> Frank, who knows the area well, thought that idea was absurd. I wouldn't say something you said was absurd. I remember that straight ridge from my childhood. I also remember the historical railroad routes. That's a natural feature.
--- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Fri, Jun 21, 2024, 9:09 AM Nicholas Thompson <thompnicks...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Stephen, > > Thank you for prompting me to respond to this inquiry. I was having some > trouble getting the image to behave on my computer, and so was reluctant to > wade in. > > Indeed, just as nature abhors vacuums, she abhors straight lines, and so > any line as straight as this one requires a special explanation. To me, > that the line points southwestward toward the radar site NW of ABQ suggests > a radar artifact, perhaps the shadow or some distant hill. As we watched > the animated radar image, we could see a persistent weakness in the radar > echo along that line, even as the clouds crossed it. > > Speaking of abhorrent straight lines, during our conversation with Frank, > we spent quite a lot of time discussing another line, a berm of sand that > runs across the Galisteo Basin in roughly the same orientation, perhaps 50' > high?. I had noticed this feature on topo maps and always assumed it was > an old railway embankment. Frank, who knows the area well, thought that > idea was absurd. So, we were left with the puzzle of a highly linear > geological formation several miles long. > > Could it be that this geological straight line accounts for the straight > line cloud formation that Mr. Kadlubek sees? As the dry line breaks down > in anticipation of the SW Monsoon, moist air does indeed move northward, > following the river valleys up from TX. AT some point, it will be raised > enough that its moisture is condensed leading to the release of latent heat > and the further development of clouds. If the structure that raises it is > a straight line, then the clouds themselves will be arranged in a straight > line. We can see this effect often along linear coast lines as a sea > breeze front topped by (usually) fair weather cumulus. However, given all > the dramatic topography in the area, it's hard for me to imagine that this > low lying feature would be determining very often. > > I, too, live for the weather. I don't live for Face Book, however. So if > you have any way to put in touch with Mr. Kadlubek, he and I could perhaps > have coffee when I get back to Santa Fe in the fall. > > Yours faithfully, > > Nick Thompson > "Behavioral Meteorologist" > > > > > > > > > > On Wed, Jun 19, 2024 at 7:06 PM Stephen Guerin < > stephen.gue...@simtable.com> wrote: > >> Nick, >> >> It's your time to shine! Respond to Vince. >> >> In the comments, local knowledge refers to it as the "prison line" as >> weather is different on either side of the prison on 14. >> >> >> -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom > https://bit.ly/virtualfriam > to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: 5/2017 thru present > https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ >
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