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Cities Create Weather
NightEyes Decorum writes "Time is running a short piece on some research being conducted by meteorologists. While it's been known for a while that cities trap heat, research into the effect of this extra heat is only now just being studied. Apparently, some cities trap enough heat to actually create rainfall."
GOD creates weather
no thanks
I'm pretty sure that most people who work in a large city and live in the suburbs could tell you this.
Hell. Has it ever NOT rained in London?
-- If you try to fail and succeed, which have you done? - Uli's moose
Welcome to Seattle, here's your bumbershoot.
...is such a big and lively city that it creates rain for the whole of England, and Ireland too!
Daniel
Carpe Diem
This is kinda like the Slashdot Effect, only with weather: Too much heat, and something falls down. :)
I mean, 'cmon people.
Anyone whose ever lived in Texas can tell you about heat lightning and spontaneous storms after a few days of 100+ degree (F) weather.
Cruising the internet on my TI-99/4A @ a whopping 300 baud!
It's 8 degrees (F) warmer on average than Austin which is 3 hours to the south. "Dallas, a great place if you hate trees!" , the Dallas moto (well that and "Your hair can never be too big, and there is no such thing as too much make-up or plastic surgery")
Meteorologist: Dude, if the ozone layer goes away, we'll just put up a big shield.
Anchor Guy: That's unpossible.
M: No way, man. I saw it on TV last night. It's true, just like big cities causing rain.
AG: Please don't talk me.
Yeah, OK, so in my imagination meteorologists are dumb dorks. Considering they get the forecast right about 50% of the time around here (which seems like dumb luck more than anything), I'm not sure I have anything to atone for. If you're gonna go into a profession where you're wrong a lot, you have to put up with at least a little abuse. Or go work in Southern California. "Tomorrow? Sunny!"
Humankind, by the power of brain, disrupt the natural equilibrium of mother earth. The system want to reach its equilibrium back. Expect more and more destruction by natural disaster if people don't learn the law of nature.
... that Portland was like this. This is not through scientific experimentation or anything, it's because it just felt like Portland was always raining when other places weren't. I can't believe meteorologists would just now be looking into that.
"Derp de derp."
"Before each night is done
Their plan will be unfurled
By the dawning of the sun
They'll take over the world.
They're Pinky and The Brain
Yes, Pinky and The Brain
Their twilight campaign
Is easy to explain.
To prove their mousey worth
They'll overthrow the Earth"
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
Because we were reading when they previous covered this story.
Ok, so in the last three years this has gone from maybe to they do, but still, could you try to keep down the dupes?
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
If cities create their own weather, than perhaps the road construction altering albedo and redirecting heat-causing traffic might be to blame for the fact that the Chicago area has had storms severe enough to drop hail on us like 6 times since July 1st?
I've seen more hail in about the past month than the previos 28 1/2 years of my life.
"You know your god is man-made when he hates all the same people you do."
I tried to watch Highlander 2. but I could not get past the old guy's ludicrous and hilarious wheeze-talking.
He made Vito Corleone seem like James Earl Jones in oratory comparison.
It's the Chicago Cubs. They're doing pretty well this year, perhaps dangerously close to serious pennant or even World Series contention.
Considering the Cubs Curse, the cosmic balance is out of whack this summer.
Don't complain about the hail. You might be having to put up with blue suns and frog-plagues as they advance through the playoffs.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
And plenty of other subjects have been posted in the meantime. Getting upset about 2 dupes in one day? I can see that. Two dupes in a year? Cut the editors a little slack man.
/offtopic.
"Inattention makes clowns of us all" -Bean
Instead of all this speculation, shouldn't we go to the source?. When the Heat Miser takes Manhattan, there is sure to be a hot time on the old town tonight.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
Here is the real Heat Miser link for the parent.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
/joeyo
2^5
It has long been known that cities (large modern cities) effect the weather, and it has been proven that they cause rain many miles down wind from them. But it's good to see it publicly being studied.
NarratorDan
"If you're not confused by quantum mechanics, you really don't understand it." - Niels Bohr
This is not a new phenomena, I don't think. I can remember many times growing up near Atlanta when there'd be awful weather coming and all the TV reporters were telling us to hide in the basement, only to find that the line of storms divided and went around town.
It's been my observation that no significant weather happens in Midtown, and little happens anywhere in the metro area. Except smog
it's damn hot...so where the hell is all the rain!?
They're about to overtake Philadelphia to become the fifth largest city in the United States. It must all be part of a master plan to get more rain.
Honestly, you'll be in Oakland in clear blue skys, and you look across the bay and there's this big-ass black raincloud squatting over San Francisco.
The place looks like Mordor some times, especially with that red blinkenlight on top of the pyramid tower thingy.
So it's not just a matter of wiping out all those butterflies in China that are causing hurricanes by flapping their wings. Now, if I want to end these unpredictable weather cycles, I've got to wipe out all the cities, too? Sheesh, the things I go through for meteorology.
Good judgment comes from experience.
Experience comes from bad judgment.
Hell. Has it ever NOT rained in London?
There is no way you would be saying this if you were actually in London at the moment. Wednesday was the hottest day ever recorded at 35.4C.
All things in moderation; including moderation
Why do you people INSIST on using this arcane celsius scale?
Oddly, those old stories are partially correct. Snow levels inside most cities are down a lot. With all the energy we use (pretty much all of it ending up as waste heat, in winter), temperatures are at least a couple degrees warmer. In the city of Vancouver, we barely get any snow in the winter... but drive a few miles outside of town and you'll find a whole lot more (relatively).
35? Hot? Would you die at 40?
Scrub that. Yesterday was 36.0C.
All things in moderation; including moderation
I've heard it said about Phoenix that the humidity level is different because of all the lawn watering that goes on.
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