Gene's Footnotes

I have never been impressed by the messenger and always inspect the message, which I now understand is not the norm. People prefer to filter out discordant information. As such, I am frequently confronted with, "Where did you hear that...." Well, here you go. If you want an email version, send me an email.

March 08, 2015

Electromagnetic Influence Upon Weather

Below is an excerpt from  a site called Thunderbolts.  I came across it while looking for pictures of Sable Island, N.S.   Other than concerns about a tsunami, looks like a nice place avoid civilization. Check it out:







I stumbled across the piece when I visited a photo of "roll clouds" over Sable. The island is a narrow crescent. Above you narrow island, one may find:





The excerpt is technical, but one easily sense the complexity of our planet and its atmosphere. There was no mention of my car being a factor, but it did mention that solar winds run between 600,000  and 2,000,000 miles per hour and deflect around us. At time, the winds come very close to the surface. Some satellites are in range.  I am offering solar wind credits for a modest premium.



The author stated that electromagnetic weather prediction is superior to what meteorologist do for periods after ten days. Pop culture has no interest in physics, but physics doesn't care.



...Nice link to an article about solar induced currents into the earth's weather system...
http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/topstory/2004/ ... storm.htmlpatterns of ozone production and movement can be followed at the link to one of their pages...
http://toms.gsfc.nasa.gov/ 

They have a nice archive of past ozone patterns available on their ftp site. I have used this data to track effects on earth's weather after solar flares, and during the occurrence of Heliocentric conjunctions of Earth with the other planets. It is from making many observations over the past several years that I have come to the conclusions posted here.
http://www.sec.noaa.gov/primer/primer.html 

The region between the Sun and the planets has been termed the interplanetary medium. Although once considered a perfect vacuum, this is actually a turbulent region dominated by the solar wind, which flows at velocities of approximately 250-1000 km/s (about 600,000 to 2,000,000 miles per hour). Other characteristics of the solar wind (density, composition, and magnetic field strength, among others) vary with changing conditions on the Sun. The effect of the solar wind can be seen in the tails of comets which always point away from the Sun.
The solar wind flows around obstacles such as planets, but those planets with their own magnetic fields respond in specific ways. Earth's magnetic field is very similar to the pattern formed when iron filings align around a bar magnet. Under the influence of the solar wind, these magnetic field lines are compressed in the Sun ward direction and stretched out in the downwind direction. This creates the magnetosphere, a complex, teardrop-shaped cavity around Earth.

The Van Allen radiation belts are within this cavity, as is the ionosphere, a layer of Earth's upper atmosphere where photo ionization by solar x-rays and extreme ultraviolet rays creates free electrons. Earth's magnetic field senses the solar wind its speed, density, and magnetic field. Because the solar wind varies over time scales as short as seconds, the interface that separates interplanetary space from the magnetosphere is very dynamic.

Normally this interface called the magneto pause lies at a distance equivalent to about 10 Earth radii in the direction of the Sun. However, during episodes of elevated solar wind density or velocity, the magneto pause can be pushed inward to within 6.6 Earth radii (the altitude of geosynchronous satellites). As the magnetosphere extracts energy from the solar wind, internal processes produce geomagnetic storms. 
Air masses and the clouds in them, that are perturbed from equatorial areas carry a net positive residual ionic/static charge, that helps prevent rapid condensation, by mutual static repulsion between condensational nuclei. These static charges helps to maintain more uniform size of nebulized droplets, aids in super cooling, and results in rapid precipitation when meeting air masses from more polar regions which carry a residual negative ionic/static charge, that also prevents rapid condensation by mutual static repulsion inside of the clouds in the polar air masses. 
Upon meeting at a frontal boundary, the static charges on the colliding air masses allow the condensational nuclei to attract each other, and help the temperature gradient, to generate the rapid precipitation usually seen in narrow frontal boundaries….

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