Natural Science Forum / Earth Science / Meteorology / August 2004

I'm a screenwriter and I have a question:
If a big enough asteroid hit Jupiter and a piece of Jupiter broke off, could
it become a rogue asteroid and head for Earth?
If not, what type of situation can be proposed that would produce a

Examination: Historical WNW-tracking Cape Verde systems which achieve
cat-2 status east of 55W and south of 20N (with some minor allowances to
fit in a few "horseshoe 'leaners'"):
1928: #4

Sorry if this question has been asked before or if this isn't the
appropriate newsgroup.  But me and a friend have been having a debate
about lightning strikes and rain.  Basically what it is I remember
seeing a documentary a good few years ago where a "storm chaser" said

On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 20:08:00 -0400,  "Daffy Duck" <duck@disney.com>
twrote

The following URL seems to be "out":
http://polar.wwb.noaa.gov/seaice/Analyses.html
It contained the Ice cover on the Arctic and Antarctic.
Has it changed (and did I miss something)?

I keep seeing descriptions (e.g.
<http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gl)/guides/mtr/fw/fric.rxml>) of winds
blowing parallel to isobars. Yet surely this is not physically possible?
The only force driving the wind is the pressure gradient force. The

Looking at the SST link from the Tropical Prediction Center page, I've
noticed a large area of higher-than-normal SSTs off the west coast of
the US during this summer. The current page at
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutsst.shtml? shows anomalies of up to 3

http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,10485495%255E1702,00.html
Plankton poo key to global warming
By Alex Wilson
18aug04

Tonight I need to clean up a few items on the backburner of research. A
good science mind has not just one or two or three projects of interest
but more than 50 going all at once. If memory serves me it was Autumn of
2003 when I asked for a physics answer as to how long it would ...

For various reasons (see bottom) I've become interested in the sensitivity
of weather to initial conditions. I was hoping any experts here could help
me with the following question:
Suppose an air parcel of about 10 km size suddenly (magically?!) changed its

I found this in the Google Archives for this group. Questions/comments
throughout post

http://www.nrdc.org/media/pressreleases/040806.asp
California Zooms Toward Finish Line for Global Warming Standard
Statement by Roland Hwang, NRDC Vehicles Policy Director
SAN FRANCISCO (August 6, 2004) - The California Air Resources Board

BBC: "China braces itself for the worst..."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/world/news/index.shtml?newX=200
Taiwan faced a second day battling with the effects of Typhoon 'Aere' The
storm began lashing the island with torrential rain and strong winds on

high lightningactivity this morning (0-8 h.am) in France and West-
Belgium...
http://users.telenet.be/weathersite/Articles/Lightningradar-Europe.html

At 00:00z, Super Typhoon CHABA was located at 20.3N 138.2E moving 330deg at
10kts.
Winds speeds are 150kts with gusts to 180kts.
CHABA is now on heading to Japan south Coast will reach 29 AUG near 18Z.