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Tonight "the calm before the storm" and time to finish preps. Even now, high precipitable water and instability values ahead of Beryl are triggering flash flood threats with rainfall rates up to over 3"/Hr #Beryl #TXWX
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MichaelA
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Re: Hurricanes provide a needed function
      Sat Jul 16 2005 12:59 PM

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Saw on TWC that hurricanes are like global air conditioners - taking heat from the tropics and drawing it up into the polar regions. True?

If so we wouldn't want to find a way to reduce their intensity so much as a way to try to steer them. That's probably not possible given we're talking about forces on a global scale - right?

I tend to agree with that. Looking at the dynamics of hurricanes, they also expel a lot of heat energy into the upper Troposphere and more northern latitudes. They certainly appear to be a balancing mechanism (climatologically speaking) on a global scale. I feel that it would be unwise to attempt to reduce their intensity. Like the saying, "It's not nice to fool Mother Nature."

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* Hurricanes provide a needed function Margie Sat Jul 16 2005 12:59 PM
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. * * Re: Hurricanes provide a needed function Clark   Sat Jul 23 2005 04:49 PM
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. * * Re: Hurricanes provide a needed function MichaelA   Sat Jul 16 2005 12:59 PM
. * * Re: Hurricanes provide a needed function angelswatch   Sat Jul 16 2005 02:07 PM
. * * Re: Hurricanes provide a needed function MichaelA   Sat Jul 16 2005 02:13 PM

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