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POPS U.S. Severe Weather Map To view your region, please visit website to use map's tools. Updated: 9:05 PM GMT on December 19, 2008 — Edit My Time Zone http://www.wunderground.com/severe.asp
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POPSEmpire State Building Lightning strikes
Saw a clip on Empire State Building Lightning strikes by ericw, and followed the link suggested by wiccantexan. I wondered, whether with the energy consumption of New York, and the tendency of of the Empire State Building to act as a lightning rod, can this electricity be stored or redirected to the power grid, rather that just being earthed. Seems like we'd just have to introduce it to a detour,and consolidate it with an insulating channel that could be created with a computer generated polymer, and a variable resistor that would respond to current fluctuations, and distribute the charge using a cascade effect so the current has multiple potential pathways. We need to split the charge as it strikes, and allow sequential switching to multiple lines as each becomes saturated. It's just that first short sharp shock. The best way to reduce an impact's effect is to spread it over a greater relative area Lightning seems like the sort of elementary force that we just have to redirect.
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POPSGlobal Cooling? Jeff Masters of Wunderground sums up the cooling trend seen in the stratosphere and why it reaffirms the evidence that the current warming here at the surface is man-made.
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POPSWeather Underground's Jeff Masters on Global Warming Wrapping up 2006, Jeff Masters talks about the warming trend across the globe, and what is contributing to the intense temperature changes this year across the northern hemisphere. It's a brown Christmas across nearly all of North America and Europe!
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