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Gunshow Poophole
Sep 14, 2008

OMBUDSMAN
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Clapping Larry

endlessmonotony posted:

Why are you bolding something that adds absolutely no meaning?

The description is poor at best, and the added formatting is... why?

thanks im glad your here to be a posting cop

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Kazinsal
Dec 13, 2011

endlessmonotony posted:

Why are you bolding something that adds absolutely no meaning?

The description is poor at best, and the added formatting is... why?

username/post combo

Milo and POTUS
Sep 3, 2017

I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

endlessmonotony posted:

Why are you bolding something that adds absolutely no meaning?

The description is poor at best, and the added formatting is... why?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKDeiMD9a7w

Chef Boyardeez Nuts
Sep 9, 2011

The more you kick against the pricks, the more you suffer.
Lmao, I took a walk at midnight this morning and it was 88 degrees f out.

actionjackson
Jan 12, 2003

anyone have info on the upcoming california heat dome?

silicone thrills
Jan 9, 2008

I paint things

actionjackson posted:

anyone have info on the upcoming california heat dome?

This is all i've seen so far which got posted in the other weather thread

https://twitter.com/edgarrmcgregor/status/1411931934104559617?s=20

Seems bad.

JAY ZERO SUM GAME
Oct 18, 2005

Walter.
I know you know how to do this.
Get up.


Milo and POTUS
Sep 3, 2017

I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quatuor_pour_la_fin_du_temps

Egg Moron
Jul 21, 2003

the dreams of the delighting void

silicone thrills posted:

This is all i've seen so far which got posted in the other weather thread

https://twitter.com/edgarrmcgregor/status/1411931934104559617?s=20

Seems bad.

like the beginning of predator 2

Shear Modulus
Jun 9, 2010



silicone thrills posted:

This is all i've seen so far which got posted in the other weather thread

https://twitter.com/edgarrmcgregor/status/1411931934104559617?s=20

Seems bad.

stoked about how my air conditioning hasn't been fixed after asking my landlord to fix it for like three weeks

RadiRoot
Feb 3, 2007

Shear Modulus posted:

stoked about how my air conditioning hasn't been fixed after asking my landlord to fix it for like three weeks

in same boat friend. :(

blatman
May 10, 2009

14 inc dont mez


Radirot posted:

in same boat friend. :(

u should be fine if ur in a boat just sail to somewhere cooler

maybe if u line up the sails right u can reach escape velocity and go to europa, sail around there for a bit until we transition from the season of hellfire to the season of insane blizzards

Crusader
Apr 11, 2002



cool poo poo, very cool poo poo

Helith
Nov 5, 2009

Basket of Adorables


Crusader posted:



cool poo poo, very cool poo poo

:eng101:
actually I think you’ll find it’s very hot poo poo

biceps crimes
Apr 12, 2008


Nice breadbasket of the world you got there. Be a shame to supply chains and food prices if anything happened to it, like a record breaking "heat dome" during a historically exceptional drought.

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS
That’s really hot, but it’s not as exceptional as what happened in Washington and Oregon.

Fresno hit one hundred and twelve last August.

Notorious R.I.M.
Jan 27, 2004

up to my ass in alligators
does this just ultra-condense the already dense layer of smog over the valley into unbreathable pellets of death

jetz0r
May 10, 2003

Tomorrow, our nation will sit on the throne of the world. This is not a figment of the imagination, but a fact. Tomorrow we will lead the world, Allah willing.



Platystemon posted:

That’s really hot, but it’s not as exceptional as what happened in Washington and Oregon.

Fresno hit one hundred and twelve last August.

Yeah, this is normal central valley temps. We already hit 109 in Sacramento this year. The yearly high temps going back 100 years are almost all in the 102-108 range. 108-114 is at the upper end of the historical highs for that region. It's really hot, but not unexpected.

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS
Another thing is that the humidity is going to be way lower than it was and is in the Pacific Northwest.

There was a time when the San Joaquin Valley was a swamp and Europeans complained endlessly about it, but it’s been dry for a long time now.

Bilirubin
Feb 16, 2014

The sanctioned action is to CHUG


Crusader posted:



cool poo poo, very cool poo poo

Needles, the worst place on earth

VectorSigma
Jan 20, 2004

Transform
and
Freak Out



the central valley is gonna get burnt to char by the sun and then they're gonna get onna them arkstorms and it will be an inland sea

just watch

SirPablo
May 1, 2004

Pillbug

Platystemon posted:

Another thing is that the humidity is going to be way lower than it was and is in the Pacific Northwest.

There was a time when the San Joaquin Valley was a swamp and Europeans complained endlessly about it, but it’s been dry for a long time now.



Lake Tulare would probably still form if everything wasn't dammed eight times over. And the water table was dropping several feet each year.

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS

SirPablo posted:

Lake Tulare would probably still form if everything wasn't dammed eight times over. And the water table was dropping several feet each year.

You can’t tell me that this is unsustainable.

ArcadianGoose
Oct 26, 2013

Platystemon posted:

You can’t tell me that this is unsustainable.



I mean, how much farther down could bedrock be? 10ft?

nikosoft
Dec 17, 2011

ghost in the shell, but somehow much worse
College Slice

Bilirubin posted:

Needles, the worst place on earth

I used to think this, but then my grandma moved from there up to Bullhead City. I remember going to visit one summer and there being a health advisory about not drinking the tap water because it was flammable.

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS

ArcadianGoose posted:

I mean, how much farther down could bedrock be? 10ft?

poopinmymouth
Mar 2, 2005

PROUD 2 B AMERICAN (these colors don't run)

Platystemon posted:

Another thing is that the humidity is going to be way lower than it was and is in the Pacific Northwest.

There was a time when the San Joaquin Valley was a swamp and Europeans complained endlessly about it, but it’s been dry for a long time now.



Is this image supposed to be comforting... Because...

crepeface
Nov 5, 2004

r*p*f*c*

gay_crimes posted:

Nice breadbasket of the world you got there. Be a shame to supply chains and food prices if anything happened to it, like a record breaking "heat dome" during a historically exceptional drought.

idk anything about crops but wouldn't they'd be mostly harvested by now?

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS

poopinmymouth posted:

Is this image supposed to be comforting...

No.

Platystemon has issued a correction as of 12:21 on Jul 6, 2021

tater_salad
Sep 15, 2007


This is bad I think while I drink my almond milk and have my avacado toast.

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS

ArcadianGoose posted:

I mean, how much farther down could bedrock be? 10ft?

So I knew it was kinda sus that the valley maxed out the scale on the Western U.S. map, but here’s the full extent of the underestimation:



There are at least twenty thousand feet of marine sediments under that before you get to honest rock (i.e. igneous or metamorphic).

Don’t worry. Only a few thousand feet are saturated.



Here are some links to everything you could want to know about “the largest human alteration of the Earth's surface”.

https://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/circ1182/pdf/06SanJoaquinValley.pdf

https://pubs.usgs.gov/ha/ha730/ch_b/B-text3.html

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6559157/

Platystemon has issued a correction as of 13:06 on Jul 6, 2021

Seatbelts
Mar 29, 2010

Platystemon posted:

You can’t tell me that this is unsustainable.



idgi

Is this from topsoil blowing away?
if it is; that pole has to be just barely in the ground now or they replace the poles but keep the signs at the same height? and make the poles taller?
Is this measuring something or is it suppose to represent a measurement?

Real hurthling!
Sep 11, 2001




pumping the water out from below and erosion from weather/industrial activity above

Fuck You And Diebold
Sep 15, 2004

by Athanatos

Real hurthling! posted:

pumping the water out from below and erosion from weather/industrial activity above

I think they mean how they have the correct measurements on the pole

Real hurthling!
Sep 11, 2001




they probably survey the area a lot

Shear Modulus
Jun 9, 2010



all you need to measure the altitude of the ground relative to sea level is a barometer

nikosoft
Dec 17, 2011

ghost in the shell, but somehow much worse
College Slice

Seatbelts posted:

idgi

Is this from topsoil blowing away?
if it is; that pole has to be just barely in the ground now or they replace the poles but keep the signs at the same height? and make the poles taller?
Is this measuring something or is it suppose to represent a measurement?

CONGRESS CREATED DUST BOWL!!

Paradoxish
Dec 19, 2003

Will you stop going crazy in there?
I don't think the top sign on that pole is 52 years old. I'm pretty sure that USGS photo is just using the pole to demonstrate ground subsidence. You can find more modern USGS photos with a person standing next to a measuring stick that goes over their head.

Milo and POTUS
Sep 3, 2017

I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

nikosoft posted:

CONGRESS CREATED DUST BOWL!!

Plains farmers really want to destroy all the windbreaks FDR put up lmao

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SirPablo
May 1, 2004

Pillbug
How did the pole grow from the top down idgi

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