Ninth Stage

Not really but Nashville’s weather has broken a 53 year record for consecutive days over 90 degrees as well as broken or set a few others.
This heat wave felt pretty mild with the low relative humidity but at the price of a terrible drought rivaled only by the drought of 1954.
Today the high was 88 [...]

“To assume that it is a problem is to assume that the state of Earth’s climate today is the optimal climate, the best climate that we could have or ever have had and that we need to take steps to make sure that it doesn’t change,” Griffin said. “I guess I would ask which human [...]

You’ve probably read that Al Gore’s Belle Meade mansion home uses twice as much electricity in a month as the average home does in a year.  And you’ve probably read that the Gore family paid an average of $1359 for electricity and $1080 for natural gas every month last year.  But have you ever calculated [...]

You’re plan is to scatter tons and tons of dust (page 3) in the upper atmospere, over the arctic, to mitigate global warming. Now every cold related weather problem has become yours. Record snowfall in the northeast? Someone will try to get you to pay for any losses. Deaths? Your [...]

Victoria, Australia.
Global warming claims effective gun control as it’s next victim. As temperatures rise and rainfall decreases a cache of firearms has appeared in dry lake and riverbeds.
Since last November, four guns have been uncovered in the now empty Lake Wendouree at Ballarat and in a creek at nearby Creswick.
Four, count ‘em, FOUR SINCE [...]

…(Khilyuk and Chilingar (2003, 2004) - the two researchers from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles (USA) conclude that “the theory of currently observed global atmospheric warming as a result of increasing anthropogenic carbon dioxide emission is a myth,” and that it has “proved to [...]

Not the worst hailstorm we’ve had up here on the ridge but this time I have photos.

This was taken around the time this happened. I’d like to add these items to that earlier post; two fluorescent lights on one circuit and a GFI outlet.

The Dogwoods are blooming in Tennessee.

This image was captured later the same day as the tornado below. A few hours can make all the difference in the world.

I promised to post the photo I took with my cell phone of the Gallatin Tornado. I only got this one since I was apprehensive and awed at the same time, I really wanted to see it.

Shortly after this image was taken the tornado passed to the left in this image, to my south, [...]

We survived Sunday night’s storms but it was a wild ride. The first line came through around 20:00 and provided a tremendous light show. I captured a few images of lightning but I missed the best ones.

Some of the ground to sky bolts were like fantastic electric trees extending into the heavens.
The power [...]