Black ice almost ruined my day on a two-lane mountain road in Idaho. Suddenly lost control and drifted into the oncoming lane. It was invisible, so I had no warning. Be careful.
Well this is cool because I've seen clouds and sometimes even a little rain happen right at the base of the mountains formed by the San Andreas Fault. I went to school over there and I used to take hikes in and around the mountains whenever the weather was cool enough to do so. For me, cool enough generally entails at least a small chance for a little rain. Since faults create distinctly linear mountain ranges and, since winter storms come from the general direction of the coast (summer storms usually come from the south but the weather is generally not so nice as to hike until those storms have arrived and then you don't want to get struck by lightning or carried off by a flash flood so it's not good hiking weather). Anyway, I have always tripped out on weather but I ended up doing my actual degree in biology. I also massively nerd out on geology so that makes the San Andreas Fault area a perfect place to go and observe things. Maybe a weekend, I would go up and lie out in some relatively flat areas at the bottom of the mountains created by the fault and just watch clouds form and dissipate, something dropping a small amount of drizzle, before either dissipating or heading on over the mountain range. I would lie there and watch it do this for hours on days particularly likely to create this sort of thing. Most people actually did not believe me when I told them that you could watch clouds form and either rain or dissipate but I don't think I had talked to any meteorology students. I'm sure the school had some but I will confess that California does not present with the most exciting weather in the world unless you are quite fond of obscenely hot temperatures and a bunch of straight line winds which blow down the transformer providing power to your apartment more often than is reasonable (oh yes and, half the time, you were still expected to somehow walk to all your classes at school while the wind was wailing at a good 50 mph with no one having had the sense to stop them building buildings at roughly 30 degrees of one another, putting the main walkway through campus between them, and making sure to create a wind tunneling effect so strong that you could go through the doors of either building on the side where they faced each other so there must not have been enough meteorology students). My thought regarding this cloud thing at the bottom of the mountain had been that the water in the air was heavy and so it had to rain out a little bit or at least make a cloud in order to pass over the mountains with the winds but I stand corrected. I also stand fascinated by how this actually happens so thank you!
Wow, I'm not sure exactly how to take that. Funny though... I work with a guy who is a Seth Rogen vocal doppelganger, sounds just like him, but does not look like hime
Unique voice I think. By the way I was responsible from your lectures, 5th and 9th, for my Earth Science final. It was supposed to come out first but still..
Thank you for taking time to do this Dave! I love learning about these things and your videos are the most informative and well put.
So nice of you
What is the best time for snow plows to move snow and melt ice?
Working on a pilot license and your meteorology videos are quite helpful, thanks :)
Happy to hear it Doug, good luck and remember... no drinking on final approach! jk
I’m in earth and atmospheric science in the zoom university era and your videos r saving my life LOL great content and very well explained
Thanks so much 😀
As a cyclist I am convinced the 9nth circle of Hell is an endless bicycle path with neverending sleet-fall.
I would have to agree
Last Massachusetts snow storm left sheet of snow over clear ice, slipped suffered concussion. Beware of dangerous BLACK ice.. very dangerous.
Black ice almost ruined my day on a two-lane mountain road in Idaho. Suddenly lost control and drifted into the oncoming lane. It was invisible, so I had no warning. Be careful.
Well this is cool because I've seen clouds and sometimes even a little rain happen right at the base of the mountains formed by the San Andreas Fault. I went to school over there and I used to take hikes in and around the mountains whenever the weather was cool enough to do so. For me, cool enough generally entails at least a small chance for a little rain. Since faults create distinctly linear mountain ranges and, since winter storms come from the general direction of the coast (summer storms usually come from the south but the weather is generally not so nice as to hike until those storms have arrived and then you don't want to get struck by lightning or carried off by a flash flood so it's not good hiking weather).
Anyway, I have always tripped out on weather but I ended up doing my actual degree in biology. I also massively nerd out on geology so that makes the San Andreas Fault area a perfect place to go and observe things.
Maybe a weekend, I would go up and lie out in some relatively flat areas at the bottom of the mountains created by the fault and just watch clouds form and dissipate, something dropping a small amount of drizzle, before either dissipating or heading on over the mountain range. I would lie there and watch it do this for hours on days particularly likely to create this sort of thing. Most people actually did not believe me when I told them that you could watch clouds form and either rain or dissipate but I don't think I had talked to any meteorology students. I'm sure the school had some but I will confess that California does not present with the most exciting weather in the world unless you are quite fond of obscenely hot temperatures and a bunch of straight line winds which blow down the transformer providing power to your apartment more often than is reasonable (oh yes and, half the time, you were still expected to somehow walk to all your classes at school while the wind was wailing at a good 50 mph with no one having had the sense to stop them building buildings at roughly 30 degrees of one another, putting the main walkway through campus between them, and making sure to create a wind tunneling effect so strong that you could go through the doors of either building on the side where they faced each other so there must not have been enough meteorology students).
My thought regarding this cloud thing at the bottom of the mountain had been that the water in the air was heavy and so it had to rain out a little bit or at least make a cloud in order to pass over the mountains with the winds but I stand corrected. I also stand fascinated by how this actually happens so thank you!
Enjoy!
So helpful :)
Very clearly explained.
Glad it was helpful!
Outstanding lectures
Thanks again
Thanks a lot.
Thanks
Your voice is kind of like Michael Scott from The Office. You may look like him also, I m not sure , but your voice is totally alike
Wow, I'm not sure exactly how to take that. Funny though... I work with a guy who is a Seth Rogen vocal doppelganger, sounds just like him, but does not look like hime
Unique voice I think. By the way I was responsible from your lectures, 5th and 9th, for my Earth Science final. It was supposed to come out first but still..
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