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Coach McGuirk

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Another month until peak hurricane season. I've been studying


...okay...I'll appropriately soften that to "looking into" ...the phenomenon of Saharan dust. That cloud of dust saves our bacon this time of year quite often, making hurricane formation very difficult in the dry air. There have been lots of tropical waves forming this week, for those of us that watch such things, that are, or will be, duds. I know the big spike in hurricane activity will be here in about 2 weeks, and I was trying to find patterns as to the end of dust cloud formation.

Aaaand...I ran into the gem below. Hmmm...

"Around 11,000 years ago, the Earth had just emerged from the last ice age and was beginning a new, interglacial epoch known as the Holocene. Geologists and archaeologists have found evidence that during this period the Sahara was much greener, wetter, and more livable than it is today."

Link: http://news.mit.edu/2016/saharan-dust-monsoons-1123


Posted: 08/03/2019 at 11:17AM


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  Another month until peak hurricane season. I've been studying -- Coach McGuirk 08/03/2019 11:17AM
  That climate change thing will git after ya now.** -- MikeVT85 08/03/2019 7:55PM
  Now it's the Kelvin Wave suppressing storms. Not those dusty Saharans. -- Stork 08/03/2019 3:13PM
  Those Kelvins. They’re the worst. ** -- PhotoHokieNC 08/03/2019 4:24PM
  Kelvin and Hobbes? ** -- Stork 08/03/2019 5:16PM
  I thought they are started by a butterfly flapping it's wings. ** -- soldcokesatLane 08/03/2019 1:11PM
  Known as the Sahara Oasis back then ** -- TomTurkey 08/03/2019 1:05PM
  Send your camel to bed. ** -- TexasGobbler 08/03/2019 1:29PM
  +1. ** -- TomTurkey 08/03/2019 1:59PM
  Let's slip off to a sand dune, real soon And kick up a little dust -- PhotoHokieNC 08/03/2019 1:51PM
  If only the Saharans of that time had invested in high speed rail. ** -- RoswellGAHokie 08/03/2019 12:46PM
  They didn't have enough time - only 12 years. ** -- PhotoHokieNC 08/03/2019 1:51PM
  Well they did have Tunisian Camel Jockeys. ** -- Major Kong 08/03/2019 1:05PM
  So true. Don't think I can ever recall a hurricane in the Sahara. ** -- Stork 08/03/2019 11:47AM
  You're young, you've been spared the horror. ** -- PhotoHokieNC 08/03/2019 1:52PM
  Who screwed up the Sahara's livability 11K yrs ago? wiki sez - -- PhotoHokieNC 08/03/2019 11:30AM

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