then.
Wouldn't matter much if it was New York or somewhere else.
Last week there was FRESH snow coverage in 48 out of 50 states.
The only point of the GW rhetoric is to keep your mind occupied with B.S. while they rob you blind.
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