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triple_r wrote:
> Invisible <voi### [at] dev null> wrote:
>> I wonder if you could somehow plot this on a circular graph with a
>> 12-month cycle?
>
> Anything's possible, but conclusions are left as an exercise for the reader.
> (divisions are 5 degrees Celsius.)
Dude, that's pretty freaking crazy! :-D
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"triple_r" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> (divisions are 5 degrees Celsius.)
Oops, and blue is 1959, red is 2008.
- Ricky
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Invisible a écrit :
> Yesterday my mum notified me of the "blizzard" outside. This consisted
> of approximately 3 tiny snowflakes barely visible to the naked eye.
>
To paraphrase Crocodile Dundee: "That's not a snow storm. THIS is a
snow storm!"
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2020/2318998403_8d35c71609_o.jpg
Taken on March 8, 2008, at 3pm. Notice how dark it was! It was the 6th
(and last!) snow storm of the winter, each dumping more than 30cm of snow.
The following pictures are as we dug ourselves out, the next day.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3498/3248690953_d3894342b9_o.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3362/3249518750_dff6685631_b.jpg
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As of today the current snowfall total for the season here is 95.4 inches.
More is supposed to be on the way tomorrow.
I made a little comic in honor of groundhog day, which is today
"Invisible" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message
news:4986c1dd@news.povray.org...
> Yesterday my mum notified me of the "blizzard" outside. This consisted
> of approximately 3 tiny snowflakes barely visible to the naked eye.
>
> Yesterday evening, the ground was about 20% covered in whiteness. If you
> imagine taking a chocolate cake and lightly sprinkling it with icing
> sugar, that's roughly what it looked like. (For extra points... go *get*
> a chocolate cake and eat it!)
>
> This morning, as I walked to my car there was approximately 15 mm of
> snow laying on the ground, and barely visible flakes were still
> continuing to fall. On the way to work, the snow cover gradually became
> thinner and thinner, until in Coventry there isn't even a full covering.
>
> On the radio I hear that the MET office has issued a country-wide Severe
> Weather Warning, schools and businesses have been closed, and the
> Highways Agency has advised people not to travel "unless absolutely
> necessary".
>
> Uh... WTF? It's not exactly like the Arctic out there! :-P
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On Mon, 02 Feb 2009 21:41:57 -0500, Francois Labreque wrote:
> Taken on March 8, 2008, at 3pm. Notice how dark it was! It was the 6th
> (and last!) snow storm of the winter, each dumping more than 30cm of
> snow.
Impressive, but a lot of that looks like drifts rather than accumulation
of precipitation. ;-)
Of course, now I can't find the photos I took from a couple years ago
here in Utah. ;-)
Jim
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>> I wonder if you could somehow plot this on a circular graph with a
>> 12-month cycle?
>
> Anything's possible, but conclusions are left as an exercise for the
> reader.
> (divisions are 5 degrees Celsius.)
Cool, but how about having the centre point as the minimum temperature in
the dataset rather than zero - it looks a bit confusing with the negatives
going into June and July - still really cool though - did you use POV for
that?
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Invisible wrote:
>
> OOC, how much snow is there in the various other parts of the world
> where POVers are reading this??
Southern Finland (~80km north from Helsinki central), somewhere around
15-20cm and been on the ground for a week or two.
-Aero
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> Yes. I was saying, in a theoretical context, people often assume that
> objects collide with no deformation, but presumably in the real world this
> never actually happens...
I have never heard the assumption that the objects don't deform. Assuming
small elastic deformations during the collision is popular, or even small
inelastic deformations, but never *no* deformation...
Even at school I remember doing the coefficient of restitution in physics
classes, that allows you to calculate what happens during inelastic
collisions:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coefficient_of_restitution
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Francois Labreque wrote:
> To paraphrase Crocodile Dundee: "That's not a snow storm. THIS is a
> snow storm!"
>
> http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2020/2318998403_8d35c71609_o.jpg
>
> Taken on March 8, 2008, at 3pm. Notice how dark it was! It was the 6th
> (and last!) snow storm of the winter, each dumping more than 30cm of snow.
>
> The following pictures are as we dug ourselves out, the next day.
>
> http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3498/3248690953_d3894342b9_o.jpg
> http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3362/3249518750_dff6685631_b.jpg
OMG! LOL!
I'm loving the way the snow is piled higher than an adult human... ;-)
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This guy has a big job ahead of him...
http://englishrussia.com/images/norilsk_cars/2.jpg
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scott wrote:
> This guy has a big job ahead of him...
>
> http://englishrussia.com/images/norilsk_cars/2.jpg
THIS IS A SNOW STORM!! :-D
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Invisible wrote:
> Yeah, maybe. I guess the government doesn't want to hear the whole "why
> didn't you warn people?" thing, or "why didn't you take action?". (OTOH,
> it didn't seem to be a problem for New Orleans...)
I'm pretty sure the people knew a hurricane was coming towards their
city, and that they knew their city was built below sea level. Not my
fault they didn't get out of the way.
Regards,
John
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And lo On Mon, 02 Feb 2009 13:35:18 -0000, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> did
spake thusly:
> I can remember 1995 or so, there was a lot of snow one day. About 20 cm
> or so. Not huge, but a lot. Nobody seemed to really pay much attention.
> A few people got slightly stuck or something, but nobody considered it a
> big deal. Yet today, it's a catastrophy... hmm.
That's because the snow fell somewhere up North, this time it fell
somewhere important ;-).
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>> I can remember 1995 or so, there was a lot of snow one day. About 20
>> cm or so. Not huge, but a lot. Nobody seemed to really pay much
>> attention. A few people got slightly stuck or something, but nobody
>> considered it a big deal. Yet today, it's a catastrophy... hmm.
>
> That's because the snow fell somewhere up North, this time it fell
> somewhere important ;-).
Oooo! :-P
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John VanSickle a écrit :
> Invisible wrote:
>
>> Yeah, maybe. I guess the government doesn't want to hear the whole
>> "why didn't you warn people?" thing, or "why didn't you take action?".
>> (OTOH, it didn't seem to be a problem for New Orleans...)
>
> I'm pretty sure the people knew a hurricane was coming towards their
> city, and that they knew their city was built below sea level. Not my
> fault they didn't get out of the way.
>
You're a single mom with three kids, a dog, a sick grandmother, no car
and 17$. Where do you go? How?
Some people were idiots for trying to ride the storm (see also
Galveston, TX, last summer), but many people stayed because they had no
other alternative.
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Francois Labreque wrote:
> You're a single mom with three kids, a dog, a sick grandmother, no car
> and 17$. Where do you go? How?
Not to be cruel, but that's kind of why you're living there. It's cheap
enough for you to afford because every once in a while, you're totally
hosed. If you could afford to flee on a day's notice, you wouldn't be living
where you might have to flee on a day's notice.
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"Ouch ouch ouch!"
"What's wrong? Noodles too hot?"
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Warp wrote:
> Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> For referense, *this* is "heavy snow":
>
>> http://www.telenendaz.ch/documents/fond%20ecran/1024boardercross.jpg
>
> That's not heavy snow. This is heavy snow:
>
>
http://www.bbc.co.uk/wear/features/2004/12/images/weather_gallery/snow_in_canada_400x300.jpg
Hehe
- We have some snow here in Norway too:
http://www.prohd.no/Bilder/Folgefonna/Snowfres-kanter.jpg
http://www.prohd.no/Bilder/Folgefonna/Broytekant%2016%20mai%202008.jpg
http://www.prohd.no/Flash%20bilder/Fonna%2016%20april%202008/slides/p_0006.jpg
The images are from this page:
http://www.prohd.no/Frames/ProHD_Folgefonna.html
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Tor Olav Kristensen wrote:
> - We have some snow here in Norway too:
>
> http://www.prohd.no/Bilder/Folgefonna/Snowfres-kanter.jpg
> http://www.prohd.no/Bilder/Folgefonna/Broytekant%2016%20mai%202008.jpg
> http://www.prohd.no/Flash%20bilder/Fonna%2016%20april%202008/slides/p_0006.jpg
Jesus... Dude, should you be walking quite that close to the walls? Are
they stable??
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Francois Labreque wrote:
> John VanSickle a écrit :
>> Invisible wrote:
>>
>>> Yeah, maybe. I guess the government doesn't want to hear the whole
>>> "why didn't you warn people?" thing, or "why didn't you take
>>> action?". (OTOH, it didn't seem to be a problem for New Orleans...)
>>
>> I'm pretty sure the people knew a hurricane was coming towards their
>> city, and that they knew their city was built below sea level. Not my
>> fault they didn't get out of the way.
>
> You're a single mom with three kids, a dog, a sick grandmother, no car
> and 17$. Where do you go? How?
Some verifiable statistics on how many people fell into this category of
need would be useful to the debate.
Regards,
John
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Invisible wrote:
> Uh... WTF? It's not exactly like the Arctic out there! :-P
Speaking of wtf...
http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j85/Malaven/Star%20Wars%20Miniatures/Hoth003.jpg
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Darren New wrote:
> Speaking of wtf...
>
> http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j85/Malaven/Star%20Wars%20Miniatures/Hoth003.jpg
Er, niner-niner, whiskey tango foxtrot, what's your six? Over. ._.
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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Darren New wrote:
>
>> Speaking of wtf...
>>
>> http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j85/Malaven/Star%20Wars%20Miniatures/Hoth003.jpg
>
>
> Er, niner-niner, whiskey tango foxtrot, what's your six? Over. ._.
Shouldn't that be Echo Three to Echo Seven?
Great photo, btw :-D
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>> Er, niner-niner, whiskey tango foxtrot, what's your six? Over. ._.
>
> Shouldn't that be Echo Three to Echo Seven?
No idea.
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