Month: October 2016

“See current wind, weather, ocean, and pollution conditions, as forecast by supercomputers, on an interactive animated map. Updated every three hours. ” – My Comments : So cool.

[thanks to Highway for the link]

“What do the TV shows Firefly, Twin Peaks, and Freaks and Geeks all have in common? ” – My Comments : No surprise that Firefly was at the top…

“Undulatus asperatus cloud formations are so rare that they were not proposed as a separate cloud classification until 2009. The Cloud Appreciation Society suggested the name asperatus, as the word comes from the Latin verb ‘aspero’, meaning to make rough. It is thought that asperatus clouds’ choppy undersides may be due to strong winds causing disruption in previously stable layers of warm and cold air.

Graeme Anderson, an MSc student at the Department of Meteorology, Reading University, studied weather records and used a computer model to simulate asperatus clouds. In doing so, Graeme found that the clouds form in the sort of conditions that produce mamma (mammatus) clouds; asperatus clouds form when the winds up at the cloud level cause the cloud to shear into wave-like forms known as undulatus.
More common in the plains of the United States (try Iowa), asperatus clouds are at their weird and swirly best during the morning or midday hours after a thunderstorm.

-Jean ” – My Comments : Funky.

“By day, Christiaan van Heijst is an airline pilot who flies 747 jumbo jets around the world. By night (and often by day as well), Van Heijst is a talented ” – My Comments : Wow.

“One spot in the ocean is further from land than any other, and it is a rather peculiar place ” – My Comments : “Point Nemo is so far from land, the nearest humans are often astronauts.”

“In an effort to remove artificial colors from their products, the Mars company is tinkering with the chemistry of some of America’s most beloved candies. ” – My Comments : So glad that they are undertaking this immensely important challenge instead of [insert way more important thing here].

“Guilty as charged. (From OZY) ” – My Comments : Unfortunately I’m quite guilty of this. There’s just not enough to read, watch, listen, etc. to everything I’d like to…