Posted on 04/15/2016 7:56:30 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Has anyone seen what has been going on up at Yellowstone lately?
They took down all the USGS earthquake sites for there. No explainantion, no reason. I guess around Cody WY they have had a thermal vent open up. When one professor at the at Utah University was asked about it, he said he couldnt say anything about it.
Unusual? No, but it really has some folks shook up.
I always tell these dooms day people that in the case of Yellowstone, Why worry? Because if that thing blows, the only thing you could do is bend over and kiss your ass goodbye....worldwide.
But it would be nice to know when to put the lipstick on.
>>So if it raining at your house it probably isn’t raining where you are going.<<
Years ago the wife & I had an argument about whether or not it was raining.
I discovered, upon the demand that “I came & see for myself”, that we were both right. Looking out the kitchen window, she was seeing water running off the roof, and rain drenching the back yard.
I then led her to the living room windows, to see a perfectly dry yard, with the sun shining.
Going outside, we could see that the peak of our roof was the demarcation between the rain falling & dry air.
THIS was an “epic El Niño?”
It rained a few times, mostly just drizzle, over the past few months. Never two solid days of rain. Never one solid day of rain. Every other week, maybe, a bit of drizzle for 3-4 hours at most. We never needed rain jackets, umbrellas, or boots (sadly for my daughter, hardly any puddles ever).
In my childhood I remember flooded streets and hard rain that soaked you. I remember it raining for days on end.
Me as well. Nashville was under water 6 years ago.
We visited Nashville and our hostess drove us all around to show us what had been underwater. UNBELIEVABLE.
I fell in love with Nashville. Especially the hilly outer areas.
I visited in January to put in a data center and it was crazy busy. This was Franklin.
The underwater part was my other home in Smyrna on the Stones river. My home was fine but OMG was the water going to reak havic on Percy Priest!
Like most arguments between people, the position you take depends on your particular view. Isn’t it nice that for once you were both right?
Meteorologists should look out of the window more.
That was about 40 years ago, and we still laugh about it.
The el nino and la nina are measurable high and low pressure changes “the southern pacific oscillation”. Wind blows from high pressure to low pressure on the earth surface. The southern pacific oscillation is a change in low and high pressure systems. When the low pressure is off the Australian coast and the high is off Chile, the warm surface water is pushed against the west coast including up to California. more rain.
In La Nina the pressures reverse and the warm water is pushed west toward Australia. Cold water is on the west coast of the US and less rain.
Bought an umbrella in December - still as it arrived.
We need the rain here in So Cal.
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