Question: What causes no rain corridors? I live in Cameron TX (76520). For the past few rain storms, the rain has been moving North and East. Examples – Texas had 5 days of rain in a row last month. 4.5 of the 5 days, the rain moved North and East about 10 miles to the […]
Question: i am wondering if the atmospheric rivers from the western pacific near Hawaii would even exist if Hawaii was not there? Answer: Atmospheric rivers are narrow corridors of concentrated moisture in the atmosphere, typically originating over warm ocean waters. These features are driven by large-scale weather patterns, such as the interaction of jet streams, ocean temperatures,
Question: I live in Delaware and we’ve been having a horrible drought for a couple of months now. Is there anything that can be done to make the rain come or otherwise end this drought? Answer: Droughts can be frustrating, especially when they persist for months as you’re experiencing in Delaware. While controlling weather on a large
Question: It is the third time a hurricane forms in Campeche coast in Mexico. What are the conditions for this to happen? What made Milton hurricane lose power before going inland, and reduce from a category 5 to a category 3? Answer: Atlantic and Gulf hurricanes can form anywhere in the tropics from the western
Question: I don’t know if this is something you can answer, but I was wondering how the weather patterns on earth would change if it rotated about twice as fast. I heard that the centrifugal force would pull the water to the equator, would something similar happen to the air currents? How do you think
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