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[STARLIT]

Planes Don't Make 'Chemtrails', But They Can Create Something Else in Their Wake DAVID NIELD5 FEBRUARY 2019 While living under the path of aircraft is usually no cause for concern, you might want to keep an umbrella handy: a new study shows planes flying over patches of rain or snow can boost precipitation levels by as much as 14 times.

This strange meteorological phenomenon is all down to the design of the wings on modern aircraft, which create changes in air pressure and pockets of freezing water droplets that have an impact lower down in the atmosphere.

Conditions need to be exactly right for it to happen though – it's most often seen over airports, where planes are intersecting layers of cloud as they come down to land, adding an extra rain or snow flurry as they go.

"The intensified precipitation basically follows the track of an airplane above the cloud," says one of the researchers, Dmitri Moisseev from the University of Helsinki in Finland.

"It could extend over hundreds of kilometres, but the cross-section would be maybe 100 metres (330 ft). So it's a very narrow, long feature."

Moisseev and his colleagues first noticed something strange in radar data patterns: narrow streams of heavy rain or snow. Significantly, most of these streams were pointing towards Helsinki-Vantaa airport.

The researchers then ploughed through nearly 11 years of weather data, and found 17 cases of these strange patterns, from the end of 2008 to the start of 2018. Cross-checking this data with flight pattern records and local observations, they found a link to passing aircraft.

For an explanation, the team turned to something we already know about: hole punch clouds. These clouds form when zones of low pressure around aircraft wings and propellers allow air to expand and cool – this knocks the temperature down significantly around the plane as it flies through.

For the effect to happen, the cloud layer needs to be supercooled: water doesn't always freeze at 0 degrees Celsius (32 degrees Fahrenheit). If it's pure enough and doesn't have a surface to latch on to, it can actually go as low as -40 °C (-40 °F) before solidifying.

It's these very cold water droplets that aircraft can have an effect on. As the temperature drops and ice crystals begin to form, it triggers a chain reaction in a widening circle around the passing aircraft. These ice crystals then drop into lower clouds that are already spitting out rain or snow, which leads to a boost in water or ice discharge.

"Falling ice crystals from upper clouds could seed lower clouds and therefore increase rain or snowfall intensity through the process called snowflake aggregation," explains the team of researchers.

The idea that this could trigger more rainfall or snowfall lower down has been suggested before. What's new in this study is more detailed documentation of it happening, and the precise conditions required – as well as evidence that it starts happening at a higher level than we thought.

In fact, it looks as though the phenomenon can occur even outside of clouds, higher up in the atmosphere, as long as there are enough ultra-cool water droplets to freeze. That would make this effect slightly different to the one we see in hole punch clouds.

All of this advanced physics might eventually lead to improved weather forecasts around airports – forecasts that are crucial for getting planes safely taking off and landing on time.

In particular, the researchers say, this study should help in the "nowcast" that airports rely on: that's weather conditions predicted over the next two to six hours. It's also something we're going to need to investigate even as planes switch to alternative fuel sources.

"The interesting thing about this feature is that it is caused by aircraft, but it is not caused by pollution," says Moisseev. "Even if there would be absolutely ecological airplanes, which don't have any combustion, no fuel or anything, it would still happen."

[Jane Long]

No words to express my sadness about Rush’s passing. We’ve all lost a best friend.

💔😢

[weston]

Rush always said “Talent on loan from God”.
Now he’s home.
RIP Rush Limbaugh.

[jennychase]

@ACTBrigitte
The people stomping on Rush Limbaugh’s grave are a disgrace.

When RBG, a leftist icon, died Republicans all around the nation mourned with the nation.

Now a conservative icon dies and they’re showing just how classless they are.

[jennychase]

@RealKyleMorris
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Former President Donald Trump on Rush Limbaugh: “He was special. [...] He was very brave. He was fighting to the very end. He’s a fighter.”

“Rush is irreplaceable, unique. He had an audience that was massive.”

[Vlad The Inhaler]

But do they match your outfit?

Just my Old School USMC P.T. T-Shirt.

[Lakeside Granny]

My Mom called Rush her favorite conservative son, so I’m feeling like I lost a brother right now.

I’m sure he was considered a Brother in Arms to many as we fought the Good Fight together.

[Lakeside Granny]

Saddened by news of the death of Rush Limbaugh, whose wit and wisdom comforted conservatives and confused leftists. He loved God, America, and his audience. His impact on broadcasting will never be equaled.— Gov. Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee) February 17, 2021

[Lakeside Granny]

Haters gotta hate!

[Lakeside Granny]

Love you, Rush! The greatest radio man in history. An absolute master of the craft. And a brilliant hero to many. If you didn't listen to him, or only heard him in selectively edited snippets from the hostile media, you won't understand. pic.twitter.com/W2h8BcwbC1— Mollie (@MZHemingway) February 17, 2021

[Spirit of Liberty]

Yes; I was going to post earlier that people might want to stay off social media today to avoid it.

But, I also know that there were people on the right posting horrible things after RBG passed away, even here on FR.

[stars & stripes forever]

RE: RUSH LIMBAUGH

RUSH was a true patriot!

Remember his Ted Kennedy parody’s and Dan’s Bake Sale - the forerunner of the MAGA rallies.

[Lakeside Granny]

One of the greatest testaments to a man's life is that his death is celebrated by all of the worst people— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) February 17, 2021

We should all aspire to receive the kind of unhinged, slobbering liberal hate that Rush's patriotism, talent and vision inspired from these bitter nobodies.— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) February 17, 2021

[Jemian]

Kathryn's announcement

[stars & stripes forever]

[Rusty0604]

I am too. Didn’t hear Catherine. I feel like I just lost a best friend.

[Lakeside Granny]

Thank you Jem.

I cried the 1st time and the 2nd time listening to this.

[Lakeside Granny]

Listen to Rush.....

Rush Limbaugh on December 23:

“The day is going to come folks when I'm not going to be able to do this. I don't know when that is.... I want you to understand that even when the day comes, I'd like to be herepic.twitter.com/2gF64b8zZr— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) February 17, 2021

[Rusty0604]

we get 23% of energy from wind turbines. The governor just won some award for green energy. I’d like to give him an award.

[Rusty0604]

“Put some of the Green New Deal idiots on treadmills.”

Great idea!