The Quack Shack

[Miss Lydia]

Good Sunday afternoon everyone! Hope it’s been a good one for you all

 

[duluthralphie]

No! The little spiny things that occur just on a normal day in the breeze are called willy willies in the east and west and wurly winds in the middle. The tropical storms depend if they are a cyclone or just tropical. Then they are a cyclone named something like Shazza or a tropical

I knew you would have a different name for them.

 

[rjohns39]

Good Sunday afternoon everyone! Hope it’s been a good one for you all

Good afternoon Patti, have a great day

Good morning Wunda, have a great day

 

[Muscovy Wunda]

I knew you would have a different name for them.

You guys call cyclones hurricanes don't you?

 

[duluthralphie]

You guys call cyclones hurricanes don't you?

Hurricanes are massive systems of low pressure, thus circulating counter clock wise. The develop over water and move inland. I believe the winds must be over 65mph, but I could be off on that because 39 sticks in my brain too, but no idea why. Depending on wind speeds they are either tropical storms or hurricanes.

Tornadoes develop on land, again low pressure areas but much smaller than a hurricane. Strong Updraft and wind speeds 65+

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

I really can understand it.
It just sounds absurd.
Kind of like I enjoy riding roller coasters and things like that but standing near the edge of a high place or something makes me feel like gravity is calling to me over the edge and gives me vertigo.

Exactly! - The worst thing for me is standing on a ladder, just 2 meters (7') above ground. If i watch down, that ladder suddenly extends to the edge of the galaxy…

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Yes and no.

I can fly nap of the earth or hover at treetop level all day and I love it. I can cut the power and do autorotations to the ground or recover at the flare and have the best time.

I can be in the soup at FL250 and life is grand, I can do maneuvers or spins and be totally relaxed.
Whether it’s 5 ft or 25,000 ft as long as I have working controls and in an air craft height makes no difference.

Flying off a cliff or into a river ravine is exciting...

But.... there is a tree stand some idiot put up on federal land, it’s maybe 20 ft in the tree. He has sign on it saying use it if you want to.

I climbed about 2/3rds of the way up, started feeling the need to poop. Realized there is no way I am dumb enough to sit 20ft in the air in this tree...so I climbed back down and the need to poop was gone..

I hate heights.

I would have made it up those 20 feet (6 meters), sat down and after one look down be frozen in place. - Like if i don't move, i cannot fall, right? …

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Tornadoes have only been in Australia as long as video cameras in phones it seems. Unless it is captured on video the BOM (bureau of meteorology) will state no such thing happened and it was just a trick of the eye. But ours are more like water spout size, not those monsters tornado ally gets.

I have never seen a tornado life, in color and 3D, and i don't know if i want to! I might soil my pants… But i have seen the aftermath of an F5 in Moore Oklahoma, two years after the tornado devastated that town. That tornado even ripped the concrete slabs, the foundation of the houses, out of the ground and folded them like paper. I was happy to live in Houston, right at the southern edge of tornado alley.

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

No! The little spiny things that occur just on a normal day in the breeze are called willy willies in the east and west and wurly winds in the middle. The tropical storms depend if they are a cyclone or just tropical. Then they are a cyclone named something like Shazza or a tropical

Good grief! How do you call a downburst in front of a super-cell? A wooshy woop?!

Hurricane, Typhon and Cyclone basically all means the same: A system with a circular wind-field around a center with cold air sinking in the center (eye) and warm air rising around, creating severe Thunderstorms. Called hurricanes in the Atlantic basin, Typhon in the Pacific and Cyclone in the Indian ocean basin. - That's what wikipedia is sayin'.
And i do prefer those systems over any tornado, because nowadays you know days in advance that they are coming at your location, so you can pack your stuff and leave. Tornadoes are way more evil: You get minutes to jump into your basement and slam the steel-door shut. If you'er lucky, sometimes you have only seconds…

 

[duluthralphie]

I would have made it up those 20 feet (6 meters), sat down and after one look down be frozen in place. - Like if i don't move, i cannot fall, right? …

You would have beat me, I never made it that high.