Friday, November 26, 2021

When rivers run dry

 


BC was hit by rivers or atmospheric plumes, if want to do physics.  But, this is why nobody has really paid attention to them as a warning of rain.  This one is running right over BC, but not a speck of rain.  It's going right through.

A river is only deadly if it creates a stationary storm.  That means it is running into a wall of cold air, and it continues to feed the storm.  9 times out of 10, it's nothing.

Next week, 'rivers' will be fish-wrap, and we'll be back to polar vortex fairies and the dancing jet stream.

As plumes, however, they are the main carriers of heat energy, if anybody cares about that.

ps.  this river is now 'wet' because of a huge clairslide hitting it.



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