1. The quick and the hungry 2. Look who's home! 3. This is one I truly don't understand. What's going on here? 4. Shooting at the floor with a .22? Why? 5. Great job! 6. Wow. That's something I'd like to see in person. 7. The result of a LOT of practice. 8. Good job, kid. Now try explaining it to your father. 9. Nice! 10. Real talent, and a lot of hard practice.
#3 is a vortex being sucked in to a ventilation turbine. Sort of like the wingtip vortices you see, it's the pressure difference causing the moisture in the air to be visible.
There's a place in my neighborhood where something like this happens. The surrounding terrain is a long deep tapering valley with a headwall at one end, so it's a natural wind tunnel and cloud funnel. Every once in a while the sun moon and planets line up and it DUMPS in a very localized way, right around exit 14 on I-5 in Oregon.
A mile away, you wouldn't even know it's happening. But I've been caught out in that storm twice, and it's unreal at ground level. It only lasts about five minutes, but it dumps about five inches of water.
Imagine a yardstick right between two walls. Now slip a dime between one end. The yardstick will bend/arch up like a rainbow. That floor is expanding with nowhere to expand.
#6 Awesome, time-lapsed that way. Beautiful. Similar things happen in Denver all the time. Clouds all over the place and one group in the distance just a bit too heavy with water so it dumps. And then, remarkably, dries before it hits the ground. All this is seen in the distance because the air is so dry otherwise and so thin. You can see really far. So you see these often. And just like the movies, the mesas get fainter and fainter the farther away they are. Then, it happens; you're in one! A virga. Clouds all around, it's raining hard directly over you but remarkably you hardly get wet. The water is drying before it hits you.
#1 Kamala Harris' dog? #4 - I've seen that happen. Amateur tile setters don't leave any room for heat expansion and run the tile right up to the baseplate can expect this kind of result. CC
1. The quick and the hungry
ReplyDelete2. Look who's home!
3. This is one I truly don't understand. What's going on here?
4. Shooting at the floor with a .22? Why?
5. Great job!
6. Wow. That's something I'd like to see in person.
7. The result of a LOT of practice.
8. Good job, kid. Now try explaining it to your father.
9. Nice!
10. Real talent, and a lot of hard practice.
#3 is a vortex being sucked in to a ventilation turbine. Sort of like the wingtip vortices you see, it's the pressure difference causing the moisture in the air to be visible.
Delete#3. Air Force mechanics mistakenly pull ancient Middle East ghost snake from burial and bring calamity. That movie does not end well.
ReplyDelete#1. Didn't even have to wear a Biden sticker.
ReplyDeleteThat dog with all the bones is a Jewish Schnauzer
Delete#10 would be cool if he weren't wearing the Nike crap. I see someone with Nike products on I figure they aint American.
ReplyDeleteOk what's up with #4?
ReplyDeleteA site where I saw the full video said it was a heated floor malfunctioning.
DeleteAaaaannnndd...
DeleteThat's why you don't tile a workshop floor where you use a torch....
Shit pops like wet sandstone in a campfire.
6 is a Vietnam monsoon thunderstorm. If there was one in the way, we'd just fly right around it. (Huey helicopter.)
ReplyDeleteVietnam, huh?
DeleteThere's a place in my neighborhood where something like this happens. The surrounding terrain is a long deep tapering valley with a headwall at one end, so it's a natural wind tunnel and cloud funnel. Every once in a while the sun moon and planets line up and it DUMPS in a very localized way, right around exit 14 on I-5 in Oregon.
A mile away, you wouldn't even know it's happening. But I've been caught out in that storm twice, and it's unreal at ground level. It only lasts about five minutes, but it dumps about five inches of water.
Lead calls 'weather break!' as the flight spins-off.
Delete#6 - awesome video.
ReplyDelete#3 - that thing needs a vertical stack because that's just pumping dust into that tunnel.
The floor is tenting.
ReplyDeleteImagine a yardstick right between two walls. Now slip a dime between one end. The yardstick will bend/arch up like a rainbow. That floor is expanding with nowhere to expand.
Pop goes the weasel.
#6 Awesome, time-lapsed that way. Beautiful. Similar things happen in Denver all the time. Clouds all over the place and one group in the distance just a bit too heavy with water so it dumps. And then, remarkably, dries before it hits the ground. All this is seen in the distance because the air is so dry otherwise and so thin. You can see really far. So you see these often. And just like the movies, the mesas get fainter and fainter the farther away they are. Then, it happens; you're in one! A virga. Clouds all around, it's raining hard directly over you but remarkably you hardly get wet. The water is drying before it hits you.
ReplyDelete#7 I can cast a net, but nothing that bloody big.
ReplyDelete#3 scares me.
ReplyDelete#10 is smoooooooth.
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If #5 is in China, that is probably just catching dinner. They do like it fresh there!!!
ReplyDelete#1 Kamala Harris' dog?
ReplyDelete#4 - I've seen that happen. Amateur tile setters don't leave any room for heat expansion and run the tile right up to the baseplate can expect this kind of result.
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