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Historic Snowstorm Becomes More Puzzling
"This winter has been one for the ages, especially the past 48 hours. Northwest Arkansas has topped the 24 hour snowfall record, the single storm snowfall record, and the seasonal snowfall record for at least the last 70 years. In northern Benton and Carroll County the snowstorm of March 10-12, 1968 and the 1967-68 seasonal snow totals still rival this storm and there were a couple other years in the 1910s that we believe may compare as well. Otherwise, this one takes the cake. To top it off, low temperatures just shattered all-time records a day after the storm. Whether you love or hate winter, you have to behold the once in a lifetime events for our area."
"Literally the computer models, our lifeline for forecasting the weather beyond 24 hours, failed. This event is a unprecidented event in many ways for northwest Arkansas and now it may be the focus on future research projects as well. The reason the snow fell so hard for so long was rather simple. An extremely intense mesoband of snow lined up along highway 412 and didn’t budge for over 6 hours. What isn’t simple is understanding why the mesoband formed and more importantly why it stayed locked into place while weather all around it moved fluidly. There are things that we still don’t understand, and this is a great example of it."
Originally posted by harrytuttle
Is this weatherman a meteorologist, for real, or just a guy who talks to the camera about what the computers tell him the weather will be?
To top it all off, we all assumed that the snow was just an extremely dry or “fluffy snow” where the snow ratios were 20 to 1 or higher (meaning 1 inch of rain or liquid would equal 20″ or more of snowfall). We are now finding out that wasn’t the case. While the snow wasn’t heavy it also wasn’t as light as we thought. At my house in Springdale, I measured 20″ of snowfall, yet 3 core samples of the snow showed 1.6″ of liquid on average in the snowfall (this does not include moisture from previous snow on the ground before Tuesday). A similar measurement at our station in Rogers showed that 17″ of snowfall led to 1.55″ of liquid. This gives us a snowfall ratio between 11 to 13 to 1, which is a far cry from the expected findings. These ratios were also found at other ASOS and CoCoRaHS sites as well. While some of the observations did show higher ratios, it is still lower than expected.
Originally posted by Bonified Ween
You haven't seen anything yet regarding the weather. This is just the start of the show guys....Hopefully the smart people will get a clue and start prepping with that food storage all the nutters been talking about. This weather phenomenon is affecting people worldwide and it WILL cause a mass food shortage, believe it or not.edit on 10-2-2011 by Bonified Ween because: (no reason given)
Weather modification will become a part of domestic and international security and could be done unilaterally, through alliance networks--particularly regional ones--or through an ad hoc coalition or a UN framework. It could have offensive and defensive applications and even be used for deterrence purposes. The ability to generate precipitation, fog, and storms on earth or to modify space weather, improve communications through ionospheric modification (the use of ionospheric mirrors), and the production of artificial weather all are a part of an integrated set of technologies which can provide substantial increase in US, or degraded capability in an adversary, to achieve global awareness, reach, and power. Weather modification will be a part of 2025 and is an area in which the US must invest if only to be able to counter adversaries seeking such a capability.
Originally posted by Bonified Ween
You haven't seen anything yet regarding the weather. This is just the start of the show guys....Hopefully the smart people will get a clue and start prepping with that food storage all the nutters been talking about. This weather phenomenon is affecting people worldwide and it WILL cause a mass food shortage, believe it or not.edit on 10-2-2011 by Bonified Ween because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by wingsfan
wasn't there a thread with a youtube guy saying this? he was tracking these storms and noticed some were "sticking" in one spot, while the bulk moved on. if we somehow did have the tech to do this, why on ark? why not on north korea?