Occasionally Brisbane gets fog. It's hard to believe I know, but there is fog from time to time, although it tends to be gone quite early in the morning.
When it does happen, there's a pattern to where it happens. Low lying grassy areas, near creeks and rivers. Coincidentally, the same areas used for raising horses. Ah ha!
This leads me to the inescapable conclusion that horse urine evaporation is the primary cause of fog. I've heard some silly theories that the fog comes from the creeks and rivers and settles into low lying areas, but that sounds clearly mad and unsupported by evidence.
Photographic evidence will be posted closer to winter. Please be patient.
24 January 2008
22 January 2008
East Coast Australia weather patterns
So I was having a brief discussion with fellow inhabitants of my work place, discussing (very cliche) the weather. On the east coast of Australia, during summer, there is a distinct pattern to rain fall that holds during most years; ie: it will storm ~25% of days on the afternoon, at or just after 5pm.
(Citation needed)
It occurred to me that at 5pm, or just before for lucky government workers, most wage slaves exit their air-conditioned office spaces and venture out into the 80+% humidity and 30 something Celsius that passes for ambient conditions. Whereupon they will exude about 500ml of salty water.
A lot of this water will evaporate, either directly, or after it has soaked into clothing which will provide a larger surface area aiding the evaporation. In a city like Brisbane, where there are 1million inhabitant, that is not an insignificant amount of water vapour. Assuming the CBD working population is say 100,000, this is then 50,000L.
Added to the existing high humidity, this will result in localised zones of super saturation, resulting in cloud formations, and (due to the inevitable atmospheric agitation of 250,000 people trying to get home to watch crap on the TV) will result in typical vertical thunderstorm clouds.
It seems obvious to me therefor to blame (or attribute) regular summer storms on the east coast of Australia on western civilization's work habits.
(Citation needed)
It occurred to me that at 5pm, or just before for lucky government workers, most wage slaves exit their air-conditioned office spaces and venture out into the 80+% humidity and 30 something Celsius that passes for ambient conditions. Whereupon they will exude about 500ml of salty water.
A lot of this water will evaporate, either directly, or after it has soaked into clothing which will provide a larger surface area aiding the evaporation. In a city like Brisbane, where there are 1million inhabitant, that is not an insignificant amount of water vapour. Assuming the CBD working population is say 100,000, this is then 50,000L.
Added to the existing high humidity, this will result in localised zones of super saturation, resulting in cloud formations, and (due to the inevitable atmospheric agitation of 250,000 people trying to get home to watch crap on the TV) will result in typical vertical thunderstorm clouds.
It seems obvious to me therefor to blame (or attribute) regular summer storms on the east coast of Australia on western civilization's work habits.
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