Weather Magic - Best of Coast to Coast AM - 3/9/25

half effect. Well we need the greenhouse effect. You want some greenhouse effects, because if you don't have that, if you don't have the heat ability to keep a little bit of heat in the atmosphere, then you get these verit you would get this crazy extreme difference in temperature between night and day, like it would be you know, one hundred and fifty degrees during the daytime and you know minus thirty at night, and when who wants that?

into the atmosphere, so they're back out into space. So think about, for example, in the winter, like we talk about when we start to look at like is it going to freeze tonight? Is there going to be a frost tonight? If you're a gardener, is it going to be a frost, Do I need to go outside and

cover up my tomatoes or whatever? If it's the cloudy night, Generally that is not going to happen because the clouds, because they are full of water vapor, which also holds onto heat, kind of acts as an insulating blanket and it doesn't allow all of the heat to reradiate back out into space, and it keeps the temperature on average a little bit warmer overnight, and so your tomatoes don't get frost bite.

So to me, what's happening is if we get this two way, it's kind of a three part problem in my opinion, and I'm not a climatologist, so I'm just going to say what and from a from a physics point of view, what I see happening. You've got, you know, you get this heat coming in. You have an extra CO two in the atmosphere because we don't have Now, the vegetation is going away because we're you know, we're cutting down trees and we're clear cutting things for agriculture,

which we've got to have to feed more people. And so if you get rid of plants and you pay Paradise to put up parking lot, what you do is you run out of the things that are going to help get that CO two out of the atmosphere. Then what that does is then you change the ability of the surfaces to absorb and release heat. Because you know, plants are good at absorbing heat and they kind of hang on to it. Whereas you get metallic surfaces in concrete and cities change the weather, they do they have

their own sort of heat sink around them. You know, if you've ever been close to a brick building at night, you can feel the heat coming off the bricks. Right then you had the next pieces or the last piece of the puzzle to me is when you start heating up the oceans, you melt ice. Ice reflects light better than liquid water. That's why when you go outside on a snowy day and it's sunny, very bright outside, because

snow and ice reflect light back into space. So if you lose that ability to reflect back some of the solar energy, now you're absorbing even more of it into the ocean. And so you you know, exacerbated the problem even more. So those pieces to me or what me is responsible or are responsible for what we're seeing in

this more extreme weather patterns. Now, there will be people say that, well, this is a long term cycle that the Earth is goes through, and yet there are these very long term you know, ten thousand years, one hundred thousand year. I think they're called millan COVID cycles. I can't remember exactly because again I'm not a climate scientist.

But the if you look at data from like a union of concerned scientist, you see that there's this overall upward trend that cannot be explained away by these long term, natural occurring cycles. So, you know, I like data. I tend to believe what the data says, and so I'm like,

that's that's that's there, that there's a problem. And so if you've got this extra heat, one of the things that it's going to do is it's going to create you know, unpredictable or sometimes maybe predictable, but you know, how do you deal with changes in the weather, So bigger hurricanes, longer hurricane season, a bigger tornade, know, you know,

the more dramatic bomb cyclones that we're seeing now. I think maybe either are all the results of this additional heat that we can't we can't just explain that away in my.

him to see that? From Texas? And she has a very Southern accent like I do, and she said, oh, honey, you don't need to do magic for that. You need to hire that done and charge his credit card. And I immediately fell in love with her in that instant. But there are things that we could do magically, but there are things we could do as you know, pagan communities or which communities or whatever. I go to so many events where there's no recycling, and I'm like, you're

an outdoor event. We're supposed to be in earth based religion. Where's the recycling. Then I realized that it may seem like recycling is not is just a drop in the bucket, And it is, but it's better than no drops in the bucket. We can we can vote with our dollars. We can try to choose companies who promote greener practices. We can try to be greener ourselves. I mean, you know, we are I live in the south, there is very little public transportation, but you know, my boyfriend lives in town.

We try to walk instead of drive, you know, the two blocks where is. So there are small things that we can do that are not magical, but they are earth centered, which you know, we we have to quep. One of the things that I get really irritated about is people treat this planet like it's a truck stops on the rate that are great beyond right. They see this as just, oh, this is just a temporary place. I don't really need to take care of it, and you do, and it's.

people that I can impact. And then it's like that old was it the Dominoes commercial that you tell two friends, and they tell two friends, and then they tell two friends. If I can affect change in my immediate community to be more mindful, right, if I can ask for that in the universe, then maybe those people can spread those little ripples on out. Are there magic spells and things that you can do? Yeah, but I've tried to say my magical practices for things that are within my immediate route.

So those are your cumula form clouds, your puppy clouds, like the clouds already draws and you tell them draw a cloud, right, those are called cumulus clouds, and they aren't considered a cloud with vertical development, because for them to be able to grow into like a cumulonimbus, which is the thunderstorm it, you have to have instability, a lost and you have to have rising air. And rising

air with instability equals turbulence. So if you see, like if you fly close to a big thunderstorm, one of the things you can look for is very often those have those flat anble that sort of classic I don't whine gesturing with my hand, i'f I, but I'm doing that.

They have that flat anvil top. But if they are a very strong storm with a lot of upward convection like the boiling of a pot is convection, like the upward moving of the air, they will have what's called an overshoot, which kind of looks like cauliflower tops on these flat anvils. If they have that, that means there's a lot of upward convection which can lead to more turbulence. So you see that a lot in these really big super cells that you get over sort of the great

planes and Oklahoma. You know, I lived in Oklahoma for thirteen years, and I saw a lot of these really huge, massive thunderstorms. Maybe to have these sort of bubbly cauliflower overshooting tops, and those storms are the ones that are

the most likely to become planatic. Really, so yeah, because what that means is there's a lot of vertical lift and it creates wind shear, which wind shehre is where you have two layers of air that are kind of moving at different speeds going over the top of each other. And what that does is that can create a role.

Imagine like, well, we don't have big fat phone books anymore because they were the first example of this, But if you take a really thick book and you push on the top cover of it, it's going to kind of go, it's going to kind of lean a little bit. Oh, that's the shears. That's the shear. So you're pushing on that top layer and it's moving more than the layers beneath it, and so that creates that tilt. Well, imagine

doing that with like water or air. That's going to cause that stuff to start to roll and you're going to get this burt this horizontal sort of rolling effect. Which then if you get a lot of uplift in your storm, that's going to kick that roll up and it's going to create rotation in the storm. So, uh, that's kind of a long explanation.

of the storm. And what that means is there's a lot of turbulence and instability aloft in that storm. Again, that means a lot of uplift. Uplift can often lead to rotation, which then can be a tornado, a pop storm, or at least a storm that has the potential of a form a tornado. So that's another thing you can look for.

had heard on the radio that morning. I was driving and it was earlier in the morning, and the meteorologists were on the air saying, this is going to be a stronger wind event that you've ever seen before. You can tell by the hot air and the cold air

meeting and the clouds. And so there was cold air coming from the sierra the mountains, and then the hot air was coming from the valley and you could see the clouds rising up into the air with that puffy cauliflower top that they were dark right, So it was I guess there was a perfect storm happening out there. But meteorologists could tell this was going to be an eighty to ninety mile an hour wind. It was completely predictable.

air and you had very warm air. They were both dry air mashes, and that's why they create because what they did is not only were they carrying the embers, they were drying out the vegetation because they had no humidity in them.