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Post by jamesp on Jun 16, 2015 9:23:16 GMT -5
No different than bamboo bushmanbilly. Dry cooler weather varieties have thin small leaves. Shade lovers and wet lovers have large broad leaves. All of them have leaves that curl along the length to turn off the sun intake.
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Post by jamesp on Jun 16, 2015 9:47:14 GMT -5
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Post by spiritstone on Jun 16, 2015 11:01:03 GMT -5
Noticed Rich and monitoring. Levels are all below average flows for this time of year. Lawn dried up and needs to be painted green now.Most years this doesnt happen until aug when the growing season starts to slow. At least I dont have to cut it. To early to tell if this is something to do with climate change. Just started this winter with more rainfall events then we had snow events. Not much rain here this spring either. I think I could count the drops on two hands and not use my thumbs. I killed a 3rd of my backyard and planted Eco-Lawn. To try it out. So far I'm liking it. I did pick a bad year to grow fresh grass, watering it everyday to save my investment. If its what it says it is. I think its worth it. Would be nice not to have to water and cut the grass weekly. What makes Eco-Lawn drought tolerant? Eco-Lawn is drought tolerant for two reasons. First, it produces grass blades that are very thin. Typical lawn grass varieties have thick, succulent blades that require a great deal of water to maintain structure and health. The thin blades of Eco-Lawn are less susceptible to extreme dryness. Eco-Lawn also creates an exceptionally deep root system. Most lawns create root systems that are only a few inches in depth which, in turn, require frequent watering. The deep roots of an established Eco-Lawn will penetrate up to 9 inches in hard pan clay and 14 inches deep in sandy soils and can naturally source moisture from the ground throughout the growing season. www.wildflowerfarm.com/index.php?route=product/category&path=20_72Lots of drought resistant plants on this site. I have to pick some of this up and give it a try before the summer ends. In another week or two, I'm going to head back out into the glacier fields and take some pics of the same ones I showed you last summer, and compare it to this years pics for change. Curious to see after what was written in that article. forum.rocktumblinghobby.com/thread/67275/glaciers-left
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Post by jamesp on Jun 16, 2015 14:12:24 GMT -5
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Post by gemfeller on Jun 16, 2015 16:33:05 GMT -5
James, I think that second link is pretty "tinfoil hat." I'm still laughing! For the real reason the jet stream has moved north and is "parked," try this info on the Pacific Decadal Oscillation from Jet Propulsion Laboratories. The PDO is a little-publicized ocean phenomenon that has potentially sinister implications for California, the Southwest in general and probably the mid-section of the country. Its long-range impact on our weather would explain many previous Southwestern droughts lasting from dozens to hundreds of years. sealevel.jpl.nasa.gov/science/elninopdo/pdo/
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Post by spiritstone on Jun 16, 2015 18:04:07 GMT -5
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Post by mohs on Jun 16, 2015 19:14:22 GMT -5
Advice Well HeedEd mostly™
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Post by jamesp on Jun 16, 2015 19:33:05 GMT -5
James, I think that second link is pretty "tinfoil hat." I'm still laughing! For the real reason the jet stream has moved north and is "parked," try this info on the Pacific Decadal Oscillation from Jet Propulsion Laboratories. The PDO is a little-publicized ocean phenomenon that has potentially sinister implications for California, the Southwest in general and probably the mid-section of the country. Its long-range impact on our weather would explain many previous Southwestern droughts lasting from dozens to hundreds of years. sealevel.jpl.nasa.gov/science/elninopdo/pdo/OK Rick, these guys predicted this change at the beginning of the 14 year drought being experienced in the SW back in 2000. Regional droughts are all about the jet streams. And the jet streams are strongly influenced by ocean temps. Just as ocean temps are all about forming massive hurricanes. Hurricane and tropical storms do most of the mass watering in this country. I believe regional droughts are totally jet stream position related. Great piece. 2000 report : sealevel.jpl.nasa.gov/newsroom/pressreleases/index.cfm?FuseAction=ShowNews&NewsID=211I remember Ivanback in 2004 entering the Gulf of Mexico in Sept with perfect formation and hot Gulf water. The size of Texas and 165 MPH cyclone like strength. It for some reason decided to slow down just before land fall after a long sustained life. Great example of the effect of ocean temp effecting the weather on a large scale. Had that storm stayed a class five a day or two longer big problems would have happened. Some years the hurricanes head north out in the Atlantic, some straight into Yucatan, some turn north into Texas/LA, and some flow into the SE. Or there paths are variable for a given year. Watch the jet stream, it effect these storms. Ocean temp the jet streams.
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Post by gemfeller on Jun 16, 2015 20:05:16 GMT -5
Oh dear! Not chemtrails and HAARP again. Beam me up Scotty! Sorry, but I have an allergy to tinfoil.
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Post by jamesp on Jun 16, 2015 20:09:34 GMT -5
1928 Okeechobee Hurricane. The south shore of massive shallow Lake Okeechobee was 20 feet deeper. Est 145 MPH winds blew the lake 20 feet deeper on it's south side. Mother nature kicking azz. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1928_Okeechobee_hurricaneMitch in 1998, 44 foot waves. Devastated natural features of Honduras, and killed 15,000 in Honduras alone. Watch the ocean temps.
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Post by spiritstone on Jun 16, 2015 20:18:31 GMT -5
Oh dear! Not chemtrails and HAARP again. Beam me up Scotty! Sorry, but I have an allergy to tinfoil. Better beam yourself back down. Haarp nothing brought up by me. Weather modification or geoengineering...what ever you like to call it, have lived it for years. Looks like the same company that does it here does it there. Hmmmmm www.weathermodification.com/projects.php?id=6www.weathermodification.com/
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Post by gemfeller on Jun 16, 2015 21:02:03 GMT -5
[quote author=" spiritstone" Better beam yourself back down. Haarp nothing brought up by me. Weather modification or geoengineering...what ever you like to call it, have lived it for years. Looks like the same company that does it here does it there. Hmmmmm www.weathermodification.com/projects.php?id=6www.weathermodification.com/[/quote]Your links don't work for m unless you intended to show big stormy-looking clouds with no commentary. HAARP was brought up in the link you posted. I think I'll stay beamed-up for the moment. Would you mind going into a little more detail about what you call "geoengineering" and your involvement with it? Maybe I just don't understand what you'e getting at.
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Post by spiritstone on Jun 16, 2015 23:26:58 GMT -5
Your links don't work for m unless you intended to show big stormy-looking clouds with no commentary. Not sure why they dont for you only? Here is a special link for you discussing "Weather modifications" www.weathermodification.org/publications/index.php/JWM/issue/archiveHAARP was brought up in the link you posted. Again...its in a paragraph after reading into your chain of thought, not mentioned by me by any means. Only in the link on this posted thread. I think I'll stay beamed-up for the moment. Would you mind going into a little more detail about what you call "geoengineering" and your involvement with it? Maybe I just don't understand what you'e getting at. [/quote] Geo-engineering or weather modification. You can call the kettle white if you want to. Google it. Not to be sarcastic. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_modification
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Post by snowmom on Jun 17, 2015 4:57:10 GMT -5
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Post by snowmom on Jun 17, 2015 5:01:33 GMT -5
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Post by jamesp on Jun 17, 2015 6:04:40 GMT -5
James, I think that second link is pretty "tinfoil hat." I'm still laughing! For the real reason the jet stream has moved north and is "parked," try this info on the Pacific Decadal Oscillation from Jet Propulsion Laboratories. The PDO is a little-publicized ocean phenomenon that has potentially sinister implications for California, the Southwest in general and probably the mid-section of the country. Its long-range impact on our weather would explain many previous Southwestern droughts lasting from dozens to hundreds of years. sealevel.jpl.nasa.gov/science/elninopdo/pdo/Oops, I see the conspiracy theory of the 2nd link gemfeller. Did not notice the reference to nuclear pollution. Was referring to the link for the satellite imagery showing the mechanics of a consistant high pressure system over California-simple and basic. High pressure system shape and mechanics relative to jet stream patterns. High pressure systems to be respected, they bully giant hurricanes and force them to go elsewhere. Create droughts with little effort. But high pressure systems are set in place by the jet streams. Nino/Nina phenomena theorized to be influenced by positions of hot and cold ocean water. Lots of documentation on that issue since it is somewhat an annual phenomena. Add hurricanes. The PDO theory sounds plausible, it is based on warm/cold ocean water positioning. Therefore influencing jet stream location. Certainly provides a warmer dryer air flow over the California and Rocky ice pack territories. And less rain in the SW.
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Post by jamesp on Jun 17, 2015 6:22:55 GMT -5
Energy of a hurricane, a wake up to nature's power. I don't think she pays to much attention to CO2 levels : www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/tcfaq/D7.htmlHurricanes can be thought of, to a first approximation, as a heat engine; obtaining its heat input from the warm, humid air over the tropical ocean, and releasing this heat through the condensation of water vapor into water droplets in deep thunderstorms of the eyewall and rainbands, then giving off a cold exhaust in the upper levels of the troposphere (~12 km/8 mi up). One can look at the energetics of a hurricane in two ways: the total amount of energy released by the condensation of water droplets or ... the amount of kinetic energy generated to maintain the strong swirling winds of the hurricane (Emanuel 1999). It turns out that the vast majority of the heat released in the condensation process is used to cause rising motions in the thunderstorms and only a small portion drives the storm's horizontal winds. Method 1) - Total energy released through cloud/rain formation: An average hurricane produces 1.5 cm/day (0.6 inches/day) of rain inside a circle of radius 665 km (360 n.mi) (Gray 1981). (More rain falls in the inner portion of hurricane around the eyewall, less in the outer rainbands.) Converting this to a volume of rain gives 2.1 x 1016 cm3/day. A cubic cm of rain weighs 1 gm. Using the latent heat of condensation, this amount of rain produced gives 5.2 x 1019 Joules/day or 6.0 x 1014 Watts. This is equivalent to 200 times the world-wide electrical generating capacity - an incredible amount of energy produced! Method 2) - Total kinetic energy (wind energy) generated: For a mature hurricane, the amount of kinetic energy generated is equal to that being dissipated due to friction. The dissipation rate per unit area is air density times the drag coefficient times the windspeed cubed (See Emanuel 1999 for details). One could either integrate a typical wind profile over a range of radii from the hurricane's center to the outer radius encompassing the storm, or assume an average windspeed for the inner core of the hurricane. Doing the latter and using 40 m/s (90 mph) winds on a scale of radius 60 km (40 n.mi.), one gets a wind dissipation rate (wind generation rate) of 1.3 x 1017 Joules/day or 1.5 x 1012Watts. This is equivalent to about half the world-wide electrical generating capacity - also an amazing amount of energy being produced! Either method is an enormous amount energy being generated by hurricanes. However, one can see that the amount of energy released in a hurricane (by creating clouds/rain) that actually goes to maintaining the hurricane's spiraling winds is a huge ratio of 400 to 1. Note: Wind is a small portion of of a hurricane's energy(James)
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Post by jamesp on Jun 17, 2015 7:11:47 GMT -5
Powerful landfall hurricanes recorded over the past 100 years. Half of them before 1936. Apparently not influenced by any form of recent global warming. I love hurricanes. I leave Atlanta and stay at Florida camp to be with them. Awesome to see. Best time to fish(before strike), low pressure systems make fish feed like crazy.
Most intense landfalling U.S. hurricanes Intensity is measured solely by central pressure Rank Hurricane Season Landfall pressure 1 "Labor Day" 1935 892 mbar (hPa) 2 Camille 1969 900 mbar (hPa) 3 Katrina 2005 920 mbar (hPa) 4 Andrew 1992 922 mbar (hPa) 5 "Indianola" 1886 925 mbar (hPa) 6 "Florida Keys" 1919 927 mbar (hPa) 7 "Okeechobee" 1928 929 mbar (hPa) 8 "Great Miami" 1926 930 mbar (hPa) Donna 1960 930 mbar (hPa) 10 Carla 1961 931 mbar (hPa) Source: HURDAT,[3] Hurricane Research Division[4]
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Post by snuffy on Jun 17, 2015 8:15:59 GMT -5
Well,I got 3.5 inches out of the tropical storm Bill. Total of 5.3 the last week. Probably be much rain out of it as it moves up the country.Around Dallas now.
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