NASA instrument cluster
Desoto instrument ckuster... keep the units the same! Screw the international standards and lets go back to analog gauges... they just look better.
Posted on 05/23/2020 6:51:21 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Explanation: What's happening over the water? Pictured here is one of the better images yet recorded of a waterspout, a type of tornado that occurs over water. Waterspouts are spinning columns of rising moist air that typically form over warm water. Waterspouts can be as dangerous as tornadoes and can feature wind speeds over 200 kilometers per hour. Some waterspouts form away from thunderstorms and even during relatively fair weather. Waterspouts may be relatively transparent and initially visible only by an unusual pattern they create on the water. The featured image was taken in 2013 July near Tampa Bay, Florida. The Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Florida is arguably the most active area in the world for waterspouts, with hundreds forming each year.
(Excerpt) Read more at apod.nasa.gov ...
A really, really close up of a waterspout in Tampa Bay, Florida.
Dangerous, but so very beautiful. Thanks for sharing.
I bet some fish got to go on a wild ride.
I feel that water spouts were a large factor for AC disappearance in the Bermuda Triangle before radar was perfected.
Personally spent a few hours(too many) watching a radar scope helping the AC Comander dodge those things at night while doing SAR in the region
Sharknado!!!
Honest officer, I wrecked because I swerved to miss a manatee that fell in front of me. I thought it was Stacey Abrams.
It reminds me of Heinlein’s “Goldfish Bowl” from 1942.
Back in 2000, one of those skipped over the seawall (in Ft. Lauderdale) and headed west up Oakland Park Blvd.
I just happened to be riding my Harley EAST on Oakland Park Blvd, and smacked right into it.
I leaped off the bike, and lay sprawled in the middle of the street as the bike spun round and round on its side looking just like a food processor.
Two Rastafarian guys with dreadlocks down to their waists, picked me up, peeled off their white T-shirts, and wrapped them around my road-rashed arms. Then they righted the bike (which was stuck in 2nd, as the gear shift lever, clutch handle, and left mirror had been sheared off), pushed me down the street until the engine was engaged, and I puttered home at 10mph in one gear with torrential rain and hail falling down on me. The 10 miles took over and hour, but I couldn’t stop anywhere because I would not have been able to start up again.
The next day, after laundering the T-shirts, I went back to the place and asked around for the two Rastafarian guys who were very distinctive-looking and should have been easily identified.
Nobody knew who or what I was talking about.
The bike, a 93FXR, is still my ride to this very day. I just keep fixing it and it keeps running, even though we are both little old ladies now.
You KNOW I’m telling the TRUTH because you can’t make this stuff up.
Cool shot. I’ve been on the water a lot, seen plenty small ones including right here on a fresh water lake, but none that big or that close...
Fairly common on the Great Lakes. We saw a triple one time.
Check out the picture.
Kinda cute the way they use metric 200 kilometers per hour to make waterspouts sound more threatening. Hey NASA the last time I checked you were still supported by the USA. 124 mph sounds threatening enough.
They USUALLY look much worse than they actually are. They are more akin to “dust devils” over water than they are to tornados. But the big ones? Those can indeed be tornado like and should be give a wide berth - especially if you are in a boat.
I’ve seen lots of them in the bays in So. Texas. Once ashore, they generally come apart quickly - sometimes with a wet deluge.
After the Mars Climate Orbiter screw up, NASA probably has policy that EVERYTHING, EVERWHERE will be in SI units, and SI units only.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter
And I’m OK with that.
NASA instrument cluster
Desoto instrument ckuster... keep the units the same! Screw the international standards and lets go back to analog gauges... they just look better.
Personal waterspout story ... I was canoeing and fishing on an unnamed lake in northern Ontario and the sky changed colors in a matter of minutes. A waterspout formed about 300 yards away and started coming in our direction. Fortunately, it only moved maybe an hundred yards and fizzled out. It was much smaller than the one in the picture of this article.
Earlier that morning we ran into a moose while paddling into a small cove. Man, they can swim fast. We paddled out of there twice as fast as we came in. Something was telling us not to fish that day.
But we didn't give up, that evening I caught a muskie that was "this big". Of course I released the fish. By the time we got back to the lodge, the muskie was "that big." And today, it remains "just this shy" of a Ontario provincial record.
Back at the lodge that evening, this guy named Cornpop came up to me and wanted to feel the golden blond hair on my legs.
That is a great story!! Sounds like accounts of tornado victims, in Joplin, MO for example. Victims look for their rescuers with distinctive features who pushed a wall off them, for example, with no one known to fit that descriptions.
I think angels can come in all sizes and shapes and colors. Depends upon the need! Great story.
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