Here is some useless information dealing with steep hidden arenas and what helps form them.....
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Here are some basic points for understanding where/how our weather initiates. Convection: Moist, warm air from the equatorial regions rises until it hits the barrier of the tropopause and spreads out. Next the air travels away from the equator, cools, then sinks. As it is sinking it begins to look for areas of low pressure to occupy then heads back to the equator, completing a circle.
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Humans are 65% water Water molecules do stick together but not so tightly that they can't be easily separated as when, for instance, you can dive into a pool of them. At any given moment only 15 percent of them are actually touching. If water is aerated, such as at the bottom of a waterfall, this % is even less but still potentially dangerous. There are 320,000,000 cubic miles of water on Earth and there is not more coming. 97% of all the Earth's water is in the seas, 3% is fresh and most of this in ice. 0.036%-found in lakes, rivers, reservoirs, 0.001% in clouds and vapor If all the atmospheres rain fell at once, evenly, oceans would deepen by 1 inch. Curious about a water molecules fate/journey resulting from rain? If it makes it to the groundwater it may not see sunlight again for many years, maybe thousands if it goes deep. If it makes it to the lake it will average a decade If it makes it to the ocean it will average a century Once evaporated, the journey will probably be less than a week ending in rainfall. some say 12 days 60% of water molecules in air are returned to the atmosphere within a day or two. How much of the Earth's freshwater is floating around above us in the form of clouds? 0.035 % |
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Some creekers are nearly 100% rain dependent. Chattanooga is a good example of such an area
(minus the Ocoee) Boaters in these areas usually have a tracker in the back of their head that keeps them closely
informed of what is going on with the weather in their surrounding area. Sometimes the forces that be come into
perfect congruence and produce something harnessing and releasing a lot of energy. How much energy? -A typical weather front may consist of 750,000,000 tons of air pinned beneath 1,000,000,000 tons of warmer air. This is the reason that many meterologists have a lot to be excited about frequently in temperate regions. -One thunderstorm can contain an amount of energy equivalent to four days' use of electricity for the whole United States. This has been calculated (not by anyone here at SC obviously!) -A tropical hurricane can release in twenty-four hours as much energy as a rich, medium-sized nation like Britain or France uses in a year. Why can't the Weather Channel, Intellicast, local forecast, etc. be accurate with their predictions? -Heat from the Sun is unevenly distributed, differences in air pressure therefore arise across the land, no human or super computer can predict the outcome of all the active variables.. Water drowns tens of thousands of people every year. |