Re: Saharan dust cloud
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07/02/20 04:38 PM
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I am a big believer in man's short sighted never ending quest to improve on mother nature. My first lesson moving to Florida and the name of the game was to "drain" the Everglades, straighten/deepen the rivers feeding Lake Okeechobee. Well that resulted in starving the acquirer leading to annual water shortages and salt water intrusion of shore line wells, and the river straightening led to gross pollution/sediment loads from the up river farms causing huge and nasty lake algae blooms, fish kills, etc. Man needs to to live within his limits, eventually. Having been around hurricanes for over 6 decades, few seem to understand and appreciate the real function they likely serve the planet, but not man. I use the heated pot of water example. The universe seeks equilibrium and balance. When the water gets too hot on the bottom of the pot, and the heat applied can't equalize fast enough by normal circulation, the water forms a high energy steam bubble, and it quickly takes the high energy steam to the top surface and dissipates that extra energy, much faster them liquid water just heating up the air in contact with the waters surface. Hurricanes IMO effectively do the same thing. They take an enormous amount of stored thermal energy from the ocean near the equator, and move it northward into cooler areas, all to quickly assist in finding equilibrium. Its a well know fact ocean temps drop immediately after the path of a hurricane. Sahara dust inhibits hurricane formation, and I suspect actually increases the thermal heating of the ocean waters. Meaning, we may not be having hurricanes, but the water temps may be increasing higher/faster then normal, potentiality leading to stronger future hurricanes at the least for this season. This might trully be the quiet before the storm. https://www.seatemperature.org/
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Re: Saharan dust cloud
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07/02/20 11:37 PM
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I need to clarify, ocean temp decline post hurricane is also effected by the hurricanes wind induced churning of thermoclines. Regardless, the law of conservation of energy still applies, meaning an avg hurricane per day, releases the equivalent of 200 days with of world's electrical output
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Re: Saharan dust cloud
[Re: Neil]
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07/03/20 05:47 PM
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I was only interested in seeing if anyone living on that side of the county was seeing if their air quality/ visibility was being affected yet. Well then specifically, I can see pretty well right now thru my un shuttered windows partly because of the Saharan dust, and when the Saharan dust finally departs, I not sure how long my windows will remain to see thru, shuttered or not. Ah shucks, the Saharan dust effect has seen here since I have been in Florida since the 50's, but this is the most pronounced dust storm I can remember. Besides the sun sets, it will be interesting what might become of this event.
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Re: Saharan dust cloud
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07/03/20 06:33 PM
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Re: Saharan dust cloud
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07/03/20 11:00 PM
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I was only interested in seeing if anyone living on that side of the county was seeing if their air quality/ visibility was being affected yet. Yes, it did. A real large cloud area that ended up making it overcast looking. Also working outside gave me a nasal drip to almost cold-like from it. Came up out the Gulf as a Real Rain Strom would. Looked like a large weather storm would look on radar
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Re: Saharan dust cloud
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07/08/20 11:30 AM
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Looks like the experts are upping their hurricane season predictions after the start of the hurricane season, due to rising ocean temps among other things. https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/07/weather/hurricane-season-2020-forecast-update/index.htmlI'll make sure all my insurance policies are all up to date.
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