One of the (many reasons) why convection is so pervasive in Florida, is
because of the 'Florida Ridge'.
Yes, there is a 'virtual ridge' in the middle of the peninsula, and if you
know what you are looking for, you can easily hitch a ride in a glider from
the Everglades to Valdosta in South Georgia.
The phenomenon is produced by the 'Sea breeze':
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_breeze,
which occurs in both coasts at the same time. The air flows inland in the
morning and both currents clash midway in, and have no other choice but go
up, which produces a wave similar to the effect of a ridge facing the wind,
which in turn creates a wave that you can 'surf' with the glider like the
condors do.
The thunderstorm happens (like anywhere else) when the convection lifts the
moisture, which turns into water vapor as it cools off in the climb. When
turning into water, the water vapor releases its 'latent heat' (the heat
that turned into vapor at the first place), which increases the speed of the
updraft (another free ride upwards in a glider), which draws in more
moisture, which releases more heat, and ultimately creates a runaway effect
that, given enough moisture, will overdevelop on a super-cell and spawn all
sort of nasty weather (including tornadoes)
Just tidbits of knowledge that make me giggle... :)
ET
Michael Havens writes:
yeah... it does not protect you in lightening storms?
what caused me to buy it is I was just about to hit the enter key to
compile the second program for LFS when the power shut off for like half a
second.
On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 7:11 PM, Steve Litt <[email protected]>
wrote:
On Sun, 11 Oct 2015 13:39:53 -0400
Michael Havens <[email protected]> wrote:
> I finally broke down and bought a UPS:( I got a 650 VA for $57. The
> 550 VA was $55 so I figured it was worth the 2 extra dollars. Now I
> don't have to worry about frying my computer during one of the many
> lightening storms here in gainesville!
>
That's a great price!
The benefit of a UPS isn't preventing frying in a lightning storm. A
simple surge protector does a better job of that. A UPS prevents your
computer frying during a brownout or severel rapid transitions between
power and no power. It also gives you a reasonable timeframe to perform
an orderly shutdown, and in cases of > 1minute power outages, which
describes over half of our power outages here in Seminole County
Florida, you just keep computing.
Another great thing about a UPS is when your printer starts up and all
the lights dim and your ceiling fan slows down, (Brother MFC8810dw
prints suck *a lot* of current), you hear your UPS click, but otherwise
there's no sign of the undervolt. I hate to thing what would happen to
my box if I didn't have a UPS.
I wouldn't be caught dead without a UPS on my daily driver or my
whole-house pfSense router/firewall.
SteveT
Steve Litt
October 2015 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times
http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive
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