Posted on 06/08/2021 11:58:37 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
The 17-year “Brood X” cicadas are hatching in such high numbers that they’re being picked up by weather radar in Virginia.
“THIS is not rain, not ground clutter,” NBC meteorologist Lauryn Ricketts tweeted on Monday. “So likely CICADAS being picked up by the radar beam.”
Pallozzi said the NWS has a weather radar located in Sterling, Virginia, in the same region as the radar map that Ricketts posted, and explained that the beams the radar devices send out rise the further they travel from the machine.
So the beams are picking up the newly emerged cicadas on the ground near the Sterling radar, but fewer and fewer cicadas are identified as the beam’s height increases away from the ground, which is why the blip on the map is so close to the radar itself, Pallozzi said.
The NWS’ Baltimore-Washington account tweeted on Saturday that local radar was reporting “a lot of fuzziness” that it attributed to cicadas.
While the cicadas are populous enough for weather radar to notice them, Pallozzi said it’s easy for any meteorologist to discern the difference between weather events and cicadas due to the “Hydrometeor Classification Algorithm.”
Pallozzi said the NWS can use the algorithm to determine the likelihood that a radar beam is picking up hail, rain, snow, something biological, or more.
And cicadas can be really noisy too:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1401920157413482500
After 17 years underground, billions of red-eyed cicadas are beginning to crawl their way to the surface in portions of the United States. The periodical insects, known as Brood X or Brood 10, have begun emerging from the earth in 15 eastern states and Washington, D.C., from Georgia to New York and west to Indiana and Illinois.
“There will be birth. There will be death. There will be romance in the treetops. There will be wicked sex. There will be predators. It’s going to be better than an episode of Game of Thrones…”
FYI. Tucker Carlson ran a segment recently featuring several different Cicada based products and admitted that the one he ate tasted pretty good.
Aw, now, they’re just trying to make sure the next brood happens.
I’ve sat on the porch watching the dogs with one or two perched on me, possibly watching the dogs, as well.
:)
I would only eat those if I was Henri “Papillon” Charrière in the Devil’s Island Prison..
*ew*
*ew*
My niece works in Westminster and swears there’re no cicadas there. I can’t believe it. We’re only 45 minutes away and getting creamed!
This is brood X after all...
I don’t know how there can be any left after looking at my windshield. Took a short trip this past weekend and splatted a ton of them.
Nothing. It’s “10”, not “X” - Roman. But, I’m sure demographic might not know that....
Has there been major construction in the last 17 years?
Several places in H-town are bereft of them, owing to large developments like the Amazon warehouses and trucking companies tearing down woodlands and building HUGE buildings right over top of where the Cicadas *would* have emerged.
I kind of hate that.
Their 17 year hiatus is over.
With the exception of death, I thought this was an article about me............
We’ve had lots of construction for the last 25. I came back to my home from CT then and didn’t know what was going on in many places. Ever since it’s been 1 big housing project after another, and other things.
Change doesn’t phase them. It’s probably how far down are they and do they just get planted somewhere else.
I don’t know where the construction dirt gets hauled to, from here.
Having 40 acres of concrete dumped on top of them probably messes them up, though.
Hi.
“Believe it or not, they actually taste like shrimp.
Id try it.
Heck, I think ive eaten most things on the planet.
5.56mm
A marvelous life, for a bug.
I was hoping it was armed UAPs descending on D.C.
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