The fascinating clouds, including arrow-shaped ones, that result from the atmospheric waves can cause intense precipitation — sometimes more than 20 times Titan’s average seasonal rainfall — and could be essential in shaping Titan’s surface by erosion.
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The raw heat, plus heat indices are enough to make one vomit. Quite literally, in some poor old people’s cases.
The researchers also discovered that this phenomenon is more common near the poles, where many of Earth’s weather monitoring systems are, and it could be skewing data that research teams are gathering in those areas. It seems that human design has quite the effect on nature and a lot of the time we don’t even notice.
I couldn’t even imagine being on a plane lifted 30 feet off the ground and moved roughly 60-65 feet.
The photos from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch are chilling.
Today was the *third* day we cracked 70 degrees in November.
I’m not sure if or how we’ll pay for it later, but I don’t care about that right now. I don’t care because I was able to rake leaves & clean gutters in a t-shirt. I was able to walk around the Loop with my wife and daughter. I was able to have lunch outdoors with my dad.
So if we hit a few days of single digit temperatures in January, I’ll be oddly ok with that. Ok because we had awesome weather in the middle of November.
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