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Post by duwayne on Apr 4, 2024 15:13:37 GMT
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Post by missouriboy on Jul 3, 2024 16:20:58 GMT
As hurricane season starts, I will revisit Ryan Maue's Accumulated Global Cyclone Energy (ACE) data base from CSU. To state what seems to me the obvious (in charts), peaks in Global ACE follow peaks in solar activity. Oceanic heat drives cyclones. Energy accumulates across the face of newly emergent solar cycles and peaks as the cycle starts its decline. High ACE values continue across the declining solar cycle to a minimum as the next cycle starts. How do we know that our Sun drives our Climate?
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Post by missouriboy on Jul 3, 2024 16:28:41 GMT
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Post by ratty on Jul 3, 2024 22:21:15 GMT
When the URL is used as a link, I get "URL signature expired". When an image is lifted from FarceBook, that's not unusual. link |
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Post by ratty on Jul 6, 2024 23:51:10 GMT
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Post by nonentropic on Jul 7, 2024 3:00:37 GMT
Every time I see that rat with a knife, I think of your pending surgery and your obvious boy scout approach to things around you.
Its a worry.
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Post by ratty on Jul 7, 2024 4:36:26 GMT
Every time I see that rat with a knife, I think of your pending surgery and your obvious boy scout approach to things around you. Its a worry. Thankfully, I will not be doing the surgery .......  |
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Post by glennkoks on Jul 8, 2024 10:27:30 GMT
Currently riding out Hurricane Beryl as it rips through the Houston/Galveston area. As I type this winds are about 50 MPH gusts up over Hurricane force. None of these are fun but we still have power and have been through worse...
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Post by ratty on Jul 8, 2024 11:48:52 GMT
Currently riding out Hurricane Beryl as it rips through the Houston/Galveston area. As I type this winds are about 50 MPH gusts up over Hurricane force. None of these are fun but we still have power and have been through worse... Keep your head down, Glenn. |
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Post by glennkoks on Jul 8, 2024 12:35:36 GMT
That escalated quickly! No power, trees down everywhere….
A little frightening at times.
I’m guessing a multi billion dollar disaster in the making.
Millions in Houston area without power…
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Post by Sigurdur on Jul 8, 2024 17:02:01 GMT
That escalated quickly! No power, trees down everywhere…. A little frightening at times. I’m guessing a multi billion dollar disaster in the making. Millions in Houston area without power… Generator working? |
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Post by missouriboy on Jul 9, 2024 0:47:13 GMT
Stay safe Texans. We're getting soaked for the last 2 days. More coming. No drought in Middle Earth.
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Post by glennkoks on Jul 9, 2024 11:13:21 GMT
That escalated quickly! No power, trees down everywhere…. A little frightening at times. I’m guessing a multi billion dollar disaster in the making. Millions in Houston area without power… Generator working? I have the main breaker off and the generator powering an AC window unit. Lot's of downed trees and power lines. A few utility poles snapped in half. Going to be a few days to get power restored to everyone. Pretty extensive damage for a Cat one but nothing we can't handle. |
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Post by glennkoks on Jul 9, 2024 12:29:08 GMT
Lessons learned from storm survival.
1.) Generator. Big natural gas generators that kick in when you lose power are great if you can afford them. For the rest of us who have to make it work on a small one: Watch you tube videos on how to back feed them into breaker box. Ignore all warnings, they were created by bureaucrats who don't live in our world. Just make sure your main breaker is off so that you are not back feeding the grid and risking the safety of linemen. Shut off all 220V breakers that you don't have enough power for and avoid microwaves or anything that will pull to many amps.
2.) Fuel. Generators burn more gas than you would expect during a 24 hour time period. I fill up all my tanks and cars and use a siphon pump to drain the vehicles as needed to provide for generator.
3.) Chainsaws. Storms are just rare enough that if you are not diligent the gas in your chainsaw will go bad and the damn thing will not run when you need it. I have both a cheap electric chainsaw from harbor freight and a nice Stihl for all my storm needs. The Stihl is great when it runs. It never seems to run when I need it, hence the very dependable cheap electric chainsaw from Harbor Freight. Blades, if you are not/ will not sharpen a chainsaw blade have a few extras...
4.). Water. Self explanatory
5.). Small window A/C if you live in the warmer climes....
In my 56 years on this earth I have only lived without power for about 45 days due to storms. Two weeks in 1983 from Hurricane Alicia, Two weeks from Hurricane Ike in 2008, four days in 2021 due to the Texas Freeze, four days during Hurricane Harvey in 2017 Probably 8-10 one or 2 day events due to random storms etc... I can't justify spending 12-15 thousand USD on a back up generator for the .75 days per year I lose power. So I learned to mitigate these risks economically.
I hope this helps someone...
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Post by missouriboy on Jul 9, 2024 12:40:51 GMT
It doesn't compare, but we are getting the wet edge of a southward dip in the jet stream, First 7 days of July, 9 inches of rain, 9 times the weekly normal. No complaints. We are on high ground ... and the plants are dancing Same and "singing in the rain". The cone flower clumps are expanding with gusto. We are definitely getting the up-latitude side of your rain Glenn. I remember a similar pattern that ended the drought in 2012. Same general location in the solar cycle ... but no drought this year though.
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