We have a monthly rain total that’s not zero! But will there be more this month? Stay tuned until November 30th! (Nothing imminent.) In the meantime, a very pretty blue sky day today pocked with residual Cumulus clouds, maybe some virga. There’ll be nice cloud shadows and sun on the Catalinas again today. In the meantime,… Continue reading Rain 2 for November 2013: 0.23 inches, lightning and a couple of grape-sized hail stones
Category: Heavy metal
Story time: They said they couldn’t exist, but we found some anyway (extra giant raindrops)
While waiting for the chance of rain mid-week next week, I thought I would tell another science story… How me and Doc Hobbs got into the Guinness Book of World Records Rain drops bigger than about 5 mm in diameter (only about 0.2 inches) are thought, mainly through lab experiments, to break up into smaller drops… Continue reading Story time: They said they couldn’t exist, but we found some anyway (extra giant raindrops)
Smoke and mirrors in the models; fire in the sky
For those of you who have forgotten that heavy metal pioneering band, Deep Purple, and their hit, “Smoke on the Water”, to which this post sort of alludes to, straining really, take this. It was kind of fun to see this “songumentary”, because it was about something that really happened. In a line out… Continue reading Smoke and mirrors in the models; fire in the sky