General Meteorology and Earth Science Thread

This artic cold front is shattering records. NWS Cheyenne, Wyoming recorded a record drop of 40⁰F in temperatures from 43⁰ to 3 in 30 minutes.

This is on top of a drop from 43⁰ to 11⁰ in just 10 minutes.

And of course, the old "Global warming can't be real because it gets cold in the winter!" chestnuts are being posted and said...

Meteorologists have now created a ranking system for atmospheric rivers, such as the one that has been pounding California for the past couple of months.

I'm not sure whether to post this in this thread or not, since the initial post approves the topic of geology but not of anthropogenic climate change. But, technically, I don't think this is "climate" change.

Reuters article - Brazilian geologists on Trindade Island have identified what they refer to as "plastiglomerate" - a "new and terrifying" kind of rock, made of sedimentary grains bound together by the melted remnants of discarded fishing nets.

Well, it's impressive. Not in a good way, but still.

That does not seem to be a new discovery, alas.

Figured I'd bring this up here, but here's a video featuring footage from a storm chaser and the recent Rolling Fork, Mississippi preliminary EF 4 tornado.

The storm chaser deaths in the 2013 El Reno, Oklahoma EF 3 tornado should be drilled in every storm chasers head and hopefully videos such as these as well.

The World Meteorological Organization has retired Fiona and Ian names off the Atlantic hurricane lists because of their destruction in 2022, they will be replaced by Farrah and Idris when the list rotates back around in 2028.

Edited by tclittle on Mar 29th 2023 at 6:19:18 AM

The NHC has posted its Tropical Cyclone report on Ian from last year and noted that Ian was briefly a minimal category 5 hurricane with maximum wind speed of 140 knots weakening before landfall.

Today is the 10 year anniversary of the last EF 5 rated tornado that struck Moore, Oklahoma. Here's an article for the anniversary and the coverage of the tornado on Youtube from Oklahoma City NBC affiliate KFOR:

https://kfor.com/news/local/10-years-later-remembering-may-19-20-2013/