[video=youtube;J5iPbihuzPc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5iPbihuzPc&list=TLtev2agKCtxjaUYPxm0yyfsz0hZizAnuJ[/video]
This is a result of the Polar vortex
Looks like a bowl of Kix
Cool
Rose?!
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This is a result of the Polar vortex[/QUOTE]
Can someone elaborate on this?
looks like a bunch of meatballs
[QUOTE=urbanmonkey;43478188]Can someone elaborate on this?[/QUOTE]
Canada's secret weapon.
[QUOTE=urbanmonkey;43478188]Can someone elaborate on this?[/QUOTE]
Cold spinning wind.
[QUOTE=urbanmonkey;43478188]Can someone elaborate on this?[/QUOTE]
Its a name for the massive wave of cold in the US.
[QUOTE=MIPS;43478207]Canada's secret weapon.[/QUOTE]
The invasion has begun.
[QUOTE=urbanmonkey;43478188]Can someone elaborate on this?[/QUOTE]
[quote]A polar vortex is a persistent, large-scale cyclone located near one or both of a planet's geographical poles.[/quote]
Its been fucking freezing in the us this past week. Minnesota was down to -25F with a wind chill of -50F. I live in New york and it was a high of 12F on tuesday. Its warmed up though, thank god.
[QUOTE=urbanmonkey;43478188]Can someone elaborate on this?[/QUOTE]
[video=youtube;E87raPj9m0A]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E87raPj9m0A[/video]
Also that fucking avatar man
so... is this just really big hail?
That looks really surreal, like a giant bouncy ball pit full of water rather than piss.
Science is cool
I'd get the hell out of there before they start hatching like in some bad alien movie.
[QUOTE=Mikemaximum;43478078]Looks like a bowl of Kix[/QUOTE]
Cookie Dough Ice Cream
[QUOTE=urbanmonkey;43478188]Can someone elaborate on this?[/QUOTE]
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/tMyM1yq.jpg[/IMG]
Polar vortex is a persistent weather pattern that stays near the poles. Sometimes when the conditions are right (or wrong, if you don't like the cold) it can shift around, essentially shipping cold arctic air south through the jet stream.
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/UZch5IO.png[/IMG]
North pole's spreadin' the love around.
You're encouraged to read more at the NOAA: [url]http://www.climate.gov/news-features/event-tracker/wobbly-polar-vortex-triggers-extreme-cold-air-outbreak[/url]
[QUOTE=urbanmonkey;43478188]Can someone elaborate on this?[/QUOTE]Water is cooled rapidly (from the polar vortex) and freezes around water debris, liquid water persists because of all the particles suitable for freezing around is in the ice balls.
Think hail except in a liquid system.
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[QUOTE=Tmaxx;43478256]so... is this just really big hail?[/QUOTE]
Yep.
[QUOTE=OvB;43478505][IMG]http://i.imgur.com/tMyM1yq.jpg[/IMG]
Polar vortex is a persistent weather pattern that stays near the poles. Sometimes when the conditions are right (or wrong, if you don't like the cold) it can shift around, essentially shipping cold arctic air south through the jet stream.
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/UZch5IO.png[/IMG]
North pole's spreadin' the love around.
You're encouraged to read more at the NOAA: [url]http://www.climate.gov/news-features/event-tracker/wobbly-polar-vortex-triggers-extreme-cold-air-outbreak[/url][/QUOTE]
I'm so used to seeing the map sideways that I forgot how close russia and the US actually are.
jokes on us theyre alien spods
[QUOTE=dwt110;43478227][video=youtube;E87raPj9m0A]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E87raPj9m0A[/video][/QUOTE]
im not gonna lie i think the idea of the movie is pretty cool. a hostile planet fucking shit up is sick.
[QUOTE=ViralHatred;43478588]I'm so used to seeing the map sideways that I forgot how close russia and the US actually are.[/QUOTE]
Looking at unusual maps is fun.
[QUOTE=urbanmonkey;43478188]Can someone elaborate on this?[/QUOTE]
[video=youtube;5eDTzV6a9F4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eDTzV6a9F4[/video]
From whitehouse.gov
And yet, not a flake has fallen yet here in London. Guess we're just outside of the Chaos Vortex.
Yeah if those fuckers hatch I'm going to be the first one to die in the alien invasion. I went out and took some cool pictures, this is at sleeping bear dunes btw, about 45 minutes north of me. There's a pretty cool story behind how the dunes got that name.
[QUOTE]Many years ago, in a state now called Wisconsin, lived a mother bear and her two cubs. One day, as they were in the woods gathering food, a fire broke out. All of the animals, including the mother bear and her cubs, had to leave the forest. The mother bear and her cubs swam across Lake Michigan to the state we now call Michigan. It was a very long swim. Soon, the two cubs grew very tired and fell behind their mother. When the mother bear came to the shores of Michigan, she climbed to the highest point she could find, a large hill made of sand, and waited for the cubs. She waited and waited and waited. But her cubs could not make the long journey. Instead, the Great White Spirit, who watched over all the animals, turned the cubs into two islands. The mother bear, who soon grew tired, saw her two cubs in the lake and knew that the Great White Spirit had taken care of them. She soon saw the two islands in Lake Michigan. Knowing that her cubs were safe, she soon fell fast asleep. Today, the cubs are known as North Manitou Island and South Manitou Island. Their mother, who the Great Spirit covered with sand to keep warm, now watches over her cubs from her spot atop the giant hill made of sand. We call her Sleeping Bear Sand Dune.[/QUOTE]
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Sleeping_Bear_Dune_Aerial_View.jpg/284px-Sleeping_Bear_Dune_Aerial_View.jpg[/img]
Snowball fight!
[QUOTE=FlamingBlizza;43479326]Snowball fight![/QUOTE]
Those are literally ice boulders and you can probably kill someone with one if you can manage to even pick it up
[QUOTE=byf;43479446]Those are literally ice boulders and you can probably kill someone with one if you can manage to even pick it up[/QUOTE]
buzzkill
Man. Fuck Michigan's weather.
Not really though, I'VE HAD CLASSES CALLED OFF FOUR DAYS IN A ROW.
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