I think I've found the new Nostradamus,
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opini...p/10938362002/
Pretty funny.
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I think I've found the new Nostradamus,
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opini...p/10938362002/
Pretty funny.
Has Idaho run out of fish??? Moving anywhere interesting?Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
Not sure if I'm moving at all, let alone where. Retirement is looming in the not-quite-distant-enough future, and I am figuring out what I'm going to do with that. Changing jobs rather than totally retiring is one option, depending on it putting me doing something I want to do in a place I want to be.
There is a lot to consider for sure. I had plans that never panned out because the 2008-era economic woes pretty much wiped out the town I was planning to retire to. I suppose I should be thankful I hadn't committed to any real estate there. I'd been eyeballing it for years.
Back then, I considered buying a sizable tract of land in northern Idaho. Eventually, though, I checked Google Maps and realized that I could drive to Seattle, Salt Lake City, Yellowstone, Bozeman, and Reno in less time than it would take to get to northern Idaho. This is a long state...and the one highway that goes the length of the state is not always fast and not anywhere near straight.
It seems the media has feel in love with a new phrase. "Atmospheric River" We've been getting hit with a lot of rain here lately and that is the most popular term to describe the weather. A week ago I had never heard that term. It's like a totally rad phrase man!!!! lol
AR, pineapple express - all terms in the weather before...media loves a good tag line
Pineapple express roll across lower Canada and hit New England all the time - we hate it here, lol!
I remember hearing it a lot 3 years ago or so. Not much if it all before that though.
This isn't a media thing. Atmospheric rivers were discovered only quite recently, and it has been only in the last few years that categorizing them has become a thing in meteorology. Without a name, it was just rain. Now that satellites can show the size, extent, and motion of them, it's possible to do real forecasting with them. Therefore, expect to hear about them a whole lot more, now. It's not because of a change in how media is reporting things, it's a change in how the science is describing them.
I sure never heard the term before. Maybe because this is the first significant rain storm in our area in a long time. Though other parts of the country have had significant storms and I never saw that term. One of life's mysteries.
So it's the scientist fault. Figures.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
We've had satellites tracking the weather patterns for a lone time, I wonder what's new/changed.
Never mind, just read the term has been around since 1994. Just took a long time for it to catch on. lol
I don't think it's so much a matter of 'catching on', as being measured. There are several things, like hurricanes, tornadoes, burritos, and the like, where the item was around for a long time, but until we had a rating system...it didn't do all that much good for most people. For example, a hurricane is just a storm. A category 1 storm might be fairly narrow and insignificant, whereas a category 3 storm could result in serious flooding along with wind damage. By being able to classify them, the impact of the thing can be better understood, and people can plan for them more effectively.
I was a bit surprised to hear that atmospheric rivers have been described for so long, but I've certainly been hearing about them for at least a decade. What has really changed is that there is now a categorization scale that might become as commonly used as the scale for hurricanes. It might not, too, because it's a two-axis scale. One axis has to do with volume of water, while the second axis has to do with speed of movement. A high-volume, but fast moving, atmospheric river might not do all that much. Similarly, a slow moving, but low volume, atmospheric river might not do much, either. A slow moving, high volume, atmospheric river will certainly mean extensive mudslides in this part of the country, and flooding in places where the hills are more likely to stay appropriately upright.
I was reading about that scale in just the last couple years. I have yet to hear it used in a weather forecast, though, so we'll see whether or not it catches on. At least the weather service offices are likely aware of it.
I know this guy has been using it for years in his vlogs: https://www.mrmbb333.com/
He's a bit "out there" though, mixing weather phenomena with wackier stuff like UFOs and crazy talk about "frequencies" in the new age fringe science sense.
Well, some of weather IS a bit out there. Lightning strikes may be associated with cosmic rays. Some drugs can be associated with cosmic thinking. So, perhaps it's all related?
We're getting a 'warming trend' over the next few days. The problem with our warming trends is that we require some fairly strong winds to scour the cold air out of the valleys. We won't be getting much wind, though, so we may end up with the oddly perverse conditions that seem to arise every winter: It can be bitterly cold in the valley, while the snow is melting off the ski areas 4,000 feet higher.
In the worst case, it's not just cold in the valley, but overcast and foggy. The fog will then freeze on everything, which looks quite nice. If one then drives up to go skiing in the cold weather, they will break out of the clouds into a sunny, near cloudless, day, with temperatures warm enough to make the skiing less than wonderful.
I say "near cloudless", because there IS a cloud, and it's a big one, but it's below you.
We're suppose to get a series of rain storms over the next several days. Sacramento could be in trouble, they already have some flooding from the last storm. All the rivers are very high. Luckily most of them have a dam system on them. I'm a little south of Sac so probably not going to be to much problems here, except for the usual street flooding.
No salmon swimming across the roads?
Salmon walk in Ca.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
Salmon chant, in Idaho.
Though only in the evening, I should add.