The article here describes a phenomenon that can occur to hurricanes: their wind-speed grows rapidly.
Hurricane Melissa underwent what meteorologists call “rapid intensification,” exploding from a 70-mph tropical storm Saturday morning Oct. 25 to a Category 4 hurricane with 140 mph winds by 5 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 26. It has since reached Category 5 strength, with winds of 175 mph.
Rapid intensification is a process in which a storm undergoes accelerated growth: The phenomenon is typically defined to be a tropical cyclone (whether a tropical storm or hurricane) intensifying by at least 35 mph in a 24-hour period.
Questions (that our kids should be able to answer from their science classes):
#1 How is this intensification powered? Faster winds have more energy than slower winds, so where does this energy come from?
Answer: It’s by unusually warm sea water — in this case, in the Caribbean Sea.
#2: OK, but what provides the energy that warms the water?
Answer: The sun. What we’re experiencing right now on Earth is called “global warming,” meaning that our planet’s atmosphere is trapping more of the sun’s radiant energy, which is heating up our atmosphere, as well as our oceans.
My wife and I have a friend in Kingston, Jamaica’s largest city, which is in Melissa’s crosshairs. We’re rooting for you, Richard.
The folks who posted this to social media write, “President Donald Trump’s recent comments on U.S.-Iran relations have prompted renewed discussion about American foreign policy.”
For “American foreign policy” I would substitute “Trump’s mental health.” After all, we are at war with these people, aren’t we?
Of course, most of us will remember Orwell’s “1984” and its line “War Is Peace.”
Every time I see something like what we have at left, I have a renewed sense of wonder: how can certain human beings be such terrible people?
FWIW, I more-or-less understand the MAGA base of racist idiots. I’m not happy that I live among them, but they don’t leave me scratching my head as to how they could have become who they are.
Randy Fine is no moron. His BA and MBA are from Harvard. There is no way he honesty believes that U.S. elections are rigged, or that Trump is an honest and effective servant of the American people. He’s simply a professional liar, and a traitor to his country.
I’m at a loss.
As we all can see, the narrative being offered by congressional Republicans has nothing to do with affordability, healthcare, the war in Iran, or any of the dozens of other issues that concern the wellbeing of the common person. Instead, it’s the singular belief that Democrats hate America, and will do everything in their power to destroy it, by ushering in communism as our new form of government.
But doesn’t that seem a bit far-fetched? Granted, we’re not as sharp as we were when our educational system was still strong, but what type of idiot finds this credible? Let’s take Bernie Sanders, elected to congress in 1990, as an example of an extremely visible progressive, a man who thinks that countries that provide free healthcare and education provide a better quality to life to their citizens than those that don’t.
Now, in his 36 years in congress, has he turned Vermont (see below) into a hellhole? Does anyone the IQ of a caterpillar think that he hates America?
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