APOD: A Waterspout in Florida (2017 Sep 03)

Comments and questions about the APOD on the main view screen.
Post Reply
User avatar
APOD Robot
Otto Posterman
Posts: 5345
Joined: Fri Dec 04, 2009 3:27 am
Contact:

APOD: A Waterspout in Florida (2017 Sep 03)

Post by APOD Robot » Sun Sep 03, 2017 4:09 am

Image A Waterspout in Florida

Explanation: What's happening over the water? Pictured here is one of the better images yet recorded of a waterspout, a type of tornado that occurs over water. Waterspouts are spinning columns of rising moist air that typically form over warm water. Waterspouts can be as dangerous as tornadoes and can feature wind speeds over 200 kilometers per hour. Some waterspouts form away from thunderstorms and even during relatively fair weather. Waterspouts may be relatively transparent and initially visible only by an unusual pattern they create on the water. The featured image was taken in 2013 July near Tampa Bay, Florida. The Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Florida is arguably the most active area in the world for waterspouts, with hundreds forming each year. Some people speculate that waterspouts are responsible for some of the losses recorded in the Bermuda Triangle.

<< Previous APOD This Day in APOD Next APOD >>
[/b]

Boomer12k
:---[===] *
Posts: 2691
Joined: Sun Apr 22, 2007 12:07 am

Re: APOD: A Waterspout in Florida (2017 Sep 03)

Post by Boomer12k » Sun Sep 03, 2017 6:01 am

And a "Yin-Yang" Sun...if that is the Sun...

Awesome fury of nature, and worse because of the mass and effects of water....think, 200 mile per hour mass of twisting water....


I don't have a picture, but tonight the Moon was red as the sky is filled with smoke, it was so dense it looked like a Lunar Eclipse...eerie...
:---[===] *

De58te
Commander
Posts: 583
Joined: Mon Sep 30, 2013 6:35 pm

Re: APOD: A Waterspout in Florida (2017 Sep 03)

Post by De58te » Sun Sep 03, 2017 9:00 am

Awesome picture. By the way I doubted that is the sun considering the cloudy sky and that the sun is in front of the horizon. According to the "featured image" link that is the camera flash reflection in the window.

ta152h0
Schooled
Posts: 1399
Joined: Mon Aug 29, 2005 12:46 am
Location: Auburn, Washington, USA

Re: APOD: A Waterspout in Florida (2017 Sep 03)

Post by ta152h0 » Sun Sep 03, 2017 6:28 pm

Wolf Kotenberg

darksky2500@gmail.com
Ensign
Posts: 11
Joined: Tue Jul 28, 2015 1:27 pm

Re: APOD: A Waterspout in Florida (2017 Sep 03)

Post by darksky2500@gmail.com » Sun Sep 03, 2017 11:22 pm

And this is astronomy how?

User avatar
Chris Peterson
Abominable Snowman
Posts: 18112
Joined: Wed Jan 31, 2007 11:13 pm
Location: Guffey, Colorado, USA
Contact:

Re: APOD: A Waterspout in Florida (2017 Sep 03)

Post by Chris Peterson » Sun Sep 03, 2017 11:37 pm

darksky2500@gmail.com wrote:And this is astronomy how?
It's a dynamical atmospheric phenomenon on a planet.
Chris

*****************************************
Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
https://www.cloudbait.com

User avatar
bystander
Apathetic Retiree
Posts: 21571
Joined: Mon Aug 28, 2006 2:06 pm
Location: Oklahoma

Re: APOD: A Waterspout in Florida (2017 Sep 03)

Post by bystander » Sun Sep 03, 2017 11:41 pm

Click to play embedded YouTube video.
Know the quiet place within your heart and touch the rainbow of possibility; be
alive to the gentle breeze of communication, and please stop being such a jerk.
— Garrison Keillor

User avatar
geckzilla
Ocular Digitator
Posts: 9180
Joined: Wed Sep 12, 2007 12:42 pm
Location: Modesto, CA
Contact:

Re: APOD: A Waterspout in Florida (2017 Sep 03)

Post by geckzilla » Mon Sep 04, 2017 6:48 am

Chris Peterson wrote:
darksky2500@gmail.com wrote:And this is astronomy how?
It's a dynamical atmospheric phenomenon on a planet.
Bob could probably post a picture of a nose hair and we could justify it.
Just call me "geck" because "zilla" is like a last name.

User avatar
neufer
Vacationer at Tralfamadore
Posts: 18805
Joined: Mon Jan 21, 2008 1:57 pm
Location: Alexandria, Virginia

Re: APOD: A Waterspout in Florida (2017 Sep 03)

Post by neufer » Mon Sep 04, 2017 8:31 am

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auricular_hypertrichosis wrote:

<<Hair growth within the ear canal is often observed to increase in older men, together with increased growth of nose hair. Nasal hair functions include filtering foreign particles from entering the nasal cavity and collecting moisture. Medical research on the function of ear hair is currently very scarce.

Excessive hair growth within or on the ear is known as auricular hypertrichosis. There is controversy over whether auricular hypertrichosis is a Y-linked or autosomal trait, or perhaps both (in different families). It was proposed also that this phenotype results from the interaction of two loci, one on the homologous part of the X and Y and one on the nonhomologous sequence of the Y. Some men, particularly in the male population of India, have coarse hair growth along the lower portion of the helix, a condition referred to as hypertrichosis lanuginosa acquisita. Anthony Victor, from Madurai, India is recognized by Guinness as having the longest ear hair in the world, measuring 18.1 cm.>>
Art Neuendorffer

User avatar
Chris Peterson
Abominable Snowman
Posts: 18112
Joined: Wed Jan 31, 2007 11:13 pm
Location: Guffey, Colorado, USA
Contact:

Re: APOD: A Waterspout in Florida (2017 Sep 03)

Post by Chris Peterson » Mon Sep 04, 2017 1:03 pm

geckzilla wrote:
Chris Peterson wrote:
darksky2500@gmail.com wrote:And this is astronomy how?
It's a dynamical atmospheric phenomenon on a planet.
Bob could probably post a picture of a nose hair and we could justify it.
No doubt.

Still, it never hurts to have an occasional reminder that one of the things astronomy has taught us is that the Earth is a part of the Universe, too. We see things on other planets that we see here, and what we see here helps us understand what we see out there.
Chris

*****************************************
Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
https://www.cloudbait.com

User avatar
neufer
Vacationer at Tralfamadore
Posts: 18805
Joined: Mon Jan 21, 2008 1:57 pm
Location: Alexandria, Virginia

Re: APOD: A Waterspout in Florida (2017 Sep 03)

Post by neufer » Mon Sep 04, 2017 6:50 pm

The word "meteorology" is from Greek μετέωρος metéōros "lofty; high (in the sky)" (from μετα- meta- "above" and ἀείρω aeiro "I lift up") and -λογία -logia "-(o)logy", i.e. "the study of things in the air".

Astronomy (from the Greek ἀστρονομία from ἄστρον astron, "star" and -νομία -nomia from νόμος nomos, "law" or "culture") means "law of the stars" (or "culture of the stars" depending on the translation).
Art Neuendorffer

ta152h0
Schooled
Posts: 1399
Joined: Mon Aug 29, 2005 12:46 am
Location: Auburn, Washington, USA

Re: APOD: A Waterspout in Florida (2017 Sep 03)

Post by ta152h0 » Tue Sep 05, 2017 3:07 am

Sunset tonight was blood red. Don't know how to say it in greek
Wolf Kotenberg

Post Reply