Sunday, October 12, 2014
Cloud blanket graph
We've had a couple weeks of perfectly clear sunny weather with nice cool mornings. Yesterday some Pacific clouds finally moved in, bringing rain and a bit of wind.
Weathermen often talk about the 'blanket effect' of dense clouds. I've never seen such a nice graph of the effect. Upper is two-day closeup, lower is 7-day graph. On the upper graph you can also see the warm pulse before the storm, then the quick storm, then the sun after the storm cleared the clouds.
The wind was in the 35 to 40 range, normally not harmful. No harm that I could discern this time, but I'm afraid some of these 'normal' windstorms are going to bring down trees that were weakened by the big July gustnado. I was watching the stands of trees to the north and south of me. Both of these stands contained 5 trees from west to east; in both, tree #4 (from windward) came down in July and squashed a roof. Both of those roofs are newly fixed as of exactly yesterday. What I'm seeing now is that tree #3 in both groups is bending more than it ever did before, because it's no longer backstopped by #4. It has to deal with bends that it hasn't grown to expect.
Some homeowners are going to regret that they didn't cut down their wood weapons EVEN AFTER the weapons proved their deadly force. Oh well. Live by ecopsychosis, die by ecopsychosis.
The wind was in the 35 to 40 range, normally not harmful. No harm that I could discern this time, but I'm afraid some of these 'normal' windstorms are going to bring down trees that were weakened by the big July gustnado. I was watching the stands of trees to the north and south of me. Both of these stands contained 5 trees from west to east; in both, tree #4 (from windward) came down in July and squashed a roof. Both of those roofs are newly fixed as of exactly yesterday. What I'm seeing now is that tree #3 in both groups is bending more than it ever did before, because it's no longer backstopped by #4. It has to deal with bends that it hasn't grown to expect.
Some homeowners are going to regret that they didn't cut down their wood weapons EVEN AFTER the weapons proved their deadly force. Oh well. Live by ecopsychosis, die by ecopsychosis.Labels: Carbon Cult
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