Weather - July 2007

2007-07-15 13:40:04 · 4 answers · asked by Paul K 1

My grandma would always tell us not to talk on the during a thunderstorm because lighting can come through the phone & shock you. Is this true or a myth?

2007-07-15 11:54:08 · 15 answers · asked by candigal 3

2007-07-15 09:54:55 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

In the mid-Atlantic (say from Long Island south to the Chesapeake Bay), when do autumn leaves typically reach their peak? When do you get to the point where most of the trees start to look winter-bare? And, how much variance in the peak dates is there from one year to the next?

(Here in Western Oregon's Willamette Valley it tends to start in early October, peaks just before Halloween, and the deciduous trees are mostly bare beginning around November 20. But we have more evergreens and winter ferns here, too)

2007-07-15 09:36:08 · 3 answers · asked by Kronner 82 3

The city of Phoenix (located in the Sonoran Desert) averages nightly lows of 82 degrees in July. Sometimes it doesnt even go below 90 at night.
Likewise for Las Vegas (located in the Mojave desert) Daily highs may reach 115, but nightly lows stay in the 80s.

In the Sahara, it could be 120 at high noon, and literally freezing at night.

So why aren't the American Southwest deserts like that?

2007-07-15 09:15:16 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-07-15 06:30:38 · 5 answers · asked by philkroper 2

2007-07-15 06:28:30 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

I posted a letter about the sun as the cause of the global warming giving all my grey matter. Here I have the Mars where I don’t live. May I have the scientific answer please no just jibber jibber? Please I am on a project. Thank you

“There’s a heat wave in L.A. and all across the country. Some say global warming; some say that other mysterious phenomenon -- summer.”
- Colin Ferguson, July 11, 007
They are confused and we are talking
Firozali A.Mulla MBA PhD
P.O.Box 6044
Dar Es-Salaam
Tanzania
East Africa

2007-07-15 06:23:07 · 3 answers · asked by Firozali A M 1

Today is St. Swithun's Day. Traditionally, if it rains it will continue to rain for 40 days and nights. So far, here, we have had sunshine and heavy showers. Is it likely to be like that now till the end of August?

2007-07-15 04:23:27 · 11 answers · asked by Duffer 6

What causes the peachy/orangey coloured glow that you see eminating from clouds in a thunderstorm? Any ideas? I really like it, it's great; but it often puzzles me as to where it comes from...........

2007-07-15 02:20:26 · 4 answers · asked by wildimagination2003 4

2007-07-15 02:11:25 · 6 answers · asked by john.brookes14@btinternet.com 1

Not had any here in the South West, but I'm dying to know who is having them at the moment. Anyone?!

2007-07-15 00:20:42 · 15 answers · asked by Rachael H 5

2007-07-14 13:56:10 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous

and what are you doing about it?

personally I'm somewhat glad it's hotter,because i hate cold,but there are some weird stuff happening too,like snow on some places it never snowed before.

2007-07-14 11:35:30 · 8 answers · asked by Frozen.Flame 3

Clouds are water vapor. I would think that they would merge with the surrounding atmosphere and attain homogeneity. How do they maintain such beautiful shapes?

2007-07-14 09:21:07 · 3 answers · asked by s a v v y__44 3

2007-07-14 06:33:55 · 9 answers · asked by meleeki 2

2007-07-14 04:48:05 · 5 answers · asked by Nabeel B 1

2007-07-14 03:33:06 · 6 answers · asked by martha d 1

Why do different weather channels disagree so much. The difference in temperatures each day can vary by 10c.
Weather is worked out by scientific data. If they can get it so wrong some days why should we believe the data on global warming. If their calculations vary to that extent how can they make a valued judgement.

2007-07-14 02:07:24 · 4 answers · asked by soñador 7

If we remove the salt from the excess ocean water and put the salt back into the ocean would it not cancel each other out? Plus all the fresh water that could be made could help in times of drought. In foreign lands where water is scarce it could be a life saver. There by delaying the cool down of the oceans and reducing the land consumed by the raising levels. This would not stop the melting polar ice caps but it would buy so more time to clean up our act.

2007-07-14 01:35:23 · 2 answers · asked by dolfanatic314 2

I know how lightening is produced.

2007-07-14 01:27:01 · 8 answers · asked by jimmyobee 1

i went to NYC for the 100th anniversary celebration. as we flew over NY, i looked down from the plane and saw streams of cloud formations with blue sky in between them. it actually looked like a field that had just been plowed, ready to be planted. we bummed around NYC for a couple of hours before we got to battery park. there, we looked up at the sky, and it was STILL like that! it covered the entire visible sky. it was like that the ENTIRE DAY!

i never saw a cloud formation like that, so straight and balanced, before that or after that. what kind of clouds were these? what is this type of formation called? when does it happen, under what conditions? how often does it happen? does it happen more in other parts of the world? where and why? it was the most unusual and remarkable cloud formation/sky i ever saw in my life.

2007-07-13 17:53:44 · 5 answers · asked by Louiegirl_Chicago 5

Either inside or when caught outside.

I was leaning outside my upstairs windows to clean the exterior PVC frames during a lightning storm last week.... and it did occur to me it might not be clever.

Also.. outside I'm stuck too. Something about not waiting it out under a tree....

2007-07-13 17:20:48 · 39 answers · asked by golfgirl 3

circumstances: sub-tropics. 11 pm daylight time. 83 degrees. est. 76% humidity, pressure 30.11 and rising, dew point 74 degrees, light airs [maybe 3 knots] from SSE. visibility 10miles. [data from weather.com]

my altitude about 30 ft. sky clear within visible distance. 15miles + inland.

yet I see repeated lightning in the W and NW, but can not hear the thunder.

How far away is the lightning??


thank you in advance for references and citations.

2007-07-13 16:08:03 · 2 answers · asked by Spock (rhp) 7

2007-07-13 15:21:48 · 13 answers · asked by sandi l 1

If it is high altitude air, meaning lower pressure, how does it manage to descend in the first place? And as it descends, should it not warm up?

2007-07-13 12:26:19 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

what use is the meteorlogical office. They spend millions on sattelites and other equipment and very rarely get the forcast right.Apparantly during the war they rang Truro then Bristol then Oxford. They found out what the weather and wind direction was and knew within a few hours what the weather was going to be on the East coast. Weather forcasting today
is no more accurate than then.Why do we spend all this money?

2007-07-13 06:29:50 · 3 answers · asked by mickymo1 3

i was reading a book and it said if theres a thunderstorm when you here thunder start counting 1..2...3....... and when you here it again stop countng and whatever number you land on thats how many miles away the thunderstorm is is that true?

2007-07-13 05:29:17 · 20 answers · asked by vanilla 2

2007-07-13 04:10:51 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-07-13 04:00:16 · 19 answers · asked by tweety r 1