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Speaker 1: Technology, Tech Stuff from stuff either and welcome to Tech Stuff.

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Speaker 1: I am your host Jonathan Strickland joining me in the

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Speaker 1: studio today our friend Dylan. Hi. Dylan, Hi. We're not

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Speaker 1: talking about photo editing today. We are not. No, We're

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Speaker 1: we're talking. Uh, you know, let's do some small talk.

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Speaker 1: How's the weather. Well today it is overcast and uh,

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Speaker 1: I believe there's a thirty percent chance of rain. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's a little breezy. We went up to the roof

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Speaker 1: of the building and re enacted parts of Titanic. I

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Speaker 1: spread my arms and Dylan held me and I said

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Speaker 1: I was king of the world. They told me to

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Speaker 1: go back downstairs. No, uh, we're talking about whether not

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Speaker 1: because I like terrible small talk, although I'm adept at it,

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Speaker 1: but because of a listener request. Uh. This comes from

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Speaker 1: Dress Sayan and Dress, I am so sorry if I

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Speaker 1: mispronounced your name. I actually asked Drees how to pronounce

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Speaker 1: this name, and I can only hope I got close.

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Speaker 1: But here's what Dres had to say. Hey, I just

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Speaker 1: wanted to ask slash request something about the podcast. See

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Speaker 1: a while back, I had a conversation with my dad.

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Speaker 1: He commented how amazing it was these days, he can

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Speaker 1: just check a website that will pretty accurately tell him

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Speaker 1: And where I said that, it doesn't seem like that's

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Speaker 1: amazing progress to me. After all, when he was a

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Speaker 1: kid in the sixties, they wrote would report if it

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Speaker 1: would rain the next day, and now it's just that

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Speaker 1: we've got it down to a few hours instead of

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Speaker 1: twenty four hours ahead. He laughed and said the weather

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Speaker 1: report back then was pretty much a joke. Anyway, this

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Speaker 1: gave me a lot to think about, and it seemed

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Speaker 1: like something to learn about from the Tech Stuff podcast,

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Speaker 1: because to be honest, I have no clue how weather

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Speaker 1: is accurately predicted. It's just always been there for me.

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Speaker 1: So we're gonna talk about weather forecasting, meteorology, the technology

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Speaker 1: used to UH to to make predictions, UM, what those

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Speaker 1: predictions actually mean. We're gonna break all that down. UH.

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Speaker 1: There will probably be at least one or two references

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Speaker 1: to how weather report. Weather reports are still largely the

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Speaker 1: work of some estimations and best guesses, because, as it

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Speaker 1: turns out, whether it's incredibly complicated, but hopefully by the

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Speaker 1: for meteorologists, right right, as opposed to my friend who

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Speaker 1: in college wrote an essay explaining what level of hell

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Speaker 1: meteorologists should inhabit based upon Dante's Inferno, which was kind

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Speaker 1: Uh So, let's start off with just talking about the

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Speaker 1: history of of predicting weather, and really you have to

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Speaker 1: go all the way back to early human civilization because,

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Speaker 1: as it turns out, one of the most important factors

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Speaker 1: we humans are pretty good at recognizing patterns. Right, So

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Speaker 1: when something happens over and over, we take note of it,

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Speaker 1: draw some hypotheses. For example, we might think that one

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Speaker 1: thing could cause the next thing, or we might think

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Speaker 1: talking about very broad conclusions. Things like you notice that

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Speaker 1: And you start to draw those conclusions too, and together

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Speaker 1: This sort of pattern recognition. Um. And in fact, today

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Speaker 1: just that we have way more information now at a

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Speaker 1: to the Renaissance, one of my favorite time periods. As

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Speaker 1: Georgia Renaissance festivals. Would you say that someone might have

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Speaker 1: So this philosopher, Nicholas of Cusa, designed a device to

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Speaker 1: Galileo Galile created a thermoscope, which is sort of a

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Speaker 1: because we're looking typically at a flat map, right that

429
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Speaker 1: has a bunch of stuff like it's got little flags

430
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Speaker 1: all over it and little lines around it and h

431
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Speaker 1: and l's, and you're wondering, what you know, maybe there's

432
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Speaker 1: some clouds in there too, and but but typically you're

433
00:25:37,680 --> 00:25:40,679
Speaker 1: looking at a two dimensional representation. But really you have

434
00:25:40,720 --> 00:25:43,800
Speaker 1: to remember that weather is a three dimensional phenomenon, so

435
00:25:43,960 --> 00:25:47,000
Speaker 1: that makes it a little more complicated. Um. Also, you

436
00:25:47,080 --> 00:25:52,160
Speaker 1: gotta remember the water cycle. So cold air can't hold

437
00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:56,880
Speaker 1: onto moisture the way warm air can. All right, when

438
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Speaker 1: you have warm air as close to the surface. Let's

439
00:26:00,320 --> 00:26:02,439
Speaker 1: say you've got some nice, warm moist air close to

440
00:26:02,480 --> 00:26:06,240
Speaker 1: the surface of of the the planet, and cold air

441
00:26:06,320 --> 00:26:09,480
Speaker 1: is sinking down forcing the warm air up. As the

442
00:26:09,480 --> 00:26:12,760
Speaker 1: warm air rises, it's going to start to cool and

443
00:26:12,800 --> 00:26:15,199
Speaker 1: as it cools, it can no longer hold onto the

444
00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:19,200
Speaker 1: moisture that it had, which means the moisture starts to condense,

445
00:26:19,280 --> 00:26:21,680
Speaker 1: water vapor begins to condense. This is how you get

446
00:26:21,720 --> 00:26:25,800
Speaker 1: clouds and ultimately how you get stuff like precipitation. So

447
00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:31,639
Speaker 1: understanding that's important. So now let's let's imagine way up

448
00:26:31,640 --> 00:26:34,320
Speaker 1: in the atmosphere, at the top level of where our

449
00:26:34,359 --> 00:26:40,080
Speaker 1: weather happens, we have these massive air currents now. In

450
00:26:40,680 --> 00:26:44,640
Speaker 1: cases where air currents are converging together, so you've got

451
00:26:44,640 --> 00:26:47,720
Speaker 1: two air currents that are meeting up, they start to

452
00:26:47,760 --> 00:26:52,080
Speaker 1: force air out of the way. Now air can't go

453
00:26:52,160 --> 00:26:55,159
Speaker 1: any further up, it has to go down. That's the

454
00:26:55,160 --> 00:26:58,920
Speaker 1: only place to go. So that air coming down increases

455
00:26:58,960 --> 00:27:02,880
Speaker 1: air pressure at that location. You have air moving down

456
00:27:02,920 --> 00:27:05,760
Speaker 1: towards the surface of the earth pushing down, your air

457
00:27:05,800 --> 00:27:10,080
Speaker 1: pressure goes up. So an area of high pressure. You

458
00:27:10,080 --> 00:27:12,520
Speaker 1: know what kind of weather you typically see in an

459
00:27:12,560 --> 00:27:17,040
Speaker 1: area of high pressure, clear, dry weather, Yes, exactly. So

460
00:27:17,080 --> 00:27:20,840
Speaker 1: when you have high pressure system, it's typically pushing the

461
00:27:20,880 --> 00:27:24,280
Speaker 1: moisture out of the way. It's it's it tends and

462
00:27:24,440 --> 00:27:26,600
Speaker 1: we have to use phrases like tens or words like

463
00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:30,919
Speaker 1: tens because it's not every case is is equal. But

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00:27:31,040 --> 00:27:35,440
Speaker 1: it tends to be cooler, it tends to be uh sunny,

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00:27:36,119 --> 00:27:40,160
Speaker 1: it tends to have less wind than low pressure systems.

466
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Speaker 1: Um So this high pressure system creates pleasant weather. Low

467
00:27:45,880 --> 00:27:48,560
Speaker 1: pressure systems are different. Oh and also if you were

468
00:27:48,600 --> 00:27:52,280
Speaker 1: to view this from the sky like you're above this

469
00:27:52,359 --> 00:27:56,600
Speaker 1: high pressure system, and if you could see air, first

470
00:27:56,600 --> 00:27:59,200
Speaker 1: of all, that would be a nightmare. But if you could,

471
00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:03,040
Speaker 1: you would see that this this, uh, the air is

472
00:28:03,040 --> 00:28:05,560
Speaker 1: not just coming down like a column. It's not like

473
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Speaker 1: it's not like you turn on a spigot of water

474
00:28:07,480 --> 00:28:11,720
Speaker 1: and water just falls straight down. It's actually turning as

475
00:28:11,800 --> 00:28:15,760
Speaker 1: the air is sinking right as this high pressure system

476
00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:19,960
Speaker 1: push forces air downward, and it actually moves in a

477
00:28:20,040 --> 00:28:23,040
Speaker 1: clockwise direction, which is funny because I was looking at

478
00:28:23,119 --> 00:28:25,159
Speaker 1: Dylan a second ago and making a twisting motion, but

479
00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:27,600
Speaker 1: I was doing counterclockwise. But no, it moves in a

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00:28:27,600 --> 00:28:29,600
Speaker 1: clockwise direction. This is, by the way, due to the

481
00:28:29,680 --> 00:28:33,000
Speaker 1: rotational force of the Earth in part. So you've got

482
00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:37,359
Speaker 1: this rotating clockwise system that's pushing air downward. That's your

483
00:28:37,440 --> 00:28:42,240
Speaker 1: high pressure. So that's your nice weather blow pressure. I

484
00:28:42,280 --> 00:28:44,640
Speaker 1: think you can probably take a wild guess it's gonna

485
00:28:44,720 --> 00:28:49,920
Speaker 1: mean crummy weather. Yeah, this is where you're getting clouds

486
00:28:49,920 --> 00:28:54,440
Speaker 1: and rain. And typically you're talking about air being pulled upward.

487
00:28:54,760 --> 00:28:58,440
Speaker 1: So why is air getting pulled upward? Well, remember I

488
00:28:58,440 --> 00:29:01,360
Speaker 1: was talking about those those currents up in the upper

489
00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:05,280
Speaker 1: atmosphere where they were converging together and forcing air downward.

490
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Speaker 1: If the currents are moving apart from each other, if

491
00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:12,520
Speaker 1: they're diverging, they create sort of a vacuum effect over

492
00:29:12,560 --> 00:29:16,360
Speaker 1: that region, and that starts to pull air upward, creating

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00:29:16,360 --> 00:29:19,800
Speaker 1: an area of low pressure. Warm air from the surface

494
00:29:19,840 --> 00:29:22,760
Speaker 1: gets pulled upward, it starts to cool down, and the

495
00:29:22,800 --> 00:29:26,120
Speaker 1: water vapor condenses. That's where you start getting those overcast days,

496
00:29:26,240 --> 00:29:29,760
Speaker 1: the cloudiness, the rain um And on top of that,

497
00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:33,520
Speaker 1: you're creating since since it's a low pressure system, you're

498
00:29:33,560 --> 00:29:38,200
Speaker 1: creating the opportunity for some pretty hefty winds to move in. Right,

499
00:29:38,240 --> 00:29:40,760
Speaker 1: Because air is always going to move from an area

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00:29:40,760 --> 00:29:43,120
Speaker 1: of high pressure to an area of low pressure. That's

501
00:29:43,160 --> 00:29:46,000
Speaker 1: just pure fluid dynamics. It makes a lot of sense

502
00:29:46,160 --> 00:29:49,920
Speaker 1: if you've got uh like, imagine that you have two

503
00:29:49,960 --> 00:29:53,760
Speaker 1: water balloons connected to each other, all right, and they

504
00:29:53,800 --> 00:29:58,680
Speaker 1: they are in equilibrium, so they're equally full, not totally full,

505
00:29:58,680 --> 00:30:02,120
Speaker 1: but equally full. If you're to squeeze one of those,

506
00:30:02,400 --> 00:30:04,920
Speaker 1: creating an area of high pressure, it forces the water

507
00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:08,520
Speaker 1: to go to the area of relatively lower pressure. Right,

508
00:30:08,840 --> 00:30:12,840
Speaker 1: You're forcing water into that second water balloon. Same thing

509
00:30:12,920 --> 00:30:15,160
Speaker 1: is true with low pressure systems. You've got a low

510
00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:20,520
Speaker 1: pressure area. That means, uh, any area around it has

511
00:30:20,600 --> 00:30:23,120
Speaker 1: higher pressure, air is going to want to move into

512
00:30:23,200 --> 00:30:25,880
Speaker 1: the area of lower pressure. That's where you get get

513
00:30:25,920 --> 00:30:30,040
Speaker 1: winds coming in and it can get pretty breezy. So

514
00:30:30,520 --> 00:30:33,600
Speaker 1: this one, if you were to look overhead and view

515
00:30:33,640 --> 00:30:37,400
Speaker 1: the air, it would be rotating in a counter clockwise

516
00:30:37,600 --> 00:30:42,080
Speaker 1: or witter shins if you are Shakespearean direction, and the

517
00:30:42,120 --> 00:30:44,680
Speaker 1: air would be coming into the low pressure system as

518
00:30:44,680 --> 00:30:47,320
Speaker 1: opposed to coming out like in high pressure. It would

519
00:30:47,320 --> 00:30:50,560
Speaker 1: all be moving outward in that clockwise direction, with low

520
00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:55,280
Speaker 1: pressure inward in a counterclockwise direction. Uh. Now, the reason

521
00:30:55,320 --> 00:30:57,160
Speaker 1: why I even bring this up is because it's important

522
00:30:57,160 --> 00:30:59,960
Speaker 1: to understand how high at pressure and low pressure affect weather.

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00:31:00,520 --> 00:31:04,600
Speaker 1: So things like you're the wind speed, the um the

524
00:31:04,640 --> 00:31:08,720
Speaker 1: potential for precipitation or lack of precipitation, all of those

525
00:31:08,720 --> 00:31:11,120
Speaker 1: would play a part, and it's important for you to

526
00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:13,280
Speaker 1: know what the pressure is of that region in order

527
00:31:13,280 --> 00:31:17,120
Speaker 1: for you to make any sort of forecast um. So

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00:31:17,600 --> 00:31:19,920
Speaker 1: the barometers would be the tools you would use to

529
00:31:20,200 --> 00:31:24,320
Speaker 1: get those those measurements. Now, the old style barometers, the

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00:31:24,320 --> 00:31:28,560
Speaker 1: mercury ones, use fluid to indicate changes in pressure sort

531
00:31:28,600 --> 00:31:32,160
Speaker 1: of like what we were talking about with Evangelista's barometer. Uh,

532
00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:34,440
Speaker 1: simply just looking to see where where the level is.

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00:31:34,480 --> 00:31:37,680
Speaker 1: So area of high pressure pushes the liquid further up,

534
00:31:37,680 --> 00:31:39,959
Speaker 1: you would say that pressure is rising and whether it's

535
00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:42,720
Speaker 1: probably gonna be pretty nice. In fact, if you ever

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00:31:42,760 --> 00:31:46,200
Speaker 1: have seen one of those old school barometers, it probably

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00:31:46,240 --> 00:31:49,440
Speaker 1: has like sunny like a little drawing of sunshine towards

538
00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:53,120
Speaker 1: the top of it where the level goes up. If

539
00:31:53,120 --> 00:31:57,000
Speaker 1: the if the glass is falling, if the mercury is

540
00:31:57,040 --> 00:32:00,400
Speaker 1: going down the tube, then that would suggest low russure,

541
00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:04,120
Speaker 1: which suggests cloudy, nasty weather. But we also have other

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00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:07,040
Speaker 1: types of barometers. In fact, not a lot of people

543
00:32:07,120 --> 00:32:09,080
Speaker 1: use the mercury ones anymore. Don't know. If you know this,

544
00:32:09,200 --> 00:32:12,640
Speaker 1: Dylan is not the best thing to use. It's a

545
00:32:12,640 --> 00:32:15,760
Speaker 1: little toxic. It'll drive you crazy, you'll go mad as

546
00:32:15,760 --> 00:32:20,880
Speaker 1: a hatter um. But yeah, they they they're also aneroid barometers,

547
00:32:20,920 --> 00:32:23,600
Speaker 1: which were invented in the nineteenth century eight hundreds. In

548
00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:27,080
Speaker 1: other words, these have a tiny little metal box and

549
00:32:27,120 --> 00:32:29,360
Speaker 1: the sides are all made of of a flexible metal,

550
00:32:30,040 --> 00:32:34,760
Speaker 1: and changes in pressure either push the sides of the

551
00:32:34,800 --> 00:32:38,200
Speaker 1: box inward or allow the sides of the box to

552
00:32:38,680 --> 00:32:42,120
Speaker 1: flex outward. That in turn is connect to tiny little

553
00:32:42,160 --> 00:32:44,920
Speaker 1: levers which are connected to a needle. And then you

554
00:32:44,960 --> 00:32:48,040
Speaker 1: look at your your device. It can look like a

555
00:32:48,080 --> 00:32:51,000
Speaker 1: little stop watch actually, and you see where the needle

556
00:32:51,160 --> 00:32:54,920
Speaker 1: is and that tells you where the atmospheric pressure is

557
00:32:55,000 --> 00:33:00,280
Speaker 1: at right, Or you could use uh digital barometers, which

558
00:33:00,280 --> 00:33:04,680
Speaker 1: have little pressure sensitive transducers that essentially do the same thing.

559
00:33:04,680 --> 00:33:07,440
Speaker 1: They're just doing it with a transducer as opposed to

560
00:33:07,480 --> 00:33:13,720
Speaker 1: an actual physical metal box. And how do we talk

561
00:33:13,760 --> 00:33:17,480
Speaker 1: about these measurements, Well, it depends upon what system you're

562
00:33:17,480 --> 00:33:21,440
Speaker 1: looking at. But typically whether men meteorologists, I should say,

563
00:33:21,520 --> 00:33:25,440
Speaker 1: whether people. I suppose um that that sounds like a

564
00:33:25,480 --> 00:33:30,160
Speaker 1: good term, yeah, weather people, M Yeah, Meteorologist is probably

565
00:33:30,160 --> 00:33:32,560
Speaker 1: more accurate, but they use they tend to use millibars

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00:33:33,120 --> 00:33:36,120
Speaker 1: to describe atmospheric pressure. But in the US. Here in

567
00:33:36,160 --> 00:33:39,760
Speaker 1: the US, we sometimes refer to inches of mercury because

568
00:33:41,040 --> 00:33:45,360
Speaker 1: darn it, we like that system. The standard scientific unit

569
00:33:45,440 --> 00:33:49,680
Speaker 1: is the pascal or p A. And then there is

570
00:33:49,800 --> 00:33:53,320
Speaker 1: of course the one atmospheric pressure type approach. That's not

571
00:33:53,480 --> 00:33:57,880
Speaker 1: terribly useful if you're talking about tiny changes in atmospheric pressure,

572
00:33:58,600 --> 00:34:02,880
Speaker 1: like it's a point zero zero zero six atmosphere change.

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00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:06,760
Speaker 1: It's not doesn't help you very much. Um to me,

574
00:34:06,800 --> 00:34:09,680
Speaker 1: it's kind of like measuring temperatures and celsius. It works

575
00:34:09,719 --> 00:34:13,360
Speaker 1: great if you're boiling water, but if you're doing anything else,

576
00:34:13,400 --> 00:34:16,719
Speaker 1: Celsius to me is just it's too brute force an

577
00:34:16,719 --> 00:34:21,359
Speaker 1: approach to describe water. So that's perfect, right, that's really

578
00:34:21,400 --> 00:34:24,200
Speaker 1: whenever I go by Dylan's desk, it's just a pot

579
00:34:24,239 --> 00:34:27,920
Speaker 1: of boiling water and some photos on a screen, and

580
00:34:27,960 --> 00:34:31,640
Speaker 1: that's about it. Uh So, then we have temperature and

581
00:34:31,680 --> 00:34:34,960
Speaker 1: moisture that those are the other two really big components.

582
00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:37,759
Speaker 1: Um So, a large body of air that has a

583
00:34:37,800 --> 00:34:41,880
Speaker 1: similar temperature and moisture throughout that body of air is

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00:34:41,920 --> 00:34:45,200
Speaker 1: called an air mass. So when two air masses are

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00:34:45,239 --> 00:34:47,880
Speaker 1: near one another, they are separated by a thing called

586
00:34:47,960 --> 00:34:50,560
Speaker 1: a front. Right. So you've heard of cold fronts and

587
00:34:50,600 --> 00:34:54,520
Speaker 1: warm fronts obviously, right, So we'll focus on the United States.

588
00:34:54,680 --> 00:34:57,160
Speaker 1: We have four major types of air masses that affect

589
00:34:57,160 --> 00:34:59,200
Speaker 1: our weather here in the United States. This is not

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00:34:59,320 --> 00:35:02,360
Speaker 1: the way it is everywhere. These are the four that

591
00:35:02,760 --> 00:35:07,480
Speaker 1: that in general affect our weather. Um So you've got

592
00:35:07,480 --> 00:35:13,839
Speaker 1: continental polar air masses cold and dry, continental tropical air

593
00:35:13,880 --> 00:35:16,680
Speaker 1: masses hot and dry, yes, which by the way, only

594
00:35:16,760 --> 00:35:20,320
Speaker 1: happened in the summer, and come up from Central America.

595
00:35:20,680 --> 00:35:24,680
Speaker 1: That makes sense. Yeah, then you have maritime polar cool

596
00:35:24,760 --> 00:35:27,120
Speaker 1: and moist. Yeah, and boy, I'm so sorry for you

597
00:35:27,200 --> 00:35:29,600
Speaker 1: people out there who hate the word moist. And then

598
00:35:29,719 --> 00:35:32,839
Speaker 1: maritime tropical warm and moist. There it is again. Yeah.

599
00:35:32,880 --> 00:35:36,680
Speaker 1: So your continental polar air masses, those tend to come

600
00:35:36,719 --> 00:35:40,800
Speaker 1: from our our friends to the north Canada. They ship

601
00:35:40,840 --> 00:35:45,000
Speaker 1: us their poutine, they're Tim Horton's coffee, and they're continental

602
00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:48,000
Speaker 1: polar air masses. Don't bring up Tim Hortons. I'm still

603
00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:51,360
Speaker 1: bummed that there's not one here. I'm actually still look Canada.

604
00:35:51,840 --> 00:35:55,560
Speaker 1: I poke a lot of fun, but I fully admit

605
00:35:55,640 --> 00:36:00,239
Speaker 1: Tim Horton's is a phenomenal chain, national treasure. I would

606
00:36:00,280 --> 00:36:03,200
Speaker 1: welcome it with open arms to come here to Atlanta.

607
00:36:03,600 --> 00:36:07,080
Speaker 1: Just throwing it out there. Um, your continental tropical, like

608
00:36:07,120 --> 00:36:10,520
Speaker 1: I said, comes up through Central America and typically only

609
00:36:10,560 --> 00:36:15,120
Speaker 1: affects our weather in the summer. Maritime polar uh, that

610
00:36:15,200 --> 00:36:19,720
Speaker 1: tends to come from the far northeast. So we're talking

611
00:36:19,760 --> 00:36:24,320
Speaker 1: like in the New England, that area maritime tropical pretty

612
00:36:24,360 --> 00:36:27,560
Speaker 1: much everywhere else um And by tropical, when we say

613
00:36:27,600 --> 00:36:31,200
Speaker 1: hot or warm and moist, we don't necessarily mean like

614
00:36:31,920 --> 00:36:34,640
Speaker 1: it feels like you're in the Caribbean. It just means

615
00:36:34,719 --> 00:36:39,960
Speaker 1: not not cold. Right. So the fronts tell us what

616
00:36:40,040 --> 00:36:42,279
Speaker 1: sort of air is moving into an area. So a

617
00:36:42,320 --> 00:36:45,640
Speaker 1: warm front, first of all, they tend to move pretty slowly.

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00:36:45,719 --> 00:36:48,360
Speaker 1: Warm fronts are not known for moving through an area quickly,

619
00:36:49,160 --> 00:36:52,439
Speaker 1: and they bring lots of rain because warm fronts are

620
00:36:52,560 --> 00:36:55,920
Speaker 1: pushing out cold air. So imagine you've got a massive

621
00:36:55,920 --> 00:36:59,160
Speaker 1: cold air in an area. A warm front is coming

622
00:36:59,200 --> 00:37:02,600
Speaker 1: in that warm air when it encounters the cold air

623
00:37:02,680 --> 00:37:06,400
Speaker 1: that's already in that region, it's the warm hair's inclination

624
00:37:06,760 --> 00:37:08,960
Speaker 1: is to kind of go up the cold air like

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00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:12,000
Speaker 1: a ramp because again, the cold air is more dense, right,

626
00:37:12,440 --> 00:37:14,520
Speaker 1: so the warm air can't just push it all the way.

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00:37:14,560 --> 00:37:16,560
Speaker 1: The warm air is less dense than the cold air,

628
00:37:16,920 --> 00:37:19,200
Speaker 1: but it can start to go up on top of it,

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00:37:19,239 --> 00:37:23,000
Speaker 1: which means the warm air starts to cool down exactly,

630
00:37:23,280 --> 00:37:25,920
Speaker 1: and that's why we get rain and at the at

631
00:37:25,960 --> 00:37:29,400
Speaker 1: the edge of a warm front. So they move pretty

632
00:37:29,400 --> 00:37:32,080
Speaker 1: slowly because warm air just doesn't push cold air out

633
00:37:32,160 --> 00:37:34,880
Speaker 1: very efficiently, and we get a lot of precipitation. Cold

634
00:37:34,920 --> 00:37:38,160
Speaker 1: fronts where cold air replaces warm air, move faster and

635
00:37:38,200 --> 00:37:42,120
Speaker 1: tend to have intense but short thunderstorms and other precipitation.

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00:37:42,200 --> 00:37:44,400
Speaker 1: Is the front moves in and the weather tends to

637
00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:47,360
Speaker 1: clear up pretty shortly thereafter. The reason for this is,

638
00:37:48,560 --> 00:37:50,680
Speaker 1: imagine you've got a mass of cold air moving in,

639
00:37:51,280 --> 00:37:53,960
Speaker 1: you have warm air in the region. The cold air

640
00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:56,359
Speaker 1: is going to almost act like a shovel scooping up

641
00:37:56,360 --> 00:37:59,160
Speaker 1: that warm air, pushing it up into the upper levels

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Speaker 1: but the upper side of it, which cools that that

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Speaker 1: air down very quickly. Because of that quick cooling, you

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Speaker 1: get things like bigger rainstorms thunderstorms, but they tend to

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Speaker 1: happen very quickly, and then once the front has moved through,

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Speaker 1: things are okay again. Spend a summer in Atlanta and

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Speaker 1: you will you will see this phenomenon repeatedly. Right like

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Speaker 1: you there was. There are times where, if it's a

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Speaker 1: watch by when the thunderstorm is going to come through.

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Speaker 1: The extreme, extreme versions of it as well, not not

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Speaker 1: not disaster level, but you'll see quick uh intense thunderstorms

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Speaker 1: a steam bath for the city. That's Atlanta most of

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Speaker 1: the time. Yeah, but it's particularly bad about an hour

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Speaker 1: after a thunderstorm. It's probably the most miserable Atlanta fields,

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Speaker 1: right because it's just it's like walking into a steam room.

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Speaker 1: So again, the reason for that that fast violent weather

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Speaker 1: no longer hold on to all this moisture that was

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Speaker 1: once part of it um and it has to go somewhere,

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Speaker 1: so it lands on us. So that's kind of interesting.

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Speaker 1: They're also stationary fronts. Stationary fronts are when two fronts

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Speaker 1: It's gonna stick around for a while, you have a

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Speaker 1: lot of rain. Typically sounds like the traffic jam of fronts. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and then there's occluded fronts, and that's when a warm

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Speaker 1: lot of intense thunderstorms with included fronts to Dylan and

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