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Date Posted: 04:45:36 01/16/11 Sun
Author: BC (and, "ARk storms")
Subject: the "Pineapple Express"

In times past, I've heard that TN is located along "Tornado Alley" ...
although - according to a map I found - it appears we're on the far end of the "street."
And, I'd venture to say that DebbieS -living in Kansas -has seen more "twisters" than I ?!
But, in 1998, I saw the one "major twister" which came through middle TN from behind the windshield of a school bus - with about 20 passengers still "in tow" - not a good feeling. My home happened to be along my route at the time - so I took the kids I had still on the bus with me into the basement of our home until the storm passed through.

The western border of TN runs along the New Madrid fault line ...
a system that was responsible for the 1811–1812 New Madrid earthquakes - creating Reel Foot Lake...
and, may have the potential to produce large earthquakes in the future.

I've been considering traveling west again this summer ...
became curious regarding earthquakes and weather patterns in that part of the US?!

According to an article I read this morning ...
" ... California faces the risk not just of devastating earthquakes but also of a catastrophic storm that could tear at the coasts, inundate the Central Valley and cause four to five times as much economic damage as a large quake, scientists and emergency planners warn ..."

" ... Californians have learned to expect earthquakes the way Floridians expect hurricanes. (A minor earthquake, with a preliminary magnitude of 4.1, rattled windows in the southern part of the San Francisco Bay area about a week ago) ..."

" ...while many Californians know whether they live or work close to an earthquake-prone fault and what to do should there be a serious quake, few realize that the state could be hit by storms that at their worst could rival the largest hurricanes that devastate the Gulf Coast and the southeastern Atlantic Seaboard." ***

*** reminds of the lyrics from a song ...
"Seems it never rains in southern California
Seems I've often heard that kind of talk before
It never rains in California
But girl don't they warn ya
It pours, man it pours ..."
-Albert Hammond

" ... satellite imagery available in recent years allowed scientists to clearly identify what they call “atmospheric rivers” (ARk storm) — moisture-filled air currents up to 200 miles wide and 2,000 miles long, which flow from tropical regions of the Pacific Ocean to the West Coast ..."

"Stormaggedon: Ark Storms and the San Andreas Faultline"
- December 22, 2010 ...

"Scientists Cite “Atmospheric River” for Near Continuous Rain"

"Seems that scientists have pinned down the system that is dumping flooding rains onto California. And they realize it has happened before ..."

"... there’s nothing new about the phenomenon. What scientists now realize was an atmospheric river in 1861-62 brought California 45 straight days of rain and caused flooding of Biblical proportions, evocative of Noah and his ark. It bankrupted the state."

"So they have named them "Ark Storms" ..."

" ... Evidence of a link between climate and the rumblings of the crust has been around for years, but only now is it becoming clear just how sensitive rock can be to the air, ice and water above. “You don’t need huge changes to trigger responses from the crust,” says Bill McGuire of University College London (UCL), who organised the meeting. “The changes can be tiny.”


"ARk Storms ..."
"Climate Change: Tearing the Earth apart?"

In an article ...
"Lucy Jones of the U-S Geological Survey office in Pasadena and a specialist in earthquakes comments on the history of this type of storm. She says she was struck by something in the timing of the storm and the occurrence of a major San Andreas quake ..."

"Jones is struck by the coincidence that California’s last major Ark Storm occurred so close in time to the last Southern San Andreas Big One in 1857. It appears both recur with a frequency of a few hundred years."

"The question becomes: did the years leading up to the San Andreas Quake in 57 have smaller (non-Ark) storms, like the one California may be experiencing at this time? .."
- NBC Los Angeles

Just thought it was kinda interesting?!
- BC

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[> Re: the "Pineapple Express" -- BC, 04:57:49 01/16/11 Sun

... "The West Coast winter weather systems popularly known as the "Pineapple Express"- air currents carrying moisture from the Hawaiian Islands - are just one moderate subset of these rivers ... the abbreviation for atmospheric river, A.R., gave the geological survey the root of its name for these major weather events, which they call "ARk storms" ..."

-BC


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