Hey Nick, I knew you were interested in weather, but didn’t know you had a book about it. Reference please?
On Tue, Nov 19, 2024 at 2:00 PM Nicholas Thompson <[email protected]> wrote: > As a part of my plan to revise my weather book, I have been working on a > chapter on the jet stream. I am thinking of using the passage below as a > kind of epigraph. I am sending it along because it brings together two of > the salient concerns of Our Glorious Leader. Comments, fact checks, grumpy > comments always welcome. > > *During the winter of 1944-5, in the last desperate days of World War II, > the Japanese military launched hundreds of incendiary balloons into the jet > stream, hoping to ignite fires in American forests. This ingenious scheme > worked. Many balloons made the 5,000 mile trip and some even started small > fires. However, the plan ultimately failed. For a large fire to be kindled > by one of these devices, the ground had to be had to be dry, the > temperature high, the humidity low, the water table depleted, all > conditions that often occur during summer droughts. Winter, however, is > the wet season in the American west. The same jet stream that brought in > the balloons, also brought in waves of pacific moisture that soaked the > ground and covered the high mountains in deep banks of snow. * > > *This bit of military history illustrates the relationship between the jet > stream and the weather we all experience, day by day. The jet stream can > initiate severe weather, can spark it, one might say, but only where > conditions below have been primed. Its seeds can only flourish where the > ground has been prepared. * > > -- > Nicholas S. Thompson > Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology > Clark University > [email protected] > https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson > .- .-.. .-.. / ..-. --- --- - . .-. ... / .- .-. . / .-- .-. --- -. --. / > ... --- -- . / .- .-. . / ..- ... . ..-. ..- .-.. > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom > https://bit.ly/virtualfriam > to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: 5/2017 thru present > https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ >
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