what F is going on the weather is complete ------------- 'd up. we WERE headed to a NORMAL spring and summer now it's this dogs ----------- weather. it's F********* my god damn home had a indoor swamp and if this B------ weather keeps it'll ruin a bunch sh______ .constant f'ing hail and now fing snow. Just fing "great".
On Tue, May 6, 2025 at 10:31 AM steve smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 5/6/25 12:25 AM, Nicholas Thompson wrote: > > > > *To Non-Santefeans: the occasion for this correspondence is the fact that > it has rained, thundered, and hailed pretty steadily here for the last two > days, a lot of it at night. Total rain not that great (over an inch) but > the steadiness and the duration has be remarkable for this desert town. * > > Hi Steve, Certainly diurnal heating is the most common way to kick of > mountain thunderstorms with hail. The only thing I can imagine is that the > air is very unstable and there is enough lift provided by the mountains to > capitalize on this instability. The radar shows a series of showers riding > up slope from ABQ to SAF. Also, as you will see from the chart below > which was made at just the time that another big hailstorm was pelting > Trader Joes, there is a long skinny CAPE and all of it is above the > freezing level. So there is several thousand feet for hail to form in. All > that airmass is moving rapidly to the NE, providing a lot of sheer with the > lower levels. > > NST - > > The weather patterns yielding MY hailstorm(s) have come from the SW, > effectively following the rio-grande and open low(er) country W of ABQ (I > saw that one of the big I40 Casinos shut down over heavy hail a day or so > ago)... Maybe it is Buckman Mesa uplift that triggers *my* hail? 15 > miles W of the Sangre foothils and 10 E of the Jemez shoulders (but part of > the lava/tuff mesa system). > > Buckman Mesa seems to be a factor in my micro-weather patterns. We have > a *very* small watershed dedicated to us (bounded/including) the E and N > sides of Buckman... it means we have *very* intermittent runoff but it > comes with significant flooding in the arroyo behind us... it goes from > dry sand to 6' standing waves in minutes every few years... this weather > event (still coming in gentle pulses) hasn't triggered that yet, but the > water infiltration wells built just N of Otowi Bridge (IMBY) and the > support infrastructure (mechanical building wiht backup generators and > pressure tanks) is at risk of A) being flooded in ways the designers seem > to not anticipate/acknowledge and B) redirect waters to my neighbors (more > than me, 10' higher than the lowest property along a very gentle slope). > > This little bit of wet weather is incredibly welcome after no appreciable > moisture since a foot or two of snow late Autumn (October/November?)... > My attempts to get some forage/cover growing for my chickens (and > ourselves) has been fairly unrewarding... but my experience is that the > first rainstorm after the ground warms (often not until June) always kicks > off all the seeds (wild and planted) with a vengeance. > > I've been doomscrolling for climate tipping points for a while and > discovered that Rockstrom, et-al in Stockholm are now using the term > tipping-cascades... > > Me, I hope Trump builds an anchor Trump Resort property in Southern > Greenland just in time for the ice-sheet to slough off, scraping him and > his into the ocean and inundating all of his near-coastal properties. > > Schadenfreude much? yah... > > - SAS > > > .- .-.. .-.. / ..-. --- --- - . .-. ... / .- .-. . / .-- .-. --- -. --. / > ... --- -- . / .- .-. . / ..- ... . ..-. ..- .-.. > 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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