Tuesday, January 30, 2024

Explanations for my buddy - Part 3

 We did plumes, now we do cold blobs.  In the winter, in the North, we get -60C temperatures over the Arctic.  This forms objects - cold masses of air.  They have mass, momentum, energy, etc.  The cold air could stay over the Arctic, but it is unstable.  It is dense, and is driven by gravity.  

As we know, the world spins faster at the equator.  If it were all liquid, the Earth would look like a cough lozenge.  However, being semi-solid, we just have a bulge at the equator.  The cold air wants to join the equator party.

The cold air mass could move as one, just sliding along, but it doesn't.  It breaks up as either large blobs, or Arctic spills.  The difference is just in the aspect ratio.  The channels are long and narrow, and penetrate farther, like a Ukraine raiding party.

The blobs are large, with a curved front.  That curve is based on physics, and is mostly due to the fact that the cold air moves faster on cold ground.  The blobs and spills can part warm air, but they absorb heat, and eventually fade away over Texas.

Lately, we have had huge battles between warm plumes and cold blobs.  The result is a huge snowstorm.

This is the end of the explanation.  I don't have the brain power to explain the larger issue of going into an ice cycle.  That's too much for anybody.

The End.


2 comments:

Neil T said...

Thank you... You just put a good idea in my head regarding the internal structure of a proton/neutron with the above explanation.

Harold Asmis said...

I'm just saying that because Proton Disease is deadly. You get it from Angry Cows and Scrappy Sheep.