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VectorSigma
Jan 20, 2004

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thank you jeff for your metallurgical analysis

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Jan 20, 2004

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lol wasn't the "space laser starts fire in california" thing in a tv news segment in robocop 2

edit: nope it was in the first one

VectorSigma has issued a correction as of 03:50 on Nov 13, 2018

VectorSigma
Jan 20, 2004

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nobody tell the loonies that you can't actually see laser beams, especially ir lasers used in weapons

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Jan 20, 2004

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Addamere posted:

We achieved great strides in science during and immediately after the world wars, and it feels like we just did not care enough to keep going.

remember how we were gonna be living on the moon by the year 2000

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Jan 20, 2004

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zegermans posted:

buy your eggs milk and bread now folks

haha we don't do that here

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Jan 20, 2004

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Woodchip posted:

Weed, CA smokes these weakass names.

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Jan 20, 2004

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VectorSigma
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sad to say it, but jeff city may have just earned a trump visit

VectorSigma
Jan 20, 2004

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the barges are calling from inside the house

VectorSigma
Jan 20, 2004

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fortunately i keep my desk stocked with graphite and heavy water

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Goon Danton posted:

Are we stealing the Doppler radar wavelengths for it or something?

water vapor imaging, which is way worse

VectorSigma
Jan 20, 2004

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i mean, i always take the wet side, it's just good manners

VectorSigma
Jan 20, 2004

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this time

VectorSigma
Jan 20, 2004

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the somethingburger happens when it stalls and dumps biblical amounts of rain

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im wondering if any of the models account for the brown ocean effect, with how wet everything already is

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that thing went through my back yard at the peak of its strength

VectorSigma posted:

Finally got power back...


Velocity animation. Note the development of the rear inflow jet, and the derecho spearhead:

https://i.imgur.com/txM2iHv.mp4



The last few radar images I managed to save before SHTF, including CC imagery of a debris signature from a bow echo mesovortex tornado:









Damage!!:

































https://i.imgur.com/DGUbznw.mp4



These last few were in the path of a confirmed tornado, rated EF0 but those pines snapped in half make me think it could have been EF1 (edit: oh i guess it's officially EF1):










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i imagine the operational aircraft are flown out, it's just the hangar queens that got left i think

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lV8i-pSVMaQ

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i think i can see covers on the buckets already loaded so he's only 99% as dumb as we think he is

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i also imagine people are calm because the adrenaline wears off after the first few hours

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green coat lady needs a "florida" label

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twoday posted:

lol, one of the lines goes off the map, I think he just asked someone to scribble a bunch of extra ones going west over Alabama, none of those have colors or symbols that match the key to the diagram

VectorSigma posted:

They're the ones marked APxx and EExx, which are "ensemble members" of GFS and ECMWF models, respectively. These are model runs that use slightly varied initial conditions which are different than what actually exist as a sort of way of representing chaos and unknown variables.

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Marx Headroom posted:

jesus loving christ

yeah it's like a tornado damage survey except it's everywhere

VectorSigma
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no, there are two versions of that plot on the site, one with and one without the ensemble members plotted. he didn't fake it

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Addamere posted:

how the gently caress did people survive the eyewall making GBS threads on them for a day and a half straight

this was further west where the eyewall only shat on them for like 12 hours

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in all fairness, president pisshog wormbrain isn't that much worse at understanding weather forecasting products than the public at large

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Jan 20, 2004

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just some radar porn for those of you into that kind of thing

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Jan 20, 2004

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there is at this moment part of america inside the eye good job everyone we did it

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Jan 20, 2004

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it's not much, but you better enjoy it because it's all we're gonna get


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Megillah Gorilla posted:

Dorian ripped the top off the containers and Bernoulli helped take care of the rest.



the earth itself has become suicidal

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i didn't even know people lived on nova scotia until trailer park boys

it was like a new nation upon the earth was discovered from my perspective

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it's basically correct, but low pressure systems are not necessary for precipitation or storms, as other mechanisms can cause lift

it's mostly lows tho

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storm surge incompatible with life

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https://i.imgur.com/WpOI9rV.mp4

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Jan 20, 2004

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just popping in to offer my Condition Reteriorating services

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lol i think the center is juking west and lake charles is gonna get the eyewall the whole way around

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the stream will now be reed's empty truck until it runs out of gas and the battery dies

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another big mesovortex rotating in fast

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in a stunning feat of improbability, the opposite eyewall blows everything exactly back to where it came from

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