Land and sky…

It you live in Norway, you’d be wise to determine if it’s located on a clay bank and liable to slide into the sea as this village has  done.   Fortunately the residents of Alta were able to escape and a dog washed away was rescued by a helicopter crew.  Heavy rainfall can make clay unstable to the point it can’t hold onto itself or anything else, and you often get entire slabs of land sliding down a slope.

In less dangerous examples of nature, try a very rare  red rainbow.   This phenomenon in Birmingham, England was due to the sun appearing to be lower in the sky, so light travels a longer distance through the atmosphere.  That gives rise to the red appearance of sunsets because the shorter wavelengths – blue, green, and yellow – are scattered,  leaving mostly red hues.

 

 

Another Gore effect…

Young and ignorant “climate justice” activists who marched on Washington D.C. last Saturday were confronted by a phenomenon which has happened so often that it has a name  —  the Gore effect.   It’s named after former Vice President Al Gore,  because so many of his climate hysteria events warning of us the impending doom of global warming were hit with snow and sleet and freezing rain.  This group was lucky —  they only faced wind-driven rain,  and temperatures 15 – 20 degrees cooler than average.

I find it quite amusing that Mother Nature so often contradicts climate rallies and marches and protests.   You’d think if she felt threatened she’d do a much better job of cooperating…

 

Bermuda Triangle solved?

The large number of ships and planes which have gone missing in the Bermuda Triangle has puzzled us for many years.   Could the peculiar hexagonal-shaped  clouds meteorologists have found over that dicey patch of water actually produce  “air bombs”  capable of causing disasters?   Assuming they are caused by micro-bursts,  but are larger than what we normally take that term to mean,  they certainly could produce  sufficient disturbances in the air or on the water to explain this enduring myster.