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Dec. 21st, 2004
Cyn gave me some cold medicine and I took a nap. I feel a little better. The pains in my head have gone away.
As is usual, I'm most disappointed that I can't get things done around the house. I've got a list of things to do and I'm not well enough to do them. So I just sit around. I meant to clean my part of the office over the weekend, but never got around to it. I'd like to do it now, but it takes too much energy. Maybe I can at least sort some papers. I can at least read some magazines. That will be nice. I sure am glad I don't have work to be done at the duplex. If this had hit before I was ready for the drywaller, I'd have been in big trouble.
Now I'd better eat something.
As is usual, I'm most disappointed that I can't get things done around the house. I've got a list of things to do and I'm not well enough to do them. So I just sit around. I meant to clean my part of the office over the weekend, but never got around to it. I'd like to do it now, but it takes too much energy. Maybe I can at least sort some papers. I can at least read some magazines. That will be nice. I sure am glad I don't have work to be done at the duplex. If this had hit before I was ready for the drywaller, I'd have been in big trouble.
Now I'd better eat something.
lake-effect snow
Dec. 21st, 2004 04:43 pmLake effect snow is a unique event that occurs on large scale only around the Great Lakes of North America.. While there are some small-scale lake effects around the world, the Great Lakes have a truly unique micro-scale weather phenomenon.
The right combination of geographic factors must be present for lake-effect snowstorms to materialize. A large body of water must be upwind of the area to modify the cold air, and this location must be far enough from the equator so that winter temperatures can be sufficiently cold enough for the precipitation to fall as snow. However, the climate cannot be so cold that the large body of water freezes over completely, or there would be no modifying influence to the cold air.
The body of water must be large enough to warm the air as it travels over the lake, but not large enough to warm it above the freezing point. A large land mass of continental dimensions must lie upwind of the lakes to supply large air masses of cold air.
-John Malan, meteorologist
The right combination of geographic factors must be present for lake-effect snowstorms to materialize. A large body of water must be upwind of the area to modify the cold air, and this location must be far enough from the equator so that winter temperatures can be sufficiently cold enough for the precipitation to fall as snow. However, the climate cannot be so cold that the large body of water freezes over completely, or there would be no modifying influence to the cold air.
The body of water must be large enough to warm the air as it travels over the lake, but not large enough to warm it above the freezing point. A large land mass of continental dimensions must lie upwind of the lakes to supply large air masses of cold air.
-John Malan, meteorologist